Only their own, or are they available for hire?
Yeah, and can even cause one to misspeak under oath. Boy howdy, that sounds *almost
*illegal. Talk about a close one! Whew.
You can hire them to fake throwing you under the bus. 
I wonder what effect this admission will have on his chances of election?
Then it’s a really good thing he isn’t in Congress! 
Not that I believe him, of course.
ETA: But if one believes him, then one would have to believe he shouldn’t run in the special election/do-over, whatever it’s called.
Shocking that the party screaming about voter fraud is the one that is actually committing it! :rolleyes: Republicans are horrible.
Perhaps, if we are fortunate, a kindly court will defuse that tension by arranging for the elder Harris to be elsewhere.
So, this is big.
But his rationale is bigger:
Basically, our gerrymandering is so jacked that our entire legislature is illegitimate.
Has this happened in any state legislature since the end of the Civil War?
This seems HUGE to me. I honestly don’t expect it to stand, but I really hope it does.
Harris’s son is a federal prosecutor. But Dad just thought he was exaggerating.
Yowza!
I have heard it argued that if gerrymandering is legal, then the legislature is legal, and their legislation is legit. Hence, they are legally entitled to pass laws to screw their political opposition.
It is a voice noticeably absent in this discussion.
(Completely irrelevant aside: I speak of Bricker, of course, who appears not to have posted since November last. I hope he is well, and if anyone knows, I hope they will tell us.)
Obviously, this is going to be appealed. What I’m wondering is whether this is a matter for the federal Supreme Court, or is the state Supreme Court the ultimate authority?
That’s a REALLY interesting question. I’d been assuming it’d get overturned at the federal level, but for all I know it’s purely a state issue. And if so, our state supreme court is not happy with the legislature.
That’s how they know voter fraud is rampant.
something I haven’t heard the answer to in the NC news…“Will a new election be held for every position on the original ballot, or just for US Rep?. Testimony included statements that the absentee ballot collectors filled in blanks for Republicans if the ballot owner had skipped races. I suppose each county had their own races for country offices on the same ballot as the US Rep race…so…which races are being rerun?”\
I’m pretty sure it’s just for the rep race. Everything else, I think, got certified.
as expected Harris is not running again , he endorsed another guy
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article226814399.html
Quote from the tweaker he endorsed:
…right. Because Harris hired a convicted felon who committed mass voter fraud, McCready is at fault. This guy sounds like a winner.
But not as much of a winner as Mitch fuckin McConnell:
FUUUCK THAT DUUUUDE
amazing how people can have their group commit fraud and then blame it on the other side.
this is an example of DARVO - deny, attack ,reverse victim and offender.
The quote from Mitch McConnell is hilarious. It’s almost as if he’s saying; we know there’s voter fraud going on, because we’re doing it. And if we are, so are they.
And by the way, the kinds of obstructions the Republicans are proposing (requiring voters to show ID when voting in person and reducing the number of days when polling places are open for advance voting) would have done nothing to prevent election fraud that involved cheating on mail-in ballots.