What Harris et al. did is already against the law. Why make new laws when simply enforcing the ones on the books already should be good enough? Which proposed voter ID law would have prevented this from occurring?
Impressive how McTurtle finally pokes his head out of his shell long enough to remind anyone with firing neurons how much of a partisan toad he really is.
or it’s like he is saying “We only robbed that bank because the Democrats put money in it and did not have enough guards!”
It’s worth reading the article I pulled that quote from. The author’s analogy is, “We’ve been saying for years that houses are getting robbed, so you should have to show your birth certificate when you buy a crowbar. Now someone has used a master key to unlock a bunch of houses and rob them, and suddenly you see that we’re right!”
The author left out the fact that his party hired the master-key thief in the first place.
Mark Harris, citing reasons of health, has announced that he isn’t running in the do-over election. Instead, he is endorsing Union County commissioner and Boss Hogg cosplayer Stony Rushing in the GOP primary.
Stony Rushing? C’mon, you’re making that up!
Both the name and the deliberate Boss Hogg dress-up are real. Jesus, what is wrong with Republicans these days.
Fraud ringleader was arrested and charged with felonies
And here I thought you were kidding about the “Boss Hogg cosplayer” business.
:eek:
Muthah of Gawd.
“Oooh, them Dukes! Them Dukes!”
:rolleyes:
I know, right? Like, this guy can’t possibly be a serious candidate, right? He’s got to be satire of Republicans. Nobody would literally dress up as the bumbling asshole bad guy from a racist 1970s comedy, as part of his political campaign. That’s like running for office dressed as the Joker, only dumber, because again, Boss Hogg was an idiot.
Not only is this guy running, he has the endorsement of the previous Republican candidate for the district. Remember, that previous guy was the guy who hired a convicted felon to run an illegal election-fraud operation.
There’s no goddamn way this guy can win, is what I would have said in 2016.
The news article linked by Bijou drains just above your post was co-written by a guy named Dukes…
Coïncidence. I think not!
My first clue should have been the rabbit who asked me the time so he could set his pocketwatch correctly. :dubious:
It seems that underneath the Boss Hogg getup is a man firmly committed to the principles of openness and transparency, as evidenced by this public pledge:
It is unclear whether the questions about Stony’s sexual history were related to this story:
I genuinely don’t want to know about that guy’s sexual history.
Or about anyone who has shared it with him.
Why is this the only race being re-run? Aren’t all the other outcomes on the ballot in this district equally bogus?
I assume that none of the other outcomes were close enough to be possibly flipped by the GOP fraud, but that’s just an educated guess not based on any specific research.
The Republican Voter ID Laws thread, and its discussion of the primacy of the importance of voter confidence, became very quiet when this story came out, didn’t it?
That’s probably more because of Bricker’s absence-- He was one of the driving forces of that thread.
His dead-horse-beating arm must’ve worn out.
He may well have IRL reasons for dropping out of sight, but his arguments in that particular thread kept getting undermined by the actions and statements of Republicans themselves, and he was struggling to defend the indefensible.