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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: FiddyBeowulf on August 01, 2011, 11:09:44 AM
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In WI we had the dems, in the past, offer smokes, pancakes, ice cream and sandwiches for votes. For the recall they are doing BBQ.
http://action.wisconsinjobsnow.org/page/s/voting-block-parties?source=wjnsite (http://action.wisconsinjobsnow.org/page/s/voting-block-parties?source=wjnsite)
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Get on the bus to vote early! Take the free shuttle to vote early and make your voice heard.
I am not sure how legal or illegal this is but it just seems wrong.
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How about offering free pot (http://moonbattery.com/?p=585) to people that register to vote?
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When I was a kid there was the democrat primary in June that "WAS THE ELECTION" for all the local and state government seats. The only chance you had to vote for a republican was in the November election and then only for president....votes back then cost $1 in the June primary and no cost in November because there was no opposition....and the presidential candidate got all his votes for almost free. Had to run a few buses you know. They pay $5 and up now for "democrat" votes, republicans are tightwads, they don't pay anything... :rotf:
In 1964, S.C. went for Barry Goldwater in the national election. :-) But things still didn't change much on the local level until 1980. That's when my Dad, Cecil, me, the X-wife and 3 more held the first republican party meeting in this county since "Reconstruction" or as it's known around here,"Those times when the damn Yankees were stealing everything"....and some other choice phrases....anyway we held the meeting, state republican party laughed when the X-wife called and asked about a little help to hold a republican primary in this county. Daddy and Cecil put up the money, X-wife got a few people to help her and we opened 7 ballot boxes in the county. There are 23 polling places and we were only able to have a box at 7 but we combined some districts so that everyone that wanted to could vote for R.R.. The democrats had gotten wind of it and (I guess they were right) if you voted in the republican primary you couldn't vote in the democrat primary which was our local election. A lot of people gave up there votes in the local election to cast just "ONE" vote in the republican primary and that "ONE" vote was for R.R..
Times have certainly changed in the last 30 years. We get to pick and chose between D & R candidates in the local elections now. You can vote for the weakest/worst democrat in June and then vote for the republican in November. It has been good for the local ghetto economy, the going price for votes between the democrat candidates has skyrocketed. :rotf:
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When and Where is this BBQ?
I tried to open the link you put in the thread, but it said "invalid sign up". Either their site knows I am an evil conservative trying to crash their party or the site is just eff'ed up.
I'll be in Madison on Thursday. :)
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When and Where is this BBQ?
I tried to open the link you put in the thread, but it said "invalid sign up". Either their site knows I am an evil conservative trying to crash their party or the site is just eff'ed up.
I'll be in Madison on Thursday. :)
It was today around noon. So they probably took the posting down. Either that or they were getting too much of the wrong kind of attention.
Copy of the page (http://www.620wtmj.com/blogs/charliesykes/126522898.html)
Maybe by the time you get to Madison they will have the balloon net down from inside the Capitol building. Try to avoid the building around noon, damn hippy protesters have been having a sing-along during the lunch hour.
http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/126396738.html (http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/126396738.html)
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It was today around noon. So they probably took the posting down. Either that or they were getting too much of the wrong kind of attention.
Copy of the page (http://www.620wtmj.com/blogs/charliesykes/126522898.html)
Maybe by the time you get to Madison they will have the balloon net down from inside the Capitol building. Try to avoid the building around noon, damn hippy protesters have been having a sing-along during the lunch hour.
http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/126396738.html (http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/126396738.html)
I'll be going up there for a back massage. My best friend's cousin is giving me a good deal. It's at 11:30am, so when my back massage is over, it will be lunch time. I figured I could harass some unionistas before I went back to Janesville.
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The plot thickens...
State election authorities are questioning whether a liberal group broke the law by offering both free food and free rides to vote in a hotly contested Senate recall election.
Although no formal complaint had reached the state Government Accountability Board by Monday afternoon, a spokesman for the agency said it would not be legal to combine free food and transportation to the polls in the same event - even if, as the organization contends, people could take the food without boarding the buses.
Local law enforcement authorities are reportedly looking into the get-out-the-vote "block parties."
Rest at link.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/126548898.html (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/126548898.html)
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Democrats don't have voters; they rent them.