Posted on 07/27/2004 12:44:07 PM PDT by Jack Savage
A candidate for state office in the great state of Washington appears headed for defeat even before the first absentee ballots are mailed in. (This is my first post on FreeRepublic, by the way, so bear with me if I make a few errors.)
David Blomstrom is a candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction who issued a press release calling for the "legal or quasi-legal" execution of President George W. Bush. It was discussed in this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1168765/posts
Apparently, his actions were legal, as his sites are still online. But the website may outlive Blomstrom. Check his campaign website, at http://www.edrevolt.org/:
"EMERGENCY: My name won't appear on the ballot unless I raise $1,017 for my filing fee and deliver it to Olympia by July 30! Please give me an opportunity to inject some fire into an otherwise hopeless campaign by making a contribution and urging your friends to chip in. See my Support page for more details."
Can you believe that? This nutjob lives in liberal Seattle, and he can't even find any support there! If he hasn't raised $1,000 by now, he certainly isn't going to do it in the next three days.
How hard can it be to raise a lousy $1,000? If you could find just 100 liberals who cared enough to donate $10 each, you'd have it made. There's just one problem: LIBERALS DON'T CARE.
The significance of this extends far beyond this particular candidate. No matter how twisted his ideas, no matter how disgusting his lack of patriotism, you have to admit this guy has guts. He has also obviously put a lot of work into his cause. Check out all his websites. You could spend days reading his material! This man could be a serious threat if his fellow liberals supported him.
But they don't. In fact, liberals are ignoring him, preferring to throw millions of dollars at corrupt candidates who offer nothing but rhetoric. I read somewhere on one of his sites that Blomstrom was banned from Democratic Underground!
I saw a post promoting Blomstrom on Democratic Underground's Washington State forum at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=184 but it has been removed. They're eating their own!
Therefore, I nominate David Blomstrom as the Ralph Nader of Washington State. He won't divert any votes, because his name won't even be on the ballot, but he can be likened to the proverbial canary in a coal mine. Blomstrom's courage (or recklessness) stands in stark contrast to liberal voters who prefer gazillionaires like John Kerry to grassroots activists.
I also think we should thank Democratic Underground for censoring David Blomstrom. If we say PLEASE, we could probably get Democratic Underground to endorse George W. Bush.
Oops, I forgot - most ilberals aren't going to vote anyway so why bother? :)
I do. That's why I put the smiley after the "Ouch!!".
You might find this thread to be of some use. It was just posted within the hour.
One of the oldest rules of netiquette says you should lurk for a while in a group to get a feeling for the place before barging in and posting something. This thread is a perfect illustration of that I think.
You're a troll? Sure fooled us! Good job!
A vanity is a personal opinion piece or a thread which you wrote yourself. Most vanities should really be posted as replies to a specific topic and should not be a topic themselves.
Your thread didn't qualify as "breaking news" as this candidate isn't running for nationwide office and it doesn't affect the general populace.
No, you should not assume everyone hates Blomstrom. I don't hate him. I don't even know him. From what you've posted, I probably don't agree with him. But hate him, no, I don't hate him. I generally have to know someone in order to hate him.
1) this is NOT "his" chatboard. He has no say and can be ignored if you wish.
2) Most are unaware of this individual but since you are helping to remedy that its ok.
3) It is also bull that we don't care about DU. As soon as any negative story about the RATS get posted someone is gleefully reporting on the idiocy and whining it unleashes there.
4) You are doing fine ignore the busybodies. Only Jim's opinion has any weight as to what can or can't be posted.
There was nothing wrong with this posting until the busybodies got involved.
Wet cleanup on aisle 33... zot in progress.
Au contraire. The poster has been banned. Retread, perhaps?
Ummm . . . Jim Robinson himself has asked us not to post crap about DU. But I guess even some old timers haven't read the guidelines, lol!
I agree. I viewed Jack Savage as a well-intentioned newbie who got caught up in "troll paranoia". His transgressions seemed to be minimal at best and he appeared to be willing to learn. Maybe he'll lurk a bit, get up to speed on general practices here, and get reincarnated at some point in the future.
Since there are articles posted all the time I suppose the urging is as ignored as the no personal insults one.
I don't know about that but there was nothing wrong in posting this article.
The mods apparently disagreed.
Take it up with JR.
If the guy was sneaking in after having been banned that is one thing but outside of that there was nothing wrong with the post. Mods ban what they please for obscure reasons all the time but I don't really care.
Just a thought.
No, I don't think so. I do not like the tendency here to jump all over newbies no matter what they say. One of the biggest complaints I hear here about DU is its refusal to allow any dissident opinions to be posted. That is becoming the norm here too.
I am against political correctness even if it is from the Right and fear none of these posters opinions or comments.
And I still see nothing in this post that should set off alarm bells. One would think we are afraid of these opinions.
That being said I have nothing to say about those running the site and if someone has been banned and tries to sneak back in that is different than having a contrary opinion.
BTW I miss some of the old nutcases who have been banned even though I almost always disagreed with them.
I understand. This one raised mild alarms only because some of us have spent a great deal of time with trolls lately and there are subtleties in his phrasing that were ringing familiar bells. I don't know for sure, not being a mod, but I suspect we've seen him recently as someone else.
This one was actually pretty mild. I've seen a couple threads that took no prisoners.
Personally I like a good barroom, no holds barred brawl.
LOL!
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