Posted on 11/18/2017 2:56:35 PM PST by mac_truck
A tightly contested ballot measure seeking to impose a 1-cent sales tax on Coalinga residents apparently failed by just 33 votes, and patients at Coalinga State Hospital are taking credit for helping to defeat it.
A current patient, a former patient who now represents the patients as part of an informal political lobbying group, and Coalinga Mayor Nathan Vosburg have confirmed that patients shared their intentions to oppose the sales tax, which was needed to save 23 city jobs, unless the city could convince them otherwise. When that didn’t happen, the patients apparently doomed the measure, which failed 578 votes to 545 according to unofficial totals provided by the Fresno County Elections Office.
County Clerk Brandi Orth confirmed that there are 304 active voters registered at the hospital, which houses nearly 1,000 sexually violent predators and a few hundred other mentally disordered prisoners. These patients all vote by mail, and the hospital is treated as a fifth voting precinct in Coalinga.
Orth explained that years ago, the city annexed the state-owned hospital. Smaller cities often do this to increase population. In doing so, it gave those legally able to vote the right to participate in local elections.
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HA!!! No contest!
“Who would you rather have deciding your local taxes, patients at a mental hospital or Democrats?”
There’s a noticeable difference? ;)
In this case it would seem the mental patients are more rational than the Dems running the town.
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Old DNC trick from what I hear. Local talk show host in Western MA in the late 80's ( Bill Brady WSPR ) said Dem's did get out the vote drives at the Mental Hospitals in the area all the time. Love to know if they have been doing this country wide, along with the dead, felon's, out of stater's, college kids voting double, busing people from district to district, and every other scheme and sham they have perpetrated on us for how long?
The inmates are running the asylum.
Punchline: “I’m crazy, not stupid.”
Fun fact: Coalinga (ko-a-ling-a) gets its name from a railroad facility—“coaling station a”.
Just came back from Crescent City, Ca. There’s enough crazies out in the streets to be an open air asylum for that locale.
Tax increases should require a super-majority of, say, 90%.
Well, in this case the city annexed the land the state mental hospital is on and created a new voting precinct that is comprised entirely of mental patients.
So its a bit unique in that regard.
“Who would you rather have deciding your local taxes, patients at a mental hospital or Democrats? “
One group is mentally defective; out of touch with reality; and prone to hallucinations.
And the other group lives in a mental hospital.
Sounds racist...
build more and get those crazy psycho killers off the streets!
Old DNC trick from what I hear
This is SOP for the Dems in Minnesota, where they regularly canvass nursing homes to help invalids and dementia patients fill out absentee ballots that vote straight tickets.
It seems the incarcerated nuts are a lot lit lot saner than the ones still running free on the streets of Californication.
“And the other group lives in a mental hospital.”
Best laugh I’ve had all day. The funniest thing is, it’s true!
As if there’s a difference.
RATs are undocumented mental patients.
Aren’t they the same thing
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