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Virginia voters bag another gop establishment tool! (vanity)
Virginia Department of Elections | 6-14-16 | RKBA Democrat

Posted on 06/14/2016 4:50:08 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat

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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy

Like I just posted, here in the 5th District [Virginia] we weren’t even allowed to vote for ‘our’ candidate. Some weird special local convention process.


41 posted on 06/15/2016 4:06:33 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
I'll suggest that you were more than allowed to vote in the 5th Congressional District for your Republican nominee. You had the opportunity to participate in a party Convention. In Virginia, primaries are paid for by all Citizens (including Dem, Independent, Green, Libertarian, etc.) and all Citizens (including Dem, Independent, Green, Libertarian, etc.) who are registered to vote can participate. The 5th CD gave you and other Republicans and like minded Citizens the opportunity to pick your nominee. You got a great one with Tom Garrett.

I was there and I don't even live in the 5th CD - and of course can't vote there or at the convention.

42 posted on 06/15/2016 6:16:51 AM PDT by 103198 (It's the metadata stupid...)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

You should go to the conventions! Can be fun with like-minded people.


43 posted on 06/15/2016 6:18:37 AM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: greedo

<< Forbes voted with Pelosi and the democrats to ban incandescent light bulbs. >>

He DID??? Tragic and the kiss of death.


44 posted on 06/15/2016 6:20:29 AM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Swirl
No, victory for Liberty.

The same case can be made for keeping Cantor in the 7th CD instead of Dave Brat. With the loss of Cantor not only the 7th CD, but Virginia lost a ton of influence, money, and power when Dave beat Eric on June 10th, 2014. However I'll take Congressman Brat any day. That action by the voters of the 7th CD has changed history.

Taylor's win was a big loss for the GoPe. However, it was a win for the "Beach Boys." That's another growing problem in Virginia. But that's another story.

45 posted on 06/15/2016 6:22:55 AM PDT by 103198 (It's the metadata stupid...)
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To: HokieMom
Once the Eastern District federal Court of Virginia modified the boundaries of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 7th Congressional Districts, Forbes was also actively considering/working running against Dave Brat in the 7th CD. That is until the 7th Congressional District Republican Committee determined that the nomination process would be via a Convention. He knew he couldn't beat Dave at a Convention in the 7th CD with Dave's grass roots support. So he went with his other option - the 2nd CD and fortunately lost.
46 posted on 06/15/2016 6:32:58 AM PDT by 103198 (It's the metadata stupid...)
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To: Forty-Niner
Give up two gain one is NOT a win!

Giving up two Dem-supporting RINOs to gain one real conservative IS a win.

47 posted on 06/15/2016 6:34:57 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625
I couldn't agree more. Maybe we'll have another Virginia Congressman that votes like Congressman Dave Brat instead of two (Forbes and Rigell) that vote against him and the People. And if Tom Garrett wins in the 5th CD - another one (instead of Hurt). The Virginia Congressional Delegation is on the verge of a huge trend the right way in a short time.
48 posted on 06/15/2016 6:46:34 AM PDT by 103198 (It's the metadata stupid...)
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To: RKBA Democrat; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Arthur Wildfire! March; randita; InterceptPoint; ...
we just got something of a two-fer

Rigell being replaced by Taylor sounds good. Conservative Randy Forbes being replaced by a Stalinist Black democrap thanks to lib judicial activism is horrendous, so no, you don't have a "two-fer".

49 posted on 06/15/2016 10:20:17 AM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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To: PapaBear3625

It is NOT a win because Forbes is not a RINO in any sense of the word. He is much more conservative than Trump and his ratings are stellar, plus he truly is honorable. The House will be less conservative when he goes.


50 posted on 06/15/2016 1:21:19 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: PapaBear3625

See post # 10.

You are assuming that Randy Forbes is NOT a Conservative.

From what I have seen in my own congressional district: We had a solid Conservative Congressman. Nancy Pelosi targeted him and 9 other Congressional Conservatives for defeat in 2010. She hand selected a man to run against him. He was re-elected in spite of her efforts.

On the next election cycle Pelosi supported the same man for the defeat of our Conservative Congressman, except this time she had gerrymandered the district so as to insure the defeat of our Conservative Congressman. Even so the election was close. The challenger had lost, but demanded a recount.

You can guess the rest.....after several recounts (sic) the Democrat edged out the Conservative, they quit counting, and the Democrat was declared the winner.

A challenge to the Democrat fell short last cycle and though there was some evidence with vote tampering no challenge to the results was filed.

This cycle the incumbent Democrat is being challenged by the very popular local sheriff. We’ll see how well the Democrats cheat against the top cop of the county.

Dan Lungren (R- Ca. 3rd) v. Omi Bera (D) 2010

Dan Lungren (R Ca.-7th) v. Omi Bera (D) 2012

Omi Bera (D Ca. 7th) v. Doug Osi (R) 2014

Omi Bera (D Ca. 7th) v. Jones (R.) TBD 2016


51 posted on 06/15/2016 1:53:26 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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To: Forty-Niner; Impy; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy

Well, you know CA has an “Independent” Redistricting Board which put in its plan in 2012. The problem is that it was worse than what a legislative Democrat gerrymander could come up with. They not only screwed Republicans en masse, but it also resulted in some senior Dems falling as well, though they were merely replaced with a new batch of ultra-Communist moonbats. CA is a disgrace and the delegation of 39 Dems to 14 R’s is ludicrously out of whack with the state’s voting preferences. 20 years ago, the delegation was tied 26-26.

Curiously, in FL, they have a voter-passed law (albeit unconstitutional) that demands the GOP majority draw more seats to favor the Dem minority (and the FL Supremes, a Democrat court, just upped the ante by stealing a couple more seats for the Dems for November, including redrawing the most historic GOP seat in FL in the Tampa Bay area, which has been GOP since 1954, for ex-Gov. Charlie “The Orange Menace” Crist, whom appointed some of those court members - can you say conflict of interest ?). FL should have a 19R-8D majority, instead they’ve gotten it up to 10 Dems (to 17R) and are trying to jack it up to 12 or 13D (to a bare 15 or 14R majority) for November.

Of course, the courts would never do that for the CA GOP to give them an additional 6-8 seats that would be more reflective of the federal voting percentage for President.


52 posted on 06/15/2016 2:10:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; stephenjohnbanker

Scott Taylor seems like a good candidate, a former Navy Seal who clashed with his party’s establishment in the past.


53 posted on 06/15/2016 2:24:24 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I will check him out, thanks.


54 posted on 06/15/2016 2:29:22 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Impy

Forbes wasn’t all that effective. Nor was he all that conservative. The courts did us dirty by forcing the redrawing of the 4th, but by failing to stand for his seat, Forbes lost the election for our side. He had a chance in the 4th, but the carpetbagger thing did him in when he tried to run in the 2nd.


55 posted on 06/15/2016 2:52:01 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Hitlery is America's EX-wife)
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To: Impy

In District 4, Republicans have a credible candidate running, a county sheriff.


56 posted on 06/15/2016 2:53:28 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: Dave W

The House will be less conservative because Forbes didn’t run in his own district. He might have won in the 4th. But in true gop-e form, he decided to run to another district rather than fight. And he lost.

The folks in the 2nd resented having a carpetbagger and Forbes got blown out of the water despite outspending Scott Taylor by roughly 10 to 1.


57 posted on 06/15/2016 2:56:05 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Hitlery is America's EX-wife)
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To: txrefugee

This was a good victory. Notwithstanding the wailing by FR’s own Pearl Clutcher Caucus, we actually won one.


58 posted on 06/15/2016 2:57:42 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Hitlery is America's EX-wife)
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To: Dave W

Banging pots and pans? Hardly.

Unfortunately we have tory pearl-clutchers such as yourself to tell us how we should always go for the “safe” win. And we end up with career losers like cantor, ryan, and rigell to screw us over at every turn as a result.


59 posted on 06/15/2016 3:04:26 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Hitlery is America's EX-wife)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Sheriff Wade is a good candidate, but he has a real uphill battle. By abandoning the field, forbes probably handed the seat to the rats.


60 posted on 06/15/2016 3:06:12 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Hitlery is America's EX-wife)
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