Posted on 11/10/2016 11:44:06 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
I.B.D. is a good resource....
Corn syrup? Really?
What’s the town? I can look it up on Dave Leip’s atlas. The answer is probably 1988.
Trump won Litchfield and Windham counties (Fairfield swung further D, ***kers). Essex VT despite a lousy statewide %, Kent RI, only MA spurned him totally.
South Succotash
Affirmative action president and press abject failure!!!!!!!!!
Yup. Karo. It’s good stuff. Loved it since I was a kid.
Ok, ok, Karo. Right.
An excellent summation.
Thanks
Dude, you didn’t tell me you tied the State Senate in CT?!
Conspiracy
The GOP tied, but the Dem moonbat Lt Governor casts the deciding vote, so they keep the majority and organize the body.
If only there was a CT RAT Senator named Williams that would vote last because he was last alphabetically ....
Que?
Didn’t Democrats keep control of the Tennessee (or was it Kentucky?) state house a few years ago when the GOP had a one-vote majority, but when they voted for Speaker they had the Republicans vote alphabetically, and the last guy, a RINO named Williams, went last and voted for himself, and he became Speaker with the votes of all of the Democrats? I was joking that maybe we could find a CT DINO with a W surname to return the favor.
Yes, in the 2008 elections, the GOP got a 1-seat majority in the House (50-49). The caucus elected Jason Mumpower, the sitting party leader, as the Speaker-designate. As they were calling the roll, they got to one Kent Williams, a creepy sophomore RINO from East TN who had beaten a Conservative Eurasian Republican. Williams voted for himself and outgoing Democrat Speaker, Boss Hogg Naifeh, directed the entire Democrat caucus to vote for him, and the Dems stole the chamber by 1 vote and “Speaker” Williams turned around and created the new position of “Speaker Emeritus” and the 49+turncoat “elected” Naifeh to the position, from which Naifeh could continue to run the body through his puppet.
A month later, the GOP convened a special meeting and formally kicked Williams out of the party where he continued to serve as an “Independent.” The GOP increased its numbers in 2010 and deposed the Puppet Speaker. Unfortunately, Williams was replaced by a RINO Country-Clubber named Beth Harwell (who refused to endorse Trump), and she’s been running the body as ruthlessly as Boss Naifeh. She was just reelected in-caucus by a very narrow margin the other day.
I remember the Williams thing of course, but the not the part about him voting last.
Did Boss Hogg arrange that not knowing whether Williams would go for it or not?
” RINO Country-Clubber named Beth Harwell “
But but the 17th amendment has got to go!
A shame Mumpower retired in 2010.
I would presume it was pre-arranged. Yes, it is a shame about Mumpower. Had he run again in 2010 (as he remained the House GOP leader for the 2009-10 sessions), he would’ve been able to become Speaker. I don’t know what he’s been up to in the past 6 years, presumably went back into the private sector.
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