Enjoy the Ossoff voters' reaction all over again
Posted on 06/24/2017 3:56:32 AM PDT by jalisco555
As far as I know, Rodney Stooksbury is an actual living human being. I have even spoken with someone who has spoken with someone who swears he exists.
Certain people, however, are convinced that Rodney Stooksbury does not exist. This is because, even though Rodney Stooksbury was the 2016 Democratic congressional candidate in Georgia’s 6th District, nobody could ever actually seem to find a photograph of the guy. Or a campaign website. Or any campaign material. Or anyone who has actually met Rodney Stooksbury. News outlets tried to track down Stooksbury, to no avail. According to one investigation, “when reporters went to his town house in Sandy Springs, no one answered the door. When they inquired with the neighbors, no one had heard of him. He apparently had run no campaign, and had raised no money.” Stooksbury, if not a literal ghost, might as well have been one. In November, shortly before leaving to become Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Republican incumbent Tom Price was re-elected with approximately 62% of the vote. Rodney Stooksbury, whoever he was, came second. He received 38% of the vote.
This week, the special election to replace Price was held. Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff, 52 to 48, in the most expensive House race in the history of the United States. Over $56 million was spent in total, enough to prevent nearly 17,000 children from dying of malaria. Because Ossoff had positioned himself as a centrist, running mainly on a platform of reducing government spending, a lot of heated debate is now occurring among Democrats. What does this mean for the party? Should it heed the Berniecrats and appeal to the progressive base? If throwing money at a race won’t win it, what will?
(Excerpt) Read more at currentaffairs.org ...
Yet the Democratic Party of the state said nothing....which makes you wonder if the GOP and Democratic Party are just one single party.
Enjoy the Ossoff voters' reaction all over again
In an era of fake news it is only appropriate there be fake candidates.
This story points out how pathetic journalism has become. In 2016 apparently not one reporter from the Atlanta newspaper or local television stations, including PBS, sought to obtain an interview from the Democrat candidate running against Tom Price. Atlanta is a major city, major media market. If a reporter did seek an interview, and discovered Mr. Stooksbury did not exist, apparently the presence of a ghost candidate was not considered to be newsworthy.
The logical conclusion is political journalists do no real investigative reporting. Perhaps they sit around newsrooms reading press releases from campaigns and talking to party hacks. They then regurgitate what they are spoon fed or write stories outlined by their editors.
If a billionaire purchased a news network, hired real investigative reporters, and turned them loose to write well researched, factual, and non-ideological stories about every dimension of American society that network would dominate news coverage within a few years.
This Current Affairs article represents the type of journalism we used to receive in newspapers and magazines before the media became propaganda outlets for the progressive movement.
Does America have a malaria problem I haven't heard about?
“The agony of defeat”
The schadenfreude is strong on this one.
That dim with her hand on her face seems to be sporting a snowflake button on her. Are they now proud to be snowflakes? Anyone know about that button?
I wondered about that too. I thought a candidate had to personally file to be on the ballot and hand in a check with the filing fee. Does anybody know the procedure in Georgia? Can a proxy take care of this?
Possibly an alias for Rodney stoaksbury age 61 of Andersonville, Tennessee?
There is actually such a person listed in the phone directory. I know a lady with he same last name, it’s not a common one. I’ll ask her.
He might possibly be a relative, Rodney h. There may be a Rodney Allen stooksbury who is a few years younger and with ties to Georgia. In any case it is not a common name.
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Lol
If they are going to put up an imaginary person, how about “George Kaplan”? (North by Northwest reference)
If Jack_Assoff was so smart and such a "dynamo" you'd think he would've taken a little bit of those $MILLIONS the west coast libs were funneling to him, and rented an apartment in the district, just to remove that issue.
In my Granddad’s day they were called yellow-dog democrats.
This “ghost” trick is nothing new. Fifty or sixty years ago lawyers and others would run for public office, not to win, but just to get name recognition out there. Most of the time there was never a photo of such candidates.
One got the scare of his life when he almost won and election.
I see this as an opportunity for Democrats. Because both Hillary and Elizabeth Warren are effectively unelectable for POTUS, they should run Rodney Stooksbury for POTUS, with either Warren or Hillary for VP.
They could get some of their Silicon Valley billionaires to make a computer generated Stooksbury, and get their lickspittle MSM to crank out tons of fake news positive press for him, going full nineteen-eighty-four.
Then California could pass a law permitting VR candidates to run for POTUS, and get the 9th Circuit to agree that it is perfectly constitutional, delaying it going to the SCOTUS as long as possible.
Of course if they won, Sooksbury would immediately resign and give the office to either Hildebeast or Fauxcahontus.
The bottom line is that this scheme would probably have better odds than any of the multitude of the current schemes they have right now.
Lordy his last ads claiming to have found six HUNDRED billion dollars in waste was hysterical. That’s half the friggin deficit. What a maroon
AFTERMATH: funniest story yet.
Delusional Dems ran Ossoff b/c he’ s a “millennial type.”
But Dem canvassers found that Georgia millenials lived w/ their parents.....
The Repub parents went ballistic when Dems attempted to reach their kids.....daring to suggest the kids didn’t think like them.
It got ugly. Cops were called on Dem canvassers.
ROTFLOL.
Maybe she meant "Pyrrhic defeat". :-)
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