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?
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The best line of the campaign, and perhaps a turning point, was when Karen Handel asked Jon Ossoff in one of the debates who he was going to vote for in the special election, knowing that Ossoff couldn’t vote for himself. Surprisingly, Ossoff hadn’t anticipated the question and stumbled for several minutes trying to fashion a coherent response.
Perhaps she is, like Justice Ginsburg, already dead. CGI and holograms can do wonders.
But he had to be real. He had Dan. Druff.
This isn’t actually very funny. Locally a few years ago the Dems ran a ghost candidate whose website spouted conservative statements against a local and effective conservative and a leftist. The ghost split the conservative vote and the leftist won.
This is happening more and more.
Which raises the question, what if Stooksbury had won? Who would have given the acceptance speech? Who would have been sworn in?
FWIW, elementary internet searches indicate there exists a Rodney Allen Stooksbury, aged 56, with an address in zipcode 30339, who has worked at Lockheed Martin and is related to Karen.
Locally a few years ago the Dems ran a ghost candidate whose website spouted conservative statements against a local and effective conservative and a leftist. The ghost split the conservative vote and the leftist won.
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Last Gov race in Virginia had McAuliffe winning because a Libertarian transplant from Texas ran and split the R vote DESPITE the local and National Libertarians denouncing him and calling him a phony.
Of course we must remember all those great R’s who stayed home because they didn’t like the way the R candidate combed his hair or some other poppycock AND the ‘horrors’ of the McDonald investigation kept some people ‘home’ because the R candidate was the former AG and whatever other reason the RINOs could come up with.
Of course RINOs Priebus & the Bush camp Karl Rove wouldn’t give the Conservative Cuccinelli the ‘time of day’...
The same crew that ensured D wins in Del, CT etc by actually going against the TeaParty/Cons R and letting them swing in the wind
My first real DT ‘misgiving’ was when he picked Priebus for COS....maybe PDT was following the old Arab theory that better let your enemy sleep in your tent because if you kick him out he will just come back and pee under the flap - so keep him close so you can keep an eye on him....
Your plan just needs one minor tweak.
The libs and MSM need to lobby against the “discriminatory” requirement that humans and not VR creations must run for office. The antiquated requirement for human beings to appear in person and sign actual notarized documents to declare their candidacy is _so_ dead white men 18th century. :-)
Weird.
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