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 didnt 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
My vote is with the mad too.
In other news, due to the lack of funding, the hospital will be closed and the 1000 sex offenders and numerous mentally ill will be released. Shouts of “Free at Last” were heard from inside the gates. One man was muttering “So who are the crazy ones now!?”
A hospital for sex offenders and other miscellaneous cretins constitute a "voting precinct". All is going to hell in a bucket.
“...Who would you rather have deciding your local taxes, patients at a mental hospital or Democrats? ...”
That one is easy: The hospital patients. Why? Well, they’re being treated for the mental issues. The insanity brought on by liberalism makes Rats more dangerous because they’re running around loose in society completely unhinged, etc. I’ll take a treated nut case over an untreated nutcase any day.
So the only folks sane enough to know that voting for a tax increase is bad are locked up in the mental hospital? Who runs the medical program? Joe Stalin?
Even mental patients are wiser than DemocRATs.
Good argument!
Seems like the "certified" and locked up nut cases have more sense than the average Dem....
True, Dat!
Post of the day.
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