Posted on 11/05/2013 8:04:45 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT
Just got back from victory party. In DEM Conn., in a DEM city in the inner-city (a welfare ward largely consisting of 3-family houses) GOP Don Naples upsets DEM incumbent Freeman ... so we have a new alderman.
Naples 194 Freeman 171
If we can win here ... there is hope for America.
another weird one in my city.
Ward Alderman race ends in tie. 842 to 842.
Meanwhile, in one voting location, the wrong ballots were used for a brief period! The ballots had the Ward 2 candidates, not the correct Ward 5 candidates.
So there are several dozen additional ballots that are invalid ... looks like some type of new election or re-vote will occur. Another opportunity to smash a commie.
The Chamber of Commerce will be emboldened by this win though. They could end up ruining 2014, just like they ruined 2012.
I was wrong he does have policy specifics. Sounds good.
http://www.jameshallforcongress.com/#!page3/cee5
Bizarre, I hope they don’t find a way to crown the democrat the victor without a new vote.
Rats pickup Mayoralties in St. Pete Florida, Charlotte, and Greensboro NC. I weep for lost mayoralties, so few cities are governed properly.
Do you know if St. Pete, Charlotte and Greensboro currently have GOP Mayors? I thought Charlotte's current mayor is a 'RAT. Not sure about St. Pete or Greensboro...
From your post above, I gathered that all three cities currently have Republican mayors, and that all have flipped to the dark side (democRATs) as of today's elections.
The news source I got that info from called Charlotte a rat pickup. They were in error, the rats had it already, now Governor Pat McCrory was the last GOP mayor. A new rat, Patrick Cannon, was elected by a 6 point margin.
Greensboro does have an outgoing GOP Mayor, Robbie Perkins. Rat Nancy Vaughn beat him by 19 points.
St. Pete’s outgoing GOP Mayor is Bill Foster. He lost to rat Rick Kriseman by a 12 point margin in the officially non-partsian race.
Good thing that Congressman Bill Young died last month, not 6 months ago, or the special election to replace him probably would have been held yesterday, which by the mayoral results in St. Pete likely would have resulted in a Democrat winning the seat.
Congratulations, Pete!
“Pizza the Hutt wins a landslide in NJ but no coattails, GOP gains in the legislature were slight. Rats put all their money and attention there.”
In truth, NJ voters cast more votes for Republican legislative candidates than for the RATs. I counted the votes cast for GOP and RAT candidates for the state senate yesterday (I checked it on AP a few minutes ago, so almost all precincts were in), and GOP candidates received 956,050 votes to only 620,257 for RATs; throw in independents, and GOP state senate candidates got the same 60% statewide as did Christie for governor. Now, one of the RATs ran unopposed (so the votes cast for him weren’t announced), and the RATs didn’t run anyone in a GOP district where an indie ran, but adjusting for that would reduce the GOP statewide margin by maybe 50,000 votes, meaning that Republican state senate candidates would get 58% of the vote adjusting for those two districts. So it seems that Christie did have coattails, although not large enough to overcome the Democrat gerrymanders.
I don't know VA very well, but holding the AG's office, I would guess, should be considered very significant.
It was Cuccinelli who let the state AGs' suit Obamacare that went to the SCOTUS, where Roberts was compromised on his notorious decision. There may be other legal grounds to file state suits against Obamacare in the future, and a 'Rat AG would have eliminated that possibility.
Also, Republican control the AG office could act as a deterrent factor against 'Rat voting fraud and cheating, especially considering the how the dynamics of the 2016 presidential election could be shaping up.
Thank you.
In that case I almost have to salute the efficacy of those pigs’ gerrymandering.
I have renewed anger at the traitor House Speaker in Virginia that wussed out on redrawing the Senate lines there that would have ensured we’d retake the majority in 2015.
It is important for many reasons, getting shut out of the 3 statewide offices would have been horrible. Obershain (if they don’t rob him of his office) must now be considered the GOP frontrunner for Governor in 2017.
I have been thinking about the Senate reredistricting in the past few weeks. If the VA Senate passed it as a stand-alone bill (not as an amendment to the House bill thta made technical changes to the House maps), the Speaker would not be able to decide that it wasn’t a “germane amendment.” Of course, the Senate is still 50-50 (the RAT Senator elected Lt. Gov. won’t resign until January), and Bolling was against the redrawing, so Senate Republicans have their work cut out for them to get it passed. but passing the Senate would be the hard part, since Republicans in the House won’t face voters for two more years (and the ones who lost have nothing to lose) and lame-duck Gov. McDonnell better sign it if he expects to get any support from Republicans ever again.
“OK, now we have someone that it will be politically correct to blame all the problems on!”
Congrats!!! A Republican wins inner-city race in ever-so-blue CT and another loses in VA. Go figure.
Speaking of competitive house races, we have another one unfortunately, Jon Ruynan (who as I recall, is a disappointment) is retiring in NJ-3 after 2 terms.
More bad news, VA AG going to recount, late counting has the rat up by 600. Unacceptable.
More Mayoral results, Cincy elects rat Councilman John Cranley over rat Ex-Mayor Roxanne Qualls. I hate these nonpartisan top 2 primaries, Cincy is a city where a Republican can win, Republicans had a right to a general election candidate.
In Toledo Black Mayor Mike Bell (I) was defeated by White challenger Councilman Michael Collins (I), both advanced to the runoff over 2 democrats. Collins supports making a temporary city income tax of 0.75% permanent. Bell was State Fire Marshal under Rat Governor Strickland but backed Kaisch on that anti-big labor ballot initiative and had the “unsolicited backing” of Republicans in this race. Union rats supported the big labor friendly Collins.
Rat Mayor Mike McGinn of Seattle is ousted by another rat, State Senator Ed Murray.
Hey, look on the bright side... the GOP won Atlantic City for the first time since the ‘80s.
I wouldn’t bet on those wusses lame ducking it. But I hope they do.
But have you heard? The new GOP-Mayor elect (and surprise winner) of Atlantic City, the oddly surnamed Don Guardian, is GAY. Oh joy.
The rat Mayor he defeated sounds like a disaster.
To paraphrase Travis Bickle, someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum from our elective offices.
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