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Why tensions in Ferguson may help Republican in a local vote
Reuters ^ | November 3, 2014 | Alistair Bell in Ferguson

Posted on 11/03/2014 6:27:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Black anger at a local Democrat's handling of the shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has given the Republican candidate some hope of winning the race for St Louis County executive for first time since the 1980s.

Polls show both candidates virtually tied in this troubled corner of America.

A group of African-American leaders is endorsing Republican Rick Stream. One reason: Democratic hopeful Steve Stenger's support of the prosecutor investigating the Ferguson police department, which is under scrutiny after a white officer shot dead Brown, an 18-year-old African-American, in August.

That group accuses the county prosecutor Robert McCulloch of being biased because he's too close to police. He couldn't be immediately reached for comment, but has denied that is the case....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Missouri; Campaign News; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: ferguson; missouri

1 posted on 11/03/2014 6:27:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Finally, a bright side to that fiasco

Thank you.


2 posted on 11/03/2014 6:32:21 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I live in South County, not North County, so Ferguson doesn't directly affect me. I will be voting for Republican Rick Stream tomorrow, of course.

Another reason why black turnout for Democrat Steve Stenger may be down tomorrow: Stenger beat the black Democrat incumbent, Charlie Dooley, in the primary, and the blacks were not happy about that.

3 posted on 11/03/2014 6:35:52 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (St. Louis County)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HANDS UP! VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!


4 posted on 11/03/2014 6:39:07 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you’re among the ranks of Americans increasingly concerned with where Obama and the leftist Democrats have dragged this country but believe that YOUR vote is inconsequential or irrelevant, spend a few minutes watching the video at the link below. It should be enough to get you to the polls tomorrow. We’re living through a modern incarnation of ancient Rome’s “bread and circuses” as the Vandals stormed the gates.

Trust me when I offer that the outcome will be the same!

Let me tie this video to perhaps THE most critical issue bearing on our future. That’s the push by fedzilla to hike their assistance to college students for that much vaunted “higher education”.

With some exceptions notable by their rarity, the left dominates the academic institutions in this country. What better way to increase their numbers than to subsidize putting millions of OUR sons and daughters in classrooms controlled by ardent leftist indoctrinators? How many parents do you know who scrimped to put a kid into one of these places only to find the kid, home during a break, spouting leftist anti-capitalist nonsense? Our family isn’t very large – but I can name several.

Time to put some ADULTS BACK IN CHARGE!

Watch – and SHARE the video and this email – THEN GET OUT TOMORROW AND VOTE!!!!!!!!

(While most all the issues these folks are advancing will take us far away from the traditional values that have made America the envy of the world – TO WHICH the oppressed flee – to a place from which we may never return, in classic “broken clock” manner, you will see a handful of positive issues in that fast flash sequence.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rijpU5yD55I


5 posted on 11/03/2014 8:06:12 PM PST by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“has given the Republican candidate some hope of winning the race for St Louis County executive for first time since the 1980s.”

Someone needs to bring some sanity to the county.


6 posted on 11/03/2014 8:49:45 PM PST by Maudeen
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