Posted on 10/31/2004 1:01:48 PM PST by SmithL
Arriving home from the hospital after being treated for a heart attack, 84-year-old Carol Barnes inched up the steps into her Sunset District home and headed straight for her absentee ballot.
"She said, 'That ... Bush, I can't allow him to be president again,' " said her son, Bo Barnes. " 'I want to vote for Kerry to make the world safe.' "
Too exhausted to do more than cast votes for president and two propositions, the widow of an Army major signed the ballot and told her son they'd complete the rest later. Three days later, on Oct. 17, Carol Barnes died.
Within an hour of his mother's death, Bo Barnes mailed her absentee ballot, fulfilling her dying request.
Such soul-deep loathing of George W. Bush is common in the Bay Area,
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
It used to be the Crown Jewel of California... Haight Ashbury and the flower children were the beginning of the fall from grace (IMO) and Willie Brown only hastened things.
The first of many dead votes for Kerry --- only this one they won't have to fork out any cigs, crack, booze or breakfast for.
Lived in East Bay for over 40 years, Hayward and Dublin. Only went to SF when I had too. Live in Texas now and love it. No matter where you live it is the people that make the area and the people here are great.
Back in the Reagan years the National Lampoon Magazine had a "World According to Reagan" map in it. It was color coded and the USA was huge compared to every other country. If you looked closely you could see that San Francisco was colored the same as the Warsaw Pact nations!
I wish I had a copy of that map now. There was more truth in it than they realized.
I'd be very afraid, Rev. God has got His finger on the Fault!
Well not in person, but I could by phone (of course, anyone could do that). But why---what would I ask?
My nephew just spent 8 years there and has now moved back to Va. Luckily he hasn't managed to get his car registered in 6 months so I know he hasn't registered to vote. When the election came up he started bashing Bush. I calmly (for me) asked him why he didn't like Bush. Response: "All the scandal" What scandal, I replied. "Bush made all that money off Halliburton and the war". Where do you get your news, I calmly replied. "NPR, my Irish friend says it had the only good representation of what's going on in Ireland." Me: So you're for Kerry because an Irishmen likes NPR? "yes"
And they say the aren't smart! I pray me kids have more of a clue.
Years ago I really loved the Bay area. Now I hate it.. its a vile area with downtown SF streets filled with low life and bums in every single doorway. Its the closest thing you can come to communism in this country.
I go to the area on a regular basis for business.. and stay in the south bay area.. or near the airport. I will not go downtown. I have personally been responsible for the cancellation or relocation of conventions that would put millions of dollars in the pockets of SF.
If the majority of shitbags in this city had there way, the working people in this country would pay 80% in taxes to support their 'socialist project'. SF.. SCREW YOU! I take great pleasure in the fact that your vote doesnt mean a damn thing.
If California would ever split their electoral vote, giving SF 20 EV and the rest of California 35, the Republicans would win those 35 this year.
I'd never thought about it until I saw a long thread here this morning, but there's apparently quite a bit of furor as if to the absentee ballot of a known deceased person is valid....
I loved seeing that map - my original tagline here was along the lines of "Get 40 miles from the beach and California is as much flyover country as anyplace"
I just happened to buy a used car yesterday, complete with Bush sticker. Today, I was honked at and flipped off. Go figure!
Bay Area. Home sweet communist home. I still, to an extent, love the place (at least, the physical Bay Area). Weather's great, and, as long as politics isn't brought up, so are the people. But again, that is when politics isn't brought. Because with places like San Fanfreakshow, Bezerkerly, and a little further south, People's Republic of Santa Cruz, it is definately a brain dead place for the radical left.
I for one have no problem with it. If I walk into a polling place, vote, and then get hit by a car, should they toss out my ballot? How can they practically do that? Well, I don't see the situation being any different with absentee ballots or early voting. Yes, it makes it a bit more likely to occur, but really it's still a very small number.
Besides, the real fraud is not people who die after they cast their vote---it is people who vote on behalf of people who are already dead. That's a far more pressing problem.
Bo Barnes just admitted to committing voter fraud. Why hasn't he been arrested?
They tend to be more moral than the old liberal whites. But in SF, that vote is offset by the way they cut up districts, and allot supervisors, so that far more supervisors are placed from mid and east city districts.
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