Posted on 12/30/2004 1:48:07 PM PST by Prospero
Raleigh – Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger has criticized as “purely partisan” and “political gamesmanship” a decision by the State Board of Elections to hold a new statewide election for Commissioner of Agriculture.
“While I’m confident Steve Troxler would prevail in a special election,” Berger said, “a new statewide election will be expensive and is unlikely to draw as much attention as the November race. The three and a half million North Carolinians who voted in the Commissioner of Agriculture race in November deserve to have their votes counted. North Carolina elected a new Agriculture Commissioner who should be allowed to begin his term on time, on January 15.”
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(I don't think so.)
I voted for Troxler once, I'll vote for him again.
This is another broad daylight mugging, just like the Washington Governor's race. If Democrats had as much class and capacity for shame, as other terrorists do, they would likewise hide their identity behind masks.
Is election theft getting more brazen, or just more widely reported?
Both.
This is just attempted robbery in broad daylight. Unreal.
I agree--it's both.
I have an idea. Since we're having a statewide revote anyway, why don't we add the candidates for Governor in WA on our ballot and we in NC can elect their Governor. They need a revote and we're having one anyway, so....
There is ony one solution. Genetically engineer the democratic race out.
It is my opinion(I admit i've only been active for 2 years) that this has been the strangest election year ever. Since April, I personally have worked on a primary, a special election, a run-off, another local special election, and a general election.
I have already pulled my Troxler sign out of the garage( Good thing i'm a pack-rat) and i'm ready to go at it all over again.
Sigh, once upon a time I actually thought the election ended in November.
The parakeet in the mine shaft for me has been when the time when a term begins or ends starts to get blurred.
The reason for this is, for most of our history anyway, losers and winners of elections could know well in advance when the precise time and place when the next battle, channeling the revolutionary impulse, must take place. I think this has kept the peace, in many respects, because as bad as 2004 seemed, we really have a history of mean electioneering... preferring it really to actual blood and destruction.
What these Democrats don't realize, I think, is how dangerous this game of theirs can become. Take away the last of a group's hope of achieving their ideals, however remote, and True Believers are likely to do just about anything. They've clearly already crossed the line, and the normalization of mob rule could follow, and the hangman's noose.
And another thing. Forgetting the margin of victory, there is something, once again, about the day and the hour, the field of battle and fog of war that should Cobb get his way, is inherently unfair to Ballantine and the rest. This is dangerous ground they are walking... no doubt.
Man, we've got to go vote AGAIN here in NC? *sigh* Good luck dragging my family out to vote...
I still think that only those 4,000 voters that they lost their votes should be allowed to vote again. What about the rest of our 3 million+ votes? Why should we have to do it again?
(And I still can't believe NC chose Easley over Ballantine. I mean, really, what has Easley done in the last years for us here in NC?)
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