Posted on 11/04/2010 11:22:47 AM PDT by raccoonradio
(Newser) – In California, one literally does not need a pulse to win an election. State Sen. Jenny Oropeza zipped to victory last night, capturing 57.8% of the vote in her heavily Democratic district some two weeks after she died. Republican John Stammreich, who might have expected that being alive would boost his chances, managed to reel in only 36.3% of the vote, reports the Daily Breeze. A special election will be held to fill the seat.
“I’m not dead yet!”
Her site (”Your Voice in Sacramento”)
http://dist28.casen.govoffice.com/
>>On Oct. 20, 2010, Jenny Oropeza died after a lengthy illness.
http://laist.com/2010/11/03/deceased_state_senator_wins_her_sea.php
>>A special election will be held to put another Democrat in her place in the vacant seat. Oropeza died on October 20th “of complications from a blood clot in her abdomen” following a long battle with liver cancer.
Oym feeling bettah...
Well, Dems don’t require a pulse to vote, so...
They should just let her fill her seat as is.
She’ll do less harm to the state that way.
As I see it Democrats usually rely on a lot of dead voters, so it follows that they might as well run a dead candidate. You know, appeal to their core voting bloc.
Duhhhh. Dead starts wit “D” and so dus “Democrat.” Tell me which button to push to vote for duh Democrat. I don’t care if she’s alive or dead.
I voted for a dead man in ‘08 ... candidate for County Soil and Water Supervisor, or something like that. I assume he’s done an adequate job in the post, since we still have soil and water in the county.
In MA one does not need to show ID to vote. I could have looked up someone who recently died in the paper (and
they hadn’t scrubbed it from the voter rolls)...
—JOHN SMITH, 56, of 3 Brown Rd in Beverly died after a short
illness
Now suppose he’s in a diff. ward/precinct than the one I at which I already voted
“Address please?”
“3 Brown Rd.”
“Name?”
“John Smith”
“here’s your ballot sir”
California REPUBS should sue arguing that the state should not discriminate against the deceased (which would happen if a special election were held). Voters in that district, in their wisdom, can simply be represented by said elected official (too bad if she cannot push the freaking vote button on the house floor).
Thank heavens, I don’t feel so bad about that dead Carnahan vote in Missouri now.
I’m sure many dead people vote for her, too
Yeah, but at least she’s not speaker any more.
BOXER?.........
The story here isn’t that a dead person got elected. The story is that the Republicans fielded such a poor candidate they couldn’t beat a dead person.
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