From what I heard Jesse Kelly say on the radio, he won on Election Day with 54 (or 56?) % of the votes. I can’t quite remember the percentage. If we only allowed voting on Election Day and maybe absentee ballots, he would have won.
Within 15 minutes of Jesse winning the primary, Gabby went negative. She had millions upon millions in her war chest, and all those early voters were duped. She also wouldn’t agree to a debate until it was almost Election Day (and the deadline for requesting early ballots had passed).
When those early ballots started being counted, that put her over by about 4,000 votes. But it took a few days to hash it out, maybe even over a week, I already can’t remember exactly. That’s how close the election was.
Money and lying in campaign commercials helped her win.
And then on Sat, Linda Lopez went on Fox and dared say that our mean, nasty, horrible campaign signs (the ones rebutting Gabby’s lies and pointing out how she forced ObamaCare onto the unwilling public) were what caused the massacre.
I also heard Linda Lopez say to a Fox reporter on Saturday that the shooter was an “Afghan war vet” and that Ms. Giffords’ father told the police his daughter’s enemies were “the entire Tea Party”. The latter comment by the father was perhaps understandable under the circumstances, but Lopez’s voice was dripping with contempt about the supposed vet. A family member of mine who is active duty military heard it and almost became physically sick at the thought. I have no idea who told Lopez that - Sheriff Dupnik, perhaps - or on what basis they did so.
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