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Terminally ill Washington elector breaks down after casting Biden vote: 'I was glad to do my duty'
The Washington Post via SF Gate ^ | December 15, 2020 | by Andrea Salcedo

Posted on 12/15/2020 6:37:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

As Washington state elector Jack Arends registered his vote for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, his voice cracked with emotion. Then, Arends, 64, told the chamber that a doctor last month had diagnosed him with an untreatable, terminal condition.

"[In] November I was told there is no more medical treatment that can help me so it was important for me to do this one thing that I could do while I still can," said Arends, who wore a black beret reading, "Play Nice."

After his speech, Arends placed his microphone on the desk, crossed his arms over his face, and sobbed breathlessly as another elector came to his side to comfort him.

Arends, a retired aviation industry analyst and self-described grassroots activist living in Everett, Wash., told the Everett Herald last week that a doctor had diagnosed him with an inoperable heart valve.

Following the votes, each elector addressed the chamber. When it was his turn, Arends used part of his speech to argue that the electoral college system "is not great," but that it is the only system currently in place.

"Today is the chance to begin the end of the Trump administration," he said. "I was glad to do my duty ... Had he won a second term, there is no limit to the damage he could have done to the world."

Then, about two minutes into his speech, Arends broke the news to the chamber about his health condition.

"It will be up to others to do the hard work of rebuilding our nation as my health is failing," he said before abruptly ending his speech and setting his head down on his desk to weep. Julian Wheeler, a fellow elector, stood up to pat his back as the rest of the chamber clapped.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: election2020; elector; moonbat; socialist
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1 posted on 12/15/2020 6:37:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah, great. So he won't have to live in the world he helped create but his children and grandchildren will.

If he engaged in sexual practices that produced children.

2 posted on 12/15/2020 6:39:54 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

soon to be good communists.....


3 posted on 12/15/2020 6:39:56 AM PST by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Boo F’N hoo.


4 posted on 12/15/2020 6:40:15 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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Terminally ill Washington elector breaks down after casting Biden vote: ‘I was glad to do my duty’

Don’t care. Biden. Not my president.


5 posted on 12/15/2020 6:41:13 AM PST by Flick Lives (#resist)
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To: DCBryan1

soon to be good communists.....


Orange man bad, boot man good.....


6 posted on 12/15/2020 6:41:16 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Texas Eagle
So he won't have to live in the world he helped create but his children and grandchildren will.

Soon he'll be VERY WARM, and deservedly so! May he roast in Hell!

7 posted on 12/15/2020 6:41:31 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (A Deplorable behind enemy lines in the newly occupied socialist state of Georgia)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Great. He farts and then leaves the room.


8 posted on 12/15/2020 6:42:00 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

F him


9 posted on 12/15/2020 6:42:07 AM PST by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Okay, he can die now.


10 posted on 12/15/2020 6:42:15 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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ad he won a second term, there is no limit to the damage he could have done to the world."

These are the people who will be living in a tent on the street, one kid dead from opiates, another with purple hair identifying as a pansexual gender E, reading Rueters headlines telling him he's never had it better as he believes and repeats it.

What do you even do with this level of stupidity?

11 posted on 12/15/2020 6:42:54 AM PST by riri (All of my heroes are banned from the internet)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At least he didn’t steal any votes since Washington State went full retard quite a while ago ...


12 posted on 12/15/2020 6:43:13 AM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FU Jack.

You are a FAKE, PHONY, FRAUD with your “Play Nice” mask.

You have NO honor or shame.

Your casting a vote for Biden is utterly meaningless in consideration of your situation.


13 posted on 12/15/2020 6:43:41 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: Sans-Culotte

I hope he lives long enough to see Trump’s re-inauguration.


14 posted on 12/15/2020 6:43:43 AM PST by Salamander (I May Be Lonely But I'm Never Alone...And The Nights May Pass Me By...But I Never Cry...)
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To: Flick Lives
Biden. Not my president.

Not anybody's President.


15 posted on 12/15/2020 6:44:00 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

News-flash: We’re all terminally ill - nobody gets out alive.


16 posted on 12/15/2020 6:44:02 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good now DD and rot in hel!....


17 posted on 12/15/2020 6:44:07 AM PST by 1217Chic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Terminally I’ll with a moral disease, blindness of mind to the fear of God, hardness of heart to the unborn, blood poisoned by the life of Satan, carcinoma of the soul leading to an embracement of wicked lifestyles and a seared conscience.


18 posted on 12/15/2020 6:44:33 AM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Clean out the DOJ, CIA & FBI, top-to-bottom, Barr, Haspel & Wray first)
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“...soon to be good communists.....”

Ummmm.....don’t be too quick with that.
The only good communists are the ones that don’t vote after they’re dead.


19 posted on 12/15/2020 6:44:45 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Had he won a second term, there is no limit to the damage he could have done to the world.

They never explain what they mean by this. Trump is just the worst human ever, because WHY?

20 posted on 12/15/2020 6:45:00 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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