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[dfwgator]

Coming to a theater near you, "Weekend at Patsy's."

[2banana]

Patsy Mink was, by all accounts, a person of principle who had little tolerance for game-playing within her party. Patsy Mink was a straight-shooter. She was an independent thinker. It's hard to imagine that she would approve of the Democrats' handling and mishandling of information about her ability to serve in the hopes of controlling an election. Instead of worrying so much about holding on to Patsy Mink's seat in Congress, Democrats should try harder to hold on to Patsy Mink's values.

She was a marxist/socialist - nuff said

[The Electrician]

She was an independent thinker.

I'm having trouble reconciling that with the fact that she seemingly was a lifelong Democrat.

[headsonpikes]

It's hard to imagine that an appeal to common decency would work on the Democrats.

[Troy J Mathews]

Due to the nature of the district, deceased Rep. Mink could win the election, then what happens?

[rmmcdaniell]

Why don't we see the RATS demanding the deadline laws be broken so that they can run another candidate? You won't see it because that would upset democratic hopes of capitalizing on the sympathy vote.

[RippleFire]

BUMP

[WOSG]

Good editorial but not strong enough.

You dont honor Patsy Mink by voting for a dead person,
if you want to do that send flowers.
By voting for a dead person you dishonor the electoral process, by forcing another election to be held
and disorting the point of the election in the first place: to pick someone who will represent you IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS.

But distorting and subverting the electoral process seems
less of a problem to Democrats than (gasp!) letting Republican win.

[Brytani]

Am I the only one who see's the hilarity in all of this. The dems are trying to remove the name of a crooked senator in NJ while trying to keep the name of a dead house member on the ballot in Hawaii.

And they say Republicans are confused.

[WOSG]

I think this factoid I culled from a different linked article just about says it all ... they CAN withdraw her, but wont... in NJ they CANT legally widthdraw him, but WILL ...

Under state law, Mink has until Oct. 16 to withdraw from the election for medical reasons. However, that would leave the Democrats without a candidate to face Republican state Rep. Bob McDermott ( news, bio, voting record) in the general election.