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Total Paid for poll rubbish ... I have read 3 other articles citing polls that say 180 degree opposite
Bush and Rubio like illegal aliens living off the backs of American taxpayers. San Luis Obispo. Spanish isn’t it?
It’s pretty bad, like his tweets. Seems to be on board with Kasich. He may be a confused libertarian or some sort of `taint.
https://twitter.com/lightmandavid
Um...the same Marco Rubio that has collapsed from 14% to 5%?
A distraction from the nominating process is exactly why people like Trump. He’s not a politician.
None that I know. But then again, I don't hang out at private country clubs.
First off, the Telegram-Tribune was taken over by the very liberal Knight-Ridder chain (San Jose Mercury News, never saw a liberal or tax increase or new regulation it didn’t endorse, or nearly so)
Second, Trump and Cruz are clear leaders right now among the R voters......... they are simply the most articulate candidates plus Trump commands headlines even when he sneezes.... and Cruz has been working probably the hardest with so many appearances, speeches, position papers,.. almost all very articulate
This note is not to say that either Trump or Cruz will win the race, nor that either is necessarily my choice... but certainly they are right out there in front of the race right now.....and editorials or idiotorials or polls that claim otherwise are either mistaken or propaganda lies trying to influence the race for less popular candidate(s)
or D propaganda designed to sow dissention or confusion in the R primary
Who ? And the RINO Establishment doesn't count. They're Democrats.
I voted republican. I despise Bush and his ilk.
Is’nt San Luis Obispo a sanctuary city?
There are a whole bunch in libural Kahlifornia.
Could it possibly be more obvious that they long to run against Jeb?
Trump scares the crap out of Hillary and all the rest of the leftists.
If it’s Trump v Hillary there will be no debates.... Hillary would pass out before they could get her to the podium.
SLO county has a Latino population, although they tend not to occupy the power positions. (They are more strongly represented in the largest city of that region, Santa Maria, just across the line into Santa Barbara County, but SLO county does have more Latin people than are ‘visible.’)
Things have come a ways since the days of the SLO county sheriff who won re-election every time the voting came up.....by getting off his otherwise-pretty-relaxed posterior anatomy....and staging a “big-time raid on crime”.....complete with SLO Telegram-Tribune reporters and photographers all along for the ride!..... the sheriff would suddenly discover the (very well established and openly operated) Nipomo Mesa cockfighting arena..... and ‘capture’ a few participants as “criminals”... the photographers dutifully would snap pictures of the big sheriff holding one of the unfortunate “criminals” in one arm and an even more unfortunate-looking cock (no, chicken) in the other. Made big press in that sleepy backwater.
Everyone who didn’t know better was led to believe this sheriff deserved re-election, that he was really right out there working hard (no puns intended) to “protect the public” from Big Time Criminals (a few hundred or so local residents, largely but not exclusively Latino, out for a happy Saturday afternoon...complete with picnic baskets, tailgating BBQ’s (remember this is Santa Maria country) and large quanta of beer. Oh yes, with their entire families, as the cock fights were always the best, most fun recreational activity in the Central Coast region (at least in the opinion of many, and at least if you confine the discussion to dry land).
Of course, the big time public protector sheriff never shut the cock fighting arena down. It remained in operation for decades that I know of (and I wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t still there????)......as it had permanent buildings and was right off State Highway One, very convenient to get to and easy to park and join right in that festivities.
And if the sheriff ever shut the arena down, where could he stage his quadrennial big anti-crime raids? If the arena ever got torn down, cockfighting has not ceased in the area.... as can be seen from this relatively recent (2010) report of the capture of some 600 birds at a cockfighting sight just a couple miles away...
Question: is there an issue of racism here, since cockfighting is visibly loved largely within the Latino community?
Question: is this the kind of law enforcement we want to pay taxes for?
Question: is it okay for people to fight birds?
Question: is it okay for people to fight birds if they are going to eat them after?
Question: no, I will not attempt to re-raise Cecil from the dead.
anyway, you could always count on a couple thousand people have a very very VERY good time at these regularly -scheduled and advertised entertainment events in the Santa Maria-SLO area.
aside from that, you could always go enjoy yourself trying to dig up a clam on the beach, I guess. just not nearly as exciting or entertaining
and the rest of the SLO cockfighting story was..
that the sheriff that used the cockfights to get himself re-elected (more than once, as I recall)... was also using the cockfights as a fund-raising source (in ways not so legit, see this link...which provides another very good reason he had not to ever actually shut the cockfighting arena down~~~~~!!!!!!!!)
http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slovault/2009/01/cockfighting-in-san-luis-obispo-county/
If I were the editor, I’d fire the guy who wrote this article. He’s clueless.
Posted without comment?
No, they are pushing a meme and will fall all over themselves with amazement of his performance afterwards.
Gotta set it up and then sell it.
I think what they meant to say is that among those Democrat voters who will never, under any circumstance, vote for anyone other than their party’s nominee, Bush and Rubio are viewed very favorably, and Trump isn’t.
and the cock fighting tradition continues in that area —
this is my last posting about cockfights, I just went off on this tangent because cock fights seem so much like R primary campaigns these days