Posted on 03/16/2019 11:29:54 AM PDT by jazusamo
Former Democratic gubernatorial candidates Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum this week questioned the outcomes of their 2018 gubernatorial races -- suggesting that they, rather than their Republican opponents, should be in the governor seats.
Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee who lost to now-Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the state’s gubernatorial race in November, hinted on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” that both he and Abrams got enough votes to win their races, and that Abrams' may have been influenced by her opponent already being in office.
“Stacey juiced as many Dems as she could out of the state of Georgia and you also had the guy who was the referee also being the player on the field, right?” he said, in reference to that fact that now-Gov. Brian Kemp was the state’s secretary of state when he ran for office.
“Guess what, had we been able to legally count every one of those votes not just in Florida but also in Georgia, I wonder what the outcome may be,” Gillum later said to applause. His comments were first picked up by the Florida Politics blog.
Gillum also agreed with Maher that an amendment to allow ex-felons to vote would make Florida “a different ball game” for Democrats next time: “That’s right,” Gillum said.
Meanwhile Abrams, who has never conceded the Georgia governor race, reportedly said on Thursday that she won her election and didn’t plan on conceding.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
You could have dragged things out til you got the result you wanted. Why didn’t you Democrats do it?
Cause the votes weren’t there and sorry life doesn’t give you a do-over.
Suck it up.
They cannot give it up. The Republican candidates won in spite of all the Democrat shenanigans.
These two brain-dead low IQ negroes would not have done as well as they did if it were not for vote fraud and other shenanigans.
Blacks always cry foul due to racism. I have work with black and to be honest not all but a lot of them just plain lazy and always think some whitey is racist. pathetic.
If allowing foreigners to affect a Federal election is a crime, then...
Why is allowing non-Georgians to affect a Georgian election not ALSO a crime?
Each state’s CITIZENS should decide who should represent them without outsider’s help or interference.
REALITY CHECK--- WALL STREET JOURNAL: Democracy Succeeds in Georgia
Despite loser Stacey Abrams' claims of voter suppression, the voting data in Georgia showed a record turnout.
By Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, Nov. 19, 2018
EXCERPT Republican Brian Kemp was declared Georgia’s Governor-elect, yet Democrats are trying to rob him of legitimacy by accusing him of stealing the election. The Democrats usual tricks---hoping to benefit politically by undermining faith in American democracy.
At the last tally on Sunday after election day, Kemp led Stacey Abrams by about 55,000 votes or 1.4 percentage points.
She finally acknowledged Mr. Kemp’s victory on Friday, though her non-concession concession makes crabby Hillary Clinton sound like a gracious loser.
--snip---rest at WSJ web site
As Georgia's Secy of State, Kemp actually OPENED the voting process to MORE people----Kemo's actions hugely benefited Stacey Abrams.
Abrams predictably tried to invoke the ugly spectre of Jim Crow, but Abrams would have lost by bigger margins were if not for Secy of State Brian Kemp's (now Gov) numerous pro-voting actions......including initiating online measures.
Andrew Gillum jos now a (gag) CNN political commentator. For a Democrat, to qualify for a high-paying media job all you have to do is:
(A) lose a major state election,
(B) un-rescind your concession when ballots are mysteriously found in a “back room;”
(C) be a bought and paid for Mayor.
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and the Mystery of 311 East Jennings Street
A morass of addresses, interconnections, swaps and deals raising questions about Mayor Gillum’s alliances.
Gillum’s first win was in 2003 and he became mayor in 2014; under Blessed Obama he was NEVER a target of FBI inquiry.
<><> 52 LLCs list the Jennings Street address, many of which have donated to state and local Democrats including Sunnyland Solar, connected to a city-subsidized liberal-loving clean energy project now under FBI scrutiny. Mayor Gillum voted in 2011 to give Sunnyland Solar up to $5.4 million in tax subsidies.
<><>local businessman J.T. Burnette, a major Gillum backer who in 2014 received $883,000 in city tax subsidies for developing a downtown hotel. Gillum declined to comment. Burnette become a major political player by taking advantage of the LLC loophole. Florida is one of several states that allows LLC’s – even if they have the same ownership — to contribute as separate individuals, permitted to give the maximum amount of $1,000 from each “subsidiary.”
<><> Jennings Street also houses KaiserKane, a national security contractor with millions of tax dollars in federal contracts-—multimillion-dollar deals with the Dept of Defense and the Dept of Justice (blessed by Obama?).
<><>KaiserKane, named in the FBI subpoena, actually bought the Jennings Street property in 2013 for $1.15 million, records show. The building was sold in 2016 to 311 Jennings LLC, a company that lists Burnette’s home as its corporate address. The Jennings building was sold again in March 2017 to the PACE Center for Girls, a Jacksonville-based nonprofit.
<><>KaiserKane still uses the address for its Tallahassee office on its website “contact” page. Cynthia Montgomery, a lawyer representing PACE, said her client is the lone occupant of the 12,000-square-foot building. KaiserKane President Melissa Oglesby did not return a call.
<><> Significantly Mayor Gillum’s campaign was operating out of 1550 Melvin St, owned by longtime confidante Sharon Lettman-Hicks....the same building he has worked out of in his side gigs, first as director of youth leadership for the advocacy group People for the American Way, then for Lettman-Hicks’ P & P Communications, where Gillum was VP. Just what Gillum did for P & P, though, is not known. The company has no website, no dedicated phone line and has not formally disclosed its clients.
<><> The Melvin building was bought with funding from the NW Florida Black Business Investment Corporation, a tax-exempt group that provides (wait for it) “investment funding.” Two of the investment corporation directors are part of a group that in July received $281,000 in Tallahassee community development tax dollars for exclusive rights to a development project in the city. (hat tip RealClearInvestigations)
TO BE DETERMINED:
How many Gillum voters are registered at that address AND at other addresses.
How many of Gillum’s “ladies” are living at that address?
The Florida race was very close, which I find hard to believe, but it was.
I believe the reason the Florida race was close was due to voter fraud. I think there was a bunch of Demorat voter fraud during early voting.
Demon Kratz cheat as much as they can
when they lose they said the other side is cheating
I know we’re all sick and tired of these lying leftists scumbag losers
but you know what ?
ever to ever vigilance is the only answer
They will destroy this country have given a chance
“Looks like Abrams and Gillum suffer from Hillary Clinton syndrome.”
EXACTLY! Notice that it’s always Democrats who refuse to admit defeat; they learned it from the founder of the internet, Al Gore.
I believe that they honestly cannot fathom that they lost because fewer people voted for them than the other candidate, because even a complete fool could see just how magnificent that they are.
>>I don’t think that the mayor of Tallahassee would have done much had he won<<
As I recall, that commie said he liked how California was being run and wanted to make Florida the same. Horrors!
I appreciate feeling that you are better than your opponent. But, the arrogance of not being able to come to grips with a loss is pretty sad.
That looked much better on Lauren Hutton. Actually, that looked much better on me but I did not have it replicated when I got dentures.
I'm serious.
Abrams and Gillum are the Dems useful tools in an effort to get the RNC back under a Consent Decree I bet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-gop-just-received-another-tool-for-suppressing-votes/550052/
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