Posted on 10/25/2002 2:31:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:37:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Stunned by Sen. Paul Wellstone's death, shaken state Democrats tried to decide who might replace him in a race that could decide control of the U.S. Senate.
Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer said the law allows the party to nominate a new candidate to run in Wellstone's spot. She declined to address other details, including how absentee ballots already filled out would be handled.
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Funny you should mention that. I was on an Eastern shuttle once from DC to LaGuardia 20-odd years ago, when who should show up in the mad proletarian shuffle on the no-assigned-seat cattle car shuttle to New York, but the big Fat Boy himself, his way of "keeping in touch with the teeming masses", I s'pose.
The pilot was not too good. We made three attempts, and on the third attempt - we pounded in hard - and I remember thinking, stupid thought as it was, if I died - at least it wouldn't be a total loss - because the fat POS was going in with me. The mind thinks wierd things when faced with the Ultimate.
Is it true, as the Drudge Report is headlining, that Mondale may take Wellstones Seat?
Odd how the now deceased-Wellstone was in a losing race..
The New Jersey Ballot-Switch was questionable because the candidate hadn't died...yet the Democrats were successful in replacing a losing candidate with a more Probable WIN!
And NOW, add another losing-Democrat to the heap, except this one is dead!
If this is really happening...that the Democrats are replacing LOSING candidate with more WINNING ones...
Then Presidential-Hopeful Hillary Rodham is more BEAST than even we suspect she is!
Watch Out America...LIBERTY is on the edge, EVIL is on the Prowl..and VICTORY will be HERS!
{whether we vote for it or not!)
I'm sure that the law is crystal clear on this. That doesn't mean that an activist court can't rewrite the law, but this comes at the worst possible time for the Democrats.
They have time under the law to comply and name a new candidate. It defeats any argument to a court's equitable powers to rewrite the law because the current law doesn't work.
I'm not saying that the Democrats won't do everything they can to hold onto this seat. I'm sure they will. But this is going to be a tough one for them to pull out.
"For the sake of the Socialist collective."
That's because the voters voted for Wellstone. Only Democrat "diving the voters intention" could say they would choose the replacement. There's no way to prove all voters would vote for both Democrats. It would seen UNfair to "guess" what the voters would do.
Honest. I heard on FOX today he fell 4 points behind in the last poll. They didn't name the poll. It was reported today.
Welstone is now being replaced. Coinsidence? Does Toricelli ring a bell? He was losing, too.
The supreme court is up for grabs. We could take the court. Would the Democrats eat their own to stop us? Well.....yes.
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