I checked to see if this was posted before and apologize if it has been. Maine needs some Rapid Response Freepers to act now...Galen is great if you want to sign up for two emails per week, see http://www.mullings.com....
1 posted on
11/27/2002 10:59:10 AM PST by
Greek
To: Greek
Gotta love dem Dems!
2 posted on
11/27/2002 11:14:56 AM PST by
Coop
To: Greek
It's going to be okay. Remember, they tried these tactics last election, and look what happend. The voters aren't going to put up with this much longer.
3 posted on
11/27/2002 11:15:44 AM PST by
blaze
To: Greek
FReep them Sumbitches!!
4 posted on
11/27/2002 11:25:51 AM PST by
blam
To: Greek
Maine repubies should round up these Maine Rats and feed them to the moose for winter food.
To: Greek
no conflict of interest in voting to keep his own seat?
Well, the two justices who sent money to the Lautenberg and Toricelli campaigns didn't recuse themselves, so why should this Dem?
To: SheLion; ozone1
Maine ping
8 posted on
11/27/2002 12:07:40 PM PST by
metesky
To: Greek
Were the absentee ballots from miltary ever counted in Fla. I've never heard they were.
9 posted on
11/27/2002 12:21:22 PM PST by
Waco
To: Greek; sweetliberty; Budge; TheLion; stop_the_rats
PING! (Don't know the county, but maybe some Maine FReepers can help us out here as to what's going on; possibly another county to add to the FReepers Against Voter Fraud watch list.)
The Maine State Senate is comprised of 35 members. Following all the counting there was one seat still in play: Democrat Chris Hall v. Republican Leslie Fossel.
* The Maine Senate is split 17-17. This one seat will decide control.
* The two candidates are nine votes apart: 8,893 for the Democrat; 8,884 for the Republican.
* According to the Portland Press-Herald there are still 44 ballots to be counted.
* The Democrats have refused to count any more votes and the state Supreme Court has ruled that, under state law, each legislative body has the responsibility to decide election disputes.
* * *
* According to retiring Senate Republican Leader, Mary Small, the ballots have been examined, but NOT COUNTED. If they were to COUNT ALL THE VOTES, Fossel would win.
10 posted on
11/27/2002 12:30:07 PM PST by
nicmarlo
To: Greek
Actually, Mullings is posted three days a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Rich Galen is a unique individual. He will travel anywhere to speak and usually for free. I met him in Mount Airy, NC at a supposed function sponsored by the local Young Republicans. The turnout was about twelve or fourteen. He told me that he was accustomed to speaking in phone booths, and the huge audience was quite a treat for him.
To: Greek
Will we see this on the evening news?
To: Greek
Demoncrats will always lie,cheat,steal and in some cases may kill to win an election. This has been going on for well over 50 years, especially in the South.Why is there no real election reform and purging of voter registration dockets. Simply the Republicans dont have the fight in them and the Democrats dont want to be caught.
16 posted on
11/27/2002 1:32:20 PM PST by
gunnedah
To: Greek
I found this update from
The Lincoln County News:
Hall Named Provisional Winner in Dist. 16 -- Fossel Withdraws Appeal -- New Strategy Revealed
(Update -- Posted 11/27 at 2:00PM) Senate Dist. 16 Republican candidate Les Fossel withdrew his appeal to the Maine State Supreme Judicial Court regarding the recount in Dist. 16. just 4 hours before the scheduled hearing. Withdrawl of the motion asking the State's highest court to intervene in the recount process removes the last roadblock to the swearing in of Democratic candidate Chris Hall as the new State Senator for Dist. 16.
However, the fight for Dist. 16 isn't over yet.
A statement issued by the State Republican Party leadership expressed resolve that the State Senate will make the final decision on who will be the next senator in Dist. 16, as already outlined in the State constitution.
The statement also revealed that the Republicans plan on taking their fight regarding the ballot count straight to the Senate floor in Augusta. . . .
18 posted on
11/27/2002 1:46:58 PM PST by
nicmarlo
To: Greek
In 1984 there was an infamous case of a contested Congressional election in Indiana’s Eighth District. The Republican won on election day by 34 votes. The Democrats, who already had a 71-seat majority, refused to seat the Republican, appointed a task force (2- 1 Democratic), and conducted a recount which lasted until the Democrat got ahead. The Democrats then stopped counting and declared the election over. * It was that act which legitimized the claim of a young, firebrand, back-bencher from Georgia, Newt Gingrich that the Democrats – who had controlled the U.S. House for three decades – were nothing short of a band of thugs. * That power play by the Democrats was the shot heard ‘round the Capitol. Four years later Gingrich was elected Republican Whip five years after that he was Speaker.
I remember that incident well and was very angered by the RATS fraudulent actions, a tradition which they have continued until the present day. BTW, Gingrich was elected Minority Whip in 1989, not 1988. Lott was House Minority Whip in 1988, but then was elected to the Senate. Then Dick Cheney served in that position for a few weeks before he was selected as SECDEF by Bush Sr.
To: Greek
They should take it to the US Supreme Court and bitch about constitutional violations if they really care.
21 posted on
11/27/2002 2:22:05 PM PST by
scannell
To: Greek
I was hoping that all the stupid voters were in Florida or New Jersey, but it seems that threr are some who can't make the x, or the check where they are told to place it. As for the use of pens, why ca't we use the damn pencils that are provided. None of the pens should count. This state is screwing itself for another four years.
25 posted on
11/27/2002 3:15:46 PM PST by
brooklin
To: Greek; SheLion
SheLion use your considerable talents to do something about this travesty.
27 posted on
11/27/2002 5:29:38 PM PST by
Ditter
To: Greek
( ....if #2 Pencils were required...then these votes
shouldn't count.... per Bush V Gore......Rules are rules...)
When Snowe and COllins retire ....Rats will be the next Senators from ME.
29 posted on
11/27/2002 6:04:06 PM PST by
KQQL
To: Greek
IT's all over....
Republican drops appeal in Senate race
By PAUL CARRIER, Portland Press Herald Writer
Copyright © 2002 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
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AUGUSTA — The Republican candidate in a hotly contested state Senate race has abandoned a court fight to prevent his Democratic opponent from being seated, ensuring that Christopher Hall of Bristol will be sworn in Dec. 4 as the senator from District 16. Once Hall takes the oath, the Democrats will control the Senate by a one-vote margin, 18-17. And they will gain an even tighter grip on the state's political system, because Democrats hold a majority of the seats in the incoming House of Representatives and Gov.-elect John Baldacci is a Democrat.
It will be the first time in 16 years that one party has held the Blaine House and both houses of the Legislature. The last time it happened was in 1986, when Democrat Joseph Brennan was in his eighth and final year as governor and his party ran the Legislature.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/statehouse/021127recount.shtml
31 posted on
11/27/2002 6:19:52 PM PST by
KQQL
To: EternalVigilance
*ping
For this to go on without a blowup, there has gotta be a handful of pubbies who are fronting for the Dems. RINO-RATS
To: Greek
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