An Arizona congressional candidate who legally changed his name to Cesar Chavez will be removed from the Democratic primary ballot because of invalid nomination signatures, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Judge John Rea ruled that almost half of the nearly 1,500 signatures gathered by the candidate formerly known as Scott Fistler to get on the Aug. 26 ballot were invalid...
He previously lost two previous bids for elected office as a Republican...
Alejandro Chavez, the grandson of the former activist, filed a legal complaint alleging the candidate got signatures from people who aren't qualified to vote in the 7th District, changed his name to mislead voters and failed to register as a Democrat before collecting signatures.
"This is an attempt to fool voters," said Alejandro Chavez, adding that the name change is "a slap in the face to everybody who joined a march or a picket line" with his grandfather, who died in San Luis, Arizona, in 1993 at age 66.
The Maricopa County Elections Office determined the petition signers weren't eligible to vote in the primary because they weren't registered to vote, didn't live in the district, or weren't Democrats or independents.
So, a Republican pretending to be a Hispanic Democrat commits election fraud. Surprise, surprise.
It gets better.
"Chavez's" campaign website featured photographs of frenzied supporters holding "Chavez" signs, but which are obviously scenes from the streets of Venezuela at rallies for its late president Hugo Chavez.
Vrede wrote:"So, a Republican pretending to be a socialist Hispanic Democrat commits election and photographic fraud. Surprise, surprise. "
Mr.B wrote:"Yep, you can tell when it's election time.....either support "gay" issues or change your name......"
Mr.B wrote:"Yep, you can tell when it's election time.....either support "gay" issues or change your name......"
This guy changed his name AND (presumably) supported civil rights. There's no indication that civil rights was an issue at all. He changed his name to get the Hispanic vote.
But then you no doubt would have been one of those making the same claims about supporting abolishing slavery, civil rights for blacks and civil rights for women.
"Chavez's" campaign website featured photographs of frenzied supporters holding "Chavez" signs, but which are obviously scenes from the streets of Venezuela at rallies for its late president Hugo Chavez.
In the interests of fairness, I should report that a former Democratic Oklahoma congressional candidate is now running as a Republican.
He plans to contest Tuesday’s primary election of long time Rep. Frank Lucas.
The reason: He claims that Rep. Lucas is not qualified for office because he's a body double, cobbled together from "artificial or manmade replacements." This after being executed by the World Court in January 2011 in the southern Ukraine.
"Chavez's" campaign website featured photographs of frenzied supporters holding "Chavez" signs, but which are obviously scenes from the streets of Venezuela at rallies for its late president Hugo Chavez.
In the interests of fairness, I should report that a former Democratic Oklahoma congressional candidate is now running as a Republican.
He plans to contest Tuesday’s primary election of long time Rep. Frank Lucas.
The reason: He claims that Rep. Lucas is not qualified for office because he's a body double, cobbled together from "artificial or manmade replacements." This after being executed by the World Court in January 2011 in the southern Ukraine.
“I’ve never been to Ukraine,” said Rep. Lucas.
Well, it's easy to see why he feels more comfortable as a rethugliklan. Sounds like a true tea-nut.
People are crazy and times are strange. I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range.
I used to care, but, things have changed.
"It is widely known Rep. Frank D. Lucas is no longer alive and has been displayed by a lookalike. Lucas' look-alike was depicted as sentenced on a white stage in southern Ukraine on or about Jan. 11, 2011. I will NEVER use Artificial Intelligence look-alike to voice what the Representative's Office is doing nor own a robot look-alike."
- Tea Party challenger Timothy Ray Murray, who received 3,442 votes in an Oklahoma primary race last Tuesday
Vrede wrote:"Mr.B insists on repeatedly reminding us that every topic is about homosexuality to him (hmmm), and the fact that the electorate has left his ilk in the miserable dust."
The electorate? Voters aren't allowed to vote against the 'Proliferation of Perversion', remember? Only the fame-seekers that use any devious means possible to ensure their place in politics can crow about their "victories".
Isn't that the way to get votes nowadays? Get up on the soapbox....announce your support for "gay" this and "gay" that, and every other social issue that pops up; change your name so as to attempt to fool the voters as to who/what you really are, bad-mouth your opponent almost to the extent of a court battle over slander......
Politicians....so low they have to walk on stilts to look a snake in the eye.
I expect she'll run, but that's not necessarily good for the Democrats. In 2012 the job of Bachmann, Santorum, Paul, Cain and Perry was to stand next to Mitt Romney and make him look like a viable candidate by comparison. Buttressed by Palin and Trump further out. Ted Cruz will also share this job in 2016.
Likewise neither Hillary Clinton nor Ted Cruz - the candidates getting the most press these days - are likely to be nominated in 2016. Both are placeholders. Magnets to attract all the hate and smears that the other party can throw at them, to keep the mud off more likely candidates. Come election time, someone with less baggage will be nominated in the primaries.
Obama was an unknown for most of the country at this point in the 2008 election cycle. That kept the mud off him, with most of it flung at Clinton. I think both sides have learned that lesson.
Cruz is also taking over the role of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh; He can state the goddamned stupid conspiritard smears (like his Tel Aviv airport claim this week) that would be beneath a credible candidate. This will be lucrative for him after the election.
A week after Gibbs’s death, O’Neal began a 15-day, 273-mile walk to Washington to draw attention to the outrage in Belhaven, which he blames on the combination of an “immoral” hospital operator and the failure of Republican leaders in his state to accept the new Medicaid funding the hospital needed to stay afloat.
What makes the mayor’s journey all the more compelling is he’s a white Southerner and a Republican officeholder who has conservative views on abortion, taxes, guns — “you name it,” he told me. But ideology and party loyalty have limits. “I’m a pretty conservative guy, but this is a matter of people dying,” he said.
Oh look Republican with some sense! Amazing! What a rare creature.
"Update (10:10 a.m.): In a Facebook post last week, after the interview was conducted, Whitney slammed the Cook Political Report. "It was obvious, from the onset of the interview, that Wasserman had planned to jump me simply because I am a Conservative Woman and liberal shills like Dave Wasserman want to destroy us," she wrote."
Damn-well looks like it was a Palin interview . . . .
People are crazy and times are strange. I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range.
I used to care, but, things have changed.
...He was indicted by an Austin grand jury Friday on felony counts of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. Maximum punishment on the first charge is five to 99 years in prison. The second is two to 10 years...
Wow.
A comment:
This is too funny. This guy could have a movie made about him on how not to run for president.
I saw an interesting article I'll try to find again. It was out of Texas- Dallas I think. Anyway, it pointed out the difference in the somewhat cavalier manner the national press is at least publicly swallowing the Perry version, but in Texas it's a real issue, with real knowledgeable people finding the charges credible.
The poor deluded average GOP voters will think that elected GOP Senators will represent their interests.
Yeah, this is what is so tragically funny. A whole lot of folks vote against their best interests just from the sort of blatant bullshit Moffitt spouts over and over. It really does reinforce the concept that if you tell the lies consistently and long enough, there will be a considerable number of people that will believe them. Opps! "We Won't Get Fooled Again" isn't their theme song.
...He was indicted by an Austin grand jury Friday on felony counts of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. Maximum punishment on the first charge is five to 99 years in prison. The second is two to 10 years...
Wow.
A comment:
This is too funny. This guy could have a movie made about him on how not to run for president.
I saw an interesting article I'll try to find again. It was out of Texas- Dallas I think. Anyway, it pointed out the difference in the somewhat cavalier manner the national press is at least publicly swallowing the Perry version, but in Texas it's a real issue, with real knowledgeable people finding the charges credible.
I saw that same story; quite a different perspective if you focus on the local coverage; I'm not sophisticated enough in computer stuff to find it and much less send it somewhere else but I hope that soon my Obama handouts will enable me to take computer classes and thus become proficient.
Vrede wrote:... If I was there I would be part of the chorus, and would add that I'm also averse to family dynasties.
Yeah, there's that. But since Hillary is the same Clinton I voted for in '92 and '96, and again in 2008, I figure it's all the same person. Now when Chelsea runs...
I literally despise election time. Lies and accusations are slung freely as trash blowing down the street.
I equate political advertising with that of the drug companies.......the drug companies spend more time in a commercial telling you numerous ways how their great medicine can kill you as opposed to helping you; and the pols spend more time in their commercials bashing their opponent and digging up dirt rather than tell you how they themselves can benefit you if you vote for them.
I'm certain of one thing though.......those pols that bash their opponents the heaviest certainly have nothing to hide.......
Mr.B wrote:I literally despise election time. Lies and accusations are slung freely as trash blowing down the street.
I:
True that, and many polls have shown the ads are widely hated by most. So why do they run them, knowing people hate them? Because they work. Nobody likes most car ads either, but no matter where you go, there's the same yayhoos yelling at you. Those ads aren't directed toward us - who will show up looking for a particular type of car and have our details researched and our act together. They're aimed at people who really believe the guy "over-bought" or "has to clear out before tax time" or "today only..." There was a really good film out a few years ago entitled "Slasher." It wasn't a slice 'n dice, it was about a guy who goes around to car dealerships and runs promotions. It's a real education seeing who that type of advertising brings in. Political ads are the same way. They've got an audience they're looking for, and the worst ones aren't looking for anybody who's not eligible for village idiot somewhere.
But now, with the Super-PACS released upon the earth, the candidates don't even have to "approve" or stand by any of the trash-talking, and it just keeps getting worse. There are a lot that take themselves out of the official "campaign" category by using the term "tell (insert name here) to (do whatever). So the format of the ad is "Senator Sleazebag Supports Wife Beating" showing a sneaked vacay pic of the Senator at the beach in a wife-beater tank top, hairy arms hanging out over beer belly. "Tell Senator Sleazebag you're against domestic violence" Then, the Senator's opponent can claim that she doesn't engage in mud-slinging, had nothing to do with the ad, and has no way of knowing if Sleazebag still beats his wife. But yes, she is for laws protecting families from domestic violence...yada.
Vrede wrote: "For example, it sounds like they've gotten Mr.B, who probably would otherwise vote GOP more often than not, to stay home. The negative ads are not intended to get one to vote for the other guy/gal, just to not vote for their own."
They've not got me; I'm not voting for any of those clowns....however, it appears that Kay Hagen and the Dems are running scared; a thirty minute news cast on WLOS is peppered with her ads bashing Tillis, Moffitt, and Presnell. I've seen very few counter-ads from the aforementioned; so I'm assuming that Hagen has money to burn on advertising thanks to the Democratic party and the poor taxpayers whose tax dollars pay her salary.
Me...?...I'm just proud of that great invention called the mute button; I don't even listen to their lyin' garbage.
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