George Rebane
Instead of my regular KVMR commentary, News Director Paul Emery suggested we do a little one-on-one for tonight’s news program. So we sat down for a little gabfest about the election. Paul asked me for any surprises on the outcome, and chowder-head me responded that things went pretty much as I had expected, while completely overlooking my total disappointment and frustration with the failure of Prop6 – you know, the repeal of the most recent California gas tax bamboozle from Sacramento.
Prop6 went down to solid defeat in California in the hands of a partisan majority of voters that over the years has vacillated between insanity and terminal stupidity. CA already has the highest gas taxes in the land, much of them from previous initiatives promised by the lying sacks of s#!t in Sacramento that the taxes would go to fix CA’s roads and bridges. Well, what has happened is that these tax receipts go directly into the state’s general fund to finance an endless number of programs and purposes – e.g. bullet trains, smelt salvation, succoring illegal aliens, funding govt workers pension liabilities, attracting evermore of the nation’s welfare recipients, … – that continue to leave us in an ever bigger mess. And with already the highest gas taxes in the land, we continue to pay these fraudulent takings without even a peep.
So now our roads are really a mess, and that looks like a perfect opportunity for some capitol scumbags to go to the voters – over half of whom pay no taxes, and a third of whom get regular government checks – and ask them to dance another round of the SOSO samba. Only this time the bill will be even more smelly because it has a built-in ratchet that keeps upping it ad nauseum over the years. Those Californians who pay attention did put out the word on Prop6, pointing out that these new taxes will do nothing except increase the cost of transportation (especially for the poor), while once more destined for the state’s general fund to finance the ever greater insanities and inanities from Sacramento.
Defeating such an obviously fraudulent proposition should have been a no-brainer, hence it was designed precisely for those not so encumbered. But like Lucy with the football, our Charlie Brown electorate again fell for the ‘can’t you see all them chuckholes and cracks and … all of which need fixin’?’ And, of course, today all them cracks etc are way bigger and more numerous and easier to see than last time, so the state’s not so nimble numbnuts dutifully checked the proper box to keep the most recent and onerous gas tax in place as the scumbags are already planning the next tax to fix the roads and bridges – hell, why stop a perfectly good bamboozle designed exactly for the kind of voters we worked so hard to attract, ‘educate’, and put in place. No one out there in VoterLand asks what is the word for doing the same thing while expecting a different outcome.
Oh well, on the national scene things went a little better. The Dems won the House, but the best they can do there is start more dead-end investigations of President Trump and the Executive branch, with a possible impeachment swipe at Justice Kavanaugh. Republicans actually will welcome that kind of blatant congressional obstruction which will demonstrate to the country that just putting the new and more aggressive socialist Left in power is going to do nothing to get Congress legislating for the people’s needs.
President Trump’s first-half accomplishments re the tax cut, regulation rollback, foreign policy, and immigration will stay in place. The border will not be secured, and healthcare costs will continue increasing with the bastardized system now metastasizing like a cancer. It will be easy to focus the spotlight on the source of stagnation, and Trump will have something very solid and visible to run on in 2020. The lamestream will have a hell of time ramping up their Fake News Machine enough to hide the source of grit and gravel grinding in the gears of government.
Meanwhile, the Dems will also have to work out their Gerontology Optics Problem with a leadership headed by Nancy the Penultimate Facelift, and backed up by a crowd of cretins like Mad Max Waters, Elijah Cummings, Comrade Bernie, Vacuum Head Ocasio-Cortez, the ‘Capitalist Bones’ of Fauxahontas, True Colors DiFi, SlyEye Chuckie Schumer, all straight out of Central Casting. Every one of these will be on daily display filling countless screens across the land. In the meantime, Trump will have a solid Senate majority to confirm and emplace as many constitutional judges and justices as are on his lengthening short-list. All in all, not a bad night.
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265 responses to “The Election & RIP Prop6”
Todd, while that was the idea, the reality is that it hides just how much is being spent on food, or how much of that is shipped with everu ton of food shipped out of the country.
The only way a tomato could ever cost ten bucks would be if it was really fun to eat and, therefore, classified as a Schedule 1 drug.
Plus, after robbing peter to pay paul, it’s easy to ask paul for campaign contributions every year or two.
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Just in time for Veterans Day, the Trumpies side with a state sponsor of terrorism against the survivors of America’s fallen heroes.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665407297/trump-administration-sides-with-sudan-against-uss-cole-survivors-in-lawsuit
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Now that was not so hard was it –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illegal-border-crossers-now-ineligible-for-asylum-white-house-says
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Hope burns eternal.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214320158971668&set=gm.509093956272775&type=3&theater
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News Flash
Dems up in Arizona Senate
https://ktar.com/story/2299282/kyrsten-sinema-moves-ahead-of-martha-mcsally-in-arizona-senate-race/
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Bored Georgeman,
Following the link, I expected your summary would not be true, and I was not disappointed.
Where to serve notice is a big deal in the law as you can’t sue someone in court without giving them proper notice they’re being served… and I doubt this was work of “the trumpies”.
The SUPREMES will toss the ideas around and come to a conclusion that pisses someone off, but it won’t be because “the trumpies” took the side of the bad guys over the good guys. Worst case for the plaintiffs would be a greater delay and moaning from their lawyers, the ones who decided where to send the notice, who would be facing something like double the costs by having to retry the case… although I’m unsure how much proof they would have had to give the judge to enter in a summary judgement of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Probably more Punchy brand democrat overpromising!
That said…..Should she win I’m sure going to prefer looking at Krysten Sinema for the next six years rather than McCain or Flake ……she is one POA!
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As if we didn’t already know full well –
https://freebeacon.com/politics/losing-dem-politicians-now-say-can-truthful/
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News flash reality check – there are 350,000 ballots left to count in AZ. Don’t count your chickens ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman.
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Things are back to normal.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=717940728579444&id=142586695848015
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Speaking of things getting ack to normal….
Meuller
Mueller
Meuller
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-miller/u-s-court-case-tests-special-counsel-muellers-power-status-idUSKCN1NE00B
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True Don but most are from an urban population and that’s likely to lean Dem. those pesky urban woman you know.
“The new vote count is also remarkable in its own right: The latest addition of votes comes heavily from Maricopa County, one of Arizona’s most populous areas and the home to cities like Phoenix and Scottsdale. These votes indicate that Sinema is on track to win the county — something a Democrat hasn’t done in about 30 years. ”
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/8/18075478/midterm-elections-arizona-vote-count-mcsally-sinema
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Mid-terms.
I got Georgia on my mind.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=753742558299761&set=pcb.753742584966425&type=3&theater
Michigan
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2003865419660351&set=a.220824557964455&type=3&theater
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I urge Trump to get his temp guy to stop the witch hunt and let America have a break.
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Todd
Did you suggest the same thing and they were investigating Clinton?
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When they were….
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De ja vu all over again –
In his lawsuit against Broward County, Scott and the National Republican Senatorial Committeee (NRSC) allege that officials there are continuing to hide critical information about the number of votes cast and counted. And in a parallel suit against Palm Beach County, Scott and the NRSC charge that the election supervisor illegally used her own judgment to determine voter intent when reviewing damaged absentee ballots.
“I will not stand idly by while unethical liberals try to steal an election,” Scott, who is currently Florida’s governor, said at a press conference outside the Governor’s Mansion, as he slammed potential “rampant fraud” in the race.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senate-candidate-rick-scott-sues-florida-election-supervisor-brenda-snipes-as-rubio-sounds-alarm-about-dems-stealing-race
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Ture dat –
By comparison to the 29-seat loss suffered Tuesday by President Trump’s Republican Party, President Obama’s Democratic Party lost 63 seats in the in 2010 midterm elections.
In fact, the incumbent president’s party has lost an average of 37 seats in midterm elections since WWII.
While it’s typical for the president’s party to lose seats in the House in midterms, it’s highly unusual for the president’s party to gain seats in the Senate in the same election. It’s only happened three times in the past 104 years – in 1914, 1962 and 1970.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bill-bennett-the-gop-lost-the-house-heres-how-they-can-get-it-back-plus-my-advice-for-democrats
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78,000 new ballots found in Florida. Snipes, the Registrar might have a bias. In Arizona, the traitor is now up 9,000 as they keep finding those ballots in car trunk and other places. Dems will steal you blind.
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Yeah Don Trump did really great. Just ask him.
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Why ask Trump, Paul… you would just think he was lying. Ask Van Jones and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
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@858 -We did great from a strategic view. For life appointments out the wazoo! A pattern that has only been seen 3 times in 100 years. Read the article, it called the blue wave a short, light blue shower.
Can you imagine the video fauxcahants, comrade Bernie, Mad max, the youngest limousine socialist and the whole clown car of socialist leadership in the next congress will provide?
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Q: Are White women allowed to think for themselves?
“This 20-point margin in the Lone Star State was enough evidence for commentators to lob a variety of creative slurs at white women as a class, who make up about a third of all Americans. Feminists raced to label white women “footsoldiers of the patriarchy,” and left-wing pundits piled on. White female progressives didn’t feel the need to defend their own: “White women we are so gross it’s fing embarrassing and we need to fing stop,” one feminist warrior tweeted.
Rolling Stone writer Jamil Smith lamented white women’s betrayal, wondering “when they will understand the damage that they do, and not just to themselves.” Others helpfully pointed out that white women who support conservatives can’t really be blamed — after all, in many parts of the country, helpless, backwards females are still in thrall to their misogynistic husbands, who force them to vote Republican.
If this doesn’t sound like feminism, that’s because it isn’t.
This immediate pivot to scolding white women, based on the outcome of a mere two races, exemplifies the progressive tendency to justify every setback with a narrative about unavoidable racial bias and the blinding effect of white privilege. Our political divisions are complicated by race and sex, of course, but these factors don’t themselves explain, for example, why some women, white or otherwise, are conservative. The answer to that riddle — Hint: Women aren’t required by their chromosomes to form a monolithic progressive voting bloc — is one that Democrats appear uninterested in discovering, if they believe an answer other than “self-interested racism” exists at all.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/progressives-accuse-white-women-voters-betrayal-midterm-elections/
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,,,Todd,,,aka Bad Breathe,,,
yes,,,and the Caravan is carrying many ballots with them,,, all voting Democrat!!!
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Posted by: M | 09 November 2018 at 08:17 AM
Don’t think thats why Team D swoons over them?……reliable lever pullers in Pelosi Town.
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Speaking of elections PJ Media issues an early “Candidate Fail” alert!
Tentative Explanation: Candidate adequately in touch with reality!
Crap….if being out of touch with reality is a necessary qualification I think you should toss your hat in the ring dugsKKKi….after all you are cursed with a mind beset! Give em the speech! The “after a good nights sleep speech!
https://pjmedia.com/trending/rep-eric-swalwell-to-run-for-president/
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Tentative Explanation: Candidate adequately in touch with reality!
“Crap….if being out of touch with reality is a necessary qualification……”
I still can’t get over M defending some wack job on the View saying Congressional redistricting affects the Senate votes. That had me smiling all day. Of course he had to pivot and add voter suppression and cloud the issue, but congressional districts have zero bearing on state wide elections. I am still smiling. It was the stupidest thing I have heard in a week, maybe 3 weeks. Congressional districts, no matter their makeup or boundaries, have nothing to do the Governor’s race or US Senator’s race.
We truly do live in parallel universes.
Since I am here, blame the electoral system. The rent is just too damn high and I ain’t got no money! Boy, she is almost as dumb as those who believe Senate races are affected by congressional districts in a state.
https://politicallyslanted.com/2018/11/09/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-upset-by-cost-of-living-in-washington-d-c-and-blames-electoral-system/?fbclid=IwAR2KBj0vcgSrMuIhs714HqYdH8obrbG_U3F7URQ_TMcWcIeQ1ukP51PawfY
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re: BillT@9:36AM
I love Ms. Cortez’s concept of why DC is pricey. Of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that that city is a giant cash lamprey on the rest of the country. Prices follow ready cash of course.
Too funny. No doubt she’ll do her part to increase the blood flow to the imperial city.
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Scenes @ 9:48 this lovely morning.
Math is hard.
I won’t worry too much about the future of our youngest member of Congress. She is from the Bronx but says she is a girl from Queens. Easy to confuse. She will pull in $175k a year to start. No bad for an entry level position…with bennies and an office…and staffer. And there is a whole wharehouse full of furniture she can use to decorate her office. Just remember to use the phones and stationary for official business only.
Quotes:
“Kinda funny the Democrats putting all their hope behind Beto [O’Rourke], a white male, when they’ve successfully chased about all of them out of the party.” —Frank Fleming
“So weird that Russia decided to only hack the Senate elections.” —Eddie Zipperer
My 2nd belly laugh of the week: “Today is more than about Democrats and Republicans. It’s about restoring the Constitution’s checks and balances to the Trump administration.” —House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
“The Democrats in the House will have to decide just how much presidential harassment they think is good strategy. I’m not so sure it will work for them.” —Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Ouch, but true.
Insight: “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right.” —H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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Those darn “white women” don’t vote the right way apparently. They still voted for those darn Republicans in numbers that exasperate the left.
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Audrey Denney apparently dodged a bullet.
I suspect there will be Democratic Party 0.001%ers making sure their newest bright shiny object gets settled in just fine into the comfort she will come to expect.
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,,,Twinkie Toes,,, believe it,,,or not
”’You may have heard some of the more recent stories. In Dodge City, Kansas, a single polling location serves the city’s 27,000 (mostly Hispanic) residents, and a local official recently moved that location out of the center of town to a remote location a mile away from the nearest bus stop. In North Dakota, Republicans passed a law requiring that every voter have an ID with a street address, precisely because they knew that many Native Americans who live in remote areas of reservations have no street addresses and get their mail at P.O. boxes. And with the possible exception of North Carolina, there may be no state where African Americans have been targeted more aggressively for vote suppression than Georgia, where Secretary of State Brian Kemp is locked in a tight race for governor with Stacey Abrams.
Kemp is on a vote-suppression tear; one wonders if he isn’t jealous of the infamy enjoyed by Kris Kobach of Kansas, another secretary of state running for governor as he oversees his own election, as America’s foremost vote suppressor. Kemp has aggressively purged voters from the rolls, used an “exact match” system to toss out registrations for minor errors in forms (like a missing hyphen), which put tens of thousands of registrations (mostly from African Americans) on hold, and watched as country officials limited polling places in African American neighborhoods. And on Sunday, he announced that his office was mounting an investigation into the state Democratic Party over a supposed “failed attempt to hack the state’s voter registration system.”‘
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,,,now Oregon is looking better as a bunker dweller state,,,woohoo!!!
https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/11/adaf7667eb118/militia-groups-help-gun-rights.html
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M.
As your were saying over on My E-Mail Got Hacked thread.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38155/cnns-claim-sarah-sanders-pushed-actual-fake-news-james-barrett
You make me smile. Call Amce Rents. You have run out of supplies again.
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In the “this is who we want to be the country’s highest law enforcement officer”. category.
Matthew Whitaker, the acting US attorney general, was on the advisory board of a Florida company that was shut down by the Federal Trade Commission and served with a $26 million judgment earlier this year for what court documents called “a scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars.”
another grifter joins the administration… par for a trump golf course.
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And your Democrat pals are sending a lawyer connected to the Hillary Clinton dossier writing to Florida. I would say your hands are dirtier.
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,,,OMG bad breathe Todd,,,a lawyer that met Hillary!!!
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A Lawyer that helped write the phony dossier that your pal Comey used to get a FISA warrant. Seems you are dirty pal.
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Judge just ordered the dem county elections office to allow immediate inspections of voting records! Broward County violated the constitution is the ruling.
This guy TJ –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-lawyer-with-ties-to-trump-dossier-leads-democrat-recount-effort-in-florida
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Whew dugsKKKi……turns out you guys had some extra in that old storage unit ……
https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/recount-600×401.jpg
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Here’s Rep. LaMalfa in the debate with Denney talking about Nevada County antics…
https://youtu.be/HLOr9jo-5KU?t=4766
“if people can behave, right? so we all ask for a positive civil discourse when we meet with people and one-on-one in small groups it works pretty well … I hear the laughing but the town meetings haven’t been so productive sometimes… I used to like them a lot and maybe we’ll try them again but if you’re not going to be civil, we won’t have that sort of discourse.”
In other words, Paul, your friends screwed Congressional access for the rest of us. I don’t blame LaMalfa one bit and I think his calm denunciation of theor clown antics showed a lot of class. The good kind of class.
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Emery?
Emery?
Emery?
Emery?
Punchy, my quotes of LaMalfa were as I was representing from memory, but you just had to twist the words. Please note, everyone, that LaMalfa was not afraid of being asked questions by little ol’ Nevada County… but he’s not going to waste his time (and those of his constituents who are there being civil) just to take rhetorical pies in the face by the usual clowns.
Congressman LaMalfa, I am a constituent who DIDN’T come to the town hall at our fairgrounds because, listening to the calls for disruption, I figured it would be a mess. You handle it well but I don’t blame you one bit for giving up on Town Halls in Nevada County until the usual suspects grow up.
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Hey dugsKKKi…..how’s the state running in your neck of the woods!? Smoothly I hope!
I’m sure that a dazzling political sophisticate like your self is all over the Medi-Cal audit report conveniently dropped on Election Day…..you know the one……the one showing 4 billion dollars in illegitimate claims over the course of 4 years!
Guy could buy a lot of diapers with that kind of cheddar!
Think about it!
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Keep tweeting, Mr. President. Point out the stank for to smell. Smells rancid.
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296/1473761339424565/?type=3&source=48
Breaking news about Ruth.
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1473710062763026/?type=3&source=48
Wrestles with girls, then finds ways to complain about it. A real piece of work.
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296/1473786892755343/?type=3&source=48
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“The Democratic party’s transformation into an undergraduate intersectionality seminar at Oberlin is proceeding at a remarkable pace. The party’s current strategy is to scream “Racist!” at people voting for Mia Love and Tim Scott while insisting that Jared Kushner’s father-in-law and Benjamin Netanyahu’s best political friend is a scheming anti-Semite.
………and that Donald Trump’s America is just one tweet away from repealing the 13th Amendment”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/democrats-if-we-lost-the-voters-must-be-racist/
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So Gregory you stand by your contention that LaMalfa lost NC because, with good cause, he wouldn’t campaign in NevadaCounty because of hecklers.
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It’s getting harder to read some comments anymore cuz it’s like the Russians said last century. It’s easy to stir up employee envy and anger (towards business owner employers) because they don’t know what risks, responsibility and expense is involved.
M commented about all the money that would be coming from fuel and Use taxes like it was a windfall for California’s debt is a good example of that ignorance. Because of the illegal corruption we were experiencing…we decided to quit the trucking usiness after around 45 years. We paid all our Use taxes and all required, but it boils down to the morals of those in government who control it.
http://www.mcguiresplace.net/A%20Point%20of%20Law
http://www.mcguiresplace.net/Modern%20Day%20Highwaymen%201
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Swamp creature in FLA –
https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2018/11/09/election-fraud-expert-brenda-snipes-allowed-illegal-aliens-and-felons-to-vote-illegally-destroyed-ballots/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/09/florida-vote-count-official-accused-of-having-more-voters-on-rolls-than-eligible-citizens/
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They wont vote the way we want WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/11/09/vogue-asks-why-white-women-keep-voting-gop-tammy-bruce-reacts
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Has Paul seen the news? Plenty of election fraud he always says doesn’t exist.
“Republican Party officials sued Snipes’ office in 2016 over the illegal counting of 180,000 mail in ballots, she admitted that she didn’t know the meaning of the word “canvassing.” Snipes’ office had been opening ballots illegally, without the legally required participation of other members of the canvasing board.”
https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2018/11/09/election-fraud-expert-brenda-snipes-allowed-illegal-aliens-and-felons-to-vote-illegally-destroyed-ballots/
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