On Voting Republicans Out Of Office

Actually, I am probably smarter than any pig...red or otherwise colored.




I did not say there was not "wide spread fraud"...although I think there was much less fraud than the conservatives of America want to think there was. I also suspect that such fraud as happened was probably fairly evenly distributed between the factions.

And I think the voter legislation conservatives are pushing throughout the country will do more to artificially skew vote tallies than any frauds either party has mounted.

It's funny how RW flakes think Obama has a time machine.


The didn't lose emails after the probe. The loss wasn't discovered by Congress until they asked for the emails that were in some cases lost years prior to any probe.

Florida Replaces Gerrymandered Congressional Maps With Nearly Identical Gerrymandered Maps
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/08/08/3469129/new-florida-maps-gerrymander/

So was George Bush, so what does that prove?

Although there are many who would contest that George Bush was ELECTED two times...

...whether he was or not is not important.

The answer to your question is: Nothing.

I was not attempting to "prove" anything...just stating a truth, MM...

...in response to what I considered some offensive comments by one of the other posters.

Tired excuse for obvious guilt.

Mayor vetoes minimum wage hike
Promised action expected to be easily overridden by City Council Democrats
By Mark Walker9:15 a.m.Aug. 8, 2014Updated12:10 p.m.

DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO — Mayor Kevin Faulconer on Friday vetoed a hike in the city’s minimum wage hike, starting the clock on a likely council override and another step toward a looming referendum drive against the controversial legislation.

“This ordinance unfairly pits working families and our city against economic realities that will make it even harder for San Diego to thrive,” said Faulconer, following through on his vow to veto the measure. “I cannot support putting the brakes on our economy.”

The City Council earlier this summer voted 6-3 along party lines — Democrats in favor and Republicans against — to approve City Council President Todd Gloria’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $11.50 an hour within the next three years. The measure also requires businesses to give workers five paid sick days a year.

Gloria vowed the veto won't stand.

“Thankfully the City Council understands that our working families are struggling and I believe will act to override this veto,” Gloria said. “When 38 percent of San Diego workers don’t earn enough to make ends meet, something must be done. That is why the mayor’s veto of this reasonable, common sense measure is disappointing.”

The council has 30 days to reverse the mayor’s action.

The state’s minimum wage rose from $8 an hour to $9 on July 1 and is scheduled to become $10 in January 2016. The council’s measure calls for the city to increase it to $9.75 in January 2015, $10.50 in January 2016 and $11.50 in January 2017. Further increases tied to the local Consumer Price Index would begin in January 2019. The proposal includes no exemptions for any industry or business.

The San Diego Regional Chamber quickly backed Faulconer and said it is prepared to do whatever it takes to stop an increase.

“We urge City Council to accept the mayor’s veto and not override this ordinance which will hurt working families, San Diego consumers, and employers,” chamber CEO Jerry Sanders said. “As we await the council’s decision, the chamber, together with the business community, is prepared to proceed as necessary to continue to fight the possible minimum wage increase.

San Diego joins several other cities across the nation, including San Jose and Seattle, that are trying to fight poverty by establishing higher local minimum wages. San Diego is the largest city in the country to make such a move.

A voter referendum to stop the hike requires 34,000 signatures in 30 days after the council affirms an override. If successful, implementation of the wage hike would be delayed until a public vote, most likely in June 2016. Quiet discussions on organizing a referendum have been taking place for some time.

Faulconer argued Friday that the ordinance weakens San Diego’s ability to create and retain jobs by “putting heavier burdens on small businesses compared to nearby cities, permanently tipping the scales to the disadvantage of San Diegans seeking employment.”

“The City Council’s authority stops at the city limits, but the principles of economics do not. As job creators leave for other cities without anti-business legislation, San Diegans will be deprived of jobs and economic advancement. Unfortunately, the jobs this ordinance seeks to affect could be the first to disappear,” the mayor said.

Pastor Terrell Fletcher of the City of Hope International Church opposed the veto and said the earned sick leave component of Gloria’s legislation is vital.

“People shouldn’t have to choose between being a good parent and a good employee,” he said. “This law gives people the ability to take care of their sick kids or parents by using the days that they have earned by working hard every day.”

Supporters of raising the minimum wage also say it will help local businesses by boosting the buying power of many thousands of low-wage workers.

Opponents say it could force small businesses to increase prices, lay off workers and possibly shut down or leave San Diego.

A poll out this week from the Center on Policy Initiatives, which has pushed for the wage hike, said 63 percent of respondents to its telephone poll of 500 registered city voters supported wage boost.

That compares with a July U-T San Diego/10News poll of 500 voters that found 60 percent of respondents favoring a public vote on the issue. That poll also found 51 percent in support of the wage increase and 46 percent opposed.

His brother Jeb is very good at vote rigging.

GOP Obstructionism Is Holding Up Funds to Catch Rapists


A spending bill blocked in the Senate would allot $41 million to help cities and states catch sexual predators.

—By Erika Eichelberger
| Fri Aug. 8, 2014 9:44 AM EDT



For weeks, Republicans in the Senate have held up an $180 billion spending bill that would direct money to several federal agencies, from the Justice Department to the Department of Transportation. Funding for all kinds of measures—from rent subsidies for the poor, to a new NASA rocket, to transportation projects—has been left in limbo. But one specific provision that's being held up has victims' advocates particularly worried: a $41 million grant to help states and localities go after rapists by funding jurisdictions to process backlogs of rape kits, the samplings of biological evidence that are taken after a sexual assault and used to identify attackers.

The kits, which contain semen, blood, saliva, hair, and other DNA evidence from rape victims, can be held in storage for decades, allowing rapists to roam free. Experts estimate that there are over 100,000 untested kits sitting on shelves at scores of police departments and crime lab storage facilities around the country, partly because states and localities lack the money needed to process them.

Kym Worthy, the county prosecutor in Wayne County, Michigan, has pushed hard to get through Detroit's backlog, but has run up against funding shortages. She plans to apply for a chunk of the $41 million grant as soon as it's approved. "I'd like it to happen tomorrow," she says. "Every day that goes by is other day that the victims have to wait for justice. This is first grant of it's kind where they really got what it takes."

But since June, the money has been stalled because Republicans, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), want Democrats to allow them to add several unrelated amendments to the huge appropriations bill. One of those amendments, sponsored by McConnell, would make it harder for the EPA to enact new rules on coal-fired power plants. (His home state of Kentucky has a big coal industry). Another amendment—a longtime favorite of Sen. David Vitter (R-La.)—would strip Obamacare subsidies from congressional staffers. Republicans don't have any intention of passing the main spending bill, argues a Senate Democratic leadership staffer; they're just using the amendments process to stall it. "Demanding amendment votes is meant to distract from disagreement over popular bills," the staffer says. "Regardless of the outcome of the amendment votes…Republicans have indicated that they are not willing to support the underlying bill." McConnell's office did not respond to requests for comment, but the minority leader has previously accused Democrats of "shutting out" Republican amendments, and other Senate Republicans have accused red state Dems of not wanting to vote on controversial amendments in an election year.

More:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/rape-kit-backlog-senate-republican-spending-bill

GOOD answer!

It is past time. The circumstantial evidence is just plain overwhelming.

Vote rigging? Yeah right. The only election the left thinks is legit is one they win. They lose and the right must have cheated. Never a question of corruption when the left wins an election.

Wow...talk about transference.

Actually, the whole GOP is good at vote rigging. You know, their fight against voter fraud - that doesn't exist, and redistricting to make sure the GOP wins elections.

Since the false claims of the 2000 election I have always thought "Thou doth protest too much."

Truth hurts like hell dosent it baldy?

During the 2012 presidential candidate between Obama and Romney, there were three individuals working surreptitiously for the GOP campaign; they were registrating people for the first time and were caught throwing away the Democrats' registration applications. The GOP had paid millions of dollars to a firm to register people for them. The Republican Party ostensively denounced them, only later it was discovered this company had been rehired two more times to work for the GOP, to rig the election in Republican favor.

This voter ID is a farce and only implemented by Red State GOP governors. Mainstream America is so dead set against these Tea Party controlled Republicans that the GOP feels the need to cheat in anyway it can. The Republican Party fear it might not ever regain the presidency. They fear Hillary Clinton who just might be our next president. The GOP is so steeped in racism that they will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to open their doors to minorities. But given time, eventually, they will change because there is nothing constant but change."

That'll occur with many conservatives biting their tongues, because racial bigotry doesn't die for political reasons.

No doubt, CI, no doubt. However, when the racists' number began to dwindle with a changing demographic, they will be outnumbered. Census: White majority in U.S. gone by 2043. There will be many changes before that defining year, as we have seen by the 2012 electoral map. Independents, Women, Latinos, Gays, Asians, College kids, moderate whites, African Americans put Obama in the US presidency two times. There are Latinos, Rubio and Cruz, who are on the Repub list of president-wanna-be. I doubt any of these two prominent Republicans will stand a chance in mainstream American elections because they are controlled by the Tea Party, but Americans now are willing to think outside the box. I wish Elizabeth Warren were a possible candidate and some other Democrats who are women. There is so much untapped talent out there from all ethnics.....and the door is now opening wider and wider.....