Posted on 06/04/2014 8:02:33 PM PDT by Morgana
Abortion radical Sandra Fluke is apparently so far out of the mainstream. she couldn’t even get the radical voters in California to support her bid for the state Senate. Fluke is best known for pushing the HHS mandate that forces religious groups to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs.
No sooner did the abortion activist Sandra Fluke declare a bid for Congress than she aborted the campaign. sandraflukeFluke opted to go with plan B and eventually decided to seek a California state Senate seat instead.
The Washington Examiner reports that her attempt at the state legislature didn’t go so well last night:
Fluke didn’t garner enough votes in Tuesday’s state senate primary to avoid a runoff election.
Fluke, who came in to the race with the highest name recognition of any of the five candidates running for California‘s 26th Senate District, didn’t even get the most votes. Ben Allen, a member of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District board, edged out Fluke with 21.9 percent of the vote to Fluke’s 19.4 percent.
Allen was not particularly well-known when he entered the race, despite having a strong base in a populous area of the district. He was helped considerably by wealthy businessman (and former Republican) Bill Bloomfield, who donated about $600,000 on the race.
Fluke and Allen will compete again in the November general election without a Republican opponent.
Last year, Fluke had a rather odd view of the legal challenge Hobby Lobby and other plaintiffs are bringing to the Supreme Court against the Obamacare birth control mandate.
She thinks if the high court allows them the ability to engage in their First Amendment freedoms to not be forced to pay for birth control or abortion-causing drugs that other groups or companies will not want to pay for blood transfusions.
Fluke is so obsessed with the government forcing religious groups to pay for her birth control and contraception that she compared opposing it in an interview to opposing coverage for leukemia.
Never mind that opposing government spending taxpayer funds on forcing groups with religious objections to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs has nothing to do with supporting legitimate health care for patients suffering from the blood or bone marrow cancer that is deadly for adults and children alike.
“If you take a step back and think about that, you work at a restaurant or you work at a store, and your boss is able to deny you leukemia coverage or contraception coverage or blood transfusions or any number of medical concerns that someone might have a religious objection to,” Fluke said. “So the folks who are still objecting [to the mandate] have some very extreme ideas about religious freedom and employee health care in this country.”
Well bye!
Are the zombies finally waking up?
Bwahahahahaha!!
Take that, “martyr.”
lol
The Democrat Woman of the Year can’t even get elected to the state Senate in Kalipornia....
how hilarious
She’s in the 2 person runoff, don’t underestimate one of the most Liberal areas in Southern CA. come Nov.
No one was ever more deserving of VD
Running on abortions and free birth control..WOW what a platform! This ugly slut is such a whack job not even Californians could vote for her
But she’s still in a runoff, right? That would likely favor her, as mot of her opposition were ‘soul mates’ philosophically.
Can we stop using protection now?
Whoever gets elected to that office probably won’t matter much. Might as well just flip a coin.
NOT “bye”....she achieved a spot in the runoff. In Kardashianland where idiots vote for a name they have heard before, she will likely win. Barbara Boxer II.
Aw ...
see ya slut!
go buy your own contraception !
Whoever wrote this doesn’t understand CA’s (stupid) open primaries. Fluke DID THE BEST SHE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE DONE in the state’s system, in the sense that she was one of the top two vote getters.
That’s the best one can hope for in the primary because, even if a candidate gets 100% of the vote somehow, IT’S ONLY A PRIMARY. The top two vote getters face off in November.
So I guess I don’t understand the glee. (I’d love it if Fluke had failed, but) Fluke succeeded. She’s one of the top two vote-getters, and is thus in the General election. Why is this a “loss” for Fluke?
Had she come out as a Lez, it would have been a slam dunk victory for her.
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