Posted on 11/20/2007 8:25:50 AM PST by Zakeet
RIVERDALE, Ga. — Two unsuccessful city council candidates in Riverdale say a fellow candidate committed fraud when she ran as a woman.
Georgia Fuller and Stanley Harris — who lost bids for council seats — filed petitions in Clayton County Superior Court last week asking the judge to stop the upcoming runoff election. The lawsuit alleges that incumbent Michelle Bruce — who identifies herself as transgendered and goes by Michelle Mickey Bruce — misled voters by identifying herself as a female during the Nov. 6 election.
The suit, which identifies her as "Michael Bruce," asks a judge to rule the November election results invalid and order another general election.
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The way I read this story, it's the losers who are trying to make this an issue.
Granted, it was more the facial expression that put me off. Likely I should go out and get some coffee as I ran out today.
It’s a shim.
Yes, that is a confrontational-looking expression, no doubt. But if somebody had just made me the subject of a lawsuit to overturn an election based on something that I felt was irrelevant to my holding office, I'd be kind of PO'ed, too.
I really don't care what my politicians look like, if we had only 'beautiful' people in public office, we'd be stuck with the John Edwards' of the world instead of the Fred Thompsons. I also don't care what plumbing they have in their pants, as long as they stay away from my pants--the wallet pocket, anyway!
From the state that keeps forcing Cynthia McKinney upon us all.....
Guilty.
She must have been elected for her "looks"????
How could this happen down in Georgia..?
An ugly man becomes an ugly woman or was it the other way around? No matter, ugly is ugly no matter how much lipstick IT uses’
How can you claim the public was unaware. Since campaigning against her because of being a transexual was the major campaign theme of some of the participants.
It appears people chose to elect her over whatever alternatives were presented.
If you lost an election to that, why in the world would you attract any more attention to the fact by way of a lawsuit?!!! That’s Darwin Award material, except for the dying part of course.
Many candidates have defrauded us about who and what they were. None of those elections could or should be overturned.
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