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US Sen. Frank Lautenberg dies at 89
North NJ com ^ | BY HERB JACKSON

Posted on 06/03/2013 6:46:37 AM PDT by Perdogg

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To: Windflier

You are right: how could gasping for your last few breaths be peaceful? I guess it may be rapid, comparatively speaking.


261 posted on 06/03/2013 4:45:37 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: lgjhn23

Yes, but what you do with 60 percent of the people of NJ who kept him there to “take care of them”?


262 posted on 06/03/2013 4:46:55 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: MaxMax

I think he will name a really awful RINO, but he may defect to the Democrats himself and use this as the opportunity to do so.


263 posted on 06/03/2013 4:47:51 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Sooth2222

I don’t think the seat is contested in November 2013 but November 2014; I think the appointment is good for seventeen months.


264 posted on 06/03/2013 4:51:13 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: Perdogg

"Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap."

Galatians 6:7

265 posted on 06/03/2013 5:00:39 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; campaignPete R-CT; Perdogg; BillyBoy

if the “special election” is indeed held in NOV’14 and the new term is also elected in NOV’14 ... do we have another odd case where there will be two spots on the ballot:

one for the new 6-year term and one for the November ‘14 to January ‘15 period? I am not sure if the ballot confusion helps or hurts the GOP. In theory, the incumbent GOP Senator will have his name on the ballot twice and need 2 votes.


266 posted on 06/03/2013 5:14:44 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (we're the Beatniks now)
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To: Perdogg

Proverbs 10:7b says it all: The memory of the righteous is blessed, BUT the name of the wicked will ROT. Proverbs 10:7 (NASB Emphasis added)


267 posted on 06/03/2013 5:15:06 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil, in Jesus name, amen.)
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To: DCBryan1
Good riddance to a pro-baby murdering, commie, gun grabber. No telling how many babies and women were killed because of his progressivism.

I raise my glass of "special occasion bourbon" (Pappy Van Winkle 20) to his departure.

268 posted on 06/03/2013 5:21:03 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Prospero

i will muster a “Thank you, Lord.”


269 posted on 06/03/2013 5:22:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT; Impy; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Perdogg; BillyBoy

No idea Pete.

The logical course of action to me would be for the GOP governor to name a GOP appointee to the seat. It would also make sense for said appointee to be able to retain the seat when election time comes around.

But what do I know?


270 posted on 06/03/2013 5:31:42 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; Impy; NFHale; AuH2ORepublican; Perdogg; BillyBoy

The last time a similar scenario fell on a NJ Governor was in 1982 when the corrupt Democrat Harrison Williams was forced out of the Senate (due to Abscam). The Governor was Tom Kean, Sr. Rather than appoint someone who could hold the seat for the general election (such as Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick, who was already in the running), Kean went with a seatwarmer in Nicholas Brady (Bush, Sr’s future Treasury Secretary). Lautenberg ended up beating Fenwick (arguing she was, at 71, too old (!) to serve in the Senate). The GOP has not won a Senate race in NJ since ultraleftist Clifford Case won his final term in 1972.


271 posted on 06/03/2013 5:45:54 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; campaignPete R-CT; Impy; NFHale; AuH2ORepublican; Perdogg; BillyBoy

So, Tom Kean, Sr is a penis.


272 posted on 06/03/2013 5:51:10 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

In short.


273 posted on 06/03/2013 5:53:34 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yep.


274 posted on 06/03/2013 5:56:08 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

One of Kean, Sr’s Republican proteges is serving in Congress today... Albio Sires (who is now as much a Republican as Missing Linc Chafee).


275 posted on 06/03/2013 5:58:22 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Great. Like herpes, political cronyism is the gift that keeps on giving...


276 posted on 06/03/2013 6:02:37 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Time to musk up.)
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To: Rummyfan
Lautenberg was a dinosaur lib on his second tour of the Senate

Actually, I think he was on his fifth tour of the Senate. He was New Jersey's US Senator from 1983-2001, and then retired for two years and came back to the US Senate for his last two terms from 2003-2013.

277 posted on 06/03/2013 6:08:15 PM PDT by old republic
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To: campaignPete R-CT; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; Perdogg; BillyBoy

Yes, if the special election isn’t held until Nov. 2014, there will be two elections that day, one for the rest of the term ending Jan. 3, 2015 and one for the 6-year term ending Jan. 3, 2021. A Senate term can’t last longer than 6 years, so the person elected to a 6-year term in November 2014 couldn’t have his term start that same November unless he is separately elected to that stump period. That’s what happened in 2010 when Mark Kirk had to win two separate elections held in Election Day.


278 posted on 06/03/2013 6:50:13 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: USS Alaska

Damn, I was hoping it was going to be a response to my
post on the thread regarding IRS Director Shulman’s wife
being a big time campaign guru for Obama. I pointed out
that her last name is Anderson so the House GOP staffers
need to go back to the WH sign-in books to see how many
times the two of them were there at the same time and what
were they up to? Were they working on the same projects?
I thought it was a post more worthy of a response, don’t
you? Maybe I’ll a chance to post it again.


279 posted on 06/03/2013 7:11:19 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: Perdogg

How could they tell?


280 posted on 06/03/2013 7:12:46 PM PDT by Hamilcar_Barca (Keep the main thing, the main thing - defeat Obama)
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