interfering with an election... he must be Russian
Posted on 06/26/2018 12:05:35 PM PDT by lowbridge
How many progressive Democrats do they have in Oklahoma? Apparently the only one in the state is a criminal.
Yeah, and he thinks his mistake was being caught.
Mistakes are made? Sounds like a progessive liberal to me.
If a conservative republican were to do the same there would be protesters from five states away wanting to form lynch parties or at least put the culprit in prison for thirty years, after they branded his forehead with a swastika.
What?!?!?...
Cheating is standard operating procedure for democrats.
Why all the fuss???
He’s only sorry he got caught.
Typical Democrat trying to subvert our electoral system.
What a lousy fat sack of crap.
Retired “professor” at central state university I gather. A perennial candidate.
And a dumb criminal at that.
Don't the Democrats put their candidates through some kind of "Artful Dodger" schooling to teach them the finer points of their trade before they're allowed to be out and about without a handler?
Don't they also put them through a warped Democrat version of 'charm school' to teach them to lie with a smile, just like those contemptible weasels Chris Murphy (Dangerous Idiot - CT) and Chuck Schumer (Putzhead - NY) always do?
Shouldn't he have spread around some of that George Soros 'walking around money' to hire some 'youths' to do the stealing for him?
That's certainly how the Clinton Crime Syndicate got its start, with retail-level muggery, thuggery, and buggery, before they hit the big time and expanded into wholesale larceny and treason. It's how the Bernie Bots got started. The Chicago and NYC pols certainly have it down to a fine art.
Now that he's gotten his feet wet with his first public scandal, with all of the fame and street cred that that brings within the Democratic Party leadership, some Party elders might see fit to set him up with a 'crew' or two to take him to the next level...
A mistake is when you say “OOPS!” That was deliberate misbehavior.
I am a real estate agent, and a number of times I have seen a competitor’s sign knocked over and either called them with a heads-up or put it back up.
Probably.
In local races, sometimes name recognition is all there is to go on.
That might be illegal.
Let the thief cool his heels in jail for a few weeks.
Most vote fraud, most election shenanigans, most vote mis-counts occur in the primary, not in the general election.
This is something few seem to realize. Most vote fraud is not R vs D. It is establishment vs outsider; swamp vs outsider.
interfering with an election... he must be Russian
This immediately reminded me of what was, in my opinion, one of the great political coups of all time. Back in 1998 a wealthy businessman named Rich Sybert decided to run for an open Assembly seat in Thousand Oaks, CA, after failing to win two previous bids for Congress. The district leans strongly Republican, and Sybert collared the endorsements of the departing Assemblyman and much of the local Republican establishment (except Tom McClintock). Sybert did have some primary opposition, including a Port Hueneme city council woman and an administrative aide to McClintock named Tony Strickland, but Sybert was widely expected to far outspend them all (which he did) and coast to an easy victory (which he probably would have).
But Strickland’s campaign noticed some of its large signs being torn down, and assigned a campaign volunteer to stake out remaining signs in hopes of spotting the vandals. Imagine his astonishment when he observed Rich Sybert personally sneaking around in the wee hours of the morning and ripping off Strickland’s signs! Imagine the joy in the Strickland camp as they watched the videotape which the campaign staffer had taken of the vandalism!
Now comes the brilliant part. Tony Strickland held a press conference to accuse Sybert of destroying his signs, but didn’t mention the videotape. Sybert indignantly denied the accusation, saying that Strickland must really be desperate to make up something like that. The Los Angeles Times quoted Sybert as further embellishing his story:
“Oh, please!” Sybert had said when informed Wednesday that Strickland had filed a complaint with the district attorney. “I’ve got better things to do. I’m in bed at three in the morning. I checked with my wife,” he added, “and she’s pretty sure the guy next to her Monday night was me.”
Strickland patiently waited a day while Sybert pretended to be the victim of dirty politics and kept proclaiming his innocence. Then the Strickland campaign began distributing copies of the tape to the Los Angeles television stations and other news media.
I have one of those tapes. It’s an amazing thing to watch a grown man systematically and stupidly commit political suicide.
Of course it was all over after that. Sybert had to admit he’d lied, but insisted that neither the lying nor the vandalism should be considered a reflection on his character. Tony Strickland was instantly converted from a young, inexperienced, little-known, long-shot candidate into the frontrunner, while all the other candidates faded into obscurity. Sybert kept spending money and refused to concede the race, and his big-name endorsers stumbled all over themselves trying to excuse and rationalize Sybert’s “mistake”, but in the end he got only 7% of the vote while Strickland coasted to victory.
Following the election a Los Angeles Times article titled “Sybert: a Study in Ambition Unfulfilled” quoted Sybert as whinging: “I don’t think I was prepared for the brutality of the political process. When I look back over the last six years, it’s been nothing but heartache for me and my family.”
Incidentally, here’s the 1998 Los Angeles Times article I mentioned above: http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jun/07/news/mn-57484
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