2008 In Other Elections
posted by on November 6 at 18:00 PM
Posted by Ryan S. Jackson
Down between fifteen and twenty points in the polls heading into today’s election, Republican Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher is informing the concerned citizenry of his state that the Homosexual Agenda Is Coming For Your Children. The message, solicited in dulcet tones of Mr. Pat Boone, is being sent out via robocall to homes across Kentucky:
“Now do you want a governor who’d like Kentucky to be another San Francisco?” Boone asks. “Please re-elect Ernie Fletcher.”And at a campaign stop last night, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports, the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor made a direct attack upon the Democratic ticket: “Do you want a couple of San Francisco treats or do you want a governor?”
Possibly fearing that having a surrogate call his opponents “San Francisco treats” might miss the more cerebral voters he’s hoping to target, Fletcher topped his re-election campaign by having a large display of the Ten Commandments wheeled into the Kentucky statehouse yesterday.
UPDATE:
Fletcher Gets Beaten Like a Gong
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With nearly 54 percent of the vote in, The Courier-Journal has called the Kentucky Gubernatorial election for Democrat Steve Beshear. Beshear leads 61-39 percent — a margin of about 116,000 votes.Gov. Ernie Fletcher could never recover from sagging poll numbers following the merit hiring scandal that saw him and others in or close to his administration indicted for violating state law. Fletcher pardoned everyone but himself for alleged wrong doing.
Yes, I believe that Kentuck is in serious danger of becoming a whirlwind of fabulosity like San Francisco. Just look at the house prices! You can hardly get a garage for your car for a million bucks in Kentuck, right?
I'm guessing that Kentuckians are thinking "do we want to be goobers all our life, like this guy, or do we want to be part of the world?" And they're voting D.
Pat Boone is still alive? Or is this a post-Halloween corpse reanimation?
New Jersey has the most awesome constitutional amendment on its ballot. This one would restore voting rights to 'idiots and insane persons.'
Just in time for the Republican presidential primaries! They've got to get out the vote somehow.
Let's hope NJ voters do the smart thing and reject that santorum sandwich.
http://wonkette.com/politics/election-2007/new-jersey-considers-the-nutjob-vote-319493.php
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Fletcher avoided prosecution for illegal state hiring practices by the skin of his teeth, and had to survive a vicious primary to even show up for the beating he's probably going to take tonight.
It would be neat if this was a backlash against a culture of stupid, but it probably isn't.
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Fletcher avoided prosecution for illegal state hiring practices by the skin of his teeth, and had to survive a vicious primary to even show up for the beating he's probably going to take tonight.
It would be neat if this was a backlash against a culture of stupid, but it probably isn't.
"San Francisco treats"... tricks... there's a funny joke in there somewhere.
So much for Fletcher losing with grace.
Pat fucking Boone? Was the guy who drove a stage-coach on two episodes of Dr. Quinn; Medicine Woman busy?
i've been all over kentucky, and met the gays in lexington, louisville, and covington/newport.
kentucky ain't never going to be san francisco.
kentucky wishes it could be san francisco.
Wow, it's hard to know how to take a homophobic insult from Pat Boone, of all people. It's not like the guy is the poster child for butch masculine straightness, if you know what I mean. He's sort of his generation's Michael Jackson.
I can't wait to see the closing numbers for this race. I want to see how much of an effect this tomfoolery has on the Kentucky voters.
With 25% of precinct reporting, it's 64-36 for Beshear.
Current results from the Louisville Courier-Journal.
More up-to-date and official from the Kentucky State Board of Elections. As I write, it's 46.9% of precincts, and Beshear has 59.7% of the vote.
Half of Kentucky's 120 counties haven't yet started reporting. The western 1/3 of the state is in the Central Time Zone, so their polls are open an hour after the Eastern ones (with most of the state's population) close.
I note also that in the 15 minutes or so that I've been looking at the official results, about seven percent of precincts have reported. There's something to be said in favor of poll-voting, though I don't have information on KY's use of DRE versus opscan.
so....america is on the verge of fighting a never-ending war with various middle eastern countries, the housing market is trashed, gas prices are going to stay high for decades....and us gays are your biggest problem huh...ummmm....YOU are going to fight the wars...not me...YOU are the ones with no disposable income...not me....ok.....lets face it the gays are not your worst enemy you are
IMPEACHMENT UPDATE!!!
Resolution to impeach the VP are now in the Judicial Committee. This is the furthest ANY impeachment action has made it in the House of Reps in dealing with the Bush Administration. And for you Constitutional Junkies out there, Articles of Impeachment have to come out of the Juducial Committee.
WRITE TO JOHN CONYERS!!!!! TELL HIM TO PURSUE THIS!!!!!
The old GOP standby of resorting to gay bashing when they have no other issue to stand on doesn't seem to be working any more. If homophobia can't win voters even in as red a state as Kentucky then maybe that's a good sign that this country isn't as fucked up as I thought it was.
Yep, looks like Kentuckians didn't buy it. HOOWEE
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