Slog - Comments on Luke Esser on Voting Rights http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights While Luke Esser's Republican party is still counting votes from Saturday, amused and aghast onlookers are digging into his past, which includes this article, originally muckraked here, from the UW Daily: Like any sport worth its salt, in politics you have adversaries, opponents, enemies. Our enemies are loudmouth leftists and shiftless deadbeats. To win the election, we have to keep as many of these people away from the polls as possible. Now your average leftist loudmouth is a committed individual and can almost never be persuaded to ignore his constitutional rights. The deadbeats, however, are a different matter entirely. Years... Copyright 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:41:36 -0800 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:41:23 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Ziggity Hm...it's almost like he's using the word "deadbeats" to stand in for another word. I can't quite figure out which one, though.

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933949 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933949 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:44:47 -0800 Comment by cochise. well, i guess god's timing was off in those southern states last week.

]]> cochise. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933963 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933963 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:51:18 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi @1,

Canadians?

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933965 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933965 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:51:44 -0800 Comment by cubra @1 is it Canadians?

]]> cubra http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933966 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933966 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:52:23 -0800 Comment by seattle98104 OMG WTF?

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933968 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933968 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:52:23 -0800 Comment by Gitai Why is it that the Daily, the newspaper of one of the most liberal campuses in America, is and always has been such a right wing rag?

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933971 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933971 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:53:43 -0800 Comment by dbell while we're probably not the most liberal state in the union, I defy anyone to find another state republican party that's in worse disarray or a bigger joke.

]]> dbell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933973 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c933973 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:54:20 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Given the actual voter turnout on Feb. 9th, can we at least admit that Eastern Washington is more pro-Obama than it is pro-Clinton or pro-GOP?

Seriously, more people voted for Obama than voted for ALL the GOP candidates in Eastern Washington.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934007 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934007 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:02:37 -0800 Comment by Will/HA Eli, if you clicked through TPM's link on the story, you'd see that they're linking to Goldy's "Luke Esser Fucks Pigs" post.

]]> Will/HA http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934014 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934014 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:04:43 -0800 Comment by Katelyn "I want Biblical floods and pestilence. I will settle for rain, sweet rain."

I like this kid.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934028 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934028 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:08:36 -0800 Comment by lostboy I'm shocked--shocked!--that anyone in Washington's Republican leadership would openly advocate voter suppression.

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934034 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934034 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:10:33 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty "Can't even go out in the rain?" "Biblical floods?" Sheesh, that's why I vote by mail.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934037 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934037 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:10:53 -0800 Comment by sorryroger "Many of the most successful anti-deadbeat voter techniques (poll taxes, sound beatings, etc.) that conservatives have used in the past have been outlawed by busybody judges."

Don't you hate it when busybody judges prevent you from physically assaulting people you don't agree with? Damn them!

]]> sorryroger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934039 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934039 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:12:58 -0800 Comment by Beguine Jeez, for a minute I thought that must be satire. It's no fun parodying people if they're so ridiculous you can't tell their actual words from a spoof of them.

]]> Beguine http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934057 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934057 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:20:59 -0800 Comment by Hernandez @6 - Unhinged lunatics making thinly-veiled racist tirades like this one stir up controversy, and controversy gets otherwise apathetic students to pick up the Daily and read it.

]]> Hernandez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934112 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934112 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:43:56 -0800 Comment by Dave Coffman Jeez, a guy gets kicked out of his state senate seat, then takes a job with a Republican party that had been in disarray because he claimed he'd sort things out....

I say good. Keep the party in disarray. And at some point, maybe Esser will need to get a job in the private sector... not even his bud Rob McKenna will be wanting him back after this.

Say hello to Luke Esser- Washington State's official Dunce.

]]> Dave Coffman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934295 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934295 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:15:42 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Looks like someone's auditioning for a job as Ann Coulter's ghostwriter.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934346 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934346 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:41:38 -0800 Comment by gfish The Daily is a joke and always has been. I'm not sure national political blogs really understand that.

]]> gfish http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934636 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934636 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:32:40 -0800 Comment by R "Esser" means eater in German, btw. What's with this guy? How can he do what he did? Can't he be prosecuted and removed from his position? This move, is something I would think the socialists might do, not the GOP! It's good that people can't find him, he has endangered his own life!
R

]]> R http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934749 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934749 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:48:32 -0800 Comment by from east of miss @6, maybe the quality of the writing in The Daily is not at college-level, but I would stop short of saying that it's a "right wing rag". Read it sometime: http://www.thedaily.washington.edu/

Also, Eli, when I hovered over the links available in your post, none of them linked to The Daily. . . . .Okay, wait, I now see what you are talking about, but you kinda failed to make it clear: Eli did not quote a (1986) UW Daily article directly, but rather quoted a blog which quoted said article.

]]> from east of miss http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934795 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934795 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:52:53 -0800 Comment by j kampf Luke Esser is a retard


take your head out of your ass syrup sipper

]]> j kampf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/luke_esser_on_voting_rights#c934858 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:41:23 -0800