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« on: November 05, 2012, 10:52:32 pm »

Sometimes a picture says 1000 words... Shocked



Rev 12:7  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Rev 12:8  And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Rev 12:9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2012, 02:11:16 am »

There is a reason that men venerate the snake in the world, and you just posted it.

"They are of the world..."
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« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2014, 09:10:59 am »

http://news.yahoo.com/tea-party-republican-breaks-house-gop-leadership-003002893.html

Tea party Republican breaks through to House GOP leadership

The tea party has claimed its first spot in House leadership with the election of Rep. Steve Scalise to the No. 3 post – majority whip. Will he ease GOP tensions or make them worse?

6/19/14

Now they have it. Now tea party-backers finally have a strong conservative in the Republican leadership of the GOP-controlled House: Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who was elected by party members on Thursday to the No. 3 job in the leadership.

The Louisianan will take the position of whip, making him responsible for corralling votes in order to pass legislation. He fills the slot left vacant by Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, who was elected – and elevated – to the No. 2 job of majority leader, who decides what legislation comes to a vote.

The changes were triggered by majority leader Eric Cantor’s stunning defeat to a tea party favorite in his June 10 primary in Virginia. Mr. Cantor then announced he would resign his leadership position on July 31.

The addition of Congressman Scalise is expected to push House Republicans further to the right. But the pressing question is whether Scalise will bridge – or aggravate – deep divisions within the party.

With a man who is a Southerner and a conservative as part of the leadership, “we’re in afterglow,” says Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, a member of the Republican Study Committee, a caucus of 176 conservative Republicans. Scalise chairs the committee, which includes tea party flag bearers.

“He definitely brings a solid, consistent conservative voice to the table,” says Congressman Barton. “He’s going to invigorate the debate.”

That’s an understatement. When Speaker John Boehner – the No. 1 Republican in the House – and whip Congressman McCarthy voted to raise the federal debt ceiling in February, Scalise opposed it. When they voted for a bipartisan budget deal in December, he didn’t go along. When they voted to reopen the federal government with a budget and debt-ceiling agreement last fall, he dissented.

Might this make it impossible for Scalise – who has a gold star rating from the FreedomWorks tea party group – to work with establishment Republicans such as Boehner, who comes from a purple state, and McCarthy, who comes from a blue state?

“The whip is somebody who has to get to know everybody, and work with everybody,” says Ray Smock, a former House historian who now directs the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies at Shepherd University in West Virginia. “Given the style of the tea party, to be independent and buck authority and buck the establishment, it makes me wonder how effective any tea party candidate would be in that position.”

But colleagues who backed Scalise describe him as someone who can also build consensus – witness his ability to get elected on the first ballot, a feat that few people thought he could pull off given his stiff competition, the current chief deputy whip, Peter Roskam of Illinois. And even while Scalise may buck Speaker Boehner at times, he does get along with him.

With Scalise at the leadership table, he can help work through disagreements before they get to the broader conference, points out Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska. “I think it gives you a greater chance of bringing people together and getting agreement.”

It helps that McCarthy himself is well-liked among members and gets along with most everybody. McCarthy also worked to recruit candidates during the election cycle of 2010 – which brought in the wave of tea party supporters. (Scalise was elected in 2008.)

In terms of policy, Scalise’s election may not be noticed outside Congress this year. The midterms are bearing down on members and they are not likely to accomplish a great deal.

Immigration reform seems just as unlikely as before, if not more so – at least for the short term. “It really doesn’t matter who is in leadership, because you don’t have much wiggle room on immigration,” says John Pitney, a congressional expert at Claremont-McKenna College in California.

Some tea partyers, however, do not share the afterglow of their Texas colleague. They wanted one of their own for majority leader, Raul Labrador of Idaho.

“The whip’s role is to push the agenda of the speaker and the majority leader, so I don’t think it has as much of an impact as it might if we had a conservative member in the top two spots,” says Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who rode the tea party wave to Washington in 2010.

“I don’t think grass-roots Republicans are going to be satisfied with the outcome today,” said Congressman Amash, who admitted he was "disappointed."

Many of his colleagues are looking for a housecleaning in the leadership once the midterm elections are over, including booting Boehner, he says. But, he adds, that is unlikely to happen, because by then, this leadership team will have been cemented, and they will be able to win support by handing out committee chairmanships and assignments.
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2014, 02:36:38 pm »

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/conservatives-erupt-fury-tea-party-171205614.html
6/25/14
Conservatives Erupt In Fury After Tea Party Candidate's Loss In Mississippi

Conservative supporters of Republican Chris McDaniel were up in arms Tuesday night after McDaniel lost in Mississippi's Republican Senate primary runoff election. These conservatives were particularly furious that incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran had sought Democratic votes to push him over the top.

McDaniel led the charge, in a speech that quickly became anything but a concession late Tuesday night. He pointedly refused to concede or even mention Cochran's name in the speech but charged his opponent and supporters had decided the primary through "the help of liberal Democrats."

"There’s something strange about a Republican primary that’s decided by liberal Democrats," McDaniel said, after he was introduced by a supporter as "the Republican nominee" for Senate.

The conservative groups and others supporting McDaniel did not go as far as their preferred candidate, however. They acknowledged Cochran had come out on top, but they charged he did so at the expense of the party as a whole. Some threatened to leave the party. Others said establishment Republicans had lost support from their conservative base.

"This race was establishment versus Tea Party and when the GOP has to turn to Democrats to retain power, they have no principles," Amy Kremer, the former chair of the Tea Party Express and a supporter of McDaniel, told Business Insider. "If Cochran wins this race, the GOP establishment won, not with the support of the base, but by teaming up with Democrats. That means they have more in common with Dems than conservatives.

"Conservatives have principles and are tired of the GOP ruling class elite that tax and spend like Democrats.  The GOP cannot win on their own, so what will they do in the general when they don't have the base and are running against Democrats? That is a losing ticket. Seems they didn't learn anything in 2012."

The old-school Cochran employed an unusual strategy in the runoff, courting black voters — the vast majority of whom are Democrats — and Democratic voters in general, who feared McDaniel would do damage if he emerged victorious in November.

It appears the strategy worked. In the 10 counties where Cochran's vote total improved most, blacks make up 69% or more of the population, according to FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten.

FreedomWorks, one of the conservative groups backing McDaniel, called Cochran's runoff strategy "disgraceful."

"If the only way the K Street wing of the GOP establishment can win is by courting Democrats to vote in GOP primaries, then we've already won," FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe said in a statement. "Tonight is proof that the K Street establishment is intellectually bankrupt, and we are going to have to clean it up."
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« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2014, 01:08:41 am »

This is JMHO, but here goes...as we all know, the whole political game in DC was set up to be Democrats slightly left of center, and Republicans slightly right of center...only to ultimately bring BOTH camps to the far left. Pt being that don't be surprised that all of this "GOP establishment vs Tea Party" (fake)fighting is being set up for the Dems to not only take control of the House, but to get that 60 number in the Senate(who knows - maybe John McCain and Lindsey Graham might switch parties if the 60 number falls short).

Ultimately - it's been all by design - if this scenerio plays out, then things are likely in their final throes.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-gop-divide-20140626-story.html
Chris McDaniel may fight Mississippi GOP Senate primary loss in court
6/25/14

Sen. Thad Cochran's comeback victory in Mississippi's Republican Senate primary hardened the differences between the GOP's tea party and establishment wings Wednesday, raising the threat that the bitterness of the last several months of campaigning could extend into the fall's general election.

Cochran's tea party challenger, Chris McDaniel, has refused to concede and in a statement Wednesday afternoon did not rule out the possibility of taking his case to court.

McDaniel and many of his supporters are incensed that Cochran achieved his victory in part by winning votes from Democrats, who were able to take part in the contest because of the state's open primary law.

Turnout in Tuesday's runoff was 67,000 votes higher than in the first round of voting earlier this month — a rare occurrence. Some of the biggest increases came in heavily black — and Democratic — areas, particularly in and around Jackson, the capital, and in smaller communities in the state's Delta region.

"If our party and our conservative movement are to coexist, it is paramount that we ensure the sanctity of the election process is upheld," McDaniel's statement said. "We must be absolutely certain that our Republican primary was won by Republican voters.

"In the coming days, our team will look into the irregularities to determine whether a challenge is warranted," the statement said. "After we've examined the data, we will make a decision about whether and how to [proceed]."

Establishment GOP figures praised Cochran's victory as an indication of an inclusive campaign. One of the architects of the strategy, Henry Barbour, the nephew of former Mississippi governor and Republican Party Chairman Haley Barbour, said Cochran's outreach to Democrats was "good for the party" — a way to broaden the GOP's shrinking base of older, white voters.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) noted that "receiving African American votes in the Republican primary is no easy thing" and said that "Republicans should celebrate the fact that African Americans felt good enough about a Republican to think he's a fair man."

"If we start making that a bad thing, we'll be the authors of our own doom," Graham said.

But tea party activists derided the tactic as a sellout of conservative principles.

"This might be the moment the establishment GOP … died," said Adam Brandon, executive vice president of the tea party group FreedomWorks, which had dozens of volunteers in Mississippi.

"Our base is like, 'Seriously? You turned to Democrats to win?'"

Willie Simmons, a black Democratic state senator who stumped for votes for Cochran in his Delta-area district, said it was unclear whether the Democrats who helped propel Cochran to victory this week would vote for him again in the fall.

"Many of the individuals who voted for Sen. Cochran yesterday had good intentions, wanting to make sure he survived this particular fight," Simmons said.

Cochran's long history of supporting community health centers, Head Start preschool programs and a historically black college in the Delta made his appeal an easier sell to Democratic voters, he said.

But, Simmons added, "you will find many individuals who supported him yesterday will go back home, do an assessment, look at the two candidates, will very well go back for the Democratic nominee."

Some figures in both parties have suggested that the GOP's internal division could give the Democratic Senate candidate, Travis Childers, a chance at winning the general election in November.

"The math's in our favor," said Rickey L. Cole, chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party.

But establishment Republicans dismissed that idea, saying that they expect cooler heads would prevail once tea party activists recovered from the sting of the loss and returned their attention to the GOP's main goal of taking control of the Senate from Democrats this fall.

Childers, a conservative former congressman, has struggled to raise campaign funds and is running in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator since 1982.

"It'll take a while for us to heal the wounds from a very spirited primary, and we'll do that," said Mississippi's other Republican senator, Roger Wicker.

But McDaniel so far has shown no sign of backing away from the angry stand he took on election night.

"There are millions of people who feel like strangers in their own party," McDaniel said in a speech Tuesday in which he refused to concede the race. "So much for principle."

A legal challenge would be McDaniel's main recourse because state law makes a write-in campaign, which some McDaniel supporters advocated, all but impossible. That option is available only when a candidate on the ballot dies, experts said.

But the legal route is also difficult. Under state law, any registered voter can take part in a primary or runoff, provided that the person hasn't already voted in the other party's primary. Voters are also supposed to be willing to support the winning candidate in the general election.

Election experts said McDaniel might have grounds for a challenge if he could show that large numbers of people who voted in the Republican runoff already had voted in the Democratic primary June 3.
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« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2014, 07:55:18 pm »

The 2000 Presidential election WASN'T THIS ugly(and this particular election is from the SAME "party") - pt being that you know they're cooking up an agenda behind the scenes...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/breaking-enough-invalidated-votes-to-overturn-cochran-victory/
BREAKING! There May Be Enough Invalidated Votes to Overturn Cochran Victory …Update: 800 Hinds County Voters Crossed Over Illegally
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, June 26, 2014, 3:03 PM



(Left column: Democrat primary vote; Right column: GOP runoff vote)

The Chris McDaniel campaign has identified multiple Mississippi counties in which enough improper ballots have been cast that a legal challenge to the outcome of the election is warranted.

This after Thad Cochran reportedly relied on 25,000-35,000 Democrat votes to pull him to victory in the June 24 runoff.

UPDATE: The Cochran campaign is reportedly asking county clerks not to certify the voting rolls until the last day possible so that the McDaniel people will not be able to look at the rolls and challenge them.

BIG UPDATE—— CHILD ABUSE and THREATS

I just spoke with Lori Medina who is working with Real Conservative National Committee PAC in Mississippi this week. The McDaniel Campaign is targeting 10 counties where they think they can overturn the election results.

Lorie described one precinct where a “little sixteen year-old blonde female” McDaniel supporter was holding a sign and older men would drive by and threaten her. Several other volunteers were also harassed by Cochran supporters.

There was no information online on where to go vote. One county would only give the name of the buildings where they were voting but not the address to the McDaniel supporters. Many churches lined up in support of Cochran and told McDaniel supporters they could not hold signs on the property because they didn’t want to look biased. One church said McDaniel voters would have to leave because they were holding a funeral.

***Hhhhmmm...were these 501c3 churches doing so(supporting Cochran) b/c they were TOLD so by the IRS? Huh

Lorie added, “I have never witnesses such overt out in the open fraud along with extreme ignorance. For the first time in my life I was speechless.”

** The McDaniel campaign is asking for donations and resources to scrutinize the voter rolls.

UPDATE: From Kim Wade:



Kim posted this on Facebook:

    I have been at the Hinds County Court house this morning.
    Here’s a page from Hinds County voter roll book.

    The column on the left is where the voter voted in Democrat primary on June 3rd 2014.
    The column on the right is where that same voter voted in the Republican run off on June 24th 2014.

    This is patently illegal!


    The problem is the Hinds County Republican Party in my opinion is dragging its feet in allowing access to “all” the voter information in a timely fashion to complete the audit.

    It appears they are trying to run the clock out and certify the election results on Monday of next week preventing Chris McDaniel from completing an audit of the vote.

    Please call the GOP at 6019485191 fax 6013540972 email info@msgop.org ask that they have an impartial member of the Hinds County Republican Committee oversee the audit, certification instead of the present county chairman.

    Hinds County chair Pete Perry is wearing too many hats and can’t be impartial or fair.

UPDATE: The Mississippi Tea Party President says at least 800 Hinds County Voters crossed over illegally.
MS News Now reported:

    The Mississippi Tea Party President says they’ve found evidence that nearly 800 voters crossed over in Tuesday’s runoff election that should not have been allowed to vote Republican.

    However, Hinds County GOP Chairman Pete Perry says there are some precincts where he knows workers marked the wrong column and that could account for at least 200 of those being cited by the Tea Party. Cheesy

    Members of McDaniel’s campaign staff and some supporters began sorting through voter books on Thursday morning at the Hinds County courthouse.

    They were looking for any “irregularities”.

    In Hinds County, poll workers used the Democratic primary books for the GOP runoff in an attempt to prevent crossover voters.

    However, the group from McDaniel’s camp is still searching those records to try to find anyone who voted as a Democrat on June 3rd and with the GOP on the 24th (the runoff.)

    Much more this story in our newscasts tonight.
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2014, 02:53:27 pm »

Especially considering there's agendas behind these scripted elections - doubt this is what is being reported...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/27/us-usa-mississippi-teaparty-idUSKBN0F21PL20140627
6/27/14
Mississippi Tea Party leader dead in apparent suicide

(Reuters) - A prominent lawyer and leader of the Mississippi Tea Party, who was arrested in connection with photos posted online of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran's bedridden wife, died on Friday of an apparent suicide, the man’s attorney said.

Mark Mayfield, 58, was a founding member of the state's Tea Party and had served as its vice chairman, the organization said.

    "This is a terrible tragedy that shouldn’t have happened," Mayfield's lawyer and brother-in-law, John Reeves, told Reuters.
 
Mayfield was one of three men accused in May of conspiring with a blogger to illicitly take photos of Cochran's wife, who has dementia, in her nursing home for use in a political video against the six-term incumbent.

Mayfield was charged with conspiracy to photograph someone without permission, an allegation met with shock and some skepticism in the legal community where he was highly regarded.

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant was among those who expressed sadness on Friday, calling Mayfield a long-time friend.

“A good number of us just simply refused to believe that he had anything to do, at least on any criminal level, with what happened with the nursing home scandal,” said attorney Matt Eichelberger, who blogs about progressive politics in the state.

Mayfield's death comes after state Senator Chris McDaniel, who had the backing of conservative Tea Party groups, lost a bitterly contested primary runoff against Cochran on Tuesday for the Republican Senate nomination.

McDaniel, who has denied any connection to the photo conspiracy, has accused Cochran's camp of slandering him by insinuating his involvement.

Mayfield, a lifelong resident of Mississippi who practiced real estate law, bowed out of politics after his arrest, said Merrida Coxwell, another attorney who represented him.

Coxwell said he last spoke with Mayfield on Wednesday, when they discussed the criminal case but not the results of Tuesday's election. He said he had urged Mayfield to be patient.

“I don’t know what was on his mind,” Coxwell said. “I guess just being charged, for a man of Mark’s kind sensibilities, was too much.”
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« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2014, 06:26:21 pm »

Matthew 24:6  And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
Mat 24:7  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mat 24:8  All these are the beginning of sorrows.
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« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2014, 05:58:01 pm »

Yes, there's nothing new under the sun...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston"[2]) was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. The Tea Party became an iconic event of American history, and other political protests such as the Tea Party movement after 2010 explicitly refer to it.

The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation," that is, be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament in which they were not represented. Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain.

The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, or Intolerable Acts, which, among other provisions, ended local self-government in Massachusetts and closed Boston's commerce. Colonists up and down the Thirteen Colonies in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775.

Background

The Boston Tea Party arose from two issues confronting the British Empire in 1765: the financial problems of the British East India Company, and an ongoing dispute about the extent of Parliament's authority, if any, over the British American colonies without seating any elected representation. The North Ministry's attempt to resolve these issues produced a showdown that would eventually result in revolution.[3]
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Hillary Clinton Praises GOP Establishment, Big Business for Taking on Tea Party
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/18/Hillary-Clinton-Praises-GOP-Estab-Big-Business-Wing-for-Confronting-Tea-Party
7/18/14

Hillary Clinton thanked the Republican establishment and its big business allies for taking on the Tea Party and defeating conservative candidates like Chris McDaniel in Mississippi's June runoff.

In a Thursday interview with Charlie Rose on PBS, Clinton said tea partiers and conservatives needed to be reined in. And she said it was about time the GOP establishment got a "wake-up call from the big business wing" that wants to continue the bipartisan big government policies that have made Washington, D.C.'s suburbs the country's wealthiest "boomtown."

"Finally, the Republican establishment and their business supporters have woken up," Clinton said, noting that she tells audiences, "Don't vote for anyone who refuses to compromise."

Rose said that the Tea Party conservatives are more powerful now than when her husband was president, but Clinton said when big business interests pour millions into races, conservatives can be defeated, as the Cochran race showed.

With the help of big checks from establishment interests and liberal high-tech moguls like Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who donated $350,000, Cochran allies courted black Democrats and liberal union to get more votes than McDaniel. They aired commercials that smeared conservatives as racists who were intent on taking away welfare payments and funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities to turn out black Democrats for Cochran in the GOP runoff. Cochran allies may have even passed out "walking around money."

The Chamber of Commerce, which has vowed to spend at least $50 million against Tea Party candidates and those who oppose amnesty legislation, and Karl Rove's American Crossroads, have also emphasized their desire to defeat conservative candidates, much to Clinton's delight.
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« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2014, 01:17:42 pm »

This is just my opinion - but the script looks like the midterm elections this year will result in a Dem House and a filibuster-proof 60 seat Dem Senate. By then, the Hegelian Dialectic game(if this happens) will be over.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/08/14/tea_party_candidate_sues_to_win_mississippi_gop_senate_nomination.html
8/14/14
Defeated Tea Party Senate Candidate Tries to Sue His Way to Mississippi GOP Nomination

Mississippi’s GOP primary runoff in June wrapped up a Senate campaign battle that was all kinds of ugly. But if vanquished State Senator Chris McDaniel has his way the ugliness may have just begun. McDaniel, a tea party-inspired candidate, asked a Mississippi court on Thursday to declare him the winner of the runoff election he lost to incumbent Senator Thad Cochran by some 7,000 votes.

McDaniel, in his suit, takes issue with the Cochran campaign’s attempts to woo Mississippi Democrats to vote in the Republican runoff claiming “that Mississippi GOP officials violated the rights of real Republicans by allowing people to vote who didn't intend to support the Republican nominee in November,” the Associated Press reports. “Primary voters are indeed bound by law to support the party's nominee in the general election, though courts have said that law can't be enforced… Mississippi voters are banned from voting in one party's primary and another party's runoff.”

Here’s more from the AP on the case McDaniel is making:

McDaniel first asks that the court throw out the June 24 results from Jackson's Hinds County and "other counties proved to have permitted widespread vote fraud," declaring him the winner by subtracting counties that Cochran won. McDaniel has criticized Cochran for reaching out to black voters who traditionally support Democrats. Turnout increased from the primary to the runoff, and Cochran fared well in many majority-black precincts. If the court instead orders a new election, McDaniel asked that the state GOP be required to enforce the law about supporting the party's nominee. However, the lawsuit did not say how it could be enforced in a state where voters don't register by party. It says only that false Republicans violate the First Amendment "associational freedom" of true party members. Mississippi voters are banned from voting in one party's primary and another party's runoff. McDaniel's campaign, after weeks of examining ballots and other voting records, claimed it found about 3,500 people who illegally voted in the June 3 Democratic primary and June 24 runoff. McDaniel said workers found about 9,500 "irregular" votes and 2,275 "improperly" cast absentee ballots, though the campaign hasn't said what made those votes irregular.

“McDaniel faces high hurdles to convince a judge to take either action: it would be unprecedented for a court to order a do-over of a statewide election, and part of his argument in the lawsuit hinges on an unenforceable law,” according to the AP.

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« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2014, 09:54:26 am »

Like I was saying(and only my opinions, and nothing more) - this is probably how they're going to rig the midterms for the Dems this year(by putting 3rd party candidates to "steal" votes from the GOP). Ultimately, don't be surprised to see a Dems "victory" in November. And with Obama having his way the rest of the way, the Hegelian Dialectic game will be over.

http://news.yahoo.com/3rd-party-candidates-could-tip-key-senate-races-073958861--election.html
Third-party candidates in Senate races a GOP worry
9/5/14

WASHINGTON (AP) — Caught off-guard by a third-party candidate, veteran GOP Sen. Pat Roberts replaced his campaign manager and summoned new aides to try to revive his re-election bid in a state that should be easy for Republicans.

It's a rare achievement by independent candidate Greg Orman, although it's far from certain he can oust Roberts on Nov. 4. Still, his story might inspire a pizza deliveryman in North Carolina, a "libertarian cop" in Kentucky and an Alaska candidate named Fish who would love to make their own splashes as third-party Senate candidates.

Orman, who has called himself a Democrat and a Republican in the past, was doing so well in this year's Kansas race as an independent that the Democratic nominee, Chad Taylor, abruptly canceled his candidacy this week. With that, the conservative state landed on the list of conceivable, if improbable, Democratic gains in the national battle for Senate control.

Republicans must pick up six seats in November to win the majority, and the new uncertainty over Roberts' fate complicates their drive.

Kansas Republicans, worried about Orman possibly consolidating anti-Roberts sentiment, challenged the legality of Taylor's withdrawal. The Kansas secretary of state said Taylor's name must remain on the ballot.

Orman's case is unusual. Most third-party candidates have no chance of being elected themselves. But in a handful of extremely tight races, including North Carolina, Alaska, Georgia and Kentucky, third-party candidates could help decide who wins and which party controls the Senate in the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency.

Third-party candidates are chiefly a worry for Republicans. Many of these long-shot hopefuls are libertarians who tend to appeal to conservative voters, who otherwise might lean GOP.

Established Republicans are quick to note that most third-party candidates become nonfactors, winning minuscule portions of the vote.

The notion that Libertarian candidate Sean Haugh could cost Republican nominee Thom Tillis the Senate seat in North Carolina, for instance, "is a story line being created by the media," said Paul Shumaker, a top Tillis adviser. He said Haugh, a pizza deliveryman, doesn't have enough campaign money to identify and turn out his potential supporters on Nov. 4.

"All our modeling clearly shows less than 2 percent" of the vote going to Haugh, Shumaker said. And that's probably not enough to decide whether Tillis will oust first-term Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.

Thomas Mills, who helped run an unsuccessful Democratic Senate race in North Carolina in 2010, said the campaign had hoped a once-promising libertarian contender would maintain his early poll numbers. "But they just disappeared," Mills said, and the same might happen with Haugh.
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Still, Mills said, some North Carolina tea partyers see Tillis as too mainstream and business-oriented and Haugh "gives them a place to go."

The chief problem with third-party candidates, Mills said, is they often attract "cranks" who won't vote for a Democrat or Republican. One cannot assume a vote for Haugh would have gone to Tillis if Haugh weren't running, he said.

In Louisiana, a non-establishment conservative candidate is leading the accusation that Sen. Mary Landrieu, a three-term Democrat, doesn't legally live in the state and has "gone Washington." Rob Maness is a Republican, but he's a tea party-backed alternative to the GOP establishment's favorite, Rep. Bill Cassidy. Maness is doing the heavy lifting on the residency question, letting Cassidy keep his hands relatively clean.

In Louisiana's all-comers election process, Landrieu, Cassidy, Maness and others will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot. If no one exceeds 50 percent, the top two finishers will enter a runoff.

In at least a few cases, third-party candidates have played significant roles. In Montana's 2012 Senate race, Sen. Jon Tester faced a tough challenge from Republican Denny Rehberg. National Democrats mailed flyers supporting Libertarian candidate Dan Cox in a bid to steer conservatives away from Rehberg. Cox won 7 percent of the vote, to Rehberg's 45 percent and Tester's 49 percent.
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Senate races that might be affected by third-party candidates this year include:

KENTUCKY

Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes will need help to beat GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell in this Republican-leaning state, and she hopes a tiny slice might come from Harrodsburg police officer David Patterson.

Patterson, the Libertarian nominee, might appeal to some Kentucky conservatives who resent the way McConnell steamrolled tea party champion Matt Bevin in the Republican primary. Patterson told Kentuckians his goal "is to maximize individual liberty by curbing government interference into your personal daily life."

ALASKA

First-term Democratic Sen. Mark Begich faces a challenge from Republican Dan Sullivan, a former state attorney general. Obama lost Alaska badly in 2008 and 2012, and Begich will welcome any votes that third-party candidates can take from Sullivan.

Help conceivably could come from Libertarian candidate Mark Fish. Like many third-party candidates, however, Fish has a dubious record. In 2012 he left Alaska's Human Rights Commission when it was learned he wrote a poorly spelled blog that said "radical" feminists wanted to "eliminate men from the face of the earth."

Sullivan got a big break when Joe Miller, Alaska's 2010 Republican Senate nominee, agreed not to run as a third-party candidate this year.

GEORGIA

Democrat Michelle Nunn and Republican David Perdue want the seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Nunn hopes Libertarian nominee Amada Swafford will pull some votes from Perdue.

Swafford, a paralegal, supports the "fair tax," which would replace all federal income taxes, including those earmarked for Social Security and Medicare, with a broad sales tax.
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« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2014, 01:33:09 pm »

http://news.yahoo.com/kansas-judges-why-democrat-kept-ballot-163846161--election.html
Kansas judges question why Democrat kept on ballot
9/16/14

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Several Kansas Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism Tuesday of a Republican official's decision to keep the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate on the ballot against his wishes as they reviewed a legal dispute that could affect the national fight for control of the Senate.

The court focused on whether a formal letter from Democrat Chad Taylor to withdraw from the race was enough to require Secretary of State Kris Kobach to remove Taylor's name from the Nov. 4 ballot. Some Democrats nudged Taylor out of the race because they see independent candidate Greg Orman as the stronger rival to three-term Republican incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts.

"The letter is what it is," Justice Dan Biles said from the bench. "If, as a matter of law, the letter complies with the statute, he (Kobach) has no discretion."

The Democrat's withdrawal thrust the Senate race into the national spotlight. Republicans hope to recapture a Senate majority, and they've always counted on Roberts winning re-election in his GOP-leaning state. Some Democrats believe an Orman victory could deny the GOP a majority in a close national election.

Kobach, who is strongly supporting Roberts, ruled that Taylor's name had to remain on the ballot because the candidate didn't meet the requirements of state law in withdrawing. Keeping Taylor's name on the ballot could split the anti-Roberts vote and allow the incumbent to win.

A state election law says nominees' names can be removed from the ballot if they die or declare they're incapable of fulfilling the duties of office. Taylor's letter said he wanted to withdraw "pursuant to" the law, but has not given a specific reason why he can't serve — and refused to comment Tuesday.

Taylor petitioned the court to overturn Kobach's decision. The court heard arguments Tuesday and is expected to rule quickly, because county officials must begin mailing ballots Saturday to overseas military personnel.

Kobach argues that even if he's forced to remove Taylor's name from the ballot, Democrats are obligated under state law to find another nominee. The court did not address that issue during the arguments.

Pedro Irigonegaray, a Topeka attorney representing Taylor, said citing the law was enough to declare that someone is unable to serve. Eddie Greim, a Kansas City, Missouri attorney representing Kobach, argued that the candidate at least has to say specifically in writing that he or she is incapable of serving.

But Justice Carol Beier asked why citing the law wasn't the same as declaring an inability to serve.

"Is there any other acceptable reason under the statute?" she said.

Both Taylor and Kobach were present in the courtroom Tuesday as the case was argued.

Four justices — a majority for the seven member court — were appointed by former Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, including Beier and Biles. Two others were appointed by Sebelius' predecessor, former moderate GOP Gov. Bill Graves. The seventh spot is open because conservative Gov. Sam Brownback's first appointee won't be sworn in until December, and a retired district judge is sitting with the court.
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http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2014/09/18/loser-to-sen-thad-cochran-files-appeal-arguments
9/18/14
Defeated by incumbent Thad Cochran, candidate seeking to revive Miss. Senate primary challenge

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A defeated Senate candidate in Mississippi is arguing that a state court judge was wrong to dismiss his lawsuit that sought to overturn his Republican primary loss to incumbent Thad Cochran.

Attorneys for the tea party-backed candidate, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, filed legal arguments with the Mississippi Supreme Court late Thursday, hours before a midnight deadline.

The arguments mirror what McDaniel's attorneys had said before Judge Hollis McGehee dismissed McDaniel's lawsuit last month — that current state law does not specify a deadline for a candidate to challenge a primary loss.

McGehee had agreed with Cochran's attorneys in saying a Mississippi Supreme Court ruling in a 1959 election dispute set a timeline for trying to overturn a primary loss, and that McDaniel waited too long to challenge results of the June 24 Republican primary runoff.

McDaniel attorney Mitch Tyner wrote in his brief Thursday that the 1959 Supreme Court ruling became irrelevant when the state Legislature rewrote election laws in 1986.

McDaniel is asking justices to reverse McGehee's decision and order the judge to hold a full trial on the lawsuit. The suit had asked McGehee to declare McDaniel the GOP primary winner, based on McDaniel's contention that Cochran improperly courted voters who usually support Democrats.

Cochran's attorneys must file legal briefs to the state Supreme Court by Sept. 24, and the two sides make oral arguments to the state Supreme Court on Oct. 3.

Mississippi election officials already have prepared a Nov. 4 general election ballot that lists Cochran as the Republican nominee, former U.S. Rep. Travis Childers as the Democratic nominee and Shawn O'Hara as the Reform Party candidate.

State law says the ballot must be given to counties by Sept. 10, which was 55 days before the general election. Absentee ballots must be ready weeks in advance to send to overseas military voters.

No judge has ordered a do-over of a statewide election in Mississippi. If the Supreme Court overturns Judge Hollis McGehee's ruling and sends McDaniel's lawsuit to trial, McDaniel would have to prove that the election was so sloppily run that its outcome could not be known. McDaniel's lawsuit asked the judge to declare him the winner of the Republican nomination or to order a new runoff.

Mississippi law says a new primary could be ordered even after someone wins the general election. If that were to happen, a new general election also would have to be held.

McDaniel received significant financial support from out-of-state groups trying to unseat longtime Republican senators they consider insufficiently conservative. McDaniel led a three-person Republican primary on June 3. Turnout jumped significantly when Cochran won the runoff three weeks later, including in predominantly African-American precincts where Cochran fared well.

Certified results show Cochran won by 7,667 votes.

McDaniel called the runoff a "sham." His lawsuit said Mississippi GOP officials violated the rights of Republicans by allowing people to vote who didn't intend to support the party's nominee.

Cochran campaign spokesman Jordan Russell has called McDaniel's lawsuit "baseless."
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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/court-clears-way-two-man-race-kansas
 Court clears way for two-man race in Kansas
09/19/14 08:00 AM—Updated 09/19/14 08:33 AM

In Kansas’ amazing U.S. Senate race, the stage was set for the Kansas Supreme Court to have the final say. Chad Taylor (D) terminated his campaign weeks ago and wants off the ballot; brazenly partisan Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) hopes to boost incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts (R) by forcing Taylor to stay on the ballot.
 
As expected, the state court ruled late yesterday in Taylor’s favor.

    The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Democratic Senate candidate’s name be removed from the ballot ahead of November’s election. […]
     
    Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach … ruled that Taylor couldn’t withdraw his name from the ballot, citing a state law that requires candidates to be “incapable” of serving if they wish to withdraw from a race. The court settled the matter Thursday.
     
    “[Kobach] shall not include Taylor’s name on any ballots for the office of United States Senate for the general election on November 4, 2014,” Judge Michael J. Malone wrote to conclude his ruling.

The entirety of the ruling, which featured no dissent, is online here (pdf).  There is no additional appeal.
 
The panic within GOP circles is understandable. Polls show Roberts, an unpopular, longtime incumbent, with a vastly better chance of success if his opposition is divided between Taylor and Independent Greg Orman. With Taylor out, Orman is fairly well positioned to win the seat.
 
But the story isn’t done just yet. Secretary of State Kobach, who said the matter had to be resolved by last night in order to prepare state ballots, magically discovered* late yesterday that he could extend the deadline another eight days. To what end? As the Republican official sees it, Kansas Democrats can now be required to choose a replacement candidate to take Taylor’s slot on the ballot.
 
Kobach really isn’t making much of an effort to conceal his partisan agenda here. That said, this latest maneuver probably won’t work, either.
 
The simple fact remains that the Kansas Secretary of State can’t simply order a political party to hold some kind of nominating convention – within eight days – and choose a candidate against the party’s will. It’s not clear how Kobach convinced himself he has that kind of authority.
 
For that matter, Kobach probably needs to explain why he swore up and down, in court documents and in public, that ballots had to be finalized by Sept. 18, only to discover after he lost his case that he can postpone the deadline until Sept. 27.

 
In case it’s not obvious, the significance of this fight in Kansas may very well dictate which party controls the Senate in 2015 and 2016. Orman has not said which party he’d caucus with if elected, but in a narrowly divided chamber, the Kansas Independent may be in the enviable position of choosing the next Majority Leader.
 
And given the way Republicans are eagerly trying to destroy him, it might be tough for GOP officials to tell Orman in November, “Never mind all that stuff we said; come join our team.”
 
Election-law expert Rick Hasen wrote a helpful piece on this last night, and if you missed it, Rachel’s segment is well worth watching.
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