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January 30, 2005
Iraq 10……Washington 0………..
Did Jihad-Jim McDermott bring back more than memories from his visit to Baghdad?
Saddam had a 100 % turnout in his ‘election’…maybe he passed on some pointers to Jim over tea. And Jim passed them on to the Democratic Party.
Who was it that said “vote or die”?
King County did even better than that......they had almost 101% turnout..... okay…maybe a slight exaggeration…but you get the point.
In king county there are more votes than voters. My personal favorites are the four dead voters whose signatures matched. Do you suppose they got their absentee ballots at the dead letter office?????
I wonder if Saddam had the dead voting too……..
During the early days of the ‘fiasco’, I called King County elections office and had the pleasure [okay, totally kidding about the pleasure part] of talking to Dean Logan. Who pointed out right away how busy and important he was. Okay….fair enough about the busy part. At that time they still hadn’t manufactured, oh, excuse me….’found’ all of the new ballots that they were going to. Dean was more than happy to tell me that he had too much to do, and…are you ready for this? He was having trouble with the election because King County was the third largest metropolitan area in the whole United States. OH PLEASE……
I immediately became one of his least favorite people by saying “Boston, New York and Los Angeles ring any bells for you?”
There was suddenly dead silence on his end of the phone line…… though I am pretty sure that I could faintly hear wheels turning.
So I asked him “What about Pierce County?” he laughed rather nastily and said well…there are only 200,000 people in Pierce…of course it’s easy to count there.
200,000???????
Go ahead everyone…I dare you to Google Dean’s name. This guy has been everywhere…you would think that they couldn’t find anyone else to work in this state.
When I called Pierce County to quote Dean….the man I talked to was shocked to say the least.
Ticked is probably more accurate…and of course he cleared up the numbers issue right away. It seems in Pierce County they can actually count…who knew? Certainly not Dean…….
I also talked to Bill Huennekins…..who immediately told me that he wasn’t sleeping well [gee…I wonder why?] and hadn’t had enough coffee that day. Being the helpful person that I am, I directed him to the nearest Starbucks.
He was not amused. It took him about 2 minutes to go from whiney to shrill. This is what this guy gets paid 80,000 dollars + a year for?
And yes, even though I am a smart ass here…I am very polite to all these little dictators on the phone. Oops…did I say dictators? Well, if the tasseled loafers fit….
So what’s going on in King County?
And just why do they keep recycling the Dean Logans of this state, when they have proven they are not up to the job?
Maybe because in the eyes of the Democratic Party they ARE up to the job…..just not the job the rest of us think our tax dollars should be paying for.
So now, here we are….with a hopelessly flawed election.
When Sam Reed and Dean Logan admitted to Robert Mak that they really didn’t know who actually won the election and probably never would….that was a classic moment in television.
I think it’s called a smoking gun….but maybe that’s just me.
Can anyone say fraud?
After all they have been warned several times by the Secretary of State’s office ….yet very little has been changed. It can only make us all wonder………..
After this weekend’s spectacular success in Iraq in the elections, maybe we should send Jihad Jim back there again. Maybe he will learn something really valuable this time for king county’s benefit.
Like how to hold an election where the votes really count.
Posted by ChristmasGhost at January 30, 2005 10:12 PM
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Comments
Your comments even though tongue and cheek at times are probably closer to the truth than we think. 101% maybe a joke this time what about next time if this continues.
Posted by: Bob6997 at January 31, 2005 10:00 AM
Right on! They were dancing in the streets in Iraq! But we get apathy! "It's too 'hard' to go to the poling place. Just mail several ballots to my storage unit. I don't want to have a new election. My votes already counted."
Posted by: conservativeclown at January 31, 2005 08:59 AM
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