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I just looked at her tweets and she's like dalereed if he'd been born a woman and loved horses instead of drag racing. 6,300+ tweets all in glorious caps raging about everything but horses 
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Ofaloaf posted:Welp, the deadline's come and gone and no one else has filed. Guess I got a job come November. zoux posted:Also, keep a book where you make a mark everytime someone blames Obama for something that clearly isn't his fault. If your town hasn't yet officially passed an ordinance regarding Agenda 21, expect to do so.
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:Please do a thread documenting your trials and tribulations.
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Here, mos' def. it would be a good frame for general local politics process discussion, I know I for one could brush up on my local procedure chops.
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zoux posted:Also, keep a book where you make a mark everytime someone blames Obama for something that clearly isn't his fault. 
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Ofaloaf posted:Welp, the deadline's come and gone and no one else has filed. Guess I got a job come November. Congratulations! My first recommendation is you get yourself a copy of Roberts Rules of Order and start brushing up as most townships use that as the procedural rule set. I would also be interested in reading your thread, but strongly caution you to go above and beyond to anonymize anything that happens. You don't want someone coming across it, realize you are talking about them, and making your job hell over it. Good luck!
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Thank you. This thread really needed more Zazz. 
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Joementum posted:There's some new public art touring New York City.   zoux posted:Here, mos' def. it would be a good frame for general local politics process discussion, I know I for one could brush up on my local procedure chops. Yeah, small time politics can be every bit as interesting as the big stuff if only for all the weirdness that get's mellowed out the higher in office people seem to get.
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Justus posted:loving really? Reagon's head photoshopped on Mr. Clean's body? A conservative "artist".
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3627572 Hey everyone. There's currently a contest in D&D for switching Obama and Putin in photos. I told Garbage Day that D&D is bound to have great images to work with.
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Ofaloaf posted:Welp, the deadline's come and gone and no one else has filed. Guess I got a job come November.
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Ofaloaf posted:Spoke too soon! County clerk took a little longer than expected-- there's two Republicans who've filed for the Aug. 5th primary, and I'm squaring off against one of 'em in November. Funnily enough, one of the republicans is the township clerk I filed my paperwork with. Go negative early and often.
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Ofaloaf posted:Spoke too soon! County clerk took a little longer than expected-- there's two Republicans who've filed for the Aug. 5th primary, and I'm squaring off against one of 'em in November. Funnily enough, one of the republicans is the township clerk I filed my paperwork with. "A filthy Obama DEMONRAT controlling OUR township! Not on my watch!"
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Dystram posted:"A filthy Obama DEMONRAT controlling OUR township! Not on my watch!" If he's facing a Republican in the primary.....
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zoux posted:If he's facing a Republican in the primary..... Won't he be running against whichever Republican wins their primary?
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Ofaloaf posted:Nonono, there's two republicans, and they're squaring off against each other in the Aug. 5 primary. I'm in the Aug. 5 primary as a Dem, but being I'm the only Democratic candidate that vote won't be much of an issue. Unleash hell...
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Ofaloaf posted:Nonono, there's two republicans, and they're squaring off against each other in the Aug. 5 primary. I'm in the Aug. 5 primary as a Dem, but being I'm the only Democratic candidate that vote won't be much of an issue.
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Nessus posted:How liberal is your local area? Are you going to have to actually campaign? One of the township board members and I talked a few days ago, and he figured that if actual campaigning were to be had, it'd probably cost somewhere near $1k all told. Mostly there'll be some mailings and lawn signs, and the rest of it will be up to me to actually get out there and talk with people.
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The-Mole posted:Hahahaha lawn signs. Getting my name out there is also pretty key. I'm not well-known (although I still certainly know some key folks), and my parents endowed me with a hyphenated surname comprised of two Slavic family names, so that makes it a little trickier.
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Ofaloaf posted:It's at the periphery of a nearby college town's pull, so it's got a mix of stodgy conservatives and well-educated liberals, both sorts tending to be middle class. There's some subdivisions, but they're older, more-varied sorts, so I dunno how that'll work out. See if you can't network with the local college (student union or something like that) to get a solid ground game canvasing thing going. That's probably the best bet both to raise your electability chances and get the most return on your campaign budget.
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Three words for you: unpaid poli-sci interns.
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Justus posted:loving really? Reagon's head photoshopped on Mr. Clean's body? Reagan as a skinhead? Yeah, sounds about right.
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The-Mole posted:Hahahaha lawn signs. I'm fairly certain that I'm responsible for the only time a lawn sign has ever actually been of any use for a candidate: I was out for a walk, saw a lawn sign as I was almost home, and went "oh poo poo, the mayoral primaries are today, and there was that one guy I wanted to vote for". Of course, not only did said guy come in last, but the lawn sign was for a different candidate.
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quote:A flier has recently been going around Fairview Township, Pa. Any thoughts on why the KKK seems to feel so comfortable coming out of the shadows recently?
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beatlegs posted:Any thoughts on why the KKK seems to feel so comfortable coming out of the shadows recently? Have you seen the republican party lately? I can't imagine what about a nativist xenophobic organization which derives its power from focusing on the influence of a specific racial group would appeal to the KKK.
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Superman needs to reshame the Klan back into the margins of history.
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beatlegs posted:Any thoughts on why the KKK seems to feel so comfortable coming out of the shadows recently? That Anacona guy has been trying to change the image of his chapter to attract new recruits. He even came out in opposition of the recent Kansas City shooter and got interviewed for a terrible CNN piece asking whether the KKK can "rebrand". Spoiler: no, they cannot, they're the loving KKK.
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Also tonight in American politics: the Republican primary to replace Trey Radel, the self-described "hip hop conservative" who said his favorite vacation destination was Cartagena, Colombia and resigned after being (shockingly) busted for cocaine, has ended with a Rand Paul endorsed businessman beating the Palin and Jeb Bush endorsed State Senator in Florida's 19th Congressional District. The district is R+11, so congratulations Congressman Curt Clawson.
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beatlegs posted:Any thoughts on why the KKK seems to feel so comfortable coming out of the shadows recently? Being seen as progressive and relativity of awfulness is a hell of a thing.
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And now for another exciting development in the Clive Bundy quote:"I've lived my lifetime here. My forefathers have been up and down the Virgin Valley here ever since 1877. All these rights that I claim, have been created through pre-emptive rights and beneficial use of the forage and the water and the access and range improvements," Bundy said. So to recap: -He doesn't have ancestral rights, only rights dating back to '48 -the water rights are only for the ranch, not the land he's actually using right now -His family doesn't even date back to before 1900 in Nevada at all -Others actually have a more legitimate claim to the land he's called dibs on So would you look at that. Another vapid, hate filled non-issue taken up by right wingers that turns to ash once looked at.
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Crain posted:And now for another exciting development in the Clive Bundy Are these facts? Then we already know how much they'll affect the debate.
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Should be interesting to see what questions the US mission to Burma collects on its Facebook post soliciting questions for Obama on his trip to Southeast Asia this week. So far, a great question about claims in the South China Sea from (I believe) a Burmese student in Thailand. (paging ReindeerF basically)
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Joementum posted:That Anacona guy has been trying to change the image of his chapter to attract new recruits. He even came out in opposition of the recent Kansas City shooter and got interviewed for a terrible CNN piece asking whether the KKK can "rebrand". Spoiler: no, they cannot, they're the loving KKK. Spoiler: they already did a few decades ago. The guys who call themselves the klan today just didn't get the memo.
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SedanChair posted:Are these facts? Then we already know how much they'll affect the debate. I didn't realize that the truthfulness of those statements would actually matter to the people who support Bundy. (Either way they are "lies of the liberal media.")
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comes along bort posted:Spoiler: they already did a few decades ago. The guys who call themselves the klan today just didn't get the memo. Yeah I believe they're going by "Stormfront" now http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/18/hate-crime-murders-website-stormfront-report
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Joementum posted:That Anacona guy has been trying to change the image of his chapter to attract new recruits. He even came out in opposition of the recent Kansas City shooter and got interviewed for a terrible CNN piece asking whether the KKK can "rebrand". Spoiler: no, they cannot, they're the loving KKK. The Klan has rebranded several times in its history. So have similar groups. The Klan is looking to shuck the image of domestic terrorists who are, as the Preacher comic put it, the worst examples of the white race who quote Bull Connors with a southern accent, and instead be more like Youth for Western Civilization of the Council of Conservative Citizens. Those guys show up in suits and quote Charles Murray about "human biodiversity" and pontificate about "cultural inferiority" and the pathology of "black" culture and then get opeds praising their "civil focus" and "voice of the middle class" from GOP politicians and have their points quoted by those same politicians.
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Pope Guilty posted:The Republicans have been completely, even excessively clear about their complete unwillingness to do anything but wreck up the joint as long as Obama's the President, and the apparent difficulty Obama's had in understanding that has honestly been kind of shocking. I spent the first four years of his Presidency trying to figure out how anybody could be that dumb. He's got better, but it's still a process of improvement.
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