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frankenfreak posted:What bothers me about this that the recorded expenses don't seem to be doing much to get his name out. This seems like an election where people go "Oh, I heard this name before!" when in the voting booth. (We don't know what exactly that consultant did, though.) I'd guess turnout is so ridiculously low that getting your name out to like, a few people would be enough to swing it
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Is this how it feels to put on a pair of They Live sunglasses?
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forkboy84 posted:I have greatly enjoyed this thread but to my broken commie European brain this seems like an office that shouldn't be elected but instead manned by civil servants. hella  what the hell California?
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:I'm not seeing their positions on nuclear wessels. Hey I found a potential source of the 41 Op may be in too deep with this thread, too soon to tell though
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I feel honored that i get to vote against someone entirely based on c-spam research.
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marmot25 posted:I feel honored that i get to vote against someone entirely based on c-spam research. im jealous, i wish i lived in alameda so i could vote against this guy
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Cubone posted:largest contribution? $5,000 from a guy called Grant Mulligan, owner of ParcelQuest. what's ParcelQuest? ParcelQuest is a middleman company that collates, organizes, and resells data from the county assessors offices... which is kind of hosed up! Jim Johnson's getting my side-eye now. surely that's one of the only people who could possibly have a vested financial interest in being in the good graces of the county assessor, right? and he's just lining this motherfucker's pockets. would just about figure, wouldn't it? I do like the implication here that both candidates are actually corrupt, it's just that this guy's independent mom-and-pop small-time corruption is being priced out of the corruption market by Mr. 41 Warchest. the workings of modern democracy in a nutshell, I guess
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UrbicaMortis posted:It's funny because I assume the intention of making so many civil positions electable was to make as democratic and accountable a society as possible, but because there's so much money in us politics, it's just made even tiny positions corrupt. Yeah the idea that you get to vote on who enforces the laws in your town and who does the taxes seems like a noble, democratic idea; it might have worked in towns of like 200 people who all have about the same means. In an environment suffused with untraceable money and just being one of about a million people in a county means there's even less accountability in an elected position than one appointed through a civil service framework. It's funny, we talk about america being this Grand Experiment but we're pretty bad at actually adjusting things when we experiment and realize they're all hosed up
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Grondoth posted:It's funny, we talk about america being this Grand Experiment but we're pretty bad at actually adjusting things when we experiment and realize they're all hosed up
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america is in perpetual beta and the grognards won't let us patch the game-breaking capitalism, racism and patriarchy bugs
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Thank you OP. I couldn't find poo poo for information on these two but now I'm voting for Jim Johnson.
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Angepain posted:
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I ran this by my parents my mom agreed that it's weird, complimented me for being thorough, and complained about how confusing the ballot is this year my dad "guaranteed" that "it's the masons" thanks, mom & dad twoday posted:In Mexico "cuarenta y uno" (41) is slang referring to a homosexual. This is due to the 1901 arrest of 41 homosexuals at a hotel in Mexico City during the government of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911). anime was right posted:The .41 might be a sign of a bundler $41 on top of a $100 donation seems like a strange balance iSimian posted:Also, does not the county assessor have the power to assess public property to a low, low price thus letting groups or individuals buy these low priced public properties for easy flipping? officially, they don't set the rules by which property is appraised, but it doesn't really seem like there are a lot of checks in place to make sure everything's above-board in actually following those rules e.g. one of the corruption examples I linked to in passing was the assessor for L.A. County lowering property values in exchange for bribes: quote:Prosecutors allege that Noguez took $185,000 in bribes from a tax consultant and, in exchange, his office would reduce property valuations for the tax agent's clients. general statement of agreement with the eurogoons saying that this position should be decided via sortition it seems like the assumption is that, since it's an elected position, if they were corrupt or did a bad job, they wouldn't be elected again, but I don't think anybody actually believes that Nikita Khrushchev posted:haha wow. if you need any help figuring out where to send this stuff, i know a lot of media people who would love to follow up on this kind of thing. (i promise i'm not phong la) I don't know enough to know for sure how much is actually here and you guys are making it sound dangerous but I'll do it 'cause I'm not a bitchhhh uh but the East Bay Times is on Phong's endorsements list, and the SF Chronicle... I know nothing to their discredit, per se, but during my research on the rest of the ballot I remember noticing that their ballot recommendations pretty much matched the democratic party line across the board, even where progressives tended to break away, which is not my favorite impression when Ted Lieu is on the mysterious donor list who can be trusted if it goes all the way up to Ted Lieu???  watch me end up going to loving infowars lol Feranon posted:4 plus 1 equals 5  w/r/t the firefighters, I got a PM, which I assume the sender sent privately in order to remain anonymous, but the gist was that the firefighter's union is extremely strong and a huge influencer in, and beneficiary of, california's democratic party can neither confirm nor deny at this time the sender expressed surprise that I didn't know this, which... to be clear, it's weird for me to be the guy on this, because I'm not normally a conspiracy guy, like at all. I'm wayyy more scully than mulder. I try to be a critical observer, but I don't see the problems of the world in terms of, like, secret strings being pulled, I just see weak people of low moral fiber taking advantage of broken systems and mass apathy, in an asylum that nobody's really running. that there would be connections between a public service labor union and a major political party is sketchy, but not what would ordinarily be, to me, a meaningful data point worth investigating, so much as yet more evidence of an inevitable emergent tendency arising from tribes of people acting for their own best interests within a system that allows unchecked entanglement of democracy and capital all of which is just to say, I'm only here because I happened to notice it, in the course of trying to be a responsible voter. the sheer volume of the donations was just so unusual, and the 41 poo poo gave it wings. I mean, how can anyone's mind not go to a weird place when they see that? one of the 41 donors is a judge ffs
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I bet you could get this posted on Berkeleyside.
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Phong La is 41 years old too. Maybe he had a super awesome speech somewhere that ended with "I want all of you to donate whatever you can + my age in dollars"
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There was one organization that decided to funnel a lot of money into the campaign. Since contribution amounts are limited, part of the calculation as how to split a large sum between all these groups. They just divided it evenly and the result was 41 or 141. Then all the donors orgs had other donations thrown in, from another source, or following another algorithm that rounded off to 100 Bing, bong. So simple!
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tbh i hated the second guy as soon as he said he was a small business owner
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this thread is amazing. holy poo poo good job cubone
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you convinced me, it's definitely those perfidious Masons
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Is it too late to stand in opposition? Release all this weirdness and coast to a cushy job where everyone hates you but also bribes you?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Is it too late to stand in opposition? Release all this weirdness and coast to a cushy job where everyone hates you but also bribes you? Gotta get those sweet, sweet Fire Men endorsements tho
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The virgin incumbent vs the Chad real estate assessor.
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cubone how can your mom compliment you on anything when shes dead?  haw haw ur moms DEAD
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 at this entire thread, what a place to find a criminal and/or Masonic conspiracy
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I can’t be arsed to look this up, but can’t fundraised money be rolled over into a future race? could this just be a ploy for name ID and then using funds in the future for the intended office? I dunno what 41 means though.
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You gotta go to somebody in the press though, even if there's a mundane reason for the 41 thing the amount of the donations should raise some eyebrows
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per fppc rules: http://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/NS-Documents/TAD/Campaign%20Documents/Campaign%20FAQs.pdf  so maybe he’s tryna pivot these funds into a future campaign and just wants to keep his name id fresh. re: 41, 9 is a lucky number, maybe the round number (i.e. $250) is donated in his name but $9 are given to some good luck charity prior to ending in the campaign. I am grasping at straws here.
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Pictured: Hit squad soon to be coming after the OP
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Does 41 sound similar to something relevant in Vietnamese, maybe?
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Ripoff posted:Pictured: Hit squad soon to be coming after the OP can come after me anytime
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animist posted:can come after me anytime well they ain't making you come first that's for sure
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The 41 is clearly a warning to anyone stupid enough to get “in too deep” into La’s business. This is gonna happen, except it’ll be Cubone and the Bay Bridge: https://youtube.com/watch?v=emGri7i8Y2Y&t=01m37s The Atomic Man-Boy has issued a correction as of 14:32 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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Is it possible that the 41 is the result of a credit card processor or ActBlue or something taking a flat fee
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Nikita Khrushchev posted:Is it possible that the 41 is the result of a credit card processor or ActBlue or something taking a flat fee From ActBlue FAQ: "There is a 3.95% processing fee associated with your account, which covers the cost of getting contribution from the donor's credit card to your campaign." If it was a fee of sorts, wouldn't that mean that ALL the other donations of straight round numbers mean that those donor would've actually donated $1.009 etc. etc. Unless those people all donated with cheques or something. So maybe the answer is that all the people that donated with credit card in increments of $50 ended up being the weird $41's. Edit: No wait, that wouldn't work either. I'm being stupid. Ignore that. I'm going with a tax based Eyes Wide Shut sex cult. Fidelio Arizona. iSimian has issued a correction as of 16:47 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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So, y'all anonymously tipped local newspapers about this yet?
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What do all the 41 donations sum to?
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Forty-one can be spoonerised to "warty fun" which is clearly a reference to either toad-licking or venereal disease.
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