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spooked Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 10:46 AM
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Republican in Washington State has a great idea for Ohio


The Vote was much closer than the Presidential certification.
80-65! I'd love to have heard the debate.

Also interesting to note that Washington Republicans demanding a Revote have also adopted the color Orange!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/207535_governor12.html

OLYMPIA -- Lawmakers certified Christine Gregoire as governor yesterday, with Democrats quashing continued objections from Republicans and the hopes of thousands of Dino Rossi supporters who staged a revote rebellion outside the Capitol building...

In an 80-65 vote, the Legislature certified the election, and Gregoire will be inaugurated today...

Revote chants rose floated on the cold air like the orange balloons over a crowd plastered with stickers declaring their dissatisfaction: "Dino Rossi is my governor."

Daryl Treadway of Roy wore a loud orange cap and luminescent orange coveralls as his way of saying "we have a corrupt election process in this state."

"The color orange is symbolic of revolution," said Treadway, 58. "King County's been running this state for years, and it's got to end."












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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 10:49 AM
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1. I always did think orange was a bit of a hick color....
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 10:50 AM
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2. WWTDS?
What Would Tom Delay Say?

Those people obviously need a stern lecture from Tom Delay:


"What we are witnessing here today is a shame. The issues at stake in this petition are gravely serious, but the specific charges — as any objective observer must acknowledge — are not. That is because the purpose of this petition is not justice, but noise."

"Many observers will discard today’s petition as a partisan waste of time, but it is much worse. It is an assault against the institutions of our representative democracy; it is a threat to the very ideals it ostensibly defends. No one is served by this petition, not in the long run. And in the short term, its only beneficiaries are its proponents themselves."

"The American people, and their ancestors who invented our miraculous system of government, deserve better."

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Sinistrous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 10:52 AM
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3. I think orange should be the official color of the Republican Party.
Orange, as in prison jump suits.
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kitkat65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 11:01 AM
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6. We've been talking about using orange for all election issues
We should all use it, reps and dems. We all want the same thing (fair open elections) right? Then how can they say what is not fair to them is fair to us?
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jsascj Donating Member (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 11:23 AM
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8. But that gives
Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 11:25 AM by jsascj
Orange Jumpsuits a bad name.

Actually, there's not a color that disserves association with them. So can we make them invisable?
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ccarter84 Donating Member (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 10:55 AM
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4. what color do we use then?
orange had Ukraine as a precedent...thats why i'd go with it...
do you think it will still work for us? it could be the new universal symbol of recount time?
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ohtransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 11:00 AM
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5. I'd support a re-vote
of any election where the margin of victory is smaller than the margin of error. If this was law, * would never have been President.
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Philly Buster Donating Member (133 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 12:03 PM
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9. That is pretty much the law in WA
Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 12:04 PM by Philly Buster
That's why the republicans have a case.

The margin of victory was 129 votes. Unaccounted for votes in King County alone is around 1800. Those are provisional votes accidentally run through the machine without being verified legitimate as well as having more votes than voters.



King County really screwed up. Gross incompetence for which there is no excuse.

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AmandaRuth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 11:20 AM
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7. I wonder if that girl is one of the
morons they bussed in from Montana.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 12:27 PM
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10. how ocme they got to say out loud orange is for
"The color orange is symbolic of revolution,"

an we never got to say it in ny, ohio or dc

ah that darn liberal media again
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