Voting: Suckage for Gen Y

[gwilks98]

ipmiller on the homepage was talking about how we will have more say when the baby boomers start buying the farm, but what he didn't say was that when they do go to hell (and they will ;-D), the millenium generation will start voting, and they outnumber Gen X and Gen Y combined. You give me a topic, and I'll find the pessimistic side of anything.

Also, one of Missouri's candidates for Senator, Governor Mel Carnahan, was killed in a plane crash about 10 miles from my house. So what are they going to do? Leave him on the ballat, and should he win (which is what the polls are suggesting) his wife will take his place in the senate for a year.

I don't think they have a right to do this. It's even against the (17th?) ammendment. But no one will challenge it for fear of losing the women voters. I think this PC world we live in has just gone way too far....


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[Grimm]

The only way his wife can take the seat is if her dead husband wins AND the Governor appoints her to the seat. The Democrats are trying to win the seat so they won’t say that she can’t have the seat until after the election, unless they feel she will vote party line then there is no reason not to appoint her.
It’s a great way to get the seat, a sympathy vote for the widow.

But it is legal.

[gwilks98]

Well, the current governor has already stated that he's going to appoint Carnahan's wife, and the 17th amendment states that

"when vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: provided that the legislature may empower the executive to make temporary appointment until the people fill the vacancies by election..."


Now since Mel died before he was elected to the Senate, I don't think he qualifies as a representative. Now, who in God's name interpreted the constitution to allow a dead man to run for office? One should be shot for making such politically motivated, if not assinine, assumption. I think next term I'm going to let my shoe campaign for mayor.

Now, for some strange reason, not only have they made him a political martyr, but they've empowered his wife to take political office for her husband. If my father died, do you think my mom would be qualified to take over his job? This is rediculous and unethical.

I think we'd be safer voting for articles of my wardrobe before letting a dead man run for senator...

The democrats are hardly acting ethical in this state. They also demanded that voting stations be kept open until 10 o'clock tonight, stating that it wasn't convenient or secret (constitutional qualifications) and a state judge granted them a longer voting period. Here's the catch:

1. The judge that approved it was not only highly democratic (appointed by a democrat too) but he clearly went against a federal ruling when other states tried to keep the polls open extra hours for the same reason.

2. The democrats wanted ONLY certain voting booths open: and by demographics, these stations were all in highly democratic portions of the city.

3. The judge used to be a democratic campaign manager...this whole thing reeks of scandal...


For those of you who don't remember, the democrats pulled this crap once before, in the election of 1972 I believe, where Republican Kit Bond clearly won, they demanded longer voting hours.


The whole damned thing sounds fishy to me. I'm by no means a republican, but I've never seen a group of adults act so selfish...

I hate voting...

[Edited by gwilks98 on 11-07-2000 at 11:12 PM]

[sbp]

It appears the dead man lost.

Looks like the democrats are up to their old tricks of stuffing the ballad box. :hmm:

[gwilks98]

Actually, those weren't the final results you were watching. Dead man mel is no longer behind, and I believe they still have to count the results of St. Louis city....



Wilks's shoe for 2004!

[sbp]

Ashcroft must be pretty sad knowing Dead man mel beat him. So whats next for the dead man? Dead man mel for President? Weekends at Bernies at the White House anyone? :heh:

[gwilks98]

Oo! Oo! can my shoe be dead man walking's running mate?
It's got more personality than Lieberman, and it smells better than Cheney. (I'll bet it can cover up a defense contract scandal better too)

[sbp]

Originally posted by gwilks98
Oo! Oo! can my shoe be dead man walking's running mate?
It's got more personality than Lieberman, and it smells better than Cheney. (I'll bet it can cover up a defense contract scandal better too) Yes your shoe can be the dead mans walking running mate. It'll be a shoe-in for sure. :laugh:

[gwilks98]

And the award for "World"s Worst Pun" goes to.....