- Good morning, unemployed hobos. Here is your news: 14,000 votes just sort of “turned up” (just like they always do, when you need them the most) yesterday in Wisconsin, giving Koch-backed David Prosser a 7,000 vote lead over bolshie People’s candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg. (Kloppenburg said that she won the Supreme Court race on Wednesday, but she is mistaken.) Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus — a Republican activist and former president of “Republican Women of Waukesha County” — discovered the tabulation error, after she “inadvertently failed to properly import and save data into a Microsoft Access database.” If you think this sounds like possible vote tabulation fraud, think again! (Or save yourself the trouble and don’t think anything ever again!) Because Kathy Nickolaus is a diligent public servant who “keeps election results on her personal PC in her office, and only on her personal PC.” Sounds pretty legit. Anyway, hope you communists had fun “winning” for a day (isn’t that Barrack Obama’s new motto?). Hooray, more of the Invisible
HandKoch at work! [TPM/BradBlog] - Dead baby dolphins are still washing up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, but “scientists do not know why.” Really? Here’s a guess: The ocean is full of poison? [CNN]
- The gradual repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is going “better than expected,” according to important Army Men who apparently “expected” something horrific to happen — like all the soldiers and sailors just cold throwin’ away their guns and ammo and then having the most fabulous dance party, with sour apple flirtinis, etc. [LAT]
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first? yay.
With this important responsibility before me, i just want to say: Pawlenty.
(Homey don't play dat.)
Well, all the Rethugs were all screaming about "voter fraud" yesterday. What's that? Oh, nothing to see here. Democracy!
That is what was known as a "preemptive strike" in PR terms.
You miisunderstood– they were screaming FOR "voter fraud".
Kathy sooooo wants to be the next Kitty Harris. Maybe she'll get a financial windfall of some sort after this silly misunderstanding and can buy the new boobs, eyes, lipo and horse that shes been dreaming of.
"and can buy the new boobs, eyes, lipo and horse that shes been dreaming of."
I didn't know Ann Coulter was up for sale.
Oh, what the Republicans meant was that a black guy might have voted. This is WAY different.
“keeps election results on her personal PC in her office, and only on her personal PC.”
This is something I would expect to read from reports of the election results from some third-world shit hole. I guess this is how it goes.
A third world shit hole- Wisconsin- so it has become
'Zactly, DashBoard. James Fallows says 'Murica has achieved third world status over at the Atlantic.
Christ on a crutch, I've not wanted to punch anyone as hard today as that guy.
THAT is his evidence of US similarity to the third world? That he can't go look at the Pandas for a few days?
Thousands of towns in Real America would give him at least little tastes of his Third World America 365 days a year. I realize no one with any options WANTS to live there, and for a liberal it is especially galling. I don't know where this guy is from…maybe he has some experience with life outside of wealthy liberal enclaves, but it's clearly not on his mind anymore if he thinks this is a poignant example of how the US isn't as great as we all either think it is or wish we could. Maybe he should take a few months in Oklahoma or Arizona or someplace just to get some perspective.
Fallows nails it:
What's the mark of a Third World country? I've seen a lot of them, and to me the clearest trait is the squalor of the public realm.
The rich people in your standard dictatorship/kleptocracy of course do just fine. But anything that's public — schools, museums, roads, hospitals, legal system and courts, customs office and civil service — is either run down or corrupt. If you had to trade places with the top level of a "bad" country, you'd be OK. But if you had to rely on the public facilities, you'd be in trouble — as their people are.
Here in San Diego, we're closing libraries, schools and even goddamn fire stations to raise money for a $600 million gift in the form of a stadium for the owner of the local football franchise. Makes perfect sense.
But don't you see? The franchise owner already has his own library, private school (well, his name is on one of the buildings), and state-of-the art fire suppression systems in his house. Why bother keeping those crappier versions of his stuff around? So you can use them? Just who do you think you are?
what's wrong with Jack "Qualcomm" Murphy? they had a super bowl there when i still lived down the street. ugh. as if Petco wasn't enough of an eyesore. makes me rethink whether i'd want to move back home ever after all.
Not enough luxury boxes, thank you very much! The NFL teams split general seat revenue in some socialist fashion, but each owner gets to keep lux box revenue for his greedy self.
I hav been to waukesha County – "third-world shit hole" has it about right.
A whiter shade of pale, also.
Quick, list 10 differences between the US and third-world shitholes.
They don't pay any attention to Charlie Sheen. That's all I got.
Five dollar footlongs? That's all I got. Amerika, FUCK YEAH!
Sanitation?
Check D.C. after a week of no garbage service.
True, Somalia and Calcutta have better infrastructure than us.
I'd be inclined to think you're kidding, but I've lived in rural America.
See: Front yard, Boehner.
Nice try, but the Dead Rat meme put the lie to that one.
US: More Koch Bruddahs per capita.
US: More Hoverrounds® per capita.
US: More downfisting trolls per capita.
US: More empty calories from high fructose corn syrup.
US: More people consistently voting against their own self interests.
(fellow Wonketeers will insert remaining favorites)
More people in prison than any other nation! No qualifiers necessary: the absolute number is bigger, and the percentage of the population is bigger! USA! USA!
OBESITY! Yes, Memzy got it. How many third-world hellholes have so many fat people?
American Idol!!!! That's all I got.
Haha, nope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol_series
"AMERICAN" Commie bastad!!!!
Why are you doing that "Quick" thing? I need time to study this.
When we kill them, it's because we love their freedom!
Sarah Palin? Oh, wait.
I can't…too angry.
hoverounds?
olive garden.
Most third world shitholes have better healthcare?
Some of them at least. And more affordable, anyway.
Wee bomb the shit outta their holes when ever we want to
wee get to go shit in their holes when ever we want to
Wee spend more on bombs then all of them spend on everything combined
Wee make more movies with more explosions
Wee don't listen to their news
Wee aren't the least bit affected by who ever is in charge of them locally
Wee send ugly people to steal their shit when ever we want to
Wee tell them how stupid and poor and undemocratic they are
Wee believe they are different than us
Am I at ten yet? Wee don't have to learn to count to piss on them
The majority of America has indoor plumbing.
"Some third-world shit hole" — you mean like Florida? I was here in 2000 — still am — and it's just getting worse.
Amen. The state legislature is now voting to take away all hospital services to the poor and needy (Lakeland Ledger, April 8, 2011). It'll be wonderful with the sick, lame, and blind sitting on the curb watching the geckos and staring up at the palm trees. You bet we're a Third World country. Is there are Level Four?
Not in official terms, but I think there has to be one, since we're falling precipitously towards it or the even more magical numba five.
"Dead baby dolphins are still washing up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, but 'scientists do not know why.'"
Perhaps there's a lot of purple kool-aid in the ocean.
Today we are all a nation of hobos.
Pass the beans please.
Kitty Harris has a sister, obvsly.
Rosemary Woods for the trifecta.
Let's not forget Theresa LePore, the dubiously Democratic supervisor of elections in Palm Beach FL. There are so many handmaidens for the cause.
Yes, but this one has had a lot more bratwurst and potato pancakes and beer than Kitty ever dreamed of. Kitty at least had some bodacious implant loaded boobs and some facework. This one is repulsive in oh, so many ways.
The magic votes were the work of the Lord. The baby Jesus is smiling now.
And soon our entire military will be completely fabulous, which will stand them in good stead when their families are standing in lines waiting for moldy bread and hobo beans.
And when they open fire on their families when they ask for moldy bread and hobo beans when the rich folk decide they need to not only pay no taxes, but receive tax credits for merely existing. But don't fret folks, they'll be Jesus'ed up enough to put a round through their mothers by the time they get through basic.
Oh, yes! The prayers that all those people were posting over on Free Republic were answered. How could I have not seen right away that that was the explanation.
Duh! Winning!
So I guess I'm more concerned with accurately determining my Psyc 101 students' grades than Ms. Nickolaus is with state Supreme Court votes. Good to know.
Your students might be armed and dangerous. Democrats have proven they'll roll over on command.
did you ever "find" 7,000 A's for your favorite student? also, could you take over in Waukesha county? thx.
"Planned Parenthood is responsible for the dead baby dolphins" – Herman Cain
Dammit, beaten by seconds!
Ironically, zeroing out the EPA could actually be responsible for lots of dead mammals. But, meh, Al Gore is fat.
And Ricky Santorum says "One third of the baby dolphins that are in the ocean are not in the ocean."
This is understandable. It's hard to keep track of everything on your personal PC what with all the recipes, and pictures of the grandkids and minutes of the meetings of the local Nazi Party.
"This election brought to you by Diebold and Koch. 'WIN-NING!'"
No. No no no no no no! Wow. Why can't the lefties in Madison "find 20,0000, then. Oh, that's right, we're not crooks.
Yes, we totally are, look:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8456#comment-437127
Thanks. That's interesting. Will the Democrats roll over on this one? Maybe appeal to the Supreme Court . . .oh, right. How would that work, exactly? Let's ask the Kock brothers. They know how this will turn out.
Seriously, The Kochs need to be used as a household word in all political discussions or anything that can randomly be attached to them, just to repeat Kock justice sucks so many times it gets glued into morans', i.e. the average American voter, brains.
You guys are getting too hung up on this shit. The Democrats have taken us this far and they'll take us all the way.
Obama has got this. You watch, he'll step up and set this straight with a bipartisan compromise in which Prosser will be allowed to win the election, but only by 3,500 fraudulent votes.
Where is LBJ when we need him?
He knew how to come up with votes when they were needed.
He always waited for the other guy to declare a total, then he would go to work.
That's how it's done, baby.
We're not the ones counting the votes.
These are not the votes you are looking for.
Kathy Nickolaus' PC-keys should be taken away from her, because the future has to be won.
It just so happens, that "Invisible Koch" is a nickname all my imaginary ex-wives have given me.
I'm waiting for th GOP to blame the baby dolphin deaths on a Gulf of Mexico deep water Planned Parenthood clinic staffed by and used by dolphins exclusively. Magically, when US Planned Parenthood is defunded those baby dolphin deaths will cease.
I do think a few gay soldiers moonlight at the clinic. That must be noted.
Federally funded dolphin abortions.
The RepublCONS want nothing more than to nuke the gay unborn baby whales.
Is this the same Kathy Nickolaus that was in charge of elections in Iraq when Sadam was reelected with 99.9% of the vote?
Stevie Wonder saw this one coming….
Win!
Helen Keller, also too.
She was a communist, after all.
So the Republicans have decided they're just going to flat-out openly steal elections now and not even try to hide it. Nice.
It worked for Bush in 2000.
"Republicans have decided they're just going to KEEP flat-out openly stealING elections "
Posts may be edited for accuracy.
It's worked so well for them in the past. Florida 2000, Ohio 2004, South Carolina 2008 (Alvin Greene) and a host of other races. Maybe even Russ Feingold's race against snottwalker.
It's totally obvious why dead baby dolphins are washing up on the Gulf coast: DADT repeal is going well! It's God's way of punishing the homos for NOT throwing a fabulous dance party!
She has her last-minute, secret stash of "votes" (wink, wink) ready for the next election, also. Just in case.
And on to Ohio!
Speaking of which, I'd like all of you from Ohio to seek out your local union thug to get in the know about where and when you can sign the referendum petition.
This public service announcement brought to you by a private non-union employee who wishes she had a union to join.
Are any of the Wisconsin Wonketteers planning any kind of furious march on Madison or even that foul-sounding place where Kathy "The Cunt" Nickolaus is from?
I will lead a Million Oprah's Relatives March on Brookfield.
"Army Men who apparently 'expected' something horrific to happen "
Apparently you missed the bloodshed in Libya, multiple quakes in Japan, a looming government shutdown, and dead baby dolphins washing up on the gulf coast shores? I doubt Pat Robinson would consider these events a mere coincidence.
Today we're all a bloated baby dolphin carcass rotting in the sun.
When you say it like that it sounds kinda nice.
That's a good metaphor for our Republic generally, I'm infuriated to say.
You could totally turn that into some song lyrics…for REAL.
Not just today, I always feel that way.
That's one of my favorite Violent Femmes songs.
What were they expecting with the repeal of DADT? A change in military wardrobe?
There has been. This is the new uniform for the USMC
http://static.technorati.com/glosslip/2009/09/Lib…
That is certain to terrify the enemy in battle.
They were expecting a military shutdown, due to fabulousness. And probably they were expecting every single regiment to devolve into one giant buttslurping jell-o shot orgy. Funny thing though is it's usually only the closet cases who act in such a way…
And probably they were expecting every single regiment to devolve into one giant buttslurping jell-o shot orgy.
This is good news for Blackwater/Xe, obvs.
Have you seen the new Navy uniform?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/USN…
It's a short-lived victory dance when you discover you're dancing on quicksand.
Well I'm glad we can all move on know with the full assurance of living under the protections of the world's greatest Democracy.
Congress should pass a law banning gay baby dolphins from voting in Wisconsin.
This fits with the wingtards view of things. When "right" aka wingtarded people vote it's democracy. When "wrong" aka tinted/lieburls vote it's fraud.
On the other hand, maybe it's dead baby dolphins that are poisoning the gulf.
Ladies and gentlemen, Sarah Palin's director of the EPA deanbooth.
Contaminating teh crudez.
You "Found" 14,000 votes? Like the votes were keys or a pack of cigarettes?
Democracy, you so crazy.
My grandfather, God love him — he died at 83, six months before I was born, so I never knew him — lived & died in Waukesha County, the rare Democratic Party supporting farmer in New Berlin, & were he around for this, in his quiet way, he’d offer of Kunty Nickolaus, “I don’t believe it. Seems a little far-fetched”.
But, hey, Kunty’s gotta get hers. She heard that 81,000$ a year job on the Environment Dept. opened up. (Seriously, I bet Scooter gives this twat a job.)
What is "Microsoft Access"? Can I access pornographic websites on it? If not, I don't care.
You'd be wanting to buy "Microsoft Fapness" for that. Be careful of "Clippy," though.
SAGAL: One day the engineers at Microsoft said, you know, the people using our products, they're frustrated, they're angry, but they're not insane with rage. How can we focus their rage? How about if just in the middle of doing something, an animated paperclip pops up on the screen and says: Can I help you? What are you doing? Oh, can I see?
Mr. FELBER: Geez, there's a lot of trees out here.
SAGAL: Tell…
Mr. FELBER: I don't think we're anywhere near Redmond anymore.
Mr. PROVENZA: What is that, cannoli?
Mr. FELBER: What are you digging? What are you digging? Can I help you dig?
Mr. FELBER: Oh, you got a baseball bat. Do you want to learn how to play baseball? Maybe I could help you with that?
Mr. PROVENZA: It looks like you're digging a grave. Is this a business grave or a personal grave?
Ms. POUNDSTONE: So he's an animated character that you didn't like?
SAGAL: Yeah, basically.
SAGAL: We'll explain later.
It's a database system for capitalists, none of that commie free-love open source crap.
It's a SQL to dBase-ment.
A database for 2-dimensional thinkers.
The residents of Flatland. They are also known as teatards.
It's a program that automatically saves data as it's entered, so there's no way anyone could accidentally forget to save data.
Well, yes they could. Obviously she has the new beta version of "Microsoft Republican" with the added "Forget to Save" feature.
This is just another wingnut "miracle". Like when those 18 minutes of really incriminating stuff magically disappeared from the Nixon tapes.
Republicans are so lucky that way.
oh bugger me ,, but what credible organizations still using an obsolete software like MS Access??
DROP TABLE WI_Fair_Elections;
What a horrible thing to wake up to. When the koch sucker republicans have finaly ruined this country by eliminating unions, the Department of Environmental Protection, Good teachers, jobs, affordable education and housing, when there are only very poor overtaxedand very rich not taxed at all people left, what will they do with it?
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
I hear you. After all, how many servants and hired thugs, er, security guards does one gazillionare need?
Simple. They'll sell the remains to the Chinese. Similar to what happens to old cars when the duct tape and bailing wire finally fair the Amurrikan poors (us).
Cash for Clunkers?
"YAHOO ITS BATHTUB TIME!"
–Grover Norquist
It can happen. Like this one time I swiped a bottle of Kettle One from my dad's cabinet and figured the drunk wouldn't notice. I soon realized he was not fucking around with his liquor stash. So I found him another bottle with my fake ID at the liquor store which he then found in his trunk cause he clearly forgot to take it into the house. He apologized for the crazy accusation. Just sayin'. It can happen to anyone.
She sounds like a real gem, plus she looks like the back of a bus.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/114014589.h…
Ugh. Dammit, now Wonkette is probably going to use this picture and I'll have to see it again.
Could be.
That avatar is deserving of a trip to the cheese shop for a fromage-a-trois.
It needs a blingie.
You know the way to my heart, sexual adventures and dairy products.
I just blurped a little.
HOLY SHIT, MY EYES!
Why do they smirk when confronted with their incompetence? What is it with these macho GOP androgynes and their penis anxiety and self-satisfied smirking?
OK. Now you owe us pictures of your titties to make up for that avatar.
But seriously, this woman was in trouble in January for this kind of shit? She's an elected official? I hope she enjoys the FBI interviews.
Ooh do you thnk the FBI will pay her a visit? I do hope so, she looks as if she would crumble fairly easily.
Ena was easier on the eyes.
That's one hell of a herpes sore under her lower lip that she's trying to cover up with makeup.
But seriously, sounds like Kathy Nickolaus is about to under go a colonoscopy style investigation.
This woman should be fired. Won't be, but should be.
Maybe she'll get the Deschane treatment and resign…not that it will make any difference.
Oh, she'll resign, and then get a cushy lobbying job somewhere.
I hope she is found to be a crack-using, child-abusing, Hitler-loving, vote-stealing, Prosser-fucking whore.
I see what you did there, Lizzie.
Well, she used to work for Prosser (in effect) when he was in the Legislature, so that's a start.
GAAAAWD BLESS AMERIKKKKAAAA!!!!1!!
LAND THAT I LUUUUUVVVVV!
STAND BESIDE 'ERRRR AND GYD ERRRRR…..
♪♫ Let the EEeeeeeeeaaaaaagle Soooooaarrr ♪♫
This act is either intentional fraud or negligence/incompetence warranting immediate dismissal or reassignment to other duties. This person cannot remain in her position after such a stupid act. She has to be aware of the closeness of the race and did not exercise due diligence in reporting the results.
So, which is it, sweetheart? You're either a criminal or incompetent at your job and should be fired.
Or it could be like when Lucy pulls the football away at the last second.
Sounds like she's in line for a promotion to Scott Walkers cabinet.
Conveniently, there's an opening. http://wonkette.com/442492/gop-lobbyists-drunken-…
C.) Both.
Consider: If these "found" votes showed up in the system on election night rather than several days later, nobody would have noticed, and I think the margin of victory would have been too big to call for a recount.
So… she's incompetent at malfeasance
Kathy Nickolaus looked like an abused 10 year old lying to Child Protective Services in her press conference last night. That is all.
DOJ: Show us on the doll where Scott Walker touched you.
Exactly. I was watching the press conference at my parents's place, & my incredulity was met by my mother advising, "This woman's on the verge of tears. She's not a fraudster".
But, eh, you know who can "cry" on command? Sociopaths. (My mother should know this, having been married to my father.) & you know what a fair number of politicians, & the vast majority of Republican politicians, are? Sociopaths.
Kathy Nickolaus needs to be in an Hannibal Lecter level restraint system posthaste.
That is about the most apt description of what went on at that conference as any I've seen. She was about a second from a mental breakdown.
she “inadvertently failed to properly import and save data into a Microsoft Access database.” No problem. I do this kind of shit all the time at work when I 'm uploading fantasy football statistics.
'cept you don't have to "save" in Access – it does that automaticaly. Instant FAIL Kathy!
Come to think of it, you're right. I remember that now. So what the fuck do you think is going on here?
Elephant over elephant?
My moms used to work in the county courthouse doin' 'lection stuff. She never even had to work during any really contentious elections, but she said she was amazed that anything ever got done because the process was such a clusterfuck.
Usually the election folks are little old ladies who take their rather boring duties as citizens seriously, but I got the impression that if one were ethically challenged it would be easy as shit to juke the stats in whatever manner you wanted.
So I've been in AR this week attending my mother-in-law's funeral; a sad occasion but since everyone there watches American Idol & Judge Judy 24/7 (I'm pretty sure they don't even know cable NEWS channels exist), I've been in a news vacuum. Then I come back to reality and have to read about this kind of shit–I'd go back to AR except for all the stupid…and crazy in-laws…and not being able to buy beer on Sunday…GAH!
I live next door in good old Memphis, and not being able to buy beer on Sunday is basically the worst thing ever.
You know who ELSE "found" a convenient stash of votes?
Laura Linney?
Bristol Palin?
14-year-old singing sensation Kory Shore?
Jimmy Carter?
Dead baby dolphins?
Idi Amin?
The beheaded dead baby dolphins are cuz of the illegals.
After the Shutdown, all Wonketteers when thinking of, or writing to, your Fed Senator or Representative please remember the following:
The motherfuckers will still get paid.
Once again, the motherfuckers will still get paid.
Répétez, les fouteurs mère quand même payés.
Merci.
Couldn't they get somone more credible to make the "Oh, gee, we suddenly found a butt-load of lost votes that just happen to be in our favor" statement.
Like, say, Gaddafi?
Never did I think that I would pine for the heady days of Diebolds and hanging chads.
How 'bout hanging clerks?
There's additional puns to be had but my mind just isn't up to it right now.
Suffice to say that in the event of all the assorted Wisconsin bullshit reaching what now looks like its logical conclusion (you know, rioting, state troopers do brutal crackdown, Barry petitions UNSC for no-fly zone over Milwaukee), these hanging clerks would be very much in order.
I wake up to Ken's happy news, then Young Riley slaps me down with another stolen election. Thanks a lot, Young Riley.
Sooo. Stalin had it right?
And the the extra 14,000 votes went to Prosser 3-1. It's as if Kathryn Harris entered the witness protection program and resurfaced in Brookfield.
Well, the most believable part of the story is the 3-1 margin. I've been to Brookfield.
It's nice to know, at least, their flagship mall (Brookfield Square) is flailing 'cause they really, really don't want all the blacks showing up.
(Say what I will about Mayfair — & I'll say a lot; I work there, after all — but while they hassle the blacks & browns & young (PGR is a fucking joke), at least they desire their business. The lily-white Teatards in the Elmbrook school-district don't even want that. (I'm sure Doc Rivers's wife is still a disgrace to a good number of those people.))
ha.
"14,000 votes just sort of “turned up” (just like they always do, when you need them the most) yesterday in Wisconsin, giving Koch-backed David Prosser a 7,000 vote lead over bolshie People’s candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg."
Screw the ballot box. Where's my torch and pitchfork?
Winning the future. Not for a day. The future is some far-off destination that never arrives, and even then, it becomes past. So fuck it.
We don't eat dolphin, so who cares?
On a side note, isn't tuna packed in oil anyway?
FUCKING CHEATING LYING MOTHER FUCKERS!!
Bring your scrawny, weak fucking flabby asses over here… I have a pummeling for you lame ass fuckers!
I think it's time we conquer China, strip it of its resources, till salt in the soil. We'll have all the goods ever made in the world and no enemy, and it would cost us about 30 trillion dollars to do it, but China's defeat would pay for itself.
So you see, winning, and also, too.
Yo, Cheeseheads. Ya need to file a FOI on Kathy Nickolaus' personal computer hard drives TODAY, or they will be getting the Huckabee hammer of death.
I agree. Even if I dread seeing the exceeding number of visits to PissGuzzlinGrannies.edu that Nickolaus has made.
What's REALLY ironical is that the wingnutz were right. There was voter fraud involved. They just jumped the gun and announced it a little too soon.
Good to see we're out there working hard to establish our third world election fixing bonafides. Where is Jimmy Carter when you need him?
Kathy Nickolaus will be the new spokeslag for KochBucks(TM), an exciting rewards program giving you valuable points, which you can redeem for votes in your favorite election!
Yawn, sun comes up, sun goes down, 14,000 Repug votes just happen to show up.
The Kochs don't invest $2.1 M into an election to get outcomes they don't want, goddamit. What is it about Corporatism that you homo-socialists don't get? Huh?
Now, go wash my Lexus. And don't leave spots this time!
Anything you say, Mr. Friedman.
The Mustache speaks!
I mean, they'd already spent $2.1 mil, what's a few tens of thousands kicked to the clerk if it means they didn't waste their money?
But you would think for that kind of money, they could have been somewhat less obvious about it.
14,000 votes just happened to show up? Maybe they need to go back and re-visit the results of the 2010 election in Waukasha County.
Les Paul hangs his ghostly head in shame. Then chuckles, of course.
We need to unleash the "Hero of the Daytripper" on Kathy Nickolaus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iERF0AP6mws
This is the most blatant election fraud since President Roslin tried to switch ballot boxes to keep Baltar from getting elected.
/end obscure nerd-reference
Given where they had those thumbs, I'm pretty sure that's not ink.
And the wind cries Bullshit.
This is what theocracy looks like
Psst! Don't tell the Fundies that Opus Dei is Catholic.
Hell, contesting races IS the new economy.
I love this anecdote about working with Krazy Kathy:
"“My husband used to work with Kathy Nickolaus (the Waukesha County Clerk)…She was not only incompetent, but also a fierce right-to-lifer and archconservative. If you said to her, ‘I really like hot fudge sundaes’, her reply would be, ‘We really have to stop abortions.’ "
https://bluecheddar.wordpress.com/tag/kathy-nicko…
From that same article, about her election campaign for this position:
"But some are squeamish about turning over a $56,000-a-year position — one that oversees elections — to someone whose last job resulted in a deal with prosecutors not to bring criminal charges against her.
“That sends up a flag,” said Muskego City Clerk Jean Marenda."
Ya think?
She'll be making 81,000$ soon enough, in Deschane's (suspiciously Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey?) vacated spot.
I wouldn't worry about it. In a few years residents of the Gulf won't even know what a dolphin is.
But they'll still have hot fudge abortions.
Oh, Karl Rove's IT guy did it "for the babies", apparently.
He's dead now.
Hello, Kathy?
Records are either imported into Access or not. There is no saving.
My other favourite blog and news-source wrote about this today, also too.
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/04/08/banana-repu…
Great read.
It can't be voter fraud – there's not a single New Black Panther in Wisconsin.
Ken Blackwell just got a stiffy.
"Where the white women at!?"
Baby dolphins probably committed suicide because they were gay.
Kathy Nickolaus for sainthood, what, too early?
How very convenient!
It still amazes me how many vote(r)s Repugs can hide up their ass and then shit em out for a win.
As a computer support professional who has supported an elections department, I'm alternating between "holy shit" and LOL. An Access (single user) database? On a Win 95 laptop? Man, I guess that's what you get when you have to settle for IT "talent" who is willing to do whatever against Best Practices "for the babies". Probably some Influential Donor's college dropout kid "who knows computers" and bugged off after leaving the buggy out of date, non-documented program.
I used to think the chucklefucks I used to work with were bad, but at least the Board of Supes could have canned the Registrar (iow it was an administrative position not a political one). Actually, the CA SecState came down on them pretty hard for the old Diebolds. I guess what's her face has ensured that she has a friendly reception in the WI Supreme Court.
She's been in a threesome with Randy Hopper & Valerie Cass. I knew it!
You know, if this had happened in, say, Madison, the tea baggers would be threatening 2nd Amendment remedies as we speak. Jiss sayin'
there are probably still some abandoned box cars down in Old Town we could put them in. cheaper than a new stadium and maybe they could renovate the downtown library–i'm sure that measure still fails in every election.
and people in other states i've lived in have wondered why i'm so adamant about how California is not a liberal paradise like they seem to think it. at least not the southern half.
The new library is under construction! And a stately pleasure dome it will be.
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