Darcy Burner does indeed have a B.A. from Harvard in computer science and economics; that is an established fact.
So, when Reichert, the NRCC and their enablers at the Seattle Times argue that claiming a degree in “economics” is misleading because it fails to mention the “computer science,” wouldn’t the opposite be equally true? Wouldn’t it be just as misleading to claim a degree in “computer science” while failing to mention the emphasis on economics? Are they really implying that anything less than spelling out “a degree in computer science and economics” is a deliberate misrepresentation?
Hmm…
A bunch of american students studying abroad move into an Ohio house for 30 days, register to vote, vote for Obama, then leave. Are you guys really going to defend this?
@1 Yeah, if they permanent residences are in Ohio. They have just as much right to vote as you do. American citizens don’t lose their right to vote because they’re temporarily living abroad. Just ask any soldier.
Oh wait! Soldiers do lose their right to vote when they’re deployed to overseas combat zones:
“The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote.
“A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts.
“Files from the secret vote-blocking campaign were obtained by BBC Television Newsnight, London. They were attached to emails accidentally sent by Republican operatives to a non-party website.
“One group of voters wrongly identified by the Republicans as registering to vote from false addresses: servicemen and women sent overseas.
“Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, ‘Do not forward’, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as ‘undeliverable.’ The lists of soldiers of ‘undeliverable’ letters were transmitted from state headquarters … to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted.
“One target list was comprised exclusively of voters registered at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station. … [See this scrub sheet at http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.g.....038;size=o ] …
“The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, ‘Caging.xls.’ Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses. …
“Ion Sanco, the non-partisan elections supervisor of Leon County (Tallahassee) when shown the lists by this reporter said: ‘The only thing I can think of – African American voters listed like this – these might be individuals that will be challenged if they attempted to vote on Election Day.’ …
“The Republican National Committee in Washington refused our several requests to respond to the BBC discovery. … The party has refused to say why it would mark soldiers as having ‘bad addresses’ subject to challenge when they had been assigned abroad. …
“Setting up such a challenge list would be a crime under federal law. … While the party insisted the lists were not created for the purpose to challenge Black voters, the GOP ultimately offered no other explanation for the mailings. …
“Soldiers sending in their ballot from abroad would not know their vote was lost because of a challenge.”
Quoted from Greg Palast under fair use.)
@1
Well lets see they’re AMERICAN’S, so yeah.Last I checked, AMERICAN’S are entitled to vote in American elections.
Exactly what could we do about Ohio state election law? We live in Washington.
Why does the Times want the 8th district even more marginalized than it already is? Haven’t the people lost enough money? Aren’t they going to need someone to represent their interests, rather than stand in the back asking how the other Republican minority are going to vote?
@1 Yeah, we’ll defend it, if their permanent residences are in Ohio. They have just as much right to vote as you do. American citizens don’t lose their right to vote because they’re temporarily living abroad. Just ask any soldier.
Oh wait! Soldiers do lose their right to vote when they’re deployed to overseas combat zones, as a result of illegal vote suppression by Republican traitors:
“The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote.
“A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts.
“Files from the secret vote-blocking campaign were obtained by BBC Television Newsnight, London. They were attached to emails accidentally sent by Republican operatives to a non-party website.
“One group of voters wrongly identified by the Republicans as registering to vote from false addresses: servicemen and women sent overseas.
“Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, ‘Do not forward’, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as ‘undeliverable.’ The lists of soldiers of ‘undeliverable’ letters were transmitted from state headquarters … to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted. …
“The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, ‘Caging.xls.’ Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses. …
“Ion Sanco, the non-partisan elections supervisor of Leon County (Tallahassee) when shown the lists by this reporter said: ‘The only thing I can think of – African American voters listed like this – these might be individuals that will be challenged if they attempted to vote on Election Day.’ …
“The Republican National Committee in Washington refused our several requests to respond to the BBC discovery. … The party has refused to say why it would mark soldiers as having ‘bad addresses’ subject to challenge when they had been assigned abroad. …
“Setting up such a challenge list would be a crime under federal law. … While the party insisted the lists were not created for the purpose to challenge Black voters, the GOP ultimately offered no other explanation for the mailings. …
“Soldiers sending in their ballot from abroad would not know their vote was lost because of a challenge.”
Quoted from independent journalist Greg Palast under fair use.)
Maybe someone should be checking Emily Heffter’s credentials?
@1 How do you justify the Republican Party’s operatives keeping soldiers on overseas deployments from voting? See #4 for details. And don’t say the GOP didn’t do that, because they did, it’s thoroughly documented with their own e-mails.
Gawd … I despise sanctimonious hypocrites!
@6 Yeah, I wonder if she got her job with a fake diploma. I’m not saying she did, I’m just askin’ that’s all.
Not that it has much to do with the topic of the thread, What’sittoya, but no, I have no problem with U.S. citizens voting, even if they are students, and even if they study abroad.
If Ohio has a problem with it (and each state makes its own laws about voter eligibility), then they can change their laws.
If it was a case where the students were voting twice, it would be a different matter. But you aren’t making that claim. Your problem seems to be that the students are choosing their state of residence at least in part by deciding where their vote will do the most good, from their point of view.
Personally, I choose my state of residence primarily because of the climate and the lifestyle, but that’s just me.
But your complaint has given me reason to pause and reflect. If Washington State were controlled by the Republicans, and still had the climate and lifestyle, would I want to live here?
It’s really a moot point. If Washington State were controlled by Republicans, it would quickly end up looking like Texas.
Is Heffter a cub reporter? She looks like a zealous rookie reporter who’s trying too hard to find a “story” to pile up creds for her fledgling career. Veteran reporters don’t “see” stories where there isn’t anything. Heffter’s reporting looks like beginner’s work.
The paper is responsible for exercising edititorial control over what gets into print. Why didn’t they in this case? What’s the editor’s excuse?
Hehehe. This is fun.
Who’s Barry Goldwater’s granddaughter voting for?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....37150.html
Hint: it’s NOT McSame/Falin’.
@8
Considering her recent reporting, it’s a valid question.
@9 If the BIAW’s candidates controlled Washington government, one way in which Washington would resemble Texas is in our consumer laws.
In Texas, a homebuyer who buys a lemon home from a crooked or incompetent builder doesn’t have a right to sue. By law, the homebuyer has to bring his claim before a kangaroo arbitration panel made up of developers. The Texas law requires the homebuyer to give the builder a chance to fix the problems himself — even if it takes months or years for the builder to show up, and even if the builder fails to fix the problems. If the homebuyer hires another contractor to make repairs, the homebuyer has no recourse against the builder, even if the original construction was grossly defective. These laws have even been applied to expensive homes that were uninhabitable from the moment the buyer moved in.
We don’t want that kind of shit here. We don’t want rich developers getting control of our government so they can take away the consumer’s right to get what he paid for, and to sue people who cheat him. A home is too big an investment to let powerful developers impose fines and criminal penalties on cheated homebuyers for complaining about being cheated. That’s what they do in Texas, and the very rich and very powerful Texas developers behind those Texas laws are actively trying to export this type of legislation to every other state in the country.
If the trolls don’t believe me, let them google it and look it up. There are plenty of web sites full of horror stories about buying homes in Texas. The laws pushed through by Texas builders are so bad I wouldn’t even consider buying a new home in Texas if I lived there. The BIAW isn’t spending millions of dollars to elect Rossi for the fun of it. They want something in return. Guess what they want?
@11
Sweet!
This gem from the previous thread merits repeating:
“Reichert occupying a congressional office for four years doesn’t make him an experienced congressman any more than standing in a garage for four years would make him a car.”
Kudos to Phil Spectator for this incisive insight.
Goldy–
You are really on full-spin cycle.
Must be some poon in it fer ya.
This is really funny….
It’s a new game called
PIN THE LIE ON THE DARCY!
@16 Cynical, has anyone ever told you that you’re a bore?
I wonder how Populist Palin’s $150,000 shopping spree will sit with Jane Six-Pack struggling to buy shoes for her kids?
Rog–
I’ve got one for you to ponder….
Individuals can CARRYBACK Capital Losses from the current year, offset them against Capital Gains in those years and get REFUNDS.
So can Corporations.
Are you aware that folks realizing Capital Losses this year may be able to carry them back and get tax refunds?
Individuals can only deduct $3000 per year of Capital Losses….but they can carryback the remainder as long as there are Capial Gains to offset them against & claim refunds.
How do you think this will impact tax collections in 2009??
@19
There’s a loophole that needs closing!
McSame is Falin’…
2000Never
Goldy, for shame. Darcy Burner does not have a B.A. from Harvard.
Her degree is, in fact, an A.B. (Artium Baccalaureus). Harvard, like your alma mater, and mine as well, awards its degrees in Latin.
Artium Baccalaureus is, of course, the original Latin for “Bachelor of Arts”. Same degree, different language.
20. Michael spews:
@19
So can Corporations.
There’s a loophole that needs closing”
Michael is calling Capital Loss Carrybacks a “loophole”?? Loophole???
Man, you really do want to stop ALL private investment.
I guess that means you are a true believer in Obama’s Socialist agenda.
re 23: Where’s the risk if you can write off all your losses? I thought capitalists were all about taking risks?
‘Socializing’ private losses seems to be OK by you. What you advocate is state sponsored socialism for rich people and corporations. I think you know what that really is.