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01-05-2018 , 10:31 AM

#3401

Namath12

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Looks like someone's getting sued after all

01-05-2018 , 04:59 PM

#3402

pvn

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Holy ****

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201...mpression=true

Roy Moore accuser's Gadsden home burns; arson investigation underway

01-05-2018 , 05:08 PM

#3403

stinkubus

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JFC it's time to relegate Alabama. Maybe we can trade them to Mexico for something?

01-05-2018 , 05:40 PM

#3404

OneEyedPoker

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Mexico might not want Alabama if we gave it away

01-05-2018 , 08:08 PM

#3405

eyebooger

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Quote:

Originally Posted by pvn

Roy Moore accuser's Gadsden home burns; arson investigation underway

WHY DON'T THESE WOMEN COME FORWARD?

01-23-2018 , 11:55 PM

#3406

Costanza

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Yet more evidence of why we can't have nice things here:

Alabama House votes to end US Senate special elections

01-24-2018 , 01:46 AM

#3407

ScreaminAsian

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rofl

01-24-2018 , 10:56 AM

#3408

2ShedsJackson

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Quote:

Republican Rep. Steve Clouse, the bill’s sponsor, said the special election cost the state more than $10 million.

“It has nothing to do with any of the personalities in that race. It has everything to do with the cost to the general fund,” said Clouse, of Ozark.

Shameful stuff, I'm sure we'd certainly be seeing this bill passed if Moore had won.

01-24-2018 , 11:23 AM

#3409

Louis Cyphre

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"Elections are expensive, we should not have them" is a hot take.

01-24-2018 , 01:24 PM

#3410

Loki

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Hey man, republicans are just fiscally responsible. Dumbocrats are the ones who want to do pricy things like "hold elections" and "let people vote in them"

01-24-2018 , 01:31 PM

#3411

UAW

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This seems dumb even for Alabama republicans. States dominated by one party are way more likely to elect governors of the opposite party then senators.

01-24-2018 , 01:43 PM

#3412

stinkubus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by UAW

This seems dumb even for Alabama republicans. States dominated by one party are way more likely to elect governors of the opposite party then senators.

Do you have a source on this? I'm genuinely curious.

01-24-2018 , 01:57 PM

#3413

AllTheCheese

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Quote:

Originally Posted by UAW

This seems dumb even for Alabama republicans. States dominated by one party are way more likely to elect governors of the opposite party then senators.

It's cute you think they wouldn't immediately go back to special elections if a Dem governor was elected.

01-24-2018 , 02:06 PM

#3414

ScreaminAsian

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if they wanted to save money on elections they could do a mail-in ballot. montana republicans shot down a proposition to switch to a mail-in ballot that would have saved their state millions because they believed it would raise voter turnout which does not benefit republicans so they decided it was best to spend the money to do it the old fashioned way

01-24-2018 , 02:17 PM

#3415

FlyWf

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A potent force in the GOP's favor is holding off year elections so yeah, let's save money, every election is either in the mid-terms or with the Presidential general.

01-24-2018 , 02:52 PM

#3416

goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

It's cute you think they wouldn't immediately go back to special elections if a Dem governor was elected.

Didn't this kind of happen in North Carolina? Like, after a Democrat won the governor's seat the Republican legislature voted to restrict a bunch of executive powers?

01-24-2018 , 02:53 PM

#3417

Loki

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Yup

01-24-2018 , 02:56 PM

#3418

Louis Cyphre

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Yet the Democrats will never learn. It's like the GOP is playing prisoner's dilemma with an Alzheimer patient.

01-24-2018 , 03:01 PM

#3419

ScreaminAsian

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it's like playing live poker anywhere

01-24-2018 , 03:47 PM

#3420

campfirewest

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I'm not a lawyer but that seems to at least violate the spirit of the 17th amendment. What is the legal definition of "temporary"?

01-24-2018 , 03:48 PM

#3421

iron81

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre

Yet the Democrats will never learn. It's like the GOP is playing prisoner's dilemma with an Alzheimer patient.

Massachusetts did something similar.

01-28-2018 , 05:15 AM

#3422

estefaniocurry

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OneEyedPoker

Mexico might not want Alabama if we gave it away

Even the Mexican automotive industry needs a labor-union free place to build its cars.

01-28-2018 , 11:36 AM

#3423

Loki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by estefaniocurry

Even the Mexican automotive industry needs a fresh supply of crash-test dummies.

ftfy

01-28-2018 , 01:04 PM

#3424

suzzer99

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http://whnt.com/2018/01/25/roy-moore...user-in-court/

Quote:

Roy Moore previously had a legal defense fund while refusing to move a monument of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, despite a court order demanding he do so. That legal defense fund was later converted to the Foundation for Moral Law, which provided him more than a million dollars in compensation while the foundation employed multiple members of his family, including his wife as director.

That's some Paul-esque level grifting.