td11 wrote:

Roger Dorn wrote:Booker is all talk with no substance, honestly did he do anything positive in Newark? He has a lot of nice sounding rhetoric but that seems to be about it

https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/2 ... 4922323969

House Speaker John Boehner just wanted to sneak out of the White House for a smoke.

But President Barack Obama pulled him aside for a grilling. Obama wanted to know why they were in the second day of a government shutdown that the speaker had repeatedly and publicly pledged to avoid.

“John, what happened?” Obama asked, according to people briefed on the Oct. 2 conversation.

“I got overrun, that’s what happened,” Boehner said.

Obama and Reid got on the same page early on, agreeing during strategy sessions over the summer that they wouldn’t give up anything until Republicans renewed the debt limit and government funding.

Democrats never believed that Boehner could deliver the 217 House votes he needed to cut a deal. He could shut down the government and risk default, but because of hard-line conservatives, Boehner couldn’t pass anything. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Obama and Reid this privately, and she repeated it publicly. This belief drove the Democrats throughout the crisis: stand firm and Boehner will be forced to fold.

The Virginia Board of Elections has purged more than 38,000 names from its voter rolls just weeks before Election Day, despite serious concerns from local election administrators that many of those voters are still eligible to cast a ballot.

The purge comes a few months after the board said it would use several databases to find voters who were now ineligible to vote, either because they had been convicted of a felony or moved out of state. But after the board sent an initial list of voters who would be purged to local election administrators, those administrators found what they said were hundreds of voters who shouldn’t be removed.

On Oct. 3, the state Democratic Party filed paperwork seeking an injunction to halt the purge. But on Tuesday, the Board of Elections said it had already nixed 38,870 names from voter rolls after county registrars reviewed the initial lists.

Another 11,138 eligible voters will remain active on the rolls after county registrars reviewed the state lists. And almost 7,300 will be designated “inactive,” meaning they must cast provisional ballots on Election Day, ballots that will only be counted after their eligibility is verified.

“This is a 14th Amendment issue. We have 131 local election officials here in Virginia, and the guidance they got from the state board was, quote, use your best judgement,” said Brian Coy, a spokesman for the Virginia Democratic Party. Coy said the fact that the Board of Elections’ legal adviser, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), is on the ballot this year as a candidate for governor raised red flags.

Several county registrars said they didn’t have the time necessary to ensure eligible voters inadvertently included on the state list weren’t denied their right to vote. Loudoun County Registrar Judy Brown said in an interview that she had to race to meet her local electoral board’s deadline.

“My main concern was the lack of time to be able to devote to the list to make sure we weren’t taking people off without first trying to find out if they were still here or if they had left,” Brown said. “I believe that kind of stuff deserves my attention.”

After Brown decided to delay the purge, the state Board of Elections called her local elections board, which voted to require Brown to scrub Loudoun County’s voter rolls. They gave her one week. Brown said she sent letters to both in-state and out-of-state addresses she had for voters on the list, just a week before the state’s Oct. 15 registration deadline. She’s already heard from some who say they still live in-state.

Chesterfield County Registrar Lawrence C. Haake III filed his own affidavit, saying he had conducted a review and found almost 10 percent of the names flagged by the state Board of Elections were of eligible voters, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Haake, a Republican, has refused to purge voters from the list.

Cuccinelli’s office said in its own court filing that the the relatively small number of eligible voters mistakenly included on the list demonstrates the state Board of Elections and county registrars are doing their jobs.

jerseyhoya wrote:

But President Barack Obama pulled him aside for a grilling. Obama wanted to know why they were in the second day of a government shutdown that the speaker had repeatedly and publicly pledged to avoid.

“John, what happened?” Obama asked, according to people briefed on the Oct. 2 conversation.

“I got overrun, that’s what happened,” Boehner said.

traderdave wrote:Didn't know if y'all saw this from Lonegan's concession speech. Check out around 0:55; what a guy:

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/20 ... peech.html

slugsrbad wrote:

traderdave wrote:Didn't know if y'all saw this from Lonegan's concession speech. Check out around 0:55; what a guy:

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/20 ... peech.html

I don't mind his daughter/aide.

Monkeyboy wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

traderdave wrote:Didn't know if y'all saw this from Lonegan's concession speech. Check out around 0:55; what a guy:

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/20 ... peech.html

I don't mind his daughter/aide.

He probably doesn't like women touching him, you know, on account of him being gay.

I mean, how does he not notice his wife's big breasts and who treats a woman like that, just pushing her off like a gay guy would? I wonder how hard he hits her in private when he's not giving a concession speech.

slugsrbad wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

traderdave wrote:Didn't know if y'all saw this from Lonegan's concession speech. Check out around 0:55; what a guy:

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/20 ... peech.html

I don't mind his daughter/aide.

He probably doesn't like women touching him, you know, on account of him being gay.

I mean, how does he not notice his wife's big breasts and who treats a woman like that, just pushing her off like a gay guy would? I wonder how hard he hits her in private when he's not giving a concession speech.

This is DiM's territory, but I don't think gay guys are allergic or creeped out by the touch of a woman.