Calif. Republican Loses to Dead Democrat
- Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:35am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Death has no political sting in California.
Exhibit A: even though Jenny Oropez died last month, the Democrat easily won re-election to California’s State Senate, defeating John Stammerich, her Republican challenger, by a 58-35 margin.
Oropeza died from complications due to a blood clot on October 20, which was too late to replace her on the ballot.
As one might expect in an election where a deceased candidate wins, controversy abounds. According to the Daily Breeze, Sammerich has filed charges against the state‘s Democratic Party and Secretary of State because of a questionable mailer sent in the election’s twilight:
The tone of the campaign for the 28th District turned sour on its final day, with Stammreich and the California Republican Party filing complaints accusing the Democratic Party and Secretary of State Debra Bowen of using a late-hour campaign mailing to “illegally influence” voters to cast a ballot for Oropeza.
The correspondence, titled “Election Information,” was sent via mail to Democratic and decline-to-state voters and outlined what would happen if Oropeza won.
The mailing closed with Bowen’s name and title.
Republicans allege that the mailing purports to be an official document and thus violates a section of the California Penal Code prohibiting publishing a campaign advertisement that falsely depicts official documents.
“The Republicans are trying to take unfair advantage of Jenny’s tragedy,” the mailer said. “They suggest that voting for Jenny will only result in a costly Special Election. I am asking you to vote for Jenny Oropeza. If a Special Election is called in a few months, you’ll have the chance to thoughtfully elect your Senator for a new four-year term.”
Sammerich pointed out the mailer‘s careful attempt to frame Oropeza’s death only as a tragedy, which he says is misleading. A special election will not be held to fill the seat, which means Sammerich still has a chance.
However, Daily Breeze reports, “The process could cost [taxpayers] millions of dollars.”
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Comments (130)
Ms. Jones
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:35amMore evidence of the sad state of politics in California. When their state is bankrupted by their poor choices, we must let them live with the consequences. No bail out.
Report Post »cliKKer
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:34amNO BAILOUT OF CALIFORNIA…. they get NOTHING they picked this insanity to run their state. when they come for the hand out to bail them out give them NOTHING. Rest of states should be excited because all their business will be completely leaving…
Report Post »banderashovel
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:30amthat’s no surprise here, the dead demo craps vote all the time…
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:26amThis just shows the absolute stupidity of those in La La Land.
Report Post »ILFarmer
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:25amOnly in CA does something as ridiculous as this happen. It really is the granola state.
Report Post »Greyhound424
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:18amI have said it before and I will say it again. California has the biggest group of mentally defective morons in the whole freaking nation! They are utter failures! They are the sorriest excuse for humans I have EVER seen! They will end in epic failure! They voted in a dead person…………….REALLY?
Report Post »FreedomIQ
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:13amApparently, the people in California and Colorado don’t feel like the U.S. has suffered enough and must be punished even more. Glenn said yesterday that people like this are basically just uniformed. Absolutely not.
Liberals are collective functioners, which is an easily diagnosed mental illness. People who harbor socialist tendencies can not change unless they really want to. And “rock bottom”, as Glenn rightly described, will hurt us all.
Report Post »countryboy42
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:45amYep. Makes me want to out of the beautiful state of Colorado. I know we have a lot of blue spruce, but did not know there were this many blue people.
Report Post »Our country just got a little better, but we are not off of life support yet.
Keep your powder dry.
mutt
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:11amJudging by the votes for Boxer and Brown last night, most Californicators would still vote for a dead person as long as there was a D in front of their name. I cant wait for that State to go friggin bankrupt and into receivership, Maybeeeee they will wake up. If the new Congress votes to bail them out this time, they should be fired in 2012.
Report Post »Ken
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:09amSo what happens when this “dead” person doesn’t show up for work?
Report Post »gbandy
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:35amNothing happens! In California the rest of our legislature are all high on Dope.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:22pmit’ll be like weekend at bernies.
Report Post »rondo
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:07amstupid slaves to their democrat masters, why did we fight a civil war when these welfare bums still want to be taken care of by big daddy
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:02amA truly educated electorate at work….most probably had no idea who the person was or that they were voting for a dead person – SAD, just Sad
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:58amThis goes a long way in describing the general decay in the public education system in califorina. I mean if the CA. school system keeps turning out morons like these is there any hope for the state. The uneducated masses in Ca. elected their meal ticket, why should we have expected anything else?
Report Post »dantom
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:58amDead woman wins in calif do they also have as many dead voters as chicago?
Report Post »GRuss
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:10amProbably have more Illegal immigrants that vote than dead people. I would bet most of the Dems that voted, didn’t even know she was dead!
Report Post »Silat
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:57amI will never again go to California or Nevada. Those communist can eat dust.
Report Post »MattyFos
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:57amThe deceased usually elect Democrats.. This is the first time I’ve seen Democrats elect the deceased…
Report Post »coffeedrinker
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 1:20pmBest line of the day.
I guess it is official. I live in the absolute dumbest state in the union.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:13pmExpect nothing less from the state of California. Ranks right up there with the district that voted barney frank to another term. People who vote for criminals have some form of stockholm syndrome. Then again with all the handouts in California and their sterling representation in gov’t, how could you not vote for the people that bring home “the bacon.” Personall, I will fight tooth and nail to prevent any of my tax dollars going to the dumbest state in the union.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:57amYou know, you can’t help people who will not help themselves. Looking at the elections in California, it appears that California is happy with the Democrats and SEIU destroying them……of course, they believe that the rest of the states will bail them out and not let them go bankrupt economically….it seems they are already bankrupt ethically.
Report Post »jowolo
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:57amThe Left Coast will only make their conditions erode. Maybe enough erosion will make it fall into the ocean. lol
Report Post »REBELWITHACAUSE
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:23amI’d almost be willing to throw a huge rally like the ones in DC recently… we all go to CA, put on floats, and start jumping up and down really hard at the same time, it might just break off and fall into the ocean, never to be seen again. Us wearing the floats would be fine… nuf said. :)
Report Post »countryboy42
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:34amWon’t happen. To many wingnuts in California.
Report Post »Knightofhopex
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:55amI wish the congress was full of dead people so they couldn’t spend all day every day screwing us out of our republic. :/
Report Post »Markie Mark
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:55amTwo places I wont ever visit again, Calf and Nevada…
Report Post »Contrarian51
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:31amAdd Connecticut. They elected Blumenthal, for God’s sake.
Seriously, California, Boxer and Moonbeam aren’t shameful enough without electing an actual stiff? C’mon, man!
Report Post »wacmko1
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:53amI couldnt agree more. But I will also never visit Massachusettes again.
Report Post »Any state that wishes to live off the dole of the rest of the country, should be disolved. Pronto!
Jamestown
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 1:59pmThere There just in 85 Comments there aew more than half a dozen of us who say we will not visit Ca. Nv. Ct let’s add Ny. Me. De. Ri.thiss is our time to make the difference..Glenn ..shut your trap…I will not reward stupid behavior..
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:19pmSo true. I hate to boycott states, but i can no longer in good conscience, spend my hard earned money in welfare states where the working are soaked to pay for bankrupt social engineering.
Report Post »To the Republic
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:54amJust cause they didn’t legalize pot, didn‘t mean the idiots voting weren’t smoking it. Hey, can we put Benjamin Franklin on the freakin ballot?
IDIOTS!!!
Report Post »workin4alivin
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:53amI thought all the polititians in ca. were/are dead-brain dead that is…
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:51amSame thing happened in NV Senate race. Harry Reid died several years ago.
Report Post »kwatch
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:58amhee hee that was funny.
Report Post »rick
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:06amhaha , this reminds me of a comment from Limbaugh a couple years ago, something to the effect of…….
“ The only color they have on themselves is there varicose veins ”
Report Post »Gruug
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:50amI my state, we have a Governor elected by dead people. So why not have a state senator that is dead but elected by living voters? ;)
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:21amIt’s probably the dead voting for a dead candidate.
Report Post »robspectre
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:43amThis is the perfect reason to take the R and D off the ballot. Make people do their homework.
Report Post »REBELWITHACAUSE
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:20amTotally agree with this!!!
Report Post »Wendy in FL
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:04amSpeaking of “illegally influencing” voters, does anyone know if it is legal for a representative from a campaign to stand in front of a voting location and try to get last minute votes? Someone from the democratic state representative campaign for ZJ Hafeez was doing just that when I went to vote yesterday. He was standing right in front of the doors. I could be wrong, but I thought that wasn’t allowed.
Report Post »Impeach-BO
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:11pmA dead Democrat would run the state better than a live one. That’s for sure.
Removing the D and R won’t help. Candidates will only add in a middle nick name.
Vote for Bobby “Do it” Martin
Vote for Jane “Run it” Walters
Nothing will change.
Report Post »Muerkier
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 10:51amAwesome idea there … take the R‘s and D’s off the ballots and remove the “Straight Party Voting” option as well. MAKE people go down the ballot and choose each candidate.
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:39amThey don’t even have respect for the dead. What posseses a person to be that cold-hearted anyway?
Report Post »NFYRx
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:48amIf California didn’t have prop 19 on the ballot the state election would have turned out completely different. Instead, the ZOMBIES showed to vote for that and as a result ZOMBIES got re-elected. EVEN JERRY BROWN WAS DUG UP AND RESURRECTED!!!!AAAARRRRGGGG!!!!
Report Post »2
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:52amA dead Guy won a Senate seat in Missouri in 2000. Mel Carahan beat John Ashcroft so Mel’s Goofy Wife was a Senator. Dumb lady and now Her dumb son is a Congressman in Mo. Good think his Stupid sister lost the Senate race yesterday.
Report Post »Indomitus
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:52am“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”
Report Post »- ‘K’, Men in Black
DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:54amthey should do it like any other contest, if the winner can’t serve, give it to the runner up.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:00amThe really great thing about yesterday is that we can actually make California pay thier own bills..
Send a letter to congress …NO MORE STATE BAILOUTS…
NFYRx
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:14amTime rent the house here in Cali to some low income section 8 government breast feeders and buy another property in a red state. Woo Hoo. Time to go lay low for awhile and let the hammer and sickle do their damage here without us to pay for it.
Report Post »Stegosluggus
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:18amShurmus said that you humans do things that don’t follow even basic logical theory. You pick dead humans to lead you? Your death and ours must be different.
http://www.slugbuddies.com
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:25amWhen all dead people vote, they prefer there own.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:30amFitting, probably elected by other dead people.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:35amStupidity!
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:58amLook at it this way, if a dead Democrat wins, they can’t DO anything to mess up the states affairs any more. //sarcasm
Report Post »chazman
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 12:28pmWhat possess a person to be that coldhearted? Money and power, my friend. That and being a liberal Marxist …
Report Post »ThrowDBumsOut
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 1:06pmI cannot help but feel our nation is back in the days of Rome when a horse could be a senator, though I have to admit we’re taking it even further when I dead person can be a senator. I suppose the next thing will be holding seances on the senate floor to determine a vote and then consider it legitimate
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 1:16pmWhich one do you mean is cold hearted? Personally I think that the Dems sending that mailer is revolting at best.
Report Post »DJSKI
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 1:30pmCalifornia has always been, is now, and will probably always be, a completely liberal Democratic voting state. The only chance of a Republican winning a major statewide office would be his “celebrity” (Schwarzeneggar). Not really a surprise to me.
Report Post »Jamestown
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 1:47pmDoes America Citizens finally see yo enemy?..do you do business with this sate or any singke failure of a citizen in it? Cal. Vinyard owners don’t even pay fed. Legilated min. Wage…its where theillegalls come from…you must begin to speak with your wallet…or you pay their bill…wake faking up man..
Report Post »davidwjohnson
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 1:58pmI believe the word you’re looking for is “Democrat”.
Report Post »NFYRx
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:31pm@jamestown
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dschratwieser
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:36pmPower. Raw intense appetite for power.
Report Post »TruthDarts
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 6:45pmWARNING…Commie pinko/Progressives are after your paycheck…
FEE PROPOSED ON EVERY TRANSACTION, bank, lending, credit unions, etc.
–Direct deposit of paycheck? TAXED.
–Moving money from one account to another? TAXED.
–Take cash in to bank or credit union from child piggy bank. TAXED.
IF only 1% then $5,000 transaction means $50 imposed “TRANSACTION FEE” & your $5,000 becomes $4,950…Barrow $200,000 for a home purchase from a banking institution results in a $2000 extra FEE paid to federal government, you only get $198,000.
HOW?
H.R. 4646
look it up.
Suggestions I have read (& maybe other speculations) are:
–This bill, spells it out that everyone will pay the Government 1% of their gross income.
–Page 9 states the House and Senate shall convene
not later than November 23, 2010
and Page 11 states the vote on passage shall occur
not later than December 23, 2010.
…and Who said the post election night Nov.2010-Jan.2011 “LAME DUCK” session would be meek for fear of retribution in 2012?
HaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHAAAAAAAhaaaaaaaa….(ROFLMAO)
These guys did NOT LEARN ANYTHING with vote on Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!! & !
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