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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 16, 2013 11:58am |
Zeus the Moose: Why does Americans for Prosperity want children to drown?
Taking the "Pro-life until birth" meme literally?
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 15, 2013 11:48am |
Happy birthday to the better Cuomo.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 12, 2013 10:00am |
Brandonius Maximus: Tags say anti gay marriage, but has he said anything one way or another on the subject?
Well he married Barbara and she's sure as hell not happy.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 11, 2013 07:48pm |
GO DANCIN'!!
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 10, 2013 02:54pm |
Union City Mayor... and state senator
...has called the governor one of the best New Jersey ever had.
Probably cause the Fat Ass is taking his sweet time getting rid of the double-dippers that like him.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 10, 2013 09:36am |
A Democrat that everyone (at least here) hates vs. a kooky Republican, but the Dem's still ahead in the polls. Why can't we have that here in Jersey?
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 10, 2013 09:14am |
What's a FORMER DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR?
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 09, 2013 12:21pm |
A most gracious thank you for single handedly killing Asher Heimermann's political career.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 06, 2013 12:20pm |
Leno's like User#194; except at least Leno stops trolling at 12:30 and is going away next year.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 06, 2013 10:49am |
And this is why you don't predict "Safe" for Senate appointments...
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 05, 2013 02:41pm |
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 05, 2013 09:15am |
00: NJ Dem reaction to this has been silly. Yeah, Christie did it for self-serving purposes but so what?
It's hypocritical of him to veto an early voting bill based on the costs but then spend money on a special election when it can be held three weeks later (or any other program that costs money and benefits people greatly like health funding or the NYC tunnel). Is it something that the Dems ought to sue over? No, but it's another mark on his record of not sharing the burden when he wants to cut the budget.
Of course, this will mean squat to the November voters who will vote for him solely because he didn't go to Disney World for the last storm.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 04, 2013 03:22pm |
Regarding the statutes on special elections, straight from the state website:
19:3-26. If a vacancy shall happen in the representation of this State in the United States senate, it shall be filled at the general election next succeeding the happening thereof, unless such vacancy shall happen within 70 days next preceding such election, in which case it shall be filled by election at the second succeeding general election, unless the governor of this State shall deem it advisable to call a special election therefor, which he is authorized hereby to do.
The governor of this State may make a temporary appointment of a senator of the United States from this State whenever a vacancy shall occur by reason of any cause other than the expiration of the term; and such appointee shall serve as such senator until a special election or general election shall have been held pursuant to law and the Board of State Canvassers can deliver to his successor a certificate of election. [Link]
I can't find anything stating that the special election cannot be held in November (if anything, the special election defaults to the November general election date) so I don't know where Christie's getting that statute from.
Although if he did hold it in November, he'd have to deal with this:
19:14-8. In the columns of each of the political parties which made nominations at the next preceding primary election to the general election and in the personal choice column, within the space between the two-point hair line rules, there shall be printed the title of each office to be filled at such election, except as hereinafter provided.
Such titles of office shall be arranged in the following order: electors of President and Vice-President of the United States; member of the United States Senate; Governor; member of the House of Representatives; ... [Link]
So he could be doing this so his name is still at the top of the ballot, a.k.a.: " ."
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 03, 2013 10:51am |
Considering the events of today, seeing "Br* Byrne" and "Special Election" made me WTF for a sec. ( [Link] )
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 03, 2013 10:04am |
Brandonius Maximus: It'd really behoove people to become informed about how this works rather than just believe whatever disinformation is put out by its opponents.
<America>That would involve reading, no-go. FOX News or bust.</America>
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 03, 2013 09:28am |
If you want to kick her out of graduation for wearing (what they think is) a goofy thing, that's fine and dandy. But why deny a diploma stating that she fulfilled her academic requirements over the past four years for doing something minute like this?
And if she's graduating at 17 and is from Alabama, all the more reason to be proud of her!
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 03, 2013 09:25am |
Yeah, I don't see Christie going the John Lynch route of appointing a Dem; 2016 notwithstanding.
Even though this is what I was fearing, when I saw Lautenberg speak at the Nov. 2012 NJ State Party party, he gave a pretty strong speech and his voice gave no impression that he was slowing down. But I guess this illness that he got recently came on and escalated rapidly. RIP to my now former Senator.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 01, 2013 03:12pm |
Kane for Senate: You just have to be a natural born citizen at least 35 years old, the fact that he resides in Mexico would not prevent him from seeking the Presidency.
...except for the part of Article II that says
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | June 01, 2013 02:21pm |
Sesel: It's likely that Ventura is ineligible, since he resides in Mexico most of the time.
Eligibility never stopped Barry Hussein.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | May 31, 2013 03:35pm |
I know we're not supposed to add parties for one-candidate parties but the name was just too hard to pass up to leave in the infobox.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | May 29, 2013 03:21pm |
Like Martin Luther King once said, "You've no need to light a nightlight on a light night like tonight."
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | May 28, 2013 02:55pm |
Who else first thought that due to the medallion he wears, the photo we have here was cropped from this:
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | May 26, 2013 01:19pm |
Guy: Traffic light/speed cameras have the potential to encourage safer driving and reduce accidents.
Actually signing roads with speed limits closer to the actual design speed of the road probably does a lot more. There's plenty of roads that I use on my commute to work that have limits that are either 30 or 35 when traffic can safely move at 50 most of the time. Now, since people know they won't get pulled over for 5 to 10 above the limit, they'll just do that instead of following the limit.
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | May 24, 2013 04:23am |
He should change his middle name based on his title; how 'bout John Ex-Cronsvict Rowland?
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| D:6454 | Mr. Matt ( 1608.79 points) | May 23, 2013 05:32am |
There's a Dr. Frank H. Luce that was born on May 26, 1859; died Feb. 4, 1937 in Illinois [Link] . The death certificate links from his Wikipedia page ( [Link] ) lists date of death as "Feb. 1, 1937" (sometimes on these websites, the date defaults to the first of the month if no date is fount) And the plot thickens...
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