The best candidate for president is....
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Crazy. I mean, like so many positive waves, maybe we can't lose. You're on.
Moriarty as his veep or maybe Crapgame? Crapgame might be the better choice with all that experience making deal deals.
Is Lyndon LaRouche still among the living?
It doesn't really make a difference. I'm originally from Lincoln County, the dead regularly vote and run for office there. Landslide For Lyndon!
It doesn't really make a difference. I'm originally from Lincoln County, the dead regularly vote and run for office there. Landslide For Lyndon!
I saw something in real life within the past month that reminded me of the movie. Was there not some theft of something relating to the Syria battle? Often wondered how the Hogan movie moved the goods to US soil. And how did German tank operator collect? Just things that stimulate thinking.
Mike, from Mingo and reside in SC for 25 years. The last time I had someone check voting record, I had perfect voting record in Mingo. Really nice people there that continue to assist.
Do you remember the families pols would move in to be eligible for the election, and they'd be gone the day after? I always wondered what happened to the kids? They'd be in school long enough for you to get to know them, then they were gone, never to be seen again.
My Grandpa was precinct captain in Lincoln County. We'd sit on the porch and keep a running count of who voted in the church across the field. He would always point out an old man who lived nearby. The guy would go from car to car getting his half-pints and the 20 bucks that was the going rate for a vote. What the vote buyers didn't know was the old guy couldn't read or write. Other than pulling the lever at the top for the general election, he had no idea who he was voting for in the Democratic primary, which was the real election.
My Grandpa was precinct captain in Lincoln County. We'd sit on the porch and keep a running count of who voted in the church across the field. He would always point out an old man who lived nearby. The guy would go from car to car getting his half-pints and the 20 bucks that was the going rate for a vote. What the vote buyers didn't know was the old guy couldn't read or write. Other than pulling the lever at the top for the general election, he had no idea who he was voting for in the Democratic primary, which was the real election.
Thanks for the story...... Every time I have tried to point how WV politics have been conducted I have been lambasted by the "business as usual" crowd.
I worked inside the house and enjoyed challenge. Two of the most challenging just happened to be school principles. They were under the impression that they were entitled to go behind the curtain to assist. Their title was "lever brothers". They would actually pull the lever and escort the voter outside and give a positive or negative signal to pay or not.
After reading the law, they could only provide that much assistance if it was so indicated on their registration card. Made a bunch of people mad that day. Voters may have been paid as normal, but they certainly did not know what they were paying for. No one received assistance except those so marked on registration card.
Born, I come from a political family, I've seen stuff like that all my life. It makes you a cynic at a young age.
The best one in my personal experience involved my Uncle, who had the same role as Grandpa in a little town in Putnam County. He went home to have breakfast and came back to find out the Democratic poll workers there had been telling Republicans they couldn't vote in the general election if the hadn't voted in the primary. He and my cousin nearly came to blows with the poll workers before the workers backed off.
Jay Rockefeller once gave the Mayor of that town a check for several thousand dollars during one his early gubernatorial campaigns for "improvements to the sewer system". There was just one tiny detail, at that time that little town didn't have a sewer system. It didn't have one for another decade
The best one in my personal experience involved my Uncle, who had the same role as Grandpa in a little town in Putnam County. He went home to have breakfast and came back to find out the Democratic poll workers there had been telling Republicans they couldn't vote in the general election if the hadn't voted in the primary. He and my cousin nearly came to blows with the poll workers before the workers backed off.
Jay Rockefeller once gave the Mayor of that town a check for several thousand dollars during one his early gubernatorial campaigns for "improvements to the sewer system". There was just one tiny detail, at that time that little town didn't have a sewer system. It didn't have one for another decade
I remember "lever brothers". My Grandpa hated a cousin of his for being one, and a Democrat one to boot. They usually only trotted 'em for the general election in my neck of the woods.
I was 50 dollar a day sign holder outside of polling places for most of my teens. They moved us away from the doors in the 70's to 100 yards out. I don't think sign holders exist now that the law requires a much further distance than 100 yards.
I was 50 dollar a day sign holder outside of polling places for most of my teens. They moved us away from the doors in the 70's to 100 yards out. I don't think sign holders exist now that the law requires a much further distance than 100 yards.
I remember a Mike who always sold his vote. He showed up at 7AM when the polls opened. Unfortunately, the election had already been decided and there was no money and no interest. That was the year to vote for liquor by the drink. Absolutely zero money interest in the outcome. Mike walked the grounds until 7PM when the polls closed. No one ever solicited his vote, and after the 12 hour day, he went home without voting. There was not even any liquor on the grounds, and I assure the world that had never happened before or since.