Bell Scandal: it's All-Democratic!

Lamplighter · 08-09-2010, 09:09 PM

Wow, UG you really nailed 'em that time... especially the part about all the Democratic office holders in that community which has only 7:1 majority of Dem to Repub registered voters. I'm impressed.

That must be the general public is up in arms over those salaries.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-09-2010, 10:13 PM

Lamplighter, dear boy. Did you happen somehow to miss the parenthetical remark inserted into the second para I quoted? I've gone back and italicized and expanded a bit -- shoulda done that the first time, really. Mea culpa.

And they sure as hell are up in arms -- aren't those pictures something? The latest is the officials are knocking their pay down by 90% annually out of sheer embarrassment. Two have ceased to draw their pay entirely, though it doesn't look like they're going to miss a mortgage payment in so doing, either.

This crops up from time to time. It is the weakness in a democracy: these guys voted themselves the treasury. Something that was more a weakness of character than of a democracy was they used voter fraud to do it -- check out how many votes there were in the election that voted these guys the treasury, and what happened with the absentee ballots cast therein. Quite a tale. One of stuffing.

The majority is nearer five to one, there being about seventeen hundred Decline To State voters registered in Bell. Still decisive, to be sure -- for now.

Lamplighter · 08-10-2010, 12:10 AM

OK, I was reacting more to your title and the link than to what was in the quote boxes. I guess I over-reacted... Sorry.

And I agree more with your follow up post

08-09-2010, 10:13 PM	#2
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Lamplighter, dear boy. Did you happen somehow to miss the parenthetical remark inserted into the second para I quoted? I've gone back and italicized and expanded a bit -- shoulda done that the first time, really. Mea culpa. And they sure as hell are up in arms -- aren't those pictures something? The latest is the officials are knocking their pay down by 90% annually out of sheer embarrassment. Two have ceased to draw their pay entirely, though it doesn't look like they're going to miss a mortgage payment in so doing, either. This crops up from time to time. It is the weakness in a democracy: these guys voted themselves the treasury. Something that was more a weakness of character than of a democracy was they used voter fraud to do it -- check out how many votes there were in the election that voted these guys the treasury, and what happened with the absentee ballots cast therein. Quite a tale. One of stuffing. The majority is nearer five to one, there being about seventeen hundred Decline To State voters registered in Bell. Still decisive, to be sure -- for now. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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08-09-2010, 09:09 PM	#1
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Wow, UG you really nailed 'em that time... especially the part about all the Democratic office holders in that community which has only 7:1 majority of Dem to Repub registered voters. I'm impressed. That must be the general public is up in arms over those salaries.

08-10-2010, 12:10 AM	#3
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	OK, I was reacting more to your title and the link than to what was in the quote boxes. I guess I over-reacted... Sorry. And I agree more with your follow up post

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