War Room Lounge v192: Disc golf is a very touchy subject with the mods

[irish_thug]

Banworthy?

Definitely. Polish is lucky I like him.

 

[tonni]

 

[curryjunkie]

Trump supporters need to stop pretending people talk to them.

 

[curryjunkie]

 

[curryjunkie]

I'm not a Trump supporter. Belgians need to stop pretending anybody cares about their opinions

 

[curryjunkie]

Green Street Hooligans and the sequel Green Street Hooligans 2 is even better

...... oh..you're serious?

 

[Gregolian]

I still haven't seen Green Street Hooligans ever.

 

[Fawlty]

Geraldo is a bimbo

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

@Lead @Jack V Savage

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

I still haven't seen Green Street Hooligans ever.

The sequel is better than the original imo

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

...... oh..you're serious?

That either is good or that the sequel surpassed he original?

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Definitely. Polish is lucky I like him.

Luck has nothing to do with it.

It's a little something we like to call pizzazz

 

[The Diplomat]

 

[The Diplomat]

 

[Anung Un Rama]

W.T.F.

 

[Higus]

This is some next level election fuckery



https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article247132821.html

related:

https://www.local10.com/news/local/...-candidates-were-plants-funded-by-dark-money/



TL;DR:

- There was a close election for a FL state senate seat where incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez (D) narrowly lost to “Latinas for Trump” founder Ilena Garcia (R). Out of 215,000 votes, Garcia won by just 34 votes

- The narrow loss is partly explained by an atypical turnout for a 3rd Party candidate

- Alex Rodriguez (no relation, but probably not coincidental), appeared late on the ballot and was boosted by an expensive, large scale mailer campaign to thousands of residents promoting a progressive agenda similar to Jose Rodriguez and urging people to vote 3rd party. The combination of the same last name and similar progressive politics to the incumbent likely had the effect to syphon voters from the incumbent Rodriguez, either thru confusion or exacerbating 2-party disillusionment

- Fun math: if only 0.5% of Alex Rodriguez voters did so by accident, Jose Rodriguez would have won

- The kicker: Alex Rodriguez is a registered Republican that doesn’t even live in that district, and funding for the mail in campaign was done via an anonymous $550,000 dark money donation


excerpts from article, emphasis mine

After 3-day recount, incumbent Democrat loses Senate seat to Ileana Garcia by 34 votes
Samantha J. Gross, Ana Ceballos

14-18 minutes

Manual recount underway for Senate District 37

The Miami-Dade Elections canvassing board was inspecting ballots and counting them by hand in a manual recount for Senate District 37, a razor-thin race that was one of most consequential elections yet to be called in the state.



The Miami-Dade Elections canvassing board was inspecting ballots and counting them by hand in a manual recount for Senate District 37, a razor-thin race that was one of most consequential elections yet to be called in the state. By David Santiago | Pierre Taylior


After three long days of a painstaking recount, early results on Thursday showed Latinas for Trump co-founder Ileana Garcia leading Democratic incumbent José Javier Rodríguez in the race for Senate District 37 by a mere 34 votes.

In a video posted shortly after the recount was done, Rodríguez conceded and called for an investigation into the race, raising concerns about the influence of a third-party candidate backed by dark money who received more than 6,300 votes in an election decided by a few dozen out of more than 215,000.

“Democracy requires transparency,” he said in the video. “In order to achieve that, I believe this election requires a full investigation so that those who may have violated the law are held to account and so that such tactics are not used in future elections.”

…

Republicans, however, said Rodríguez’s loss should be added to the “litany of introspection Florida Democrats need to explore in the coming months” in the wake of stinging defeats this November, including the loss of five seats in the Florida House. (Higus note: grade-A trolling on their part)

…

No-party candidate is a factor
Much mystery remains around the network of unknown candidates with no party affiliation (NPA) who ran in three competitive Senate districts, most notably in Senate District 37, where the third-party candidate netted more than 6,300 votes and likely influenced the outcome.

Voters in Senate Districts 9, 37 and 39 were targeted by similar-looking political mail ads funded by a mystery donor that aimed to confuse voters in an apparent effort to shave votes from Democratic candidates.

The mailers included messaging on issues that historically appeal to Democrats, and advertised the little-known candidates who did not actively campaign. The ads urged voters to “cut the strings” from party-backed candidates and to vote for third-party candidates.

Voters in Senate District 37 received dark money-funded mailers that featured little-known, third-party candidate Alex Rodriguez. The mailers aimed to “confuse” voters.

In Senate District 37, Alex Rodriguez, who shares a surname with the Democrat incumbent, was promoted in dark money mailers as a candidate who would “fight climate change,” “hold the police accountable” and “guarantee a living wage.” He received about 3% of the vote.

Third-party or write-in candidates ran in eight of the 20 state Senate races. On average, those candidates got about 2% of the vote, making the vote count toward Alex Rodriguez well above average.

Both Rodríguez and Celso Alfonso, the no-party candidate who ran in District 39, were registered Republicans when they voted in the 2018 midterm elections. Both qualified as candidates the same day, with checks hand-delivered in Tallahassee and time-stamped within minutes of one another.

Both candidates’ email addresses are Gmail accounts with identical patterns: first initial, last name, district number and “2020.” They also have identical campaign finance records, both only reporting $2,000 loans to themselves, and used the money to pay for the $1,187.88 filing fee required of no-party candidates for state Senate.

A WPLG Local 10 report found that Alex Rodriguez did not live at the address he listed in his campaign filings.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office, which prosecuted ex-lawmaker Daisy Baez for lying about her place of residency on her voter registration affidavit, said they were aware of the report. However, they could neither confirm nor deny the existence of an ongoing investigation, citing agency policy.

Rodríguez has blamed Senate Republican leaders for planting the third-party candidate in the race, saying “Tallahassee Republicans ran one unethical campaign with two candidates,” referring to Garcia and Alex Rodriguez.

Erin Isaac, a spokeswoman for the Florida Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee and incoming Senate President Wilton Simpson, specifically said that the committee and Simpson were not involved in Alex Rodriguez’s campaign, candidacy or mailers.

Much mystery remains about the donor who paid for the mailers. The donor, Proclivity, had never made political contributions in Florida until early October and has no paper trail, according to business and tax records reviewed by the Herald.

The donor poured $550,000 into two new political committees — Our Florida PC and The Truth PC — which quickly used the money to buy what is believed to be hundreds of thousands of mailed political advertisements in support of the no-party candidates.

The committees’ only registered agents are Sierra Olive and Hailey DeFilippis, two young women with no known political experience. Both women are from the Tampa Bay area, Olive from Palm Harbor and DeFilippis from Dunedin.

Olive, 24, and DeFilippis, 25, both registered Republicans, have failed to report campaign contributions and expenditures for the political committees as required by state law, and could face fines, according to a letter sent by the Florida Division of Elections on Oct. 29. These letters serve as further indication that the committees were not actively engaged in campaign activity, other than to buy the mailers in early October.

The $550,000 spent by the committees flowed to a company called Advance Impression LLC, which was created in 2018 and is operated out of a private residence in Clermont, according to state business records.

The company has no working phone and it had never been paid to do political mailers by a candidate or political committee in Florida until The Truth PC and Our Florida PC popped up and made the payments, according to campaign finance records.

Additionally, The Truth PC listed its address as the address for the printing company in expenditure records for the mailers. It is unclear why the committee and the company share the same address, neither would respond to requests for comment.

A search of both Olive and DeFilippis’ names and home addresses in campaign finance records showed no links to other campaign expenditures or contributions this election cycle. Attempts to reach both women by social media, email and phone calls have been unsuccessful.

The candidates
Ileana Garcia was relatively unknown in political circles until 2016, when she founded Latinas for Trump to counter antagonism against Hispanic supporters of President Trump. Before then, she was a television personality and self-described Sandra Bullock doppelgänger.


Shortly after Latinas for Trump got off the ground, the Trump campaign hired her as Trump’s communication director to do Latino outreach. Garcia then went on to work as deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration.


According to her website, Garcia, who is Cuban American was raised in Allapattah and is a single mother of one. Her Twitter was recently wiped and her Facebook deleted over the weekend. Before her Facebook was deleted, she prematurely changed the page’s name to “Senator Ileana Garcia.”

In August 2019 Garcia joined Parler, a social media site that touts “free expression without violence and no censorship” and displays posts that contain far-right content, anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories. Her account is private.

Garcia, 50, never granted an interview to the Miami Herald before or after the election. Erin Issac, a spokeswoman for Senate Republican campaigns, stonewalled all attempts to reach her, and provided statements on her behalf that broadly addressed the issues she would prioritize if elected.

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[tonni]

 

[Higus]

Only guy I know who plays discgolf is my coworkers who has raging TDS. You literally can't have a conversation with him without him crying about Trump. Funny enough our other coworker is way more liberal, but he is willing to have a conversation. TDS guy literally just yells whatever pops up in his phone.

What kind of stuff is guy2 willing to converse about that guy1 isn't?

 

[Rational Poster]

W.T.F.

Imagine thinking we want to soften the blow.

Especially after this tantrum.

I want Trump so depressed from defeat we never hear his stupid voice again.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

What kind of stuff is guy2 willing to converse about that guy1 isn't?

He likes to talk about disarming police and UBI, but he actually listens to dissenting opinions. Actually I think he's realized disarming police is a bad idea at this point.