Comments on Advance Indiana™: Counting Abduallah's Votes

10:24, it's a non-issue. The city's brilliant chi...

2007-08-30T07:01:00.000-05:00

10:24, it's a non-issue. The city's brilliant chief legal counsel Mr. Wright said so.

Any word yet on whether someone will challenge tho...

2007-08-29T22:24:00.000-05:00

Any word yet on whether someone will challenge those previous votes on the council? Other than the brief mention here, that issue seems to have faded away quickly. I hope not.

"Dems used to have a gender qualifier: if a male w...

2007-08-29T21:55:00.000-05:00

"Dems used to have a gender qualifier: if a male were committeeman, a female had to be vice committeeperson."

I think the Dems have a similar problem as the GOP - not enough interested people to fill all the PC positions, much less vice-PC. One effect of cutting down the number of precincts is less number of PC's needed.

Gary - I wonder how many of those PC's that didn't make the District 15 Caucus were vacant PC slots?

Either party can appoint anyone to a committeepers...

2007-08-29T21:10:00.000-05:00

Either party can appoint anyone to a committeeperson role, based on their own party rules. Residency is not an issue.

Electing a person to a committeeperson role, requires residency, tho.

Yeah, it sux.

Dems used to have a gender qualifier: if a male were committeeman, a female had to be vice committeeperson.

They abandoned that about five years ago.

Interesting conversation, but it doens't change the facts:

Patrice has no shame. His vote was not needed, and he showed up anyway.

Pitiful. How out of touch can you be? Did he not realize the Carson machine had failed to bail him out, and half the committeepersons there laughed at him?

He's dillusional. Thankfully, he's also history. So much for that new stadium hotel catering kitchen job he nearly demanded. As in "hire me and my wife or you're racist."

On this council, you can only get a job for yourself or your spouse if you pound on the table and you're Majority Leader. Qualifications don't matter.

Preferred, but not a rule.Also, the ballot replace...

2007-08-29T19:58:00.000-05:00

Preferred, but not a rule.

Also, the ballot replacement can be chosen EITHER by caucus OR by the County Chairman, Mike O'Connor.

As I recall, you can be APPOINTED a PC to any prec...

2007-08-29T19:56:00.000-05:00

As I recall, you can be APPOINTED a PC to any precinct, but you can only be ELECTED to the precinct in which you reside.

Its preferred you at least reside within the same township that you serve as a PC.

I think you're right about the residency for a com...

2007-08-29T19:13:00.001-05:00

I think you're right about the residency for a committeeperson, anon 7:04. In fact, I was shocked to learn that when I moved here from Illinois after someone offered to appoint me to a precinct outside my own. I said, no thanks. Something seems inherently wrong in this case, though, with allowing him to vote for his replacement. What I would like to know is why so many of the committee persons (1/3) skipped the vote.

There is only, I believe, a 30-day or 60-day resid...

2007-08-29T19:04:00.000-05:00

There is only, I believe, a 30-day or 60-day residency requirement for elected committeepersons. Many in the party do not reside in their precinct, and I believe party rules allow that. In fact, I have served as a committeeeperson for election day duty in the past, by this very device.

Nonetheless, Patrice is a complete and total goof. That was never really in doubt. And Andre won by a healthy margin. So Patrice's vote didn't really maatter. It'd have been interesting to see for whom Patrice voted...I'm told by reliable sources that Patrice is mightily POed at the Carson folks for shoving him under the bus, or not coming to his defense.

By that time they already smelled blood in the water, and an opportunity for dear young Andre.