Author: TSO
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Let the Spin Begin
Yeah, I am still awake at 5:38. Maybe I will go to Dennys.
OK, so as you know, VoteVets endorsed 10 candidates (No GOP) and Vets For Freedom 11 (including 1 Dem). SO how did they do?
VoteVets 0-9-1.
VFF 8-3.Naturally, this can be attributed to the bravery of dicksmith, Jonn Soltz and all the fine men and women
playing Sir Robinof VoteVets.VoteVets candidates have taken a lickin’ this cycle. But that’s not unexpected. We deliberately seek out Veterans who might otherwise have problems gaining traction. We support Veterans who otherwise would struggle for exposure. But we support these candidates because we know they have our best interest, as Veterans, at heart. We’ve been successful over the last six years at getting our candidates elected, and we’ll be back with more candidates who will work hard for Veterans, as well as for our candidates who fell short this cycle.
Um, you’ve been successful?
To quote a truly brave American, Dude, you have no
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House Tracker
OK, so I went and voted this morning: 2 Libertarians (US House and US Senate), 1 Democrat (Sec of State) and the remainder straight R. As for why: I just don’t like Dan Coats. The guy moved away and said he was never coming back, and then came back and said he wanted to represent Hoosiers. If this race were closer, I would have voted for him, but since it is not, and the Lib (Rebecca St Burris) was saying all the right things, she got my vote. In the House, I was going to vote for Dr. Marvin Scott (GOP) until he decided to chastise the national party for not supporting him, intimating it was because he was black. I’m pretty sure you didn’t get support because your new media guy sent out Tweets that said:
“U should not allow queers around kids”
“Homosexuality is wrong & dangerous to everyone”
And the ever-popular: “Filthy Queer.”Anyway, I met Dr. Scott at a Indy GOP function, and he seemed like a great guy, but the story he wanted me to push was about the incumbent pushing Sharia law. Trust me, in Indianapolis we have a lot more to worry about than the nascient threat of Sharia law.
And the GOP guy for Sec of State just wasn’t good. I’m just not sure I can vote for a guy who registered to vote at his ex-wifes house in order to keep his seat on a town council. Just not right.
So anyway, as much as I REALLY wanted to be a part of the Wave, I just couldn’t do it. I still want the GOP in the House to crush, but I didn’t have much opportunity to help that and remain true to voting for the man or woman and not the party.
Anyway, here’s a tracker I set up for tonight in case someone wanted a scorecard. Alas, Vets for Freedom and VoteVets do not take each other head on, but I suspect it will be a rough night over at casa de dicksmith.
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Happy Halloween everyone!
Our son went as a Chariot. Astonishingly he didn’t seem to mind it, and got lots of love from strangers at the Farmers Market in Broad Ripple.
I’ll be spending today with my in-laws, and tomorrow watching football. Wish we could have made it to The Sniper’s St. Jacques-tober Fest.
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Criticisms of the New IAVA Scorecard (Actually, ALL Scorecards)
[Look folks, I realize this shit is dry enough to light on fire and use for heating, so you don’t need to read it all, but IAVA put a lot of effort into it, and so I want to give it an equal amount. Read until you fall asleep, and when you wake up, wipe the drool off your chin with a readily accessible wet nap and scan down to the divider line and read the conclusion.]
Prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Duke Power Company had a policy whereby African-Americans were only allowed to serve in the manual labor branches, and could not be selected for managerial or upper level positions. Clearly the CRA was intended to end this, and so Duke changed their policy to one where any candidate for selection to a higher position had to demonstrate that they had a High School Diploma, and meet a minimum score on a standardized IQ test. The Court in this case held that while the “intent” of the promotional scheme was not racially motivated, the “disparate impact” on various ethnicities was.
In pertinent part, the Court held that:
The Company’s lack of discriminatory intent is suggested by special efforts to help the undereducated employees through Company financing of two-thirds the cost of tuition for high school training. But Congress directed the thrust of the Act to the consequences of employment practices, not simply the motivation.
As I read through IAVA’s second annual Report Card, I kept coming back to that case. I’m willing to concede for the sake of argument that IAVA never intended for their scorecard to lean left. (Or, just plain fall over to the left.) Let me be precise on this, because I am likely to get beat up by both sides. I think it is demonstrably true that Paul Rieckhoff and many others high up in IAVA are Democrat Leaning. Fine. One can certainly counter that VFF leans to the Republicans. All of that is fair. However, for whatever one might hold against Paul, I’ve never heard it suggested or even intimated that the dude wasn’t sharp, and that he didn’t want to help veterans. Some might take issue with that here, but I mean among veterans advocates, he’s generally seen as a straight shooter. Additionally, if IAVA has a weakness, it is that it is perceived to be left of center. Paul, more than anything I am sure, wants more veterans in his group. And so, it would stand to reason that he wants to appear as non-partisan as he can.
This is why I wonder what he thought when he looked at the results of his Report Card. For clarity’s sake I am sticking to the Senate votes in this, Part I of what will either be a one or two part post. I’m not sure I can add much on the House side once I show the infirmities of the Senate one.
The rest is after the jump.
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Law School: “It’s like a distilled bunch of the biggest A-Holes you knew in college”
Saw this in the HotAir headlines, and I know some lawyer friends that read TAH will love this.
