ED NOTE: See our own thoughts on the “Constitutional Option” of a Congressional challenge in the Jennings/Buchanan FL-13 race, and how this version differs from the same law (mis)applied in last Summer’s Busby/Bilbray Special U.S. House election in CA-50 as posted yesterday.
From today’s St. Petersburg Times…
“Absolutely not,” Dean said in a taped “Political Connections” interview airing Sunday on Bay News 9. “You cannot seat someone if you don’t have an election that’s valid.
“This election is not valid. There are 18,000 people who may have voted and we don’t know what happened to their votes,” he said. “You can bet that if the Republicans were 500 votes short they’d be calling for a new election, and they’d be right.”
On Wednesday, Democrat Christine Jennings said she will ask the U.S. House to take the extreme measure of conducting its own investigation into the election.
In a side note, Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Abramoff), a man who knows a thing or two about both bad elections and bullying people to get his way, is quoted in the story as well:
Feeney, aside from allegedly asking computer programmer turned whistleblower Clint Curtis to create vote-rigging software back in 2000 (which is notorious enough), notoriously also announced, back in 2000 as Speaker of the Florida House, that he would take it upon himself to ensure that Florida’s Electors went to George W. Bush no matter what the United States Supreme Court would ultimately decide during the 2000 imbroglio.
Feeney is a bully of the highest reknown. With a fresh election “victory” under his belt (albeit one which his challenger, the whistleblower-turned-candidate Curtis, has questioned) watch for him to crank up his bully-boy-ness as things move forward in this and other related affairs in the new Congress. Watch for The BRAD BLOG to keep calling him on it.
Dean: Dems should keep out Buchanan
Oh oh, The head of the DNC is, (take a deep breath), CASTING AN ASPERSION ON THE VOTING MACHINES!
Hey Santorum, maybe you can impound those bad voting machines after all!
{Ed Note: Sorry, Bill, take all the screen shots you want. Certain maniacs have been barred from BradBlog for cause, and your guy is one of them. –99}
I think Feeney lives in never-never land. After 18,326 votes disappear in Sarasota without any rational explanation, he offers empty threats. Voters have concerns about the way we elect our officials.Yet he is rattled at the request for an investigation.He is not concerned that our standards should be higher for elections.
Sigh…..
Feeney? 2 more years??? God help me.
C
Don’t think bullying works anymore. Good day when Howard Dean addresses our biggest national security problem. I count on him to be smart and fair. Having the democratic congress call it would set a dangerous precedent. Repubs. and dems. both corrupt.