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In a message dated 1/8/01 11:50:32 AM Central Standard Time,
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> Samantha,
> You are citing exceptions to the normal rule. Note that they ran
unopposed,
> not really requiring a primary.
In the Bartow, GA, example, the Republicans did not run unopposed in all
local elections.
> So you have refuted me and proven that just as many Republicans run at the
local level as Democrats in the South and always have.
I have proven that your blanket statements are untrue.
> From time to time, a local candidate will
> run as a Republican, just as I originally stated,
Please show me where you said that. This is what you stated:
"If I want to select a Republican primary candidate, I would be given a
ballot with only those of that party which would be locally blank. And of
course one cannot vote in both. It would require me to give up voting for
any local offices to vote in the Republican primary."
and
"ALL local politics have been handled by the Democratic party ...."
and
"Therefore, now actually read this, all local offices are run as a contest
among Democrats."
> I think Louisiana has the right idea of non-partisan primaries.
Republicans
> running at the local level has only begun to happen over recent years.
Fine, and perhaps that is true, but it isn't what you said at all.
> And why is Florida not the Deep South? Can't get much deeper. True, it
has
> been over-run by "retirees" and the immigration population is very large.
Florida, especially southern Florida, is a melting pot.
>. What a
> fool I am to attempt to explain anything to one who knows everything about
> the subject! And can actually find a couple of Republican candidates in
> recent elections to proove it!
This and other personal slams I also take issue with. Before this, because
I responded to what appeared to be a clear statement you posted about Bessie
Smith that there were reports that her driver was turned away but Bessie was
not because she was DOA, I am accused of bashing the elderly. Because
another poster understood that Bessie being turned away was likely true, you
bashed her viciously and personally.
I am not the one making ridiculous blanket statements, demanding what I say
be taken as fact. You are. And then you mock me for coming off as a
"know-it-all."
> Your research did not show how many counties held only Democratic
primaries.
I don't take issue with the trends you claim, but with your blanket
statements, period.
> I actually thought explaining this tradition might
> shed some light and explain to you why your beloved Democrats are not
taking
> up your rally cry.
Pointing out the reasons behind a generally Democratic trend on the local
level in the South is helpful. Through the miasma of personal insults and
blanket statements of so-called fact, I did learn something I hadn't known.
I appreciate the info, even though it came dressed like a bullet wrapped in
shards of glass.
>Think whatever you like and continue your self-serving
> denial of the facts of the way things are done. How does one so
resourceful
> as you explain this, do tell? Since my theory is so flawed, what is your
> correct one? In my vast ignorance on my own voting history, I should be
> informed by your superior knowledge on the matter lest I waste away in my
> ignorant conditio
You know, you defend a President-Select I find abhorrent and a region of
the country I have had horrid personal experience with. That you do so
making easily refuted blanket statements and using an immature
personal-attack style that nullifies your credibility is fine with me. I
like it when people I strongly disagree with create credibility issues for
themselves.
> BTW, it is spelled
> "Chattanooga."
Yes, it is. My bad. By the way, it is nonpartisan, not "non-partisan,"
overrun, not "over-run," prove, not "proove."
Samantha
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