Fittingly, this came up in the CNN sidebar as a relevant story:
Alleging widespread "irregularities" on Election Day, a group of Democrats in Congress objected earlier Thursday to the counting of Ohio's 20 electoral votes.
The challenge was defeated 267-31 by the House and 74-1 by the Senate, clearing the way for the joint session to count the votes from the remaining states.
The move was not designed to overturn Bush's re-election, said Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and California Sen. Barbara Boxer, who filed the objection.
The objecting Democrats, all of whom are House members except Boxer, said they wanted to draw attention to the need for aggressive election reform in the wake of what they said were widespread voter problems.
In a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday, members of the group said they would take the action because a new report by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee found "numerous, serious election irregularities," particularly in Ohio, that led to "a significant disenfranchisement of voters."
"How can we possibly tell millions of Americans who registered to vote, who came to the polls in record numbers, particularly our young people ... to simply get over it and move on?" Tubbs Jones said at a press conference with Boxer.
Thursday's joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate to count electoral votes is specified in the U.S. Constitution. Cheney, in his role as president of the Senate, presided over the session.
The results from each state, read in alphabetical order, were ticked through quickly until Ohio was called, and a clerk read the objection filed by Boxer and Tubbs Jones.
At least they were in there punching. And the fitting memorial?
Putting a stop to those toxic "get over it" and "move on" memes. We should never get over and move on from injustice. Never, never, never, never, never.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
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ST-J in Philly last April.
Stephanie Tubbs-Jones campaigned hard for HRC in PA before the April 22 primary, and I had the good fortune of hearing her as one of the speakers at a UPenn HRC rally the night of 04/21.
She was electric and inspiring. A real rabble-rouser. Even the Big Dawg was a comedown after her.
And she hit the streets election day doing thankless and countless press appearances with Mayor Nutter.
Very sad today.
Tubbs-Jones: 3rd-ever guest on Colbert's BKAD
Here's the Comedy Central URL:
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertrepo...
Wasn't it more than a year later before Nancy Pelosi got into power, figured out what a Colbert was, and "asked" Democrat pols not to go on his show?
Tubbs-Jones was on after he was on the air for barely a month.
Here's a link on Pelosi and Colbert
but it's not contemporary. Anyone got a better one?
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
Tubbs-Jones Joked
at the appearance that I saw her at that she wanted her own talk show. I thought at the time that would've been awesome. A liberal, partisan Oprah.
Joking aside, I think she had a big future in the party and in politics and she's going to be missed. We don't have enough of these big personalities in the Democratic Party.
Not contemporary?
The article you quoted seems to be dated Aug 16, 2008, no? ST-J was on his show 11/05.
But the important question remains:
Does Pelosi get anything right?
Sorry, I meant ...
... contemporaneous. Oops.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.