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Only in NH: Anarchist Democrat Elected as State Rep in Manchester
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The best part of the story has not even been brought up here.
So Tim tied in the Democratic Primary with an opponent. There was a recount. Tim won by 1 vote, his own vote. That's right, if just 1 gay anarchist didn't vote for himself, he would have lost the election. Because the anarchist voted for himself, he is now a state representative.
At least in NH, it is important that ever anarchist votes because you never know when there will be a hand recount and your anarchist vote will decide the election.
So Tim tied in the Democratic Primary with an opponent. There was a recount. Tim won by 1 vote, his own vote. That's right, if just 1 gay anarchist didn't vote for himself, he would have lost the election. Because the anarchist voted for himself, he is now a state representative.
At least in NH, it is important that ever anarchist votes because you never know when there will be a hand recount and your anarchist vote will decide the election.
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Your Vote Counts in NH: Anarchist Wins by One Vote in Manchester
November 15, 2012
Ian
http://freekeene.com/2012/11/15/your-vote-counts-in-nh-anarchist-wins-by-one-vote-in-manchester/
November 15, 2012
Ian
http://freekeene.com/2012/11/15/your-vote-counts-in-nh-anarchist-wins-by-one-vote-in-manchester/
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I'd be curious to See Stefan Molyneux's take on an anarchist not just running, but winning his race.
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Now Reason is in on the action.
Anarchist Defeats Minarchist in New Hampshire Election
Jesse Walker|Nov. 19, 2012 2:20 pm
http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/19/anarchist-defeats-minarchist-in-new-hamp
Even in New Hampshire there are the silly where's the statist or where in the world is the statist and who's the statist debates. Of course, in this case, someone actually got elected
Anarchist Defeats Minarchist in New Hampshire Election
Jesse Walker|Nov. 19, 2012 2:20 pm
http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/19/anarchist-defeats-minarchist-in-new-hamp
Even in New Hampshire there are the silly where's the statist or where in the world is the statist and who's the statist debates. Of course, in this case, someone actually got elected
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That is awesome
I <3 NH
Awesome Job Democrats! Elected another Criminal!
NH: First Elected Transgender Resigns Before Taking Office
The Laconia Daily Sun reported over the weekend that Laughton is a felon. No one discovered Laughton’s criminal history until after the election, though, because she was legally named Barry Charles Laughton, Jr. when she pleaded guilty to criminal charges in court.
“Laughton, recently elected as one of three lawmakers to represent Hillsborough County House District 31, is a convicted felon and served 4-1/2 months in jail in 2008 for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud,” The Laconia Daily Sun reports. “She was also convicted of tire slashing and at one point reportedly admitted she faked illness to gain an ambulance ride from Weirs Beach back to the heart of Laconia.”
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/27/f...s-after-felony-past-discovered/#ixzz2DUXKYnMa
“Laughton, recently elected as one of three lawmakers to represent Hillsborough County House District 31, is a convicted felon and served 4-1/2 months in jail in 2008 for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud,” The Laconia Daily Sun reports. “She was also convicted of tire slashing and at one point reportedly admitted she faked illness to gain an ambulance ride from Weirs Beach back to the heart of Laconia.”
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/27/f...s-after-felony-past-discovered/#ixzz2DUXKYnMa
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Yes, criminals are often elected in NH. There is nothing wrong with a criminal running for office, as long as the criminal has done his or her time.
Unfortunately, Stacie Laughton didn't want to go to prison for welfare fraud. That make sense but her trial would have been interesting. I'd love to hear her lawyer explain how someone could be disabled and collecting welfare for not being able to work, while being a full time worker. She could have had 100s of additional articles about her.
Unfortunately, Stacie Laughton didn't want to go to prison for welfare fraud. That make sense but her trial would have been interesting. I'd love to hear her lawyer explain how someone could be disabled and collecting welfare for not being able to work, while being a full time worker. She could have had 100s of additional articles about her.
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'Unelectable Ron Paul elected.'
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She seems determined to fight all of the potential charges against her. I can think of at least 5 charges that might be pressed against her. I wish her luck!
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NH Produces Weirdest Political Story of 2012, All Time
By Tim Murphy on Thu. November 29, 2012 6:57 AM PDT
Democrats won big on election night in New Hampshire. They held onto the governor's office, took back two seats in Congress, and won control of the state house of representatives. But for progressives, the victories went even deeper than that: At least four seats in the legislature went to activists with the Occupy Wall Street satellite, Occupy New Hampshire. Granite State progressive blogger Bill Tucker catches the group touting its success on Facebook: "We aren't going to reveal names, they can if they want. But we have 4 or 5 people who were very involved Occupiers, and another handful who were part of the network—either already Reps or newly elected. We got juice—or maybe just a little pulp."
How did this happen? It's largely a consequence of the state's uniquely enormous legislature. At 400 members (for 1.3 million people) it's the third-largest legislative body in the English-speaking world, and you only need about a thousand votes to win a seat.
With the election wins, New Hampshire becomes the first state where Occupiers have secured an actual foothold in the political arena. But they're not the only group of ideological activists who are winning elections in the Granite State; they're following the trail already blazed by members of the Free State Project, the movement to repopulate New Hampshire with libertarians and slowly turn the state into a small-government (or no-government) paradise. As I reported in a piece for the magazine last summer, the movement has finally begun to make inroads in the state legislature, winning seats—while often keeping their affiliation under wraps—and then getting to work deregulating margarine and de-funding high-speed rail. As conservatives struggled statewide this November, the libertarians held their own. Free State Project president Carla Gericke announced:
Over the past eight years, FSP participants who have become state representatives went from zero to 1, to four, to 12-14 in 2010, to eleven this cycle. We only have 1,100 movers on the ground. With only 5% of our goal movers in NH, political FSP participants held onto the status quo while Republicans got trounced. Baby steps, people. It ain't called a "project" for nothing!
Take, for example, the case of newly elected Rep. Tim O'Flaherty, a self-described "anarchist" who ran as a Democrat and edged out Republican challenger Dan Garthwaite in a Manchester district. As it happens, both O'Flaherty and Garthwaite are supporters of the Free State Project. They're also roommates. The two rivals live at "Porc Manor," a Manchester home that's become a flophouse of sorts for Free States. (Supporters called themselves "porcupines" because they bristle only when provoked.) A 2009 landlord manual for Porc Manor offers tip for renting to Free Staters, noting that, for instance, "A lot of porcupines will frown on deposits, mostly because they feel their status as acknowledged defenders of property rights makes them immune to the reasons landlords require deposits."
Their living arrangement served as fuel for perhaps the most unusual storyline in any election this year, or maybe ever. As the Manchester Union-Leader's Mark Hayward explained:
In one of the more bizarre moments in the campaign, O'Flaherty wrote to Comedy Central's election Internet site to say he and Garthwaite are lovers, and the election would decide certain role-playing aspects of their relationship. (We're talking dominance and jackboots here.)
But O'Flaherty, who is gay, said he doesn't know Garthwaite well, and he made the comments to undermine his opponent with his Republican base.
No really, this actually happened. Here's what O'Flaherty told Comedy Central's Dan Poppy in an email:
Things were hot and heavy when Dan and I first met and we found ourselves living in the same boarding house. We have had some heated political arguments but I haven't been able to persuade Dan to turn from his Statist beliefs. Lately we've been looking for ways to keep things interesting in the bedroom and we've been exploring some roleplaying. Dan likes to play the cop/thug, forcing me to lick his jackboot.
I've become concerned recently that our roleplaying was counter-revolutionary and contrary to my anarchist principles. Violent revolt was a looming prospect but Dan (the consummate Statist and devout believer in the Democratic Faith) suggested we put the matter to a vote. We agreed we would both run for State Representative but on opposite sides of the ticket, the winner gets to choose his role to play in the bedroom.
Now voters in Manchester's Ward 5 will decide the outcome. If Dan beats me in the election his Statist domination will continue unchecked. If voters should choose me they will quite literally be saying "Fu*% the State(ist)." Please tell your readers to spew their vitriol on my Facebook page.
In his interview with the Union-Leader, O'Flaherty also floated an unusual hypothesis for his primary victory over former state Rep. Richard Komi: "He said Komi may have suffered from name problems; his name is similar to Joseph Kony, the Ugandan guerilla leader whose capture was encouraged by the Kony 2012 effort, a viral Internet video."
On November 8th, when the vote count in Manchester's Ward 5 was made official, O'Flaherty hopped on Facebook with a simple but deliberate message for his supporters: "Victory is mine!" He added, "It was the best $2 i've ever spent!"
And with that, New Hampshire may have finally outdone itself.
http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/weirdest-political-campaign-ever-new-hampshire
By Tim Murphy on Thu. November 29, 2012 6:57 AM PDT
Democrats won big on election night in New Hampshire. They held onto the governor's office, took back two seats in Congress, and won control of the state house of representatives. But for progressives, the victories went even deeper than that: At least four seats in the legislature went to activists with the Occupy Wall Street satellite, Occupy New Hampshire. Granite State progressive blogger Bill Tucker catches the group touting its success on Facebook: "We aren't going to reveal names, they can if they want. But we have 4 or 5 people who were very involved Occupiers, and another handful who were part of the network—either already Reps or newly elected. We got juice—or maybe just a little pulp."
How did this happen? It's largely a consequence of the state's uniquely enormous legislature. At 400 members (for 1.3 million people) it's the third-largest legislative body in the English-speaking world, and you only need about a thousand votes to win a seat.
With the election wins, New Hampshire becomes the first state where Occupiers have secured an actual foothold in the political arena. But they're not the only group of ideological activists who are winning elections in the Granite State; they're following the trail already blazed by members of the Free State Project, the movement to repopulate New Hampshire with libertarians and slowly turn the state into a small-government (or no-government) paradise. As I reported in a piece for the magazine last summer, the movement has finally begun to make inroads in the state legislature, winning seats—while often keeping their affiliation under wraps—and then getting to work deregulating margarine and de-funding high-speed rail. As conservatives struggled statewide this November, the libertarians held their own. Free State Project president Carla Gericke announced:
Over the past eight years, FSP participants who have become state representatives went from zero to 1, to four, to 12-14 in 2010, to eleven this cycle. We only have 1,100 movers on the ground. With only 5% of our goal movers in NH, political FSP participants held onto the status quo while Republicans got trounced. Baby steps, people. It ain't called a "project" for nothing!
Take, for example, the case of newly elected Rep. Tim O'Flaherty, a self-described "anarchist" who ran as a Democrat and edged out Republican challenger Dan Garthwaite in a Manchester district. As it happens, both O'Flaherty and Garthwaite are supporters of the Free State Project. They're also roommates. The two rivals live at "Porc Manor," a Manchester home that's become a flophouse of sorts for Free States. (Supporters called themselves "porcupines" because they bristle only when provoked.) A 2009 landlord manual for Porc Manor offers tip for renting to Free Staters, noting that, for instance, "A lot of porcupines will frown on deposits, mostly because they feel their status as acknowledged defenders of property rights makes them immune to the reasons landlords require deposits."
Their living arrangement served as fuel for perhaps the most unusual storyline in any election this year, or maybe ever. As the Manchester Union-Leader's Mark Hayward explained:
In one of the more bizarre moments in the campaign, O'Flaherty wrote to Comedy Central's election Internet site to say he and Garthwaite are lovers, and the election would decide certain role-playing aspects of their relationship. (We're talking dominance and jackboots here.)
But O'Flaherty, who is gay, said he doesn't know Garthwaite well, and he made the comments to undermine his opponent with his Republican base.
No really, this actually happened. Here's what O'Flaherty told Comedy Central's Dan Poppy in an email:
Things were hot and heavy when Dan and I first met and we found ourselves living in the same boarding house. We have had some heated political arguments but I haven't been able to persuade Dan to turn from his Statist beliefs. Lately we've been looking for ways to keep things interesting in the bedroom and we've been exploring some roleplaying. Dan likes to play the cop/thug, forcing me to lick his jackboot.
I've become concerned recently that our roleplaying was counter-revolutionary and contrary to my anarchist principles. Violent revolt was a looming prospect but Dan (the consummate Statist and devout believer in the Democratic Faith) suggested we put the matter to a vote. We agreed we would both run for State Representative but on opposite sides of the ticket, the winner gets to choose his role to play in the bedroom.
Now voters in Manchester's Ward 5 will decide the outcome. If Dan beats me in the election his Statist domination will continue unchecked. If voters should choose me they will quite literally be saying "Fu*% the State(ist)." Please tell your readers to spew their vitriol on my Facebook page.
In his interview with the Union-Leader, O'Flaherty also floated an unusual hypothesis for his primary victory over former state Rep. Richard Komi: "He said Komi may have suffered from name problems; his name is similar to Joseph Kony, the Ugandan guerilla leader whose capture was encouraged by the Kony 2012 effort, a viral Internet video."
On November 8th, when the vote count in Manchester's Ward 5 was made official, O'Flaherty hopped on Facebook with a simple but deliberate message for his supporters: "Victory is mine!" He added, "It was the best $2 i've ever spent!"
And with that, New Hampshire may have finally outdone itself.
http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/weirdest-political-campaign-ever-new-hampshire
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Maybe instead of creating this thread http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...ces-Weirdest-Political-Story-of-2012-All-Time , I should have just posted the story in your thread. Oh well, too late now. Anyway, even better than the story was the comments. I'll repost 2 of the comments here. For the rest of the comments, click on the story or my like above, which I highly recommend.
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