Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

PlanetSpores.ca
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

General Interest > Political Discussion
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Myyco.com Shop: Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri
    #2853258 -

Republican senator loses to dead rival in Missouri

Jean Carnahan

November 8, 2000
Web posted at: 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT)

(CNN) -- The late Gov. Mel Carnahan collected enough votes to beat out incumbent Republican Sen. John Ashcroft for the U.S. Senate seat from Missouri.

The incumbent Ashcroft was left running against a dead man after his opponent, the popular sitting governor, died in a plane crash on October 16. By that time, it was too late to remove Carnahan's name from the ballot.

No one had ever posthumously won election to the Senate, though voters on at least three occasions chose deceased candidates for the House.

Lt. Gov. Roger Wilson moved up to succeed Carnahan. Wilson said he would appoint Carnahan's widow, Jean, to the Senate seat should the deceased husband get more votes than Ashcroft.

Jean Carnahan said Tuesday night: "Abraham Lincoln never saw his nation made whole again. Susan B. Anthony never cast a vote. Martin Luther King Jr. never finished his mountaintop journey. My husband's journey has stopped short too, and for reasons we do not know or understand, the mantle has now fallen upon us. We remain heirs of a legacy."

"On this night I pledge to you -- rather let us pledge to each other -- we will never let the flame go out," she told supporters by speaker phone.

Ashcroft held the lead in polls until Carnahan's death threw the race into turmoil.

On election day, no one could predict how the sympathy factor would play at the polls. Jean Carnahan used ads to make emotional appeals for "the values and beliefs that Mel Carnahan wanted to take to the United States Senate."

Ashcroft was supported by two thirds of the voters who in exit polls said the federal budget surplus should be used to cut taxes. A majority of the voters who supported Carnahan said the surplus should go toward the national debt.

Republicans have vowed to fight Jean Carnahan's appointment on the grounds that a candidate must be an "inhabitant" of the state, a requirement a dead person can't fullfill. Her appointment must be approved by the Senate.

Both candidates were twice elected governor and had nine statewide victories among them.

The freshman Senator Ashcroft has a very conservative voting record. He favored term limits, was one of the first in the Senate to have his own web page, and was one of the first to say charges against Clinton might warrant impeachment.


--------------------
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-renee-goods-wife-and-son

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Baby_Hitler]
    #2853373 -

Very old news and of course the reason he lost was the sympathy factor .

was there some type of pont to your post?


--------------------
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #2853375 -

Not really.

I had considered that dying might have helped his opponent beat him. I just happened to come accross this on overgrow and thought it was interesting.

Seems like I remember this happening, but I'm not sure if I knew it was Ashcroft.


--------------------
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-renee-goods-wife-and-son

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Baby_Hitler]
    #2853785 -

> Very old news and of course the reason he lost was the sympathy factor .

I was living in Missouri at the time, and based on my memory of that time I would say your statement is not true.


--------------------
Just another spore in the wind.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Seuss]
    #2853793 -

Maybe, in fact, the reason that he lost was that he was disliked and untrusted.

Maybe.


--------------------
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
  --  Howard Zinn

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Baby_Hitler]
    #2853816 -

That explains why he was poised to win and had 2/3 of the exit polls...right. Sorry, but the Democrat's character smearing team can't go back in time. John Ashcroft was very popular, even in the Senate until Bush nominated him and everyone instantly decided he was evil because of his religion.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Divided_Sky]
    #2854190 -

funny, I was just talking about this the other day with
a business associate of mine from missouri, he, along
with a couple family members that have said similar things,
mentioned that Ashcroft has long been disliked in missouri
and that his loss, even considering the sway of sympathy,
is a running joke in the state...

maybe those exit polls were conducted at church.


--------------------
All I know is The Growery is a place where losers who get banned here go.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Divided_Sky]
    #2854400 -

He is an evil asshole you know. You can't really blame that on his religion though.


--------------------
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-renee-goods-wife-and-son

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Baby_Hitler]
    #2860782 -

that is old news....moore covers it in f 9/11 though

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Baby_Hitler]
    #2860840 -

i'm going to pile on, old news my man.

"This just in, Kennedy has been shot, I repeat Kennedy is dead" :shocked: :smirk:


--------------------

America....FUCK YEAH!!!

Words of Wisdom: Individual Rights BEFORE Collective Rights

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: KingOftheThing]
    #2861224 -

KingOftheThing said:
that is old news....moore covers it in f 9/11 though


Jello Biafra was cracking jokes about this already...two years ago :wink:

Machine Gun In The Clown's Hand


--------------------
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Innvertigo]
    #2861566 -

To borrow an idea from Bill Hicks, I don't see anything wrong with bringing up Ashcroft's 2000 election loss to a dead man or JFK for that matter as long as leaders in this country still talk about Jesus.

Baby Hitler was quite aware that this story is "old news", but it's still relevant seeing as how Ashcroft is still a douchebag.





--------------------
--------------------------------


Mp3 of the month: Wild Things- Another Colored Ink Drawing (A.C.I.D.)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Learyfan]
    #2861586 -

Quote:
Baby Hitler was quite aware that this story is "old news", but it's still relevant seeing as how Ashcroft is still a douchebag. 



I was just giving him a hard time Mr. Sensitivity...sheesh, do you need a hug? :hug:


--------------------

America....FUCK YEAH!!!

Words of Wisdom: Individual Rights BEFORE Collective Rights

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Asshcroft lost to dead rival in Missouri [Re: Innvertigo]
    #2861698 -

Actually yes. Thank you.





--------------------
--------------------------------


Mp3 of the month: Wild Things- Another Colored Ink Drawing (A.C.I.D.)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Myyco.com Shop: Golden Teacher Liquid Culture For Sale

General Interest > Political Discussion
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Republican governor wages lone battle to legalize wingnutx 1,058 2 04/27/02 01:42 PM
by Senor_Doobie
* NJWEEDMAN 4 GOVERNOR NJWEEDMAN 656 2 08/21/05 07:18 PM
by Ravus
* The Deadly Truth of Imperialism
( 1 2 3 4 5 all )		 Eric 5,320 81 11/06/03 08:36 PM
by Anonymous
* California Governor.
( 1 2 3 all )		 GabbaDj 3,916 45 08/30/03 09:06 PM
by wingnutx
* Pentagon Now Hiding Dead in 'Transfer Tubes'
( 1 2 all )		 Zahid 2,731 20 11/11/03 06:03 PM
by PsiloKitten
* The War on Drugs is Lost wingnutx 2,606 19 08/25/02 08:51 PM
by Murex
* Arnold for governor shakta 1,196 19 08/08/03 09:19 PM
by shakta
* Governor of Baghdad Region Assassinated Anonymous 666 12 01/05/05 02:40 PM
by DNKYD

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Enlil, ballsalsa
763 topic views. 0 members, 43 guests and 7 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.035 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 14 queries.