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Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 13 22:45:33 2026 If I lived in LA, I’d vote for Spencer Pratt, even though his wife burns books for a living. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Wed May 13 23:21:11 2026, in response to Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 13 22:45:33 2026. VOTE BASS OUT YESTERDAY |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu May 14 00:16:25 2026, in response to Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 13 22:45:33 2026. even though his wife burns books for a livingThose were your brain cells, not books. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu May 14 10:10:02 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Olog-hai on Thu May 14 00:16:25 2026. I'm surprised that you support Karen Bass. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by AlM on Thu May 14 10:20:23 2026, in response to Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 13 22:45:33 2026. Pratt supports increased funding for the LAPD, which sounds like a good idea.But he supports reduced funding to address homelessness. How is that going to work? LA has pretty much the biggest homeless problem in the country. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by chicagoMotorman on Thu May 14 10:29:18 2026, in response to Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 13 22:45:33 2026. "his wife burns books for a living." She does? |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu May 14 14:50:42 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by chicagoMotorman on Thu May 14 10:29:18 2026. His wife’s last name is “Montag.” |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu May 14 14:52:34 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Thu May 14 10:20:23 2026. He’s right. That money goes to NGOs who waste the money with graft, or do things that are actively counterproductive.The only way to solve the homeless problem at this point is to criminalize setting up a tent on the street, and arresting them. That’s where the money should go. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Easy on Thu May 14 21:51:49 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Thu May 14 10:20:23 2026. He supports more building shelters. LA policies are to build permanent housing, which is a generational solution. Plus we've had billions in tax money raised for relatively little housing. LA is doing things like buying old hotels to turn them into housing but there are examples of the city way overpaying. Like buying properties for ten million more than the asking price. Something funny is going on but nobody knows where the money is going. It's insane. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu May 14 22:06:09 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu May 14 14:52:34 2026. The only way to solve the homeless problem at this point is to criminalize setting up a tent on the street, and arresting them. That’s where the money should go.A lot more money. Yearly cost for incarcerating person is around $100K; the cost for providing shelter is around $36K. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Easy on Thu May 14 22:15:09 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu May 14 22:06:09 2026. In LA we are spending up to $1 million dollars on permanent housing and $100,000 on hotel rooms used as shelter. That doesn't include emergency and medical services. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Easy on Thu May 14 22:18:03 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Easy on Thu May 14 22:15:09 2026. It's mostly drugs. When drugs were criminalized, people were forced to choose jail or rehab. Numbers have exploded since that went away. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri May 15 08:39:32 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu May 14 22:06:09 2026. They wouldn’t be incarcerated yearly, this would be a minor offense at best.The way I see it is that criminalizing things like drug use is useful not because you get to put these people in jail, but because you can use diversion programs to FORCE them to clean up. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Avid reader on Fri May 15 09:21:25 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Easy on Thu May 14 21:51:49 2026. Something funny is going on but nobody knows where the money is going.Partizans Pockets! |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by chicagoMotorman on Fri May 15 09:41:54 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu May 14 14:50:42 2026. That's not any proof. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by AlM on Fri May 15 12:40:51 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Easy on Thu May 14 22:15:09 2026. What's needed are basic dormitory-style shelters, with good security.Homeless people are much more likely to make use of a shelter if they can feel safe there. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri May 15 15:26:21 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by chicagoMotorman on Fri May 15 09:41:54 2026. What? It was just a reference to her last name. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri May 15 15:29:51 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Fri May 15 12:40:51 2026. Then nobody would want to use it because they wouldn't be able to keep doing drugs inside the shelter.The mentally ill residents would harass the few sober, clean residents, causing the latter to avoid the shelter. That's why camping outside needs to be criminalized. You charge them all with crimes, they either go to jail, or get ACDed and agree to live in the dorm shelter you're suggesting but if they harass anyone there they violate the terms and off to jail. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Easy on Fri May 15 15:56:27 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Fri May 15 12:40:51 2026. Security can be a problem at existing shelters but it's way better than the security outside.The issue for many is that shelters come with lots of rules. You can't come and go as you please, you can't have visitors, you can't do drugs and you can't bring all of your worldly possessions that you typically keep with you outside. Those last two are big ones for many. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri May 15 18:17:43 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri May 15 08:39:32 2026. "...FORCE them to clean up."That rarely if ever works. You cant Force anyone to "clean up" who doesn't want to. Have to and want to are two very different things. And drug use was always criminalized. To use you have to be in possession. That would be enough to get you a desk disappearance ticket which would be promptly torn up. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat May 16 12:33:10 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri May 15 18:17:43 2026. Then they go to jail. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by AlM on Sat May 16 17:53:42 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri May 15 15:26:21 2026. Obscure. I had to first find out that her last name was Montag and then Google it. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 8 16:29:22 2026, in response to Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 13 22:45:33 2026. So Spencer Pratt was in 2nd place on election night and then the mail-in ballots are just disproportionately for Nithya Raman as opposed to Pratt or Karen Bass such that Raman has now overtaken Pratt. I know about the so-called "Red Mirage", but this is ridiculous and now I understand why conservatives think it all stinks.Part of this is California taking unnecessarily long to count its ballots. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 8 16:40:30 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Sat May 16 17:53:42 2026. It's not that obscure if you were familiar with that book and you heard of her when that show was on. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 8 17:59:32 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 8 16:29:22 2026. now I understand why conservatives think it all stinksWhat's different between CA and FL in terms of mail-in ballots? All I know of is that CA allows ballots postmarked on time to be received up to a week late. I can see that might get disallowed, but there's nothing inherently evil about it. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jun 8 21:15:04 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 8 17:59:32 2026. What have I always said? Fuckery and shenanigans |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Primary |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 8 23:09:44 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jun 8 21:15:04 2026. You can use the word "fraud". |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 08:41:29 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jun 8 21:15:04 2026. Thanks for proving my point. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 08:41:48 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Primary, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 8 23:09:44 2026. Thanks for proving my point. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Dand124 on Tue Jun 9 08:53:51 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 8 16:29:22 2026. SCOTUS will probably be putting a stop to it this month. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Jun 9 10:46:04 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 08:41:48 2026. So what is the right thing to do when something (7 day grace period for receipt of the ballot) is good (in a very small way) but looks bad?Also, with the post office deteriorating, making a cutoff immediately on Election Day becomes increasingly undemocratic. As an aside: I sent my NY tax return in on 4/3/2026 with a tracked letter. It hadn't arrived by 4/15, so to avoid the risk of penalties I chose to pay my taxes due electronically on that date (my tax return said take it out of my account on 4/15). My return arrived 4/30 (though USPS tracking still says it's on its way with last activity on 4/9) and NY took my money out twice. So I have a tax credit I didn't actually want to pay. All because USPS took 4 weeks to get a tracked item from NYC to Albany. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Jun 9 10:47:04 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Dand124 on Tue Jun 9 08:53:51 2026. Yeah, probably just as well since it looks so bad. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 10:52:13 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 8 17:59:32 2026. I assume you don't want to look it up and assume either I know or I will?Florida requires that the ballots be received on or before election day unless they're overseas voters sending in their ballots from outside the US. People have been used to elections being announced on election night before they go to bed, so this counting for days and days seems nefarious to the hoi polloi. The problem is that if you want a popular democracy, you have to cater to the expectations of the ignorant masses. It doesn't help that the Republicans have cultivated this "voter fraud" myth, largely in the service of the whims of their unassailable leader. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 11:12:41 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Tue Jun 9 10:46:04 2026. If mail takes that long, there's always the possibility that it won't be received within the 7 day window anyway.One solution to this problem is to have ballot drop boxes in attended areas, and allow third parties to drop ballots there. It doesn't solve every problem, but even that has drawn the ire of the "voter fraud" cult. It still doesn't solve the problem of the true absentee voter, and mailboxes are just more common. What I do with my state taxes now is that I request an extension, pay the tax due as the estimated tax payment, then finalize the return reflecting this, so that it has a zero balance. The extension can be requested online and you can request the debit to go through on a future date. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen |
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Posted by chicagoMotorman on Tue Jun 9 11:59:11 2026, in response to Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 13 22:45:33 2026. Updated |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Jun 9 12:22:22 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 10:52:13 2026. Sorry, I meant it to be read as a rhetorical question. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jun 9 12:23:40 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Tue Jun 9 10:46:04 2026. Everyone to the polls! |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Jun 9 12:28:35 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 11:12:41 2026. If mail takes that long, there's always the possibility that it won't be received within the 7 day window anyway.True, but far less of an issue. Removal of the 7-day window, combined with increasingly poor mail service, is going to make mail-in voting a pure gamble. One solution to this problem is to have ballot drop boxes in attended areas, and allow third parties to drop ballots there. It doesn't solve every problem, but even that has drawn the ire of the "voter fraud" cult. I tend to agree. The advantage to democracy provided by the mail-in grace period is outweighed by the bad vibes it gives out. What I do with my state taxes now is that I request an extension, pay the tax due as the estimated tax payment, then finalize the return reflecting this, so that it has a zero balance. The extension can be requested online and you can request the debit to go through on a future date. That's essentially what I had to do this year, on the morning of 4/15. I'll do it again next year, but in a better organized manner that doesn't leave me with a credit balance that I don't want. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 12:42:10 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen, posted by chicagoMotorman on Tue Jun 9 11:59:11 2026. No, it wasn't.What you suggest doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Bass supporters would prefer to face Pratt in the runoff as opposed to Raman, so who exactly benefits from the fix? Assuming that they have this ability to rig elections, why do they do it selectively instead of where the election matters? |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 12:44:00 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by AlM on Tue Jun 9 12:22:22 2026. Rhetorical, eh? Eight! |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen |
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Posted by chicagoMotorman on Tue Jun 9 12:52:57 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 12:42:10 2026. 
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 13:20:47 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen, posted by chicagoMotorman on Tue Jun 9 12:52:57 2026. Ronald Reagan? The actor? |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen |
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Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Tue Jun 9 14:47:13 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen, posted by chicagoMotorman on Tue Jun 9 11:59:11 2026. You should not be surprised. In fact, democrats should be proud that they successfully achieved another intended election outcome despite the voters wishes. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen |
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Posted by chicagoMotorman on Tue Jun 9 15:59:17 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 9 13:20:47 2026. 
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jun 9 16:12:01 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen, posted by chicagoMotorman on Tue Jun 9 15:59:17 2026. Thank you for your service. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen |
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Posted by chicagoMotorman on Tue Jun 9 16:57:06 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jun 9 16:12:01 2026. LOL |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Jun 9 17:09:10 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen, posted by chicagoMotorman on Tue Jun 9 11:59:11 2026. So if the Democrats rigged the LA election, why didn't they rig the governor's election to get Steyer to beat Hilton?And anyway, SP is right - Raman is the more formidable opponent for Bass. |
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Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Wed Jun 10 11:11:09 2026, in response to Re: Los Angeles Mayoral Election Was Stolen, posted by AlM on Tue Jun 9 17:09:10 2026. Remember the meme, "We cannot count the ballots until we know how many we need". Now....is there some truth to that? Who knows? The Shadow knows! |
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