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 Luke
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LUKE ESSER News:
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 Mike
Huckabee -  John
McCain
- Luke
Esser
-  Washington_State
-  Arizona
- 2008
Election - "Huckabee:
Washington State vote like the Soviet Union." ...
"[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mike Huckabee continued
to cry foul Monday over the results in Saturday’s Washington State GOP
[GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] caucuses, saying the state party chairman's
decision to call the race there early for [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate and Arizona Senator] John McCain is reminiscent of elections
in communist bloc nations." ... ""That is not what we do in American elections,"
Huckabee said on CNN's American Morning Monday. "Maybe that's how they
used to conduct it in the old Soviet Union, but you don't just throw people's
votes out and say, 'well, we're not going to bother counting them because
we kind of think we know where this was going.'" ... "In a statement released
Sunday, Huckabee's campaign said Washington's GOP Party Chairman Luke Esser
called the race for McCain when Huckabee was only losing to the Arizona
senator by 242 votes and over 1,500 votes remained to be counted." -By
Alexander Mooney -CNN
-
Mike
Huckabee - John
McCain
- Luke
Esser
- Washington_State
- Arizona
- 2008
Election -
 Lawyers
- "Huckabee
disputes vote count." ... "The results of the state
Republican caucuses were called into question Sunday after [2008 Election
Republican] presidential candidate Mike Huckabee challenged the party's
declaration that [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Senator
from] Arizona Sen. John McCain had won the delegate count." ... "Huckabee's
campaign took issue with Washington state Republican Party Chairman Luke
Esser's decision to call the race Saturday night with 87 percent of the
precincts counted." ... "At that point, McCain was ahead of Huckabee by
242 delegates out of the 13,000 counted, Esser said. The Huckabee campaign
contends there were another 1,500 or so delegates not counted." ... "In
a news release, Huckabee's campaign said there were "obvious irregularities"
in the state's Republican caucuses and that it is sending lawyers to explore
"all available legal options regarding the dubious final results."" ...
""This was an error in judgment by Mr. Esser," a Huckabee campaign release
said. "Washington Republicans know, from bitter experience in the 2004
gubernatorial election, the terrible results that can come from bad ballot
counting."" ... ""This clearly requires a full excavation as to what happened,"
[Huckabee campaign spokesman James P.] Pinkerton said. "The political impact
of calling an election before all the votes are counted is pretty seismic.
Chairman Esser should fully explain what happened and why to the satisfaction
of all Washington state Republicans and all Republicans nationwide."" -By
Janet I. Tu -SeattleTimes
-
Mike
Huckabee - John
McCain
- Luke
Esser
- Washington_State
- 2008
Election - Lawyers
- "Huckabee
camp may fight caucus results: Supporters of the
Republican candidate allege irregularities during the Washington state
GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] caucuses Saturday." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate] Republican Mike Huckabee prepared Sunday
for legal and political challenges to [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] John McCain's apparent victory in Washington's presidential
caucuses." ... ""The Huckabee campaign is deeply disturbed by the obvious
irregularities in the Washington State Republican precinct caucuses," Huckabee
campaign chairman Ed Rollins said in a statement posted Sunday on the campaign's
Web site." ... "Rollins did not specify what the irregularities were and
said it was "an outrage" that GOP Chairman Luke Esser declared McCain the
winner with just 87 percent of results in Saturday night." ... "At that
time, McCain led Huckabee by 2 percent." ... "Rollins said Huckabee's lawyers
"are prepared to go to court, and we are also prepared to take our case
all the way to the Republican National Convention in September."" ... "[Huckabee's
Washington State campaign leader Joe] Fuiten said some of the candidate's
supporters complained they had not been allowed to express themselves and
have their votes properly counted." ... "Kim Davis of Lakewood in Pierce
County [Washington] outlined her experience in an e-mail that Fuiten sent
to Esser and Huckabee's national campaign." ... "In an interview, Davis
said she "absolutely" thought McCain supporters rigged voting in her precinct
because she and a [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Ron
Paul supporter were denied a chance to run to be delegates." ... ""They
didn't follow the process. No one got to talk. No one got to vote," she
said." ... ""I felt like what they did was wrong," she said. "If they could
do that to us, I wondered how many other places could that have happened.""
-By Jerry Cornfield -HeraldNet.com
-
Luke
Esser
- Washington_State
-
 Politician
-  History
- 2008
Election - "Luke
Esser’s tradition: “voter fraud, dirty tricks, and voting a straight Republican
ticket”." ... "On this soggy [2008] Election Day
let’s harken back to the sage advice of [former Washington State Republican
Senator] state Sen. Luke Esser (R-Nervous), who wrote
a column on this very same subject in the UW [University of Washington]
Daily, way back on Nov. 3, 1986, the day before that year’s midterm election."
...
"We all remember those great political traditions — whistle-stop tours,
kissing babies, voter fraud, dirty tricks, and voting a straight Republican
ticket." ... "Like any sport worth its salt, in politics you have adversaries,
opponents, enemies. Our enemies are loudmouth leftists and shiftless deadbeats.
To win the election, we have to keep as many of these people away from
the polls as possible." ... "Now your average leftist loudmouth is a committed
individual and can almost never be persuaded to ignore his constitutional
rights. The deadbeats, however, are a different matter entirely. Years
of interminable welfare checks and free government services have made these
modern-day sloths even more lazy. They will vote on election day, if it
isn’t much of a bother. But even the slightest inconvenience can keep them
from the polling place." ... "Many of the most successful anti-deadbeat
voter techniques (poll taxes, sound beatings, etc.) that conservatives
have used in the past have been outlawed by busybody judges." ...
-By
Luke Esser
"Esser
doesn’t just want to suppress the Democratic vote, he’s proud of it. And
while I suppose his column may have been a feeble attempt at humor, many
a feeble truth is said in feeble jest." ... "Poll taxes, beatings, voter
fraud… young master Luke apparently thought all that was funny. But then,
what’s the big deal when your enemies are just a bunch of loudmouth leftists
and shiftless deadbeats?" -By Goldy
-HorsesAss.org
20080210
-
Mike
Huckabee - John
McCain
- Washington_State
- Arizona
- 2008
Election - Law
- "Huckabee
protests Washington caucus results." ... "[2008 Election]
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee cried foul Sunday after
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain's apparent
victory in the Washington state caucuses Saturday." ... "Huckabee's campaign
released a statement saying that it will be exploring all available legal
options regarding the "dubious final results." Arizona [Senator] Sen. McCain
was announced as the victor in the caucuses. Sunday, he had 25 percent
of the vote; Huckabee had 23.8 percent." ... "Huckabee's campaign chairman,
Ed Rollins, said Luke Esser, Washington state's Republican Party chairman,
chose to call the race too quickly for McCain." ... "Rollins said Huckabee
was losing by 242 votes with 87 percent of the vote counted. He said there
were 1,500 or so more votes that were apparently not counted." ... ""That
is an outrage," Rollins said." ... "Rollins said the Huckabee campaign's
lawyers will be on the ground in Washington soon to see why the count took
so long, and why the vote-counting was stopped prematurely." ... ""It would
be a disservice to every voter in Washington state to not pursue a full
accounting of all votes cast," Rollins said. "
-SeattlePI
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