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RoccoRyg

(260 posts)
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 07:36 PM Mar 2014

I just voted Republican

WHAT?!!

Don't worry, folks, I haven't gone to the dark side. AFSCME asked all of its members to vote for Kirk Dillard in the Illinois primary. The goal is to keep "Koch Jr." Rauner off the ballot and scare Gov. Quinn. So I requested a GOP ballot, and for the other candidates, I wrote in Batman villains. The Joker for Senator and Two-Face for Circuit Court Judge.

Oh yes... it's good to be bad.

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I just voted Republican (Original Post) RoccoRyg Mar 2014 OP
Fucking up their primaries is permitted Warpy Mar 2014 #1
Two-Face would be an awful judge Prophet 451 Mar 2014 #2
I'm from Illinois, too. I don't understand how it can be legal to put mucifer Mar 2014 #3
craps. RoccoRyg Mar 2014 #4

Warpy

(111,254 posts)
1. Fucking up their primaries is permitted
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 07:51 PM
Mar 2014

and keeping an extremist off the ballot is always a good thing to do, you never know what low information voters are going to do to us on election day.

mucifer

(23,537 posts)
3. I'm from Illinois, too. I don't understand how it can be legal to put
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 08:11 PM
Mar 2014

MILLIONS of your own dollars into your own campaign.

He is buying the governor's office.

I didn't vote republican, but I understand and respect your decision.

RoccoRyg

(260 posts)
4. craps.
Wed Mar 19, 2014, 11:16 AM
Mar 2014

Looks like the ploy didn't work. Rauner has won the primary. I should join the Quinn campaign immediately. Wish us luck, fellow libs, because Rauner will be the next Scott Walker if he's elected.

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