Another GOP sore loser: County treasurer defeated by 'teenybopper' student

[devilgrrl]

HAVERHILL, N.H. - A county treasurer who lost her bid for a fourth term last week to a 20-year-old Dartmouth College student from Montana blames her failed candidacy on "brainwashed college kids."

Republican Carol Elliott said students just voted for the Democratic ticket, which included Dartmouth junior Vanessa Sievers. Sievers won by nearly 600 votes out of 42,000 cast after targeting voters at Dartmouth and Plymouth State University through a $42 ad on the Web site Facebook.

"It was the brainwashed college kids that made the difference," Elliott, 66, told the Valley News of Lebanon. She said she had little faith that Sievers will fulfill her duties adequately.

"You've got a teenybopper for a treasurer," said Elliott, who has held the position for six years. "I'm concerned for the citizens of Grafton County."

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[drmeow]

1. Is she now going to fall on the floor

and drum her heels into the ground? About at the same level.

[n2doc]

3. Somebody's mad they lost their cushy job

Now she has to go get a real one. In W's depression. Heh Heh.

(Even if the job itself doesn't pay much I suspect she was doing well on the side...)

[Renew Deal]

2. I bet theres more to this story.

Like Mrs. Elliot being such an incompetent boob she was thrown out of office. Or maybe it's that she doesn't respect her constitutents. Or maybe it's that she didn't respect her opponent enough to properly campaign.

I bet the kid from Dartmouth will do just fine.

[Blaze Diem]

4. A college junior is hardly a 'teeny-bopper' AND it is Sievers generation that will bear the

brunt of many failures of the REPUBLICAN administration this past 8 years.
They very well see their future and choose to challenge it.

congrats to Ms. Sievers.

[Winterblues]

7. Especially from Dartmouth

You have to be pretty grounded with grades in the higher ranges to even get to Dartmouth..I suspect that county is going to do much better than their past six years...

[Blaze Diem]

8. Yes, story says a 20 yr old junior... I'm thinking she's very bright to

be a junior level student at Dartmouth and only 20 yrs old.

May Elliot be just a tad envious of youth? A symbolic & timley glimpse of a passing of the torch..just sayin.

[predfan]

5. I've got a guy who's been helping me fix a door who's a little younger than me, in his early 50's.

Not highly educated, but very skilled and an incredible temperament and demeanor.

He told me Tuesday this was the first time he'd voted for President, and going into the election was split, leaning toward McCain.

His 23 year old son called him, and asked if he'd voted early. No, he replied, I'm still undecided.

What about you, he asked his son. Obama, he replied.

So my friend said, I also voted for Obama.......if I'd voted for McCain, he reasoned, I'd canceled out my son's vote. If he and his generation, who'll have to fix this mess we're leaving them, think Obama's right, then that's good enough for me.

Brilliant.

[Radical Activist]

6. I love that story. Thanks.

I've heard others like it and it always amazes me.

[Blaze Diem]

9. What an honorable man.

beautiful.