Bait and Switch
Some journalists working in concert together seem to think that Sen. Roy Herron pushed for the passage of a law to ensure that paper ballots are used in the 2010 in order to make up for his missteps on the EFCA vote:
On the score of blogger effectiveness, just ask Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Roy Herron, a Democratic state senator whose dissembling and back-and-forthing on a legislative resolution opposing the federal Employee Free Choice Act was exposed by several attentive bloggers acting in concert. Maybe it was this embarrassment that prompted Herron to redeem himself with progressives by salvaging an endangered paper-ballot initiative. D'ya think?
Mayhaps so, if that is the case, its good to see Sen. Herron gives a flip about the liberal base of the party.
Personally, I'm probably one of the 5 liberals in the state that isn't so hot about scrapping millions of dollars worth of voting equipment in favor of technology similar to that which was used in the Iranian election...but you can't win 'em all.
2 comments:
Personally, Sean, Roy Herron makes me want to puke. He fucking lied about his vote on EFCA. He also co-sponsored guns in bars. Roy Herron lost my vote for governor, and no amount of pandering will get it back.
Well, its looking like you are on the pathway to be sorely disappointed with whomever wins the Democratic nomination at this rate.
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