Keith is in talks with Mitt and has shot to the front in the VP race. Mitt is interested in someone who can carry West Virginia. Keith Judd is not related to the Judds singing duo though he claims otherwise.
Keith sang solo and far away from the more melodic Judds
Keith and Mitt will be campaigning together in 17 years when Texas cuts him loose. If Rick Perry would sign a pardon Judd stands a better than average chance of running for vice-president on the republican ticket in 2012. Rick said he was more than willing to sign a Dolly Pardon if that was what we were asking. Seems Rick is on his back medication again.
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"I've known Keith Judd for years and I can vouch for his charcter. Keith is a real conservative and if Mitt chooses him for VP there is no way they can lose West Virginia. He is a Texas resident now and for the forseeable future. I am considering a pardon so Keith and Mitt can take the country back. They are thinking of taking it back to 1940." Rick Perry
President Obama has never been particularly possible in West Virginia, and even though he’s an incumbent president running essentially unopposed, Tuesday’s Democratic primary in the Appalachian state didn’t change that dynamic.
More than 40 percent of Democrats voting chose to cast their ballot for Keith Russell Judd, an inmate at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Beaumont, Texas, where he’s doing time for extortion and threats made at the University of New Mexico in 1999.
Judd scored 42.28 percent of the vote — or 49,490 votes — compared with President Obama with 57.72 percent, or 67,562, according to unofficial state results.
Neither Mr. Obama nor Mr. Judd – a white man who is in prison – physically campaigned in the state.
The Obama campaign says Mr. Judd will not be awarded any delegates. The president won more votes than the winner of the GOP primary. Mitt Romney, who scored 51,470 votes.
Four years ago, Democrats note, then-Sen. Obama was clobbered by more than 40 points by then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, in the same primary, and it was one of the few states where Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., improved upon the 2004 performance of President George W. Bush.
West Virginia’s Democratic senator, Joe Manchin, who will be on the ballot in November and who has gone to great lengths to project his independence, would not say who he voted for in the presidential primary, according to the Sheboygan Press.
National Democrats suggested a different reason for the president’s problems with the electorate in West Virginia.
“You know why we have a problem there,” a Democrat said to ABC News. The reporter asked if the Democrat was suggesting many West Virginia voters are racist. “That’s right,” the Democrat said. West Virginia voters racist? Tell us something we don't know.
Now a couple of intentional jokes, I'm laughing with you bla, bla, bla.
A West Virginian hitchhiker was picked up by a guy in a big Lincoln Continental. The West Virginian noticed a bunch of golf tees on the front seat and asked, "What are those things for?" The driver said, "They're to hold my balls while I drive." "Boy," exclaimed the West Virginian, "these Lincoln Continentals have everything, don't they?"
A ventriloquist was entertaining at a bar in Clarksburg West Virginia. The audience was getting restless and irritated at his stupid hillbilly jokes when one gentleman stood up and said, "West Virginian's are not all stupid". The ventriloquist began to apologize, but the man stops him and says, "You stay out of this mister, I'm talking to the mouthy little jerk on your knee!"
Amherst Democrats Meet
May 8th at the Madison Heights Library the Amherst County Democrats gathered.
Normal business was handled and discussions of the up coming election were held.
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Sen. Richard Lugar’s loss yesterday to a tea party challenger in the Indiana Republican primary will cost the Senate one of its most experienced and effective foreign policy hands. Lugar joins an already lengthy list of lawmakers with impressive institutional and technical knowledge who will be heading for the exit by the end of the year.
THE CHANGING FACE OF CONGRESS
Republican Voters in his state threw the knockout punch to Richard Lugar
And so it goes in a year in which Congress is experiencing a major brain drain of House and Senate members with the collective wisdom and experience of hundreds of years who are either retiring or seeking higher office. More than two dozen Democratic and Republican House members are retiring or lost their primary contests, while another 15 are running for the Senate or some other office, according to a tally by the newspaper Roll Call. Ten members of the Senate were retiring before yesterday’s cataclysmic primary results for Lugar.
Barney Frank
Another big loss for Congress will be Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee who along with former senator Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., designed and pushed through the sweeping reforms of Wall Street and the banking industry. Frank, 72, who won his first term in 1980, is a savvy legislator and negotiator and high profile advocate for gay rights who ranks as one of the best debaters on Capitol Hill.
Olympia Snowe
For years it was an article of faith that if there was an important bipartisan deal to be struck on Capitol Hill, veteran Republican Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine would be in the mix. Throughout struggles to find common ground on issues ranging from campaign finance reform and health care to economic stimulus and intelligence, the willowy, amiable Snowe was invariably a major player.
Her announcement in late February that she was retiring after more than three decades in Congress out of sheer frustration with the relentless, grinding partisanship on Capitol Hill was another sobering reminder that Congress has been rendered a political no-man’s land where compromise between the two armed camps is a rare exception.
“As I have long said, what motivates me is producing results for those who have entrusted me to be their voice and their champion,” Snowe, 65, said in a statement that caught her staff and much of Washington by surprise. “I do find it frustrating, however, that an atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies
have become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions.
Joe "The Joke" Liberman. Al Gore has but one regret in life and that was choosing Joe for a running mate.
Thousands will confirm that Joe is an AH
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 2000 who later broke with his party and backed Republican John McCain for president in 2008, announced in January that he would not seek a fifth term. Lieberman, 70, whose term is up in January 2013, has chosen to retire rather than face a difficult campaign for re-election.
Lieberman, an orthodox Jew, is a strong advocate of Israel and played a key role on homeland security as it developed after the 9/11 attacks. He initiated the call in Congress for creation of the Department of homeland Security in October 2011.
But Mr. Lieberman, as a senator, was best known for his centrist positions and outspokenness on issues of morality. In 1998, he publicly rebuked President Bill Clinton, calling his conduct in the Monica Lewinsky scandal “disgraceful,” drawing praise from members of both parties.
Others on their way out who will be taking inordinate amounts of institutional knowledge and experience include:
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., 64, a tireless advocate for fiscal discipline and long-term solution to the debt.
Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., 71, an 18-term House member and one of the most knowledgeable members of the Appropriations Committee on defense issues.
Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., 59, a 16-term House member and long time chairman of the Rules Committee who is a master of parliamentarian rules.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., 68, an expert on public lands and environmental issues who has spent five terms in the Senate.
Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., 77, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee and defense spending expert who spent 17 terms in the Congress.
In Arizona at the time of Jon Kyl's birth there was a shortage of vowels and only 14 letters of the alphabet had been invented.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.), 70, the Republican whip who has spent 18 years in the Senate.
Mann, the congresssional expert, said that with all the turnover in recent years due in part to political dischord and the marginalization of members of the minority in both chambers, there are fewer and fewer members still around who have spent decades in Congress, like Dicks, Dreier, Lewis and others.
Mann said that in the highly politicized and polarized world of government service, within both the executive branch and on Capitol Hill, “It’s going to be difficult to find successors in both branches that will make the kind of commitments to learning, to appreciate the institution of which they are part.”
“I just don’t see much of that around anymore,” he said.
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Obama Supports Same-Sex Marriage
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he supports gay marriage, reversing his position on a controversial social issue just six months before the November election and adopting a stance fraught with political implications.
Once again President Obama takes the courageous path
Mr. Obama had been under intense pressure this week to lay out a clear stance on gay marriage after several of his top advisers endorsed it. Mr. Obama said he "personally" believes gays and lesbians should have the right to marry, a position he came to after several years of talking to friends and family and thinking about gay members of the military and of his staff who are raising children together in monogamous relationships.
Barack and Joe, America's Most Dynamic Team
"I've been going through an evolution on this issue. I've always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally," Mr. Obama said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts. "At a certain point, I just concluded that for me, personally, it is important for me to go
ahead and affirm that I think that same sex couples should be allowed to marry. Mr. Obama was against same-sex marriage as a candidate in 2008, but supported civil unions. In the fall of 2010, he said his views on gay marriage were "evolving," a stance that had widely been interpreted as moving toward an endorsement. The president had been asked numerous times afterward whether his position had changed. Each time he deflected the question and
pointed to his record on other gay rights issues.
On Wednesday, he said, "I had hesitated on gay marriage in part because I thought civil unions would be sufficient."
"And I was sensitive to the fact that for a lot of people the word 'marriage' was something that invokes very powerful traditions, religious beliefs and so forth," he said.
The VP speaks his mind
Mr. Obama's politically cautious stance had become untenable in recent days, in no small part because of the pro-gay marriage positions taken by Vice President Joe Biden and members of Mr. Obama's own cabinet.
Arne Duncan answered the question without hesitation or spin
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in an MSNBC interview on Monday morning that he supports gay marriage. Mr. Obama's Wednesday announcement comes a day after voters in North Carolina, the state hosting the Democratic National Convention this fall and that the president hopes to win in November, voted overwhelmingly in favor of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Some 30 states have adopted gay-marriage bans, even though polls show views on the issue are shifting faster than for any other hot-button social issue.
There are several different types of state constitutional amendments banning legal recognition of same-sex unions in U.S. state constitutions, termed defense of marriage amendments. The amendments to have been enacted to prevent civil unions or same-sex marriages from being legalized, though some of the amendments bar only the latter.
As of May 2012, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New York, and New Hampshire are the only U.S. states to allow same-sex marriage. The District of Columbia also allows same-sex marriages.
An array of states have bans, including Hawaii, Alaska, Nevada, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, Colorado, Tennessee, Arizona, California,Nebraska, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas, Texas, Alabama, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan and Virginia.
Our state is among the group of those against and info on the 2006 amendment is listed below.
Virginia, 2006, 57% affirming the Marshall-Newman Amendment which reads as follows:
That only a union between one man and one woman may be a marriage valid in or recognized by this Commonwealth and its political subdivisions. This Commonwealth and its political subdivisions shall not create or recognize a legal status for relationships of unmarried individuals that intends to approximate the design, qualities, significance, or effects of marriage. Nor shall this Commonwealth or its political subdivisions create or recognize another union, partnership, or other legal status to which is assigned the rights, benefits, obligations, qualities, or effects of marriage.
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