"They let more people vote. Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo" -- California Republicans

[lpetrich]

California Republicans see what happens when more voters vote, and they don't like it one bit - Los Angeles Times

“I just think it’s weird,” outgoing House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said of California’s system of allowing every vote to be counted, even if it’s filed with local election officials days after election day. “California defies logic to me.”

Ryan wasn’t alone in implying, if not stating outright, that something illegal happened in California. Rep. Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Beach) issued a fund-raising appeal immediately after the election, accusing Democrats of “trying to steal this Republican seat.”

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The most comprehensive whine about California’s vote has come from Shawn Steel, a former state Republican Party chair, writing in the conservative Washington Times. Steel’s argument deserves careful scrutiny, especially since he concedes at the outset that “there’s no evidence of ballot box shenanigans” in California.

Instead, Steel complains, California has changed its voting laws to allow more voters to vote.

His article

Paul Ryan also complained

“We got massively outspent,” he said. “You get a couple of billionaires dropping a hundred million dollars on your head, that leaves a mark.”

Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo. He whines that he got beaten at his own game of being supported by oligarchs.

Ryan’s complaint was echoed by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa), who got turfed out after a 30-year career in the House — quite likely because of voters’ discontent with the GOP efforts to roll back the Affordable Care Act and the tax cut bill and its costly effect on many California taxpayers (though Rohrabacher voted against the measure). “The reason I lost and we lost,” he told The Times, is because you had Bolshevik billionaires who pumped in enormous sums of money to defeat us. That was it.”

Bolshevik billionaires??? That seems like a contradiction in terms.

 

[crazyfingers]

If it wasn't for earthquakes, fires, mud slides, drought, concrete towns, no winter, spring, summer or fall, I wouldn't mind living in California except it's too far from New England.

I've been to California perhaps as many as 30 times. Love it and hate it.

It's not me but the place is good.

 

[laughing dog]

It is hard to feel any sympathy for the likes of Paul Ryan and Dana Rohrbacher. Especially when the complaint is "the nerve of Democrats to get more people to vote".

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

But it is OK when Adelson, the Koches, the Mercers, the NRA and mysterious funded PACs pour tens of millions into a race. Got it! Here's an idea. Stop trying to kneecap health care, destroying ACA, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Stop the racist dog whistling. Stop the dirty tricks and ratfuckery of the GOP. Protect our water, air and food rather than supporting idiot deregulation that lets the polluters pollute.