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Zorra

(27,670 posts)
6. I voted for him, and believe he ran against another Dem who
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 01:48 PM
Sep 2012

filed for the primary. Looks like the early ballots are getting counted, and he's pulling away!

Most of the libs around here vote with early ballots, because all the elections officials and other county officials everywhere are republicans, so we figure it's our best shot at actually having our vote counted.

ROBINSON, JOHNNIE (DEM) 3,081 45.81%
WEISSER, MIKEL (DEM) 3,547 52.74%

I guess you can tell that I'm pretty stoked, now I actually have my very own real honest to goodness liberal progressive totally pro-LGBT anti-Wall St. Occupy democratic [font color="blue" size="10" face="face"]Democrat[/font] to campaign for!

In ultra-conservative Arizona!


If we can pull this off here, we all can pull it off almost anywhere. It'll be tough to beat the pub in the General here, but we've come this far, which is a miracle in itself, so maybe we can do it again.

~~~[div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"][font color="blue" size="size" face="face"]NO BLUE DOGS![/font]~~~


[font color="blue" size="10" face="face"]OCCUPY CONGRESS VOTE FOR MIKEL[/font][/b


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