GOP Voting Hijinks
Net neutrality could be a hot issue after the elections according to computerworld because there are representatives on both side of the issue. Past attempts have failed because of the Republicans weren’t convinced that it would benefit themselves. Hopefully with a more partisan representation the legislature will actually support pretend to support the will of the people instead of their pocketbooks.
Gov. Rick Perry (Tx) recently said that he believes that all non-Christians are doomed to hell. So much for keeping your beliefs to yourself. Whatever happened to separation of church and state? In case you hadn’t heard Rick, America needs make friends with the non-Christians and this sort of news isn’t helping.
He also probably believes that God must exist because of Bananas.
dailykos has news of voters in Virginia getting harassed and threated with jail time if people don’t vote Republican. I guess they figure that now everyone has found out about how easy it is hack elections the only way left is to threaten voters. We have seen similar actions from the RIAA.
dailykos also tells us of GOP candidate who used the Emergency Alert System to play an ad.
In an apparent violation of FCC rules, conservative talk radio station KFBK 1530 AM in Sacramento transmitted a paid political advertisement to an unknown number of other stations in the area, using the Federal Emergency Alert System (EAS), thus automatically forcing the ad onto the stations’ airwaves. This is according to a press release issued today by KDVS-FM, a non-commercial community station in Davis that received and inadvertently aired the transmission.
Necon (FOX) news can’t read polls apparently. They decided to report that even thou Nick Lampson is leading by 8% that their candidate is in the lead.