FoxNews and Conservative Pranksters Fail to Place Dem Dud on Indiana Senate Ballot

Despite last-minute ratfucking initiatives by Democracy-hating GOP strap-ons like RedState to force an unknown Bloomington café-owner on Indiana Dem voters as a replacement for retiring Sen. Evan Bayh in the November election, would-be primary candidate Tamyra d’Ippolito failed to deliver the requisite number of signatures to qualify. 

Assuming d’Ippolito doesn’t challenge the signature count and no other under-the-radar aspirants qualify, the Dems will avoid a primary race and an official candidate (rumored to be sitting Indiana Congressman Baron Hill) will be selected by the state Democratic party. That sucks, too—but not as badly as letting a bunch of wingnut opportunists hijack the process in a manner that undermines all their big-ass shit-talkin’ about “We the People” and “playing by the rules.” Supporting d’Ippolito in hopes of locking the Indiana Dems into a weak, easily-beatable candidate is a maneuver worthy of Alinsky Satan George Costanza. 

For those who weren’t following the drama, d’Ippolito was featured on this morning’s edition of Fox&Friends:   

UPDATE: Of the 4,500 certified signatures required to get on the ballot, d’Ippolito has reportedly filed a total of 110. That’s somewhat unexpected, since yesterday she claimed to be only 1,000 signatures short of the goal. Did she misspeak? Did George Soros “disappear” her petitions? Or is this just another instance of an “Operation Chaos” gone awry?

[H/T TPM]

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 02/16/10 at 02:59 PM • Permalink

For the record, the url for that Redstate post: http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/02/15/lets-help-tamy ra-dippolito-get-the-500-votes-he-needs/

They certainly had all their ducks in a row on that one.

Yeesh. Also.

Don’t get me wrong. I feel no animosity towards this woman for trying to run for office. But Bloomington already has enough crappy Italian restaurants.

Now all the country knows her sad little business.

Well, except for Steve Doocy.

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