patrick.net
An Antidote to Corporate Media
1,199,278 comments by 14,167 users - Tenpoundbass, WookieMan online now
White candidate pretends to be black to win election
invite response
2013 Nov 11, 3:07am 24,262 views 79 comments
« First « Previous Comments 77 - 79 of 79 Search these comments
Homeboy
2013 Nov 13, 2:09pm
Simply put,
What Dave Wilson said was factually true.
What Obama said, staring into your eyes, 29 times, was factually false.The difference is apparent to everyone but the most rabid leftest.
Bullshit. You are playing a game of semantics while ignoring the substance of what was done. If I wanted to play such a game, I could say that what Obama said was "factually true". He said, "If you like your plan, you can keep it." That is technically true. Any plan that didn't change was grandfathered in. The people who received "cancellation notices" received them because the insurance company made some change to the policy. As soon as the policy is changed, it is no longer grandfathered in. Therefore, people didn't lose their plan due to ACA - it was changed, and therefore became a different plan.
See? I can play your silly game too. You know why I don't? Because there's no point in pretending you "won" an argument when you resorted to ridiculous wordplay. A lie is a lie. If you have some self-rationalization that makes you think it's not, it's still being deceptive. which is the point. You don't care about the point because you are just an argumentative little troll.
Only in Texas.
I guess in the big picture of it all, at least nobody was drug behind a truck until death came to them, and change is incremental and slow.
Texas, please secede.
« First « Previous Comments 77 - 79 of 79 Search these comments
http://news.yahoo.com/white-guy-pretends-to-be-black-to-win-election-212328015.html
Dave Wilson is white. But to win a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees in a district that is predominantly composed of African-American voters, Wilson, a conservative Republican, led voters to believe he was black.
According to CBS affiliate KHOU-TV, Wilson's direct mail campaign included a flier with smiling black faces he says he found on the Internet. "Please vote for our friend and neighbor Dave Wilson," the accompanying text read.
In another flier, the text said he had been endorsed by Ron Wilson, a popular black former state representative. But the Ron Wilson who endorsed him was Dave's cousin Ron, not the ex-lawmaker.
"He's a nice cousin," Wilson told the network, chuckling. "We played baseball in high school together."
Nevermind his cousin lives in Bloomfield, Iowa, about 940 miles from Houston.
On Tuesday, Wilson defeated Bruce Austin, the 24-year incumbent, by a margin of just 26 votes.
Austin, who is African-American, called Wilson's tactics "disgusting."
"I don't think it's good for both democracy and the whole concept of fair play," he said.
"He never put out to voters that he was white," Austin said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle. "This is one of the few times a white guy has pretended to be a black guy and fooled black people."
But Wilson, who won a six-year term on the nine-member board, is unapologetic.
"Every time a politician talks, he's out there deceiving voters," Wilson said.
Austin said he would seek a recount, but Bob Stein, a political scientist at Rice University, believes the vote will stand.
"I suspect it's more than just race," Stein said. "The Houston Community College was under some criticism for bad performance. And others on the board also had very serious challenges."
#politics