Broward County election official Snipes screws up her resignation

FLORIDA -- Broward County's supervisor of elections, Brenda Snipes, has"withdrawn her resignation" after Florida Gov. Rick Scott threatened to cut off her huge pension,  the Hill reports.

Snipes, one of the most incompetent election officials ever to receive a paycheck, and who presided over a totally embarrassing vote recount effort in Broward County following the 2018 midterm elections, told reporters on Saturday, through her attorney, that she refuses to be shamed by Scott and would not simply leave office quietly.

She definitely should not be shamed by Scott. She should be ashamed of her inability to do a job she was handsomely paid to do, and failed miserably.

"Dr. Snipes hereby rescinds her resignation,” attorney Burnadette Norris-Weeks told media. She added that the governor's efforts to remove the useless Snipes from office before January were nothing more than an attempt to "tarnish [Snipes’s] record.”

Snipes' record is tarnished every day she gets out of bed.

Snipes will be “fighting this to the very end,” Norris-Weeks warned. 

And if she fights this as well as she supervises elections procedures, she's in deep trouble.

Snipes officially resigned her position after the Broward Country vote recount was completed, and after days of screwups and missteps whereby Broward lagged far behind neighboring counties in handling ballot issues.

Her team, at one point, lost more than 2,000 ballots, with just hours remaining until the election results had to be certified. 

She would have remained in office until January, and would have been eligible for a $170,000 state pension, but elections got in her way.

Late last week Governor Rick Scott announced that Snipes needed to go, and he officially removed her from office, appointing a Republican supervisor of elections to take over immediately.

"Every eligible voter in Florida deserves their vote to be counted and should have confidence in Florida’s elections process," Scott said in a statement about his actions last week.

"After a series of inexcusable actions, it’s clear that there needs to be an immediate change in Broward County and taxpayers should no longer be burdened by paying a salary for a Supervisor of Elections who has already announced resignation,” the Governor added.

That turned out to be a bad deal for Snipes and she is refusing to leave office unless she is removed by the state of Florida. Her current term isn't scheduled to end until the 2020 election year.

In a separate statement at a press conference held Saturday, Snipes accused Scott of being "vindictive" -- in spite of the fact that Scott ultimately won the recount in Broward county and has nothing for which to be "vindictive." He will serve as Florida's junior Senator and has pledged to seek out transparency.

Snipes needs to go but I doubt she can even find the correct exit.

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Ben Rhodes: idiot savant, or just an idiot?

According to the self-proclaimed geniuses on the left, everything that's wrong with the world can somehow be blamed on President Trump, no matter how tortured the connection.

Former failed novelist and Obama's failed Deputy National Security Advisor [see: ISIS, Iran, Al Qaeda, Syria and China] Ben Rhodes, is claiming that President Trump's rhetoric meant that "journalists everywhere are less safe."

Ben's brother, David, is president of CBS News.

Rhodes made that silly comment Tuesday on Morons Speaking Nothing But Communism's [MSNBC] "Morning Joe." When asked/prompted about Trump's response to the likely killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Rhodes bloviated: "What you have to realize is, there's nobody else who can play the role of the United States to hold people like this to account. We are the world's oldest and most significant democracy [actually, we're a republic]. And if we're not doing this, if we're not setting up for this, there's not somebody else who will do that."

But Rhodes wasn't finished objurgating. "The consequences of that are journalists everywhere are less safe. And let's face it, we have a president of the United States who says journalists are the enemy of the state. So values like freedom of speech and dissent suddenly are very endangered around the world. [How he makes that giant leap remains a mystery.] And that's a trend line that I think is getting worse. This vacuum [not unlike the one between his ears] of any advocacy for any democratic values is putting people at risk and there's nobody else who will fill that vacuum if the President of the United States and the United States of America is not doing that." [What? Now there are two countries with similar names?]

Blah, blah, blah.

Blaming Trump for all the ills of society is not only a lie, but it's going to come back and bite Democrats on their collective . . . collective.

Taking Rhodes seriously as someone who knows what he's talking about is a mistake. In a blistering article about Rhodes' lack of experience while in the Obama administration, it's clear that he was just a political operative, not a real pundit, and certainly not a journalist.

It sounds like a cliché to say that it's imperative for all conservatives to vote in the impending midterm elections. If we lose the House and/or Senate, we will have only ourselves to blame. This is really a time when every vote counts. So vote, and vote often--just kidding about the last part.


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Fauxcahontas will most assuredly run for POTUS

Sen. Elizabeth Warren [aka: Pocahontas, aka: Fauxcahontas, aka: Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring] (D-MA) is taking a "hard look" at running for President and thus, running the United States of America into the ground.

She says she'll seriously consider a presidential run after the November midterm elections, and after a pow-wow with her tribe.

"Let's face it, Donald Trump is taking this country in the wrong direction," she told a Holyoke town hall audience, as she referred to Trump's lower taxes, the appointment of a record number of conservative judges to the bench, the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, a relationship with North Korea that has never been this hopeful, better trade deals, historically lower unemployment for Blacks and Hispanics, a stronger military, an ending of the Iran nuclear debacle, and a total butt-kicking of Islamic State.

Warren sent her statement to The Daily Beast, according to a spokesperson.

"Working people have taken one punch to the gut after another," Warren said, without saying "How," a word she often uses in greeting. "And I am worried down to my bones about what Donald Trump is doing to our democracy."

This should have gotten a laugh from her audience, but they weren't bright enough to understand the humor in it because they are progressives.

She had to be kidding about the punch to the gut for working people. More money in their paychecks and fewer regulations and more jobs is anything but a punch to the gut.

"And then this week, I watched 11 men who were too chicken to ask a woman a single question," she said, evidently referring to her 10 Democrat colleagues who just made speeches and threw Dr. Ford compliments at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for SCOTUS nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

"I watched as Brett Kavanaugh acted like he was entitled to that position [much like Hillary acted in 2016] and angry at anyone who would question him."

No Faux, [may I call you Faux?] he was angry about being accused of something he probably didn't do. He was angry at the lack of corroborating evidence that, as a judge, he's used to seeing and relying upon. He was angry at the way idiots like Kamala Harris and Spartacus Booker questioned him while trying to earn presidential cred. He has every right and reason to be angry at the freak show put on by the Democratic Party. But if he wasn't angry, the left would have said he was 'robotic' and therefore guilty of what he's being accused.

Warren bloviated on: "I watched that and I thought time's up. Time's up. It's time for women to go to Washington and fix our broken government and that includes a woman at the top. So here's what I promise, after November 6, I will take a hard look at running for President."

Of course, that's a lie. She has already decided to run, but she's watering the plants known as Democrats.


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