Jon Fleischman, consumate hack and hypocrite
Well this story is priceless. GOP hack Jon Fleischman is complaining about a Democratic candidate who is running for the State Senate, on the grounds that the poor guy doesn’t live in the district. It turns out that his local Voter Registrar has screwed up for years and counted the candidate and his neighbors as part of the district in question, when in fact they live in an adjacent district.
“Kern County Clerk Ann Barnett said she learned Thursday that an improperly drawn map put the East Bakersfield precinct where Michael Rubio lives in the 16th Senate District in 2002, after the census 10 years ago. He really lives in the neighboring 18th Senate District, she said,” according to CBS News.
The irony is that earlier this year Fleischman worked very hard to elect a Republican carpetbagger, Linda Ackerman, to replace Mike Duvall in the State Assembly. Fleischman knew full well that the Ackermans did not live in the district. In fact our friend Tony Bushala found a video on YouTube that featured Fleischman visiting the Ackermans on Christmas Day – at their gated community in Irvine!
And now Fleischman is dissing a Democrat who ACCIDENTALLY found himself not living in the district he is running in.
Is Fleischman the biggest piece of crap in the GOP or what?
Unluckily for Fleischman, it will be up to the Democrat-controlled State Legislature and/or Democratic Secretary of State Debra Bowen, to allow Rubio to run.
Fleischman wants Rubio out of the race, so the Democrats won’t get a 2/3 majority in the State Senate. Well, too bad Fleischman.
Now check out one more quote from the hideous Fleischman:
“I feel bad for Rubio because he’s a victim, but he’s not qualified to be the nominee and he’s not qualified on the face of it because he doesn’t live in the district,” said Fleischman, who first reported the residency problem on his conservative blog, Flash Report.
That’s right. He broke this pointless story. Imagine that. Fleischman hacked for weeks for Ackerman despite knowing she was a carpetbagger. Now he fashions himself some kind of watchdog against carpetbaggers. What a joke!
Assemblyman Jim Nielsen is a carpetbagger. If Jim Nielsen is allowed to serve, I guess the Democrat will not be kicked off the ballot as well.
Art,
Do you have zero reading comprehension skills or are you too lazy to read.
Jon said it would be a different story had Rubio rented an apartment or roomed up with some friends who lived in the district.
This is different from Linda Ackerman and every other carpetbagger because this guy wasn’t even registered to vote in the district. Being registered to vote in the district is the most basic requirement and is why candidates rent houses they don’t live in.
It’s an interesting case to be sure. A case could be made that is reliance on the registrar of voters was enough. He’s probably been voting in the wrong district since redistricting but no one has caught it.
But this has nothign to do with other carpetbagging cases.
John,
What Linda did was legal on paper, but it was a complete fallacy. This guy Rubio was told by his own voter registrar that he was registered correctly, only to have the rug pulled out from under him.
This has everything to do with other carpetbagging cases. Flash had NO problem backing Ackerman – and she truly was a carpetbagger. He is a total hypocrite and we are not letting him get away with that spin. The media may gave him a free pass, but we most certainly will not!