{"id":185647,"date":"2014-09-18T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/18\/kraptacular-kris-korbach-kaves-kravenly\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T00:11:00","slug":"kraptacular-kris-korbach-kaves-kravenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/18\/kraptacular-kris-korbach-kaves-kravenly\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraptacular Kris Korbach Kaves Kravenly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who got pictures having sex with a billie goat, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/kansas-senate-race-ballots\">Kansas secretary of state has capitulated on the withdrawal of the Democratic candidate for Senate<\/a>, and will send out absentee ballots without a Dem in that race:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In an apparent reversal, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach&#8217;s office is instructing election officials in the state to send out overseas military ballots without Democratic Senate nominee Chad Taylor or any other Democratic Senate candidate listed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Kobach spokeswoman Samantha Poetter confirmed to TPM that the ballots would be sent out by Saturday, the deadline under state and federal law.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Our ballots are going out without Chad Taylor (or any Democratic candidate) for U.S. Senate,&#8221; Poetter said. &#8220;They&#8217;ve been ordered to send them out as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">TPM obtained a copy of the official order sent to local election officials.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;The list does NOT contain the name of a Democratic nominee for United States Senate,&#8221; the order said. &#8220;There are three candidates, Randall Batson, Libertarian, Greg Orman, independent, Pat Roberts, Republican.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They will be going out with some sort of disclaimer about the courts possibly ordering a new ballot, but this I really don&#8217;t see this particularly likely.<\/p>\n<p>Here is hoping that this entire mishugas will serve to turn off the voters, Korbach is up for reelection, and the race is close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who got pictures having sex with a billie goat, but the Kansas secretary of state has capitulated on the withdrawal of the Democratic candidate for Senate, and will send out absentee ballots without a Dem in that race: In an apparent reversal, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach&#8217;s office is instructing election &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1000,985,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections","category-regulation","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}