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shouseamber , I think it goes like this:
You describe yourself as "...passionate about economic,social, and environmental justice..." This self identification is similar to those Bernie Bros as they disrupted the floor of the convention thru the 4th day,, and at the other extreme, the Trumpian brayers who shout back "lock her up" to their messianic charlatan.
In other words their passion allows or justifies their excesses. Your presentation of "the facts" in the public interest was done solely to support your preferred candidate. These "facts" haven't been fully releases nor the penalty established. They do cast a shadow over the Paleka campaign however. Especially when you end your defense by making a suggestion that there might be more to this, that "our tax dollars" may be at risk. This vague speculation is similar to the absurd questions Trump posits from his pulpit, that " there's something going on folks, there's something going on..."
Perhaps this is why it was labeled "a smear".
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Originally posted by HiloPuna
shouseamber , I think it goes like this:
You describe yourself as "...passionate about economic,social, and environmental justice..." This self identification is similar to those Bernie Bros as they disrupted the floor of the convention thru the 4th day,, and at the other extreme, the Trumpian brayers who shout back "lock her up" to their messianic charlatan.
In other words their passion allows or justifies their excesses.
While all of those you label "Bernie Bros" may be passionate about economic, social and environmental justice, not all who are passionate about those things are Bernie Bros and do not deserve to be tarred with such a broad brush. Just as it is unfair to use the most extreme Trump supporters to label all Republicans as exenophobic racists, it is unfair to take the farthest fringes of the progressive movement to denigrate the whole movement. I may like chocolate, and some serial murderer may like chocolate, but those two facts do not make me a serial murderer.
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Methinks thou do protest too much...I wasn't generalizing. I was using specific examples to a specific person who made a specific argument about a specific person after describing themselves in a specific way.
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Originally posted by HiloPuna
shouseamber , I think it goes like this:
You describe yourself as "...passionate about economic,social, and environmental justice..." This self identification is similar to those Bernie Bros as they disrupted the floor of the convention thru the 4th day,, and at the other extreme, the Trumpian brayers who shout back "lock her up" to their messianic charlatan.
In other words their passion allows or justifies their excesses. Your presentation of "the facts" in the public interest was done solely to support your preferred candidate. These "facts" haven't been fully releases nor the penalty established. They do cast a shadow over the Paleka campaign however. Especially when you end your defense by making a suggestion that there might be more to this, that "our tax dollars" may be at risk. This vague speculation is similar to the absurd questions Trump posits from his pulpit, that " there's something going on folks, there's something going on..."
Perhaps this is why it was labeled "a smear".
I am not sure where your argument is coming from. have you been through Danny paleka's capaign spending reports? there is a whole lot of them. I have been through all of them and compared his old ones to the newly amended ones side by side. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out what was going on there.. and the numbers on his amended reports still do not match up to the numbers on his disclosure, not even close actually, there is upwards of $3,000 that Danny has listed on disclosures and does not have accounted for on his individual reports.. Also, there are still some major contributions that were reported originally and were not reported on the more recent reports, which if taken into consideration would make the differences on the reports even greater. Big money in politics, being considered disruptive to true democracy is not a radical concept, and it is not a big leap to wonder if some one responsible for allocating our tax dollars could do so responsibly when there own financial documents were so far off base. Reporting the facts, is not mudslinging. Regardless Jen won tonight. She won because Puna believes in her ideals and in her strength and honesty. She will serve us well.
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In all honesty, Jen won because of two things. 1) Danny Paleka, and 2) no other candidate to choose from.
This is the Puna way. Danny won because of Tiffany. Blas won because of Aunty Emily. And the wheels on the bus go round and round.
And no, they did not all do well. Puna is a tough place to lead.
