Just Long Enough to Steal One More Election
Remember Theresa LaPore? She was the county election supervisor from Palm Beach County, Florida who became every Democrat’s whipping-girl for designing the infamous “butterfly” ballot in 2000. The ballot was indistinguishable from the one they’ve been using for decades in Cook County, Illinois, amidst protests from no one, yet a Daley who has used that ballot all his life had the chutzpah to grandstand against it. Whatever.
Ever since the brouhaha, Ms. LaPore, formerly a proud Democrat, has been an ex-Democrat. Yesterday came the final insult, and as of January 3, she’ll be an ex-supervisor, as well. I’m not sure which is worse, losing an election for such a stupid reason, or losing for any reason to a guy named
Remind me never to run for office against a guy named Joe Enronn.
September 2nd, 2004 at 9:50 am
I will acknowledge that Democrats have only themselves to blame for the butterfly ballot. I would say “we Democrats” but my state has had easy-to-use and understand ballots for many years.