SDROV updates election results to include some absentee ballots. Plus: Saldaña vs. Peters update.
Updated results (and reported first by “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC, no less) on the Garland Peed vs. birther king Gary Kreep: The San Diego County Registrar of Voters has released new figures showing that Garland Peed, the longtime San Diego prosecutor, has taken a slim lead in his quest to become a Superior Court judge:
Garland Peed: 157,796 votes, 50.02%
Gary Kreep: 157, 642 votes, 49.98%
San Diego has made national news over this race, and for all the wrong reasons. If Gary Kreep gets elected to public office, it would legitimize the birther movement. This is a guy who has made a ton of money selling his birther wares on the wingnut site World Net Daily.
Talking Points Memo highlighted the race nationally yesterday, and in 2009, Kreep, who was the president of the United States Justice Foundation and a “Birthermercial” star who in 2009 tried to prevent Congress from certifying the 2008 presidential election results, insisting that Barack Obama must first prove that he was, in fact, born in Hawaii and not Kenya before he could be inaugurated.
Kreep also spoke with liberal talk radio host Thom Hartmann in 2009, insisting that Barack Obama had never provided a certified copy of his birth certificate as proof of his citizenship.
Saldaña vs. Peters Update:
Scott Peters has widened his lead in the race to see who will face off against Republican incumbent Congressman Brian Bilbray. The latest registrar update has Peters ahead by 790 votes.
Scott Peters: 26,172, 22.64%
Lori Saldaña: 25,382, 21.96%
Update: See “The Rachel Maddow Show” report below:
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Also of note: Bob Filner has pulled to within less than two percentage points of Carl DeMaio. DeMaio leads with 31.98% to Filner’s 30.03%. Something tells me that DeMaio might just be in trouble come November.
Andy – re your last sentence… I sure hope so!
Ditto, Andy and Judy.
About Peed v. Kreep: When I’m filling out my ballot at home, if I know nothing about judicial contestants (almost always), I Google their names and look for records and endorsements. Boy! Was it ever easy to eliminate Kreep from the possible-vote list!
What I’d like to know is how so many people think he is qualified to be a judge. Who are his supporters? Are there really 157, 642 people who would want to have him deciding their legal issues? Or what? Do people just randomly vote for a name?
For the record: The County Bar Association rated him as unqualified.
I am continually amazed at the unwillingness of “we the people” to think and evaluate those who propose to represent us. It is unbelievable that only a small vote difference separates the Peed v Kreep race thus far. Recently, I was reading a blog where one commenter (not from US) said “americans, what fools” and my first reading of it was “americans, what tools.” That visual error made me laugh out loud; simply because we allow ourselves to be used and thus tools we are.
Education has become a privilege not a right and I don’t say this exists in an educational vacuum. All the information is available for those who seek it out, but alas, we are a sound bite country. Generally speaking we are not the questioners, we don’t participate in a government that should belong to us. We have abdicated being a responsible citizen in any way but our vote and even that is debatable as the electoral college exists as well as an inflated majority vote to get anything done.
We blame the president, we blame the congress, we blame the media, we blame everyone but ourselves. We seem to be a country of victims. I am a non-affiliated voter, 61 year old mama and nannee, a politically, socially, judicially aware individual. Educating myself has always been at the fore. Information is out there, but we cling to sound bites and we do not question their validity. I hold, at this point, an AS degree in Legal Studies (2 year) and have just returned to school to complete my BS in the same field, then a masters although the field my change at this point, still evolving.
I am unemployed as slipping back into a job is difficult at 61, you know….. I was born to a mother who quit school at 16 to marry and a father who eventually just pretended to go to work. My mother never went back to a formal education but always pushed reading, language use (correct English), manners, and a respect for knowledge.
Education has become a dirty word and our representatives seek to dismantle it through a non-funding policy, well the information still exists for all as individuals but it isn’t all tied up with a bow, you have to want it. It all makes me sigh and then go PROTEST both on line and in line. Wake up, pay attention, ask questions, look at all sides, and then make informed decisions. Freedom is only as good as our willingness to defend it and we have done a depressing job at it. Sorry about the rant……but sometimes I just gotta get it out. There is much more where that came from.
What she said.