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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: trapeze on July 03, 2012, 10:15:59 PM
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So this NC lawmaker lobbies all of her Democrat associates to vote against overturning Bev Purdue's veto on fracking. Then what happens? She accidentally pushes the "Yea" button and she is the deciding vote to overturn the veto. Very nice.
LINK (http://gizmodo.com/5923360/fracking-now-legal-in-north-carolina-because-lawmaker-pressed-the-wrong-button)
The vote took place late Monday. Democrat Becky Carney, who had lobbied her fellow democrats to vote against the bill, was tired. It was the end of the day, the night really, and she was feeling fatigued. So fatigued, in fact, she pressed Yea instead of Nay, casting the deciding 72nd vote in favor of the veto!
The Atlantic Wire reports that just after the vote, Carney's voice could be heard on her microphone, saying "Oh my gosh. I pushed green."
Apparently, House rules allow you to change your vote only if it will have no effect on the outcome.
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Hand of God?
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Hand of God?
Or hand of complete moron. Take your pick.
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God did it.
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God did it.
I'm gonna go with the moron.
I'm thinking G-d was laughing too hard.
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I notice the article author felt the need to provide commentary on NC legislative rules, particularly its prohibition on changing a cast vote if doing so alters the result. What is so bizarre about that? It is designed to keep the more pathetic forms of finger-in-the-wind from happening. Otherwise you'd have representatives voting one way, then realizing this might prove embarrassing or get them in trouble with public opinion, and changing their vote. You can't let that derail a legislative process, not on a bill that has already been passed or defeated.
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So this NC lawmaker lobbies all of her Democrat associates to vote against overturning Bev Purdue's veto on fracking. Then what happens? She accidentally pushes the "Yea" button and she is the deciding vote to overturn the veto. Very nice.
LINK (http://gizmodo.com/5923360/fracking-now-legal-in-north-carolina-because-lawmaker-pressed-the-wrong-button)
The vote took place late Monday. Democrat Becky Carney, who had lobbied her fellow democrats to vote against the bill, was tired. It was the end of the day, the night really, and she was feeling fatigued. So fatigued, in fact, she pressed Yea instead of Nay, casting the deciding 72nd vote in favor of the veto!
The Atlantic Wire reports that just after the vote, Carney's voice could be heard on her microphone, saying "Oh my gosh. I pushed green."
Apparently, House rules allow you to change your vote only if it will have no effect on the outcome.
LOL!! Fantastic.
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God did it.
I'm gonna go with the moron.
I'm thinking G-d was laughing too hard.
I concur.
::hysterical::