In the 19th State Senatorial District between Republican Tony Strickland and Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson, they are still counting votes. An email from the Jackson campaign:
It has been over two weeks since Election Day, and it is hard to believe that we still do not know the results of our State Senate race.
We have been receiving periodic updates from Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, and as we suspected, the numbers have been fluctuating up and down. We’ve been waiting for the provisional ballots to be counted, which occurs only after the Vote By Mail ballots are counted by each county.
In Santa Barbara, they have gotten to that point. So yesterday we received the very first tally of provisional ballots from Santa Barbara County and along with it some very encouraging news. Santa Barbara counted over 2,000 of their provisional ballots and we won them by over 65% giving us an additional 735 votes.
This means that we have gained on Strickland’s lead and are now only trailing by 1,721 votes.
This deficit may seem like a lot but there are still over 3,000 provisional ballots in Santa Barbara to count and an estimated 14,000 provisional ballots in Ventura County, and these ballots should favor us.
The bottom line is we are still in the game here and have a good shot at winning. We always knew it was going to be a close race, and it will be close to the very end. We could very well see a little more up-and-down movement while LA and Ventura finish up their non-provisional vote count, so hang in there!
Thank you very much for all of your support and kind emails and phone calls. We all have to stay patient during this process. It’s important that the counties take the time they need to accurately count the ballots. And know that we have dozens of election monitors working with the counties to observe the counting of ballots to ensure that this happens.
We will keep you posted in the days ahead as we get updates. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience, and wish you all very Happy Thanksgiving Holiday.
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Since Millennium Twain only allows his fellow travelers in the lunatic fringe to respond to his post, I take the liberty to doing it here and hope no one deletes or censors me as MT consistently does.
At this stage in their lives, don’t Millennium Twain, Jock and even poor Dennis remind us all of Russell Crowe’s portrayal of John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind.” (No Nobel prizes or Academy Awards here though)
I believe the correct term is paranoid schizophrenic for people who see conspiracies everywhere and use their fantasies as a substitute for living in the real world and actually taking responsibility for their daily actions.
Add a touch of megalomania and manic depression to multitudinous folklore on a webpage and you’ve got Millennium Twain in color. Isn’t the name give away enough?
And didn’t Jock try to crucify himself on stage in the image of some other well know persona?
These poor deluded souls weave existing facts and images together with improbably delusions using moments of theatrical brilliance as if to prove that they and only they have the power and insight to expose the dark secrets of the underworld to us mere mortals.
They prey upon the fear and ignorance of those naive enough to think there is a whit of truth in anything conclusions they reach.
If only half of what these schlockmeisters continually throw out to the rest of the community as dark and hidden conspiracies of world domination and control, wouldn’t those very evil persons have snatched MT & Jock and Dennis off the streets already and whisked them into some secret prison and force them to undergo rendition and water torture to silence them? Prevent them from warning the rest of us? Oh, the horror!
Think about it, with Google, it would take a secret agent hiding in the shadow world that MT and Jock have postulated into existence, maybe five seconds or less to locate these two and be done with them.
It is a truly sad and pitiful spectacle to watch the mind of fellow humans disintegrate right before our eyes.. Even sadder to watch other struggling souls flock to these troubled men like so many moths to a flame.
You think the cell would be big enough for the guy that actually hosts the site and owns the domain?
Tyler,
You are too cool to be locked in a cell. I’d pay your ransom just to get you back online and keep the Post up and running.
whoa! tyler owns the domain…and is a CEO!!
Yeah, that and 3 bucks will get you a latte.
or 1 1/2 shares of GM stock.
better watch out you guys…. you can bet the rockefellers and the rothchilds are monitoring this site… if you make them mad enough they might cause a tsunami off the coast of California and drown us all…..
hahaha, what a fun and timely example of what i JUST taught my Blogging class this morning: that sometimes the latent emotion or topic that’s most present in our collective psyche will come out in total disconnection and disregard for the original post.
not a complaint, just an observation of the dynamic!
There are blogging classes…
yeah, i’m teaching one at Valley Oak Charter for 7th – 10th graders. we’re covering things like free speech, censorship, community standards, internet safety for teens, technical aspects of creating and maintaining a blog on the WordPress platform, and blog dynamics!
Blogging classes, sure. Try an entire Masters program…
http://www.annenbergonlinecommunities.com/home
Blogging class…LMFAO. Who needs to be taught how to transfer their own opinions, thoughts, and whatever else is going on in there head into a box on a computer monitor? Someone who is a cheapskate and wants something to look harder then it really is.
Oh, and just because you aren’t into conspiracies, doesn’t mean that you’re opinion of people that are into them has any meaning to anyone but yourself. It is true, many American’s, like yourself are dumbed down and ignorant. Yes, there is crazy sh*t going on in and above the government level whether you believe it or not. If you actually look into things you don’t watch on FOX or some other BS news station, you might actually learn something interesting.
For the record,
That wasn’t me.
I think we figured it wasn’t you, because, after all, you cerainly know the difference between their and there, your and you’re, then and than, and Americans and American’s. I hope evan continues teaching his blogging class! He can even use this as an example of what happens to a message when grammar, spelling and punctuation are thrown out the virtual window!
spelling is over rated
But homonyms rock!
hhahahaha, this is the second time that someone has been worked up about the existence of a blogging class. i guess i’ve been totally taking for granted the apparent fact that some people are simply born with all of this knowledge!
(btw, commenting on a blog is not the same thing as starting, administering, and maintaining one.)