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  1. You can spot me on Election Day. I’ll be the one with a Hillary button on walking in to vote holding my nose.
    Wait a minute. I guess all Bernie supporters will be doing the same.

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    1. Paging Dave Walker or anyone who appealed their property assessment (revaluation). I just received notice my petition was denied by the Board of Assessment Appeals.

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  2. The choice comes down to two dangerous Republicans. One who broadcasts his instability, and another who pretends to be a friend of peace and the worker. If we examine things closely, there is really little or no benefit in choosing Hillary over Trump.

    A write-in vote for Pat Paulsen might be an option.

    If only Bernie would go after Hillary for the lying Republican she has proven herself to be.

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  6. Frank. Trump represents change. The people of this country are desperate for some movement and progress on the socioeconomic front. Hillary is the candidate of The Status Quo, and probably worse. She is the darling of Wall Street and the Country Club set, even though she masquerades as a populist. And she is stupidly hawkish and would pretend to be a cool head, despite her history as SOSUS and her disastrous decisions and indecisiveness and inclination to antagonize Russia and accommodate all our big trade “partners.” People will look at Trump and Hillary and will see Trump as more on the side of working people, less likely to antagonize the other superpowers (and thereby more likely to be able to create effective peace and nuclear disarmament coalitions), and in this context of being for big change in our economic/foreign policy, will vote for Trump rather dangerous, incompetent, “status quo” Hillary. People will compare Hillary and Trump and see them as either a coin toss or as more of the terrible same or the possibility of a fresh start, albeit risky and a question mark. To me, they both have through-the-roof negatives. I don’t want either of them and think Bernie could win as a Democrat or independent.

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    1. Jeff, Trump is the candidate for those white males who lost their job and home during the economy downturn during Bush 43 but who are blaming President Obama. Some illegal person from Mexico or some black male took their job from them, so they think. Trump will need 70% of all whites in order to win so they can take their country back, take it back from whom and where are they going to take it to?

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        1. donj, they will make you an Honorary white guy. Make sure you are home before the sun goes down. You don’t know what the black experience is because your parents aren’t blacks born here in America.

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    2. Jeff. ARE YOU REALLY SERIOUS? Are you so pissed off H. Clinton beat Bernie Sanders your judgement had become so skewed? Have you read or done any research on the political positions of Trump and how and where they fit in American political history? Trump’s positions are part and parcel of a nativist, isolationist stream of American political thought that goes back to the beginning of this country. Trump’s political positions are closer to the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan. His political positions are closer to the arguments of Charles Lindbergh and American Nazi sympathizers just prior to WWII. Not only that, Trump shows an absolute lack of deeper knowledge of any of the issues facing this country and this world. He is a manipulative charlatan who surveyed the political scenario and picked and chose his positions simply to take advantage of the political landscape as it exists today. Jeff, please reopen your eyes and do further research and analysis of what Trump is doing and do not let any bitterness skew your perceptions because Senator Sanders, for all practical purposes, will lose his bid to get the Democratic nomination for President. We should take heart the success of Sanders points to a revival of a progressive/liberal movement that has been in retreat for a solid 40 years. It may also portend the end of the Goldwater/Reagan Conservatism that has been the dominant political dynamic. Please take some time to revisit your above statements.

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  8. Forget about Ducks. Someone had better worry about Piranhas:

    Maria Pereira // Apr 30, 2016 at 10:50 pm
    UPDATE: The Pereira for Progress campaign hit $5,000 today, and we did it in 25 days!

    We just need to raise 35-40 $5 contributions which includes the 15% cushion the SEEC recommends.

    Thank you to all those who helped raise money and contributed to my campaign.

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  9. Frank: if you read and understood my post, you will realize I am absolutely against Donald Trump from getting anywhere near the White House. I know more about him and his policies than you and realize how regressive and dangerous he is.

    Hillary is just a dangerous as Trump. She has proven she is an especially dangerous Commander-in-chief prospect, having made policy decisions as a Senator and Secretary of State that destabilized a large, formerly somewhat stable section of the Middle East (Libya/North Africa, Iraq, Syria) as well South Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan). She advocated for the bombing of Libya and ouster of Ghadafi, which produced a disastrous crisis she mismanaged, resulting in the slaughter of our Ambassador and Embassy staff ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11.

    She botched healthcare reform, resulting in an untenable healthcare system that is stressing the healthcare delivery system and resulting in the denial of healthcare for a large segment of those her “reforms” were supposed to help. It turns out the main beneficiaries of her healthcare reform are the insurance companies. No big surprise, considering how she and her husband, champions of the deregulation that wrecked the world economy, have always pandered to Wall Street, the insurance companies, and the multi-national corporations that benefit from the offshoring of US manufacturing jobs at the expense of millions of US workers.

    So what’s to like about Hillary as a POTUS prospect? Absolutely nothing!

    Hillary and Donald Trump are opposite sides of the same coin. Neither should ever occupy the White House, not even for a lunch visit!

    I am disappointed the American public hasn’t been able to take an objective view of our country’s socioeconomic dilemma and its perilous position on the domestic and international fronts such that they can think past political labels and elect the person with the sensible policy positions. Bernie Sanders should, and God willing will be the next POTUS. God save us from Billary and The Donald!

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  10. Oh Frank. Just one more point. There are enough frustrated, confused people in this country to elect either Hillary or Trump as POTUS, but because Trump is more inspirational (to the very frustrated and confused who want change at any price), he will get more votes. Hillary appeals to the confused who somehow believe things were really great under Bill’s credit-bubble economy and want a return to unstable faux prosperity. She appeals to those wearing blinders who feel secure under the status quo. She is the candidate of the status quo. More voters want change (at any price) than the status quo, so Trump will beat Hillary US voters are in a very emotional, non-thinking mode in 2016. Very unfortunate for our country.

    BERNIE IS THE ANSWER!

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  11. Let me guess. Disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters voted for Trump. Only in Bridgeport! lolololololololol. I know this is a fact. They are waiting for the revolution. lololololol.

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  12. Democrats need Trump or Cruz to be the Republican candidate to run to be the President because nobody would want to run for vice president, plus the Democrats need to be able to take control of the U.S. Senate and maybe the U.S. House of Rep.

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