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meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 08:25 PM Nov 2012

Ecuador officials reject donkey as candidate

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The demand of dozens of citizens has been denied in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil: There will be no jackass running for the legislature.

At least 40 people paraded their candidate through the city's streets to the electoral council offices. Mr. Burro even wore a tie. But officials refused to even let them in the door on Thursday, even though backers had dummied up a mock voter registration card showing the candidate's photo superimposed on a man wearing a business suit.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Ecuador-officials-reject-donkey-as-candidate-4044351.php

Personally, I'd rather have the 4-legged ass than the 2-legged jackasses running around Congress.

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Ecuador officials reject donkey as candidate (Original Post) meow2u3 Nov 2012 OP
Too bad we don't reject jackasses here. Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #1
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Curmudgeoness

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1. Too bad we don't reject jackasses here.
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 09:38 PM
Nov 2012

I'm with you, the 2-legged ones cause more problems.

I suppose that they were afraid that this donkey would actually win if it got on the ballot.

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