Dead woman wins county race (SD-Better Dead Then Red)

[LiviaOlivia]

Dead woman wins county race
S.D. candidate gets 100 votes; official says voters knew she was deceased
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:41 a.m. PT Nov 8, 2006

PIERRE, S.D. - A woman who died two months ago won a county commissioner's race in Jerauld County on Tuesday.

Democrat Marie Steichen, of Woonsocket, got 100 votes, defeating incumbent Republican Merlin Feistner, of Woonsocket, who had 64 votes.

Jerauld County Auditor Cindy Peterson said she believes the county board will have to meet to appoint a replacement for Steichen. Peterson said she'll check with the state's attorney to be sure that's the process.

Peterson said voters knew Steichen had died. "They just had a chance to make a change, and we respect their opinion."


URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15622299/

[Turn CO Blue]

1. I'll rec that. They preferred the dead woman over the Repub...

[Tight_rope]

7. We always will!

[Tesha]

9. The dead woman would do less damage than your average Republican. (NT)

[meow2u3]

13. Now the repub can join Ashcroft

as another republican to lose to a stiff. :rofl:

[StraightDope]

17. Same thing happened in Missouri in 2000...

John Ashcroft was beaten by the then-dead Mel Carnahan. His wife, Jean, ended up serving in his seat.

"Republicans disgust voters so much that they'd rather vote for a dead person."

[flamingyouth]

2. There's something really satisfying about this story.

Feistner's clearly a popular guy.

[xxqqqzme]

3. talk about wanting change!

[Ian David]

4. Bill Frist says Marie Steichen is alert and repsonsive...

And so is Glenda Dawson (R) from Texas, who is just pining for the oil fields. That's why her campaign literature never said she was "dead."


Dead Candidate Wins State Office Race
Republican state Rep. Glenda Dawson is dead, but she's not gone.

She easily defeated her living Democratic opponent Tuesday night, two months after dying from a brief illness.

Dawson's campaign ensured the traditionally GOP 29th District would stay that way after her September death, handing out yard signs, printed fliers listing Dawson's accomplishments and sent out letters to voters.

Dawson beat Democratic challenger Anthony A. Dinovo of Pearland with more than 60 percent of the vote.

Gov. Rick Perry will call a special election to fill the seat.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/10271728/detail.html

[Hekate]

16. ROFL!

:spray:

Frist can go home to his cats now -- please.

Hekate

[KamaAina]

5. So Asscroft has been reduced to running for county office in S.D.?

Come to think of it, that might explain all the anti-choice crap that S.D. just REJECTED :bounce:

[Mad_Dem_X]

6. OMG LOL n/t

[Tight_rope]

8. Damn...same thing happened to Dick Cheney...The people choose the dead man!

[moggie]

10. Dead for two months

And still stinks less than a Republican.

[Critters2]

15. LOL! nt

[klook]

11. She will fight for the rights of the unliving. (n/t)

[silverojo]

14. Why not?

First fetuses, now dead people! :rofl:

[krispos42]

12. Ah, Jerauld County

Been there. There's a Jack Link's Snacks beef jerky plant in Alpena; you can buy scraps locally for $5 a pound. And there's a nice scenic overlook in Wessington Springs, I believe.

And a hell of a lot of pheasant, deer, corn, and soybeans.