Last November, just one day after a special election in Lane County, Oregon, an election worker opened an envelope addressed to the county clerk’s office. It contained a letter that read “stop elections now” and was accompanied by a suspicious-looking white powdery substance, Lane County Clerk Dena Dawson told TPM. The powder, which Dawson was not able to confirm pending an ongoing investigation, was feared to be fentanyl.
Gosh, I wonder which political persuasion is more likely to do such a thing. Well, probably both sides. Politics sucks. What’s the point of voting? Pass the chips!
At last night’s forum for GOP candidates in Colorado CD-4, two of the candidates said we have to build that wall and close the border because Biden is letting fentanyl come across the border and straight into Colorado. This just confirms their concerns are fact based because the GOP would never stoop to mindless fear mongering.
The forum also confirmed that Boebert, who was a no-show because she is too busy governing the country, is not the wackiest candidate in that deep, deep red district.
Hmmm, I wonder what party would support the idea of not having any more elections and just appointing someone as dictator for life. Oh wait, it must be supporters of the guy who says he’ll be a dictator and has stated that he will only agree with election results where he wins.
It seems more and more likely that we’ll see outright violence during the election this year. I don’t know if it will just be cowardly efforts like this that try to interfere with things, or outright attacks on polling places or vote counting centers. It just feels like it’s coming, especially if the election isn’t clear and settled the first night, or if ballot counting starts shifting a result to Biden when the red mirage happens on election day. I hope election officials and staff are ready, and backed up by law enforcement…it’s absolutely awful that people are so twisted that they want to block our democracy from functioning, but that’s where we are.
I wouldn’t count on law enforcement that much. I’ll count on Biden people knowing it is coming, and that the same old places can’t be rigged more than they were the last time, so the same issues will arise in the same states, and the opposition is so ham-fisted they will only continue to reveal themselves to be the snakehandlin’ Christ-punchers they are.
I try to take the time to remind ‘overly friendly’ Christians that their religion approved of slavery, the sale of children, the Civil War, and a century of apartheid in fully half our country.
Apparently someone(s) already did let that much go, if the article is accurate:
Similar to Lane County, four county election offices in Washington state were evacuated after receiving envelopes containing unknown-powder substances in 2023. Two of the offices, which were processing ballots following an election, confirmed the envelopes contained fentanyl.
I agree, but now that it has happened a couple times, every single polling place has to be safeguarded forever. So, attackers don’t have to spend any more fentanyl ever again, and they’ve managed to compel society to shoulder the full cost of defending against it.
Really doesn’t have to be fentanyl either. Our whole society is salted with drama lunatics that will send the powder to themselves, scream fentanyl, then get elected county commissioner on the publicity before the truth turns up. By which point, the police chief has already been on TV, and would rather not be embarrassed.
I feel like this is a pretty big fact that is buried pretty far down in this article:
Although nobody was hurt, and fentanyl overdose is not possible by touch, but rather through ingestion, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee warned against the incident as the “latest attack on democracy.”
