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The LA Times is going to have post poll closing blogging going on at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/weblog/breakingnews/.
No cutting and pasting allowed!
Mayor Sam will be celebrating somewhere within the city. Doubt I will be warblogging but you never know.
No cutting and pasting allowed!
Mayor Sam will be celebrating somewhere within the city. Doubt I will be warblogging but you never know.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 5/17/2005 06:41:00 PM
54 Comments:
Anyone know if Hahn has had a meltdown yet today?
What are the Hahnistas going to do when Jimmy goes down?
No Hahn meltdown today. None was needed. John and Ken were running his last meltdown all night yesterday.
And Al Rantel was giving the mayor one last rah rah at the same time, telling people to run to the polls, at 6:30 p.m.
anyone know of a station doing streaming coverage on the net? I'm 6,000 miles away and trying to follow this
Because the other thred may be deleted for legal reasons, in case anybody missed this, with a spelling correction from soneone named CKM.
FROM "SACRAMENTO NIGHTIES" earlier; fooled me two.
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I can't say it's been fun OR educational; more like working a suicide hotline alone on a rainy Thanksgiving day. . .
Regardless of outcome, THIS blogger won't be back! If by chance I'm right and ADV® loses (again) - it's not a real "win" because he's still the "honorary" CM for CD14 -- plus, I don't enjoy gloating. Also, it's not a "game" to have the communities you love neglected so criminally back home.
If I'm wrong (sorry -- you can't call it "sour grapes" in advance. . .), and on July 1 Attention-Deficit Villaraigosa becomes the least-skilled mayor in the history of this great city, then have a blast gloating behind my "back" -- I won't give you the pleasure of my checking back to see.
But, THEN. . . look up the phrase "Pyrrhic victory" and memorize it well -- because based on every ounce of history and factual data, ADV®'s move into the Mayor's office would be the last "movement" the city sees for many years.
Retiring "SacramentoNighties" also means a few other "identities" are no more. If you hadn't started to suspect, then that explains why the ADV® con job has so easily fooled many here. Also checking out are:
"Anon-In-the-Know"
"Republican-Against-ADV"
. . . and a few recurring anonymous posters that I just think of as:
-- "ADV® is a pathological liar; prove me wrong" (and no one ever did)
-- The "80 INVISIBLE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCHES" taunter
-- ends every post with "HA!" derider
-- "no charge for that, Jim Hahn" (also true)
... plus a couple I can't really characterize with any specific.
L.A. DOES deserve better than James Hahn, but no city deserves what being "led" by ADV®'s incompetence would entail.
Hasta Muchachitas!
# posted by SacramentoNighties : 1:21 PM, May 17, 2005
AV - 51%
Hahn - 48%
To all you AV haters - A big fat kiss goes to all of you, I feel bad, really I do. Antonio just kicked the crap out of Jimmy Boy.
How do you like them apples?
Accept it and dont take it personally, life will go on.
AV - 51%
Hahn - 48%
To all you AV haters - A big fat kiss goes to all of you, I feel bad, really I do. Antonio just kicked the crap out of Jimmy Boy.
How do you like them apples?
Accept it and dont take it personally, life will go on.
The Times' live group blogging has now posted its third consecutive blog entry by a Republican. How is this, in any way, representative of Los Angeles' current political culture?
It's like getting Jim Hightower, Ralph Nader and Amy Goodman to guide readers through the ins-and-outs of the Alabama Gubernatorial race.
Patrick Meighan
Venice, CA
48-51% deficit for Hahn in absetees is not fatal -- most of these were cast b/4 Florida broke or child abuse bill ads
9:09 pm; you should know Mr. Hahn should be up 10 or so points here to have any chance. He was up by 4 in the primary and finished 10 points behind Antonio. It looks more and more he is indeed going to be bounced out; deservedly so. We won't miss him.
Time to start the ADV lovers drinking game, how many times will they same the same, trite, uncreative phrases to gloat that they always do..like a couple have already started to. like going down, or get over it, or life will go on, or lights out, or kicking the (something) out of Hahn,. They really must all be city workers with bad cases of arrested development.
Yes or "don't go away made, just go way."
you haters have a lot of gall calling AV supporters childish.
9:31 -- agree with you that it would be better for Hahn if he were up several points in absentee count. Just don't agree that he still doesn't have any chance -- especially with the low turnout, late momemtum for Hahn, etc. I guess we'll know soon.
Its still quiet out there. av's media camp may not like the out come, no serious gloating at 9:38, can't continue to spin till its really over.
AV is said to have a very big, double-digit lead in balloting at polls. factoring in absentees now in, it looks like 55-45 to AV.
Put Zora to bed "Lou"
do the math: if hahn was indeed up 4 in the absentees in the primary and lost to antonio by 10, he'll lose by 16 points, 58-42 given the current absentees.
sorry, i'm not parke. i don't like icelandic sagas.
"Left brain" says the number always come down exactly the same as the did the time before. Humanity is a statistic.
9:48... do you remember the primary? There we a couple of other candidates that time. You don't suppose that might just factor in... maybe?
Think in over and come back.
Had that name and type of literature memorized though didn't you, Al?
10% of at poll ballots now in.
53.4-43.6 to AV.
polls only, but currently at 8% of the votes are in with 61 for av and 49 for hahn.
Point well made. Making comparisons to the primary where these two together got less than two-third of total votes is useless.
That's 110 percent, 9:54 p.m. Someone's cheating!
i think what 9:34 meant is that AV was winning at polls vote so far 61-39. (looking at city clerk site, cds 1, 4 and 14 have most precincts in). with absentees, it's 53-47 AV
Look at where the votes are coming from -- largest numbers are from Eastside, so far (closest to downtown). Hahn's stronger areas are in the outer ring, further out. Only 5 percent of Harbor area is in vs. 22% in CD1 and 12% in 14.
you're right 10:02. still, it's looking very bad for hahn. what time should we expect his concession speech?
hey 9:53, yeah, i know how to spell parke and i read the paper about him. in fact, i know him pretty damn well - but i'm not him.
new returns in: with 14% of precincts in, 56-44 AV.
Still NO votes in from CD 3 and 12, central and west valley, some of the most conservative areas. This is why Antonio's people are still tight-lipped.
does anyone know the record for the biggest landslide in la mayoral history and if av has a shot at the record? alternately, this will clearly be the worst performance ever by an incumbent, right? jim hahn=gray davis?
Most of the Valley hasn't even started reporting yet and you're looking at setting records?
10:10 First LOUSY Latino Mayor.
But that doesn't matter, does it. This is Affirmative Action, at the mayoral level.
He's still a stammering, cue-card reading cheerleader who will embarrass the city. Enjoy the malaise.
the 10:20 version of the LAT story has some of their exit poll numbers. 7 in 10 voters said they wanted the city to take a new direction, including roughly a third of Hahn's supporters. Hahn also lost support as compared to 2001 among whites in the SFV and blacks in SoLA, the poll says
update no. 4. 28% of precincts counted:
AV 58, JH 42.
LAT has most lame comment I've ever heard from a politico. B4 the polls closed, Mayor Jim visited a Hollywood nightclub festooned with his balloons and said: "I should have spent more time bragging about what I was doing." Jim Hahn, meet Sen. Kerry. u 2 shud talk
That's funny, phony GOP guy, ADV IS a loser (even if he wins), and we can'tget him to move, at all. On, foward, anywhere. He's a regressive. A dinosaur.
Seriosuly I can get over it, I've lived in his district and know how to get things done without his help - the way youn have to. It's the rest of you that are in for a huge surprise.
It all comes to a halt now, just like dozens of projects in Cd14. Still sitting there, no movement, no plans, no hope.
First he clears house, then he leaves town. Nothing ........ ever .......... happens.
Call 311, a lot.
59-41 AV with 38% of precincts in. west valley starting to come in, which is why AV's lead has only increased 1 point since last report. final results, i predict, will be about 57-43.
You guys are dumb. My uncle voted and he does not even have papers but they let him vote. Some people went to the house and told us to vote and we did.
That L.A. Times blogging looks dead. I guess they wanted it to be like Mayor Sam's site, but no avail. Good night, I'm off to bed and laughing at the two ridiculous liberal candidates. This election was just entertainment for all of us Republicans, true circus. "Big Cat Fight"
AV 95
Hahn 5
Congratulation Parke, you deserve a lot of credit for getting a dumbass like Tony elected. Goes to show, it's not the messenger, but the message that wins campaigns.
Hahn's gonna concede...uh, no, he's gonna talk about what a great job he's done. It's a little late to try to run on your record, Jimmy.
He says it's gonna be a long night. Heh. Granted, there are still a lot of ballots from Valley and Westside precincts to be counted, but c'mon.
Whatever happened to that big bombshell that was supposed to come out this weekend about Rosendahl? It was supposed to be just groundshaking, ruining Rosendahl's chances of victory. At least that's what some posters here had promised.
Was that just all b.s.?
Patrick Meighan
Venice, CA
With 59.8% of the vote counted per the City site;
AV 59.12%
Hahn 40.88%
And guess what guys and gals, the votes from CD 3 and 12 are coming in and they are going for AV! Oh, wait, lookie here, CD-6 and 7 aren't in yet. Geez, I wonder who the Latinos in those districts are going for?
Looks like AV is going to get over 60% tonight.
Take that Hahnistas. You guys hear that? That is the fat lady singing. You guys got punked tonight.
You won, but you're still the most uncreative sheepish bloggers I've every read post from... the same 6 cliche taunts since October.
Damn that LAUSD.
NOW, ADV - what do you actually DO?
CD14 may finally get a chance to see you work for a living.
Probably not.
fat lady singing
Sheesh!
Stick a fork in this blog, it's yesterday's lawn signs.
For the Times to have operated a true blog they would have to believe in freedom of expression. There's something about that in one of those early parchment documents we heard about in civics class.
Sister City is run by rat bastards, but they make the Times look totalitarian by comparison.
Greatest flim flam I have ever seen. You have to admire the ability to fool enough people to pull this off.
There is no second act with this candidate, however; never has been.
Republic for Av wins for most trite, unoriginal responses, hands down. Now whose boring.
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