{"id":4005,"date":"2009-08-09T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2009-08-09T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:04:24","slug":"you-can-fool-some-of-the-people-some-of-the-time-and-all-of-the-people-some-of-the-time-but-you-can-fool-yourself-all-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4005","title":{"rendered":"You Can Fool Some Of The People Some Of The Time, And All Of The People Some Of The Time, But You Can Fool Yourself All Of The Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the anti-gay petition drive in Washington State fails due to too many invalid signatures, the sweet justice of it might be that their own anti-gay base believed the same signature gathering lies they were telling everyone else.  This from The Seattle PI blog:<\/p>\n

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Signature error rate too high for anti-gay referendum<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The numbers for Thursday’s count showed 6,483 checked and 935 rejected, for a cumulative daily error rate of 14.42 percent, said secretary of state spokesman Dave Ammons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…and this from the comments:<\/p>\n

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I think the lying on the part of supporters may have hurt them with the error rate.<\/p>\n

Imagine someone in Kent waddling up to the Walmart and encountering someone with a petition to "repeal domestic partnerships for gays." They sign it and go in for a triple pounder with cheese before buying lead-filled Chinese crap for their kids.<\/p>\n

Then 5 weeks later, they role out of their SUV at the Olive Garden and see someone with a petition to "ban same sex marriage." They go ahead and sign it, not realizing that it’s the same one they signed 5 weeks ago because the paid petition gatherer lied to them.<\/p>\n

Ta da—duplicate signatures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…it would be sweet, sweet justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the anti-gay petition drive in Washington State fails due to too many invalid signatures, the sweet justice of it might be that their own anti-gay base believed the same signature gathering lies they were telling everyone else.  This from The Seattle PI blog: Signature error rate too high for anti-gay referendum The numbers for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,16,20,46,12],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-hate","tag-marriage","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-kultar-kampf","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}