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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(112,779 posts)
Sat May 11, 2024, 08:52 PM May 2024

A Republican activist convinced two Democrats, both named Bob Ferguson, to join the Governors contest.

The number of Bob Fergusons running to be Washington’s next governor grew to three on Friday.

A conservative Republican activist threw a monkey wrench into the race by recruiting two last-minute Democratic candidates who share the same name as the party’s presumed front-runner.

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Glen Morgan, a political conservative who has a knack for annoying elected Democrats and their progressive allies, cooked up the maneuver that immediately drew flack from the attorney general’s camp as an attempt to confuse voters.

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Under state law, if two or more candidates file for the same office with names similar enough to confuse voters, information can be added on the ballot to help differentiate them. Additional information will not be provided for any other candidate.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/05/10/three-bob-fergusons-now-running-for-governor-as-race-takes-turn-for-the-weird/

They're probably not real Democrats.

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A Republican activist convinced two Democrats, both named Bob Ferguson, to join the Governors contest. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2024 OP
"They're probably not real Democrats. " DBoon May 2024 #1
This is bad KT2000 May 2024 #2

KT2000

(20,742 posts)
2. This is bad
Mon May 13, 2024, 12:32 AM
May 2024

The real Bob Ferguson will be listed 13th and the others are second and third.

There really isn't decency anymore.

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