How is Kim Davis (county clerk) a democrat?

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yllus

yllus

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NY Times: Kentucky Clerk Allows Same-Sex Licenses, but Questions Legality

MOREHEAD, Ky. — Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk who was jailed this month for defying a court order that she issue marriage licenses, said Monday that she would not block her employees from processing licenses for same-sex couples.

But she warned that the licenses would be issued without her authorization — she said they would note that they had been processed pursuant to a court order — and she raised questions about whether they would be legal. Ms. Davis, an Apostolic Christian, has objected to processing marriage licenses for same-sex couples because of her religious beliefs.

“Effective immediately, and until an accommodation is provided by those with the authority to provide it, any marriage license issued by my office will not be issued or authorized by me,” Ms. Davis said on Monday, her first day at work since her Sept. 8 release from the Carter County Detention Center. “I want the whole world to know.”

It was not immediately clear how Judge David L. Bunning of the Federal District Court would respond to Ms. Davis’s announcement, which she made outside the courthouse minutes before her office opened. Last week, when Judge Bunning allowed Ms. Davis to go free, he wrote that she should not “interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples.”
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So... she's getting paid to not do her job? I'm actually not sure how instead of going to jail she wasn't just fired...
 
Sheik Yerbouti

Sheik Yerbouti

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She's an elected official, she needs to be impeached by the state legislature, which ain't gonna happen anytime soon. She can be removed by the public via a recall election, but it's KY, and well, it's KY.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kentucky-clerk-marriage-licenses_55e5c2d5e4b0c818f619224c



I just hope the next time I choose to willfully violate the law I can cite my Pastafarian roots and state that performing that <insert legally dictated activity here> directly violates my belief system. That's going to work, right?
 
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Fanatical Meat

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^^I'd guess she'd get a pass on the older license's but she'd be jailed the next day for not signing them.
Seems like to everybody who matters agree they are valid marriage certificates.
 
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Gonad the Barbarian

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That's my every expectation, they won't be challenged, if they are they are declared valid, and this piece of work keeps cashing her paycheck, and continues to after winning her re-election by a landslide.
 
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Nice to see things are going to settle down. I was a little worried we might have Oath Keepers trying to get froggy with Marshals. Protecting the Constitution...by defending those who break the law with un-Constitutional acts! Brilliant!

So this idiot finally extracted her head from her ass and understands what people have been telling her this whole time: you don't have to agree with the law, but you don't get to disobey the law. Good for you Kim.

She could have let other clerks provide their signatures instead, or was even told just to write in "Rowan County, KY" so she could be spared the horrific agony of using her own signature. Sorry Huckabee, looks like your PR blitz is over at this point. If rational people had any doubts about your persecution complex and detachment from reality combo, they probably don't now. Grats!

I'm not usually a fan of Mondays, but today is an exception now that sanity and rule of law seem to have prevailed over dogma and mindless bigotry. At least in Rowan Country, KY. :thumbsup:
 
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werepossum

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Sheik Yerbouti said:
She's an elected official, she needs to be impeached by the state legislature, which ain't gonna happen anytime soon. She can be removed by the public via a recall election, but it's KY, and well, it's KY.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kentucky-clerk-marriage-licenses_55e5c2d5e4b0c818f619224c

I just hope the next time I choose to willfully violate the law I can cite my Pastafarian roots and state that performing that <insert legally dictated activity here> directly violates my belief system. That's going to work, right?
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Sure - as long as you do so in an area with a stiff majority of Pastafarians so the politicians can safely support you.
 
Fanatical Meat

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I don't break out this word often, I'm serious.

She has told all her workers to write on her name line "per order of federal court"
What a wise and beautiful woman she can't admit defeat or even be civil like sign on her line per rowand(?) county.
 
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Gonad the Barbarian said:
That's my every expectation, they won't be challenged, if they are they are declared valid, and this piece of work keeps cashing her paycheck, and continues to after winning her re-election by a landslide.
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I don't think so. I think from a political perspective OJ Simpson could probably take her position. Several people will run against her now since her DIRT has aired. KY will want to have a new face there since she made the state look like a bunch of hicks...

If anything Brian Mason could take her job. That would be freaked funny. He looks like a hero now!!!!
 
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Gonad the Barbarian

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steppinthrax said:
I don't think so. I think from a political perspective OJ Simpson could probably take her position. Several people will run against her now since her DIRT has aired. KY will want to have a new face there since she made the state look like a bunch of hicks...

If anything Brian Mason could take her job. That would be freaked funny. He looks like a hero now!!!!
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Remember the part where she's a Democrat? Do you think a Republican is going to run to the left of her? And the place is a bunch of hicks, they're proud of it, and they vote.
 
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realibrad said:
Gonna take a lot of wind to blow her anywhere... :awe:
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1, 2, 3, 4 husbands, dem, prob change to repub. If she feels super special she will prob divorce her current husband to husband number 5. At this point if some crazy nut bible thumbing Warren Jeff type repub recruits her to some crazy Utah multiple wives (with children involved) cult, she will jump on that shit.
 
waggy

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steppinthrax said:
I don't think so. I think from a political perspective OJ Simpson could probably take her position. Several people will run against her now since her DIRT has aired. KY will want to have a new face there since she made the state look like a bunch of hicks...

If anything Brian Mason could take her job. That would be freaked funny. He looks like a hero now!!!!
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I'm not sure on that. though i do hope so. this bitch needs to be out of a job. Now way in hell should she collect a paychack while not doing her job.

Gonad the Barbarian said:
I hope the licenses are challenged and found not valid, that lands her right back in jail.
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I don't. enough law abiding citizens have been harmed by this persons beliefs.
 
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realibrad

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steppinthrax said:
1, 2, 3, 4 husbands, dem, prob change to repub. If she feels super special she will prob divorce her current husband to husband number 5. At this point if some crazy nut bible thumbing Warren Jeff type repub recruits her to some crazy Utah multiple wives (with children involved) cult, she will jump on that shit.
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I don't see her jumping.
 
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cabri

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soundforbjt said:
Do you think she's still a Democrat now?
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Usually at that level of politics; the party is close to being irrelevant.
Rowan is a very small (25K population) county and in the mountainous area of KY

Those positions are more about name recognition and perception of doing the job.

She has the name recognition - it will be up the the voters to determine if she has done her job over the past term and deserves another.

How much baggage this incident will be ???
 
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cabri

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steppinthrax said:
Would have honestly thought her as a hardcore, right-wing, backwoods, bible-thumping, nut republican. But she's a registered dem and ran under dem for her position.

Also, how the hell can she make 80K a year????????
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Clerk pay is mainly determined by the size of the county, but the officials are also rewarded for longevity. Clerks’ salaries go up each of their four years in office, and if re-elected, they continue to get paid at the rate they earned in the fourth year of their tenure, adjusted for inflation.
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It would seem that she is getting some credit for 25 years as a Deputy Clerk.
she only became Clerk this year.
 
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steppinthrax

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cabri said:
It would seem that she is getting some credit for 25 years as a Deputy Clerk.
she only became Clerk this year.
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Gov looks at years of service as total years of service with them regardless of position. She could have been a ass washer for 10 years and now a clerk for 1 and she's been there 11 years
 
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