You remember Kim Davis? The woman who refused marriages to gays? She lost.

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Sea Ray

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And then she joined *your* party. Aren't you lucky.

"Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has officially changed her party registration to the Republican Party.

A spokeswoman for the Liberty Council, a Christian legal organization representing Davis, confirmed the switch.

"My husband and I had talked about it for quite a while and we came to the conclusion that the Democratic Party left us a long time ago, so why were we hanging on?" Davis told Reuters in Washington, where she was attending the Values Voter Summit hosted by the Family Research Council."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...registered-republican/?utm_term=.d42fd3b0ce80

I doubt Republicans will elect her to anything. She did her damage while winning an election on the Dem ticket.

From Wiki:

County clerk: 2015–present
After her mother announced she would not run for re-election in 2014, Davis filed as a Democratic candidate for county clerk.[10] At a candidates' forum, Davis stated she felt she was best qualified for the position because of her 26 years of experience in the clerk's office.[11]

Davis narrowly won the Democratic primary election,[10] defeating Elwood Caudill Jr., a deputy clerk in the Rowan County property valuation administrator's office, by 23 votes and advancing to the general election against Republican John Cox.[12][13]
 
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You're right about that but what does that have to do with the fact that she got to her position by winning an election on the Dem ticket?

You apparently have no understanding of the political history of the American South. Given that you are an American I find that sad.
 

WHAMPOM

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Tell me why after breaking her oath of office to obey STATE and FEDERAL LAWS, she was allowed to return to her position instead of getting removed from office and a replacement selected to fill her term of office?
 

ivwshane

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Tell me why after breaking her oath of office to obey STATE and FEDERAL LAWS, she was allowed to return to her position instead of getting removed from office and a replacement selected to fill her term of office?

I believe she was elected which means getting rid of her and getting a replacement isn't as easy as replacing a bad employee.
 

brycejones

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I believe she was elected which means getting rid of her and getting a replacement isn't as easy as replacing a bad employee.

I believe it would have required action by the GOP controlled state legislature which wasn't going to do a damn thing since they were opposed to gay marriage as well and viewed not providing a government service to their fellow citizens as a religious rights issue.
 

IronWing

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"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.” - Mark Twain

Okay, a short history of Kentucky politics. Prior to the mid 1980s, Kentucky was a one party state and that party was the Democrats. There were liberal Democrats, conservative Democrats, cross-burning Democrats, probably a handful of Maoist Democrats in the mix but they were all Democrats. Republicans were those weird goofy folks handing out pamphlets at the county fair. Region, county, family, and political clans were far more important than party, since they were all Democrats. But times changed. The Reagan revolution came to Kentucky right on schedule, twenty years later than anywhere else. The Democratic Party's hold on power was broken and the right wing Dems (and there were a lot of them in Kentucky) became Republicans while the liberals flocked to Gatewood Galbraith and then sort of wandered off. Kim Davis was a bit slower than most to jump parties, that's all.
 
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Sea Ray

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It doesn't change the fact that she was elected as a Democrat and was a representative of that party when she did these looney things
 

Engineer

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Just give it up guys. If it makes him feel better because he gets to blame a DEM for this lady, then so be it.

Moving her to the GOP shows her true side....moving her out of office, regardless of party is the goal.

As a KY taxpayer, it pisses me off that the state is responsible for the attorney fees. It should be her personally since she didn't follow her duty.
 
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Sea Ray

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Just give it up guys. If it makes him feel better because he gets to blame a DEM for this lady, then so be it.

Moving her to the GOP shows her true side....moving her out of office, regardless of party is the goal.

As a KY taxpayer, it pisses me off that the state is responsible for the attorney fees. It should be her personally since she didn't follow her duty.

Like your side wouldn't be slamming Republicans if she was on that ticket?
 

Engineer

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Like your side wouldn't be slamming Republicans if she was on that ticket?

I'm an independent and I would slam her no matter the side and already did (when she was a dem and now a gop), many times.
 

Sea Ray

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She is on that ticket now. The Reps openly embraced her.

She is not on any ticket now. She's not even up for re-election until next yr. Let's see if she evens runs.

Where do you get this stuff? Do you just make it up?
 

IronWing

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She is not on any ticket now. She's not even up for re-election until next yr. Let's see if she evens runs.

Where do you get this stuff? Do you just make it up?
Ticket was the wrong word, my apologies. She is now a Republican.