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[CORRECTED] Stupid Morality Laws! (SML)

By Jeff, on March 15th, 2010%

For several days now, when I have mentioned Ray McBerry on Facebook or Peach Pundit, Stephen Vasil has attempted to use a particular ad hominem attack on me because he cannot refute what I have been claiming about McBerry (that is is an absolute stark raving lunatic).

The particular ad hominem he tries to use is asking me how many votes I received in my bid for Leesburg City Council last year. This, despite the fact that he full well knows my numbers – he’s simply trying to embarass me with them.

For an unknown guy who has only lived in town to go up against the sitting Mayor Pro Tem who has lived in town for more than 40 years and pull what I did is nothing to be embarrassed about in my book though.

For the record, I received 20 of 90 votes cast, for 22.22% of the vote.

Now, over the past 24 hours or so, I’ve been considering a proposal for Vasil and any other McBerry supporter who wanted to take me up on it, but it turns out there is this Stupid Morality Law (SML!), namely OCGA 16-12-21(a)(2) which states:

A person commits the offense of gambling when he makes a bet upon the partial or final result of any game or contest or upon the performance of any participant in such game or contest.

So I can’t make this proposal to Vasil, or any other McBerry supporter who may have taken me up on it, because it violates this Stupid Morality Law (SML):
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[UPDATED] On McBerry’s Latest Insane Rambling

By Jeff, on March 15th, 2010%

Over the weekend, Ray McBerry sent out yet another rambling, paranoid missive about how “they’re coming to get me!”.

There has been quite a bit of discussion on this, and you can read the email over at PeachPundit or Jim Galloway’s site, which also has another piece about the issue today.

Today’s Galloway post in particular had something that drew my attention. He linked to this page at an organization called Talking Points Memo (TPM), which has an email purporting to be from McBerry’s exwife that has at least some of the allegations McBerry was responding to (and which FEW people knew about before the email blast from him).

Now, I’m going to gloss over what others have already said – that McBerry broke the first rule of campaign denials (“NEVER repeat the allegation”) among them. Seriously, go read those other sites for that, they have some good stuff – particularly Galloway.

But I do want to bring out something from the email TPM claims is from McBerry’s ex-wife. In it, she says: (emphasis mine)
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