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UPDATE: OK GOP Primary candidate refuses to concede to Congressman Frank Lucas (R) because he believes that Congressman Lucas has been dead for two years and that apparently the DoD replaced him with a clone or surgically altered double. I SHIT YOU NOT:
WASHINGTON -- Political opponents accuse each other of lying all the time, but one Oklahoma congressional candidate took his accusation to a new level this week when he claimed his opponent was actually dead and being represented by a body double.
KFOR in Oklahoma reports that Timothy Ray Murray believes Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), his opponent in the congressional Republican primary, was executed three years ago and is being represented by a look-alike. Because he believes Lucas is really dead, Murray said he will challenge the results of Tuesday's Republican primary, in which Murray received 5.2 percent of the vote. Lucas won the primary with 82.8 percent of the vote.
"It is widely known Rep. Frank D. Lucas is no longer alive and has been displayed by a look alike. Rep. Lucas look alike was depicted as sentenced on a white stage in southern Ukraine on or about Jan. 11, 2011," Murray said in a statement posted on his campaign website. The statement claimed Lucas and a few other members of Congress from Oklahoma and other states were shown on television being hanged by The World Court.
"I am contesting that this matter has happen [sic] since his election was blocked, because of the U.S. Defense Departments use of Mr. Murray's DNA. To my knowledge, the U.S. Defense Department has not released to the public that information, as it is their confidential information about many people," Murray's statement said.
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http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/06/27/friday-open-thread-13/
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Heck he only got 5 points running against a dead man.....
Fred Gilmore
(80 posts)lost to a dead man, Mel Carnahan, in a Mizery senate election in 2000. Some of these pukes and baggers are so disliked that voters prefer zombies..........LOL
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)I'm with you!
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)it's the fracking waste in the water supply.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)calimary
(81,194 posts)salib
(2,116 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)Then usher in a less caring and less responsible form of feudalism than the past with the fat cats as lords wrapped in a flag made utterly meaningless and sanctified by prosperity gospel.
The Turd Way wants fascism softened by multiculturalism and phony democracy, where corporation and state merge.
Neither is acceptable but some seem ready to swallow it if the rulers sometimes look like them and they can pretend to vote for the face of the devil.
I suspect they hope to meet somewhere in the middle, aka "bipartisanship".
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)I was skeptical until Murray informed us it was "widely known" that the real Frank Lucas is dead and has been replaced by an imposter.
I'm not one to go up against popular belief, after all.
RKP5637
(67,102 posts)a public office.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)I mean, it's almost self-selecting, isn't it?
Cha
(297,123 posts)Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)RKP5637
(67,102 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)This is not my opinion. It is the opinion of my clone.
The original BlancheSplanchnik died shortly after viewing a clip from Fox Newz, as a result of a cerebrovascular accident precipitated by exposure to lethal levels of assholery.
Fortunately, the original BlancheSplanchnik had prepared for such an eventuality, correctly predicting that repuke assholery would continue to rise exponentially until inevitably reaching a parts per million concentration known to be fatal to intelligent life.
edbermac
(15,937 posts)It's true! I just played my Abbey Road CD backwards and heard that.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)I was going to say, "Hey, if the Beatles could pull it off using a body double after Paul died, anything's possible."
riqster
(13,986 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Yep, read the OP and THIS was my very 1st thought too!! GMTA!
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)bluesbassman
(19,369 posts)Seriously I hope he wins. Gonna be a R there anyway so might as well have one that's good for a few laughs.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)This guy probably has real mental problems, but because he's a tea partier people think it's just more RW blather and fake conspiracy theories.
Skittles
(153,142 posts)Reading these statements, I worry he might harm someone. He needs help fast.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)it must be true!
Lucas's denial would have been more convincing if a aide wasn't standing behind him with a remote control unit and a can of oil!
0rganism
(23,937 posts)i mean, maybe Clone Lucas is doing a fantastic job representing his constituents, and deserves another term by their measure...
Oh wait -- it's the Republicans, so competence and ability to govern have nothing to do with how candidates perform in elections. Nevermind.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)We'd put him in an institution, but we really need the eggs.
Hekate
(90,633 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)I know everyone's laughing about it, but it's rather alarming that these kind of statements are accepted as normal RW political discourse.
woodsprite
(11,910 posts)and people in here think it would be a hoot to have him elected to office.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)gopiscrap
(23,736 posts)what is with repukes?
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)before the lunatics take the place over. Moving to Mauritius by the end of the year.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Please share photos once you get there. That's on my list for travel. That must be quite a change from landlocked Oklahoma.
underpants
(182,736 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)csziggy
(34,135 posts)It's a pod person.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)He's down in Argentina, along with Hitler, JFK, and Elvis, all of whom are widely known to be still alive.
(BTW, this revelation has no impact whatsoever on the fact that Orrin Hatch is a space alien.)
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Like that governor from a few years back?
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)to have had his brain removed, and was using a box of rocks as a substitute.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)Denzel Washington?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)If not, well, wow.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)It's a bizarre neurological disorder where the patient believes a friend or loved one has been replaced by an impostor.
It usually occurs in paranoid schizophrenics or people who have experienced some sort of brain trauma.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)Alex P Notkeaton
(309 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Or does he just watch too much television?
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... this one might win as nominee in the "Best Dumb Shit" category. Really, there is no depth they will not go, because believe it or not, there are people who actually believe their dumb shit shenanigans.
Turbineguy
(37,313 posts)their voters demand it.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Javaman
(62,510 posts)LOL
wandy
(3,539 posts)a teapublican is doing something more entertaining than dangerous.
We should encourage this behavior!
Send him supportive E-Mails.
Heck send him a DVD of Blade Runner or Brian De Palma's Body Double.
Support Timothy Ray Murray's harmless dealusion. It is in no way as dangerous as the dark mussings of John McCain.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)How hard were the Overlord's instructions, people? Just don't tell this ONE guy in Oklahoma! Who blabbed?
I bet it was Mitch....he leaves secret paperwork laying around all the time. Damn it Mitch, didn't you learn from the FEMA camp memo you left in Albuquerque?
Okay everybody, sneak out of your houses tonight and we'll meet in San Francisco for an emergency meeting to get this back undercover...
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)The evil twin theory is much more widely known than the body double/DNA explanation and more reasonable, given the widely known suspect nature of DNA, which is code for "Science", it being a fact that Science is a liberal plot to cede control of the United States of Jesus (USofJ) over to The Dark Lord, who has already prepared a week-long, fiery inauguration saturnalia at which our beloved country will be renamed, "the American States of Satan (ASofS)".
Whether we like it or not.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)As measured by the Evilometer (Pat Pend).
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)world wide wally
(21,740 posts)any circumstances.... And that's that!
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)This is better than "The Onion"
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)He was a loon before losing - his webpage: http://www.timothyraymurray.com/Home_Page.html
The Representatives Office is doing nor own a robot look alike.
Okies are weird. I mean, look at their senators
.
I once said to a Texan friend that Oklahoma sucks. Her reply was, "Yeah, it does, but it keeps Kansas from smashing into us."
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)and replaced with exact duplicates.
Sanity Claws
(21,846 posts)Murray is locco in extremis.
Sienna86
(2,149 posts)Someone more familiar with diagnosis can have a better go of this.
DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)[link: http://www.timothyraymurray.com|
* Requested and obtained in 2013, Protection from partial or whole life placement on Starship without the knowledge and or will of any person(s) on Earth or in Space, and the storage of partial human size life on Earth or in this Solar system. This matter is sealed with The People, The U.S. President, and The U.S. Supreme Court.
de-human chip from persons abroad and in armed forces use. Helped block the 7th day Legislation in the 70s that would put the 666 de-human chip in every person on earth. In prevention of the fore-mentioned, it was sealed with The People, The U.S. President, and The U.S. Supreme Court at that time and since that time.
While I wouldn't want to actually diagnose the guy, as I haven't met him or done more than read his webpage and a few news articles about him, I would definitely be comfortable saying Something Is Not Quite Right. If he was previously successful and relatively coherent, perhaps early onset dementia of some kind?
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Not much I can really say
The guy needs counseling
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)His campaign web site is very revealing. http://www.timothyraymurray.com/
He doesn't seem particularly 'gifted' in the qualifications department:
"....career has been in Pharmacy Chains, as Corporate Store Director,
worked in Sales,
worked for the United States Postal Service, as a Rural Carrier,
was Awarded Honor status by U.S. Presidents Nixon, Ford, and others,
was Youth Diplomat for U.S. Mission for The United Nations, 1978,
was awarded United Nations Humanitarian Expert status as Diplomat,
was Assistant to an Oklahoma City Councilman in 2004-05
and is again a Candidate for U.S. House for Oklahomas 3rd District, 2014."
He gives himself the title "Hon." and calls himself Ambassador, evidently based on his stint as a Youth Diplomat back in the 70's, but he promises that he's human.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)I'm thinking he kept a little something something on the side for himself.
DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)...and got 20% of the vote.
I'm thinking he's had a brain injury. Stroke maybe? Or some kind of early onset dementia? Because his rational has clearly left the building...
lunasun
(21,646 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,318 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Dear goodness, I know politics get crazy, but this crazy? Man, this is epic lunacy right here. "I oppose because my opponent is dead." The only person I can think of that could have used that defense was Clinton against Dole, and that was mostly because Dole was dead inside. Maybe Obama could have used that argument against Romney too - "He's a body double, because he hasn't been anything but a puppet for 40 years, and for 20 of those he's had no brain activity."
Though neither of them would have been crass enough to come right out and say it.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)He might be a body double. The real Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK) was in Congress during the Bush Administration and voted for two tax cuts for the wealthy (unpaid for), two wars (unpaid for), a drug prescription plan for seniors (unpaid for), a tripling of the Defense budget (unpaid for), tax subsidies for Oklahoma's energy companies (unpaid for). The Frank Lucas body double ran on a campaign violently objecting to the trillion dollar budget deficits that the dead Frank Lucas voted for.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)was, well, nonsense, but this didn't just take the cake, it took the whole damn bakery.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Initech
(100,060 posts)"This ranks about a 9 out of 10 on my weird shit-o-meter."
avebury
(10,952 posts)Sigh
I am always saying that to run for office in Oklahoma you have to be bat sh*t crazy. I believe that my point has been made.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)I am also a owner of oil, gases, and minerals rights of other Oklahoma land. Like the Senator from Kentucky, I own oil, gases and mineral rights along with others that cover most of The State of Oklahoma. The purpose of this ownership is for The People of The United States. The purchase was made with funds of The George Washington family of which I am a direct descendent. I am not of knowledge of all of the former President's family directions with his assets, however I will justly try to follow his directions of just and lawful nature for The People of The United States and of myself. I will never turn over Management of these resource assets to solely to The U.S. President, or legislative action
The Senator announced out his ownership in the 2012 election because of miss Representation of U.S. Office holders in his State. It has now been discovered miss Representation of U.S. Office holders has long existed in Oklahoma using this fact about Oklahoma oil and minerals being owned by The People and other unjust excuses. This miss-Representation includes Oklahomas 3rd District and other Oklahoma Districts. Today is the day to correctly follow The People's voice.
We ask the few Members of Congress blocking The Peoples correct vote to uphold The United States Constitution and seat the justly elected Persons. This matter is their duty.
Despite what President Obama said on television about slapping anyone that votes for Oil barons, I am sure that will not happen for voting for Timothy Ray Murray. (The President was joking. He knows that is illegal, and that no one should ever do that.)
.............insanity!
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)Oklahoma. The smartest guy in the whole state had an IQ of 64.
elias49
(4,259 posts)of a pool of crazy.
Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)n/t
MisterP
(23,730 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)All is well in the Universe.