Given that, I'd vote for the Black woman, but that's just me
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The husband of Mrs Etienne's best friend from childhood, and still a very close friend appears to be making a serious bid to become a Republican state governor. I've only met him briefly but she and her children are lovely, decent people. This is causing significant cognitive dissonance.Comment
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I can't imagine what it's like being married to someone that senior in US politics. It seems to have all the downside with none of the hypothetical benefits of actually having power. The amount of work done just in the million events you have to attend and host, while always having to be open to abuse from the public and ignoring it, and always having to avoid crossing any of the lines that your electorate will have - even harder as a Republican - just sounds horrible.Comment
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There is clearly something you fail to understand about grift culture.Comment
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Yeah, he's currently a chief of staff for a Senator which is probably the reverse, significant influence without a significant public profile. I know his wife wants to be supportive but is very aware of the downside.Comment
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Quite a few state capitals make the District of Columbia look like the Centre of the UniverseComment
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There’s definitely something odd going on. They’ve been stopping advertising in some critical races. Which makes no sense unless they’re in a chronic cash crunch.Comment
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This is profoundly depressing news. Leo is one of the worst people in the country.
https://twitter.com/levernews/status/1561788954579542022?s=21&t=Q_6w5qDr5Wd5SYyAg6KCeQ
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Why are ultra-secretive billionaire businessmen always giving money to the worst people?Comment
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Florida's descent into hell continues
https://twitter.com/karavoght/status/1562243022925987840?s=21&t=tM5sRLnhTPA4WDoR8hdddw
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Two of the DeSantis school board wins are in Miami-Dade, which is thus a disaster for that city's kids and teachers and also suggests his agenda is gaining socially conservative Latino support.
My own county was not in the election but has already caved on these issues, but two neighboring counties returned his choices. Worryingly there are no liberal holdout counties as far as I can see. Hillsborough, where he suspended the attorney, was also a win for him, which will remove the last protections teachers have there.
There will be a mass exodus from the teaching profession - I don't know how I could preserve my mental health if I were in K12. Not being able to advocate for gender theory in university is bad enough (although I'm working around it as much as I can using case studies of Trans role models and I also teach in community college, which is, as yet, unaffected, and where students are not likely to grass up their professors).Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 24-08-2022, 10:27.Comment
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From what I read, it's not really about gaining socially conservative Latino support. It's that people just aren't voting on school board elections which are ridiculously low turnout. It's the old story of the Republicans fighting to win elections that matter but where nobody is looking. I imagine that in a lot of these places there'll be a lot of push back from parents and the public in a couple of years. Which might be too late, of course.Comment
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Firms are going to find it hard to recruit new employees with children, not to mention retaining the ones they already have.Comment
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Plus those currently childless that intend to have children at some future point.Comment
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He’s barely taller than Fauci.
It’ll be horrible in every other way, but Trump running against this oaf would be a lot of fun. To borrow a Paul Keating phrase, he would do him slowly.Comment
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https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1562604367609745408?s=21&t=5PigY1FewC2Wma_1QCL_Jw
The article's description of the mechanics of felon disenfranchisement is very instructive
After the state adopted that law as part of its constitution, along with other provisions like poll taxes and literacy tests, James K. Vardaman, one of its drafters, explained the goal: “There is no use to equivocate or lie about the matter … Mississippi’s constitutional convention of 1890 was held for no other purpose than to eliminate the n–ger from politics. Not the ‘ignorant and vicious’, as some of the apologists would have you believe, but the n–ger.” Supporters hailed Vardaman, who served as a Mississippi governor and U.S. senator, as the state’s “Great White Chief.”
The 1890 provision at issue is Section 241 of the Mississippi Constitution, which originally permanently disenfranchised people who committed the following crimes: bribery, burglary theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement and bigamy. In their effort to only include crimes they believed Black people were most likely to commit, the white-supremacist drafters of the 1890 ConstiComment
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Back to my local primaries. I have a slightly better handle on where my preferences are going now. But I want a pointer from Ursus.
For Essex DA I have the choice of a former police chief and a former criminal defence attorney. My instinct is to always go for the latter - is that a bad instinct?
And for county Sheriff there's a similar split: the incumbent is a former police officer, while the challenger is a social worker focused on rehabilitation, mental health and substance abuse. Again, my instinct is to go for the latter.
Basically, I think I don't want ex-cops in power, generally.Comment
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