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Hoaxman claims that he tried to stop the January 6 attack – by giving a speech beforehand to rile up the rabble.
With all the “3 strikes” laws these punks put on the books for people smoking pot, perhaps we can have some “3 strikes” laws for passing blatantly unconstitutional legislation?
but Stacy Abrams will not be kind to him
And she just made a huge rookie mistake similar to Hillary's Deplorable's comment.
She dared to speakWhat'd she do?
Stacey Abrams won't mince words about Georgia's problems — and the GOP is furious
Abrams, Democrats' presumptive nominee for Georgia governor, was deeply critical of the GOP-led state. And she's completely right.www.msnbc.com
Stacey Abrams is right: Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, has helped turn his state into one of the worst places to live in the country.
Abrams, the Democrats’ presumptive nominee to face off against Kemp for the governorship this fall, made her declaration during a fundraiser in Georgia on Saturday. And although she predicted her words would be taken out of context and used against her, she was quite clear about the things Kemp has done to make her state a demonstrably bad place to call home.
“I am tired of hearing about how we’re the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live,” Abrams said, according to audio published by The Gwinnett Daily Post.
“Let me contextualize,” she added. “When you’re No. 48 for mental health, when we’re No. 1 for maternal mortality, when you have an incarceration rate that is on the rise and wages are on the decline, then you are not the No. 1 place to live.”
She went on to say: “Georgia is capable of greatness, but we need greatness to be in our governor’s office. We need someone who actually believes in bringing all of us in there together.”
It didn’t take long for Republicans, including Kemp, to do just as Abrams predicted and condemn her remarks:
Go Stacey, GO.She dared to speak
You can’t read minds over the internet?What'd she do?
She dared to speak
That's what passes for discourse nowadays. Just throw a comment out there, no context, no explanation. Which means it's open ended & can be reconstructed anyway a person likes if the response they get isn't favorable. It's also wonderful if you don't want to actually be factual, just throw crap out there & runaway. Occasionally passed off as supposed engagement. Too often, if context isn't provided, it's for good reason. On the other side is taking comments laid out, and deliberately & directly going to misconstruing them to feign some faux outrage.
We saw it play out with Hilary, and all the ginned up outrage. Then when 1/6 happened, pretend like her comments were never uttered.
You can’t read minds over the internet?
I can't say you're wrong. She did provide context, but she still should have known better.
That line will be used in commercials all over the place leading up to election day. She had little to gain and a lot to lose with that comment. And she has tried to walk it back a bit so either she or someone in her campaign knows it was a mistake.
No. There is no better. That’s my point.I can't say you're wrong. She did provide context, but she still should have known better.
That line will be used in commercials all over the place leading up to election day. She had little to gain and a lot to lose with that comment. And she has tried to walk it back a bit so either she or someone in her campaign knows it was a mistake.
Michigan election bureau says 2 leading Republican candidates for governor filed fraudulent signatures, disqualifying them
Michigan's elections bureau says five Republican candidates for governor, including two leading contenders, failed to file enough valid nominating signatures and shouldn't qualify for the August primary.www.pbs.org
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s elections bureau said late Monday that five Republican candidates for governor, including two leading contenders, failed to file enough valid nominating signatures and should not qualify for the August primary.
The stunning recommendations immediately transformed the race in the battleground state and dealt a major blow to former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who has led in primary polling despite campaign problems, and businessman Perry Johnson, who has spent millions of his own money to run. Democrats had challenged their petitions, alleging mass forgery and other issues. Another GOP candidate, Tudor Dixon, had also contested Craig’s voter signatures as fake.
The bipartisan, four-member Board of State Canvassers will meet Thursday to consider the elections bureau’s findings of fraud across five gubernatorial campaigns. The Republican candidates, who are vying to face Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in November, could end up going to court if they do not make the ballot.
Bureau staff also determined that three other lesser-known GOP candidates — Donna Brandenburg, Michael Brown and Michael Markey — did not turn in enough valid signatures.
If the canvassers agree with the recommendations, the 10-person field of political newcomers would be cut in half to five. Those qualifying for the ballot would be Dixon, a former conservative TV news host who netted the DeVos family endorsement earlier Monday; chiropractor and grassroots activist Garrett Soldano; wealthy self-funding businessman Kevin Rinke; real estate broker and anti-coronavirus lockdown activist Ryan Kelley; and pastor Ralph Rebandt.
…the senate, the electoral college, the Supreme Court and its lifetime appointees — functioning as intended. The dilution of votes in cities is the point, and so long as the minority remains in power, it will continue to make laws (and judgments) that protect against its erosion. Voter registration campaigns are not enough. Reciprocal gerrymandering strategies, not enough. If, in a state like Idaho, you go through the initiative process to try and pass legislation (like Medicaid expansion) that’s actually popular, then the legislation will rewrite the laws to prevent it from ever happening again.
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