The 2022 Midterms

[ronntaylor]

Frisch stated that although an automatic recount will likely happen under state law, he encouraged supporters to save fundraising $$ for gas, groceries and other causes.

I think he has a strong future and should run again. We need more Grisch's, not Boeberts.

I thought he would wait till after the recount, but it's probably best to do so now as it's highly unlikely that he will overtake her absent some horrible mistakes.

This bodes well for him in two years since Bobo likely thinks winning is all that matters. With McCarthy herding conservative dicks across the finish line, she and MTG will outlive their welcome to the House.

 

[Herdfan]

The more Republicans try to suppress the vote, the more motivated the other side becomes.

I might agree had Kemp not gotten 150K more votes in 2022 than in 2018.

 

[Edd]

I thought he would wait till after the recount, but it's probably best to do so now as it's highly unlikely that he will overtake her absent some horrible mistakes.

This bodes well for him in two years since Bobo likely thinks winning is all that matters. With McCarthy herding conservative dicks across the finish line, she and MTG will outlive their welcome to the House.

I wouldn't think so, but does conceding disqualify him from winning should a recount be in his favor? It can't be that way, or he wouldn't have conceded, I hope.

 

[shadow puppet]

Happy to see this happening.

 

[Herdfan]

I wouldn't think so, but does conceding disqualify him from winning should a recount be in his favor? It can't be that way, or he wouldn't have conceded, I hope.

I think he did it so his supporters wouldn't be throwing money at his campaign. He told them to keep it and spend it on food and utilities. Good for him.

 

[lizkat]

The more Republicans try to suppress the vote, the more motivated the other side becomes. You’d think they would learn their lesson, but considering they went all-in on Trump-backed candidates in 2022 after the disaster of 2020, they aren’t very good at learning lessons. It seems to me ignorance and a refusal to learn is pretty common among Republicans.

The GOP does not help extend its base by fear mongering, especially when fostering the idea that its adherents are persecuted for this or that belief, or that the other main party is "evil." Why not get back to outlining secular policy platforms that can attract more potential voters? The whole thing of being "the party of NO" (and the party of circus-like House extravaganzas) is so shopworn at this point.

It will be interesting to see if the Republicans' dominant 2024 candidates move a little towards the center, after the party's more extreme right wing had clearly ended up with a Trump-focused and cult-like following during the past six or seven years. One hopes they see by now the great risks of a personality-centered party.

 

[Deleted member 215]

Can't believe we're already starting to hear the "at least DeSantis isn't Trump" rhetoric from Democrats. As if the Bush II nostalgia wasn't bad enough.

And I hope the Democrats stop trying to derail Trump's presidential run so that he'll run third party against DeSantis. Gotta think long term here.

 

[Edd]

I wouldn't think so, but does conceding disqualify him from winning should a recount be in his favor? It can't be that way, or he wouldn't have conceded, I hope.

Nice.

Yes, candidates can still win after conceding an election

Candidate concessions aren’t legally binding and don’t impact the official vote count.

www.ksdk.com

 

[SuperMatt]

Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist checks out what happened with voters in Maricopa county, AZ.

Kari Lake Claims Her Voters Were Disenfranchised. Her Voters Tell a Different Story. (Published 2022)

Ms. Lake’s supporters say in testimonials that they had problems at Phoenix-area polling sites. But a review by The New York Times shows that most of them successfully cast their ballots.

www.nytimes.com

The New York Times reviewed 45 accounts offered by voters and 20 additional accounts from poll workers and observers in legal filings, public meeting testimony, submissions to the Arizona secretary of state’s office and on social media posts associated with Ms. Lake, her campaign and her allies, in some cases interviewing the voters to clarify details.

 

[GermanSuplex]

Would you be OK with Republicans setting up free food trucks outside polling places? I doubt it.

I truly wouldn’t care.

Again, no matter how strict, regimented or secure the elections are, it won’t matter if there are sore losers who lie afterwards. Do you think if every voting law and requirement republicans want passed we’re enacted, Trump would concede gracefully in 2024 if he lost? Do you think he’d concede primary losses, or just make up a different gaggle of lies explaining how he actually won?

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Best summery I've heard of Republicans retaking the house and their plans - Y'all voted to feed Gizmo after midnight.

And this should prevent anybody from voting for Hunter Biden again.

 

[shadow puppet]

I can only imagine how depressing this must be for Blue leaning types living in FL.

 

[lizkat]

I can only imagine how depressing this must be for Blue leaning types living in FL.

Yeah where is that GIF with Bugs Bunny sawing Florida off the mainland.

The last blue voter departing should email a link for it to each of those guys.

 

[rdrr]

I can only imagine how depressing this must be for Blue leaning types living in FL.

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Still don't know how Matt Gaetz is still able to serve, after what they put Al Franken through.

 

[ronntaylor]

I can only imagine how depressing this must be for Blue leaning types living in FL.

My part of Queens, NY votes more Republican than other areas. Still well below the support of Dems and that depresses me. Can't imagine being rep'd by GOP A-holes and being surrounded by a majority of gulping sycophants.

 

[ronntaylor]

The last blue voter departing should email a link for it to each of those guys.

Well, the Dems do fight and the GOP goes out of it's way to stymie their votes. Super gerrymandering and extreme voter suppression can only keep them down for so long. Demographics and death will eventually level the playing field.

 

[lizkat]

Looks like Ms. Boebert is a slow learner.

Boebert gets new FEC warning letter

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has received yet another warning letter from the Federal Election Commission saying her campaign has accepted numerous donations in excess of campaign finance limits.

www.gjsentinel.com

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has received yet another warning letter from the Federal Election Commission saying her campaign has accepted numerous donations in excess of campaign finance limits.

In a letter sent to her campaign this week, Boebert allegedly accepted $9,650 more than those limits allow from five donors between late September and mid-October.

By law, candidates cannot accept more than $2,900 from individual donors during an election cycle.

This isn’t the first time Boebert’s campaign has been warned by the FEC for various campaign finance issues, primarily for accepting donations in excess of limits. In May, her campaign received a similar warning letter saying that her first quarter filing of 2022 showed her campaign accepted as much as $30,000 in contributions that exceed campaign finance limits in 20 separate donations.

An October 2021 letter from the FEC showed that the beginning balance of her report filed at the end of September 2021 showed contributions and expenses for the first three months of that year did not equal the ending balance of her 2020 year-end report, which had already been amended three times by then, according to her FEC filings.

Her closing cash-on-hand balance as of Dec. 31, 2020, was $286,794. Boebert’s beginning balance in her first quarter report for Jan. 1, 2021, to March 31, 2021 listed an opening balance of $356,794, a difference of $70,000.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Looks like Ms. Boebert is a slow learner.

Boebert gets new FEC warning letter

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has received yet another warning letter from the Federal Election Commission saying her campaign has accepted numerous donations in excess of campaign finance limits.

www.gjsentinel.com

warnings don't mean shit to these idiots you have to make them suffer.

 

[lizkat]

warnings don't mean shit to these idiots you have to make them suffer.

Yeah there's always the school of hard knocks for those figuring rules are for other people.

Bobo has a couple months to make it right, and if she can't do that then there will likely be fines.

All she has to do is humble herself enough to ask for legal advice from someone knowledgeable in campaign finance, then get a referral to an accountant who does that particular kind of work well enough to recommend how best to correct the situation.

Who knows how people make gone-wrong campaign contribution situations right... sometimes they can loan their own campaign money if they've had to return donations, at least during the campaign season itself.

But it's possible she'll just ignore the letter: after all, it's "merely" a letter from a federal agency and she's not big on federal government to begin with. She's one of the Rs who ran for Congress in order to try to help tear down the government of which she's now a part.

 

[SuperMatt]

Looks like Ms. Boebert is a slow learner.

Boebert gets new FEC warning letter

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has received yet another warning letter from the Federal Election Commission saying her campaign has accepted numerous donations in excess of campaign finance limits.

www.gjsentinel.com

Imagine if they took away 1 vote for each illegal dollar accepted…