Biden won Georgia in 2020, and was entitled to its 16 electoral votes, but the Trump campaign had other plans. A Trump campaign operative in that state assembled a group of unelected “alternate” electors, arranged for them to meet at the statehouse on December 14, 2020, and issued them t[...]
Archive for June 6th, 2022
June 6th, 2022 - 4:22 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Ex-GOP candidate pleads guilty to using Covid relief funds for his campaign
A Boise restaurant owner who received over $750,000 in Covid relief funds and “used a large portion of the funds for personal expenses like car payments, life insurance and political advertisements” in his 2020 campaign for Congress has pleaded guilty to federal charges, the Idaho States[...]
June 6th, 2022 - 2:18 pm § in Politics
Representative democracy in Texas, mass shootings edition
In a representative democracy, you elect someone to represent you. Not in Texas. Following the 2019 mass shootings in El Paso and Santa Fe, and the 2022 school massacre in Uvalde, the GOP-controlled legislature has decided to study gun violence. The lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, has appointed a [...]
June 6th, 2022 - 9:18 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
What would a GOP-approved children’s book look like?
Republicans are making it a crime to tell black kids they’re discriminated against, though they don’t need to be told, as they see it themselves. Can’t mention LGBQT, either. For a rundown on books Republicans want to ban, go here. So what would pass muster? This would. The Amazon [...]