They’ve come to Washington. Volunteer canvassers want to know if you or someone in your household shouldn’t be registered to vote. That’s between you and election officials, and none of their business. If they come to your home, there’s no point in being rude, but you should [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
May 28th, 2022 - 11:43 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Indicting Trump for election fraud looking more likely
The best thing that could happen for American democracy is a convicting Trump of a felony to disqualify him from running again. Second best is disbarments and prison time for those who aided and abetted his efforts to steal the 2020 election to deter similar conduct in the future. That includes the [...]
May 25th, 2022 - 2:26 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump endorses “hang Mike Pence”
Trump reacted to “hang Mike Pence” chants during the Capitol riot “by saying maybe the mob was right,” the Guardian reported on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 (read story here), based on a New York Times report. (The latter is paywalled; the Guardian is not.) The Times reported that[...]
May 25th, 2022 - 1:02 pm § in Politics
What’s wrong with “stop the count”
The video below shows a scene in Detroit after the 2020 election. At the time, Trump was leading the initial tally in Michigan, so his supporters wanted election officials to stop counting votes. Their demonstration at the election office was disruptive and implicitly violent. They were asking for a[...]
Wisconsin’s fake electors sued for $2.4 million
“Two Wisconsin Democratic electors and a voter on Tuesday sued Republicans who attempted to cast electoral ballots for Donald Trump in 2020,” ABC News reported on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (read story here). Lawyers for the plaintiffs, who are seeking $2.4 million from the 10 fake electors[...]
Will Trump’s postmaster go?
Trump lackey Louis DeJoy (photo, left) is notorious for slowing mail service. But I’ll always remember him as the guy who made mailboxes disappear before the 2020 election. (They magically reappeared after the election; see my posting here.) You want an election conspiracy? Well, there it is. [...]
All subpoenas are not equal
The House committee investigating the Capitol riot issued subpoenas this week to several GOP House members, including GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy. They debated it for months, “wrestling with whether they had the constitutional right to do so, and … if they wanted to set such a preced[...]
May 11th, 2022 - 9:58 pm § in Politics
Landlord threatened to double rent if Biden won
A Colorado mobile home park owner thought of a creative way to campaign for Trump. He threatened to double his tenants’ rent if Biden won the 2020 election, but promised to freeze rent for two years if Trump won. Bernie Pagel (photo at left), co-owner of Pagel’s Trailer Park in Fort Morg[...]
April 23rd, 2022 - 10:12 pm § in Politics
GOP county chair tried to get access to voting machines
A North Carolina GOP county chair pursuing a false election conspiracy theory “threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal access to voting equipment,” Reuters reported (see story here). William Keith Senter was “aggressive[...]
April 20th, 2022 - 5:11 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Joe Crackpot for Congress
Rep. Jaime Herrera-Butler (R-WA) probably will be re-elected. Age 41, now serving her 7th term in Congress, Herrera-Butler’s never had a “real” job. She’s a career politician, of the sort wingnuts want to “term limit.” They have another reason for term-limiting he[...]