“Wisconsin’s Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Friday fired the conservative former state supreme court justice he hired last year to investigate fraud in the 2020 election, ending a controversial probe that drew bipartisan criticism,” CNN reported on Friday, August 12, 2022 (read stor[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Elections’
August 12th, 2022 - 4:15 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Wisconsin GOP legislative leader ends partisan “audit” of 2020 election by election denier
August 10th, 2022 - 10:45 am § in Politics
Dealbreaker
Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, says she’ll only endorse Kari Lake, the party’s 2022 nominee, if she stops lying about the 2020 election being “stolen” (see story here). That condition is a dealbreaker; Lake can’t stop peddling Trump’s election lies.[...]
August 5th, 2022 - 12:03 am § in Politics
Tina Peters gains 23 votes in recount
Unfortunately for her, her leading rival gained 24 votes, so she fell 1 vote farther behind. Peters, the rogue county clerk indicted for election crimes, originally lost the GOP primary for Colorado secretary of state by 88,578 votes (details here). Now, she lost by 88,579 votes. Unhappy with the or[...]
What happened in Kansas?
Kansas voters soundly rejected Republican efforts to amend the state constitution to pave the way for the legislature to ban abortions, which is being hailed as a “massive victory” for abortion supporters. Now pundits everywhere are reading all sorts of things into it. Let’s try to[...]
Arizona GOPers’ obsession with 2020 is alive and well
Election denialism and conspiracy theories have taken root in Arizona like nowhere else. Two years later, halfway through President Biden’s term, Arizona Republicans are still obsessed and driven by election results no serious person would question. Is the desert sun baking their brains? Anyon[...]
What if both candidates are wrong?
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) represents much of Orange County, once one of California’s most Republican areas. This year her GOP opponent is Scott Baugh, a former Orange County party chairman who served a relatively brief stint in California’s legislature over 20 years ago. She easily beat h[...]
July 28th, 2022 - 11:34 pm § in Politics
Tina Peters coughs up $255K for quixotic recount
Rogue county clerk Tina Peters, who’s been indicted for election-related crimes, held in contempt of court, and ordered by a judge to stay away from her office (see details here), lost her bid for Colorado secretary of state in the GOP primary (see story here). That’s an understatement; [...]
Prominent Christian nationalist says Jews aren’t welcome in GOP
Andrew Torba (photo, left), an alt-right social media figure, argues Jews must be excluded from the conservative movement. “We don’t want people who are Jewish,” he said. “This is an explicitly Christian movement because this is an explicitly Christian country.” Actuall[...]
USA politics circa 2022
Salon sizes things up thusly: “The summer of 2022 is hot and furious. We are dealing with a world literally on fire due to climate change. We are dealing with a world metaphorically on fire with a continuing war in Ukraine. We are dealing with monkeypox, a continuing pandemic, haters, baite[...]
July 25th, 2022 - 3:21 pm § in Politics
Texas political ad goes viral
This ad has gone viral, with over 2.7 million views, but it probably doesn’t bother Gov. Abbott, who’s heavily favored in polls. The real problem isn’t Abbott, it’s Texas voters. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]