Joe Kent, the Republican who delivered a safe GOP House seat to the Democrats in the 2022 elections, finally admitted defeat on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 (see story here). “While I’m disappointed that we did not prevail, our campaign and our supporters have a lot to be proud of,” he[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Elections’
December 20th, 2022 - 6:25 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Kari Lake’s “power of prayer” flops
Kari Lake, who prayed for a legal win and got a tiny one, turned it into a big boast: The tiny win was the judge ordering a trial on two of her factual claims. Where her prayer flopped was his dismissal of her malfeasance allegations against Katie Hobbs, making Hobbs’ testimony irrelevant. As [...]
December 16th, 2022 - 1:11 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Joe Kent’s recount is going as expected
Joe Kent, after losing one of the very few House races to flip blue in 2022, requested a recount because of “the obligation we have to our supporters to ensure certainty about the outcome.” He spent $48,589.05 of his supporters’ money for this certainty. The curly-haired conservati[...]
Why Congress shouldn’t ban Trump under the 14th Amendment
Dozens of House Democrats introduced a bill that would disqualify Donald Trump from future public office under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause (see story here). It probably won’t make it through the House, and if it does, it’ll surely die in the Senate, although for wrong [...]
How to remain an unpopular minority party
Republicans don’t believe in elections, so it’s not surprising they’re not trying to win elections. Just for fun, let’s list a few of the ways they’re making themselves unpopular and pushing away voters: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed the Jan. 6 insurrection[...]
December 14th, 2022 - 2:53 am § in Politics, Republicans
Memo to Kari Lake: Voters, not a UPS driver, choose the governor
The time for Kari Lake to become a laughingstock may have arrived. A lot of people are laughing at her, after she posted the tweet below. To see some of the comments, go to the story here. Okay, folks, contain yourselves. It’s only a tweet, not an offer of proof in her lawsuit against Maricopa[...]
Arizona losers file election lawsuits
Arizona is a hotbed of GOP election denialism, and a slate of Trump-inspired election deniers won the 2022 GOP primaries there, then lost in November. Now they’re filing lawsuits to overturn those results (read story here). I scanned defeated governor candidate Kari Lake’s 70-page filing[...]
Joe Kent requests quixotic recount
That’s his right, but it won’t change the election results. Kent, who had a storied military career but is a rightwing crackpot (details here), lost Washington’s 3rd congressional district race to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, an auto shop owner, by 2,629 votes (see results here). Perce[...]
Judge saves crazy Arizona GOPers from themselves
“Officials in rural Cochise County, Arizona, on Thursday certified the results of the county’s midterm elections” after a judge ordered them to, CNN reported on Thursday, December 1, 2022 (read story here). Cochise County missed the Monday deadline because the two Republicans on the 3-[...]
Tiffany Smiley up .01% to 42.63%!
Tiffany Smiley is making a homestretch surge in the 2022 ballot counting. As of Friday night, November 11, she was closing in on the magic number of 44%, with 43.52% of the votes. But alas, by Saturday night she was fading, and had only 42.79%, which by Monday afternoon had further fallen to 42.53%,[...]