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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Elections’
December 14th, 2022 - 2:53 am § in Politics, Republicans
Memo to Kari Lake: Voters, not a UPS driver, choose the governor
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%,[...]
November 28th, 2022 - 7:05 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Arizona election deniers could give away GOP House seat
Today was the deadline for Cochise County, Arizona (pop. 126,050) to certify the 2022 election. The board of supervisors has 1 Democrat and 2 Republicans. As this article explains, they have a mandatory duty to certify election returns. But 2 Republicans voted “no.” Instead, they voted t[...]
The New Right’s dangerous idea
The New Right, Vox writer Zach Beauchamp says (here), is “a loose grouping of conservative thinkers who advocate aggressively wielding state power to promote a more conservative culture.” One of their apostles is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has presidential ambitions. He has aggressiv[...]
The real reason Kari Lake lost
Kari Lake is a flake, and even Republicans won’t vote for her. That’s how she lost the 2022 election for Arizona governor (read story here). The Arizona Republic, the state’s biggest newspaper, dissected the election and found … (drum roll) … not voting fraud, but ̶[...]
November 23rd, 2022 - 11:39 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Maybe we should do what Brazil does
Brazilian president Jair Bolsanaro lost his re-election bid last month (details here). Despite predictions that Bolsanaro, a rightwinger, wouldn’t leave quietly, he kept quiet on election night. When some of his key allies said, “it’s over,” that took the air out of his ballo[...]
Is the Georgia Senate runoff election fair to Republicans?
God gave us brains to think with, so let’s see if we can figure out this brain-teaser. Political factions have been gaming elections since the first Neanderthal tribal chieftain election ~400,000 years ago, when voting was with clubs. Today’s USA elections aren’t necessarily a whol[...]