As of Saturday, November 12, 2022, control of the U.S. House of Representatives is up in the air, and every seat matters. It could come down to a single seat. Joe Kent, Republican savior of Washington’s 3rd congressional district, was too smart by half. He defeated off 5-term GOP Rep. Jamie He[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Elections’
What a stupid idea!
Publishing — whether print or pixels — is a business, and needs readers, so they create crime waves, do stories on politicians (the more obnoxious, the better), and run pieces by pundits (the more idiotic, the better). I do it, too, by leaving up Steve’s utterly ridiculous satirica[...]
November 10th, 2022 - 10:59 am § in Politics, Republicans
Confederate candidate refuses to concede after losing by 20 points
Michael Peroutka is fighting mad. He’s still angry that Maryland was kept from seceding in 1861 by the state’s then-governor and Lincoln’s machinations (e.g., planting artillery batteries on a hill overlooking Baltimore after federal troops were attacked there; see historical detai[...]
November 9th, 2022 - 10:26 pm § in Law and Courts
Voters fire judge who signed falsified Breonna Taylor search warrant
It wasn’t a movie ending, but the “Kentucky judge who signed off on the police raid that resulted in the death of Breonna Taylor lost her reelection bid on Tuesday,” a Louisville newspaper reported (read story here). Judge Mary Shaw “was the only incumbent circuit judge to [...]
Dead legislator re-elected by a landslide
Don’t believe rumors that dead Democratic voters elected a dead Democratic candidate. Only half of that story is true. The voters were alive. Tony DeLuca, 85, a longtime Pennsylvania legislator who died a month before the election, won 86% of the vote against a Green Party candidate. It’[...]
November 9th, 2022 - 1:48 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Did Tiffany Smiley get 44%?
Back in September I speculated about whether Tiffany Smiley could get 44% of the Senate vote in blue Washington (see posting here). As I observed then, Republicans gave up seriously trying to dislodge Sen. Patty Murray. This opened a door for ambitious novices like Smiley (photo, left). She has a co[...]
November 9th, 2022 - 10:16 am § in Politics, Republicans
Election post-mortem: First, GOPers need to get their facts straight
As the dust settles on the 2022 elections, and dazed Republicans wonder why their party underperformed, they should begin by getting the facts straight. Conservative commentator Marc Thiessen is a bad person who endorsed torture during the Bush regime, see his profile here, but let’s skip over[...]
November 9th, 2022 - 1:23 am § in Politics, Republicans
Election denier can’t deny this
“Josh Shapiro, the Democratic attorney general for Pennsylvania, is projected to become governor after defeating Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano,” Huffington Post reported on Tuesday night, November 8, 2022 (read story here). It wasn’t close. With 93% of the votes counted, Sha[...]
November 8th, 2022 - 1:09 am § in Politics, Republicans
“Violent crime” campaign ad is full of falsehoods
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who’s in a close race for New York governor, has a campaign ad claiming to show “actual violent crimes caught on camera in Kathy Hochul’s New York,” including police shooting a black man named Saheed Vassell. But Vassell committed no crime. He was a mental[...]
November 3rd, 2022 - 4:00 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Campaign poster for a write-in
This New Jersey dude is running unopposed for a school board slot (read story here). The t-shirt and bloody knife come across as the latest iteration of rightwing Pelosi “humor”; and even though he denies knowing who “Nancy” is, I’d say it’s time for a write-in ca[...]