If Kimberly Zapata (photo, left) intended to demonstrate it’s easy to commit voting fraud, she failed miserably. All she accomplished was getting herself fired from her job as deputy director of the Milwaukee Elections Commission. Zapata had been a city employee about 10 years, but was promote[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Elections’
November 3rd, 2022 - 3:18 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP stunt only proved election security works
Did this Democratic candidate lie about his biography?
The Everett Herald reversed its endorsement of a Democratic legislative candidate less than a week before the 2022 elections “after the paper said it found ‘serious misrepresentations’ in the candidate’s work history,” Seattle TV station KING 5 reported on Wednesday, Novemb[...]
Arizona’s AG has a name for his party’s election denying
Mark Brnovich, Arizona’s outgoing attorney general, didn’t hold back in a CBS “60 Minutes” segment aired on Sunday, October 30, 2022. He said nobody wanted to find voting fraud more than he did, but prosecutors have to deal with facts and evidence, and his office found only 1[...]
October 29th, 2022 - 7:52 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Where does the GOP get these candidates?
Don Bolduc, the GOP Senate nominee in New Hampshire, last week told a crowd at a campaign event “that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and use litter boxes in schools,” CNN reported on Saturday, October 29, 2022 (see story here). “Guess what? We have fu[...]
October 28th, 2022 - 5:12 pm § in Republicans, Schools & Colleges
Is this the dumbest GOP smear ever?
Democrats are still mad about losing the Civil War and not being able to own slaves anymore. So they’ve been planning to topple the United States for decades, and schools don’t teach black history because the teachers unions don’t want kids to know it was white people who freed the[...]
A GOP House will mean chaos
Voters are understandably unhappy about inflation and gas prices, but electing a GOP House majority won’t solve those problems, and would unleash chaos. The Democrats probably would fare better in pre-election polling if Biden were popular, and I would argue he deserves to be more popular than[...]
Can “leftists” be Christians?
Depends on what is meant by “leftists.” Derrick Van Orden, 53, a former Navy SEAL, likely will be elected to Congress from Wisconsin this fall. He’s running for an open seat that leans Republican in current polls; the incumbent, Ron Kind (D-WI), is retiring. Van Orden stirred contr[...]
October 25th, 2022 - 11:57 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Who is the real J. D. Vance?
The question matters, because unless Ohio’s Democratic voters turn out in unexpected droves, Vance will become a U.S. senator (if you believe the polls). So who is he? First of all, he’s a liar. He tweeted on Jan. 6, 2022 (here), exactly one year after the Capitol insurrection, “Th[...]
Progressives stumble on Ukraine
The House progressive caucus, led by Rep. Primala Jayapal (D-WA), released a well-meaning but awkward letter urging Biden to pursue a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine war on Monday, October 24, 2022. Within 24 hours, they retracted and disavowed it (see story here). As described by The Hill here, [...]
October 24th, 2022 - 8:47 pm § in News Media, Politics
Believe it or not, the GOP’s crime record is worse
Despite the homily about “lies, damned lies, and statistics,” crime data tells the real story. “On the one hand, it is accurate that the murder rate in the U.S. has gone up at an alarming rate. On the other hand, despite the right-wing media narrative to the contrary, this is a pro[...]