An Ohio father was killed for being a Democrat on Saturday, November 4, 2022, right before midterm elections. Anthony King (below), 43, was gunned down in cold blood in his backyard in front of his family. A next-door neighbor, Austin Gene Gibbs (photo, left), 26, is charged with the crime (read sto[...]
Posts Tagged ‘elections’
November 7th, 2022 - 6:06 pm § in Politics
U.S. elections are a foreign tourist attraction
I once read about a man who attends circuses to watch the lion tamer acts. He said he hopes the lions don’t eat the trainer, but if they do, he wants to be there. Our elections are now that kind of circus. “On Monday, The New Republic reported that foreign tourists are coming to the Uni[...]
November 3rd, 2022 - 3:47 pm § in Politics, Republicans
A brief primer on legal standing
A Michigan county judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Michigan Republican Party and Republican National Committee complaining the city of Flint didn’t hire enough GOP election inspectors. On the surface, they might have a good case on the merits. State law requires election administrators t[...]
October 31st, 2022 - 10:59 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The GOP boy who cried wolf
When you’re wrong, you should admit it. Not Bill Bruch (photo, left), who chairs the GOP’s county organization in Skagit County, Washington. He attacked the news media for debunking his group’s spurious election fraud claims. A “Skagit Voter Integrity Project” led by hi[...]
October 9th, 2022 - 9:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Voters, not secretaries of state, elect presidents; but GOP candidates want to change that
To hear GOP candidates for secretary of state talk about elections, voters have nothing to do with them. Jim Marchant, the GOP candidate in Nevada, promised a Trump rally this weekend that if he’s elected, Trump will get Nevada’s electoral votes in 2024. It’s not that simple, of co[...]
September 14th, 2022 - 1:17 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Voting fraud unearthed!
Republicans insist there’s voting fraud, and even though our elections are generally secure, it’s hard to argue with them — because they keep committing it. Today’s story comes from Rensselaer County, New York (see map here), which includes the city of Troy, and politically l[...]
Was Biden’s “Soul of the Nation” speech political and divisive?
That’s what Republicans claim (here), but I doubt they’d praise anything Biden said, no matter what it was. Biden delivered his “Soul of the Nation” speech on Thursday, September 1, 2022, using Philadelphia’s Independence Hall and two U.S. Marines as props. (All politic[...]
August 25th, 2022 - 6:46 pm § in Politics
Will Florida governor’s “voting fraud” cases blow up in his face?
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, set up a special squad of election cops to hunt down voting fraud. They went after the low-hanging fruit first: Ex-convicts. In 2018, Florida voters voted overwhelmingly in favor of restoring ex-felons’ voting rights by passing a state [...]
How to deal with GOP fantasies
The world is a cacophony of noise, and we learn to tune it out. My professional background is news reporting and law; so I was trained to be careful about factual accuracy, and reach conclusions by a process of fact-based reasoning. In my lines of work, getting the facts right mattered. But then, th[...]
August 21st, 2022 - 5:30 pm § in Politics
Kansas abortion foes got their recount and here’s what it shows
In the first ballot-box test of abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Kansas electorate kept abortion legal in their state, by a vote of 543,855 (59%) to 378,466 (41%), see details here. Anti-abortion activists requested a recount, raising $50,000 online, with another $[...]