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— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) August 30, 2016
Which may or may not say anything useful about the big one in November…
Vox reports “Debbie Wasserman Schultz fends off primary challenge from insurgent backed by Bernie Sanders”:
… Wasserman Schultz faced a primary race from Tim Canova, a law professor who was endorsed by Bernie Sanders. But Wasserman Schultz looks to have won easily, with the Associated Press projecting at around 10pm that she’d defeat Canova in her bid for a seventh term…
… [I]t was never really clear how Canova’s bid threatened the long-time Democratic Congresswoman. Sanders’s endorsement of Canova helped him raise money, but probably didn’t make him that much popular — after all, Clinton easily defeated Sanders in Wasserman Schultz’s district.
Good night for Repub incumbents, too. The Washington Post:
Sen. John McCain beat back a primary challenge Tuesday from a Republican tea party activist to win the right to seek a sixth term in November in a race that has been inundated with questions about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The 2008 GOP presidential nominee easily defeated former state Sen. Kelli Ward and two other Republicans.
He faces a tough Democratic challenge in the November general election from U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. She advanced Tuesday after facing only a write-in opponent in the primary…
AZ ‘Juicers: Should ‘we’ set up an ActBlue widget for Kirkpatrick?
Speaking of thirsty, the WaPo also mentions 2020 presidential hopeful looking to keep his interim seat:
… Rubio easily won the Republican nomination to retain his seat and will be challenged by Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, who defeated Congressman Alan Grayson in Tuesday’s Senate primary. It’s a race Democrats are targeting in an effort to regain a majority in the Senate, and their hope is that Rubio’s presidential ambitions have dulled the shine he had with Florida voters..
And a genuinely positive win, via commentor Hovercraft, from the Florida Times-Union:
Melissa Nelson, an unknown corporate lawyer and former prosecutor three months ago, cleared her path to become one of the most powerful and influential figures in Northeast Florida on Tuesday night when she easily defeated incumbent 4th Judicial State Attorney Angela Corey.
The election caps a dizzying rise for Nelson and an equally shocking fall for Corey, one of the most polarizing political figures in Jacksonville history who generated national attention and enormous criticism for her prosecutions of George Zimmerman, Marissa Alexander, 12-year-old Cristian Fernandez and many others. Corey will depart office in the first week of January as the first incumbent state attorney in modern history to lose a contested election…
Controversy had followed Corey even before she was elected as Duval, Clay and Nassau’s top prosecutor. She had engaged in a long-running feud with Shorstein, her predecessor and former boss that rose up again this year when Corey unsuccessfully tried to tie Nelson to Shorstein, blaming both for dropping the death penalty against convicted murderer William Wells, who would later kill again in prison.
Once in office Corey engaged in multiple feuds, refusing to speak to this newspaper for a year, and often lashed out at criticism of her.
And that criticism became more vocal when she chose to prosecute Zimmerman for the second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin, sought a 60-year prison sentence for Alexander after she fired a shot in the direction of her abusive husband and decided to try Fernandez as an adult…
What else is on the agenda for the day?
Patricia Kayden
Corey deserved to lose for that alone. Going after a woman for firing a shot, which struck no one, and trying to secure a 60-year prison sentence was insane.
amk
Not so fast.
Baud
@amk: A prerequisite in NE Florida.
rikyrah
Good Morning ? Again , Everyone ?
rikyrah
Under indictment Congresswoman Corinne Brown lost her primary election.
Betty Cracker
With a handful of exceptions, it looks like the anti-establishment wave was a fizzle.
Very rainy and windy here in Central FL right now thanks to the tropical depression. No walking the dogs this morning!
Immanentize
Hello, All! Up and at ’em! First class today!
bystander
Ari Fleischer is on Morning Joe. I have a special loathing for him. Unwatchable unless I want more than caffeine to elevate my bp.
Applejinx
@Betty Cracker: It would have worked if not for those meddling kids ;)
We may end up seeing a seeming total collapse of anti-establishment wave. Depends on several things.
The more it’s associated with Trump, the dumber it looks. In these parts it’s pretty well accepted that Bernie wasn’t going to be effective at doing what he wanted, and there are plenty of constituencies for which that’s a dealbreaker. In so many areas ‘meaning well and doing jackshit’ is just not going to cut it.
Also, all Clinton has to do is run with SOME of the non-anthrax-and-tire-rims ideas the anti-establishment wave wanted. It’s difficult to overstate that. Wingnut freakshows carry on about how we’re doomed, doomed if we don’t build a wall and cut all taxes to nothing and fight insane Weimar Republic inflation at every turn, but their past effectiveness has led to a world primed to explode in justice.
There is SO MUCH MONEY out there to be had and put to good use. There are SO MANY things urgently needing to be done. There are SO MANY votes ready to be cast in favor of bread (not even circuses, just goddamn bread).
This stuff won’t get done by puppet-waving hippies (as marvellous as they are). But it is waiting to be done by the very pragmatists who got us into this mess. All the ‘establishment’ has to do is some of the obvious right things, and we’ll bounce back. It would take active and wilful bullshit and arrogance to dig the hole any deeper at this point.
When neoliberal bullshit and arrogance becomes a political liability, that’s when you’ll see the establishment drop it like a hot rock and deny they ever had anything to do with it. And possibly deny it was ever a thing, and claim to not know what people are even talking about when they’re called on it.
Whatever. As long as we can get things fixed.
Iowa Old Lady
My rights for my first book revert to me today, so I’ll get it up on Amazon and Smashwords. That sounds simple, but I don’t speak tech.
Botsplainer
Fuck Bernie Sanders.
DWS was actually effective at her job.
On another note, I’m watching local news and a fluff segment on old white people square dancing. I remembered the tyranny of the square dance unit in grade school and the earnest teaching of white evangelical/Protestant culture in my public grade school as the default setting for ‘Murka, and was fillies once more with wonder at how ridiculously smug white Americans can be about their own culture.
p.a.
Some of my android phone’s calendar items synch to my iPad’s, some don’t. Some disappear after being there for a while. Push/fetch very inconsistent.
FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS!
Baud
@Botsplainer: You know who else liked to square dance….
sherparick
The economy continues its slow improvement and median income is rising for the first time in 10 years, so that takes the edge off the discontent. I definitely hope Act Blue supports Kirkpatrick, as well as McGinty in PA and Hassan in New Hampshire. Even Murphy, who is very much a Neoliberal, Tory DINO, is far preferable to sociopath Marco Rubio.
p.a.
@Botsplainer: didn’t she refuse to help Florida Dems who were running against her Repub buddies?
She initially sought to protect payday lenders (loansharks).
And a major responsibility was midterm elections.
debbie
I don’t know which part of this sentence is more horrifying:
or
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bachmann-god-raised-up-trump
amk
gene108
@debbie:
Doesn’t every Republican run for President because it is God’s will they win, but somehow God seems rather indifferent to their cause.
I mean when God wanted back up Moses, for example, didn’t he unleash a plague of locusts on Mo’s enemies and have the rivers run red with blood?
IDK, but maybe God’s not that into Reoublican Presidential nominees.
Betty Cracker
@sherparick: Murphy has a Blue Doggy-record as a congressman as befits the constituency he wrested from the odious tea party loon Allen West. But he has evolved into a bog-standard Democrat at this point and is on the record supporting gay rights, immigration, reproductive rights, voting rights, criminal justice reform, etc. I think he’s not only a helluva lot better than Lil’ Marco, he’ll actually make a fine senator if elected.
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
@debbie: She’s right.
God wants the republicans to lose.
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: It’s been quite some time since I studied Christian theology, and I know He is supposed to work in mysterious ways, but Il Donaldo seems to me to be just about the polar opposite of what He wanted from us humans.
Chyron HR
@p.a.:
And yet Bernie’s chosen one instead ran against her insufficient deference to Israel and pledged to do everything he could do destroy Iran. Go figure.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Keep in mind that one of the reasons the locals decided to hate Angela Corey was because she decided to prosecute Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin. So, I’m not nearly as thrilled that she lost as a lot of other people seem to be.
Schlemazel
@Botsplainer:
My complaint on DWS was that she endorsed 2 Republican Congressional candidates in South FL a few years back.
I had forgotten that campaigning is allowed outside polling places her in Americas wang. I’m used to seeing a flag and a “VOTE HERE” sign on the street when I vote. Yseterday I could tell where the polling places where by the large number of people milling around with campaign signs to wave in peoples face – or on poles so they could wave them in traffic. Voting in Brevard always made me feel I was running a gauntlet.
It finally stopped raining here in sunny Florida but it is still overcast.
Emma
@Iowa Old Lady: Seriously, if you’re formatting for Kindle, get an expert. A lot of self-published books get returned by people because the formatting makes it annoying to read. If you insist on DIY, Amazon publishes guides on formatting for Kindle.
gvg
I approved of her prosecuting Zimmerman. didn’t like the other choices she made.
DWS was NOT good at her job although the actual convention seemed to go well. Bernie’s opinion didn’t matter to me. I wanted her gone several years ago. Oh well.
Shalimar
@Schlemazel: That was my biggest complaint about her too. Acceptable for a House member, unforgivable for the person who is supposed to lead party election efforts. I’m glad she is out at DNC, but would have voted for her yesterday based on what I have read about her and her challenger if I was in her district.
Kay
I’d just like to point out this coordinated voter suppression efforts by Republicans predates Donald Trump and includes some very fancy and “esteemed” conservative lawyers.
It’s mainstream. Republicans control both chambers of Congress and they could do something about this today, but they won’t. All the bullshit “outreach” you’re hearing about (and will hear about after the election) means nothing. They won’t protect this basic right and they could easily do it. It would actually HELP them long term, because they have an (earned) reputation for this sleazy garbage. They’d rather get whatever short term voter edge they can finagle than DO SOMETHING about this.
Governors, Senators, hotshot Federalist Society lawyers with Ivy League credentials- they’re ALL colluding on this.
They hire and pay hundreds of consultants and we keep hearing about how they want to change, but this continues and they do nothing. Cowards, all of them.
Oldgold
Any word as to whether Trump will be handing out Play Dough in Mexico?
This trip just emphasizes what an impetuous grandstanding fool he is.
Keith G
@p.a.: DWS is a cancer on the notion that the Democratic Party wants to reform itself and become a party more relevant to the needs of America’s barely scraping by workers.
D58826
We maybe watching the mainstreaming of another Clinton ‘scandal’. For a week or so the state of her health, never mind the statement from her doctor, has been buzzing around the RWNJ fever swamps and the Trump campaign (which may well be the same thing). We now have Dr. Drew, a TV doctor/personality calling for additional information. The Hill is reporting that Obama’s pre-presidential personal physician is calling for a neurological exam. Apparently several other ‘mainstream’ doctors have also raised questions about her health, w/o ever having examined her.
Now all of this is nonsense but once you get a couple of supposed reasonable mainstream voices giving cover to the RWNJ’s then the MSM feels bound to report on it and keep the story alive. In a week or so it will be another Clinton ‘scandal’ where she is trying to hide something.
In the meantime J. Capeheart has a piece about the several thousand calendar entries that were released in the past day or so. Seem to to show someone who puts in long days both at home and the office. The most ‘syndicalist’ item was she does not believe in snow days. She was in New York for the big 2010 blizzard. After working the phones from home she was driven to DC,. Took 6 hours and went into the office. A truly evil/corrupt person. .https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/30/a-clearer-view-of-hillary-clinton-in-3721-pages/?utm_term=.f04d33bac4d8
Rob in CT
Re: sending dollars to close races:
Go here:
And click on the ActBlue link.
Iowa Old Lady
@Emma: Thanks, Emma. I’ll have to see how it goes.
Betty Cracker
@Keith G: I’m glad DWS is out as DNC chair, though I wish the circumstances had been different. The way it went down, it seemed like a cave to the loudest Sanders supporters and made it seem as if WikiLeaks was doing God’s work when nothing could be further from the truth right now. But in any case, she’s not doing that job any longer. As a legislator, she sucks on a handful of issues but votes with Democrats and progressives on the overwhelming majority of issues, so describing her as a “cancer” seems a bit strong.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Meanwhile, actual voter fraud in STL. Of course, they won’t do anything about this either (outside of pointing and talking about “those people”) because it involves absentee ballots:
….
…..
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
I don’t understand how the DNC chairwoman can endorse Republican candidates for the House, as DWS did, and not deserve to be ousted on the spot — from that post. But instead of endorsing some other candidate for DNC chair, Bernie endorsed her primary opponent for her Congressional seat, which doesn’t make sense to me. Then he failed to actually help Canova compete against DWS, which tells me Bernie’s support in anything isn’t worth much.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: Bernie is not now, and never has been, a DEM. It’s a corrupt party that only exists for it’s own enrichment.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Kay,
I know that I harp on this, but insights this good should be Front Paged. You connect the dots for us in the comments, but a lot of these should be posts of their own.
O. Felix Culpa
@Baud:
I did! Because it was predictable and logical and required no actual ability, you know, to dance. And it was a lot more fun and less dangerous than dodge ball. Junior high was filled with landmines.
Uncle Cosmo
This kinda puzzled me:
How would an incumbent state attorney (or any other candidate for that matter) manage to lose an uncontested election???
Barb2
@Iowa Old Lady:
There are some really good how to books for tech illiterate writers on Amazon.com. I helped a friend publish her novels – format, design covers, change from doc files to pdf files. She now does the formatting herself.
Check out the published authors – self published – in your genre. Formatting improvements are evolving rapidly. CreateSpace is where you’ll find the self publishing tools & tutorials. Several – how to books – for first time self publishers in Kindle books using CreatSpace.
Good luck!
D58826
from NYT (paywall)
While he thin ks it is pretty much business as usual; in Washington, he does think Hillary should, fair or not, go the extra mile in cutting ties to the Foundation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/opinion/the-real-clinton-foundation-revelation.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ty_20160831&nl=opinion-today&nlid=75827191&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0
opiejeanne
@debbie: God is having a little joke on Michelle. He told 16 other Republicans that they were His Chosen One.
Guam Guy
OT, but I was watching RT TV for sh*ts & giggles here in Bangkok tonight and who should turn up for a lengthy interview but Dr. Jill Stein! I wonder how`many voters in the US are watching RT TV? Those pix of Dr. Jill Stein at the banquet in Moscow with Putin’s toadies speak louder than words.
opiejeanne
@O. Felix Culpa: Virginia Reel? I think I learned that in 4th grade, and at some point they tried to teach us to waltz.
Bobby Thomson
@Betty Cracker: what anti-establishment wave?
Bobby Thomson
@D58826: that guy should be doing hard time.
Amir Khalid
@Uncle Cosmo:
I guess a candidate would have to be really unpopular to lose an election in which they were running unopposed.
Hal
I don’t get why people voted for Rubio. He’s on record as hating his job, said he wasn’t going to run again multiple times and now he won’t commit to even staying the full 6 years if he does win. This is just him bidding his time until 2020.
Bobby Thomson
@Hal: forget it, Hal. It’s Florida.
lamh36
if you are on Twitter check out the hashtag #VeteransForKaepernick
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Dying thread, but one for OO: BBC: Evil Clowns in the woods with money and lasers (in South Carolina).
What’s that expression? “Too small for a country, too large for an asylum?” :-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Tripod
Welp… Grayson is available for the Green VP slot….
MomSense
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
OH NO! Clowns and attempted child abduction combined? Both are terrifying enough separately.
Iowa Old Lady
@Barb2: Despite my dithering, I’m not too concerned. The book’s publisher gave me files I can use including the cover, and I already did the Create Space format. That was easy. I’ve self-published a short story before, so I know the basic moves. It’s just that there are always landmines.
I knew that publisher wasn’t long for this world when they listed their best sellers and my book was third on the list. Unless the first two writers were selling a ton of books, that was not going to end well. That’s one reason the new book is with a different press.
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
My sister lives in the Phoenix area and speaks quite highly of Ms. Kirkpatrick. I think a page for her would be a great idea.
artem1s
Emily’s List already has a fund for Kirkpatrick. They have been on this one for awhile.
http://www.emilyslist.org/candidates/ann-kirkpatrick1
catclub
@Uncle Cosmo: but wouldn’t it be a contested primary, if it happened yesterday?
catclub
@Hal: Forget it Hal, they’re Republicans.
Seriously, it is perfectly sensible. The voters think he has the best chance of winning in November. Democrats would vote the same way.
Better a GOP winner in November ( for them), who quits, than a Democrat winner in November.
piratedan
@1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet): she’s actually won a congressional seat in rural AZ, so she really has a chance. Plus with McCain garnering his own challenge from the Right, there are enough folks on that side of the political spectrum that really don’t like John McCain. Kirkpatrick has been doing the rounds all over the state and much of the polling shows that she really has a legit shot at unseating him. The unknown factor is how much of the GOP will come home for McCain and which way the independents swing. The fact that Clinton is doing better than expected really helps her chances as well.
Xantar
@Uncle Cosmo:
I don’t know about state’s attorney, but there was that time John Ashcroft lost re-election to a dead guy. Does that count as uncontested?
Gelfling 545
@amk: Unless the Mexican president plans to slap Trump’s face with his glove & demand an apology, I can’t imagine how his approval numbers would i prove from this.
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
@Xantar: In Tennessee we had a candidate for the state senate kill the incumbent, timing it so it was too late for the Democrats to produce a new candidate. He lost to the dead incumbent’s widow, in a write-in campaign. Elections can become very strange.
Mai.naem.mobile
I think Kirkpatrick is worth putting some money behind. With the Perfect Storm of higher Hispanic turnout, depressed GOP turnout ,higher Tucson and Navajo Reservation turnout McCain can be retired.
Turgidson
Trying not to read too much into the fact that Rubio received about as many votes as the total number of votes cast in the Democratic primary, which was more fiercely contested, at least until Grayson predictably self-destructed. I was really hoping we’d send Lil Marco packing in November. Not looking great right now. Hopefully the Trump millstone pulls him under.
Barb2
@Iowa Old Lady:
CreateSpace is great. From what I’ve seen – pay attention to the details and self publishers can produce a high quality product.
Oce of the – books how to publish on CreatSpace – is by a best selling author who has a publisher but when she wrote a new series she chose to self publish. She wanted more control. I’ve seen big publishing houses mess up the digital version of the books (while asking an inflated price for the book).
Congratulations on publishing your book.
r€nato
Kirkpatrick can beat McCain, IF she has enough money. An ActBlue link would be great. She currently has $2MM to McCain’s $5MM, and if this race continues to be close he will get even more money. The usual suspects (US Chamber of Commerce, military contractors, media giants) badly want him to stick around.
She is centrist, she can appeal to and attract rural voters, and there’s a great deal of McCain fatigue. She needs to make comfortable a number of the lean-GOP voters who publicly said “anybody but McCain” but in the voting booth have difficulty bringing themselves to mark the ballot for a D.
Vlad
@Botsplainer: Sure, if you define “job” as “shilling for the payday loan industry”.
She’s a shitty lawmaker, and it’s a shame she won. C’est la vie, I guess.