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Tuesday Evening Election Results

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There were a few state and local elections today. The results are in for some, while the Wisconsin Supreme Court race still hasn’t finished. So I thought I’d put a thread up for some of the results.

First up, Chicago’s next mayor is Lori Lightfoot. Mayor-elect Lightfoot is the first African-American woman to serve as mayor and the second woman to serve in that position. She is also an out lesbian. So a lot of glass ceiling shards are currently littering Chicago. Congratulations Mayor-elect Lightfoot. Right now Rahm Emanuel is likely cursing up a storm. Bless his incompetent little heart!

In Pennsylvania the Democrats have flipped another state senate seat, that means they need to only flip three more next year to retake the chamber ahead of the next round of redistricting. Congratulations to state Senator-elect Iovino.

In Madison, Wisconsin Satya Rhodes-Conway defeated longtime incumbent Paul Songlin for mayor. And congratulations to Mayor-elect Rhodes-Conway.

We’re still waiting for the results in the Wisconsin State Supreme Court race. Turnout is way up.

There is, of course, at least one hiccup in the counting:

Speculation seems somewhat muted:

Right now, according to Ballotpedia, Lisa Neubauer has a slight lead.

Hopefully our Wisconsin legal correspondent Omnes Omnibus will be checking in to keep us all informed and up to date in the comments…

Finally, the entire Madison, WI school board will now be all women!

Can’t imagine what might be causing these types of elections results…

Update at 10:55 PM EDT

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Open thread!

 

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  1. 1.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    To flip Wisconsin from the nightmare of the Koch ruled, ALEC, Snot Walker toilet, to the sunrise of Democracy.
    FORWARD

  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mr Stagger Lee: There’s one more Wisconsin Supreme Court seat up for election next year. That election is the same day as the Democratic presidential primary, so today is the best chance for the Republicans to keep their majority.

  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    Oh goody!

  6. 6.

    Adam L Silverman

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    President Normal, Very Stable Genius, Good Brain has thoughts…

  8. 8.

    Jay

    “Money Talks, Big Time
    1% Politics and the Scandals of A New Gilded Age
    By Rajan Menon

    Despair about the state of our politics pervades the political spectrum, from left to right. One source of it, the narrative of fairness offered in basic civics textbooks — we all have an equal opportunity to succeed if we work hard and play by the rules; citizens can truly shape our politics — no longer rings true to most Americans. Recent surveys indicate that substantial numbers of them believe that the economy and political system are both rigged. They also think that money has an outsized influence on politics. Ninety percent of Democrats hold this view, but so do 80% of Republicans. And careful studies confirm what the public believes.”

    http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176546/tomgram%3A_rajan_menon%2C_whose_money_not_yours/

  9. 9.

    Adam L Silverman

    And

  10. 10.

    Jay

    World Nut Daily’s on it’s deathbed.

    One RWNJ Factory almost done, 1,798 more to go,

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/02/inside-the-decline-of-the-once-powerful-world-net-daily/

    “A decade later that realm is being sucked into a tornado of unpaid bills, pink-slipped employees, chaotic accounting, declining revenue and diminishing readership, according to interviews with more than 25 former employees, shareholders, company insiders and authors associated with the firm’s flailing publishing units, as well as a review of hundreds of internal documents, including emails and financial statements obtained by The Washington Post.”

  11. 11.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Hagedorn was Walker’s first chief legal counsel. I don’t think I need to say anything else. Riffing off of Joe Handrick’s tweet – if Wausau and Green Bay go Dem, it bodes very well for Wisconsin rejoining the living next year.

    I voted for Soglin for mayor, but the nice thing about that race is that whoever won was going to be good.

  17. 17.

    PsiFighter37

    If WI doesn’t fuck this up, I will be surprised.

    PF37 +too much to count while on the biz road

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: The little blue area east of Wausau and northwest of Green Bay is Menominee County which is co-terminous with the Menominee Reservation. It is always solid blue, but only about 4000 people live there. When I worked for the agency that supervises WI’s elections, I conducted an accessibility audit of their polling places. Everything was perfect meeting or exceeding standards on everything. Well, except for one thing. As the county clerk said to me, “I son’t set up the voting machines. Everyone here will use a paper ballot. I don’t trust you guys that much.” I told her that, given history, I couldn’t really argue with her.

  22. 22.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Makes sense to me.

    Over/under on this being within 1% and going to a recount?

    Over/under on Waukesha County suddenly finding enough votes sometime in the five or six hours after they reported their results to put Hagedorn so far ahead that the election goes to him?

  24. 24.

    Adam L Silverman

    @sdhays:

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    Cheeseheads, cheeseheads
    Go to poll-y cheeseheads
    Cheeseheads, cheeseheads
    Vote ’em out, yum

  27. 27.

    Amir Khalid

    @Adam L Silverman:
    I bet that if you told Trump a Colonel Harland Sanders was on the White House staff, Trump would find something to blame him for. Do you know anyone who could attempt the experiment?

  29. 29.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Over/under on this being within 1% and going to a recount?

    Easily possible.

    Over/under on Waukesha County suddenly finding enough votes sometime in the five or six hours after they reported their results to put Hagedorn so far ahead that the election goes to him?

    Urban myth. I have posted the links to the results of the GAB investigation and the independent outside investigation many, many times. The “missing votes” were from Brookfield and were reported by a local paper’s website earlier that evening. The Waukesha county clerk’s office accidentally copied a blank form and submitted it. They later corrected it. Incompetence, not malice. As a result of the investigation, the county clerk recused herself from involvement in tabulating results for future elections and turned over that job to one of her deputies.

  31. 31.

    Mary G

    WaPo has a rage-inducing article about makers of a defective running stroller, costing $400-$600, where the front wheel could fly off with no notice. Children and parents hurt. One guy running with twin babies, wheel came off, babies dumped onto sidewalk while dad went head overheels and landed on top of the babies. Obama regulators did investigation and asked manufacturer to do a voluntary recall. They said no. Company stalled a subpoena with bullshit. Once Obama people were gone, Trump people allowed company to post a YouTube video explaining how to avoid problem and closed the case. Video has been viewed all of 195 times.

    Adler and Kaye, who voted against the deal, wrote a dissent that questioned why Britax felt so strongly about avoiding the term “recall.” They also worried the agreement would become a model for settling future product disputes.

    Robinson, the former commissioner, said the deal was a sign of what Britax had anticipated all along.

    “The only way this can be explained,” she said, “is they knew they could do whatever they wanted once the majority changed.”

    Scum.

  33. 33.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: I wouldn’t have put it past that clerk to want to do something shady, but I sincerely doubt that she could have pulled it off. D. U. M. B.

    Edited to add a negative.

  37. 37.

    Mary G

    @Adam L Silverman: Any thoughts on the Chinese lady who made it past multiple Secret Service checkpoints at Mar-ALago with malware until caught by a receptionist who probably makes $12/hour?

  38. 38.

    Raoul

    I didn’t have any luck searching, but Hagedorn seems like an unusual name. MN unfortunately elected a Jim Hagedorn to the US House last year.
    Any connection beside conservative Midwesterner? Jim seems sort of wack, btw.

  40. 40.

    Barbara

    @Mary G: Here is where making something go viral on Facebook could actually be a great PSA. Britax is one of the pricier brands for baby products.

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mary G: This is why you don’t let elected or appointed officials not only maintain their business interests without 1) putting them in a blind trust, 2) divesting when the first option isn’t possible, and 3) leveraging their elected positions to generate profit from their businesses. Had that receptionist not been on the ball, this would have been a major breach. Of course, we now know that the Secret Service is not in charge of vetting access to Mar a Lago or any of the other of the President’s properties, especially those he goes and spends time at. Which means that they’ve already been infiltrated by paying for that access through purchasing a membership. It would not surprise me if this wasn’t a planned op to let someone get caught, thereby diverting attention from one or more people who have probably successfully infiltrate Mar a Lago, Trump Doral, Trump Bedminster, etc through other means.

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    @Raoul

    When was living in St. Paul came into contact with at least a half dozen families with that name. Not all that unusual, regionally.

  44. 44.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Since it’s going to a recount, despite what Hagedorn’s people are saying, I’m gonna go watch some TV, rub some doggie bellies, and rack out.

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Fucking Hagedorn seems to holding at about a 3000 vote lead. I don’t really think that Milwaukee County is pulling its weight. 62-38? Come on. I will be interested in seeing some analysis of how many Milwaukeeans were not allowed to vote this time around. Although they did kick a Walker appointed judge to the curb tonight. A black woman who supported the Walker recall just beat a Walker appointed white dude.

  47. 47.

    Mike J

    Why are the tweets at the bottom of the post so huge? Or is it just me?

    When the NZ nutjob’s manifesto was released it was also 5 times larger than anything else on the page and Adam misunderstood my complaint.

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mike J: I do not know. But I think I’ve fixed it.

    Also, the complaint department is open every third Thursday from 4 to 6 AM. Atlantic time.

  51. 51.

    Raoul

    @NotMax:
    Aha.
    Fewer Germanic folk on the Minneapolis side perhaps, as I haven’t met a Hagedorn in my 24 years over here.

  53. 53.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Hm. The only areas of the U.S. which observe Atlantic time are Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

    No portion of the continental United States currently uses Atlantic Time, although it is used by the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. A number of New England states are considering a regional change to Atlantic Standard Time year-round (with no observance of daylight saving time), even though only a small portion of Maine lies to the east of the 67.5°W theoretical extent of this zone. Florida is in the process of enacting a similar change; in both cases any changes will need to be approved by the United States Department of Transportation and the United States Congress. Source

  56. 56.

    Peter Desmond

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    hawthorn (n.) catchy word!
    Old English hagaþorn, earlier hæguþorn “hawthorn, white thorn,” from obsolete haw “hedge or encompassing fence” (see haw (n.)) + thorn. So called because it was used in hedges. A common Germanic compound: Middle Dutch hagedorn, German hagedorn, Swedish hagtorn, Old Norse hagþorn.

  59. 59.

    Bobby Thomson

    This race will have a much bigger impact on the electoral college in 2020 than any damn visits.

  60. 60.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    Just a reminder, a bunch of Congressional races here in California took a few weeks to finally arrive at a winner. Some were even called by the media for the Republican, when all the votes were counted the Democrat won.

  61. 61.

    PST

    There is a huge margin in Chicago. The Tribune says:

    With roughly 97 percent of the city’s precincts reporting, Lightfoot had swept all 50 of Chicago’s wards, winning 74 percent of the unofficial vote to 26 percent for Preckwinkle, a 28-year officeholder who prior to her eight years as the county’s chief executive served 19 years as a Hyde Park alderman.

    Lightfoot was polling in the low single digits not that long ago. Funny how an unexpected outsider candidate can emerge from the pack in a 14-person race.

  66. 66.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jay: Oh no! World Nut Daily is dying?

    Everyone
    pour some out
    into a glass
    and drink it.

    Cheers!

  69. 69.

    NotMax

    In case SiubhanDuinne is around, obscure flick co-starring Warren William, Living in Velvet, showing on TCM at 4:30 a.m. Eastern time. From the contemporaneous NYT review: “It is not the fault of the cast that the picture does not merit unqualified praise.”

  70. 70.

    Amir Khalid

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Oddly enough, Britannica online seems to be down too. I have a suspicion that these sites may have been blocked by the government here. Perhaps because the first case against Najib goes to trial today.

  74. 74.

    Jay

    @Amir Khalid:

    Hawthorns are a shrubby deciduous bush/tree, with extensive branching, small red seedy fruits and inch long thich needle like thorns.

    Traditionally, they are planted close together, often on top of a 4 foot wide, 3 foot tall berm, sided with field stones. They are allowed or bent into growing into each other, and once established, pruned as a hedge.

    In this fashion, they act as livestock fencing, predator control, and fortifications.

  79. 79.

    J R in WV

    @Amir Khalid:

    Hawthorne is an apple-like bushy tree with long sharp thornes. The fruit is a tiny hard bitter ball like a crabapple only not as tasty. Real hard wood, used for walking stick and handles, not big enough for lumber or furniture. IIRC. We’ve got some on the farm, in a thicket, there’s no getting through it, so also good for fencing-type hedges.

  80. 80.

    Another Scott

    @Peter Desmond: “hagþorn” – I think that is the first time I’ve seen the “thorn” glyph here. It’s like it’s made to go in that word, eh?

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  83. 83.

    Ol'Froth

    I’ll give credit to Allegheny County Republicans for nominating an immigrant person of color for the state Senate, but I have to wonder if the Republicans constant xenophobia and racism depressed Republican turnout in a senate district gerrymandered to give a republican the best chance of winning?

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