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She seems nice!  You just see her conservative Christian values using out in this very short video outtake from when she was an anchor on FOX, even when she thinks no one is watching.  Well something is oozing, anyway.

In case you don’t know her by name, Kari Lake is the nut job running for governor of Arizona against current governor Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs.  Just one of the many reasons we will be doing some more fundraising for AZ for 2022 and as a firewall for 2024.   Doug and I will start with that fundraising after  we (hopefully) meet out $25,000 goal for Nevada.  $75,000 with the double-match!

Speaking of which, we still have $200 left on the $2,000 angel match and then the $2,000 goes into the thermometer and we will be halfway to $25k.  With an angel match, up to $50 of your donation gets multiplied by 6!

There are no more BJ angel matches waiting in the wings.  But how knows, maybe someone will come forward?  If not, a double-match is still awesome.

Open thread.

Updated to add a bit more info about the timing of the video and the Katie Hobbs info.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    With no one else putting anything up, and no action in the back room, I feel like Anne Laurie for the day.

    On the other hand, I put up a post last night and John put one up 8 minutes later and then Anne Laurie gave him 12 minutes before putting hers up.  So maybe we’ll have a repeat performance of that.

  5. 5.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @WaterGirl: My wife is home. Time to be a good and thoughtful husband. Which to be honest I’m not very good at, but I get points for trying.

  8. 8.

    Another Scott

    I’m not surprised that she’s a potty mouth.

    I guess that guy is an anchor or something for the station?  If anyone has a doubt that they’re not “fair and balanced” this should disabuse them of the notion.  The station management should call him on the carpet and make him apologize to their viewers, if they really were “fair and balanced”.

    Of course it won’t, but it should.

    Can you imagine Walter Cronkite (or any pre-Ailes TV talking head) telling some political candidate how to handle something in a campaign before the cameras start rolling?  OMG, we’d still be hearing about it…

    IOW, it’s a day ending in “y” in MurdochLand.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  10. 10.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    So I threw in $25 for NV. Maybe it will get the ball rolling for more contributions for AZ. I’d really like to get to the point where we’re raising $$ against that Lake broad (that’s not the ‘b’ word I was thinking) and Masters.

    I’m feeling positive about November, but not complaisant. At. All.

  13. 13.

    Suzanne

    Kari Lake is the nut job running for governor of Arizona against current governor Katie Hobbs.

    Katie Hobbs is not the current governor. Katie Hobbs is the Secretary of State, which is the second-highest job in the state, because Arizona doesn’t have a Lieutenant Governor. Doug Ducey is the current and outgoing governor.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I’m a little curious about the Kari Lake clip. Did she not know that she was on? Perhaps I’m misremembering, but I thought she was a media person and should have known from Day One that every camera is rolling and every mic is hot. (Actually, even if she isn’t a media professional, as a political candidate she ought to know that.)

    I hope the AZ press, the national press, and the Hobbs campaign all attack her mercilessly. Let AZ voters know that Lake’s attitude is, in so many words, “FUCK THEM.”  Said with a sneer.

  16. 16.

    Dan B

    In for $100.

    Kari Lake and the other AZ GOP nominees are overachievers in arrogance and sadism.  Do they have friends who’d care one bit for them if they didn’t have money and status?*

     

    *Signs point to No Fucking WAY!

    And it’s great that someone at FOX kept this clip from when she was an anchor.

  17. 17.

    azlib

    It seems Kari Lake is not doing the usual thing and tacking to the middle here in AZ for the general election. I always thought she was a cynical opporuntist, but I think she is starting to believe her own sh!t. Keep in mind here in AZ, independents outnumber Republicans and you have to appeal to them to win a statewise race.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @Dan B:

    *Signs point to No Fucking WAY!

    I laughed out loud!   (and thank you for the donation)

    And it’s great that someone at FOX kept this clip from when she was an anchor.

    Isn’t it, though!

  25. 25.

    Dan B

    @WaterGirl: You’re welcome for $ and laughs.  I laughed out loud at Betty C’s “mistake of putting me in charge of the national Pinot Noir reserve*”.

    *Maybe it was stock or somethinnn, somethinnnn..

     

    Is Kari Lake the popular pretty rich girl in high school who would cut you?

    Signs point to Abso-fucking-lutely!

  26. 26.

    Jinchi

    Does anyone know what Kari Lake and the other anchor were referring to? What was the blowback they were trying to avoid?

  27. 27.

    Geminid

    @azlib: Lately Republican politicians generally seem to be breaking the typical pattern of tacking to the middle after winning a primary. Maybe they are themselves caught up in the radicalism, or maybe they think their radical base won’t tolerate it.

    Either way, I think this is good for the Democratic candidates.

  28. 28.

    Suzanne

    @WaterGirl: No worries, it happens.

    Kari Lake sucks. Katie Hobbs has some problems in her campaign — apparently her campaign manager is abusive to work for — but Kari Lake is fucking terrifying.

    It’s weird. Kari Lake was a local news anchor for years. I had no idea she was psycho.

  29. 29.

    MagdaInBlack

    @SiubhanDuinne: I remember my mother going to see a production of Fiddler in Chicago when I was maybe 10. ( 1968 ) Of course, then the album was purchased and I knew all the words to all the songs. The lovely “Sunrise, Sunset” was sung at my wedding 😊

  30. 30.

    raven

    It reminds me of my half-brother’s nazi wife in Maricopa County. She was just fine telling me she was fucking sick of me but, when Megan Rapinoe said “fuck Trump” she had a goddamn stroke.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    @Gin & Tonic: @oldster:

    Someone with better google fu than me might be able to find closed captioning, but here’s my WaterGirl semi-transcript.

    Him: something about “they think it’s been branded as a far-right place.”

    Her: Jesus

    Him: So they don’t want you tied into anything like that where you’re gonna get blowback from the New Times.

    Her: Fuck them.  something something they’re dopes.  That’s a rag for selling majijuana.

    Him: Then they’re in a position where they’ve gotta explain, or you’ve gotta explain.

    Her: I’m reaching people.

  40. 40.

    RaflW

    @Geminid: The whispered stories are that some of the GOP House members who, just in general terms, might want to tack more towards the middle or ‘do a bipartisan’ now and then get threats from their own looney base.

    I know it’s hard to imagine that whipped up, ignorant, siloed people with a lot of guns can get twitchy. But they’re not always just twitchy for Dems (as Mike Pence knows too well. I hope he finds the thing that in other people looks like a moral center to show up and answer questions for the J6C.).

  42. 42.

    Another Scott

    @Amir Khalid: I hope that you have Good Day and not a No Good Day news.  We’ll be here for you either way. Seriously.

    Hang in there.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack

    Summer music . . .

    Here’s an old one to get started: the Lovin’ Spoonful, “Coconut Grove.” I’ve always loved this for the languid, plangent guitar of Zal Yanovsky (RIP, died in 2002, age 57), and I like the homemade film in this YouTube clip.

    I went down to Rehoboth Beach last week and had a very enjoyable long weekend with the Sighthound Hall mob and my crazy brother from Las Vegas, who motored in in his gigantic Ford pickup with equally gigantic camper top. There was also a Brazilian-American couple there with their two teenage daughters. One night we were talking about all of our varied musical tastes and influences, and someone brought up the phenomenon when you hear a song for the first time years or decades after it came out, and you wonder HTF did you miss it?

    That reminded me of the Go-Betweens, “Streets of Your Town” (1988). I heard this a year or two ago and was blown away. It has a summer feel to me.

    That sort of reminds me of another one from a few years ago that has a nice summer feeling: Durand Jones and the Indications, “Sea Gets Hotter.”

    I don’t know if this one fits, but it has been kicking around in my brain tonight: Tennis, “Borrowed Time.”

    ETA: I don’t want this thread to die now that Cole has posted!

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @MagdaInBlack:

    Another gorgeous song, and a nice choice for a wedding. I’ll bet the parents and grandparents were very misty-eyed.

    I also love “Tradition.”

  49. 49.

    piratedan

    I believe that Lake is the primary instigator of the so-called “Cyber Ninja” audit of the 2020 election, alleging discrepancies on how Hobbs ran the 2020 election.

    So, lets say that this may be a bit personal as well.

    Lake was defeated by McSally for the eventual John McCain seat, who in turn was defeated by Kelly.

    The entire slate of statewide positions are Trumpists, from Governor, Senator, Secretary of State and AG.

    there are already dark money ads hitting the critical WOF ad space that are anti-GOP candidacy.

    I’ll also say that a LOT of independents were less than pleased with the Cyber-ninja audit and naturally, taxpayers had to pay the bill, courtesy of the GOP lege.  The GOP is mostly running the same old schtick, Immigration and the economy.  The dark money ads are noting that Lake has statements on the books regarding legalizing personal rocket launchers and nailing Masters on his abortion positions.

    while they are busy working the rez and other areas for getting voters registered, I kind of get the feeling that the mushy middle is starting to turn to our side as the extreme positions that they are pointing out are full of clips of the candidates mouthing those statements, so not much case of claims of being misquoted.

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    No fishing for me this time. Strictly lazy and lazing around. Plus I don’t have an active FIN (Fisherman Information Network) number. There is good surf fishing around there, which I believe is your specialty. Bro’ Man’s house is about 10 miles from Cape Henlopen State Park. There is a fishing pier and surf fishing there.

  56. 56.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Another Scott: The words to ” Lake Shore Drive” have been running thu my head all day, now I’ve finally listened to it. Thank you.

    “Who’s Next” is my favorite Who album.

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack

    @Another Scott:

    Good songs, but not the vibe I was going for. Those seem more like driving songs than summer songs to me. (Partial exemption for “Indian Lake.”)

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think the key is that people who worked with her only have her back in the sense that they are happy to stab her in the back by releasing this.

    It really does show an ugly behind-the-curtain view of her and shows that her holier-than-though Christianity is bullshit.

  62. 62.

    sab

    @OzarkHillbilly: I feel for you. My husband is home and I feel inadeqiate. First day I went unsupervised on his IV drip, and he had to correct me on a few things.

    Even if Goku never gets on with nursing he has learned some practical life skills. I never in a million years thought I would be giving an IV to my husband in our house while the dog watched.

  64. 64.

    raven

    @sab: We’re almost done with “Five Days at Memorial” about the hospital of the same name during Katrina. I knew all about it but, damn, talk about medical folks being helpless.

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    They have charter boats out of Lewes (next town up), and Bro’ Man used to talk about doing that, but now the consensus is that the kids would (a) get bored, (b) disrupt things for everyone else or (c) fall overboard or (more likely) cause someone else to fall overboard. And he and I were the only ones in the social group who were enthusiastic about it.

    Finally, I have to say that as the poster boy for skin cancer I tend to avoid long periods of sun exposure in highly reflective environments.

  68. 68.

    raven

    @Steeplejack: I was on the Miss Hatteras and there was an oncologist from the Harvard Medical School fishing and he wore a big hat, long sleeves, and surgical gloves!

    I also was on a gulf trip in rough seas and the people who took kids on that trip should have been keel hauled. Of course you never really know when someone will get sick.

  69. 69.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    Yeah, I’d be wearing a sombrero and a burqa—oops, djellaba. The best advice I got from one of my dermatologists was “Stay out of the sun 50 years ago.” Thanks, doc. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Honestly, fishing is down on the priority list when there are so many other fun things to do with the kids. We did eat a lot of good seafood, though!

    I think the nephew might get interested in basic rod-and-reel fishing when he gets a little older.

  70. 70.

    RevRick

    There’s a reason why the GOP Senatorial campaign committee has thrown the candidates from AZ, NV, PA, and WI under the bus. They’re disasters in bluish/purple states. So, now they’re going to pour $28 million into J.D. Vance’s campaign in Ohio, a state Trump won by 9, which means it ought to be a slam dunk. AZ and PA have the additional benefit of having two openly fascist GOP gubernatorial candidates weighing down their tickets. Democrats are praying this means that they have a shot at winning their legislatures.

  72. 72.

    cintibud

    @MagdaInBlack: Another vote for “Summertime Thing”

    I was just thinking of my favorite summer driving songs. I have done a lot of driving for my kayak trips. When I first get started and leaving town I like Jeff Beck’s “Freeway Jam” while the traffic is heavy but still moving well. On the road favorites are James McMurtry’s “Choctaw Bingo”, Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing” – the long live version off Alchemy, and The War on Drugs ” An Ocean in between the Waves”. Have to keep an eye on my speed when those are playing

  77. 77.

    RedDirtGirl

    @Jinchi: dead thread, but, apparently the co-anchor was telling her that management was concerned about Lake being on Parler, with its right wing reputation.

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