Well, let’s rip off the bandage – Boebert won her primary bid – but as predicted, had there not been 5 other candidates, she may have lost decidedly, so far she’s not breaking 50% (UPDATE: her vote total has dropped to 43%). But the CO GOP is in disarray, so that happened. And CO4 gets what they deserve.
I know I said last night that I didn’t think the DEMS stood a chance in hell in that district (CO4), but looking at the numbers, I’m not as sure now – so I’m not going to write off that just yet. I think it might be worth throwing some of my time and money at it because it still feels like the Boebert hate is strong. If Republicans stay home this election – which is more possible here than in most states – or just refuse to vote for Boebert (she’s that divisive) the Dems might just squeak out a win. Improbable, but not as impossible as it was before she won the primary. See CO3 which she was in danger of handing over to a Democrat for the first time in decades.
The good news, and the only reason I’m bothering you with local politics is because the Colorado GOP leadership that endorsed burning Pride flags and hate and violence during Pride month and also changed all their rules so they could endorse primary candidates (all of them far, far right) got their asses handed to them tonight. Most of their endorsed candidates lost by 60/40 margins or worse. That includes the leader of the GOP, Dave Williams.
This also meant that a majority of Trump-endorsed candidates went down in flames, too.
I suppose this means that despite the takeover of the GOP party by these hate-filled nutjobs, the actual voters could see through their BS. That doesn’t mean any of the actual primary winners are anything but right of center, but aren’t MAGA, so that’s a start.
Those big losses might just be enough for the CO GOP to boot Williams ass out as party leadership, but who knows, they are all as bat shit crazy and hateful as he is, so getting the 60% needed to oust him seems iffy.
Here’s a breakdown of candidates endorsed by the MAGA CO GOP party vs what voters actually decided. Enjoy.
Otherwise, this is an open thread.
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And to cleanse your palate here’s cute Reggie photos – does he take any other kind?


CaseyL
It’s nice to think some Colorado GOP voters have gotten tired of their Party’s fetid miasma. It would be glorious if enough of them did stay home for a Democrat to win in CO-4.
But what’s really nice, better than nice, are photos of Reggie being impossibly adorable. (And his adopting one of Bixby’s toys just made my heart ache and sing at the same time.)
HumboldtBlue
Tamara address to send pics?
TaMara
@HumboldtBlue: Send them here:
whats4dinnersolutions (at) live (dot) com
Can’t wait to here more about her
ETA: Will give me the perfect excuse to do a nice post tomorrow to balance whatever trash the Supremes hand us
HumboldtBlue
@TaMara:
OK, but it’s him!
TaMara
@HumboldtBlue: Oh, I thought the description on the photo yesterday said her. My bad!
Jackie
That pic of Reggie snuggling with Bixby’s elephant stuffy ♥️
HumboldtBlue
@TaMara:
Not your fault, I met Cosmo and Holland and homeboy was right on me while Cosmo didn’t bother, she was in her own world, never connected. He and I did.
My left arm is occupied, so it’ll be a minute.
TaMara
Boebert has dropped from 48% of the vote to 43%, so just wow. She would not have won against a single opponent
And 14 of 18 trump/gop endorsed candidates have lost handily.
Jackie
Great news! 👍🏻
TaMara
Okay, I’m toast. Very long day today. I’m out.
We’ll meet back here again tomorrow to curse the SC…
nite
eversor
I had a good day. Haven’t had one in a bit. I did the dumb.
One of the nieces has a child and has been pool shy with it. Me being me was all “let’s drown the fuck”. Spoiler nobody drowned.
So one of the great things about Arlington VA and why my childless ass loves public schools is we get public pools. I’ve also got the military pools.
So I took the wee little one to the school pool. As a guy with a younger female it hit me that she can’t come into the mens room and I can’t go into the womens room. I hurled that out the window and went into the womens room with her and nobody cared.
So said pool has a 20 foot depth area. What we did was plant kettle balls and fetch them back up. Fucking awesome. People joined us in this game.
She want’s to follow her older sister and join NASA. I made NASA hapen for the sister. Nice the youngest is still a tiny thing and I don’t know that she knows what she wants to do. But as she’s doing caculus and fishing up 20 pound balls from 20 feet down with me I’m sure she can do whatever she wants.;
dmsilev
Kicking out a bunch of crazies and replacing them with slightly-less-crazies is good news. Too often, we’ve seen the reverse trend in GOP primaries. Sorry to hear that the trend didn’t extend to Boebert though.
Geminid
Seems like Jeff Hurd’s win in the 3rd CD will make it harder for Mr. Fritsch to win. Fritsch lost to Boebert by less than a thousand votes in 2022, but Hurd will be tougher to beat. I think the district is rated R+7 or 8.
Gloria DryGarden
@TaMara: it’s really too bad those other 4 couldn’t have decided amongst the 4 of them, who would be best to run in primary against Boebert. I’d like to hope w you about the dem candidate in that district.
Melancholy Jaques
@TaMara:
Obviously, this is bad news for Biden.
Gloria DryGarden
Exceedingly cute, adorable kitten. Just wow.
im hearing from a friend that in Georgia, a pretty competent democrat won his primary and will run against mtg.
Geminid
@Geminid: California Republican John Duarte won the other 2022 race that was decided by less than a thousand votes. The district is in the Central Valley. Duarte is a freshman, and they say a Representative’s first reelection campaign is often the hardest. Duarte’s will be very hard.
Geminid
In the contentious NY16 primary, Westchester County Executive George Latimer is stretching his lead as more Westchester precints are reported. ABC says Latimer leads Rep. Jamaal Bowman 58.4 to 41.6%.
This was a high-turnout primary, with 75,000 votes between the two candidates and more yet to be counted.
eclare
Reggie! What a cutie.
Chet Murthy
@Gloria DryGarden: Too bad for them and the G(r)OP, perhaps? Is it too much to hope for that the CO G(r)OP will proceed to vicious infighting like we see in Michigan? Wouldn’t that be delicious? And profitable (in votes!) We can only hope.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Boebert’s hands on campaigning pulled it out
West of the Rockies
@Geminid:
Is this a surprising loss for Bowman? I’m in NorCal, so don’t know much about this NY district.
bjacques
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: you can’t lose by fluffing the vote totals
SpaceUnit
I’m in CO District 7 and don’t give a shit about District 4. They’ll get the representation they deserve.
The MAGATs are becoming increasingly irrelevant to Colorado politics, and I wallow in their tears and laments. They can all move their sorry asses to Florida to enjoy the heat, humidity, mosquitos, swamps, snakes and alligators, the sinkholes and hurricanes. Send me a postcard, assholes.
Citizen Alan
I desperately want Boebert to lose because she needs one more term in Congress to be guaranteed a pension, paid for by our tax dollars, which will likely dwarf my own retirement benefits. I want her chased out of politics with no bennies so she has to, I dunno, start an OnlyFans page to keep a roof over her head. She could have a great career ahead of her doing Granny Porn.
Geminid
@West of the Rockies: Polls have shown Bowman down for weeks, and this result tracks the latest ones. Latimer has been Westchester County Executive for 6 years now, and before that he represented part of Westchester in the State Assembly. He is a well-known and trusted figure among area Democrats, so I don’t think it was that big an upset
Ed. NY16 combines southern Westchester County with a part of the north Bronx. It’s a solidly Democratic district that Elliot Engle had represented for 20 years before Bowman beat him in the 2020 primary.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@bjacques: She’s a professional. She works the polls and squeezes out every last vote.
Jay
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
pollspolesTS
@TaMara:
I checked out your link – handily is being kind, there were some bigggg losses there.
Tony Jay
@Citizen Alan:
‘Young/Old’, ‘Grey 4 Pay’, or ‘Walk On/Wank Off’?
Very different pay scales, y’see? And the quality of script and director varies the closer you get to Florida.
Jay
@Tony Jay:
“BeetleJuice Re-Imagined”
Tony Jay
@Jay:
“Raising The Dead – Starts With The Head”
MomSense
@Tony Jay:
Hahahahahaha! Laughing but I might have nightmares.
Origuy
Anyone tried to get their car serviced by the dealer in the last few days? You may have been affected by a hacker group called BlackSuit. They have hacked into CRM systems made by a company called CDK Global. The systems help dealerships for Honda, Hyundai, GM, and others sell and service vehicles. It tracks service records and warranties. I went to my Honda dealer for a major service and some of their systems were down, though not all. I was talking to a service advisor and said that I hope they weren’t being blackmailed by hackers. Looks like I was prescient.
Tony Jay
@MomSense:
Just never close your eyes ever again. That way they can’t get you. 👀
Martin
@Origuy: Not sure if you were precient or just scanned a headline – that’s been huge news. Dealers can’t issue temporary plates because they can’t talk to DMVs, etc.
This might be the first ransomware attack that I approve of.
Baud
@Martin:
Flashback to Balloon Juice Armageddon.
YY_Sima Qian
@Geminid: Didn’t AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups dump millions into the primary race against Bowman for his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Baud
@YY_Sima Qian:
I’ve only recently been learning about that primary, but Bowman had other major problems too. He lost union support because he was against the infrastructure law. Apparently, there were other issues as well, but someone more informed will have to explain them.
NotMax
FYI. Horrendous industrial tragedy.
JWR
Oh my! They tortured him! ;) The Guardian via MSN:
Now I really want to see him locked the F up!
And now a prediction for the Trump immunity case: They’ll rule that it’s okay to find a future president guilty of any or everything under the Sun, just so long as s/he isn’t punished. Shades of Ford’s pardon of Nixon? You betcha!
Jackie
@JWR: Isn’t torture what TCFG demands be done to criminals? He should be lauding his “terrible” treatment!
MagdaInBlack
@Origuy: Yup. CDK runs the management system for about 15,000 dealerships. The ransomware hack has shut down everything they do, from service and parts thru sales and accounting. In my business, the body shop realm, parts are kinda hard to come by this week, as the dealerships are working with pencil and paper and can’t even look up parts. EOM is gonna be fun.
P.S. I think CDK has paid the ransom, but CDK says “days not weeks, til they’re back up” so we figure 13 days minimum
http://www.reddit.com/r/serviceadvisors/
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
There was a fair amount of discussion of Bowman’s problems in a thread here yesterday, but I’m not awake enough to remember the details, or energetic enough yet to track it down.
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
Same. It was off my radar until a couple of days ago, when he had a rally with AOC that was reported. Then people started talking about his likely loss and the reasons for it.
satby
@Baud: He went on The Late Show, presumably to shore up his campaign, and IMO bombed. Lots of Democratic Socialist boilerplate in answer to questions, in a town that’s already sick of the mayor they elected for his general incompetence. It looked like desperation.
satby
I’m driving to Indianapolis later this morning to pick up a tripod kitty from Indycat. He showed up at her door injured and his leg couldn’t be saved, she’s a saint who got him the surgery he needed. I was going to pick up the other guy too and try to get them adopted through our rescue. 5-6 hour round trip, and it looks like storms half the time. Wish me luck!
Baud
@satby:
Good luck. You’re a saint.
Geminid
@YY_Sima Qian: AIPAC put at least $10 million into the race, probably more. That was overkill, clout-building. Latimer would have won if AIPAC hadn’t put a dime in, and the margin wouldn’t have been much different either.
Baud
@Geminid:
Yeah, if I were anti-AIPAC, I wouldn’t be talking about how AIPAC defeated Bowman. That just gives AIPAC more credibility as kingmakers
satby
@Baud: thank you. Not a universal opinion 😆
I’m a little frustrated because I pushed my trip to today to avoid these strong storms that keep cycling through behind the heat dome. There’s a huge one south that should get to Indy around the same time as me.
TS
AOC won her primary with over 80% of the vote – this is what the media had to sy
No mention as to the margin of the win, nor about AOC – but another paragraph on why Dolan was opposing her.
Geminid
@satby: Most of Bowman’s district is in Westchester County. The NYC component in The Bronx went for Bowman 4-1 or better but the Westchester portion went for Latimer something like 2-1.
Latimer has a 30 year record in Westchester Democratic politics, the last 6 as County Executive. He was liberal enough to win the Working Families Party ballot line in his two campaigns for County Executive.
Baud
@TS:
Congrats to her, but her primary doesn’t even deserve much of a story. But I guess having AOC in the headline gets clicks.
ETA: The idea that it was “closely watched” is ridiculous.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Hey now, it was closely watched… by them.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
They should have closely watched George Santos in 2020.
satby
Heather Cox Richardson’s latest, always worth a read.
Tony Jay
@YY_Sima Qian:
@Geminid:
On this general topic, there was an interesting article in Monday’s FTF Guardian taking a shallow dive into documents detailing some of the ways and routes in which the Israeli Government has secretly funded ‘information reshaping’ operations in the US via *ahem* ‘independent experts’ and well-connected lobbying groups, with the aim of delegitimising all pro-Palestinian advocacy and encouraging/pressurising legislatures and educational establishments on every level to adopt a widely-condemned definition of antisemitism that basically equates opposition to Israel’s policies in the Occupied Territories and Gaza with hate-speech.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/israel-fund-us-university-protest-gaza-antisemitism
Interesting on its own terms for a glimpse into how normalised and successful and oh so very bipartisan this very specific flavour of information warfare has become in the US, but mainly interesting to me as a window into how pigheadedly obdurate the FTF Guardian’s steadfast commitment remains to never, ever, EVER turn this type of questioning journalistic eye on events in the UK between 2017 and 2019, when exactly this kind of vicious Misinformation war was waged against the Leader of the Labour Party and the UK Left in general by Israeli-aligned groups and individuals inside and outside the Party, with the fulsome and enthusiastic involvement of virtually the entire British News & Media Establishment, including at front and centre of the self-congratulatory pack, the priggish fleshharrowers of the FTF Guardian itself.
I’ve seen at first hand how enthusiastically the Right will latch onto exploiting the buzz saw of antisemitism accusations to silence and isolate its opponents, and how cynically the corporate media will play along by censoring out contrary points of view and ignoring evidence of coordinated ill-will, all the time feigning lily-white neutrality. It’s stomach churning, and relentless, and very, very dangerous to the fabric of a civil society because, while being an out-and-out racist or misogynist is something figures on the Right can build careers on (behind a shield of smirking sophistry, of course) being labelled a Jew-Hater still brings the kind of reputational damage no one walks away from intact.
Kay
@Tony Jay:
They’ll lose that battle. As I have said before the campus protestors aren’t getting their views on Gaza from intelligence operations, be the intelligence programs Israeli or Russian. They’re getting their views on Gaza from video the IDF soldiers and Palestinian civilians post and the actual statements of Israeli leaders and generals.
The idea that Ukraine was full of Nazis was pushed over and over online by people and entities hostile to Ukraine – it never took off because there weren’t thousands of Ukrainians posting videos online, giving the Nazi salute. I imagine if US students seen had thousands of videos of Ukranian soliders celebrating the killing of Russian civilians their opinions would have reflected that.
Kay
@Tony Jay:
I don’t watch 99% of it, but I see what they’re watching because I read them. Today they’re watching satellite photos of Israeli settlers attacking (US) aid conveys.
They’d have to suppress all of the reporting coming out of Israel to succeed at this. If they ban Tik Tok it’s just going to spring up somewhere else. They should perhaps put some energy and money into stopping settlers from attacking US aid convoys. Much more bang for the buck – starving Palestinians will receive the aid the US public intended for them AND there won’t be reputation-destroying video for students to watch.
Geminid
@Tony Jay: This may be true in a general sense, but the NY16 primary was locally driven, I think, and the Israel/Gaza war was not the only issue.
Yesterday someone asked how a “Progressive” like Bowman could lose labor support. The head of the New York area Carpenter’s local said why in a USA Today op-ed that local media site Lohud reprinted on June 19. It’s a scathing attack on Bowman’s vote against the infrastructure bill and his statements about it:
The union leader was particularly incensed by reasons Bowman’s used to justify his vote:
I included the last part because the gaslighting Bowman and his Justice Democrat colleagues carried on about the infrastructure bill fooled a lot of Democrats, and kept them from embracing a good bill that the Biden administration and the Democratic party really needed at the time and going forward.
O. Felix Culpa
@Geminid: I have no dog in that primary fight, but it sounds to me like Bowman was an inept politician, at best. Maybe he’ll learn from his mistakes and come back better. The seat is guaranteed D, and that’s what’s most important right now imo.
Baud
@Geminid: Ooof. Thanks for bringing the receipts. I agree with that union guy. I’ve gone from not caring much to being happy with the results
ETA: Taking unpopular positions for your district is one thing. If it were just Gaza, I could respect Bowman for standing by his principles. But lying like a Republican is inexcusable.
Kay
I don’t think the Israeli government will be able to change (some, obviously not all) peoples views until the reality changes. Bowman was a fairly ordinary Lefty Dem on I/P until he went there:
J Street withdrew their endorsement of him this cycle but they’re the group who took him on the trip that changed his views. Funny, that.
Another Scott
SCOTUSBlog will be live blogging the announcements today starting at 10 AM EDT.
I ass-u-me they’re drop the really, really bad ones on Friday. But there are so many opportunities for them to try to destroy the US Government and our rights that they may get a few body blows in today.
Exciting!!
Grr…,
Scott.
YY_Sima Qian
@Geminid: Thanks for providing color on the primary! The people I follow on Twitter (who tend to be policy/tech wonks of one stripe or another) have almost exclusively focused on Bowman’s stance on Gaza & the huge influx of AIPAC money against him.
I can understand being opposed to the IRA & the CHIPS act because of the problematic aspects of the legislations that are bad public policy, feeding the Sino-US Great Power Competition & securitization of domestic policy, that may well undermine the stated goals of said legislations. However, being against the Infrastructure Bill is pretty idiotic, given the tremendous infrastructure deficit that the US has incurred.
YY_Sima Qian
@Tony Jay: Well, that is one source of foreign interference that politicians & policymakers at all levels of US politics really prefer not to touch or even see. For good reasons originally, surely, not wanting to feed the already rampant CTs about Jewish Cabals pulling strings behind the curtain, but such reticence has taken on self-destructive proportions.
& this is not limited to just the US or the Anglophone West.
Geminid
@YY_Sima Qian: Bowman voted for the CHIPS+ and IRA bills, as well as the American Recovery Act. It’s his vote on the Infrastructure Bill that was questioned. There was intense controversy within the Progressive Caucus over the decision by Biden and Congressional leaders to decouple the Infrastructure and BBB bill.
Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Joyce Beatty helped talk almost all the Caucus members around the day before the vote, but Reps. Bowman, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Pressley, Omar and Bush still voted no. The six all are affiliated with the Justice Democrats group, which is a red flag for many Democrats including myself.
I have followed this race mainly through Westchester County resident Tom Watdon. He emphasises that support for Latimer was locally driven, and that the various Democratic Town Councils– Mount Vernon, Rye etc.– all endorsed Latimer, many by unanimous vote.
Watson seems like a typical liberal New York Democrat. Last year, he vociferously opposed Gov. Hochul’s nomination of a centrist judge to the New York Court of Appeals, so he’s by no means conservative. But Bowman’s had almost four years to show NY16 Democrats who he is, and almost 60% didn’t like what they saw.
Omnes Omnibus
@Geminid: I have a suspicion that AIPAC poured as much money into this race as they did as a way of making it look like they were the ones that took Bowman down.
YY_Sima Qian
@Geminid: Decoupling Infrastructure & BBB was a terrible disappointment, especially w/ Sinemanchin being the road block, but sometimes you have to take the half loaf.
Ksmiami
@Another Scott: we don’t have to abide these maniacs. They have no power over us if we choose a different path.
pluky
@eversor: One of the first things I did when my niece had kids was send her a check with a note saying “I don’t care where, but find a pool, and make sure my grand-nepots know how to swim.” As an actuary I am all too familiar with the excess mortality stats for AA children due to drowning. Side benefit, it got her Bronx born and raised husband to finally learn too.
pluky
@West of the Rockies: Completely predictable. The composition of the district shifted to more heavily include South Westchester versus the North Bronx. His opponent was a well known player in Westchester politics. Bowman didn’t do himself any favors with more than a few impolitic statements and actions. Some might cite the flood of negative ads (looking at y’all AIPAC), but these just served to reinforce the missteps Bowman made during his tenure.
pluky
@YY_Sima Qian: Only so they could claim bragging rights. Bowman was going down no matter.
strange visitor (from another planet)
i mean, i’ll say it again. ny is NOT a liberal state. nyc is NOT a liberal city. it’s a democratic city, but the old money and new money that run the city are conservative and cautious.
…and i suspect his gaza stance was problematic in light of the HUGE upswing in
pro- hamas“pro palestine” protesters attacking local jews.they don’t care that israelis aren’t ALL jews . like they attacked and defaced the residence of the president of the fucking brooklyn museum. mobs march on subway cars and demand all the jews raise their hands and get the fuck out (of the train? of nyc?).
the red-se pedestrian population of nyc, myself included, are fucking DONE with these blatantly jew-hating fucks. yah, and now they’re going after AOC for being insufficiently pure. it’s become clear as day that just like the fascist gop won’t stop with roe, the
pro- hamas“pro palestine” crowd won’t satiated if they get their state, if they get the “river to the sea”, bc hell, there are all us kikes in nyc, too!!but yeah. it’s groovy, right? free palestine and sumsuch.
lemme make this very clear to all of you who’ve been pining for it: biden cuts off israel, he loses ny state. he loses ny, he goddamn well loses 1600 pensylvania ave. then the fucking palestinians can live on fucking radioactive glass after felonious d, under the urging of the fucking fascist gop, nukes gaza city.
eta- i’m sure kay will be along shortly to proclaim how the noble protesters can’t possibly be responsible for the seething anti-semitism in their ranks.