Gearing Up for Crazy
I’m sure she didn’t see that coming. Poor Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler. After years of voting pretty much the way her party wanted to, she crossed a line. I like to think she found her moral compass, but she probably just wanted to keep the Indy and D supporters happy by voting to impeach 45. After all, the rest of the gang would vote no, and give her cover, right? Hell hath no fury like Trumpers scorned. In a squeaker that dragged out over several days, because we have a most fabulous vote by mail process here in WA, she had to concede last night to Joe Kent, an America First anti-establishment former Green Beret endorsed by none other than TFG. The last few weeks before the primary were just awful for anyone watching regular old TV. The ads were absolutely disgusting. For a moment I thought I was back in Texas. The biggest evil music ads were those trying to prop up JHB by showing everyone in the area how deplorable Mr. Kent is. Even the ones tagged “I’m Jaime Herrera Beutler and I approve this message”. Sadly, we will be seeing a lot more of these between now and November.
The D’s got smart this time around and ran ONE candidate, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, auto shop co-owner with an economics degree and working class advocate. She walked away with the first place trophy in our top two dog fight primary. Now ‘all’ we need to do is raise a ton of $ (Kent has about 10 times as much on hand) and GOTV with all we’ve got. I hesitate to be optimistic. Our most excellent candidate the last 2 times around, who knocked on every damn door in the district, or close to it, and held hundreds of town halls IN PERSON (her opponent only musters phone in town halls and the occasional foray into very friendly territory), couldn’t fight the district demographics. I’ll miss her cheery newsletters highlighting fluff while she voted against just about anything that would really help her constituents (she had the nerve to vote against the infrastructure bill, then bragged about money coming to WA). We’ll see how many Rs hold their noses and vote for Kent, how many skip voting, and how many have any sense of country over party. The choice should be clear, but, you know…MAGA!
I think there’s a point where a candidate runs too many ads and people tune out. JHB was on constantly in the Portland area, like twice every commercial break, so I’m sure the same in SW WA. That’s part of it but what’s more disturbing is a candidate endorsed by TFFG would do well enough to be #2 in WA state’s open primary system. I’m afraid that because repugnanticans garnered about 60+ % of the vote, it’s a stretch to think the democratic candidate will get more than 50% in November. Hope I’m wrong.
1And Fenway Fran, how bout them Mariners? Looked good against the team you probably love to see lose, them Yankees.
In today’s mail I received a campaign flier from the local republican candidate.
I voted three days ago.
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