June 20, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
A victory for the uber-rich and Citizen’s United. If only a few more Democrats and thinking people had voted in the winner take all primary that Ossof won, but with only 49% instead of 50.1%.
1You might look at today’s NYT about why lawyers aren’t the best responders for Trump. I’m in the middle of it, so can’t help you but feel free to read it.
2Today at the eye doctor I did the “I’m the other mother of the world” thing and heard the life history of the technician who just happens to be Cuban. She hadn’t heard about Trump’s screwing up the whatever you want to call it about Cuba. We both got mad. Before I left, we had a nice heart to heart and she promised to get involved with Democratic politics. Feel free to go and do likewise. one to one, that and hugs, are the way to change things, I think.
I’m proud of my friends who have been strategizing to get the Texas gummint to care about people with multiple sclerosis and other degenerative diseases. Just do SOMETHING.
Now, waiting for results on Ossoff. Bless his heart.
It might help if the Democrats would encourage candidates for Congress to actually live in the Districts in which they are running. The Democrats need pay attention and smarten up.
3Do not forget the wingnuts went below the belt negative right before the election-saying if Dems win there would be more shootings and twisting Obama comments to sound like Dems don’t like Blacks.
We can start by lowering expectations-at least the ones we voice on social media. Wingnuts will use them against us. They never miss a dirty trick.
4L’il Ricky Sanitorium didn’t live in Pennsylvania when he was their senator. He lived in DC.
5The Republicans failed running as “not Obama” and Dems will do the same as “not Trump”.
6From what i had been following closely, there seemed to have been a renewal of good Dem participation and a percentage of disaffected Republicans. I’d look a lot closer at how this race was run and how it turned out in that I’m smelling Koch $$$ behind it all. And I wold stop blaming millennials for every damn thing! From a statistical point, that cohort is where the best bet of a Democrat might come from. They are of an age where they are getting started in public service and in the next 4 years may really be visible.
7If you choose to back a specific candidate and engage with his or her opponent, remember the rules of the road, or the speed bumps will kill you.
Rule #1 IOKIYAR (it’s ok if you are a Republican); basically there are NO standards below which they will sink and not be forgiven by their party establishment and base. Who can’t name 300+ spouse cheating, spouse beating corrupt Republican politicians? Meh. All forgiven. But Bill Clinton 30 years later? Yeah. You get my drift.
Rule #2 Prepare to fight with your hands tied behind your back. These are seasoned professional liars with no sense of shame and they are masters of the false equivalency set-up. Remember all the Koch dollars that went into NV to defeat Catherine Cortez Masto in the Senate race? That’s big buck owner-donor class money. Yet Jon Ossoff receives $5-$100 dollar donations from real people and the snacilbupeR get up on their hind legs about “outside interference.” Oy vey. Let’s not even delve into Russian interference in 2016.
The point? Vote, continue to vote, encourage others to vote. However, if you are easily frustrated, you might want to cancel your cable service.
8I am not surprised at all with the results. This was a solid R district. With so many candidates in the primary, that was the place the real push should have been, to get over 50%. It was the ONLY way to win. Republicans vote for Republicans when it matters (I can hear Paul Begala now). I live in a red rural county, and have seen this play out over and over, no matter how excellent a D candidate is, no matter how many of their R friends like them and know they are the best person for the job, they will vote for the Republican. I found the $ spent in this particular race to be obscene. One more thing: I read that Ossoff was raised in the 6th, and lived there until his wife/fiancee was in medical school too far to commute. Commendable partner, though it might have been smart to keep an apartment in district and avoid all those carpetbagger ads!
9I saw one post hailing her win as a great blow for feminism. The part of the GOP in the South that supports Trump is not reachable and it is a waste to spend money targeting them. There are other states where actual swing voters reside; those are the ones we need to target.
10Betty Adams: Spot on. Georgia was an uphill battle so the Democrats ran a guy that couldn’t even vote for himself because he didn’t live in the district and invested millions of dollars? I’m no genius but I know stupid when I see it.
Fenway Fran: You’re 100% right. When Ossoff didn’t pull it off in the primary the Democrats should have stopped funding the endeavor and concentrated on other more likely House seats.
11Betty Adams: Spot on. Georgia was an uphill battle so the Democrats ran a guy that couldn’t even vote for himself because he didn’t live in the district and invested millions of dollars? I’m no genius but I know stupid when I see it.
Fenway Fran: You’re 100% right. When Ossoff didn’t pull it off in the primary the Democrats should have stopped funding the endeavor and concentrated on other more likely House seats.
12That bitch Handel almost singlehandedly destroyed the Susan Komen Foundation, just think what she can do in D.C. She is really awful and self-righteous and wrong.
13Here’s a trick the GOP pulled several years ago on a wonderful Texas legislator, Ann Kitchen. She won and wanted to stay in office and had 1400 volunteers working for her. The GOP redistricted and put her and another Democrat in the same district. They hurried and moved but the people didn’t know them. Ann’s old district got some lawyer to run but he didn’t have a chance.
14I’m going to bed. I keep thinking there’s gotta be a way.