The America That’s Great Right Now This Minute
Okay, this is a fun story sent to us by Kary, my Texan friend who retired to Spain and is spending all day every day emailing or on the phone getting Americans Abroad registered and voting while overlooking the ocean sitting on the gorgeous patio of his hillside villa with his gorgeous husband Jimmy. Yeah, I’ve got friends like that.
Kary is kinda excited because there’s a drag queen who just won a primary election against an anti-gay Democrat in Delaware.
Delaware progressive Democrat Eric Morrison has soundly defeated incumbent State Rep. Earl Jaques (D) in the state’s primary election, garnering 61% of the vote.
Morrison is also a drag queen who performs under the name “Anita Mann.” Jacques, the incumbent, was a staunch opponent of LGBTQ rights.
Anita Mann – I love that.
Here’s Eric and some of his supporters on election night.
Here’s Anita Mann and she is fabulous.
It restored my faith in humanity for an afternoon!
Thanks to Kary for the heads up.
Maybe a bit of hope
1Excellent news! Glad to see there are still people who see beyond to the heart inside of a person. And vote for that heart.
2OK, I’ll do you one better, with someone I wish I could vote for:
https://www.upworthy.com/a-transexual-anarchist-satanist-won-the-gop-sheriff-nomination-in-a-n-h-county-for-real
Be sure to check their blog post about it: “More than 4,000 people went into the voting booth on September 8 this week, and they all filled in the circle by my name despite knowing absolutely nothing about the person they were nominating to the most powerful law enforcement position in the county. That’s a level of recklessness of which any decent human being should be ashamed.”
3“Jacques, the incumbent, was a staunch opponent of LGBTQ rights.”
SMDH. How can anyone be against equal rights for all citizens and win as a Democrat? Adding one more to the plus column with the removal of yet another one of those left over Kim Davis style “Democrats” who missed the exit door with the other southern ‘strategy’ Dixiecrats.
4Sometimes, I remember how wonderful this country truly can be.
5Yes! When my faith in humanity is running low, I’ll think about the fabulous drag queen Democrat running in this election in Delaware. Go, Eric! Thank you!
6So proud to be a Blue Hen! We’ll have the next POTUS, too!
7Also, transwomen have won elections in Colorado, Delaware, Louisiana, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.
8AK Lynne@8: Whoah, did you say Louisiana, Utah, and West Virginia? Alright folks. We’ve been moping and drooping over the disgusting actions of the current mis-administration. But right there is proof that it’s not just the blue states and the habitues of TWMDBS. Some places of even the reddest of states are willing to vote for trans people as if they are, well, people.
I, for one, am going to bed tonight with that warm thought. Tomorrow no doubt we’ll face fresh horrors, but let’s snuggle down tonight with those hopeful signs.
And no, my middle name is not Pollyanna.
9Wow, what a great story and what a fabuloous looking performer!
10There are anti-gay Democrats? WTF?
11Now Morrison is up against the Republican candidate Donald Keister III.
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