I
have an important post to cover in this blog, but I will not be doing that
today. I hope to have that covered next before the year is over. I’ll be
scheduling a lot of posts for different blogs to cover the rest of this year
and one for New Year’s Day as well. Now I decided that it would be fast and
easiest to write this post now. I will cover other results of races from this
year later while covering some of next year’s elections and other things that I
feel work well in this blog.
Now
I do need to cover more in general the attorney generals that are related to
the case that relates to Obamacare called California versus Texas. (Speaking of
that, when are we going to learn the results of that case? I mean, it has had
its only day in court so when are going to hear what the results are? Shouldn’t
we know already?) Now I will split some of them into two groups and a picture
in a later post should explain more. The ones that I call good are the orange
ones. Of all of them that ran for reelection (which was all of them), note that
the orange ones advance and will stay around until 2025.
Starting
at the beginning, let’s start with the state of North Carolina. The race was
between the incumbent Democrat Josh Stein and the Republican challenger Jim O’Neill.
Josh won reelection and will continue to serve as a result. Let’s next get to
the state of Washington. The race there was between incumbent Democrat Bob
Ferguson and the Republican challenger Matt Larkin. Bob won reelection. In the
state of Oregon, the race was between incumbent Democrat Ellen Rosenblum and
the Republican challenger Michael Cross. Ellen won reelection. The last state
in this grouping to mention is Vermont. The race there was between the incumbent
Democrat T.J. Donovan and the Republican challenger H Brooke Paige. T.J. won reelection.
As
for the states with attorney generals that are against Obamacare that ran for
reelection, the ones that I’m calling the green ones, they also all won their
elections and won’t be up again until 2024. I’m already counting down the days.
Let’s
start with the state of Missouri. While Eric Schmitt wasn’t elected to this
office before, he did win this office by winning reelection. This Republican
won against Democratic challenger Richard Finneran. In the state of Utah,
Republican incumbent Sean D Reyes won against the Democratic challenger, Greg
Skordas. In West Virginia, Republican incumbent Patrick Morrisey won against
the Democratic challenger, Sam Petsonk.
Now
there was one of the green ones that will be leaving office. His name is Curtis
Hill and he will be leaving office on January 11, 2021. He never had to face
the voters of Indiana as after a scandal left him without a law license for a
month, he wasn’t nominated to another term. Instead of him, the Republican
party of the state (not the voters) chose Todd Rokita to be their nominee and
he won against Democrat Jonathan Weinzapfel.
As
for the only two states that had this office up for election this year, I might
as well cover both of them before I get to the end of this post. In Montana,
the incumbent Republican, Tim Fox, did not run for reelection. The race was
instead between Republican Austin Knudsen and Democrat Raph Graybill. Austin won
the election. The last state was Pennsylvania. The incumbent office holder,
Democrat Josh Shapiro, beat the Republican challenger, Heather Heidelbaugh.
That’s
all that I need to cover for this post. I hope that you found it helpful and I
will do a better job explaining the green ones versus the orange ones in the
next post including the graphic that will make it all make sense to you. So stay
tuned. There is more to talk about regarding a lot of the attorney generals in
this country.
