Politics: The Good Eleven

I am wanting to do a post of this blog today and this will be it. I’m hoping to cover more in the future but I will be posting most of the important updates here in this introduction. You see, the random posts of this blog are ending and I’m now only going to do monthly posts of this blog. It will be on Thursdays now. It will typically be the first available Thursday so it will appear on the last Thursday of the month at the absolute latest. I’ll let you know of any other changes about this hopefully before it happens.

Now I have come up with nicknames before for people. I once came up with the four horsemen for a group of governors where three of them endorsed the fourth to blame all of his problems on a Democrat. Because of course it is a Democrat’s fault. Whose else would it be? But I am coming up with nicer nickname that also isn’t original. This is to come up with a name for good group of Democrats in Congress.

There is one group of seven and another group of four that make the good eleven. The first were the House managers of Trump’s first impeachment. They are Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries, Val Demings, Jason Crow, and Sylvia Garcia. Then there are the original members of the squad. They are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib. I am calling them collectively the good eleven. I am calling them that because they are good people who know how to fight against the poison of Trump. And I want to focus on good. And that’s it for this blog post.

Politics: 2020 General Senate Results

This is not a post that I wanted to gloss over originally, but I see no other option for it than to do it today this way. I actually did want to do this in the end. The main change that you will see is that instead of doing a paragraph before most links is that I’m just putting links in at the end. All of the impeachment related links are about Trump’s first impeachment. Some of them may not relate to who all is up this time around, but were about senators that I feel was worth covering at some point in time. Some were just predictions that turned out to be wrong.

 

Class two was up this time around and Democrats did well. They had a net gain of three seats in the end, flipping four while losing just one. Both of Georgia’s seats went from red to blue, as did the seats in Arizona and Colorado. Alabama’s rental that Doug Jones had went back to the Republicans to a man who voted to overturn election results.

 

However, the Democrats didn’t do as well as they could have. The seat in Maine was lost by the Democrats to fake moderate Susan Collins. The seat in North Carolina could have easily been flipped and given Democrats 51 senate seats, but the Democratic candidate couldn’t keep it in his pants. There were other issues like not having a Democrat in the Arkansas race, not having people know that Al Gross, the independent in the Alaska race, was Act Blue supported, and having two candidates in the Nebraska race, there were stumbles in races that could have been more important in the end than what we got. Plus, I’ll never understand why the Democrats never did ads on the government shutdown. They had a silver bullet, but never fired the gun.

 

The special elections were ultimately what helped tip the race to the Democrats. If the seat in Arizona had not been up for election this cycle, it would remain in Republican hands. The same is true with one of the Georgia races. Speaking of Georgia, for once, we can thank a third party candidate for a Democratic election win. Thanks due to the laws of Georgia and the fact that there was a third party candidate denying David Perdue an outright majority, the fact that he got the most votes didn’t matter as a run-off caused him to lose his seat permanently instead of just temporarily. That’s good because I’m sick of losing to Perdue.

 

The seats will next be up in 2026. They were last up in 2014 when Republicans gained seats. When they were up in 2008, Democrats gained seats instead. This cycle also continues the pattern of Democrats gaining senate seats during a presidential election year, something that last did not happen in 2004 or in 1996 when a Democrat last won the presidency.

 

There’s not much to say about the links at hand. I feel that I might be harder on Ben Sasse than I should be and he might not be as bad as I believe that he is. Still, there are two links that I am sharing about him that are negative. It is worth noting that Ben did vote to impeach Trump the second time around so he might not be too bad.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/16/1986977/-Ben-Sasse-is-a-contemptible-coward-perhaps-never-more-than-when-he-s-railing-against-Trump?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/18/1945931/-Slovenly-GOP-Senator-insults-high-school-grads-calls-them-unfit-mocks-psych-majors-blames-China?detail=emaildkreicymi

 

Here are the rest of the links that I’m sharing from this cycle. I know that not all of these went the way that they could have. But some were more hopeful with wishful thinking of how they felt things would go versus how they actually went. I should note that only the polls in Maine and North Carolina were wrong as the rest had at least one saying that a Republican would win and that is what happened in the end.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/18/1978370/-Four-GOP-Senators-try-to-hide-their-votes-to-kill-health-care-coverage-for-pre-existing-conditions?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980542/-AK-Sen-HuffPost-A-Secret-Recording-Of-Mining-Executives-Is-Shaking-Up-The-Alaska-Senate-Race?utm_campaign=trending

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984225/-Iowa-is-a-fierce-Senate-and-presidential-battleground-but-Dems-have-the-edge?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984411/-Cornyn-s-weak-critique-of-Trump-proves-he-s-concerned-about-tight-race-with-MJ-Hegar?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/14/1986425/-Vulnerable-Senate-Republicans-forget-who-s-president?detail=emaildkreicymi

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/18/1987586/-Conservative-Democratic-Senator-Coons-gives-very-revealing-answer-about-expanding-the-courts?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/10/1994873/-Al-Gross-in-Alaska-Senate-Race-Don-t-You-For-Forget-About-Me?utm_campaign=trending

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/5/1916645/-14-Republicans-who-voted-to-impeach-convict-and-remove-Clinton-will-vote-to-acquit-Trump-today?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/2/1949771/-Sen-Collins-Trump-did-learn-his-lesson

 

There’s not much else to say and I am ending this post around here. I wish that I could promise that I’d always have posts ready for my blogs. I am powering through this one despite feeling and being kind of sick. I shouldn’t do that ever. But if I can write it, then I will. I can only hope that nothing takes me out of writing all of my blogs with me never to return outside of a farewell post that will happen after a long enough gap. But it might be good to stop blogging.

Politics: On Changing Voting Laws after Elections

While I could put this in my Good Wife blog in one of its political posts as it covers what only the Republican Party is doing, I figured that I might as well cover it in this blog instead as it relates to elections and how they are changing the law. At least they are doing this before the next round of elections happen. But this is still a problem.

 

Now I should point out that this can be something focused on by both parties. But one party seeks to create voting suppression to get what they want while the other is more concerned about how to value election integrity.

 

There is this group of 12 governors of the United States that I’m calling the election integrity governors. They are J B Pritzker of Illinois, Jay Inslee of Washington state, Kate Brown of Oregon, Gavin Newsom of California, Phil Murphy of New Jersey, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Tim Walz of Minnesota, Ralph Northam of Virginia, John Carney of Delaware, Steve Sisolak of Nevada, and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, all of whom are Democrats. They issued a statement on threats to voting and one can only hope that they are not overruled by Republicans in their state.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/30/1982273/-NEW-12-Governors-issue-a-statement-on-threats-to-voting?utm_campaign=trending

 

As short ago as 2019, the Democrats sought to enter a bill into law that would reform some of how elections are run. I’d have to imagine that it would wind up before the Supreme Court. But I am unsure of if the Supreme Court can rule on a law passed that affects it. One would think that they can handle any case that they agree to hear. There could be a lot of good that could wind up from this bill if it passes the senate.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act

 

Of course, there are horrible laws that Republicans are trying to pass or succeeding in passing that seek to curb voting. It is now a crime in Georgia to hand people water or food as they wait in line to vote for an election. This isn’t Georgia’s first brush with controversial laws and I highly doubt that it would be the last. We see it time and time again. And this controversy often relates in negative repercussions for the state. Despite this, they still keep passing laws like this since they learn nothing. And they have the audacity to complain about this. You can’t keep passing controversial laws or doing otherwise controversial things while saying that backlash to said things aren’t an issue.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Integrity_Act_of_2021

 

It is likely that the law in question would wind up before the Supreme Court. Even with a 6-3 majority of conservatives on the Supreme Court, I’d think that at least part of the law would have to be struck down by the court. I just wish that I could be more hopeful that just 2 of them could side with the 3 liberals to strike down all of the law in question.

 

Now Republicans are trying to suppress the vote in various states. There are bills in the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Some of these states are better off than others due to Democrats as either governor or in the state legislatures in such a way that makes efforts by Republicans largely moot.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_make_voting_laws_more_restrictive_following_the_2020_presidential_election

 

Of course, what Republicans fail to realize is just how effective getting out the vote works. I mean, they don’t seem to realize that the high voter turnout in 2020 helped them in some places where it is normally just thought to help Democrats. Republicans defied the odds and gained seats in the House in part due to high turnout. Typically after the Democrats suffer a defeat, they seek to reevaluate themselves to see what went wrong, seek to find voters where there were none, reach out to the other party’s side to find common ground, and just in general want to better themselves. Finding new voters is always part of the plan. Republicans don’t seem to care if they wind up purging their own voters. They should care. They must not have realized how the Wisconsin primaries in 2020 went against their wishes because of their rules. This could only seek to damage themselves.

 

That’s all for this post. I know that I’m not giving myself enough time to write posts and I’m doing a lot of more important things in life outside of these blogs. I may start talking about the 2022 elections for some races, but won’t talk about the gubernatorial ones or attorney general ones until after the 2021 elections. I’ll get some to the 2021 elections soon, I hope, while also scaling back these posts back to just once a month starting next month. I’ll explain more why then. I have some big posts to write for this blog so look forward to them soon, I hope. I will be sure to explain when the change will appear for the first time.

Politics: 2020 Kentucky Senate Race Results

Well, by now you already know the unfortunate but sadly not surprising results of the Kentucky senate races from last year as Mitch McConnell is still in office, ready to use the filibuster at any moment’s notice to thwart all the effort that needs to get done. (I forget, wasn’t he in favor of getting rid of it when the time to confirm Neil Gorsuch came along?) It was also dumb that we saw ads complaining that his opponent, Amy McGrath, was too liberal instead of what could have been a real complaint about her. Some who knew her would call her more of a DINO than too much on the side of liberals.

What Amy McGrath did wrong was largely with her ads. She could have pointed out that Mitch had only three endorsements out of the whole Republican Party. She could have repeatedly pointed out all of the things that weren’t getting done with Mitch in charge. But she didn’t do this in the end leaving many unaware of his inaction. And while she was hardly alone in this, she did not point out the problem with the government shutdown. 

It took Mitch all of a few hours after Scalia died to say that Obama shouldn’t get to put a new person on the court due to it being too close to the presidential election when Scalia died in that February. And it took him the same short amount of time to demand that Trump better get to put someone on the Supreme Court when Ginsburg died even closer to the election. He knew that if this didn’t happen, Republican’ts could lose control of the presidency, the Senate, or, as what we would see happen, both.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/7/1984400/-McConnell-s-pushing-to-confirm-Barrett-like-it-s-the-last-thing-he-ll-do-because-it-might-be?detail=emaildkre

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/16/1977838/-McConnell-and-the-GOP-Senate-must-be-scared-about-something?utm_campaign=trending

Mitch has far too much power and control over what he does. Trump could not have done as much as he did without Mitch’s help. I would have rather Trump won and Mitch lost and not just because Trump would be term limited. He won’t even debate someone if a woman is doing the debate at hand, which is quite a problem. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/29/1981712/-Mitch-McConnell-doesn-t-want-to-debate-a-woman-if-a-woman-is-moderating-that-debate

Of course, some people want to vandalize or steal political signs. This is a bad idea and not just because the supporters of said candidate would get a new sign and thus spend money on this person’s campaign. That is why I wouldn’t do that. Plus, you know, it’s illegal to vandalize. One can only hope that people find good ways to deal with this if they are on the receiving end of such a thing with their own political signs. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/4/1983382/-Our-creative-response-to-sign-vandalism-in-Trump-McConnell-territory?utm_campaign=trending

As the world becomes more woke and deals with racial injustice in a better way, we still have to deal with the fact that although lynching is hopefully much less common today than it was in the past, there still aren’t any anti-lynching bills passed. Both of Kentucky’s senators are to blame for this and I plan to post a reminder of this when Rand Paul is up for reelection next year in 2022. One needs to be done and you should tell your senators of this now in the present. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/4/1950391/-It-s-2020-and-the-Senate-won-t-pass-an-anti-lynching-bill-because-of-Rand-Paul-and-Mitch-McConnell?detail=emaildkre

You know what’s dumb? After all that Mitch has done during the last years of the presidency of Obama by refusing to hold hearings on judges, ensuring that many vacancies remained open when Trump took office, he has the audacity to say that it is the left that wants to pack courts. He has done all of this effort to pack the courts even by putting Barrett on the court and he still wants to complain that it is only the left that packs the court or wants to. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/11/1952455/-McConnell-in-full-troll-mode-running-against-the-lawless-left-and-its-plans-to-pack-the-courts

When it comes to the pandemic, Mitch has been dealing terribly with it. The first relief bill might not have happened at all if enough Republicans in the senate weren’t quarantined at the time. The second one happened really late when Trump was a lame duck to make it seem like the senate was doing something. The third one happened without any Republican’ts voting for it. And this is the party that cares about others? Plus, the moment something happens, he then takes credit for something he had nothing to do with. Here’s how they have been handling the pandemic poorly in the present and past. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/2/1957845/-McConnell-lies-to-Kentucky-takes-credit-for-the-COVID-19-relief-bill-Pelosi-and-Schumer-negotiated

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/1/1957512/-McConnell-Republicans-say-extra-unemployment-and-not-raging-COVID-19-keeps-people-from-working?detail=emaildkre

Then we get to the Post Office crisis which is sadly still ongoing even now. Due to how the Spoils System is sadly alive and well, a Trump donor with zero Post Office experience got to be the highest person in that office and the board of people on the Post Office are all Republican’ts due to Mitch refusing to hold votes on the seats that have to be held by the other party. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/15/1969548/-Every-single-member-of-the-Postal-Service-board-was-appointed-by-Trump-thanks-to-Mitch-McConnell

At least those in Kentucky have some good news to celebrate with something. But I can’t quite remember what the next two articles are about. I just know that I felt that they were worth sharing at some point in time so I hope that you like them. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/15/1969504/-A-victory-for-voters-in-Kentucky?utm_campaign=trending

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/26/1980641/-Ezra-Klein-s-Take-On-The-U-S-Senate-and-McConnell-Is-Excellent?detail=emaildkre

Of course, something weird is going on with Mitch or at least had at one point. He already wants to change how the Kentucky governor would appoint a new person to the senate since he must have worries about whether or not he will live to the end of his term on January 3, 2027. I do think that he will leave office that day. It won’t be because he lost reelection or renomination. It will be because he retired from office. But he shouldn’t get to change the laws just because of the fact that he’ll have to deal with the fact that there will be a Democratic governor of Kentucky until at least December of 2023. Plus, as a federal office holder, he shouldn’t be able to tell a state wide office holder how to run his job. Sadly, a veto would be overridden. But there could be some sort of issues still with Mitch’s health. Is it life threatening? Who knows? Maybe he tried to use the resurrection stone, unaware it was a horcrux. Or maybe he made one. 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/23/1988909/-What-is-going-on-with-Mitch-McConnell-s-hands-and-his-health

At least Mitch is the minority leader now instead of the majority leader. He probably doesn’t like this and will do whatever he can to reclaim the majority in 2022. I doubt that he will ever be a good and non polarizing figure in politics. We’ll all be better off without him in the future. But until that eventual day when he is out of office, we are all unfortunately stuck with him.

Politics: 2020 Governor Election Results

While I’ve talked some about this already, I have to get to the results of the gubernatorial races from last year covering all of them and what I haven’t covered already. Sorry in advance if any of this is something that you’ve already seen before.

 

No incumbent governor lost reelection and only one seat flipped out of the states up for election this cycle. Two states did not have their incumbent governors in the race. Utah’s Republican governor retired and was replaced by another Republican. Montana’s Democratic governor was term limited and his seat was replaced by a Republican. It was the only net gain of a Republican seat from a Democrat over the last set of gubernatorial races from 2017-2020 and one of only two races where a Republican replaced a governor of a different party during the same time frame in question.

 

Since coronavirus made all governor races fair game to me, I had to think about which races I cared about and who all that I feel should stay or go. While I could have prevented Spencer Cox from replacing Gary Herbert in Montana, I didn’t care about that state’s race since there was not an incumbent in it. The same can be said about Greg Gianforte in Utah replacing Steve Bullock. Those two races were non factors for me despite being important.

 

There were two Republicans up that I didn’t hate by any means. They are Chris Sununu of New Hampshire and Phil Scott of Vermont. I felt that they were doing good jobs and I didn’t want them out of office as a result. They both won reelection. Plus, it makes sense to support Chris since he wanted the presidential transition to happen.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/2-more-gop-governors-push-trump-to-start-the-formal-presidential-transition-process-with-biden/ar-BB1b2kg2?ocid=msedgntp (includes governors Mike Dewine of Ohio, Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, and senator Susan Collins of Maine)

 

There are also all of the Democratic governors that I wanted to stay around. They are John Carney of Delaware, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, and Jay Inslee of Washington state. All of them won reelection, which is what I wanted.

 

The rest of the governors up in 2020 were people that I wanted out of office at one point. But this was not the case with Eric Holcomb of Indiana. I wanted him out since he endorsed Bruce Rauner, the ineffective now former governor of my state. But then he joined an alliance with my state’s new governor and other governors that are Democratic as well. He has also done a good job or at least better job than most other Republican governors. He did a mask mandate that could have hurt his chances. While a third party candidate in that race did well, he still did a very good job getting votes. I’ll only countdown his time when he’ll be leaving office if he fails me in the future as he can’t run for a third term as governor of that state.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/25/1980750/-How-a-mask-mandate-might-be-hurting-the-re-election-chances-of-Indiana-s-Republican-governor?detail=emaildkre

 

There was another governor that I had mixed feelings about. That was Jim Justice of West Virginia. I felt that he’s a traitor for betraying the Democratic Party by becoming a Republican. Thus, I wanted him out of office. But I had to concede that either he had a good response to this pandemic or he at least didn’t fail at it. With his state far better off than most, I don’t think that I will mind him staying around.

 

Meanwhile, a governor was doing quite terribly at handling the pandemic and that man is Doug Burgum of North Dakota. His lack of mask mandate and allowing super spreader events like the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally has lead to his state having among the highest percentage of deaths from the pandemic with around 1 in 300 North Dakotas dead of coronavirus. Despite this, he still won reelection from what could very well be a state in denial.

 

At one point, I wasn’t wanted to target Mike Parson of Missouri since it was his predecessor who was quite a horrible person and also joined the ad that Eric Holcomb did. But he has done quite terrible and handling the response. One of the things that he said is covered in this.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/even-if-school-kids-survive-covid-19-they-won-t-be-spared-contagion-guilt/ar-BB179XHf?li=BBnbcA0&ocid=mailsignout

 

Even getting the coronavirus himself has not lead Mike to handle it seriously. St. Louis has done better ways of handling the pandemic that you just don’t see in the rest of the state. He even lied a lot in the ads against his opponent.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-checking-pac-add-attacking-nicole-galloway/ar-BB18Jns9?ocid=hplocalnews

 

Honestly, I don’t like Missouri as a result and you will even see or, I should say, not see this on my facebook account. I removed all of the featured photos that I had from Missouri from my page with those from other states. I plan to change my twitter photo to as that is from Missouri. I will not be sharing any photo albums from the state of Missouri (barring it having a dead person in it) and will avoid trying to do any photos from that state at all outside of maybe cover photos with me in a mask. There are other states that I’m trying to avoid now that will be much easier to that I don’t think that I’ve been to some of them. But talking about an avoidance preference (which is different than an outright boycott or cancelling) is worth covering in a different blog post on this or a different political blog in the future.

 

Well, there’s not much to talk about in this closing as I end the post around here. There is a lot for me to cover in this blog and I will be scaling this blog back to just once a month provided that I’m not blogging about the show which would supersede all of these political posts. I plan to talk some about the 2021 elections and will talk about the 2022 ones as well. But now this post is out of the way even with it being as late as it is.

Politics: The Lincoln Project

With me wanting to do a quick election based post, but not on an election, I figured that I might as well cover one of the strangest and most hopeful parts of the 2020 election for president that did not stop fighting there. It is strange because it is a group of Republicans that did not want to have Trump as president anymore. Maybe they sat out the primary due to how it was already rigged in favor against Trump. But they did not want the insurrectionist to stay in office anymore and they got their wish. 

They were known for doing a lot of ads and I might as well share some of them here. I will get more into their potential problems in this post as well since it is worth covering all of it. Sorry about the links being red as they were in a Word Pad document and I don’t know if clicking on the link would work for you. I do not remember what this one was about, but did feel that it was worth sharing at one point.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/8/1975823/-New-Lincoln-Project-Radicalize

Another one that they covered was on 9/11 and how insensitive Trump was in relation to that. He bragged on the news that he now had the tallest building in New York City now. What kind of fucking asshole does that? You talk about coming in first only because the winner died, but do not care much else about other things going on in the world. This was a mass casualty event and you were talking about how you benefited from it? 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/11/1976714/-Lincoln-Project-9-11-ad?utm_campaign=trending

Another ad that they did was on the main choice of the election at hand. They became known for asking the question: America or Trump? Trump is not America and you wouldn’t know it from how his supporters feel about him. This ad is called The Choice. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPXATItZtBw

Here’s one that they did called Our Fight. While I can’t remember much about these ads from when I saved them, then you should know that they are still relevant in my mind or at least what I want to cover still today. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zLpaUcubHM

The next one that they did was called Focus Group. It was great to see their take on a whole lot of the issues of today which is why they are still at it even though the insurrectionist is now out of office. His powers could cause issues still and not just for his base. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM3dMJNOFiA

Now Trump likes to think of himself as a smart person. In the ad, I’m Smart, it shows just how dumb he actually is. Can you think of that many really truly smart things Trump has actually said or done over time? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMtfAySJWJo

Of course, now that Trump is out of office, they still have to get rid of the poodles that were after him as well. When Ted Cruz flew out of the country and abandoned his state during a crisis only to break coronavirus protocols to return, a funny ad was made about it. Here it is, an ad called Mexican vacation that is only about 2 minutes long. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnGNSDlZJU

Now that we’ve gotten through some of the good things about The Lincoln Project, it is time to get to the bad ones. There have been people as part of the group that left after scandals that they had came to light. One could wonder if this could ruin The Lincoln Project. One could also wonder if this is just a way of people trying to cancel it. The way that I see it, a few bad apples don’t spoil the whole bunch so let’s hope that the issue is solved now and it was, just that, a few bad apples. Otherwise, it would be better if this project faded out gracefully. 

There’s not much else to say about this topic or any others. Note that you will be seeing a whole lot of this blog this month and then I’ll have to scale back when you see it. I do want to cover some of what you haven’t already seen that I feel that you need to. And there are two groups that I want to cover in detail. One would be from before the election and the other in relation to the vote that took place on the day of the storming of the capital. Let’s hope that I can do all of that and I will tell you when this blog will go back to just one day of the month again.

Politics: Who I Donated For in 2020 and Why

As I seek to write all of the posts that I want to do for all of my blogs (and brace yourself for any potential problems with updates should a vaccine make me sick enough to not do blogs that are not scheduled in advance as the first dose went relatively well, but it is the second one that could cause issues), there are some posts that I’ll want to cover for this blog that are more time sensitive than the others. I’m going to talk about who I donated to in the 2020 election cycle. I could talk some more about the people that I gave money to in 2018, but that isn’t as important as it could otherwise be.

The most important person that I donated to was the campaign of Kayne West. His was the cause that I needed to get behind most. Do you know why? Because April Fools! That’s why. I would not give money to him or any other candidate running for president. If I can vote for them, then I don’t give them money.

There are different categories of people that I donated to and amounts that I give. But I did give to lots of people. Once the insurrectionist known as Trump insisted on sending me a letter with the fact that we got stimulus money from the first of the three stimulus accounts, I felt that there would be a good way to get back at him. There were eleven people I gave money to as a result of this. I donated to the squad which then consisted of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib. I also donated to the people who wound up being the House impeachment managers of the first Trump impeachment was Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries, Val Demings, Jason Crow, and Sylvia Garcia.

This may not be the only time that I donate to House races. Know that a lot can change with what might happen in the future. But I had bigger fish to fry and I knew that governors were fair game due to the insurrectionist passing the buck to them regarding handling the pandemic by making the governors take care of it. If I felt that a Democrat was handling it good, then I would give them money so that they could stay in office. But some weren’t covered. Since Montana’s governor, Steve Bullock, was term limited, I felt that there was no reason to invest in this race. I also didn’t invest in Utah’s race either since their governor at the time was Gary Herbert who was retiring. Also, there were three Republican governors that I felt were doing a good job with handling the pandemic and had no other issues that I didn’t donate money against Phil Scott of Vermont, Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, or Eric Holcomb of Indiana.

The Democratic governors that I wanted to stay in office were John Carney of Delaware, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, and Jay Inslee of Washington. Thus, I gave them all money. As for the Republican governors that I wanted out of office, they were Mike Parson of Missouri, Jim Justice of West Virginia, and Doug Burgum of North Dakota. Thus, I donated to all of their Democratic opponents of Nicole Galloway, Ben Salango, and Shelley Lenz respectively.

Then came the senate races. I gave a lot more money to a lot more people for various reasons, the most notable one being the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I’m not going to say who all I donated to, but I will say who I donated against. The Democrats that I donated to were Gary Peters and Tina Smith. The Republicans that I donated against were Dan Sullivan, Cory Gardner, David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, Jim Risch, Joni Ernst, Mitch McConnell, Steve Daines, Thom Tillis, Jim Inhofe, Lindsey Graham, Mike Rounds, John Cornyn, and Shelley Moore Capito. I would have donated against more, but that didn’t happen for various reasons.

Last came the attorney general races. I donated to Richard Finneran of Missouri, Josh Stein of North Carolina, Ellen Rosenblum of Oregon, Greg Skordas of Utah, T.J. Donovan of Vermont, Bob Ferguson of Washington, and Sam Petsonk of West Virginia.

There’s nothing else to talk about in this post since I’ve covered all that I think is relevant and important that I can remember. I have no idea if I’ll do something like this again in the future, but might if only to tell you who I wanted to win and why I gave them money. I would only write a post like this after the elections have happened since then the donations would have already been done in the future.