This will be my last post of this blog on a Thursday for a while. I will be switching to random days for a while that will at least give me a chance to do more than one post a month before I find some other day of the week to make these posts on in the future. Now let’s get to this post which is the quickest one I could do today.
I
have wanted to keep track of the attorney general races ever since there was
the case that sought to get rid of Obamacare. I am also interested in the case
of Texas versus Pennsylvania also regarding different Republicans on a terrible
side of a case. What’s interesting is how both of these cases have largely the
same attorney generals supporting the Republican side that lost in both cases,
even though one was technically never tried.
Another
thing to mention is that I have a facebook group that is currently being used
to track the careers and futures of all of these attorney generals. It is
called I’m so glad that they finally passed health care reform. I repurposed a
rarely used old group for this vendetta of mine. I have done a lot of research
for this group and will post updates on the general election this year and any
potential run-offs in addition to all the other future elections. Know that not
all of them are even up for election at all, but I might keep track of them
over time.
While
in this blog, I’m only trying to focus on getting rid of the attorney generals
who sued to get rid of Obamacare, I should mention all of the states with
elections this year and mention two of the Democrats that I think should stay
in office. There are 30 elections and they are in the states of Alabama,
Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and
Wisconsin.
In
New York, their attorney general is one of them investigating Trump for crimes.
Her name is Letitia James. Meanwhile, in my state of Illinois, the attorney general,
Kwame Raoul, helped keep Obamacare as law. His Republican opponent is known to
me as a social justice warrior (not the only one running for statewide office
in the state of Illinois as a Republican) who was also successful in a lawsuit,
this one getting rid of the mask mandates in schools during a pandemic. I wasn’t
a fan of Kwame Raoul the first time and voted for his Republican challenge in
2018, but now I see no reason why I shouldn’t vote to reelect him.
Here
are a list of the people that I feel shouldn’t stay in office anymore. The Republicans
who sued to get rid of Obamacare, during a pandemic no less, that are running
for reelection this year that are on the ballot are Steve Marshall, Ashley
Moody, Chris Carr, and Ken Paxton. I would also include Alan Wilson as well,
but he doesn’t have an opponent from any party (not even a third party
candidate) this year so us Democrats won’t get a shot at him again until 2026.
It is dumb that they wouldn’t run a candidate against him.
Let’s
get into the infamous Ken Paxton of Texas. He seems to have done a lot of
terrible things and is under investigation. While one doesn’t want any
politician to be under investigation, the last politican that should be under
investigation is attorney general, the top prosecutor. Here are a lot of links
about him.
Meanwhile,
South Dakota had a terrible attorney general who commited manslaughter. He
could not be charged with a crime as that is oddly not a crime in that state. I
hope that changes as it should be a crime everywhere. He fed up his own party
so much that not only did he lose his own party’s renomination, they still
voted to impeach and then oust him from office. It is good that Republicans
would hold their own accountable. The two main problems with this ultimate good
outcome is that Republicans aren’t doing this more often to their own and I’m
pretty sure this is not a well known person or example.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/politics/jason-ravnsborg-south-dakota-impeachment/index.html
This
leads to some of the bad ones that won’t be staying in office, at least as
attorney general. Mark Brnovich is term limited. He ran for senate, but lost
the primary. Leslie Rutledge is also term limited. She also ran for higher
office, winning the primary in her state for lieutenant governor. Derek Schmidt
retired to run for governor. He won the primary. Doug Peterson is retiring in
his state, but not to run for another office. Eric Schmidt from Missouri won
the primary for US senate in his state. He was not up for reelection this year.
There’s
not too much else to tell you about. I’ll get to who one should vote for in my
group about the races and not in this blog. I’d just say to vote for the
Democrat in all of them. I did not tell you which state these attorney generals
are from. Sorry about that. But with not too much longer until midnight, I
might as well get this post published.
