Some notes concerning next week’s election:
There is one simple, undeniable truth in this and, sadly, in the next few elections. If a candidate says that the Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election and/or that Donald Trump actually won, anything else that comes out of that person’s mouth is fly-covered horse turds. Espousing the “Big Lie” simply shows that the candidate is willing to throw away his/her morality, veracity and integrity just to try to gain public office. That’s sad and unforgiveable but it’s the Republican way in 2022.
In the matter of Katie Hobbs vs. Kari Lake for governor: It’s going to suck moving trailer hitches to have Hitler in Heels as governor for the next four years. What is Lake’s appeal again? That she can spout Trumpian racism and falsehoods while using complete sentences?
I understand that people can change as they go through life, but I’m always wary of people who have their “Come to Jesus” moment in the second half. They’re the people for whom the saying “There’s no zealot like a convert” is intended. She went from being an Obama Democrat to being an Oath Keeper’s More-Deranged Sister in about an hour and a half.
The most vulgar part of Lake’s campaign (and there are so many to choose from) is her invoking of Martin Luther King, claiming that if Dr. King were alive today, he would be “an America First Republican.” That almost makes me physically ill.
First of all, while people from both parties have tried to claim Dr. King over the years, he is quoted as having said, “I don’t think the Republican Party is a party full of the Almighty God, nor is the Democratic Party. I’m not inextricably bound to either.” And this was back when there were some Midwestern Republicans who helped pass Lyndon Johnson’s Civil Rights Bill and the Voting Rights Act.
Does anybody, anywhere, sincerely believe that Martin Luther King would want anything to do with today’s Republican Party? Or it with him? Heck, Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t be welcome in today’s Republican Party.
Dr. King gave up his life for what he believed in. Kari Lake is forfeiting her soul for what Donald Trump claims to believe in.
Kathy Hoffman vs. Tom Horne for superintendent of public instruction: This one is a doozy. Horne, who spent much of the past decade trying to wriggle out of legal trouble over some pretty substantial allegations of campaign finance violations, is running perhaps the most duplicitous campaign ad of this entire election. It shows that Arizona students’ test scores went up when Horne held the office between 2007 and 2011, while scores have gone down during Hoffman’s current tenure.
What the ad fails to mention is that Horne was sitting on a gold mine at the time. A few years earlier, Arizona’s voters had passed Prop 301, giving the state’s schools a much-needed infusion of funding. The State Legislature, under the prodding of Gov. Janet Napolitano, had also done right by the schools (the legislators would illegally reverse course during the Great Recession) and Arizona’s schoolkids were benefiting.
Now, it’s true that test scores have gone down under Kathy Hoffman. But all she’s had to deal with is a once-in-a-century pandemic, with over a million Americans dying, international food shortages, a scramble to facilitate remote learning, plus a governor and legislature obsessed with giving their rich friends free money through a shady Socialist voucher program.
Hoffman deserves a chance to help Arizona’s schools dig out of the pandemic mess. Horne deserves to spend a night or two in jail for the six speeding tickets that he got in one year, including one for speeding through a school zone! Idiot.
Juan Ciscomani is almost certainly going to be a member of the House of Representatives. I couldn’t help but get a kick out of his ads during the primary season. It was as though a sixth-grader had done a Mad-Libs version of a political ad. I think it went like this: Conservative cancel culture border wall MAGA endorsed six kids critical race theory Trump election integrity.
The only thing it left out was the one word that explains why he’s going to win on Tuesday — gerrymandering.
I learned very early on in life that there are a few things that you don’t call people. You don’t call somebody a child molester and you don’t call them a traitor. That was pretty much written is stone no matter how much you disagreed with somebody. Nowadays, a wide variety of right-wing ass-clowns from politicians to radio talkers to online screamers use the word “treason” all the time. I think that they’re just happy that they finally learned how to say a two-syllable word.
So I’m not going to call the vile Mark Finchem, who is running for secretary of state, any names. I’m just going to beg my fellow Arizonans not to elect him. Finchem doesn’t know how a democracy works. He doesn’t care about the sanctity of your vote. He wants the power to cancel the results of any election with which he doesn’t agree (like, say, if a person of color were to get a majority of the votes). He’s bad for Arizona and bad for America.
I don’t often do this, but I pray that he doesn’t win.
This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2022.
It’s a wacky world, Tom.
How about those Phillies?
One can only wish that Danehy gets physically sick and has to spend the better part of a couple of days unable to get more that 5 steps from a toilet.
And I suppose having Oro Valley and Flagstaff/Res in the same congressional district wasn’t gerrymandering???
“Its going to suck moving trailer hitches to have Hitler in Heels as governor for the next four years.”
Sure. Leftists always threaten to leave if someone they don’t like gets elected. Maybe they will, but this won’t happen.
“What is Lakes appeal again?”
How about this – she is not Katie Hobbs. isn’t that enough?
Tommy says: “The only thing it left out was the one word that explains why he’s going to win on Tuesday — gerrymandering.”
He must be talking about Raul Grijalva’s “Safe, minority-majority” district, that’s always guaranteed him a win. But as Luis Pozzolo says, “Adios Raul.”
How about that race, Tommy?
“What is Lake’s appeal again? “
Well for one, she’s not an admitted racist.
“Looking back there are probably a lot of things that I would have done differently. I know that in proceeding in her termination, I participated in furthering systemic racism.” — Katie Hobbs
In general, people do not always get the governments or leaders they want, but frequently they get the governments and leaders they deserve.
After decades of indifference by the American electorate, who have treated their civil duty to vote like their occasional responsibility to serve jury duty, the current state of affairs was entirely predictable.
Add the relatively new phenomena of politicians actually making money for saying and doing things that would have disqualified their predecessors, along with the help of lies at the speed of light thanks to social media and the 24/7 political porn of traditional media, America is looking for that light at the end of the tunnel that may very well be the on-coming freight train of history.
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The only issue this guy mentions is schools, and admits they are failing, LOL. After that it’s just Trump insults and more spew about the supporters. Whatever fool.
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The ability, and experience to actually govern were once attributes that were important in selecting a candidate in an election. Now it means nothing to the Repub party. Lake has never held office, even a school board. She has never even run a business, once some kind of skill Repubs trotted out as a desirable elected office skill. ( If anyone mentioned we need a businessman in ANY office, strangle them) The author is correct in the only capabilities it takes to be a Repub candidate now, big lies and bombast, and somehow mentioning border issues in the last 10 electon cycles. As I recall, the One party Repub dictatorship has run state government here for years. So if there if there are any border issues, school funding issues, infrastructure issues, mental health issues, never ending benefits to the rich, and reproduction police issues, court packing or anything else less than perfect (innumerable) THEY are responsible, no one else.
Well Francis, if in your liberal mind, holding previous office is plus for a candidate, allow me to offer a simple two-word rebuttal: Joe Biden.
And another thing, Francis. You should get used to Kari Lake as your Governor. And after her two terms, she’s going to be your President too.
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Don’t you slobs post your picks for the propositions anymore? I used to check in the day before the election and mark down the opposite of your call for every proposition. What exactly does go on in this sad little echo chamber if you can’t do that? All I see is this little paint by numbers “vote Democrat” column.
Mr. Danehy, one can totally empathize. The infamous and sociologically documented “low info voter” appears to fall for the political show bought and paid for by corporate persons and their lobbyists who appear to vet for the most co-optable or corruptible (or both) candidate-aspirant in sight. The GOP appears to attract these types, bar none!
Once vetted, mainly for telegenic qualities, glibness and their ability to lie with a straight face, dark money sponsors bribe, er, pay for their political campaigns. Those monies pay for incredibly misleading ads designed to target the, you guessed it, low-info voter–a suggestible type all-too-ready to fall for pietistic, heart-string tugging, emotionally-and-identity reassuring messages. Or those subliminally charged with tribalistic fear and hate of “other.”
Arizona appears populated with this bunch in droves, especially around the Phoenix area. Does “boss” Arpaio ring (Pavlovian) bells?
I hate the expression, “a people get the government they deserve,” as in my experience, all too often, it’s under-and-misinformed majoritarian voters who burden us with corporatist scoundrels.
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The polls haven’t even closed yet and the whiny little bitches from the GOP in Maricopa County are already asking the courts to intervene and extend the polling hours on friggin election day!
If the Democrats tried that they would be screaming to the high heavens about election rigging, fraud, malfeasance and on and on and on.
I love these selective luddites who will use and abuse social media when it suits their nefarious purposes, but then want us to return to hand-counted ballots as they spread baseless conspiracy theories on machines that have operated for years without issues.
Who knew that the 2012 election was the last free election in this country?
I’ve been a poll worker for 15 years.
When I have explained the myriad safeguards that keep our elections from significant fraud, I often hear this from those who have been convinced by misinformation that widespread fraud exists:
“Well, you’re honest, but not everyone is.”
That’s precisely why we have so many safeguards, and that’s why a democrat and a republican poll worker, or representatives from each party, work together or observe the process EVERY STEP of the way.
I encourage everyone, especially the doubters, to sign up to be a poll worker in 2024’s primaries and general elections.
You’ll be impressed by just how committed everyone is to keeping our elections free and fair and amazed at all of the safeguards that have been in place for decades.