Rubio apparently doesn't understand how elections work

Marco Rubio promoted a Seth Rich truther to allege Democrats are trying to "steal a seat in the U.S. Senate."

FRANK DALE
NOV 9, 2018, 8:00 AM

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) used to be viewed as a serious politician.

“THE REPUBLICAN SAVIOR,” proclaimed a February 2013 cover of Time Magazine featuring the Florida Republican.

During Rubio’s failed 2016 presidential bid, in which he finished fourth in the Republican primary behind now-President Donald Trump ($$), Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), and Gov. John Kasich (OH), he was praised as being a “moderate” candidate despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

Fast-forward five years and the notion the Florida senator was a moderate seems a distant memory. Rubio has voted with Trump — who he once called a “con man” — over 96 percent of the time. That’s a higher rate than Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell (KY), Tom Cotton (AR), Chuck Grassley (IA), Lindsey Graham (SC), and Cruz.

What small vestige remains of the Sunshine State’s junior senator’s independence from Trump typically only shows up on Twitter. But Thursday, Rubio took a break from using Bible verses to subtweet the president to suggest, with no real evidence, that something fishy was going on with the counting of votes in Florida’s Senate race between Sen. Bill Nelson (D) and Gov. Rick Scott (R).

https://thinkprogress.org/marco-rubio-florida-senate-midterms-bill-nelson-rick-scott-vote-fraud-2018-midterm-elections-064d3412ec4d/


Maybe he can cruise around on his taxpayer funded wages boat he bought.....................and head over to Mar a Lago and swoon with is bested bud............and show off his boat......................


And then he can take a civic class...................and learn about government.....................

After Two People Said No, Chris Christie Now Being Seriously Considered For AG

By Kate Riga
November 9, 2018 7:56 am

After the White House was met with rejection from two potential attorney general candidates, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie is becoming a likelier and likelier possibility, according to a Thursday Politico report.


President Donald Trump reportedly thinks that Christie deserves the post after patiently enduring the humiliation of being completely passed over during the 2016 transition.

Christie was spotted at the White House on Thursday for a meeting with Jared Kushner about prison reform. He is reportedly working to mend his relationship with Kushner, one that has been acrimonious since Christie landed Kushner’s father in jail.

Per Politico, Christie could, however, face calls to recuse himself from special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe if he got the job due to his role in Trump’s 2016 election. A recusal would almost certainly earn Trump’s enduring fury, as former attorney general Jeff Sessions knows well.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-christie-now-being-seriously-considered-for-ag

Yepper the same guy that bankrupted the education system in New Jersey, and spent time on a closed beach, and also used a state helicopter to watch his kid play ball...........................perfect, another asshole, who was also mixed up in the transition team...............................

Abrams' Legal Team Sues Over Absentee Ballots As Kemp Declares Victory

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Associated Press
November 8, 2018 1:22 pm

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican Brian Kemp resigned Thursday as Georgia’s secretary of state, a day after his campaign said he’s captured enough votes to become governor despite his rival’s refusal to concede.

Stacey Abrams’ campaign immediately responded by refusing to accept Kemp’s declaration of victory in the race and demanding that state officials “count every single vote.”

As the state’s top election official, Kemp oversaw the race, a marquee contest in the nation’s midterms. His resignation Thursday morning came as a hearing began for a lawsuit in which five voters asked that he be barred from exercising his duties in any future management of his own election tally.

Abrams’ campaign had repeatedly accused Kemp of improperly using his post as secretary of state and had been calling for him to step down for months, saying his continuation in the job was a conflict of interest. But Kemp made clear that he wasn’t stepping down in response to that criticism, but to start on his transition to the governor’s office.

His resignation took effect just before noon Thursday. He said an interim secretary of state has been appointed to oversee the rest of the vote count.

The Associated Press has not called the election.



Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/abrams-lawsuit-absentee-ballots-kemp-declare-victory

Lawrence: Democrats Win, President Donald Trump Panics The Last Word MSNBC

Wealthy white people in Atlanta suburb tried to secede from their black-led town. They failed.

White residents had sought to create an enclave, separate from the control of elected black leaders.

SAM FULWOOD III
NOV 8, 2018, 8:00 AM

While many political observers across the nation focused with keen-eyed attention to Tuesday night’s gubernatorial election in Georgia, where Stacey Abrams sought to become the nation’s first black woman governor, an equally racially-contentious matter was on the ballot last night — one that went largely unnoticed outside of an Atlanta suburb, where wealthy white people pushed an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to secede from their black-led town.

A ballot initiative to partition off the most affluent — and overwhelmingly white populated — sections of Stockbridge from its predominately black communities failed in Tuesday’s midterm voting. By a vote of 3,473 in favor and 4,545 in opposition, residents in the existing Henry County city rejected a controversial proposal to carve out a new town — to be called Eagle’s Landing — from within its boundaries.

Like the state’s gubernatorial election, where issues of voter suppression and bigoted robocalls provided a racist backdrop to otherwise high-minded campaign themes, the Eagle’s Landing effort drew heavily upon white residents’ rejection of black political leadership, while claiming that their real motive was economic development for the city.

Secessionist movements are a real thing in various parts of the United States, where groups of like-minded people seek to withdraw from their communities when social, racial, religious, or other cultural changes occur not to their liking. For example, a Texas group was inspired by the 2016 British vote to leave the European Union, prompting the Texas Nationalist Movement to attempt a so-called “Texit” effort, which drew a rebuke from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

https://thinkprogress.org/eagles-landing-referendum-fails-c84691c5d573/

So Vikki Consiglio, chair of the Committee for the City of Eagle’s Landing is bigot and her committee is a racists organization and like to discriminate.....................

Native Americans overcome North Dakota's restrictive voter ID laws, turn out in record numbers

Turnout was high, but ID confusion, distant polling places, and even accusations of a conflict of interest worked against these voters.

DANIELLE MCLEAN
NOV 8, 2018, 10:04 AM

FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA — In a unified effort to rebuke North Dakota’s restrictive voter ID laws and defend their right to vote, the state’s Native American population showed up to the polls in record numbers on Tuesday.

Voting advocacy groups and tribal leaders worked overtime, down the wire, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get Native voters the tribal IDs needed to successfully cast a ballot — despite a controversial and restrictive state ID law that made it more difficult for them to vote.

Judith LeBlanc, a Caddo Tribe member and director of Native Organizers Alliance, helped organize an aggressive get-out-the-vote campaign in Standing Rock. She and other activists knocked on doors in the blistering cold throughout the reservation in the two weeks leading up to Election Day and on Tuesday, bused voters to the polls.

People on Standing Rock “believed they had the right to vote and they want to make their right count,” LeBlanc told ThinkProgress. They “exercised their sovereign, civil, and inherent right to vote in this historic election.”

https://thinkprogress.org/native-americans-turned-out-in-record-numbers-to-vote-despite-north-dakotas-restrictive-id-laws-35ad1d116ec9/

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Ultimately, and in spite of restrictive laws that complicated the voting process for them, North Dakota’s Native Americans by and large made a point with high turnout. And community leaders are hoping turnout only goes up in future elections.

“It’s a big deal,” said Semans. “But that significance came from hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tribes to get their people to vote. There was still voter suppression going on, so we could have gotten more. But with all the crap, we are happy with what we got.”

And now the country is hearing and listening to calm grown-up speak from the

podium............................Nancy Pelosi .............Madam Speaker..................116th Congress....................

Anyone else watching the trump melt down on TV

Acosta just made trump go absolutely nuts.................... and Acosta wasn't haven't any of it..................I really do wish I knew how to do live feed.....................it really showed how demented this asshole really is, he thinks that because He thinks that he is under a "continued audit" he thinks that no one has access to his returns....................this twit doesn't understand that Congress writes the rules for the IRS......................... ......................and dumb shit your family is under fraud investigation in NEW YORK.......................that just got a new attorney general that will really expose you and your criminal enterprise............and everyone that hasn't plead guilty already and thought and where in on the scams, they are fucked..............


Were coming, trump have your melt down, we are coming and the Russia investigation is going to expose you for what you are, a
fucking traitor, that is and was being blackmailed by the Russians,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,we aren't going to play nice................. ..................why the fuck should we.......................we won...................... ......................we now make the rules, you have two months to try your fuckery...............and rat fucking the country....................................


November 2020 cannot get here fast enough.......................organize and vote

Gerrymandering suffered big, potentially permanent blows last night

The United States inches closer to being a democratic republic.
IAN MILLHISER
NOV 7, 2018, 11:00 AM

The biggest story of Tuesday’s election is that Democrats overcame Republican gerrymanders intended to lock them out of power in the House of Representatives. In the long run, however, an even bigger story may be that gerrymandering itself suffered a significant loss last night.

Michigan, one of the most gerrymandered states in the Union, overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment which provides that future legislative maps will be drawn by an independent commission. At the peak of its effectiveness, in 2012, Michigan’s gerrymander allowed Republicans to win 9 of the state’s 14 U.S. House seats, despite the fact that President Obama won the state by over 9 points that year.

This victory for democracy is part of a larger pattern. Ohio approved a ballot measure last May which creates a Rube Goldberg-like series of obstacles to lawmakers seeking to gerrymander that state. Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court struck down that state’s gerrymandered maps last January — allowing Democrats to gain three seats in that state yesterday. And one more large state will likely see its gerrymanders fall shortly.

North Carolina’s legislative maps are so aggressively gerrymandered that, even though the state frequently has competitive statewide elections, Republicans currently hold veto-proof majorities in both houses of the state’s legislature. They lost those supermajorities in the incoming state house, but will still dominate both houses. After yesterday’s election, however, Democrats will control a 5-2 majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court. That means that they can bring Pennsylvania-style gerrymandering reform to that state.

https://thinkprogress.org/gerrymandering-results-democrats-midterm-election-d8d1e10dab4e/

Voters approve additional public education funding in several states

Several states and one city were asked to consider ballot measures that would better fund public education.
CASEY QUINLAN
NOV 7, 2018, 9:42 AM

Voters across the country on Tuesday made ballot decisions to help fund public schools, which are increasingly starved for resources. Most of them were successful, with six education initiatives passing overall, in places like Seattle, Washington; Georgia; Maryland; Montana; and two in the state of Maine.

Four education initiatives were defeated in Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Utah.

Education funding has dropped drastically in recent years. Twenty-nine states were providing less total school funding per student in 2015 than in 2008, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. In 19 states, local government funding also fell. In more than half of the states in the United States, the poorest districts — districts with the highest rates of poverty — get $1,000 less per pupil in state and local funding than districts with the lowest poverty rates, according to The Education Trust.

The fact that education initiatives were on the ballot at all in several states, then, is at least a step in the right direction.

https://thinkprogress.org/voters-approve-increased-public-education-funding-states-210b33a18f17/


Colorado, why? You have tech companies along the front range making millions, and now your property taxes will go up..............I mean come on .......................really.................