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Panho's JournalRetired Marine colonel to launch Senate write-in campaign in Alabama
Source: Washington Post
A retired Marine colonel who once served as a top aide to White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly plans to launch a long shot write-in campaign Monday afternoon to become Alabama’s next senator, with just 15 days left in the campaign.
Lee Busby, 60, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., said he thinks that the allegations of sexual impropriety against Republican nominee Roy Moore have created an opportunity for a centrist candidate to win more than a third of the state’s votes in the Dec. 12 special election.
“I think you can flip this thing. If this were a military operation, the left flank and the right flank are heavily guarded,” Busby said. “I think that gives you an opportunity to run straight up the middle.”
Busby, who was lacking any formal campaign structure or even a working website as of Monday morning, said he is counting on social media to spread the word about his campaign. He said he plans to run as an independent on his record as an investment banker, military leader and defense contractor and entrepreneur. He spent the weekend working on a logo and said he is just starting to explore the legal requirements for raising money for a campaign.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/retired-marine-colonel-to-launch-alabama-senate-write-in-campaign/2017/11/27/08816f4c-d394-11e7-9461-ba77d604373d_story.html?utm_term=.29c96740ad96
Please share this in social media so that Republicans know there's an alternative there other than an accused pedophile.
If Lee Busby gains enough name recognition, this will help Doug Jones become Senator since Busby has no chance to win.
Susan Sarandon: I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war
Source: The Guardian
Susan Sarandon at 71 is bright-eyed and airy, and perhaps shyer than she can publicly seem. When I walk into the room a private members club in downtown New York, where she sits with a small dog at her feet she doesnt say hello or make eye-contact, giving what I suspect is a false impression of rudeness. It may also be that she is uncertain of her reception. For a long time Sarandon was despised by the right, her protests against the Vietnam war and US aggression in Nicaragua and Iraq making her the kind of target that, for progressives, is an affirmation of sorts. Her latest unpopularity, by contrast, comes exclusively from the left and is much tougher on Sarandon. Im not attacked from the right at all, she will tell me. Instead, she is accused of not checking her white privilege, of throwing away her vote on a third-party candidate (the independent Jill Stein) during the US presidential election, and of recklessly espousing a political cause that let Trump in through the backdoor. Liberals in the US, it seems, can summon more hatred for Sarandon right now than they can for Paul Ryan.
Most infuriating of all, to her critics, is that she wont admit her error. Sarandons very physiognomy suggests defiance; she looks indignant even at rest. She also looks a lot like Bette Davis, so much so that Davis herself, in her dotage, approached Sarandon to play her. That project never happened, but in the new eight-part Ryan Murphy series Feud: Bette and Joan, about the battle for Hollywood supremacy between Davis and Joan Crawford, Sarandon gets her chance. The two leads are terrific: Jessica Lange, by turns monstrous and pathetic as Crawford; Sarandon steelier, smarter, less obviously vulnerable. She sees a lot of similarities between herself and Davis. Were both east coast, she says. I didnt consider myself a star; I was a character actor from the very beginning and not really sold as pretty, which is probably whats allowed me to survive as long as I have. I have this broader phase.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/26/susan-sarandon-i-thought-hillary-was-very-dangerous-if-shed-won-wed-be-at-war
We are at war in Afghanistan. I don't know what "war" Sarandon thought Hillary would start.
Joe Barton did something that evangelicals consider very wrong
Some have been wondering what the big deal is about Joe Barton cheating on his wife. To me it's no big deal, but evangelicals (a very important section of Republicanism) need to be put on the spot. Adultery is a sin in the Bible that evangelicals worship. Evangelicals need to be exposed as hypocrites if they give Barton a pass.
Evangelicals need to make up their minds about what's outrageous and what's not.
Poll. Bernie Sanders Leads Trump by 6% among Registered Voters
in a hypothetical 2020 matchup.
https://morningconsult.com/2017/11/22/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-2020-poll/
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