
I hope y'all have better options wherever you are.
Dear Council rep. Cracker,
Remember me? I'm the guy that congratulated you on Pride Day only to discover that you're a pitiful homophobe and a paranoid that thought I was Timm Kurtz. Then, when I proved to you that I'm not Timm, you were too gutless to apologize or even acknowledge.
I had to laugh this past week listening to you on the TV. Turns out that you're also a racist and a sexist. You were actually so stupid as to publicly declare that having a White female mayor along with the entirely White male Council is "diverse" enough. This in a city that's 50% or more women and 30% non-White. Wow.
What a thrill it is to see tonight's returns! In a city as incumbent-friendly as Hendersonville it takes real "talent" for an incumbent to come in 4th. You lost to 3 women, including a Black woman. Now THAT is diversity. This could only be more perfect if I someday learn that one or more of the women is a lesbian.
Enjoy your retirement, I sure will.
Peace,
(Vrede too)
Lyndsey Simpson is a wife and mother, but I see links to Hendersonville Pride and PFLAG on her facebook page. Close enough
Maybe harder for Dems to get enthused in a Dem county where "everybody I voted for will win"?O Really wrote: ↑Tue Nov 08, 2022 11:14 amSo it's finally election day and we get to see what version of Hell we'll be in. At least there won't be so many crappy political ads for a few weeks.
I turned in my ballot earlier this week, and have reasonable confidence that everybody I voted for will win. While some states are working hard to suppress voting, it's remarkably easy here. Registration is easy, including same-day and "provisional" if there's some issue. You can turn in your ballot by mail or at any one of a lot of ballot boxes at places like the library, some grocery stores, etc. or if you want to vote in person you can go to one of the "voting centers" that replaced precincts. There are 245 or so voting centers in San Diego County, 15 just in Oceanside and you can vote at any of them. I'm pretty sure that anybody who wants to vote has an easy opportunity to do so. Yet turnout expected around 50-60% in SD County. Not awful, I guess. I suppose some don't appreciate how good they have it.
10/14: Voter reg ended, except at one stop early voting sites in 4 towns in the county including Hooterville. It doesn't look like one can register on election day, but the early voting runs for a healthy 10/20 - 11/5, five or six days a week.Public assistance agencies
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Crap, but it was close. MSNBC talking heads are questioning whether the DNC should have given her more help and Obama should have visited
Ted Budd REP 1,891,342 50.71%... Senate: Cheri Beasley (D) has a shot! If she can win here the Dems hold the Senate. Budd (R) is horrible and y'all will be hearing about him if he wins.![]()
Chuck Edwards REP 173,706 53.94%House: The lesbian reverend county commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara (D) will lose, but she's had enough money to run a lot of ads. Chuck Edwards (R) will continue NC11's tradition of electing assholes. Not as crazy and stupid as MadCaw, but otherwise even worse.![]()
Looks like everyone votes partisan.For better or worse all judicial races are partisan. Makes it easy for me to pick, but folks are afraid of crime and have been duped into thinking that the GQP is tougher on it.![]()
NC State Senate District 48The Dems running for my state leg seats will lose.![]()
#1 Jay Egolf 24,017 20.57%, not my pick, car dealer, probably not extreme.... The Board of Education is depressing, 9 people running for 3 slots. The Dems only endorsed one, Mary Ellen Kustin - a big red flag. 7 of the other either self-identified as con or are extreme right wing. At least one was endorsed by a state or national group that's shrieking about "groomers". Along with Kustin I was going to uncomfortably vote for retired teacher Dot Case who hadn't told me enough online. She was outside my precinct, the only candidate there! I told her that she was on the bubble and we had a great chat. My Dreamers t-shirt got her talking compassionately about the undocumented, and a couple of Dem poll greeters there like her even though she's unaligned. I was sold, happily voted for 2 instead of the one I could have picked or the three I was allowed to pick. We'll see....
Interesting to me:
The biggest surprise to me is suburbia voting R.Vrede too wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:43 am
2022 NC Exit Polls
Some highlights, not including the usual gender, race, etc differences:
Rs are old.
Moderates voted D.
Suburban voted R.
Rs are less educated.
Rs View of Donald Trump 96% Favorable.![]()
Rs are huge 2020 and current election deniers.![]()
C'mon, they drive minivans, Priuses and Teslas, too. It was only 55-44, so sort of close. Not so surprising when one considers that Whites voted R 62-37.GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:44 amThe biggest surprise to me is suburbia voting R.Vrede too wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:43 am
2022 NC Exit Polls
Some highlights, not including the usual gender, race, etc differences:
Rs are old.
Moderates voted D.
Suburban voted R.
Rs are less educated.
Rs View of Donald Trump 96% Favorable.![]()
Rs are huge 2020 and current election deniers.![]()
Paying $100 to fill up their gas guzzling SUVs is apparently draining and overriding.
Nah, they peaked years ago. SUVs replaced them.
Is Joe going to boost EVs in suburbia?
Have his meds been checked for suicidal tendencies?Vrede too wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:11 pm
A new lamb to the slaughter:
Rep. Caleb Rudow announces run for NC District 11 seat
I have not followed him an iota. Maybe he's doing it for the networking or to get an appointment from Gov Josh Stein?GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:26 pmHave his meds been checked for suicidal tendencies?Vrede too wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:11 pm
A new lamb to the slaughter:
Rep. Caleb Rudow announces run for NC District 11 seat