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You lose 100% of the races you don’t contest

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I got some requests for fundraising from readers! I’m going to try to do as many of these as possible — you can shoot me a line to do one of yours. Apologies if I miss a few, I’m a little behind on just about everything these days. Getting involved in local races is one of the most important things you can do, and the least we can do to help you out if you’re doing that is help with a little fundraising. By the way, we are now at 725K total raised since September 2016. How cool would it be to hit a million this year?

Adrian Perkins, Senate race in Louisiana (from reader J):

P]lease consider Adrian Perkins in LA.  They have a jungle primary election there on Nov. 3 and if Cassidy doesn’t get 50% + 1 there will be a runoff.  Although there are a couple of Ds running, Perkins is considered the hands on Democratic front runner.  He is currently the mayor of Shreveport & has a really great resume.  Similar to Buttigieg, except he is AA, went to West Point, and never was a McKinsey consultant (this is a plus).  Here’s a link to his kickoff video.

Goal Thermometer

Kael Weston, Utah CD-2 (via reader M):

UT CD-02 is a terribly gerrymandered district including some of the most liberal parts of Salt Lake City (in the northern part of the state), stretching down to the southwest corner.  The incumbent, the odious Chris Stewart, will have nothing to do with SLC.  Recent polls show it’s a much tighter race than you might expect, with Stewart polling poorly (it’s a great example of how extreme gerrymandering can backfire).
Luckily, the Democrats have nominated a very good candidate in Kael Weston.  I’ve attached a one-page campaign document, and you can check out his website here: https://www.westonforcongress.com.  He’s about good governance, rooting out corruption, and defending (and expanding) the ACA.  His experience in the State Department (working in Iraq and Afghanistan) provide great experience.  He’s from Southern Utah, and is doing a ton of door-to-door campaigning.
UT CD-02 is heavily republican and this won’t be easy, but this is one of the best candidates we’ve had in the 15 years I’ve lived here.  The demographics are similar to UT CD-04, also heavily republican, but where Democrat Ben McAdams beat Mia Love in 2018.  Stewart is unpopular with voters, and has been ignoring constituent services, something that Weston is exploiting.

Goal Thermometer

Reader Interactions

117Comments

  1. 1.

    Miss Bianca

    These look great, may have to kick in despite my vow to be saving my scarce $ for local/state/national race, but speaking of which, I may email you, DougJ, with a bleg request for CO CD-3, which has a pretty run of the mill Democrat pitted against a Q-Anon-spoutin’ gun-totin’ nutjob who ousted 5- term regular Republican nutjob Scott Tipton. Whoo-wee!

  3. 3.

    patrick II

    I have a question. I would like to make contributions to the top five senate seats that are close races, that could use some money, and that we may have a real chance to win. Who would those be?

  4. 4.

    Cacti

    This was what Biden was talking about in having Harris’s back.

    Newsweek is already jumping on the birther train, despite the fact that lady was literally born in Oakland, CA.

    They also omitted that the birther article’s author was the Republican candidate she defeated for California AG.

  5. 5.

    Yutsano

    Gonna put in a pitch for Dan Ahlers from South Dakota again. From what I understand Mike Rounds isn’t that popular and Ahlers is a previous office holder in the state. If he can get the tribes behind him and the scattered blue voters in Rapid City and Sioux Falls he might have a chance. Plus we might just see how big the blue wave is.

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Cacti:

    They also omitted that the birther article’s author was the Republican candidate she defeated for California AG.

    He didn’t even come that close — he lost the primary to the Republican who eventually lost to Kamala.

  8. 8.

    Yutsano

    @patrick II: I know Cal Cunningham from North Carolina would be a decent person to give some scratch to. I know he’s ahead but it is North Carolina and every bit could help there.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    I’ve seen the reports that the Biden campaign has received a bigly bump in donations since the Kamala Harris announcement, which has excited and inspired Democratic voters. Has there been any reporting of a Kamala effect on other Democratic campaigns’ fundraising?

  11. 11.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Cacti:  After massive blowback for posting that oped they have now posted an oped saying unequivocally that Kamala is qualified with proper citations, case law and everything.  We went through this shit in 2008. There was a brilliant group of lawyers et al on The Fogbow that shot down every one of their spurious arguments.  I find it hard to believe that they are going to try and go down that route again.

  12. 12.

    Another Scott

    Thanks for doing this, DougJ!

    Donated.

    Not much, but even though I Won The Lottery!!11 a couple of days ago, it was only $4.

    We can’t leave any chips on the table.  Forward!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  14. 14.

    Marcopolo

    @patrick II:  So here are the Senate races where the D has a chance to win ranked from most funded to worst funded:

    Best Funded: AZ, ME, SC (Harrison raised $14M last Q), KY

    Middle: MT, CO, NC, IA, AL (Jones to hold seat)

    Least Funded: GA (Ossoff & Warnock–though Warnock is in a jungle primary), KS, AK, TX

    Now chance to win from best chance to win to least likely:

    Best: CO, AZ, ME

    Middle (most to least): NC, IA/MT, AK/SC, TX/AL

    Least: GA (both), KY, KS (unfortunately Kobach lost the R primary)

    There are other senate races out there like SD, LA, TN, MS that have interesting candidates (some of whom are outstanding!) but unless it is a blue tidal wave beyond your wildest dreams those seats will probably stay R

    Edited to add I’ve given to most of these folks including Bradshaw in TN & Perkins in LA just because I liked their pitches and D folks running for office in solid Red states need to be rewarded.

  16. 16.

    Gravenstone

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Their followers are ignorant and easily riled up. This is low hanging fruit for them. However, it’s encouraging to see it slapped down so thoroughly and effectively before it fully escapes the news cycle.

  17. 17.

    Kent

    @DougJ:I’d go Maine, NC, Montana, Iowa, and either Colorado or one of the Georgia races.

    You figuring AZ is a done deal?

  22. 22.

    Marcopolo

    @Amir Khalid:   A lot (I’m pretty sure the vast majority but am hedging) of D fundraising goes through ActBlue.  Fundraising this entire cycle on ActBlue has been, as they say in the French, fucking nuts burgers.  Here is their  blogpost recapping their 2Q numbers:

    Across all ActBlue organizations (sitewide), 5.7 million people gave 18 million contributions to 12,142 campaigns, organizations, and nonprofits in Q2, for a total of $710 million. Forty-eight percent (48%) of those donors gave for the first time ever in Q2.

    Overall, Q2 showed that millions of people across the country are taking action and supporting the causes and candidates that are important to them — many for the very first time — and this engagement shows no signs of slowing. Small-dollar donors broke all sitewide quarterly records in Q2 2020:

    • Most contributions in a quarter

    • Most dollars raised in a quarter

    • Most unique donors in a quarter

    • Most candidates and organizations using our tools in a quarter

    • Most first-time donors in a quarter

     

    Here is the blog post for July only:

    Grassroots donors gave nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in July 2020, as we head into the height of the 2020 election season and organizing for racial justice and pandemic relief continues. Highlights include:

    • July was the third largest month in ActBlue’s history by dollars raised, total contributions, and unique donors.

    • July was the largest month ever in terms of the number of campaigns and organizations fundraising on ActBlue.

    • More than half a million donors gave for the first time in July.

    • As of the end of July, ActBlue’s cycle-to-date total is over $2.5 billion raised from 11.3 million unique donors, with an average contribution size of $33.

    • Donors have contributed to more than 19,000 candidates and organizations so far this cycle.

    • Contributions and dollars to congressional candidates doubled in July 2020 compared to July 2018.

    • The ActBlue Express universe hit 11 million users in July. These donors can give to anyone on ActBlue with a single click.

    August is currently outpacing July.

  24. 24.

    Marcopolo

    @Amir Khalid:   I think the most amazingly great thing is that this year grassroots funders are really paying attention to the state & local races for the first time.  Both Biden & Harris got their starts in local politics (Biden Newcastle County Council; Harris SF DA) and this bodes well for building our candidate benches for the future.

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Somewhat O/T: Joe and Kamala are live. Joe asked for mandatory mask-wearing for the next three months, and made an excellent case. Kamala, following him: “That is what real leadership looks like.”

    (To clarify: Joe asked every governor to enact a mask mandate. He knows the difference between federal and state responsibilities.)

  26. 26.

    piratedan

    @Kent: Kelly has pretty much maintained his lead thus far and is showing very little wiggle in the numbers.  I wouldn’t say safe, but trends are showing his approach to voters has appeal or that McSally is truly an anathema to most Arizonans.  If money is to be spent down here, it’s probably a better bang for your buck to go Congressional with retaining CD01 or trying to take CD05 (Tipirneni).

  28. 28.

    Elizabelle

    @SiubhanDuinne:   Does anyone have an online link to Joe and Kamala live?  Checking C-Span now.

    Need my daily dose of sanity and adulthood.  Cuomo O’Clock is past, so now we have Kamala O’Clock.

  29. 29.

    Elizabelle

    @ Doug J:  3/4 of a cool million raised in four years?  Take a bow, DougJ, mistermix and jackals.

    That’s incredible.

  30. 30.

    Elizabelle

    @patrick II:   That’s a great question.  I would love if we could have a weekly/biweekly update on winnable Senate races where we could make a difference.

  31. 31.

    H.E.Wolf

    @DougJ:

    Thank you so much for these fundraising posts – and thank you to everyone who has added information in the comments. Much appreciated!

    What I’ve been seeing in our state:  lots of teenagers phonebanking for the Democrats, and a significant number of people in older age-groups (20s through 80s) signing up to volunteer for the first time. It bodes well.

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    Here’s C-Span link to today’s Nancy Pelosi weekly press briefing.  C-Span’s description of the event:

    Speaker Pelosi Says GOP “Don’t Give A Damn” As COVID Talks Remain Deadlocked
    At her weekly legislative briefing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is asked about the coronavirus relief negotiations. She criticizes Republican actions in the process saying, “Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gave a damn. That isn’t the case.”

     

    Pelosi O’Clock.  About 36 minutes.

  33. 33.

    Mai naem mobile

    I am having an issue donating on ActBlue. I emailed them but haven’t gotten around to doing what they told me to. I don’t know why it stopped working in the first place. Anybody else have issues?

    I want to request for AZ06. Its to flip David Schweikert’s seat. Dr Hiral Tiperneni won the Dem primary last week. Schweikert has gotten into some ethical issues and had to pay a $50K fine. Tiperneni ran against Debbie Lesko(R- cray cray) in a special election  to replace Trent Franks(he of the asking staffer carry a surrogate pregnancy fame) in a very conservative district. I saw AZ06 in one of those moneyball list of flip districts. Its a very gettable district.

    Also, please don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched as far as Mark Kelly’s  run. McSally and the RSCC have been running these ads about Kelly’s company and China and its beginning to affect his numbers.

  35. 35.

    sdhays

    @piratedan: I’ve been pretty shocked at McSally. She was originally billed as a McCain protege, but she has gone full wingnut, and it doesn’t seem like the cynical pandering that I originally thought it was when she was running against Sinema. She’s just garbage.

  37. 37.

    Redshift

    Great fundraising email today from Elaine Luria (VA-02), one of our 2018 Blue Wave freshpersons who is being challenged for reelection by the Republican she beat:

    Congrats to former Republican Congressman Scott Taylor on a major personal milestone!

    Scott Taylor: 742 DAYS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND COUNTING

    It’s been 742 days since the shocking discovery that Scott Taylor’s campaign resorted to election fraud to try and sabotage Elaine’s run for Congress.

    A lot has happened since then. One of his staffers was convicted earlier this year, and another indicted staffer has a trial set for next month!

    But the biggest news to come out of the biggest election fraud scandal in Virginia’s history?

    Scott Taylor has now officially been under investigation for longer than he served in Congress!

    Link to donate, if you’re so inclined.

  39. 39.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Yutsano:

    Whoops. Anyway, absolutely she should’ve known better. I think a phrase used in one of their defenses was “divided allegiances”. That right there is vile for a lot of reasons. It doesn’t matter if you’re parents were born here or not. If you’re born on American soil, you’re a citizen no matter what, as it should be. Beyond that, Harris was also raised here. She’s as American as the decendents the Founding Fathers generation

  42. 42.

    Marcopolo

    @Mai naem mobile:  Are you talking about ActBlue Express?  Generally speaking ActBlue remembers my info and all I need to do to make a donation is go to the candidate’s ActBlue page, click the amount, say if I am leaving a tip, then I am done.  But with Haral’s ActBlue page I was asked to enter all my address & payment info.  No idea why.  Not having my credit card on me at that time it postponed my donation by a few hours.  This also happened when I donated to Marquita Bradshaw.  But 99% of the time it is just a couple clicks

    Edited to add that after I cancelled my Haral Tipirneni donation (cause of lack of card at hand) ActBlue sent me an email to ask what happened.  That was a first.

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    @patrick II: @DougJ:

    Patrick, if you would like to have your donations go to the “Balloon Juice for” Act Blue, you can go to Political Fundraising (in the sidebar (and in the hamburger menu on mobile).

    You’ll see all the Political Fundraising posts, and you can likely find the the BJ thermometers for those races.

  44. 44.

    Ken

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Offhand “divided allegiances” would seem more descriptive of a man who holds secret talks with a foreign leader, and refuses to take any action when his own intelligence services say that leader is offering bounties for troops.  That is, if for some reason you don’t want to go all the way to “treason”.

  45. 45.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Elizabelle:

    It was very brief — wrapped up about the time I hit the submit button. And I hadn’t known they were going to be on. Had MSNBC in the background as noise, and all of a sudden, there they were. And then, a few minutes later, there they weren’t.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    @Marcopolo: If you wanted all of those to be separate block quotes, great.

    But if that’s just how it came out when you pasted it in… if you do “paste and match style” – or whatever it’s called in your browser” WordPress won’t separate them all into separate quotes.

  48. 48.

    Ken

    @SiubhanDuinne: Very astute. They know that it doesn’t take much to drive Trump into an incoherent tantrum, so why waste their time?  Just deliver a few well-chosen sentences to get under his hide and make sure his next press appearance is an omnishambles.  We may see these every afternoon.

    Suggestion for one: Senator Harris says, “As a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, I have seen the unredacted versions of all the committee’s investigations of Donald Trump. Even the photographs.”

  50. 50.

    J R in WV

    We use ActBlue to contribute really often. When there’s a B-J fundraising post I’ll click on that, otherwise I click on the candidate’s donate button. We get a ton of emails from candidates, none of them Republicans. But one guy almost fooled me, I clicked his donate button, and it didn’t go to ActBlue, it went to something like Donate.com… and when I looked more closely at the candidate’s data, he was an independent!!!

    NO WAY !!

    ETA:  Contributed to both these races… not a lot, but if the ActBlue average is $33/donation, then I was a little bit above average. My life story!!!

  51. 51.

    Redshift

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I don’t know if it was the same one, but I read their follow-up which I summarized as “for everyone who complained, this wasn’t a racist birther argument, it was a stealth argument against birthright citizenship for children of immigrants, which is totally not racist!”

  52. 52.

    Marcopolo

    @WaterGirl:  Now you tell me.  I looked at how it turned out, thought well that’s not what I really wanted but it’ll work & decided I didn’t want to waste the time fixing it.

    So I posted Obama’s 2004 DNC speech at the end of the thread before this and had started to play, then I let it keep playing in another window.  What a great decision.  What an amazing speech.

  53. 53.

    Roger Moore

    @Redshift:

    “for everyone who complained, this wasn’t a racist birther argument, it was a stealth argument against birthright citizenship for children of immigrants, which is totally not racist!”

    That sounds about right to me.  Nativists have been fighting to undo birthright citizenship for a long time, and there’s no reason to expect them to stop.

  54. 54.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Of course they wouldn’t. That doesn’t detract from the fact that Joe Biden is modelling the leadership we’ve never seen from Donald Trump. He’s drawing an unmistakable contrast right out of the box.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Ken:

    Suggestion for one: Senator Harris says, “As a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, I have seen the unredacted versions of all the committee’s investigations of Donald Trump. Even the photographs.”

    Oh, I LOVE 💕❤️💕❤️💕❤️ this!

  60. 60.

    rikyrah

    New: the USPS has been quietly removing mail sorting machines from distribution facilities, including ones that sort ballots. "I’m not sure you’re going to find an answer for why,” a union official told me, “because we haven’t figured that out either.” https://t.co/UYJhg0hGl3— Aaron W. Gordon (@A_W_Gordon) August 13, 2020

  62. 62.

    Patricia Kayden

    @PJ: Wouldn’t it be great to see Trump and his lapdog lose their contests at the same time? Talk about dancing in the streets.

  63. 63.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Cacti: despite the fact that lady was literally born in Oakland, CA.

    And who in the hell would fabricate being born in Oakland of all places?  At lest Oahu is romantic enough it would be plausible as some place someone would want to be born there.  The fact that Harris is from Oakland is probably why is she is so strongly law and order since she got to see first hands what it looks like when things break down.

  64. 64.

    jl

    @Baud: “Some of us lose 100% of the races we do contest.”

    The problem may be the Baud 2024! understanding of what it means to ‘contest’.

  70. 70.

    Amir Khalid

    @jl:

    I’ve always had an idea that Dolly Parton was politically at least a little to the left of most of her audience. And well to the left of some of them.

  72. 72.

    jl

    I guess from regional political tactical angle, Kasich and Parton appearing together would be better, but the proportion of the voting population with a low gag  reflex threshold is probably too high.

    @Amir Khalid: In terms of doing some good in the real world with her money, Parton does a much better than average job of  walking the walk, so some respect is due regardless of her political leanings. If she is right on childhood education, sending educational resources to a wide variety of communities, and on BLM, good for her.

    And, dammit,  I do so like her music.

  74. 74.

    Mai naem mobile

    @Marcopolo: i don’t do monthly donations so I don’t know if that’s Express or the one that remembers your info. I usually donate when I am at home not on mobile wifi. It wouldn’t take the card so I figured it was a fluke and  I’d do it later. It didn’t work later either. It’s possible its my credit card company which is way too quick to jump to fraud. If I am at a store and the card payment port doesn’t read the chip and I have to reenter it , there’s a good chance it will decline and I will get a fraud alert on my phone. And because of our Sav-A-Buck corporate policy my credit card physically is thinner and cheaper quality so it bends a lot more easily and the top layer peels off easier on the edges which leads me to have more issues with card swipes.

  77. 77.

    jl

    @Baud: “Working 9 to 5?”

    I hope Baud 2024! listens, would be protip for getting big plans off the ground.

    How about Baud and Parton do ‘The Bargain Store’ together, pander to the base.

  79. 79.

    Marcopolo

    @Mai naem mobile:  ActBlue Express is where it remembers your info.  Recurring contributions is the donate every month option.  I use both features.  As I said, I’ve come to expect ActBlue to already know my info so it’s always a little hiccup if I need to re-enter it.  But I can’t say I’ve ever had my card declined when using ActBlue so I don’t know what to tell you.

    Btw, thanks to everyone donating to Adrian Perkins today.  I’m the poor slob who suggested it to Doug :).

  80. 80.

    catclub

    @Amir Khalid: I have no idea what song DougJ is quoting in the post headline.

     

    Kind of the opposite of   “You’ve got to know when to fold ’em”

  81. 81.

    JPL

    Disloyal by Michael Cohen  https://disloyalthebook.com/download-the-disloyal-foreword-written-by-michael-cohen

    When Trump wanted to reach Russian President Vladimir Putin, via a secret back channel, I was tasked with making the connection in my Keystone Kop fashion. I stiffed contractors on his behalf, ripped off his business partners, lied to his wife Melania to hide his sexual infidelities, and bullied and screamed at anyone who threatened Trump’s path to power. From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump’s clandestine lovers, I wasn’t just a witness to the president’s rise—I was an active and eager participant.

  86. 86.

    Geminid

    @Miss Bianca: The Colorado 3rd District is like my Virginia 5th District, in that an incumbent republican congressman  was successfully primaried, or in the Va.5th caucused and conventioned, by more conservative challengers. Both races are close from what I’ve read. Your candidate, Diane Mitsch Bush, has a classic background for a Democratic challenger in a red district: former college professor, veteran local office holder. And she looks like she stepped off of an organic granola package. Good luck out there!

  89. 89.

    Miss Bianca

    @Geminid: Yeah, I wish she was a little more visible here. Two papers I work for have asked her campaign to set up an interview (and I’ve sent requests directly to her and her campaign manager via members of the Democratic Party in the county here) and so far…crickets. Meanwhile, Tombstone Barbie, her opponent, is barnstorming around the District appearing at all manner of unpermitted “parades”/”protests”. *And* my editors have interviews with her in the bag, waiting to run.

    What can I say, I worry.

  90. 90.

    Ken

    @jl: The problem may be the Baud 2024! understanding of what it means to ‘contest’.

    And God replied, “Saul! Meet me halfway! Buy a lottery ticket!”

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    @Marcopolo: Better late than never?

    Yes, that was an amazing speech by Barack.  Being in Illinois the speech was no surprise to me, but it was great so see all the people discovering him for the first time.

  97. 97.

    Marcopolo

    @rikyrah:  I’ve read a couple articles about this and I honestly think it comes down to: 1) the DSCC & AR Dems did an absolutely lousy job of recruiting (the only thing Josh Mahony seemed to bring to the race was maybe self-funding); 2) since their recruit apparently wasn’t vetted at all the GOP dug up dirt on him; 3) they waited to deploy that dirt (and scare him out of the race) until it was too late for anyone else to get on the ballot.  For example, apparently he had problems when it came time to talking about his work history, among other things.

    Pretty straightforward if you ask me.  Of course, the Dem candidate bench in AR is pretty threadbare atm so that didn’t help.  The only bright spot in AR this cycle is Joyce Elliott running in AR-02.  She is amazing, and I have donated to her.

  98. 98.

    WaterGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: Speaking of books about Trump…

    My neighbor who is sometimes nice but is mostly a right-wing asshole just caught me when I was outside bringing in the mail.

    I’ll be damned, but he had Mary Trump’s book about Donald.  He said he was passing it around and he wondered if I would like to read it.  I said no thank you because I had read a lot online and said I thought she was very insightful.

    But it was really because I am not taking a book from anyone during this time of COVID, especially a book that has been passed around.

    As he was walking away he made some comment like “the truth will come out” or “you get what you deserve in the end” or some comment that meant that Trump was going to get what’s coming to him.

    I can’t remember exactly what he said because my lizard brain was screaming “I can’t believe he is saying this!”

  101. 101.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    Supposed to be a few weeks before. Don’t know the target date yet. I checked Amazon to see if I could pre-order the Kindle version, but they don’t have it listed yet.

  102. 102.

    Geminid

    @Miss Bianca:  The Virginia 5th Democratic candidate, Cameron Webb, may have a better chance than yours. For one thing, his opponent was until recently an official at Liberty University, and some of the recent Falwell fiasco may rub off on him. And a certain amount of the defeated incumbent’s supporters- Chamber of Commerce type Republicans- may defect to the Democratic candidate. Not a lot, but  maybe enough to make the difference in a close race. That could happen in the Colorado 5th as well. And it is said that many people don’t pay much  attention to politics until after Labor Day. If Mitsch Bush peaks right after Halloween, she could knock off her pistol packing opponent.

  103. 103.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    Mary’s book is worth reading, although I don’t blame you for worrying about COVID transmission from your neighbour. But wow! if these books, TV appearances, and other coverage can make a dent in that guy’s thinking, there may be hope for others.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: That’s what I thought!  He’s redder-than-red.

    He puts out signs.  I put out signs.  That’s pretty much it for our block.  So he can easily guess my politics.  That he suddenly thinks we are kindred spirits is a testament to how awful the dumpster is.

  108. 108.

    catclub

    @jl: “Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter?”

     

    i am pretty sure I don’t want to hear the answers to that.

  109. 109.

    catclub

    @WaterGirl: As he was walking away he made some comment like “the truth will come out” or “you get what you deserve in the end” or some comment that meant that Trump was going to get what’s coming to him.

     

    or he’s a QAnon fan.

  110. 110.

    Elizabelle

    @SiubhanDuinne:   For $40, you (and 10K others) can get a copy signed by Michael Cohen himself.  With a special starburst on the cover.  It appears 63 of them are already spoken for.

    He is using “limitation” pages, which I had never heard of.  It’s apparently a page that is bound in when the book is published, and I guess he signs them after the fact.

    The man has time to do that.

    I like his title “Disloyal.”  Because that description goes both ways.  Trump is not loyal to anyone.  And Trump is certainly disloyal to his country (assuming it is the United States).

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    Elizabelle

    @WaterGirl:   Ah.  Thinking of the profferred book as a plague blanket.  Not a bad consideration.

    Excellent to hear your neighbor is having second thoughts.

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    JPL

    Cohen should leak excerpts everyday, because no way will that book be published.   I read that NDA’s are enforceable for attorneys in order to protect the attorney/client confidential agreement.    Next time Imma is online, someone needs to ask him.    Any other lawyers want to weigh in?

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    WaterGirl

    @Elizabelle: Not intentionally a plague blanket on his part!   He doesn’t wear a mask and walks right up to people.  He started to do that to my neighbor across the street and he told Bill not to come any closer be “I have a cold”.

    So my neighbor with the book is not careful at all.

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    Elizabelle

    @JPL:   Do ask that question when jackal attorneys are about.

    At this point, Cohen has been imprisoned for a felony, and disbarred in the state of New York, so what else could they do to sanction him for breaching attorney-client privilege?

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