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Looking in the sun for another overload

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Partisan tensions are running high:

A Wichita man has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to kidnap and kill Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple over frustrations with the city’s mask ordinance, the mayor and police said Friday afternoon.

Seems like a good time to raise some money for Democrats in Kansas. It’s a legitimate flip opportunity.

Kansas State Democratic Party

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I looked over some fundraising figures for Senators by state and these are the two that need our help the most right now. In many of the races we’ve been giving to (SC, IA, KS, ME), the Democratic candidate has raised more money relative to the size of state than Beta did so they don’t need so much help from us.

Cal Cunningham, North Carolina Senate

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Steve Bullock, Montana Senate

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Gary Peters, Michigan Senate (incumbent)

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  2. 2.

    RaflW

    Another option for Kansas: Downballot candidates. When state legislative districts turn out more Dems and Dem-aligned voters, Bollier has more of a shot, and the whole enchilada is to prevent the KS Lege from having a supermajority that could force redistricting.

  4. 4.

    Goku (Amerikan Baka)

    I have an ActBlue account but I made the mistake of putting in my real email address. Can I make another account with a dummy email?

  6. 6.

    Keith P.

    @MazeDancer: You’re kidding me, right?  I was just in Alabama a few weeks ago, and there were a ton of commercials for both Jones and Tuberville.  I haven’t been paying much attention, since I have just assumed Tuberville would steamroll Jones solely on party affiliation

  8. 8.

    Uncle Cosmo

    I am a lineman for the county
    And I drive the main roads,
    Searching in the sun for another overload.
    I hear you singing in the wires,
    I can hear you through the whine –
    And the Wichita lineman is still on the line.

    I know I need a small vacation
    But it don’t look like rain,
    And if it snows that stretch down south won’t ever stand the strain.
    And I need you more than want you,
    And I want you for all time,
    And the Wichita lineman is still on the line…

    (From memory, 50+ years on – one of my college classmates had the Glen Campbell album & I had no tape recorder, so it was memorize or else.)

    Jimmy Webb (not the former Senator from VA) wrote some nice songs – this was his first hit . Also at least one howler (“MacArthur Park”) – but I’d give him a mulligan on that one; you never know what’s enough until you know what’s too much.

  12. 12.

    LuciaMia

     over frustrations with the city’s mask ordinance,

    Its a fucking piece of cloth. What the hell is the MATTER with people?

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I am pretty well tapped out at this point — as it is, I’ve set back my move-west-to-be-near-my-siblings  fund by at least a year — but I think I’ll drop what little coin there remains in the coffers of Southern Dems running for Senate: Mike Espy (MS), Doug Jones (AL), Jon Ossoff (GA), Raphael Warnock (GA Special), Jaime Harrison (SC), and Cal Cunningham (NC).

    It’s not a particularly strategic approach, but it satisfies me. 

  19. 19.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    I’m about tapped out but donated to every fund. We need to win this thing by a couple of touchdowns. Thanks to everyone doing what they can!

  22. 22.

    Kathleen

    @SiubhanDuinne: I hear you. I donate tiny sums to lots of worthy candidates. When I feel badly I think that if everyone kicked in $3 to $5 a candidate could raise a ton of money. I do the best I can.

  31. 31.

    J R in WV

    @Goku (Amerikan Baka):

    I have an ActBlue account but I made the mistake of putting in my real email address. Can I make another account with a dummy email?

    I’ve been contributing to ActBlue with my real email account for a decade or more. If you get emails you don’t want, there’s an unsubscribe link at the bottom.

    Use it. It will work.

    You can also set those emails to Spam if you want, but the unsubscribe option works better. It really will work. This isn’t Ronco advertising a pocket fisherman tool.

    ETA: Don’t you want to receive a receipt from ActBlue? How will you know how much you have contributed without the receipt emails? Do you keep receipts to balance your credit cards? You don’t??!!!

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    @HinTN: Thank you may be the best I can do!  But I did put a piece of kibble in the mail for you as a thank you, but you know with the post office these days, it may never make it to you.

  33. 33.

    Punchy

    @PsiFighter37: I think ’18 showed just how freaked out the country was.  Then C19 hit, Agent Orange became useless and toxic, and now people are just flat-pissed.  Early voting lines in surburban KS literally out the door.  That speaks to the Dems and turnout.  Gunna be a blowout win for the Dems, followed by mass violence by the righties….

  34. 34.

    Steeplejack

    Worth posting Glen Campbell’s original—live lyrics over taped instrumentation on the Smothers Brothers’ show. Campbell was a gifted session musician—a member of the Wrecking Crew, in fact—and did the “guitar” solo on bass guitar on the original recording. Faked it note for note in this video.

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    Gretchen

    Kansas City hospitals are so full of covid patients they are turning away ambulances while man in Wichita wants to kill the mayor because of mask mandate.

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    MaryRC

    @Uncle Cosmo: That song has been my earworm today since the moment I saw DougJ’s headline.  No complaints, it’s a great song, although I wish DougJ had used “searching” instead of “looking”, it was a better word choice.  It wasn’t Webb’s first hit, though; I think that was “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”.  He has said that all of his early hits including “MacArthur Park” and “Wichita Lineman” were inspired by a disastrous first love affair.

  42. 42.

    Another Scott

    TheHill:

    Warning signs are flashing for Republicans in Texas as the party faces eroding support in the state’s increasingly diverse suburbs.

    A number of House seats in the state’s suburbs this cycle are in play for Democrats, while Democratic Senate candidate MJ Hegar has outperformed expectations in her race against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). The Senate Majority PAC announced on Thursday it was jumping into the race, launching an $8.6 million television blitz supporting Hegar.

    At the presidential level, a number of polls show Trump holding a single-digit lead over Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The former vice president’s wife, Jill Biden, visited a number of Texas suburbs this week in an effort to rally the vote.

    […]

    However, many say this message is backfiring on the president in the suburbs, especially in Texas.

    “We don’t have much white flight left in Texas,” said Richard Murray, a pollster and political science professor at the University of Houston. “For years, one of the drivers of suburban growth were whites in the older inner-city areas moving out, and they were usually making these areas increasingly conservative and Republican.”

    “That’s pretty much over in Dallas, Houston and Austin,” Murray said. “Now the suburban growth is driven by minorities moving out.”

    Experts say that the influx of African Americans, Hispanics and Asians to the state’s suburbs could prove to be bad news for Republicans in November due to Trump’s presence at the top of the ticket.

    “Those voters were not particularly Democratic, but they’re sure anti-Trump,” Murray said. “That’s been one of the factors that has accelerated this shift in the suburbs.”

    Additionally, the state’s redistricting process, which appeared to favor Republicans by drawing lines around the Texas suburbs, may be backfiring as minority communities put down their roots in suburban enclaves.

    “The maps wore out,” Murray said. “Texas added a lot more people since the 2010 census than any other state, and most of those are in the suburbs, and most of those are not white.”

    The suburban districts have in turn reflected what is happening across the country at a faster pace.

    “I like to say that when Republicans in the suburbs nationally have a cold, they have the flu in Texas in these districts because everything in the state is happening five times faster,” said Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Avery Jaffe.

    Democrats saw some of their most encouraging gains in 2018, when now-Democratic Reps. Lizzie Fletcher and Colin Allred ousted two longtime Republican incumbents in suburban Texas districts: Fletcher in the 7th District, in the greater Houston area, and Allred in the 32nd District, in the greater Dallas area.

    Additionally, then-Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) came within roughly 2 points of ousting incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (D-Texas).

    Two years later, six Texas Republicans in the House have announced they are retiring, leaving the door open for Democrats to go on the offensive. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has rated two of these districts, the 22nd in the Houston suburbs and 24th in the suburbs between Dallas and Fort Worth, as “toss-ups.” Cook rated another district — the 23rd, which goes from the San Antonio suburbs to El Paso and is held by retiring Rep. Will Hurd (R) — as “lean Democratic.”

    “It’s worrisome,” said one Texas-based Republican strategist. “They’re raising a lot, for sure, so they’ve got the resources they need.”

    […]

    Run up the score!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  43. 43.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @MaryRC: I wish DougJ had used “searching” instead of “looking”, it was a better word choice.

    It wasn’t “a better word choice” – it was Webb’s lyric. (Which FTR is better in part because it alliterates with “sun”.) DougJ simply misremembered the words & couldn’t be arsed to take 45 seconds to check them. I guess when your job is shilling for cash everything else gets cast by the wayside.

    Upon further review, I believe you are correct about “Phoenix” being Webb’s first hit; it wasn’t a song that made much of an impression on me at the time, so I didn’t think of it.

  44. 44.

    Ian

    I still don’t understand why Peters is in such a terrible spot.  He is polling 3-5 points behind Biden, he has raised more money than the average senator in this cycle, and is now begging for money after making a 20 million dollar ad buy.

    I get he is more the quite type and doesn’t ride the corporate pac circle, I can even admire that about him, but if this were a Republican congressional campaign we would be laughing about the incompetence and probable grift that led to this position.  Peters has no reason to be where he is, and I wish I knew why.

  45. 45.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Ian:

    Someone wrote here a few days ago that Peters’s track record is that he always seems to be in trouble but then squeaks through in the end. I have no idea if that is true. It’s nerve-wracking, especially this year.

  47. 47.

    Brian

    @frosty: the terminology has changed since that record came out. In the ’60s “bass guitar” meant a 30″ scale six string instrument tuned like a standard guitar an octave down, its lowest note the same pitch as a “Fender bass” (34″ scale) but with a much lighter timbre because of light gauge strings. The most common ones were the Danelectro and the Fender Bass VI, and were never intended to perform the actual bass function provided by (at the time) the upright bass, but to be played by a guitarist with a pick in unison with the upright to give more definition to the note; “tic tac bass” was the usual term. Guitar players, though, also saw the potential of it as a solo instrument; I think “Don’t Worry About Me” by Marty Robbins was the first such use of it. Because “bass guitar” has replaced “Fender bass” as one term for the standard instrument, “baritone guitar” became a catch-all for any low tuned six string guitar type instrument.

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