As I have been telling folks, I would have loved to have seen Ashley Judd run and win, but there wasn’t any way she was going to survive King Coal, Kentucky Blue Dog Dems, and Bill Clinton. Regretfully, I am currently unable to consider a campaign for the Senate.I have spoken to so many Kentuckians …
Election 2018
Late Night Open Thread: Nancy Not Smash — Just Yet
A little Masshole self-indulgence, here. Per Janet Wu at Boston’s WCVB (Ch.5), “Pelosi not taking sides in special election“: BOSTON —House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Thursday sidestepped questions about the special democratic US Senate primary between two of her colleagues. Pelosi was in Boston to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the family medical leave act. …
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The Blue vs. The Orange
John Boehner. Orange Julius. He’s the russet-colored boil on the ass of the body politic, if there ever was one. Finally it looks like somebody on the D side across the Ohio river is going to take a shot at lancing him. Middletown resident and Army veteran Andrew Hounshell said he will announce his candidacy …
Local Flavors
I’ve been working like a dog, and doing new and interesting things with beautiful people…actually I just haven’t had that much to say. I have been paying more attention to local blogs recently. Here in Oklahoma, one of the better liberal blogs is The Lost Ogle. The name is an OKC in-joke. Also, Dustbury and …
Over In A Heartbeat
Ohio’s Republican Senate President Tom Niehaus decided he wasn’t going out like a chump in his final days of the lame duck session and did the right thing: he refused to bring up the nation’s most restrictive (and clearly unconstitutional) abortion bill up for a vote. The leader of the Ohio Senate put a stop …
No Money From Nobody, Again
I wrote about Bill O’Neill here last spring. O’Neill was the “no money from nobody” candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court. He doesn’t accept campaign donations. O’Neill is a Democrat, although he was not the Party choice this year partly because he won’t accept campaign contributions. Here’s his rather interesting bio: He is a former …
Tammy Duckworth, ActBlue, and Targeted Donations
Via commentor BGinChI, here’s TPM reporting on the race to throw Joe Walsh out: … The Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday night that Now or Never, a super PAC that has already spent nearly $2 million on the race, was going to put in another $2.5 million for negative ads against the Democrat. According to its …
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