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November 28, 2022 11:18 AM UTC
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Happy Cyber Monday! A quick note before we get started: Some of the items in today’s Get More Smarter are a few days old because of the Thanksgiving holiday break. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (
Jack Smith is going to be so far up Fat Donnie’s arse before this is over he’s going to bump into EmptyG…
‘That Is Incorrect’: Special Counsel Swats Down Claim by Donald Trump’s Lawyers That Rudy Giuliani Case Empowers Judge in Mar-a-Lago Probe
Thankful for our two Senators who will be an unwavering YES vote on the Respect for Marriage Act scheduled for today. Like clockwork, Preacher Graham (yes, the man who pals with TFG/SFB) is sounding the alarms. He’s also apparently really bad at arithmetic but pretty good with non-sequitors:
‘Deceptive’: Franklin Graham warns Christians about ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ ahead of Senate vote
Looks like Datko is playing the old Colorado Republican song: "The Media Doesn't Consider My Point Of View Cuz I Don't Talk To Them" followed by the classic "Bad Faith Interpretations Fuel My Outrage".
This is now at the end of the article to show they're not going to retract the story.
This gets us ready for another popular Colorado Republican oldie "My Mischaracterization Of Your Words Makes You a Liar"
It takes about as many people to actually fsck up an election as attended the rally in Phoenix. To that point, the two Republicans on the three member Cochise County Board voted today to further delay certification of the county’s election results. Today was their legal deadline to do so. The state will now move to compel them to certify. The secretary of state’s certification deadline is December 5th.
Should these morons continue to resist, failure to certify could result in the county’s heavily Republican-leaning votes not being used in vote tallies, flipping the state education superintendant and AZ-06 Congressional seat to D wins. I suspect a court order will tell the sole Dem commissioner to sign the certification with court approval before that happens.
The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee will make its long awaited announcement of who the early states for the primaries will be this week (maybe)
The 17 states and territories in contention are: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas and Washington.
I think you can eliminate Iowa because of their past performance. Also eliminate Texas because it's too big.
I don't think Colorado will get in because of caucuses.
It would probably help the Dems if the presidential primary and the caucuses were on different dates. The pres. primary is run by the county clerk offices and caucuses are run by the parties. I'm sure having them on the same day creates no end of confusion.
Being unaffiliated now, I thankfully no longer do caucuses, and absolutely loathed them when I was in a party. It would be a lot more efficient and a lot less hair-pulling if each of the district central committees of each party just voted who to place on the primary ballot for their district, county, or state-wide offices. The entire convoluted process of electing delegates to go from one level to the next is maddening.
"maddening" But it is a form of democracy in action. Your notion that the party bigwigs should just vote on who to place on primary ballots is dangerous.
Central committees are not big wigs. They are made up of the rank and file, mostly precinct committee people. For example, Denver County Dem Central Committee is typically around 500 people.
Plus there is remains the petition process for anyone who feels alienated by party processes. If I were to loose my mind and run for office as a Dem, I'd likely go the petition route because the assembly process is such a moving target, you don't know who to campaign to since they can never get the lists firmed up until the morning of the assembly. If it was the central committee for your district, that is a known quantity going in.
Huh?
Colorado has a Presidential primary, not a caucus process.
So why would Colorado be at a disadvantage because of the non-Presidential races going through caucus / assembly process as ONE way to get on the non-Presidential primary?
Having them on the same day has to be confusing for the average voter. They get a ballot in the mail for the presidential race, but then keep hearing on the news about caucuses, not realizing they are for all the other races.
And caucuses are only the first step for all the other races. There are numerous steps people have to go thru if they want to be the one deciding who is on the primary ballot. The number of steps varies by which office. State-wide candidates are selected at the State Assembly, but for a person to get to the State Assembly they first have to go to their caucus, then get elected from there to their County Assembly, and from there get elected to the State Assembly. Then there are also Assemblies for State House Districts, State Senate Districts, and Congressional Districts, all of which, the delegates are elected from a prior step.
On top of all of that, in presidential years, there is also a separate and parallel process to become a delegate to the National Convention. This is why I call the whole thing extremely convoluted, more so than most states. Even those with presidential caucuses typically streamline the process for non-presidential races.
Holy crap hitting the high points of CCM article about Datko – they want to recruit kids to inform on/video record classmates. This is the junior Stasi. Scary and twisted.
Also probably illegal. Taping someone, audio or video, without their consent can get a person in a whole lot of trouble.
Not criminal (or else private investigators would be out of work), but subject to civil damages for invasion of privacy. And depending on how obtained, might not hold up as admissible in a criminal case.