Campaign finance reform advocates in Montana think they've found an end-run around the Supreme Court's execrable Citizens United decision. If it holds up, Florida's state incorporation laws make it well-postitioned to follow suit.
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Between FAU and Michigan, how great is Dusty May?
The redistricting special session won't affect state lawmakers (it's all about congressional districts) but the point still stands. Given what happened last night, could redistricting have the perverse effect of creating more Dem. pickups? It has to at least be giving them pause. 5/5
Since you've added Dem. voters to GOP districts, it also means the new GOP districts are a little weaker. Given Dem. wins in reliably GOP districts last night, if you're a Republican legislator, do you really want to go through a process that turns a district from R+10 to, say, R+5? 4/4
If you pack, you take a bunch of Dems and cram them into one district denying them a couple of likely districts and instead handing them one very strong district. The end result of both processes means less Dem. districts, but ... 3/3
Republicans have a supermajority in both chambers. But there's two ways to do a partisan gerrymander. You either crack'em or you pack'em. If you crack, it means you take Democratic areas and spread them thinly among a bunch of otherwise reliably Republican districts, diffusing Dem. voting power 2/2
A thought on last night's Democratic victories in Florida: One of the immediate concerns for Republicans is the special session on redistricting the Legislature is supposed to have in a month (Apr 20-24). No, the addition of a Democrat in the House and one in the Senate doesn't change the voting 1/1
OK, last thing then I'm logging off, dammit! It looks like the Democrats flipped state senate district 14 as well, which was the special election to fill the seat opened by Jay Collins being appointed lieutenant governor. Gotta be a few nervous GOP legislators tonight.
All right, one more interesting bit: In House District 87, there are 48,277 registered Republicans and 32,444 Democrats with 30,782 no-party-affiliation voters. This was an incredibly unlikely result.
Another interesting bit: 28.8% voter turnout. That may seem low, but in a special election in which this was the only race on the ballot, that is massive. I'd expect about half that, if not less.
The vote totals show Gregory took a huge lead in vote by mail, while the Republican easily won the election day total. What's the odds Trump cries fraud over this despite the fact that he voted by mail?
This is great advertising for the NYC taco joint. Also, like, I know the stereotype is that whites in America don't like spicy food, but remember that many of us are descendants of Irish, English and Germans for whom spicy food is merely the stuff of legend
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Our neck of the woods has had some national focus recently due to the victory of Democrat Andy Thomson in a Boca Raton mayoral race by five votes. It's being plugged as another part of the big blue wave sweeping the nation. It's not.
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Ah, a Virginian! 😂
According to the city charter, in the event of a tie, the winner will be decided by drawing lots 🙃
Today is recount day in Boca Raton, and after a machine recount, mayoral candidate Andy Thomson is up by ONE (1) vote over Mike Liebelson out of more than 19,000 votes cast.
Manual recount now underway, counting undervotes and overvotes, of which there are a couple hundred.
An even marginal organization of FAU students could've sealed the deal one way or the other, yes.
The first time I ever voted in a presidential election was in 2000 in Florida. Honestly, I'm amazed I still care 🤣
Indeed. And Gore gracefully conceding sealed the deal, but that was a different time, back when both parties accepted election results.
Scratch that. 448 of those mail-in ballots got counted. Thomson is now ahead by 5 votes out of 19,072 votes cast.
For those of you who weren't alive for the 2000 election, remember kids, every vote counts
Crazy night here in Boca. This is with all precincts reporting but with 468 mail-in ballots still out countywide.
Throughout the series, whenever Swearengen is frustrated/annoyed but is powerless to address the source of the annoyance, it is comedy gold ... Of course, when he can address it, it's usually pretty horrific!
Excellent read. Sometimes I just go back and watch the episode about Wu's stolen dope, because it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV. Comedy, tragedy, that show has it all.
Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
The best part? Now that the job market HAS flooded & tanked, the advice isn’t “oh hey maybe we were wrong & that whole humanities thing is actually MORE important in the face of AI,” it’s:
YOU MUST ALL WORK IN THE TRADES!
Ok yeah definitely that’ll fix it anything but reading books I guess
Propublica is one of the best journalistic outfits working in America today. Good on'em
Oh, so THAT'S how Elon knew Trump was in the Epstein files!
The Border Patrol should be at the border, not on the streets of American cities. And Congress should nix any funding for ICE's weaponry. If ICE agents believe an arrest will be dangerous, they should work with armed local law enforcement.
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
