That’s all there is to say today…..
And here is a little something to inspire you…
Thanks to my friend, Jimmy, for originally posting this on Facebook!
Tag Archives: 2012 Elections
An Election Message from our Forefathers
I loved this….
Get out and vote!
Thanks, to my friend Lara for posting this on Facebook where I originally saw it. From the Reformed Whores:
Greensboro and Guilford County NC Voters Guide
If you are looking for a great Progressive Voter Guide, Replacements, LTD PAC has one. This is especially helpful for Judicial races…
While, its an LGBT Guide, it’s also great for anyone trying to identify Progressive- or more Progressive- Candidates.
The Replacements Website has more info and some additional recommendations for surrounding counties and cities:
http://www.replacementsltdpac.org
Please support these candidates and get out and vote!!!!
Here are the Greatest Hits for National, State and Greensboro/Guilford County:
2012 LGBT General Election Voter Guide Guilford County
President ……………………………………………………………………….. (D) Barack Obama
United States House Dist 6 …………………………………………………..(D) Tony Foriest
United States House Dist 12 ……………………………………………………. (D) Mel Watt
Governor ………………………………………………………………………… (D) Walter Dalton
Lt. Governor …………………………………………………………………… (D) Linda Coleman
Attorney General ………………………………………………………………… (D) Roy Cooper
Auditor …………………………………………………………………………… (D) Beth A. Wood
Commissioner of Insurance ……………………………………………(D) Wayne Goodwin
Commissioner of Labor ……………………………………………………. (D) John C. Brooks
Secretary of State…………………………………………………………… (D) Elaine Marshall
Supt of Public Instruction………………………………………………….. (D) June Atkinson
Treasurer………………………………………………………………………….. (D) Janet Cowell
NC Senate Dist 27………………………………………………………………… (D) Myra Slone
NC Senate Dist 28………………………………………………………(D) Gladys A. Robinson
NC House Dist 57 …………………………………………………………… (D) Pricey Harrison
NC House Dist 58 ………………………………………………………………. (D) Alma Adams
NC House Dist 60 …………………………………………………………. (D) Marcus Brandon
NC House Dist 61 ……………………………………………………….. (D) Ron Weatherford
Guilford County Commissioner Dist 4……………………………………..(D) Kirk Perkins Guilford
County Commissioner Dist 5……………………………………..(D) Paul Gibson
Guilford County Register of Deeds ……………………………………….. (D) Jeff Thigpen
NC Supreme Court Associate Justice (Newby Seat) ……………… (D) Sam J. Ervin IV
NC Court of Appeals (McGee Seat) ……………………………………….(D) Linda McGee
NC Court of Appeals (Bryant Seat) ………………………………………(D) Wanda Bryant
NC Court of Appeals (Thigpen Seat)…………………………………. (D) Cressie Thigpen
NC Court Superior Court Dist 18E ………………………………………..(R) Susan E. Bray
NC District Court Dist 18 (Alloway Seat) ………………….. (R) Sherry Fowler Alloway
NC District Court Dist 18 (Bray Seat)…………………………………….. (D) Linda L. Falls
NC District Court Dist 18 (Burch Seat)…………………………………(D) Susan R. Burch
NC District Court Dist 18 (Crump Seat) ………………………………………. (D) Bill Davis
NC District Court Dist 18 (Samet Seat)…………………………………..(D) Jan H. Samet
NC District Court Dist 18 (Sizemore Seat) ………………………..(D) Polly D. Sizemore
Guilford County Board of Education At-Large ………………… (D) Sandra Alexander
Bye Bye to the Crazy Grand Dames of the GOP
How sweet it would be to be rid of Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin in the same year! God knows, they have both had more than their allocated 15 minutes of fame….
People are sick of Sarah and it looks like Fox News isn’t even going to renew her contract. The GOP certainly didn’t want her around their convention…
And now, it looks like Michelle Bachmann has a very good chance at losing her Congressional seat….
Maybe people really are finally getting tired of mean, crazy people in Politics.
We can hope….
From Salon via Politicususa.com:
A new poll suggests that tea party darling Michele Bachmann is in serious danger of losing her House seat to Democrat Jim Graves.The poll, which was first shared with Salon, found that Bachmann now leads Graves, 48%-46%. Bachmann has gone from a 45%-41% lead with Independents to now trailing 52%-37%. The biggest indicator of how much voters have soured on Bachmann is that 57% of those surveyed gave a fair/poor job approval rating. Almost as many responded rated her as poor 35% as did excellent/good. Respondents also had cool feelings towards Rep. Bachmann as a person. Forty one percent said they had warm feelings towards Bachmann while 46% expressed cool feelings towards the incumbent Republican.After winning her 2010 bid for reelection by twelve points, her 2012 campaign is looking like a return to the norm. Bachmann first won election to the House in 2006 in a three person race by a 50%-42%-8% margin. Bachmann won another three way contest in 2008, 46%-43%-10%. Bachmann’s margin of victory in both 2006 and 2008 combined was less than her margin in the Republican wave year of 2010.Even though her popularity is on the wane in her district, Rep. Bachmann will be difficult to beat because of the massive war chest $15 million she has accumulated. Bachmann also has been heavily supported and funded by the national Republican Party. Michele Bachmann is a right wing media darling who is welcome to go on Fox News, Glenn Beck, or any other conservative media outlet and beg for dollars at any time.
via Bye Bye Crazy Eyes: Poll Finds Democrat in Position to Defeat Michele Bachmann.
The Latest Republican Hypocrite: Arizona Sheriff Rocked By Accusations Of Alleged Immigrant Ex-Boyfriend
And the latest Republican Hypocrite is: Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu
Not only Gay, but publicly anti-immigrant and dating a male Mexican Immigrant….
They are just going to love this in Arizona!
I somehow think his Congressional campaign just ended…
From TalkingPointsMemo, click the link at the bottom for full story and pictures:
Rising Republican star and well-known border hawk Sheriff Paul Babeu, who’s now running for Congress in Arizona, was hit Friday night with bombshell accusations from a Mexican immigrant who said he dated the sheriff for years and was threatened with deportation if he ever told anyone about their romance.
The Phoenix New Times newspaper broke the story on its website in a piece written by veteran journalist Monica Alonzo. The accusations came complete with text messages said to be between the two men as well as compromising photos purportedly of Babeu that are reminiscent of recent sex scandals that ended the careers of Congressmen Anthony Weiner and Chris Lee.
In one photo, Babeu is seen posing in front of a mirror in nothing but his underwear. In another, he has his hand inside the man’s partially unbuttoned shirt.
The newspaper identified the accuser only by his first name, Jose, citing his fear that the sheriff would try to challenge his immigration status.
Jose said he met Babeu through the dating website gay.com in 2006, before he became sheriff, according to the newspaper. Babeu was a police officer in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler at the time and was elected as sheriff of Pinal County in late 2008.
Beyond the romance, the newspaper also said Jose volunteered for Babeu’s campaign, maintaining his websites and social media accounts.
They were apparently together during Babeu’s fast rise to becoming a national figure in the fight against illegal immigration. The sheriff first burst onto the national stage in 2010 when he appeared alongside Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) in a now-famous television ad, calling on the federal government to complete “the danged fence” along the US-Mexican border.
More recently, Babeu has been a frequent guest for Fox News for immigration-related topics, including the ongoing Fast and Furious scandal. He has endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary, and touted as a co-chair of the candidate’s presidential campaign in Arizona. He even recorded robocalls for Romney that went out to voters in Iowa last year.
via Arizona Sheriff Rocked By Accusations Of Alleged Immigrant Ex-Boyfriend | TPMMuckraker.
How the GOP Is Resegregating the South
Folks may or may not remember Nixon introduced the Southern Strategy that the Republicans have used ever since to win the presidency.
President Obama’s victories in North Carolina and Virginia threatened the continued validity of that strategy. Until the GOP took control of the North Carolina State House and expanded their control in the rest of the South.
Their goal is to leverage Redistricting to isolate Black Voters into as few districts as possible to increase the odds of the GOP winning the others.
Now they are digging in and trying to leverage Race to make the Southern Strategy work for at least another generation…
It’s really reprehensible and very obvious. Especially here in North Carolina….
Here is an excerpt from a great article in The Nation by Ari Berman that explains this exceedingly well. I encourage you to click the link at the bottom and read the entire article.
(Hat tip to Daily Kos where I first saw this….)
“What’s uniform across the South is that Republicans are using race as a central basis in drawing districts for partisan advantage,” says Anita Earls, a prominent civil rights lawyer and executive director of the Durham-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice. “The bigger picture is to ultimately make the Democratic Party in the South be represented only by people of color.” The GOP’s long-term goal is to enshrine a system of racially polarized voting that will make it harder for Democrats to win races on local, state, federal and presidential levels. Four years after the election of Barack Obama, which offered the promise of a new day of postracial politics in states like North Carolina, Republicans are once again employing a Southern Strategy that would make Richard Nixon and Lee Atwater proud.
The consequences of redistricting in North Carolina—one of the most important swing states in the country—could determine who controls Congress and the presidency in 2012. Democrats hold seven of the state’s thirteen Congressional seats, but after redistricting they could control only three—the largest shift for Republicans at the Congressional level in any state this year. Though Obama won eight of the thirteen districts, under the new maps his vote would be contained in only three heavily Democratic districts—all of which would have voted 68 percent or higher for the president in 2008—while the rest of the districts would have favored John McCain by 55 percent or more. “GOP candidates could win just over half of the statewide vote for Congress and end up with 62 percent to 77 percent of the seats,” found John Hood, president of the conservative John Locke Foundation.
Romney Campaign Busing in Mormons to Make Crowds
This is showing up on several websites today….
The Romney campaign is just collapsing in South Carolina and bussing in Mormon college students to make their crowds seem bigger and more excited….
This is really getting interesting….
From DailyKos:
Buzzfeed reports the latest signs of the complete collapse of the Romney campaign in South Carolina:
GREENVILLE, South Carolina–Outside Tommy’s Ham House here this morning–where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich scheduled back-to-back visits–a boisterous crowd of young, fresh-faced supporters was waving Romney signs and chanting, “MITT! MITT! MITT!”
But this wasn’t a grassroots youth movement rooted at the University of South Carolina. No, many of the students cheering on the candidate told BuzzFeed they were actually BYU students and young Mormons from D.C. and Virginia who traveled to the Palmetto State to give their coreligionist’s presidential effort a much-needed jolt of energy.
Kat Wardle, a 23-year-old BYU student who is spending the semester in Washington, D.C., said she and several young Latter-Day Saints have been following Romney around the state, playing the role of cheerleaders at various campaign stops.
“I was all over the place at the Lexington rally!” said Wardle, referring to a rainy outdoor event that the campaign has been spinning as an example of growing momentum. Despite the weather, a crowd of several hundred remained for the event and, Romney surrogates like Nikki Haley have pointed out, they were loud and proud.
MORE: Daily Kos: Romney campaign busing in Mormons from D.C. to make crowds. WOW..
Rich Kids for Romney
I’m back from a week of travel and meetings for my real job…
Let’s kick it off with a great little video of Romney’s latest endorsement…
Hat tip to the Huffington Post where I first saw it….
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Pat Robertson: God Told Me Who The Next President Will Be
I’m really getting concerned about these Republicans….
Almost all the Candidates for the GOP nomination are running because “God told them to…” (Ex: Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, et.al.)
Now God is skipping around them and telling Pat Robertson how it’s all going to play out.
But Pat promised not to tell…
I somehow think if God was going to tell anyone, he/she would pick someone other than Pat to confide in….
I think all these folks need a good therapist and perhaps some time in a nice, quiet, secure place while someone helps them understand that, if they are hearing voices, its not God.
It’s probably schizophrenia…
And, therefore, they have no business trying to be leaders of the Free World…..
From the HuffingtonPost.com:
Christian conservative leader Pat Robertson says he has a secret straight from God: He knows who the next president of the United States will be.
“I think He showed me about the next president, but I’m not supposed to talk about that so I’ll leave you in the dark — probably just as well — but I think I know who it’s gonna be,” Robertson said Tuesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s “700 Club.”
Robertson then went on to recite the message he claimed to have been told by God. According to Robertson, God doesn’t support President Barack Obama’s agenda and says that only “overwhelming prayer” can bring a new leader who will stop the country from “disintegrating”:
via Pat Robertson: God Told Me Who The Next President Will Be (VIDEO).
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Anti-Incumbent Fever Could Hurt Republicans
This is good news.
I just hope the trend holds until next year AND that the Dems actually nominate credible, progressive candidates as alternatives….
I’m so sick of the Dem’s nominating Candidates who are like GOP Lites, instead of true Progressives. I hope they realize how much things have changed…
From the Huffington Post:
Results from a new national survey from the Pew Research Center should strike fear into the hearts of incumbents in Congress, especially those who are members of the Republican Party. A record number of respondents want to vote sitting lawmakers out of office, and Republicans take more of the blame than Democrats for perceptions of a do-nothing Congress.
According to the Pew Research report, two-thirds (67 percent) of registered voters nationwide say “most members of Congress” should be voted out of office in 2012, while only 20 percent want most members reelected. This desire to fire all incumbents marks a record level of discontent since the Pew Center started asking the question 18 years ago, far exceeding previous highs of 57 percent in 2010 and 56 percent in 1994.
via Pew Research Poll: Anti-Incumbent Fever Could Hurt Republicans.
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Lost in the 21st Century 