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TX06 Special Election Followup
Today is May 1st and municipal election day in Texas. I wanted to follow up on the results of the TX06 special election that was held also. I thought there might be interest since there were 4 previous posts on the election with over 200 replies. I guess it is technically 3 posts (one, two, three) and a podcast in the last month.
The big contention was whether this “anti-Trump” upstart, Michael Wood, would be the future of the GOP. One of the candidates in the race was the widow of the individual who previously occupied the office. Mrs. Wright is the leading vote-getter and will be in the run-off. With 94% of the votes in, second place is barely held by Jake Ellzey, who I thought was the most likely winner (I didn’t know about the widow component). If these results hold, it will be two GOP candidates in the runoff. Third place is some Democrat that would certainly lose in the runoff. And that anti-Trump upstart? He is currently in 9th position with about 3% of the vote. It looks like that bold strategy didn’t pay off in MAGA country. Paging Liz Cheney…
| Candidate | Votes | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Susan Wright GOP | 15,020 | 19.21% |
| Jake Ellzey GOP | 10,842 | 13.86% |
| Jana Sanchez DEM | 10,476 | 13.40% |
| Brian Harrison GOP | 8,474 | 10.84% |
| Shawn Lassiter DEM | 6,941 | 8.88% |
| John Castro GOP | 4,308 | 5.51% |
| Tammy Allison DEM | 4,222 | 5.40% |
| Lydia Bean DEM | 2,913 | 3.72% |
| Michael Wood GOP | 2,497 | 3.19% |
| Michael Ballantine GOP | 2,212 | 2.83% |
The important thing is that the Camping Ban looks like it is passing in Austin. Yeah!
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Liz Cheney’s crime is that she won’t participate in the Trump Big Lie that he “won” the election, despite 60+ cases before 90+ judges, that did not change a single vote.
I have no doubt that’s your definition of it.
So what?
Stop lying. Her crime is not supporting the GOP leadership while in a leadership position. She even went so far as to put forward a position paper to the GOP caucus with talking points to push. These were supposed to be talking points for the GOP, but were written by the Biden White House. If she wants to support the policies of the Marxist and racist Biden Administration, that is her right. But not as a member of GOP leadership – which is what she tried to do.
Speaking of “big lies,” why do those who who reflexively cite the case/judges stat never tell us how many of the rulings were actually on the merits? Speaking of “big lies,” why do those who support Cheney despite her betraying her leadership position in the party never mention her unnecessary and intemperate remarks after the Jan. 6 riot? Why is it necessary to dissemble about her “crime(s)” ?
She sent out rhetoric trying to undermine representative Jim Banks’ opinions on how to represent the working class better and so forth. Banks is right. The working class has issues and the GOP is the right party to actually improve things for them. She is totally wrong about this and Banks is totally right.
She needed to just cool it at some point. Voting for impeachment was enough. If she wasn’t in a leadership position it would be different.
That is the kind of easily-rebuttable falsehood that one sees from this poster, and (as mom used to say), it’s “dollars to donuts” that it won’t be the last time, regardless of how anyone responds.
True that, but I just finished Crybullies, and it reminded me about a certain Ricochet troll. His tactics are identical to the SJW “rainclouds” the author was talking about. It recommends challenging them as one way to keep them in check.
Also laughing at them.
Too bad that in space… err, on Ricochet… nobody can really see you laugh.
That’s because sound doesn’t travel through a vacuum. And when it comes to ideas our resident troll sucks vacuum. No intellectual content and an information density of zero.
Stop being such a crybaby. This is the fight you NTs, and now NATs, wanted. Sounds to me like you are afraid your mouth has written a check your *** can’t cash.
If Trump would simply go away like other defeated first term presidents like H.W. Bush, Carter, Ford, and Hoover, there would be no point in Cheney pointing out Trump’s behavior. But Trump is now promoting the Trump Big Lie. The Trump Big Lie must be objected to by sane Republicans and Conservatives, which is what Liz Cheney is doing. When Trump lies or says stupid stuff, he can’t be surprised when people set the record straight.
I would wager that Liz Cheney has more testosterone in her body that wimpy Kevin McCarthy.
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At the risk of repeating myself, let me give you a parable from my ancestral homeland: If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite.”
Trump isn’t going away. This is the fight you wanted, and now you have it.
I don’t know exactly what Gary is talking about, but regarding the election, Trump and everybody needs to stick to the reporting by Breitbart and the Armistad project about Zuckerberg and the Democrat law fare. It was a bad election, but nothing can be done about it.
How interesting that you continue to push your agenda while conveniently ignoring coherent criticisms of your earlier posts (see immediately above). Do you want to be taken seriously or not?
My guess is no. The objective is to pollute the stream.
To reply to my own post: this poster is the example of why I desire an ‘ignore user’ option. I do not want to have to read or scroll past postings that are guaranteed to be fictional and which distract from whatever discussion is going on. In fact, I would like the ability to filter out not only all posts from Rary Gobbins but everything that follows from his emissions.
AN ASIDE: For our ignorant, across-the-aisle “friends” that insist on occupying space inside our perimeter (and also those just interested in the topic), I recommend The Challenge to Liberty by Herbert Hoover…published in 1934 (less than two years after leaving office.)
Seems he had important things to say and didn’t just go away. Just sayin…
The poster to whom you are referring was actually not the most obnoxious of the Nevers. The two worst are listed as “inactive” now, but it is telling that Gary admired both of them. I never saw either make a valid point and they had nothing but pure bile to offer when discussing Trump. Even when Articles they had linked to had been retracted by the publisher, they never acknowledged it. Whatever his flaws the poster to whom you are referring has on occasion written interesting posts that did not involve Trump.
And who actually believes that Jimmy Carter etc, have been “quiet” former presidents?
He has a narrative to maintain. Just like all leftists. Especially those in the Marxist and racist Biden Administration that brings him such joy.
And now Slow Joe and the Nevers at DoJ want to interfere with efforts to determine the legitimacy of the election. Who is telling “The Big Lie”? Maybe Crazy Liz and the idiots who support her?
What’s a word that begins with “J” and means “whitewash, intimidation, and coverup?”
Or in Wisconsin, where “hundreds of pages of emails and other documents obtained by Wisconsin Spotlight show that grant money from private left leaning groups, funded largely by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, resulted in Democrat activists infiltrating the November presidential election in Wisconsin’s five largest cities [Milwaukee, Green Bay, Madison, Racine, Kenosha – i.e. the highest concentrations of Democrat voters].
Here’s what the emails and Wisconsin Spotlight’s investigation found:
Further FOIA email dumps have revealed specific details of corruption in Kenosha, and most recently in Milwaukee where emails show Spitzer-Rubenstein requested daily reports from Milwaukee election officials on where ballots were being received, i.e. an official from a private group asking for and receiving access to specific voter address information (illegal) while the election was in progress allowing his private group and their partners to contact and ballot harvest (illegal in Wisconsin) from individual Wisconsin voters who were, surprise surprise, in Democrat voter precincts.
The November 2020 election was the most corrupt in Wisconsin history. Hearings, audits, and investigations by the Wisconsin state legislature are ongoing and election reform legislation is currently being drafted (to be vetoed by Governor Evers, unfortunately).
Understanding this complex story requires reading the articles and primary documents. DNC talking points like “The Big Lie” or calling someone an “Election Denier” (saw this used in podcast comments) are uninformed, superficial, inciteful, and add nothing to a serious conversation about these issues.
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I was listening to Breitbart this morning and Alex Marlow said that his new book is critical of the way Trump and most of the GOP explained the election theft. I got all of my information from from those guys and the Amistad Project. He is going to explain in detail about Zuckerberg and the Democrat lawfare. That is the real story. The GOP was asleep, Zuckerberg got his plans in late and we were hosed.
I can’t remember it very well, but it sounds like he has some new reasoning on how the Democrats lied on the legal approach.
https://alexmarlow.com/breaking-the-news/
10 letters?
Oh, you’re probably thinking “justice.”
I was thinking “journalist.”
Doesn’t matter. I just want to know what the J in DoJ stands for.
Ward should make sure she can back these claims up with real evidence