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We're talking about this in the Austin thread, what do y'all know about Sema Hernandez? All I know is her fights with Cristina from this cycle and that she was one of the very few actual Bernie-primary -> Trump-general voters.
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zoux posted:We're talking about this in the Austin thread, what do y'all know about Sema Hernandez? All I know is her fights with Cristina from this cycle and that she was one of the very few actual Bernie-primary -> Trump-general voters. wait what? Can you give some sources on that, please? She's been my favorite (even if I fully expect Ramirez to get the nod, and like her too) and that seems pretty exceptional. edit: nm, finding them myself now. Well, poo poo. metasynthetic fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Feb 18, 2020 20:41
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Feb 18, 2020 20:42
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It's really amazing that aside from the racists who were all in on Trump because of the things he said that weren't lies, there were a lot of genuine idiots who bought into the absolute lie that the wealthy businessman with vague mob connections and a shitload of legal violations would somehow sweep away the corruption and establishment. Also I feel obligated to plop this video in here even though it's not political. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXI_VI_KD_k I hope this thread title lasts until California has its regular drought.
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Feb 18, 2020 21:06
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Sema also seemed to take it real personal that Cristina ran for office instead of not doing that and instead letting Sema run in that lane unopposed
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Feb 18, 2020 21:12
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zoux posted:she was one of the very few actual Bernie-primary -> Trump-general voters. A few minutes ago I knew virtually nothing about her, now I think I know all I need to know
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Feb 18, 2020 21:13
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To be fair I dunno how she actually voted, she could've just been posturing, but unironically typing #MAGA is permanently disqualifying, for me anyways
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Feb 18, 2020 21:15
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Well, I guess it just bumps up my vote for Ramirez to the primary instead of just the general.
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Feb 18, 2020 21:29
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metasynthetic posted:Well, I guess it just bumps up my vote for Ramirez to the primary instead of just the general. MJ Hegar probably
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Feb 18, 2020 21:31
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You've already taken away my hope for one leftist candidate, don't you dare make it two
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Feb 18, 2020 21:35
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SlothfulCobra posted:It's really amazing that aside from the racists who were all in on Trump because of the things he said that weren't lies, there were a lot of genuine idiots who bought into the absolute lie that the wealthy businessman with vague mob connections and a shitload of legal violations would somehow sweep away the corruption and establishment. And we've learned nothing in the past three years since that's Mike Bloomberg's entire pitch.
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Feb 18, 2020 22:03
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Do you guys remember last week when it was Amy Klobuchar who was surging? And the week before that when it was Pete. And the weeks before that when it was Joe Biden? Next week will be, oh lets say, Tulsi who the Ds have scared themselves into supporting. These people are swinging wildly from candidate to candidate when in another cycle that wasn't choked to the gills with people who think they could easily defeat Trump, they'd be undecided voters. These moderate candidates are cannibalizing themselves, as one ascends, another falls.
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Feb 18, 2020 22:06
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Bloomberg worries me because he's got money, and lack of money is what's going to end the other moderates' campaigns. Bernie and Bloomberg seem like the only ones positioned to get to July no matter what.
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Feb 18, 2020 22:17
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Well, I learned all I needed to about sweeping political predictions and tactical voting in 2016, this time I'm just voting for who I like and what happens happens. If text/phone banking, or canvassing, or whatever level of engagement helps you feel better, do that as well. The electoral college makes our presidential votes in Texas purely academic.
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Feb 18, 2020 22:24
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I know Sema says good progressive stuff sometimes but please do not vote for the person who says online crazy person poo poo the rest of the time.
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Feb 18, 2020 22:56
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Folks https://twitter.com/DonnaHowardTX/status/1229880640432222209 Also, at the risk of being owned in a few months, this is why I try not to worry about Mike https://twitter.com/LoopEmma/status/1229887690901991424 He's getting numbers because he's had zero scrutiny, there's gonna be tons of this stuff.
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Feb 18, 2020 23:04
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zoux posted:Also, at the risk of being owned in a few months, this is why I try not to worry about Mike Luckily there aren’t many British people in the Democratic primary electorate or he’d be set
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Comrayn posted:I know Sema says good progressive stuff sometimes but please do not vote for the person who says online crazy person poo poo the rest of the time. But we need a strong socialist who will finally investigate the seth rich case On a more serious note there were actually Briscoe Cain people at the early voting spot (which was also dead af) out here. They didn't make eye contact idgi
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Feb 19, 2020 00:59
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Any goons in Bexar county want to fill me in on absolute no picks for voting,in particular sheriff because they all seem kinda awful. Man am I glad I saw that poo poo about Sema almost voted for her.
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Feb 19, 2020 01:07
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I'll probably vote for Tzintzun even knowing she's a hack fraud
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Feb 19, 2020 01:12
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I'm voting for the non hack fraud in the race which is uhhhhhh
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:I'll probably vote for Tzintzun even knowing she's a hack fraud That's what I did, but I know nothing about her being a fraud so much as I instinctively distrust people whose entire career exists in the world of generic nonprofits. The winner will almost certainly be the chopper lady and she's going to get destroyed in the general anyways so vOv zoux posted:I'm voting for the non hack fraud in the race which is uhhhhhh Royce had powerful adorable old man energy going off that one time I looked him up. Also Sema isn't a fraud she's just extra Marxalot fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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Feb 19, 2020 01:35
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How exactly is Tzintzun a hack fraud? Sincere question, I know almost nothing about any of these people beyond what's available in online voter breakdowns
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From what I've heard about him, West seems like a good dude and I think he's an effective, if moderate state Senator. There's a reason he was the only Democrat from the Senate at the HB 3 signing: he can pass bills and work across the aisle. He's arguably the smartest dude in the Senate tbh, certainly the best operator the Ds have in that chamber especially with Watson leaving. But ideologically, he's a moderate business-friendly state Senator. He's very good on ID Pol stuff, he's a powerful if not especially elegant speaker (go watch his speech on the Confederate monument bill from last session, it's a loving nuclear bomb). But he's corporate as hell, and if we're gonna run someone, I don't think a moderate has a better chance than a progressive, so I'd prefer a more progressive candidate. Interesting fact, he represents a lot of Cowboys players including Michael Irvin and he was Dez Bryant's lawyer through that whole house destruction thing.
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The Senate Democratic primary debate is on KVUE right now. I still need to decide for this and HD-10, and probably some of the others. I don't know who a lot of these folks are...but the others...Sema is a Seth Rich truther, as far as I know Cristina was running JOLT when they endorsed Andrew White (instead of just endorsing no one), and Senator West didn't carry my bill when I asked. So that just leaves MJ Hegar, but Cristina and Royce West can be forgiven...so it's still a toss-up. Edit: They only aired it on TV for 30 minutes, then said the rest of it will air online/radio. Mistaken Frisbee fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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SirKibbles posted:Any goons in Bexar county want to fill me in on absolute no picks for voting,in particular sheriff because they all seem kinda awful. For sheriff in the Dem primary, Michelle Barielles Vela is currently under indictment for perjury and evidence tampering, and that’s only the first of a dozen headlines that suggest she should never hold any authority whatsoever. As far as I can tell, Pete Lozano was a lifelong Republican who supported the Republican candidate (who was wretched, and lost, and then was made a US Marshal by Trump) last time, and seems to have switched to Dem for this election because he has an axe to grind with Salazar, the incumbent. The others are lower profile, so that’s as far as I got in researching the candidates before deciding I’ll probably just vote Salazar. I don't know if he's actually good, but some of the enemies he’s making seem like the right kind of enemies, and the other candidates seem demonstrably worse.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:The Senate Democratic primary debate is on KVUE right now. I just have a bad feeling that we're going to get a Nice Moderate Candidate Who Can Reach Across The Aisle and they're going to get absolutely loving murdered in the general. On the bright side I can at least start fights online in Briscoe's replies by saying his sign holders outside the early voting spot looked like "r/incel combined with the lemon party". Truth hurts.
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zoux posted:From what I've heard about him, West seems like a good dude and I think he's an effective, if moderate state Senator. There's a reason he was the only Democrat from the Senate at the HB 3 signing: he can pass bills and work across the aisle. He's arguably the smartest dude in the Senate tbh, certainly the best operator the Ds have in that chamber especially with Watson leaving. I'm friends with some people who worked in the Ann Richards/Dem party back in the day. A point in Royce's favor is that back in the 90's, when some succdems asked him in private to support some anti-gay legislation, he openly told them to gently caress off.
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Blotto_Otter posted:For sheriff in the Dem primary, Michelle Barielles Vela is currently under indictment for perjury and evidence tampering, and that’s only the first of a dozen headlines that suggest she should never hold any authority whatsoever. As far as I can tell, Pete Lozano was a lifelong Republican who supported the Republican candidate (who was wretched, and lost, and then was made a US Marshal by Trump) last time, and seems to have switched to Dem for this election because he has an axe to grind with Salazar, the incumbent. The others are lower profile, so that’s as far as I got in researching the candidates before deciding I’ll probably just vote Salazar. I don't know if he's actually good, but some of the enemies he’s making seem like the right kind of enemies, and the other candidates seem demonstrably worse. Oh Michelle's that idiot who resigned from her spot and didn't know how elections laws worked so she technically couldn't run or something like that right ? Didn't she get charged with like corruption or something in her old spot and that's why she ran I figured since it was sheriff my choices were bad and lol called it, Salazar seems ok ,Tervino is pulling the praise officers in public at all times line so that's a no. I think Rafael Alcoser III and Freddy Ramirez look decent enough . I will admit to having no idea about county chair politics or railroad commissioner so no idea for that one either.
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was able to hear the first question at the debate: what trump policy or action do you agree with? these idiots started chiming in with the soleimani assassination
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i say swears online posted:was able to hear the first question at the debate: what trump policy or action do you agree with? Texas Dems for ya lmao, the proper answer is when he leaves the white house ,of course.
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i say swears online posted:was able to hear the first question at the debate: what trump policy or action do you agree with? Yeah I did a double take, then felt stupid for not expecting that.
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i say swears online posted:was able to hear the first question at the debate: what trump policy or action do you agree with? Lol
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i say swears online posted:was able to hear the first question at the debate: what trump policy or action do you agree with?
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https://twitter.com/JeremySWallace/status/1230128264024403968 I guess playing establishment ball is how you get to be an impeachment manager as a freshman.
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SirKibbles posted:Oh Michelle's that idiot who resigned from her spot and didn't know how elections laws worked so she technically couldn't run or something like that right ? Didn't she get charged with like corruption or something in her old spot and that's why she ran Yeah, Vela was a constable until she publicly declared for the sheriff election and was surprised when her seat was instantly yanked away under state election laws. I don't think she'd been charged with anything at that point, but she was facing some civil suits (including one for sexual harassment), and she was definitely under investigation for a lot of things including reports of shaking down pavilion-renters at city parks for protection money. If you google her, there is no shortage of articles demonstrating that she's a complete lunatic. And all of the other sheriff candidates, Democrat or Republican, seem to be former cops who seem to be vaguely upset that Salazar doesn't shower his deputies with enough blind love, so I find a lot of their criticisms of him highly suspect. I don't have an opinion on Rafael Alcoser or Ramirez as I'm in the Chip Roy district where everything sucks. Don't bother with the other Alcoser running for tax assessor - I've got no love for the Urestis, but the guy running against him seems to be an anti-government crank, it's not worth the protest vote. I've done only a little bit of reading on the Bexar County Democratic Party drama, and the thing seems like it's been a shitshow since 2016, with a lot of the drama coming from supporters of the previous chair who refuse to accept his 2016 loss and have been giving the new chair hell ever since. I'm probably voting for the incumbent, Alcantara, though I'm open to suggestion if there are any other Bexar County people with a greater understanding of what the hell is going on here. It's another situation where I'm not positive who the real rear end in a top hat is, but the challengers to the incumbent seem to have suspect motives. At least the county party is in slightly better shape than the Republican county party, which is currently trying to oust an insane chairwoman who has steadfastly stuck by her husband despite his ejection from the military for being a creep to kids and despite his exposing himself to her then-teenage daughter!
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Blotto_Otter posted:I've done only a little bit of reading on the Bexar County Democratic Party drama, and the thing seems like it's been a shitshow since 2016, with a lot of the drama coming from supporters of the previous chair who refuse to accept his 2016 loss and have been giving the new chair hell ever since. I'm probably voting for the incumbent, Alcantara, though I'm open to suggestion if there are any other Bexar County people with a greater understanding of what the hell is going on here. No that's about the long and short of it. Remember, and this seems to be way more true for left-of-center orgs than right-of-center orgs and it drives me up the loving wall, but it's more important to maintain one's status in the party than it is to win elections.
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So I moved to Texas in June last year. I registered to vote here and just double-checked that. I know Texas has voter ID laws so what will I need to vote on March 3rd? I have an out of state drivers license and a passport as far as photo ID goes. Also I read something about how Harris County doesn't have designated polling places and that you can vote where-ever in the county. Does anyone know if that's the case?
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Passport is plenty but we also don't have voter ID in Texas. I'll beat this drum every election because telling people we have voter ID is doing the GOPs work for them, but if you are a registered voter and you show up at a polling place, if you don't have an ID, you can sign an affidavit stating any reason or hardship why not, which the electoral officials cannot challenge, and you will be permitted to cast a full, non-provisional ballot. So they'll ask for ID, and you can show it if you just want to avoid the rigamarole, but not having a photo ID is not going to keep someone from casting a regular ballot. Yes it still sucks that the rigamarole exists, but doing the "here's how much Texas sucks" lib/left teeth gnashing is suppressing our own vote. (not accusing you of that OP but as a Texan you'll find the thread loves whining about how much it sucks to live in Texas. Which it does, to be fair, but there are plenty of legit reasons why that we don't have to make up new ones.) zoux fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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