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Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

zoux posted:

Only half of the Senate seats are up for reelection in a given election year.

Also Donna Howard and Celia Israel have declined to run for Watson's seat which makes me think they're pretty hopeful about a House flip.

https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/1230519391722311680

:rolleyes:

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1230853677746982913

Sema in shambles, soon to accuse AOC of being a liberal.

AOC already got cancelled yesterday for defending Liz Warren

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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Yeah they were so mad lol

That is a huge endorsement though, really even MJ Hegar and co. should be worried about it

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/1230877047859204096

Gah!

What do you think the Longhorn/Aggie alum ratio is in Houston. 4:1?

Comrayn
Jul 22, 2008
Didn’t that shithead run ads saying to vote for him to help trump? It takes a special kind of snake to make Turner the more upstanding choice.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Speaking of, has anyone pressed ol' Sly on his Bloomberg endorsement after he got murdered on Tuesday?

Read this thread of Empower Texas dudes talking about the non-viablity of candidates in the state to instantly die

https://twitter.com/glenn_deshields/status/1230886668951019520

Looks like we got more liberal scum in Harris Co
https://twitter.com/zachdespart/status/1230885465001254912

zoux fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Feb 21, 2020

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

zoux posted:

Speaking of, has anyone pressed ol' Sly on his Bloomberg endorsement after he got murdered on Tuesday?

Read this thread of Empower Texas dudes talking about the non-viablity of candidates in the state to instantly die

https://twitter.com/glenn_deshields/status/1230886668951019520

god dammit

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Cary Cheshire is a fake name

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

Comrayn posted:

Didn’t that shithead run ads saying to vote for him to help trump? It takes a special kind of snake to make Turner the more upstanding choice.

I work for the City of Houston and let me tell you, people were teeeeerrified of what our already strapped budgets would look like If Buzzbee had gotten elected.

Devils Avocado
Mar 25, 2009

zoux posted:



What do you think the Longhorn/Aggie alum ratio is in Houston. 4:1?

I'd say almost the reverse, tons of Aggie engineers running around. Also lots of LSU and, more puzzling, Ole Miss people.

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations
Went to vote today, handed them my voting card, was immediately asked for my DL. Had it on me but wonder what they would have done if I didn't.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

They would've have let you sign an affidavit stating the reason why you didn't have one (which they cannot challenge) and permitted you to cast a regular, uniform ballot.

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations

zoux posted:

They would've have let you sign an affidavit stating the reason why you didn't have one (which they cannot challenge) and permitted you to cast a regular, uniform ballot.

Good to know, thank you. The whole situation made me laugh a little because the day before I had been explaining to my friend/recent Texan from California that you absolutely did not need a photo ID to vote.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Oh a recent Texan from California you say

https://www.votetexas.gov/register-to-vote/need-id.html

Here's the SoS page on it.

Instructions to election officials


That's not to say that people without IDs won't be turned away by officials, but if they are, those officials are breaking the law.

zoux fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Feb 21, 2020

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

anyone seen any crazy local campaign ads? i'm always on the lookout

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Spiritus Nox posted:

How exactly is Tzintzun a hack fraud?
https://twitter.com/anxious_maria/status/1213170646915698688
https://twitter.com/f_sotelo/status/1213872515203907587

KIM JONG TRILL
Nov 29, 2006

GIN AND JUCHE
I'm not trying to be a dick when I ask this, but is Sema Hernandez even running an actual campaign? She's raised all of $7,500 this entire cycle and I never hear anything about campaign events with her, just see her on twitter all the time. There was a Ramirez event in my town (that I couldn't make) and I've seen some Hegar events nearby.

I don't mean this in the centrist "serious candidate" mantra re: her policies because her platform is great, but it just doesn't really seem like she has any kind of plan to try and actually win the primary.

JUST MAKING CHILI
Feb 14, 2008
She is the new Dick Wolf.

SirKibbles
Feb 27, 2011

I didn't like your old red text so here's some dancing cash. :10bux:

KIM JONG TRILL posted:

I'm not trying to be a dick when I ask this, but is Sema Hernandez even running an actual campaign? She's raised all of $7,500 this entire cycle and I never hear anything about campaign events with her, just see her on twitter all the time. There was a Ramirez event in my town (that I couldn't make) and I've seen some Hegar events nearby.

I don't mean this in the centrist "serious candidate" mantra re: her policies because her platform is great, but it just doesn't really seem like she has any kind of plan to try and actually win the primary.

Classic American leftist, god I hope the next generation of leftists get that we have the moral high ground and nothing else driven out of them because Gen X has it in spades.

Comrayn posted:

Sema has got to be having a complete meltdown she could barely handle the fact that some one else was daring to market themselves as progressive.
She, uh might be a little salty judging by her twitter feed

Oil!
Nov 5, 2008

Der's e'rl in dem der hills!


Ham Wrangler
Edit: oops I confused Sema for Sima, who has send me a redwood amount of mailers in the past 2 weeks.

Oil! fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Feb 22, 2020

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

i say swears online posted:

anyone seen any crazy local campaign ads? i'm always on the lookout

I got a piece of campaign mail for a travis county judge sent to my chicago address???

Like it wasn’t even forwarded from my old address, they for some reason paid to send me mail for an election I can’t vote in

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I got a letter from Michael Bloomberg asking me to vote for him in the primaries, on the basis of job creation, investing money into researching alzheimer's and cancer, and most conspicuously, the ol' Juliani move of how good of a job he did helping NYC recover from 9/11. All extremely irrelevant to the current environment of inequality.

It was surprising, not just because he thought I was a likely supporter, but because I thought he was just blowing off most of the primary states, so it's weird that this of all places he'd invest his money into. Did anyone else see anything like that?

i say swears online posted:

anyone seen any crazy local campaign ads? i'm always on the lookout

Just the ads for the former mayor of plano running for the district I'm not in. She really wants to get rid of immigrants.

SlothfulCobra fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Feb 22, 2020

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1231331546721857537?s=20

could we not

TropicalCoke
Feb 14, 2012
jim hightower is cool

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

TropicalCoke posted:

jim hightower is cool

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



that owns

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://mobile.twitter.com/brolphdiscoe/status/1231399425655832576

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Kunabomber
Oct 1, 2002


Pillbug

ReidRansom posted:

Average age of an election worker here in Brazos county is 78, I just heard the other day in the context of a community notice desperately seeking younger people who actually understand how to use basic technology.

I just got my presiding judge assignment. My helpers have roadrunner, Juno, and Yahoo email accounts.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Kunabomber posted:

I just got my presiding judge assignment. My helpers have roadrunner, Juno, and Yahoo email accounts.

afterwards you can come over and help setup their WebTV

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




Who is the goon approved candidate for the Dem Senate race? All I know is Sema's twitter feuds and the one goon who really hates Amanda Edwards

Kunabomber
Oct 1, 2002


Pillbug
To add to the voter ID talk:

No, you don't need an ID to vote and you can fill out a reasonable impediment form. It will also take time that may be in short supply. Please bring a driver's license if you can because it's one of 2 forms of ID we can easily scan in (Denton county uses iPads with barcode scanning software) and lets us process people as fast as possible in these trying times. I will never turn anyone away (unless they're at the wrong polling place and they can get to their precinct before 7 pm) but long wait times only hurt our efforts to GOTV. Keep in mind that there's only 2 judges per polling station and each issue that takes additional paperwork will take up at least 5-10 minutes of our time, and all of it adds up.

I wish the process was faster (or even abolished, I mean a voter card should be enough if you really want some kind of proof of voter registration IMHO) but until that happens we need to try to reduce friction as much as possible.

Edit: and tell your friends that don't have IDs that you absolutely do not need an ID, but they should be prepared to go through a Process.

Kunabomber fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Feb 23, 2020

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

Who is the goon approved candidate for the Dem Senate race? All I know is Sema's twitter feuds and the one goon who really hates Amanda Edwards

Ramirez is probably the best but people itt have convinced themselves she’s a shill or something

Marxalot
Dec 24, 2008

Appropriator of
Dan Crenshaw's Eyepatch

Kunabomber posted:

To add to the voter ID talk:

No, you don't need an ID to vote and you can fill out a reasonable impediment form. It will also take time that may be in short supply. Please bring a driver's license if you can because it's one of 2 forms of ID we can easily scan in (Denton county uses iPads with barcode scanning software) and lets us process people as fast as possible in these trying times. I will never turn anyone away (unless they're at the wrong polling place and they can get to their precinct before 7 pm) but long wait times only hurt our efforts to GOTV. Keep in mind that there's only 2 judges per polling station and each issue that takes additional paperwork will take up at least 5-10 minutes of our time, and all of it adds up.

I wish the process was faster (or even abolished, I mean a voter card should be enough if you really want some kind of proof of voter registration IMHO) but until that happens we need to try to reduce friction as much as possible.

Edit: and tell your friends that don't have IDs that you absolutely do not need an ID, but they should be prepared to go through a Process.

Wait are there actually waiting times now? Also yall should step your game up and allow people to vote at any polling place in the county like Harris does.

Kunabomber
Oct 1, 2002


Pillbug
Since 2016. Not like an hour+ wait, but there is a wait, especially at the end of the day.

Early voting you can vote in any polling place in Denton county. Election day you need to go to your precinct.

I also live in Carrollton so sometimes I get confused people from Collin and Dallas county trying to vote so I have to search their database to point them in the right direction :negative:

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez featured on WaPo's front page today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...af6d_story.html

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!
https://twitter.com/EmmaKinery/status/1231718211915304964

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

enraged_camel posted:

Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez featured on WaPo's front page today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...af6d_story.html

RIP to Sema's drywall

Who made it out to any of the Bernie rallies this week? My friend who is an old school South American dictator-fleeing, Central-America-in-the-80s living leftist went to the one here in Austin and said it gave her so much hope because the crowd was so young.

zoux fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Feb 24, 2020

KIM JONG TRILL
Nov 29, 2006

GIN AND JUCHE

zoux posted:

RIP to Sema's drywall

Who made it out to any of the Bernie rallies this week? My friend who is an old school South American dictator-fleeing, Central-America-in-the-80s living leftist went to the one here in Austin and said it gave her so much hope because the crowd was so young.

I was so annoyed I missed the Sunday rallies. I saw the SA and El Paso rallies but nothing showed a rally in Houston or Austin the next day. I definitely would have gone to one of those if I had known about them.

Fray
Oct 22, 2010

zoux posted:

RIP to Sema's drywall

Who made it out to any of the Bernie rallies this week? My friend who is an old school South American dictator-fleeing, Central-America-in-the-80s living leftist went to the one here in Austin and said it gave her so much hope because the crowd was so young.

Hey, who was the guy in the ten gallon hat who spoke second? Those of us in the back couldn't hear poo poo from him. Everyone else who came on stage was fine.

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Sardonik
Jul 1, 2005

if you like my dumb posts, you'll love my dumb youtube channel

Fray posted:

Hey, who was the guy in the ten gallon hat who spoke second? Those of us in the back couldn't hear poo poo from him. Everyone else who came on stage was fine.

I believe it was Hightower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hightower

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