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Destroy My Sweater
Jul 24, 2009

Lawman 0 posted:

it's so beautiful

i just watched his acceptance/victory speech or w/e and goddamn

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PDP-1
Oct 12, 2004

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

BrianBoitano posted:

I'd imagine Gillum helps Bill Nelson quite a bit, yeah? imagine those staying at home instead of having to vote for two up-ticket centrists, who now have at least one progressive to make it worth their whole :shobon:

i wouldn't be surprised if gillum does help nelson, nelson has been hillarying as hard as he can by playing it 'safe' and depressing the (D) vote as hard as much as humanly possible. nelson didn't have any credible primary challengers and there wasn't even the option to cast a useless protest vote or even write in AOC on my primary ballot.

otoh, florida has an absolute shitton of old white people who live in gated communities marinading themselves in FOX news all day so maybe the match up against a black man will energize those voters. Gillum is also mayor of Tallahassee which has had a good amount of scandals on the city board and a higher than average property crime rate recently, expect to see those items flogged endlessly on right wing media in the coming months.

Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral
lol nyt

quote:

Mr. Gillum edged Ms. Graham, a former North Florida congresswoman who finished second, and Mr. Levine, the former Miami Beach mayor who finished third after dropping nearly $30 million of his personal fortune into the campaign. Ms. Graham, a moderate, had been considered the favorite in a midterm year in which many Democratic women have fared well.

But her centrism and the implicit case for electability proved to be of little asset in a year when emotions have gripped both parties.
both parties led astray from the center by EMOTIONS

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
the emotion of "fear of being sent to a literal death camp" is a p big motivator

PDP-1
Oct 12, 2004

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
lol at arpio eating poo poo in AZ

also lol at putnam eating poo poo in FL, all of the GOP candidates were some flavor of poo poo so just happy to see whatever losers they have end up with a bag of unwiped assholes to munch on as a consolation prize.

buddhanc
Feb 16, 2010

Bill Nelson is mayo on stale white bread that motherfucker needs to retire and gently caress off to some billionaire island

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

buddhanc posted:

Bill Nelson is mayo on stale white bread that motherfucker needs to retire and gently caress off to some billionaire island

Sadly, his competition is rancid cum on a slab of mold. Nelson wont win on his own merits.

Also, Mods, please chant the Tread Title to "August 28th Primaries: Gillumentum is real"

mad.radhu
Jan 8, 2006




Fun Shoe
Jorts Arpaio suck out my farts and hold them like a bonghit

ThatBasqueGuy
Feb 14, 2013

someone introduce jojo to lazyb


gilluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum

Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral
i know joe arpaio fading into irrelevance at the end of his political life should really be the most gratifying result after all the terrible things he's done, but even more than that HAHAHAHA EAT poo poo KELLI WARD YOU loving PUSTULE

Pf. Hikikomoriarty
Feb 15, 2003

RO YNSHO


Slippery Tilde

Destroy My Sweater posted:

holy gently caress gillum did it my vote matters????????

:hf:

buddhanc posted:

Bill Nelson is mayo on stale white bread that motherfucker needs to retire and gently caress off to some billionaire island

i really wish there'd been a challenger on the ballot against him

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
jeb

Shark Sandwich
Sep 6, 2010

by R. Guyovich
I said this in trump thread too but I was talking to my FL-dwelling parents my mom was honestly shocked gullin won and then ranted about how bad the succ dem’s ads were

was cool something mattered and was exciting to someone else :unsmith:

Preston Waters
May 21, 2010

by VideoGames
Michael Shure is on TYT right now framing the FL Gov race as Bernie Sanders vs Donald Trump.

I didn't even think of it that way as I forgot the GOP nominee had that godawful Trump ad that he forced his family to participate in.

platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

crazy cloud posted:

gillum, i hardly knew um

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Preston Waters posted:

Michael Shure is on TYT right now framing the FL Gov race as Bernie Sanders vs Donald Trump.

I didn't even think of it that way as I forgot the GOP nominee had that godawful Trump ad that he forced his family to participate in.

that ad is the literal funniest poo poo and i hope he runs that same ad through the campaign, like gently caress, it's a complete utter turnoff for anyone who hasn't drank the TRROM koolaid

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007


he is king maker. whoever wins has to kiss his ring

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!
GILLUM

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

ThatBasqueGuy
Feb 14, 2013

someone introduce jojo to lazyb


I'm not sure how to process excitement in a florida context, so I'm just going to think about policing in Tallahassee while he was mayor and comfort myself

BrianBoitano
Nov 15, 2006

this is fine



Wednesday FL primary coverage bingo!

- Gillum FBI investigation
- Graham must have made missteps because clearly she's the better candidate
- Nothing at all about young voter turnout

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/jaredleopold/status/1034606654820687873

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
mays gilliam 2018

Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

Anybody have the scoop on this FBI business

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

Anybody have the scoop on this FBI business

:yossame:

Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

Also, lol that the Trump surrogate will be using the FBI as a cudgel against his opponent

nah
Mar 16, 2009

every single DeSantis ad against Gillum will just be "HE'S GOING TO RAISE YOUR TAXES!!! SOCIALIST!!!" and he will win

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


I hadn't heard anything about AZ, how's this guy

https://mobile.twitter.com/aidachavez/status/1034773741102948352

Brown Paper Bag
Nov 3, 2012

https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1034637867010666496

Destroy My Sweater
Jul 24, 2009


hell i'd pay big bucks to see big daddy cool jackknife powerbomb rick "bitch" detantis through a table

Gynocentric Regime
Jun 9, 2010

by Cyrano4747

Wouldn't be surprised if Cena throws in too.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


POLL SIGN!

https://mobile.twitter.com/StPetePolls/status/1034603624742182913

turns out going after undecideds works

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

Anybody have the scoop on this FBI business

basically Tallahassee has been getting gentrified to poo poo during Gillum's term (probably my one actual beef with him) and the FBI sent some guys in undercover to look at all the money getting tossed around

The city manager resigned earlier this year for accepting FSU football tickets from a lobbyist (a very southern scandal) but afaik Gillum hasn't been implicated in anything yet

It seems like the same sort of poo poo currently happening in basically every growing city in the nation so I can't imagine why the loving FBI picked Tallahassee of all places to do a corruption probe on

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-po...llums-campaign/

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

I'm not sure how to process excitement in a florida context, so I'm just going to think about policing in Tallahassee while he was mayor and comfort myself

Wanna give more details on that?

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIYbeJAk9SM

hifi
Jul 25, 2012


My dumb rear end already forgot who I voted for since I mailed it in a week ago but all the dem candidates are progressive but not "unelectably progressive". I think they all punted on questions for actually legalizing marijuana and just mentioning how great it'd be to get the tax revenue from it, but all the efforts in the past have been public initiatives so whatever. They're all against school vouchers, private prisons/the prison-industrial complex, and had some pretty strong words about raising taxes on higher brackets given what politics in AZ are like. I was going to be happy with whoever won the primary.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


hifi posted:

My dumb rear end already forgot who I voted for since I mailed it in a week ago but all the dem candidates are progressive but not "unelectably progressive". I think they all punted on questions for actually legalizing marijuana and just mentioning how great it'd be to get the tax revenue from it, but all the efforts in the past have been public initiatives so whatever. They're all against school vouchers, private prisons/the prison-industrial complex, and had some pretty strong words about raising taxes on higher brackets given what politics in AZ are like. I was going to be happy with whoever won the primary.

That owns then, it all the candidates were leftwards enough to be progressives it means folks there shifted the gently caress outta the overton window. Hopefully it pays off in november

Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

Yep. On day loving one.

https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1034819959782813696

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

the bitcoin of weed posted:

basically Tallahassee has been getting gentrified to poo poo during Gillum's term (probably my one actual beef with him) and the FBI sent some guys in undercover to look at all the money getting tossed around

The city manager resigned earlier this year for accepting FSU football tickets from a lobbyist (a very southern scandal) but afaik Gillum hasn't been implicated in anything yet

It seems like the same sort of poo poo currently happening in basically every growing city in the nation so I can't imagine why the loving FBI picked Tallahassee of all places to do a corruption probe on

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-po...llums-campaign/

The gentrification is also happening in Gainesville somewhat (they're still not touching East Gainesville for certain reasons) so I assume there's probably a load of real estate devs going to the college towns trying to invest in places to later flip.

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the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

the worst of the development in Tallahassee is all around FSU and I saw similar nonsense at USF in Tampa so there's probably some truth to that. Wondering who's going to tallahassee to pay $1100 in rent every month when my sister's old place (currently being torn down for new construction) was $350 a month just two years back

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