2023 Elections

[47of74]

Went out and did my civic duty this morning.  In my particular part of Minneapolis there was just the election for the ward 11 city council representative.  All 13 of the city council seats are up for election this year.  Two candidates chose not to seek reelection but the other 11 did.  I don't imagine there being much change on the council.  It looks like over in St. Paul they're having all seven city council seats up for reelection but only three council members are seeking reelection.  They also have school board elections in St. Paul - those are likely to be more contentious since there's seven people running for four open seats.

I also had my first experience with ranked choice voting today.  Minneapolis does it for municipal elections.  There were only two candidates.  The DFL incumbent and a candidate from the Socialist Workers Party.  It wouldn't surprise me if the incumbent won but I voted for the challenger ahead of the incumbent.  I just feel like there needs to be some actual change on the city council over what we had before.

[Audrey2]

I turned my ballot in yesterday. The big boat in my area is for school board, determining if school boards will stay sort of with the group they are or if they will be one of the ultra conservative boards, heavily seated with Mom's for Liberty. After seeing what books conservatives have been across the country I'm really concerned about the election.

My fear where we're going- they might start out with lgbtq+ books banned or books they consider explicit or books they consider multicultural but that's just the beginning. I may be paranoid but my concern is if groups like this start to take hold then it's going to be the most righteous Christofascist viewpoints, where you're not allowed to have any books with characters who are anything other than white and where you may get writing like this (from my mind): "the quarterback bent down to kiss his cheerleader girlfriend. You can't kiss me,  she said. I am saving my first kiss for the altar as you would if you were a righteous man."

Edited November 7, 2023 by Audrey2

[zeebaneighba]

I mailed my ballot in a couple of weeks ago.  There were only two things on it -- Mayor, which is between the incumbent who may be mildly corrupt, but is at least not a Koch-backed front for Americans for Prosperity that doesn't even know what the job entails like the other candidate, and at-large school board member.  I voted for the one who is not the right-wing nutjob.

[marmalade]

Big wins in Ohio. 

[47of74]

6 hours ago, zeebaneighba said:

I mailed my ballot in a couple of weeks ago.  There were only two things on it -- Mayor, which is between the incumbent who may be mildly corrupt, but is at least not a Koch-backed front for Americans for Prosperity that doesn't even know what the job entails like the other candidate, and at-large school board member.  I voted for the one who is not the right-wing nutjob.

And if there was a reich winger on the ballot in ward 11 I would have ranked the socialist candidate and the DFL candidate ahead of said reich winger. The polls closed at 8pm central time here so it's just a matter of waiting to see who won today.

[GreyhoundFan]

1 hour ago, marmalade said:

Big wins in Ohio. 

And Kentucky. Hooray for Governor Beshear.

[47of74]

And as I expected the DFL incumbent won.  She got 88% of the vote opposed to the candidate I voted for, who got 8%.  Then there were various write ins who got 4%.  I really didn't have any complaints about the incumbent for my ward.  It was more a matter of me telling her that things do need to change in Minneapolis and the status quo isn't working for a lot of residents.  Especially when it comes to things like crime.  Grrr....

[KSmom]

Just got home from a watch party and our school board candidate won! Our ballot was all local races. It makes me sad how low voter turnout is.

[Kiki03910]

I voted in my local election. We've gotta turn out. Also: yay, Ohio! Keep it going!

[47of74]

Saint Louis Park voters elected the first Somali-American in the nation.

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Nadia Mohamed made history Tuesday night.

The 27-year-old St. Louis Park City Councilmember defeated retired banker Dale A. Anderson to become the nation's first Somali American mayor.

"I am deeply honored and humbled by your support and the faith that you have placed in me," Mohamed said Tuesday. "This election is, of course, a momentous one as we already know, and I am truly grateful for the opportunity to lead our great city."

Meanwhile at 47of74 land I’ve got lots of popcorn for the GQP butthurt that is sure to follow today’s elections. 

[Kiki03910]

My town is on track to elect our first female mayor ever! LFG!

[Audrey2]

Crap! The three Moms for Liberty candidates look like they won the three open school board seats in my district. Prepare for challenges to classroom libraries and school libraries in 3... 2...1...

[fraurosena]

@GreyhoundFan, can you uncurl a little from your fetal position now?

 

[Kiki03910]

I hope the forced birthers lose big everywhere tonight, because I'm sick of feeling like life is a video game where we have to carry unwanted babies while fleeing murderous fucks with guns. The right won't be content until they have their boots on the necks of all women and POC. FIGHT THE POWER.

[GreyhoundFan]

11 hours ago, fraurosena said:

@GreyhoundFan, can you uncurl a little from your fetal position now?

 

Just a little bit. I’m glad Trumpkin won’t be unchecked. 

 

TFG always has to blame someone else:

[47of74]

13 hours ago, Kiki03910 said:

My town is on track to elect our first female mayor ever! LFG!

Des Moines elected it's first female mayor yesterday;

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Connie Boesen will follow Frank Cownie as Des Moines mayor, according to unofficial results Tuesday night. Boesen received 48% of the votes compared to Josh Mandelbaum's 46%, with 100% of precincts reporting. No other candidate received even 5%.

"We'll be able to keep moving forward on some of the things that I brought up during the campaign," Boesen said Tuesday night. "And it's really getting back to what we can do for our community.

"And, (we) made history — first woman mayor."

 

[SPHASH]

Andy Bashear is my early favorite for 2028

Frothy can go eat a dick.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ohio-abortion-marijuana-vote-results-proof-pure-democracies-are-not-the-way-to-run-a-country-says-former-sen-rick-santorum/

Former Pennsylvania Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed on Tuesday that Ohio’s decision to legalize marijuana and enshrine abortion in the state constitution was proof that “pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”

During an appearance on Newsmax, Santorum said, “Remember these elections, off-year elections, odd number elections are very low turnout elections. They are base elections and the Democrats have traditionally, number one, outspent us, not just on odd number year elections, but generally speaking.”

[47of74]

4 hours ago, SPHASH said:

Frothy can go eat a dick.

Frothy Santorum was a frothy mix of snow.  With a corncob here.....

Well at least according to Stephanie Miller and her cohosts.

[WatchingTheTireFireBurn]

6 hours ago, SPHASH said:

Andy Bashear is my early favorite for 2028

 

Southern Dem Governors have a good historical chance at presidency.  I don't know anything about this guy yet but I'm glad he's not 60+. The next dem candidate needs to be more traditional to woo back some of the independents. I didn't have any problem with H. Clinton but I know a lot of people who just straight up disliked her and certainly she put any republican leaning people right off. I personally rather we go  much more liberal but if it turns into another nut job gop president - it's not worth it. 

I'm very excited another abortion rights vote won!!!! Show those assholes.

Of course their new tactic is to push through a national ban, despite all these years going on about how it should be up to each state. Since we can't do it  nationally, we just need to get abortion rights in the states one by one. 

[GreyhoundFan]

Another GQP class act. /s

[WatchingTheTireFireBurn]

what in the world!

what's a machine machine?

Are democrats "nazis" now?? that seems odd. 

Why are democrats supposedly bad for jews?

as per usual....I"m very confused.

 

but what an ass!!

[47of74]

On 11/7/2023 at 11:02 PM, Audrey2 said:

Crap! The three Moms for Liberty candidates look like they won the three open school board seats in my district. Prepare for challenges to classroom libraries and school libraries in 3... 2...1...

Well I do have some good news about Moms for Hitler's Liberty's performance the other day.

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Iowa chapters of the far-right group Moms for Liberty endorsed 13 candidates in school board races across the state. Only one was elected.

The Tuesday loss is a stinging rebuke of Moms for Liberty, a “parental rights” organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center designated as an extremist group. What happened in Iowa mimics similar defeats suffered by the group and by Republicans in general throughout the U.S.

In Iowa, the only Moms for Liberty candidate who won was Nathan Gibson. He was elected school director for the Interstate 35 district, a rural district with fewer than 1,000 students.

But on Tuesday, voters across the country pushed back on the Moms for Liberty agenda. The organization endorsed more than 130 candidates across the country, and the vast majority of them lost—with some failing to get more than single-digit support.

 

[47of74]

Yeah, it was Keith Olbermann who coined the term "Moms For Hitler's Liberty."

<rant=starting>Up until now if I ever passed the bar and was admitted in Minnesota I had no intention of attending a centralized admissions ceremony with the oath administered by the Supreme Court.  All the hell they put me through no way am I going through their dog and pony show.  I'm thinking of finding a judge out in the middle of Nowhere, Minnesota to swear me in.  Probably Fillmore County since it's right over the border with Iowa.  And with the official reason being it being easier on my parents and family.

And now I have another good reason for boycotting the centralized supreme court ceremony.  They were so worried about offending Republicans they punted on the 14th Amendment questions. <rant=over>

[WatchingTheTireFireBurn]

So somebody has sent fentanyl laced letters to election officials. Could literally kill people.

The news (CBS) video is saying the most absurd things  (paraphrased)

"This may be someone who has a gripe over past elections"

"Maybe this person wants to do something to disrupt the election"

Ya think!!?

I bet it democrats. They're always doing stuff like that. /sarcasm.

 

I do not understand why- when it comes to covering extremist shit like this- somehow all the news organizations don't have any comment on who might have done such a thing or why. It's always a bit of a mystery. We need to get past this and stop saying oh somebody, we can't imagine who, might be upset about past elections.

NO. It should be : " a right wing republican terrorist group is trying to stop us from having free elections by killing postal workers and election workers and creating a deep fear in all elections workers so that they are afraid to do their jobs. Based on recent history the most likely perpetrators of this crime are Maga extremists. But of course that's not be proven yet. Federal officers are working hard to find these extremists and put a stop to this (actual) election interference."