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Victories in Kentucky and Virginia. Promise for doing better in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Virginia
Political Note #234 Turning Virginia Blue: House of Delegates and State Senate
These candidates are recommended by Daily Kos. They are crucial, Republican held seats Democrats can flip. Give them some money if you can. If you are close enough to volunteer, consider helping. Remember. This election is in November, 2019.
Political Note #231 Heather French Henry KY Secretary of State
Heather French Henry has had a twenty year commitment to veterans. So she has. Her father was a marine. He was disabled in Vietnam. Concern for veterans was her theme as Miss America. She took it seriously. The late Senator Paul Wellstone and the late Congressman Lane efforts honored her efforts to support homeless veterans by naming their proposal the Heather French Henry Homeless Veterans Assistance Act. If Paul Wellstone could take Heather French Henry, you can too
Continued Criticism, Part 3
Shmuley Tobeach claimed that Alexadria Ocasio-Cortez trivialized the Holocaust, the deaths of Jewish children. She compared American border camps for children with concentration camps. From conversation. With a person I respect. A person with deep ties to Israel; who is alert to the possibility of anti-Semitism. The horrors of the Nazi death camps cannot be diminished by describing someplace else as a concentration camp. The horror of the death camps stands by itself.
Political Note #220 Mary Cotter Smasal VA SD 08 Make Virginia’s Senate Democratic
Marry Cotter Smasal has become an icon of public safety in this military town well before the recent mass shooting. Through the public pressure she brought, the school district has taken the kind of safety measures most schools in the country have taken. Doors are locked and fitted with cameras. Once school is in session, someone enters the school only if buzzed in.
Political Note #219 Larry Barnett VA HD 27
2019 General Election Flipping Virginia Larry Barnett https://www.barnett4delegate.com/ is running to be the Delegate from Virginia District 27. This Note urges you to support him. The Note requires a detour. If Democrats can win Virginia’s House of Delegates and State Senate in November, 2019, they will have a trifecta. A Democratic Governor. A Democratic legislature. Democrats will make Virginia’s laws. The Democratic Attorney General, will protect those laws. Life will be good. What happens in states with Democratic trifectas? 538 did an analysis. These states raise the minimum wage . They legalize or decriminalize marijuana. They ban gay conversion…
Political Note #218 Roy Cooper North Carolina Governor
Roy Cooper was elected Governor of North Carolina in 2016. After sixteen years as attorney general. A Morehouse Scholar at the University of North Carolina. His election as Governor reflected his strengths and a changing North Carolina.
Political Note #216 Andy Beshear KY Governor
Andy Beshear is running against Matt Bevin, the most unpopular governor in the country, the governor he has been suing. Bevin will not be a pushover this November. No matter how unpopular, Bevin will attack relentlessly.
Political Note #213 Wendy Gooditis VA HD 10
Chaz Nuttycombe tells us HD 10 is a toss up. Wendy Gooditis, the incumbent Delegate for HD 10 is a responsive politician. in 2017, when she was first running, I wrote to her. She answered. Herself. That is what state level politicians do.
Political Note #212 Shelly Simonds VA HD 92
he could be the incumbent. She won the election in 2017. By a single vote. Or not. Unfortunately. She lost through bad luck. She is running again 2019.