Continued Criticism, Part 3

June 28, 2019
Daily Bits / 2019 / Secretary of State / Year

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

June 23, 2019
General Election / State Elections / 2019 / State Senate / Year / Type of Election / Political Notes

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

June 13, 2019
General Election / State Elections / 2019 / Year / State House of Representatives or House of Delegates or Assembly / State / Type of Election / Political Notes / Virginia

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

June 9, 2019
Governor / 2020 / State Elections / Year / State / Political Notes / North Carolina

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

June 1, 2019
Governor / General Election / State Elections / 2019 / Year / State / Type of Election / Political Notes / Kentucky

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

May 17, 2019
General Election / State Elections / 2019 / Year / State House of Representatives or House of Delegates or Assembly / State / Type of Election / Political Notes / Virginia

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

May 12, 2019
General Election / State Elections / 2019 / Year / State House of Representatives or House of Delegates or Assembly / State / Type of Election / Political Notes / Virginia

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.

Political Note #208 Jennifer Riley Collins Mississippi Attorney General

April 22, 2019
General Election / State Elections / 2019 / Year / State / Attorney General / Type of Election / Political Notes / Mississippi

Will the people of Mississippi respond to a woman who is ex-military, religious, and an African American civil rights lawyer? We can give Jennifer Riley Collins a chance to find out.

Political Note #208 John Bel Edwards LA Governor

April 17, 2019
Governor / General Election / State Elections / 2019 / Year / State / Political Notes / Louisiana

John Bel Edwards is Louisiana’s Democratic Governor. He is running for reelection. ohn Bel Edwards’ father was a sheriff. His grandfather, too. His great grandfather as well. One more thing. So is his brother. The Edwards family is in a Louisiana political Hall of Fame for this accomplishment.

Political Note #198 Jim Hood MS Governor

February 26, 2019
Governor / Political Summary / State Elections / 2019 / Withdraw / Political Notes

Jim Hood is about as Mississippi as you can get. He has been the Mississippi Attorney General since 2003, the Democratic Attorney General. He is running for Governor in the November, 2019 election.