Monthly Summary — January 2020
January special elections. If they are a sign of what's coming, what's coming is not great.
Political Note #263 Brandy Chambers TX HD 112
Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website. Flip those state legislatures, This is what change looks like. Political Note #263 Brandy Chambers TX HD 112 2020 General Election Help Texans change Texas. Help Texans flip the Texas House of Representatives. Pundits have predicted change in Texas for a while. In 2018, Beto O’Rourke came close. He almost flipped a US Senate seat. While he was at it, Texas Democrats flipped a dozen seats in the Texas House of Representatives. Nine more and Texas would have a Democratic House of Representatives. Texas Democrats would have the capacity to exercise…
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 #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 #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.
Political Note #181 Flipping State Legislatures
This Note summarizes the political circumstances of selected states where Democrats have aspirations of gaining in State legislatures, of gaining a majority in State legislatures.
Political Note #68 Mike Mullin VA HD 93
Mike Mullin is a law and order liberal -- a politically effective position. He is running against the candidate he beat in the special election to win this seat. He continues to serve as a Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Suffolk. He stresses his commitment to opposing gang violence and has been certified by the Virginia Gang Investigator's Association as a Gang Investigator.
Political Note #63 Schuyler VanValkenburg VA HD 72
Originally from New York, Schuyler VanValkenburg went to the University of Richmond. He married and stayed in Virginia. He has been teaching school. National Board Certified, he is good at it. Much as he may love to teach, but is now a politician -- running for an open House of Delegates seat. His first few issues include infrastructure spending, fixing the tax code, and adopting the medicaid expansion that is part of the ACA. He concludes with education spending.
Political Note #62 Dawn Adams VA HD 68
Dawn Adams is a six foot tall athlete. She joined the US Coast Guard when she was 17 and left as a Captain. She served as a search and rescue pilot. An extremely hard worker, she made her way through college and graduate school. She became an RN, a nurse practitioner, and earned a doctorate. Now she is Head of the Office of Integrated Health for the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. She is no bureaucrat. She is an inspiration.