Political Note #513 Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky elections

Check out the website: https://lenspoliticalnotes.com  Look at the recent Political Notes and Len’s Letters on the website:  October 13th   , 2022          Political Note #513 Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky elections 2022                          General Election This is the South.  Except for Georgia which is some kind of mixture of the South and an industrial state. Except for Tennessee and Kentucky which are border states.  South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi really are the South. Together, these states. Altogether, these states, which have a total population about half way between Texas and California, have 12 Senators to Texas’s 2.  Here is…

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103120 Lens Letters #33 What should the Democrats do about the Federal Courts?

Joe Biden’s Commission should propose an expansion of the District Courts and the Circuit Courts of Appeals.

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Political Note #332 The Campaign for the Senate

Can Democrats complete this cycle with a 56-44 US Senate majority?

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Len’s Letters #30 Male Candidates for Whom Donations Could Make A Difference

Choose a few of these.  Make donations. It is easy.  Just go to the links for their websites.

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Women Candidates for Whom Donations Could Make a Difference

A reader asked. Can you put together a list of 30 candidates for the House of Representatives for whom donations would make a difference? Some Senate candidates, too?

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Political Note #217 Jaime Harrison SC US Senate

2020               General Election At the end of the rainbow A pot of gold. Jaime Harrison https://jaimeharrison.com is a prize. An improbable prize. Too good to be true. Too good to ignore. Worth searching for a path to victory. Worth searching for the resources to fund that path. Child of a single teenage mother. Raised by grandparents. In Orangeburg, South Caronlina. Not far from the state capitol. 13,000 people. 75% African American. Two Historically Black Colleges – South Carolina State and Claflin University give it an academic tone. Jaime Harrison went to the local high school. The first in his…

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Political Note #199 Joe Cunningham SC CD 01

There was a nice combination of Joe Cunningham’s professional strength and the issue he pounded his opponent with. Joe Cunningham is an ocean engineer and a lawyer. He was blessed with an opponent who saw nothing wrong with the President’s proposal for offshore oil drilling. He found a way to get noticed in Congress. He was stopped on his way into Congress. His beer was confiscated.

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Political Note #10 Archie Parnell SC CD 05

Archie Parnell is a local who has returned to a town near where he grew up and his running for Congress. He has degrees from the University of South Carolina, the University of South Carolina Law School, and a Master of Laws in taxation from Georgetown Law School. He has a definitely not slick video of him and his wife talking about his passionate interest in taxation. His area of expertise and his passion are tax issues which he worked on for Goldman Sachs in the Far East.

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