2022 Midterms

[Dontrike]

I really don't want to make a new thread, so sue me.

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From my home state and we are doing some progressive legislation right now with an all Dem leadership. Partisanship and I'll get to that, this is such a great bill. Letting kids get meals during school period should not be a discussion, period.

But of course....

Why should students with multimillionaire parents get a free school lunch paid for by the taxes we took from a nurse who makes $55k/yr?

That’s not “compassion”.

It’s theft

So this asshole is Elliot Engen, some ass-twat from idk wherever representing some Minnesota district, not mine. Check out his Twitter, he is basically a Madison Cawthorn clone. Screams douchebag.

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Preaching god and compassion bs. Typical.

The same argument these people used for reducing college debt "It will also affect the rich so we shouldn't help the other 99%." They're grasping at straws trying to come up with any excuse to get their gullible zealots an excuse for not wanting to help others.

[Breccia]

Kari Lake Teases New 'Shocking' Evidence to Overturn Arizona Election

Yeah, she claims she'll show it in court. Which, yes, is coming up soon.

UPDATE: It wasn't shocking and it wasn't overturned.

...I mean, fucking duh, but still, it's official. Kari Lake loses appeal in Arizona governor race challenge.

F in the chat, boys.

In a ruling on Thursday, the Arizona Court of Appeals wrote Lake, who claimed problems with ballot printers at some polling places on Election Day were the result of intentional misconduct, presented no evidence that voters whose ballots were unreadable by tabulators at polling places were not able to vote. The court said that even a witness called by Lake to testify had confirmed that ballots that couldn’t initially be read at polling places could still ultimately have their vote counted.

And while a pollster who testified on behalf of Lake claimed the polling place problems had disenfranchised enough voters to change the outcome in Lake’s favor, the court said his conclusion were baseless.

The appeals court wrote Lake’s appeal failed because the evidence supports the conclusion that “voters were able to cast their ballots, that votes were counted correctly, and that no other basis justifies setting aside the election results.”

Finally. It's over. It's done. With no evidence and no legal standing, the appeals court was her last--

Shortly after the ruling, Lake tweeted: “I told you we would take this case all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court, and that’s exactly what we are going to do. Buckle up, America!”

(deep breath)

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU---

[Gorsameth]

There really needs to be bigger punishments for bringing a case with no evidence.

[Poopymonster]

Unrelated to the above, but wasn't this thread getting locked a little while ago?

Until Caging Runts like Kari Laki get their shit pushed in/straightened out in court, the 2022 midterms are still in dispute legally in a some sense.

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(deep breath)

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU---

Be prepared to FUUUU longer and bolder when she tries to take it to SCOTUS

[Flarelaine]

Unrelated to the above, but wasn't this thread getting locked a little while ago?

It was left open with the specific purpose of discussing any remaining appeals. As discussion of the new Congress moved to the designated thread with a few grumbles, actually locking this one was not pressing.

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https://kjzz.org/content/1838939/ari...investigations

Consequences of elections, AZ AG won't investigate banks anymore.

OUTRAGEOUS? No, that was bait, like the headline of the article.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office says it will no longer investigate major banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America over environmental, social and governance-related investment practices.

Communications director Richie Taylor said the previous AG had five attorneys working on these investigations, but he declined to say what they found.

"The office is more focused on issues that affect and directly impact Arizonans like issues of consumer protection, senior and elder fraud–those types of things," Taylor said. "Things that Attorney General Mayes has signaled as her priorities."

In announcing the inquiry last year, then Attorney General Mark Brnovich said he was concerned banks would deny loans to people who work with fossil fuels.

"These financial institutions are entrusted with protecting a different type of green,” Brnovich said in his announcement.

In October, the state asked the banks for documents related to their involvement with the United Nations’ Net-Zero Banking Alliance. Banks who are members of NZBA have to set emissions reduction targets in their lending and investments to zero before 2050. The state also asked banks to reveal what other climate initiatives they were part of and why, before Mayes suspended the practice last month.

She's reversing course on the actions from noted liar and former AG Mark Brnovich - the guy who withheld evidence proving there was no election fraud in his state to continue spreading lies and propaganda - who was seeking to use the government to punish private businesses for having policies and investment strategies the Republican party disagrees with.

Why? Because the AG's office has shit to do that actually impacts regular Arizonans and can potentially make meaningful improvements in their lives instead of going after a bank because they won't invest in Smith & Wesson or BP.

[Benggaul]

Oh you thought this thread was done? You underestimated Texas GOP:

Texas releases another audit of elections in Harris County, where GOP still challenging losses

A second Texas audit in as many years of elections in Harris County, the third-most populous county in the U.S., called for improvements but does not suggest that race outcomes in 2022 were impacted by issues that Republicans have used to contest losses and take more control over voting in the Democratic stronghold.

The preliminary report by Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson, a Republican, was released days before Houston residents begin early voting for a new mayor. It also follows Republicans increasingly targeting elections in the county of nearly 5 million people, a size that makes Harris politically significant as Democrats try to end decades of GOP dominance in the state.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law this year that removed Harris County's elections administrator and transferred the responsibility to other local officials. One is County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth, who in response to the audit said her office is working to make sure “past issues are not repeated” but defended previous elections as successful.

“But the public should know that ‘successful’ isn’t the same thing as 'flawless,’” Hudspeth said.

Democrats who lead Harris County have acknowledged issues, including limited paper ballot shortages and machine malfunctions, on Election Day last year. But they said the difficulties were not intentional and have accused critics of stoking conspiracies.
Nelson, who was appointed by Abbott, said the county “clearly had multiple failures" last year. Republicans cheered the findings as justification for the new laws that transferred election oversight.

“It is important to talk about these issues now in order to address them before the 2024 election cycle," Nelson said.

Republican candidates have challenged losses in races across the county last year but there has been no evidence that the issues affected the outcomes. The first lawsuit went to trial earlier this year but a judge has yet to rule on the case.

Another new law signed by Abbott earlier this year clears the way for Nelson's office to potentially take oversight of Harris County elections. Following the 2020 election, Texas also audited elections in Harris and three other counties, which came after former President Donald Trump falsely claimed the election was stolen and pressured Abbott to review ballots.

Nearly 3 years later and the Texas GOP are still trying to grasp at any straw they can that they think they can use to disenfranchise people in a Democrat foothold within the state.