Democratic state Rep. Melanie Stansbury won a special election to Congress for New Mexico on Tuesday, securing the seat left vacant when Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined the Biden administration.
Hopefully, a preview of the 2022 elections.
The Communist takeover of New Mexico continues apace.
I’d have thought that all this talk of expropriating the means of production, collective management and re-educating the rentier class woulda clued folks in by now!
I’m curious how the final numbers shake out. It appears the number of voters are lower and I hope the R voters stayed home while the D vote either stayed the same or increased.
We’ll see.
The percentages were reported as D:63 - R:33. I think some Libertarian was in there for the scraps.
I am mighty glad to see these results. Way to go, Albuquerque! I understand the Independent and the Libertarian running garnered only about 5% of the total between them.
The Voting Rights Act of 2025 will result in ballots cast by Republicans counting twice. President Cotton and his GOP majority Congress say “You’re welcome!”.
They wish.
So, she overperformed Biden by 7% and Secretary Haaland by 5%. That’s pretty damn good news.
That’s AWESOME!!!
Outperformed Biden and Haaland. Don’t know how that’s possible when R’s kept saying ‘defund the police’ at her.
Listened to an interesting interview this morn with a Texas Rep, regarding the new voting laws they’ll eventually push through down there. They’ll give a judge the power to throw out election results and award an election to the candidate with fewer votes, on the slim justification there is reasonable suspicion, or a few examples of, tainted or otherwise suspect ballots cast. No proof will be needed sufficient ineligible ballots were cast to cause a candidate to lose, just enough alleged shenanigans that a judge can toss the results and declare the loser the winner. Essentially “Because Texas”. The Rep, when confronted with the actual language in the bill (after a denial any such language existed) responded with a bunch of uneasy argle-bargle, and that was that.
So, maybe GOP votes won’t count twice in the future. But it won’t matter, because once 25>30 states replicate the Texas law the GOP will just have a bunch of partisan judges pick the winners. Based on GOP handpicked election boards and SecStates providing said judges justification by manufacturing doubt about the casting of ballots.
The only infrastructure that will ever be remotely associated with T****. Bound to have potholes, and a couple of failing bridges.
Too bad they had to use an exception, instead of it complying with the previous provision:
Lawmakers removed a previous provision in the legislation, first proposed in the Oklahoma state Senate, that required a person be deceased for three years before a portion of the highway can be named after them.
Actual results were slightly closer, but she still outperformed both Biden and Haaland. Great news in an off-year special election.
“Fake news! Democrats cheated! Everyone knows that I won this seat!” -A sad, orange man at the breakfast counter at Mar-a-lago.
Next up, Sen. Inhofe will name the OKC airport after Timothy McVeigh. Birds of the same Q feather. WWGOWGA. Or something or other…
How does this happen? The Republicans have been endearing themselves to the people for so long now. I just don’t understand.