Hood County is better described as being about an hour northeast of the Koffee Kup Kafe (currently the Koffee Kup Family Restaurant).
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If the reactionary coalition will just be good enough to split into the factions it holds together, and they then fall upon each other like hungry rats trapped in a pit, the John Lewis Voting Rights bill may not be an immediate necessity.
I would hate to be forced to count on it, however.
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Family restaurant. That’s usually a joint that serves shitty food and no booze.
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Note the (former) initials of the restaurant and you’ll better discern my point. It was not, shall we say, coincidental.
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“Our elections are the representation of free will, and if we can’t trust that our free will is being represented legally and accurately, then God’s will is being thwarted,” Pressley, a failed Austin City Council candidate turned critic of electronic voting machines, told county commissioners in April.
Here’s a thought: God might not care who wins your election. God isn’t even American.
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They took off the hoods but still serve 1/2 thick T-Bones cooked hard all the way through. With ketchup!
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I wouldn’t be so sure they took off the hoods in that area.
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God never mentioned America nor did anyone in the Bible. Matthew, Mark, Luke and Fred. None of them mentioned a New World, a land across the water or a vast unexplored wilderness.
Because they didn’t know about it. Sorry, no God folks.
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You’re gonna rile the Mormons.
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To me it’s a case of character being destiny. I imagine Bannon was the alpha dog at the misfit table in the high-school cafeteria, but that’s probably about as far as his authority will ever extend again. He had a decent run at doing a normal job once: some time as a naval officer, I believe, and a stint in banking. But his superficial intellect and adolescent emotions got the better of him and now he’s a Gingrich with more authoritarian leanings. All he wants to do is sow chaos. And people see him coming by now. Even Trump showed him the door. I’m not too worried Bannon’s going to rule over me with an iron hand. There are other fish to fry. I’m going to be canvassing for an off-off-year election this afternoon because we have GOP conspiracy theorists running for school-board positions. That won’t do. I’ll worry about shock troops when I see Bannon drilling them like Von Steuben, but until then there’s work to be done right here. And right here is wherever folks are.
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So if I have this right the county clerk is married to a former state representative that have a right wing radio show. So what does the position of a county clerk deal with? Why is Mr. Land a former state representative? How long has Mrs. Lang been the county clerk? Will they have to pay her more for this new responsibility?
So if this is how crazy a Republican majority county that went for Trump by 81% acts then why? Just why are they acting this way?
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Not even Biff? I would have thought that Jesus’ best friend would have mentioned something about the US of A.
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Hey in PA do school board candidates and city council members run with a party ID? Jay Ashcroft, son of John, wants to do this in MO. I just can’t figure out why I would need to know someone’s party ID when I already hate their positions.
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They want direct control of the election system. If you keep an OAN reporter out from anywhere, private meeting or not, maybe you aren’t a loyal soldier to the cause. If you’re a competent professional, that’s a bug, not a feature. Better an incompetent loyalist, in their view. They know in their bones a well-run democracy isn’t going to work for them. They need to cheat to win. It’s God’s will.
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Keeping the OAN reporter out of a private training session makes sense, is Christian Bobb even a Texas resident? If so was she planning on becoming a Texas poll worker? I would think that being a member of the media, of any stripe, would be a big no-no for being a poll worker.
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Sometimes in these local races candidates seem to run away from that party ID; they never mention it and seem to try to keep their distance because knowing the party affiliation peels off half the voters before they open their mouths. Name recognition is pretty important because these aren’t prominent races. So you make signs like “Ima Gneisspersen for Prothonotary” and leave it at that.
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But Hood County stands out nationally and within Texas because it offers a rare view into the virulent distrust and unyielding political pressure facing elections administrators even in communities that Trump safely won.
What needs to be foregrounded – but consistently is not – is the obvious: all that virulent distrust and unyielding political pressure is knowingly manufactured by authoritarian shysters and conmen, i.e., by the Republican war machine. That this is not foregrounded every time is why they get away with it and might succeed in destroying our democracy. Pussyfooting journalism rulz.
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I doubt the reporter had any interest in being a poll worker. It was a fishing expedition to learn about all the nefarious things that go on in the voting services office.
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