This…
… tells me that this…
… is overblown.
Katie Porter only pulled in a little over half a million votes and most of the 1.2 million folks who showed up to vote for Trump or Haley were going to vote for some Republican. Garvey had name recognition from his baseball career without Schiff’s help. I’m sure Schiff boosted him a little, but Garvey beat Porter almost 2 to 1. I don’t think Schiff’s efforts were a difference maker no matter how much the folks on TV like talking about it.
While I voted for Porter I’m happy with Schiff.
I wish we could have kept Porter (or Schiff if Porter won) in the House.
I hope she gets back into the game in one way or another. She’s great.
The race in New Jersey to replace Bobby Goldbars isn’t as important as others because it would take a glitch in the matrix for a Republican to win. I don’t know who any of the Republican candidates are and I live here.
The Democratic race is between Rep Andy Kim who as far as I can tell has been a good congressman and Tammy Murphy who is a former Republican and wife of a rich guy. It’s surprisingly close. Polls of voters are giving Kim the edge. There are reports of Gov Murphy strong arming county leaders to support his wife. That’s important because the counties have the power to set up the ballot. A favorable line on the ballot has been shown to be an advantage. So business as usual in New Jersey. At least Tammy is rich enough that she won’t be taking any gold bars from people.
I really like Porter, but it was Schiff I wrote to after something he did or said at the trump impeachment trial, thanking him for his good work, so I voted for him.
I hated his commercials. He came across as phoney. (Discourse does not like the word phoney.)
Those Fairshake ads against Porter pissed me off. I don’t know who’s behind Fairshakes, but the ads they ran have been rated as false.
I have not seen the ads because I don’t live there. PACs for one party will sometimes run ads in primaries against a candidate in the other party. Often to try and get a favorable matchup. I don’t know if that’s the case here. Rep Jeff Jackson recently posted a video explaining it. Since he’s getting gerrymandered out of his seat he’s running for state AG (he won the primary on Tuesday). He quoted how much his opponent officially raised then explained that the negative ads being run against him didn’t come from his opponent. They were made and paid for by a Republican PAC.
Upon further googling, it appears to be a Crypto Super PAC.
I’m not sure if there has been a more 2020s sentence than that.
I keep hearing about how important it is, but I really don’t understand this whole “county line” business y’all have in New Jersey.
Side note: Because it is spelled phony. (In the US, at least).
You know, I struggled with that. I used to be a very good speller, but phony didn’t look right to me. So I’ll just claim I’m not from the US.
I’m embarrassed about it anyway.
So… where ya from, nwyde?
Kim would practically have my vote for this alone: 'What else could I do?' NJ Rep. Kim helps clean up Capitol | AP News
:: Golf clap ::
Hell, I live in Illinois and I was deluged with emails and texts from both Schiff and Porter!
That’s so weird, thing.Fish. I’m a longtime D in California and received no marketing from any senatorial campaigns. I wonder what’s the relation between Illinois and California in the senate.
I got plenty of emails from both of them. I’m in Washington state.
I saw a ton on Facebook. Plus lots of emails.
Registered Non Partisan in California. Not a peep. Not even snail mail.
I made a small donation to Pete Buttigieg when he was running for President and later made a donation to Lori Lightfoot in her first campaign for Mayor of Chicago. At most they were $100 each. I don’t recall making any other campaign donations.
I now get endless political fundraising emails from the state D parties in AZ, NV, WA, WI, MI and probably some other states I am forgetting. Pretty much nothing from the Illinois Democratic Party or the DNC.
Before those donations there was nothing. I assume they sell lists of donors to each other, which makes sense.
I also get endless political fundraising emails. At least 20 every single day.
The funniest/saddest were the emails from Nancy Pelosi. Often I’d get two in a row. First one would say “Terrible news! That’s why we need money.” The next would say “Wonderful news! That’s why we need money.”
David Sedaris joked about making a substantial online donation to Hillary in 2016, and within hours receiving a campaign email that said, in essence, “Thanks for your generous donation! Would you please send us more money now?”