Being write-in candidates surely did not help. I’m not sure what hoops a candidate in a recognized party has to do to get on the ballot for a federal office but looking at the Arizona SoS site, the number of signatures is in the 1,500 range, easy enough to do in even an ultra-red district like Gosar’s.
They probably got a nicely worded letter about how they were now the nominee, but were not going to get any money from the party, or any other support in terms of volunteers and the like. Even a small campaign can get expensive, so there’s no way they’d want to pay for it out of their own pocket.
Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler cried on the floor of the House begging Congressmembers to vote against the Respect For Marriage Act, which would protect same sex marriage.
One cycle when I was living in Montana, there was a Democratic candidate (I think it was just for the state legislature, but it might have been for the state’s lone House seat) who was running on a literally zero budget. As in, he hadn’t even spent the $20 to register a domain name. I figured that if he couldn’t even take the race that seriously, that he had no business in the job, and voted for the Libertarian.
From link:
" This is not Hartzler’s first time fighting against the expansion of marriage protections — as the Kansas City Star first noted, prior to her time in Congress, Hartzler vehemently pushed for an amendment to be added to Missouri’s constitution that would define marriage as between a man and a woman.
Hartzler, who’s been in Congress since 2011, will not be returning in 2023 after losing her campaign for an open Senate seat."
Oh, that’s too bad.
What an overly dramatic asshole. True meaning of marriage to who? Evangelicals need to shut up.
Glad she lost her Senate bid.
The Florida legislator who sponsored the “Don’t Say Gay” bill has been indicted on federal fraud charges for stealing coronavirus relief funds.
He resigned today.
Eric Swalwell asked Jim Jordan, the head of the House Republican Judiciary Committee, if he repudiated the Tweet made under their account, which praised Kanye. He didn’t repudiate it, he only said, “that’s not on our account, that’s been deleted.”
It’s been vaporized, and Eric Swalwell has a faulty memory.
One of Nick Fuentes’ flunkies crashed the stage at the Game Wards to call Bill Clinton a Jew on a live mic.
I haven’t read any connection to Fuentes. I thought it was just a dare or a kid looking for internet immortality.
Some internet sleuths found what appears to be his Twitter and it’s full of groyper memes, and he’s apparently been a guest on Infowars.
Ah! Thank you.
Tim Scott fundraises by posing as the power company.
Sound more like a “Smart Republican Idea” to me!
She is getting awfully emotional about a bill that she thinks will have no effect.
Hartzler further called the bill “unnecessary,” and said that “Obergefell is not in danger,”
Huh, without this information I would have guessed that this guy was parodying Kanye, with a combination of a reenactment of his Taylor swift fiasco along with an extra dig at his idiotic antisemitism. Poe’s law strikes again!
It’s not a particular SRIOTD, but I really like this paragraph from a Slate article on the problems (some self-imposed) McCarthy will have assuming he gets the speaker’s gavel:
There’s a reason that Social Security is talked about as the “third rail” of American politics, an evocative phrase Kirk O’Donnell, an aide to Reagan-era Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill. Republicans, though, seem to have misunderstood the underlying metaphor all along. For them, cutting the flagship New Deal program is more like a third rail of cocaine, and they want to hit it again and again.
Kari Lake lawsuit demands the election be thrown out and she be declared the winner.