Why does her father’s money have anything to do with her political positions on immigration? Someone with a wealthy father can have political positions that I agree with and make me want to vote for her.
Six Ambien or six Haldol.
I have a mole in the local Republican Party who passes me public materials every once in a while, and he just gave me a copy of the Republican primary voting guide that’s being sent out to all registered R’s.
Their choice for Governor of California: John H. Cox. Their rationale, and I quote:
Word for word and punctuation for punctuation. Whoever wrote it apparently never got the memo that quotation marks always go after adjacent punctuation.
I wonder what those rural Republican farmers think of Trump’s trade war. Eh, must be the Democrats’ fault.
I’m currently going down my sample primary ballot to cross off all of the selections. It’s especially handy with judges, since no party or political philosophy is indicated for any of them. Saves me research. Also interesting: no recommendation for Secretary of State.
We got a flyer for the California primary which shows that the Republicans have given up on the Governor’s race. They supported all Republican candidates (although I’m sure it was just an oversight that they didn’t mention what party their choices were from), but for Governor, they’re endorsing John Chiang. Sound like they’re hoping Chiang will be a spoiler.
Not always but those who don’t are those filthy furriners, chiefly Brits.
Obviously they gave the job of writing copy to somebody other than an American.
We don’t always do that in American English. Personally, I follow the simple rule of putting quotes into quotation marks, and not putting non-quotes into quotation marks. Was the comma part of the quote? No? Then what’s it doing inside?
Actually, there’s one exception, when the entire thing is in parentheses. Otherwise, any ending punctuation is supposed to go inside the closed-quotes.
This one for Ron DeSantis, Republican candidate for governor of Florida, seems like a bad SNL sketch:
That’s one reason I’m still very hopeful about the outcome of the upcoming election: even in the past month I’ve been receiving ads from local politicians in the mail/my doorpost, and the Republicans only admit their party affiliation in small print at the bottom of the flyer, if at all.
Right on. I hate putting things inside quotation marks that are not part of the thing quoted. And I refuse to do it. Enough refuseniks and we carry the day.
Living in Ohio’s 12th congressional district, we’re at ground zero for the hyped race of the summer - Democrat Danny O’Connor vs. Troy Balderdash (not his real name, but close*).
If the ads and back-and-forth claims are to be believed, this is a contest between a Nancy Pelosi bodily appendage and a Donald Trump Mini-Me. I’ve gotten a succession of glossy “voter information” cards in the mail from Republican organizations warning of the squads of jack-booted thugs arriving to confiscate my guns under an O’Connor regime (I’ll probably be forced to shelter Mexican gang members in my house too). Almost none of these communications mention Balderdash by name.
Meantime, touching hand-inscribed postcards from Democratic volunteers have lately been arriving, touting O’Connor as a home-grown rural Ohio boy and telling me how vital my vote is (oddly, the cards are postmarked from places like Portland, Oregon and New York)**. I got a big glossy card yesterday from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee warning that “When someone checks your updated voting record, make sure they see you voted on August 7, 2018. Remember: who you vote for is private, but WHETHER OR NOT YOU VOTE IS PUBLIC RECORD.”
Hmm, who is this “someone” who’s going to check on whether I vote Tuesday? :eek::eek::eek:
Should be a fun next several days here, with armies of door-knockers reputedly coming out to stump for the candidates, Trump in town tonight…and after Tuesday’s special election, we get to do it all over again until November!
I’m tempted to get out my old Richard M. Nixon mask and wear it to answer the door when the party faithful come a’callin.
*Troy Balderson.
**the DCCC card’s flip side shows a panorama of images of people I’m supposed to not disappoint, about 75% of whom are black, women, or (better yet) black women. There are two token white men who appear to be no older than 25. Given the demographics of the district (87% white, 5% black) this choice of images seems unwise. You’d think the Democratic Party would’ve learned something from the 2016 debacle, but maybe not.
I got a couple of these even though it’s a matter of PUBLIC RECORD!! that everyone in my household has already voted.
Count me in.
According to a columnist in my local paper, there are similar voter-shaming efforts targeting Republican voters. EVERYONE will know if I don’t go to the polls. :eek::smack:
Desantis’s contributions to his ad:
“Build a wall.”
“Then Mr. Trump said, ‘You’re fired!’ I love that part.”
“Make America Great Again.”
The gushing fount of warmth that his curdling wife is, adds at this point: “People say ‘Ron’s all Trump’, but he’s so much more.”
“Bigly…So good.”
Anyone from Georgia here familiar with Micheal Williams?
And his groovy Deportation Bus?
Yeah, this spontaneous…
Mental illness doesn’t have to be a handicap to being elected to public office, as this classic ad demonstrates.
Incompetence is not a disqualifier either (this second ad isn’t all that great but it does mention the Straight Dope).
Do you have the right link? That’s John Candy in an old SCTV skit.
Um, yeah. It doesn’t have to be real to be a classic.
Real can be just as nutty though. I got an ad in the mail today from a candidate for state representative, a race I admit I have not been paying attention to.
“Bobby Mitchell is a veteran and a pastor. He won’t be silenced.”
It seems that the guy running against Bobby has hired “political hitmen”, and they have “sent operatives to track Bobby Mitchell, his wife and children”, “tried to suppress his vote” and “tried to keep him out of public office” (I thought that was the point of running against somebody, but nevermind).
There’s an inspiring photo of Bobby in the ad, saluting something or other, alongside the heading FEAR NO EVIL.
So I am led to believe my choice here is between a racist stalker and a flaming loon.
Oh, it’ll be a fun time at the polls.
Claire McCaskill has released a radio ad stating that she’s not “one of those crazy Democrats.” It may alienate her base at a time when she needs all the D voters in Missouri out in full force.