I Gotta Get off My Ass and Get Moving Like These Dems
These folks sure didn’t spend the last 12 months sulking. They got shit done!
Mazahir Salih will be the first Sudanese-American to join the Iowa City Council following her win on Tuesday.
Lisa Middleton is the first openly transgender person to be elected to a non-judicial office in California. She’s joining Palm Springs’ city council.
Laura Curran will be the first female county executive for New York’s Nassau County.
Cathy Murillo’s victory on Tuesday makes her the first Latina mayor of Santa Barbara, California. She has been a city councilwoman since 2011.
Booker Gainor, 27, will become Cairo, Georgia’s, first African-American mayor.
Mary Parham Copelan will become Milledgeville, Georgia’s, first female African-American mayor, beating incumbent Gary Thrower by just six votes.
Brendon Barber will become the Georgetown South Carolina’s first ever African-American mayor.
Jonathan McCollar will become the first African-American mayor of Statesboro, Georgia, defeating incumbent Jan Moore.
Janet Diaz will become the first Latina member of city council in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Kathy Tran, a former Vietnamese refugee, became the first Asian-American woman to join Virginia’s House of Delegates,
Voters in St. Paul, Minnesota, made history by electing Melvin Carter as the city’s first African-American mayor.
Jenny Durkan will become Seattle’s first lesbian mayor.
Wilmot Collinsa refugee from Liberia, a 54-year-old Naval reservist and child protection specialist with the Montana Department of Health and Human Services, will become the first black mayor in Montana’s history.
Elizabeth Guzman and Hala Ayala defeated Republican incumbents to become the first two Latinas elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.
Hoboken, New Jersey, elected Ravinder Bhalla as its mayor Tuesday night, which will make Bhalla the first Sikh American to be elected mayor of the city.
Tyler Titus won a seat on the Erie School Board, becoming the first openly transgender person to ever be elected in the state of Pennsylvania.
Joyce Craig will be the first woman in the Manchester New Hampshire’s 266-year history
Yvonne Spicer was elected the first mayor of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts.
Vi Lyles was elected as Charlotte, North Carolina’s first female African-American mayor, defeating Republican candidate Kenny Smith.
New Jersey elected Sheila Oliver as its first female African-American lieutenant governor.
Justin Fairfax was elected to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor.
Transgender activist Andrea Jenkins was elected to the Minneapolis City Council, becoming the first openly transgender African-American woman elected to the city council of a major U.S. city.
Virginia elected its first openly transgender state lawmaker on Tuesday, voting Democrat Danica Roem into the state’s House of Delegates.
And you would be the first…Amish undercover GOP operative elected as a Democrat.
True!
A quarter of the way through our Great National Nightmare, the people are showing signs of waking up.
The gains you cite are impressive. However, this was an off-year election, in which efforts could be concentrated in a small number of states.
The takeaway: Don’t take anything for granted. The real work starts today.
Lee Carter in Virginia’s 50th House District:
Democrat Lee Carter, a red-haired, 30-year-old Marine veteran from Manassas, won a remarkable nine-point victory to oust Delegate Jackson Miller, a deep-pocketed Republican incumbent who serves as House Majority Whip. Carter ran openly as a socialist—he and his supporters crooned the union anthem “Solidarity Forever” after their victory—and he won with almost no institutional support from the state Democratic Party.
Yes. Him too. jeez.
BTW…I really like this guy, Carter.
“Carter came to his political ideology recently—as in, just last year. “I was actually already running by the time I considered socialism as an economic philosophy,” he told me. “My introduction to it actually came through the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders. He went out there and said, ‘I’m a democratic socialist. Here’s what that means: It means I believe in strong unions, health care for everybody, and an end to discrimination.’ Well, that’s what I believe in, too. I dug a little more into it, and I realized a lot of the problems we have in today’s society reflected in electoral politics are symptoms of economic problems.”
“At the same time, Carter was happy to talk about socialism when asked. “If you’re to the left of Barry Goldwater, Republicans are going to call you a socialist anyway, so you may as well just own the label,” he said. “The issues that I care about and the issues that the Democratic Socialists of America are working on are the issues that the Democratic Party’s voter base cares about.”
Yep, and on Morning Joe, Mike Lupica was arguing about how the party must stay moored to the center to keep out the ‘Bernie Sanders crazies’.
Hey, they’re already here, and they play better with other D’s than the Third Way DINO’s ever have.
Just for a laugh, I switched on Limbaugh for a few minutes while driving a little while ago. He is spinning so hard, he had higher RPMs than my car-
This Mike Lupica?
Can you imagine two of him?
I think there’s a sportswriter factory that churns them out.