The Cowardly Lions of Free Speech
Bill Moyers continues to be one of the most insightful and moral champions of of genuine democracy. Here, he discusses the implications for the Supreme Court decision to not revisit their Citizens United decision.
Daniel G. Anderson’s Crackpot 1/2 Page News Journal Ad
Quoting such well known thinkers as the guy who said, "Keep it simple Stupid," this guy takes out a 1/2 page ad in the Sunday Dead Tree Edition to urge people to vote for Mitt Romney.
The 62 District Strategy for Both Parties [2012]
So as El Som says, we are coming down to it. El Som covers the recent filings this week in his Political Weekly column, the most important of which are for the newly open seats that Speaker Gilligan (the 19th) and Terry Schooley (the 23rd) are vacating. As he mentions, none of the endorsed GOP statewide candidates have filed. And as we will see below, the GOP is lagging far behind the Democrats in finding candidates for the General Assembly.
The filing deadline for individual candidates is July 10. If Jeff Cragg, Sher Valenzuela, Kevin Wade, and Tom Kovach all fail to file their candidacies by then, all hope is not lost for the GOP and it doesn't mean Governor Markell et al are automatically reelected without opposition. For there is another deadline further out in the distance: September 4, 2012. That is the deadline for Certificates of Nomination from the two major parties to fill ballot lines for offices in which there is not a primary election.
So for a lot of the races below, the real deadline to keep in mind is September 4. So the GOP has about 8 more weeks to scramble to fill all of those empty spaces you will see below in our charts. Still, all of those empty spaces points to a horrible recruiting failure on the part of the State GOP. Especially for a party that once, earlier this year, had designs on recapturing the Senate after many decades.
Late Night Video — The Jersey Shore
The Chris Christie edition, where he *is* The Out-of-Control Situation:
Oh. Dear. God.
It's like a bad imitation of a Lon Gisland accent, like Mike Myers / Coffee Talk on Saturday Night Live.
McMurray to Challenge Carper?
Yesterday I got a tip from someone that Bill McMurray was going to try to challenge Tom Carper. I reached out to him to see what he has planned.
So far, he's got a website, a treasurer and $500. He hopes to raise the remainder of the filing fee (another $10K) in the next few days.
Romney’s healthcare flip/flops provide Obama with multiple lines of attack
Check out these recent stump speech quotes from Obama, and count the ways Romney has screwed himself:
“The guy I’m running against tried this in Massachusetts and it’s working just fine, even though he denies it,”
July 4th: Kovach Meets Regular Sized Baby Being Held By Giant Baby
I can't tell if the regular sized baby is holding an even smaller baby in some Twilight Zone, nesting doll situation.
Grab-bag of Asshattery
We did away with the asshat of the day posts a while ago (too much to keep up with). So today I offer a grab bag of asshattery.
First, we have New Hampshire Republican legislator Bob Kingsbury who claims that kindergarten leads to higher crime.