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Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by busymom0 »

nostromo wrote: post #98
changoplatanero wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because the other candidate was seen as an extreme left-winger

That’s been a selling point in Seattle for a long time. Apparently she was just a bridge too far with tweets like these: https://www.twitter.com/ntkallday/status/1287215672372625410 https://www.twitter.com/ntkallday/status/1282015687603417089... Or deleted tweets like “I have not taken any of this anti bias training but i for sure hate this country” Keep in mind, 40% of votes went to this candidate. Her campaign mana…

> YAY! Thank you to the heroes that set the Children's Jail on fire.

> This is a nice start. Lookin good Kenosha. (entire car lots burnt to the ground)

And she was running to be the Attorney?

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Post by tootie »

baldeagle wrote: post #13

Meanwhile in Texas, each State Senate District has 940,178 people. 70,000 people in a state senate district just seems more workable.

The two US senators for South Dakota got fewer than 300,000 votes each and both won by a mile. Curtis Sliwa got more votes than either of them while getting trounced in the NYC mayoral election.

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Post by BuyMyBitcoins »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #65
busymom0 wrote: post #29

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Love it how basic and down to earth his ad is.

sort of like how GW Bush was the one you'd rather have a beer with (than Al Gore)? When will Americans realize that being "the sort of down to earth person you'd rather have a beer with" is not a qualification for political office?

Likability has always been a factor in democracies. It serves as a proxy for trust and a proxy for similarity.

Both major political parties try to use the “down to earth/have a beer with” PR move. AOC was celebrated for being a bartender prior to being elected. She was quite literally someone who you could share a beer with.

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Post by wrycoder »

stickyricky wrote: post #5
umvi wrote: post #2

Any (relatively) unbiased sources that explain how NJ got into this predicament? Just current leadership being out of touch with the wants/needs of NJ citizens?

There is an interesting story about Madigan in Chicago. Ran the Illinois machine. Corrupt as all hell. A college student decided to run against him and collected enough signatures to get on the ballot. Madigan typically ran unopposed. Well come to find about, of the 500 people who signed the petition to get this kid on the ballot, 1200 rescinded their support. You do the math. These people aren't loved. They just kno…

0.1% were dictating policy. The other 19.9% of the votes were just following directions.

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Post by WillPostForFood »

reaperducer wrote: post #88
gumby wrote: post #78

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This is the reason politicians get salaries.

The vast majority of elected offices in the United States are unpaid.

Do you have a citation for that? Interesting if true, however 100% of State and Federal legislators are paid.

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Post by travoc »

gumby wrote: post #87
rlt wrote: post #20

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> how NJ got into this predicament? Possibly due to attitudes like describing an average citizen beating a career politician as “a predicament”

There is a minor way in which this situation can become a predicament. Outsiders who become governors don’t tend to have a network or know how the mechanisms work, so tend to either get nothing done or end up having little input into things being done by those who do know those things. But having an outsider as a legislative member is generally a good thing. In California we have term limits, so no member of the legi…

For those who think government has too much power, getting nothing done isn’t as bad as it seems.

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Post by twofornone »

judahmeek wrote: post #83
PKop wrote: post #41

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You mentioned statistics in another comment of yours, just slightly above this one. Can you show me statistics regarding this "real and obvious risk of psychological and social harm" of children wearing masks?

That's disingenuous. These statistics won't necessarily manifest for years, if they're teased out of sociological data at all. Someone has to go looking for them in the first place, and in this environment its unlikely that anyone will stick their neck out to suggest that masks are counterproductive.

This is the danger of politicized science. It becomes one sided and a-scientific.

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by busymom0 »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #65
busymom0 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love it how basic and down to earth his ad is.

sort of like how GW Bush was the one you'd rather have a beer with (than Al Gore)? When will Americans realize that being "the sort of down to earth person you'd rather have a beer with" is not a qualification for political office?

> have a beer with

A truck driver being down to earth is very different from career politicians like Bush.

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Post by voz_ »

vkou wrote: post #84
celtain wrote: post #72

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To be clear though, that was a somewhat unusual race, e.g. the incumbent progressive Democrat probably would have won if he hadn't been knocked out in the primary. The ex-Democrat, Obama/Clinton/Biden-voting Republican who won benefited greatly from the fact that her opponent had some pretty radical views, too radical even for Seattle.

Seattle has always been a socially liberal, bend-over-backwards for business town. It's how it can legalize marijuana and magic mushrooms, while having 11,000 people living in tents and homeless shelters. Unsurprisingly, since nobody likes seeing tents in city parks, and by the I-5 on-ramps, the city voted for a slate of politicians that will... Maintain the status quo. There's no plan for getting ~5,500 people house…

I don't want status quo, but I also don't want them housed. I want the ones that steal, rape, squat in parks, do drugs, sell drugs, defecate in public, and litter to all be thrown in jail.
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