I watched yesterday to see which Republicans would reject Trump's bullshit about a transfer of power. The first two I saw were Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Ben Sasse (R-NE) and then late in the day a half-assed whimper from Lindsey Graham.
It’s long been suspected that certain countries and US states have been padding their statistics regarding both cases and deaths attributed to coronavirus.
Only yesterday, it was revealed how UK health officials have been ‘double counting’ COVID deaths through creative administrative record keeping.
More evidence also reveals how similar shady practices are being employed by state officials across America.
Diane Mitsch Bush (D)The Democrats lost Colorado's 6th district in the 2010 anti-blue wave. It was a Blue Dog-extinction election and Blue Dog John Salazar lost the seat to conservative state Rep. Scott Tipton, who he had beaten a few years earlier. The 6th makes up almost half a the state-- the whole western part of Colorado and most of the southern part.
On Friday, Elizabeth Warren released a list of congressional candidates she had just endorsed. The list included progressive champions like Jamaal Bowman (NY), Mike Siegel (TX), Charles Booker (KY) and Julie Oliver (TX). I'm sure all of them are overjoyed at her backing-- even if it's a little late in the game for Bowman and Booker, whose primaries are tomorrow.
Polling has told us a generic Democrat would beat Colorado's doomed Republican Trump enabler, Cory Gardner. Polling also tells us that Frackenlooper would beat Gardner-- or at least that he would have before he got busted and fined for taking bribes.
Ken Buck (R-CO) doesn't see anything wrong with stealing electionsMost Americans who have ever heard of Ken Buck just know him as one of the stupidest and most extreme neo-fascists in Congress. Many people say he's the single worst member of Congress. He represents the very backward, very red (R+13) High Plains district of eastern Colorado.
2014 was a good year for the GOP and a poor one for Democrats. In Congress 41 Republicans were part of the freshman class, but just 17 Democrats. The Democrats wisely elected Ted Lieu freshman class president. The Republicans, less wisely, elected Colorado crackpot and extremist Ken Buck their freshman class president.
When starting this series, we fully expected to find really strong arguments supporting the position taken by most Orthodox Christian Church jurisdictions – that the parish temples be closed to laity during the period of quarantine imposed on most of us in the “First World” (Europe, the Americas, China, Australia, the Far East) by the coronavirus and COVID-19 mitigation efforts.
Colorado Democrats will pick their Senate candidate in a primary on June 30. But the party had caucuses on Saturday, caucuses that were swept by the progressive in the race, Andrew Romanoff. I'll get into Andrew's big win in a moment but first let's take a look at an explanation of what the caucuses were all about aside from a popularity contest free of DSCC interference.
