You can contribute to Mike Olbermueller's campaign hereAmerica Rising LLC-funded America Rising PAC, a right-wing front group for the Republican Party, is pretty much acknowledged to be one of the shadiest political operations in the country, the bottom of the barrel for the anti-American right.
Actual wrong guyFriday night, Bill Maher ended his big-buzz Flip A District competition by announcing the right-wing jerk he would work to defeat in November: John Kline in southeast Minnesota. Democrats have grown unaccustomed to anyone holding any Republican Party leaders or committee chairmen, like Kline, accountable for their destructive policy agendas.
We haven't really been covering the Arkansas elections this cycle. Basically, all the contests are classic lesser or two evils situations-- Democrats rated D or F and Republicans rated F-minus. Is there anything less than an F these days?
This morning, Taegan Goddard took a look at the much-talked-about NY Times piece from a few days ago, Where Are The Hardest Places To Live In The U.S.? Clay County, Kentucky was the hardest and the Times compared Clay to Los Alamos County by showing specific contrasts: "Only 7.4 percent of Clay County residents have at least a bachelor’s degree, while 63.2 percent do in Los Alamos.
As you know, tomorrow (June 30) marks the end of the FEC's arbitrary reporting quarter. Candidates are hysterical and following DCCC suggestions to burn their lists with a constant barrage of requests for contributions.
Bill Maher had some fun with right wing hustler and hypocrite Ralph Reed on his show Friday night. Reed, the head of the so-called Faith and Freedom Coalition, a GOP front group dedicated to electing right-wing Republicans to office by suckering paranoid and superstitious rubes, will host well-known libertine and glutton, Chris Christie at their annual conference on June 20.
Over the weekend Minnesota Democrats had their congressional district nominating conventions. There were two we were watching. One ended badly and one ended well. The one that ended badly was for the open red district (PVI is R+10) that Michele Bachmann is leaving. Joe Perske, a hopeless conservative won the right to challenge whomever wins the GOP primary, in all likelihood, far right sociopath Tom Emmer.
Neither Democrat running against Staten Island Mafia thug Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm deserves to be elected-- not even over one of the worst and most corrupt Members of Congress ever. Domenic Recchia is a typical Steve Israel-recruited mystery-meat hack who isn't fit to collect a civil servant check, and Erick Salgado, a hate-mongering bigot and right wing sociopath, is even worse.
Farenthold & GrimmIn January, Bill Maher promised to try to flip a district. I was hoping he would work his magic on the North Shore of Long Island-- the Gold Coast, home to Princesses Long Island-- and go after Steve Israel.
