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Voting is under way. Watched a news story last night about 3 women who are in Georgia to help get out the vote.
One is from California, one from Kentucky and I think the third came from Minnesota. They are pushing hard to get 50% they need today for Jon Ossoff to win and avoid the run off election.
Hollywood collides with Trump in Georgia race
Spoiling for a fight against a president it can’t stand, Hollywood has latched onto Tuesday’s special election for a suburban Atlanta congressional seat, eyeing the contest as a unique opportunity to tarnish Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.Many of the entertainment world’s liberal, politically active celebrities have showered Jon Ossoff, the leading Democratic candidate in Georgia’s Sixth District, with cash and campaign assistance — a harbinger, some of them say, of a sustained revolt against the president’s agenda.
“The end of democracy looks nigh. I think we all realize we can’t sit back, we can’t take things for granted. We can’t sit back and hope that somebody else does something, we have to do whatever we can, [so] we all gotta get woke, and that’s the mandate,” said actor John Leguizamo in an interview. “I wish there were more outspoken celebrities, athletes, artists, people with high profiles.”It’s unclear whether the influx of Hollywood support will help Ossoff in the race to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
It might even hurt his chances in the conservative-oriented district, since it helps feed into the Republican narrative about him: that he's an interloper whose support largely comes from outside the state of Georgia, let alone his district.“Hollywood is all-in on electing Ossoff,” Republican candidate Karen Handel’s campaign wrote to backers the day after actress Alyssa Milano and other celebrities campaigned in the district for him. “The Democrats have the liberal media and Hollywood celebrities to sing their praises.
But we have something better: YOU. It’s critical that we come together now to support Republicans committed to fighting against the Democrats’ liberal vision for America.”The special election represents the first sustained foray against Trump by leading activists within the heavily liberal industry. But it won’t be the last with a commander-in-chief quick to mock them and unsparing in his assessments of their efforts to support his opponent in the presidential race he won’t put behind him.
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Common Sense wrote:
Voting is under way. Watched a news story last night about 3 women who are in Georgia to help get out the vote.
One is from California, one from Kentucky and I think the third came from Minnesota. They are pushing hard to get 50% they need today for Jon Ossoff to win and avoid the run off election.
And the President, who is from New York, is pushing hard to keep Ossoff from getting 50%.
It's all fair, or it's all unfair.
We need to be consistent.
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Goose wrote:
Common Sense wrote:
Voting is under way. Watched a news story last night about 3 women who are in Georgia to help get out the vote.
One is from California, one from Kentucky and I think the third came from Minnesota. They are pushing hard to get 50% they need today for Jon Ossoff to win and avoid the run off election.
And the President, who is from New York, is pushing hard to keep Ossoff from getting 50%.
It's all fair, or it's all unfair.
We need to be consistent.
Yeah, don't get the idea that politics has EVER been just a local phenomena.
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Three women are coming to Georgia to help get out the vote? The horror of it all! What does encouraging people to exercise their right to vote have to with establishing a fascist government? Seems like more citizens voting would just get in the way.
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I didn't realize, until I read about this Georgia race, that congressional candidates don't have to live in the district they'd be representing. That seems weird to me.
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Damn right it's weird, Doug. Somebody needs to explain this to me. Inquiring minds want to know.
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US Constitution, Article I, Section 2:
1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
2: No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Last edited by Goose (4/18/2017 1:20 pm)
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Maybe back when the rules were written, living on one side of the state wasn't so different from living on the other side of the state? Beats me.
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Time to take a hard look at Article 1,Section 2. Times may have changed over the last 250 years or so. Just sayin'.