More Election News

This is stuff that I did not notice on election day, but is, at least a bit, noteworthy.

First, in Pennsylvania, the 'Phants lost everywhere, most importantly in the state Supreme Court retention election, where despite the best efforts of the Republicans, the three justices retained their seats, and the court did not descent into a right wing morass of corruption and hypocrisy.

Also, in Bucks County, the last vestiges of the right-wing culture warrior anti-education school board were sent to the curb, and the county sheriff was turfed out largely on the basis of his aggressive support for the activities of the Sturmabteilung ICEactivities in the county. 

But it was not Pennsylvania.  In Mississippi, (!) 2 special elections ended the Republican super-majority in the Senate, meaning that Republicans will need Democratic votes in order to override a veto or amend the state constitution.

Also important, because it shows an increasing impatience with corporate stooges, was the Georgia Public Service Commission special election, where Democrats won both elections.  The board has been in the pocket of Georgia Power for decades, with rate increases routinely approved.

Also, these were the first state wide non-federal elections in the state to be won by Democrats in 2 decades.

The good people of Colorado

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In Texas’s Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD), which is the third largest in the state, progressive candidates won all three open board seats, giving them a 4-3 majority. Si

Two Georgia Democrats, Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson, won election to the state’s Public Service Commission, which regulates electricity, telephone services, and natural gas. Both candidates won with over 60% of the vote, according to unofficial results posted on the Georgia Secretary of State’s website. The commission will now have a 3-2 Republican majority.

For the first time in 13 years, Democrats in Mississippi have broken up a GOP supermajority in the state Senate. This victory for Mississippi Democrats came after a panel of federal judges ordered the Mississippi legislature to redraw its state House and Senate districts to create more majority-Black districts. The court found that the previous districts diluted the political power of Black voters, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

In Colorado, voters passed a pair of ballot measures to fund free meals at public schools by raising taxes on the rich across the state, with a side order of funding to buttress food stamps..

Finally, voters in Maine decisively defeated a measure put forward by anti-voting MAGAts.

One would hope that this carries over to next year, but I'm sure that Schumer, Jeffries, and the rest of the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) will find a way to f%$# things up.