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2024 Races (Non-president)

Live shot of senator-elect Hogan, the 51st man.



birdman said:
One potential bonus for FL Dems is the marijuana ballot measure and the abortion rights ballot measure.
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It hasn't worked before.

In 2016, Floridians voted to legalize medical marijuana at 71.3%. The Dem senate candidate only got 44.3% of votes, about 2.4 million fewer votes than the amendment. Hillary only got 47.8%.

In 2020, Floridians voted for a $15 minimum wage at 60.8%. Biden only got 47.9%, about 1.1 million fewer votes.

There's either a major disconnect between the issues and candidates or FL voters believe they can vote for the issues and Republicans will just have to abide by the amendment.
 
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PhDeac said:
Live shot of senator-elect Hogan, the 51st man.




It hasn't worked before.

In 2016, Floridians voted to legalize medical marijuana at 71.3%. The Dem senate candidate only got 44.3% of votes, about 2.4 million fewer votes than the amendment. Hillary only got 47.8%.

In 2020, Floridians voted for a $15 minimum wage at 60.8%. Biden only got 47.9%, about 1.1 million fewer votes.

There's either a major disconnect between the issues and candidates or FL voters believe they can vote for the issues and Republicans will just have to abide by the amendment.
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I did say “potential.”
 
BarcaDeac said:
Probably should stop trying to make Charlie Crist happen
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The Florida Democratic Party hasn't elected a governor in thirty years. That they haven't found a decent candidate to run against Rick Scott isn't at all surprising. Unfortunate perhaps, but not surprising.
 
Highland Deac said:
The Florida Democratic Party hasn't elected a governor in thirty years. That they haven't found a decent candidate to run against Rick Scott isn't at all surprising. Unfortunate perhaps, but not surprising.
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There are decent Dem candidates out there, but they're not running statewide. I've met several local politicians and I think only one has run statewide. All would be a huge improvement over the Dems who have been running.

Found out yesterday that the former president of the local College Dems is running for state senate. Good guy. Youngest person by far at the regional Dem party meetings. Lives with his parents in my neighborhood. So that's encouraging.
 
Minnesota GOP chooses former NBA player Royce White as its Senate candidate against Amy Klobuchar. Just a few years ago he helped lead protests in Minneapolis following the killing of George Floyd and said that if President Trump "continues to threaten us with the military, this will continue to escalate." He then became a friend and frequent guest on The Alex Jones radio show and moved steadily to the right, becoming an anti-vaxxer and eventually a political protege of Steve Bannon.

Among other things, he's said that "women have become too mouthy", described the LGBTQ movement as "Luciferian" and said that it is “the brainchild of radical feminists and their cucked men.” He's also attacked the "Jewish elite" and said that Israel "is the linchpin of the New World Order." He's now a full Trumpite and MAGA supporter.

 
www.thedailybeast.com

GOP Senate Candidate Spent Thousands in Donor Funds on Strip Clubs, Luxury, and Mysterious Wire Transfers

Star athlete and conspiracy theorist Royce White just landed the Minnesota GOP’s endorsement for Senate. They must not have seen his previous campaign expenses.
www.thedailybeast.com

At five in the morning one week after Republican Royce White lost his 2022 Minnesota congressional primary, his campaign shelled out more than $1,200 in donor funds to a vendor 1,800 miles away not typically associated with political expenses—an all-nude strip club in Miami, Florida, called “Gold Rush Cabaret.”

That is just one among dozens of outlandish but previously unreported payments that The Daily Beast has identified from White’s 2022 Federal Election Commission filings. Several campaign finance experts characterized some of the expenses as potentially illegal spending.
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GOLD RUSH​

The strip club payment is just the tip of this iceberg.

The Daily Beast reviewed White’s 2022 primary campaign reports and found numerous items that boggled legal experts. The unusual expenses include a total of more than $100,000 in mysterious wire transfers and checks reported as paid to the campaign; hefty tabs at spicy nightspots; getaways at posh hotels in at least seven states; thousands of dollars in limousine services; unexplained cash withdrawals; eye-popping purchases from electronics, sporting goods, clothing, and musical instrument retailers; and the DribbleUp smart basketball training app that White himself admitted might be personal use.

“If the FEC wants to fine us, that’s completely fine, there are much bigger scams with political campaigns,” White told The Daily Beast on Thursday, emphasizing that he was happy to work with the agency on any questions.

Campaign finance experts weren’t so sanguine.
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‘I LIKE THE FOOD THERE’​

It’s not clear, however, how White’s claim squares with many of his campaign’s expenses, including more than $32,000 charged around the country after losing the primary—costs that, as White himself told The Daily Beast, are also connected to his tour with the “Big3” basketball league. He claimed that he was paying for aides to travel with him and, at least in part, film the games—video for what was already by then a zombie campaign.

In fact, much of White’s campaign spending overall lines up with the 2022 Big3 schedule, which saw play begin in Chicago in June, before moving to Dallas, then to Tampa and Atlanta for the playoffs and championship.

For instance, the campaign spent more than $4,300 on food and hotels in the Windy City in June, with several payments at the host stadium. When the Dallas tournament took up in mid-July, the campaign went on a Big D shopping spree, including $311 at a Macy’s and another $560 at Cavender’s Western Wear, which sells cowboy boots. The campaign also splashed out $1,560 at the FiveAm Theater, an “exclusive after hours entertainment venue” in Dallas, with another $960 the same night to INCrowd Life, a local party company.

One of the Dallas tournaments butted right up against the election, a fact underscored with an $870 payment to the Dallas Omni Hotel on primary day.

It would be an unorthodox campaign strategy, to say the least—using donor funds to support and apparently outfit an entourage documenting a professional sports tour hundreds of miles from the congressional district, where the primary was weeks away.

Libowitz and Fischer both acknowledged that some campaign and event costs can legitimately overlap, but emphasized that White’s case was so extreme that it raised the possibility of criminal charges.

“This gets to the heart of the misuse of campaign funds,” Libowitz said. “Donors spend that money to help you get elected. They don’t think you’re going to spend $1,200 at a Florida strip club.”
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PhDeac said:
www.thedailybeast.com

GOP Senate Candidate Spent Thousands in Donor Funds on Strip Clubs, Luxury, and Mysterious Wire Transfers

Star athlete and conspiracy theorist Royce White just landed the Minnesota GOP’s endorsement for Senate. They must not have seen his previous campaign expenses.
www.thedailybeast.com
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From reading all that it appears that Royce's political "conversion" from the left to the right may have been based less on him really falling out with liberals and more on him realizing that the grift was much more lucrative and easier on the right than the left.
 
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Wasn’t Royce white the guy who couldn’t play in the NBA because his anxiety and depression were out of control?
 
His story is wild. That must be why I remember him because his NBA career was much shorter than I thought. He was a Minnesota HS star but never played for the Gophers because he was suspended after getting arrested at the Mall of America then he transferred after getting busted for stealing a laptop (but he wasn't charged). He played one season at Iowa State and declared for the NBA. He had anxiety triggered by flying and the Rockets allowed him to travel by bus. They eventually traded him and he ended up on the Kings where he played 9 minutes in 3 games.
 
Could you summarize that article for non-subscribers?
 
NH 2nd getting spicy. We have the National Dem backed candidate vs the state backed Candidate. This happened in 2018 in the NH 1st as well, when the state backed candidate won.
 
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