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2024 Races (Non-president)

The bigger problem in Texas is that the Democratic party isn't doing a good enough job with the Hispanic community. The reasons for that are complicated, but I really think focusing on the economy is the answer.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
I don’t think that this population migration fits into a partisan left/right dichotomy. As a nation we allow unchecked inequality to create the conditions that drive huge swaths of people to move, and rather than try to mitigate that on a national level, we instead encourage states to compete with each other in a race to the bottom. There’s nothing inherently right wing about moving to find lower taxes and a lower cost of living, what’s right-wing is a nation leaving the fate of its impoverished and unhoused to the individual whims of local tax payers.
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I’m talking about people moving, not businesses.

Right now, the country is extremely polarized. So moving to a state with lax masking and vaccination law, or a state that allows abortions or gender affirming care is certainly within a partisan left/right economy. Doctors are leaving states so they can fully practice medicine. Teachers and professors are leaving states so they can teach facts.
 
Wealthy people moving to Texas probably are all that bothered by ultra conservative politics because they can afford to fly out of state for abortions and they can afford to send their kids to safe private school, especially with the cost of living so low compared to California.
 
PhDeac said:
I’m talking about people moving, not businesses.
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lol why are you responding to my post as if I was responding to yours? The largest migration in the country is into Texas & Florida, and it’s driven by economics. Yes that may be correlated with partisanship, but is incorrect to label the wave of people leaving NYC and Los Angeles/SF due to lack of affordable housing as “right wing”.
 
BarcaDeac said:
Romney not running for another term
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Citing age. He’s 76. He’d win another term because it’s Utah but there’s no room for him in this GOP.
 
Jennifer Wexton (D) VA10, is not running for re-election, citing her ongoing health issue. Her 22 opponent is accusing her of staying through the end of her term for the pension.

He apparently doesn't know the pension rules. She won't get full pension because she isn't 62 and will only have 6 years service time (need 10 if under 62).
 
Colorado rules say only that a Representative has to live in the state, not the specific district. A little like the British system.
 
Deaconblue said:
Colorado rules say only that a Representative has to live in the state, not the specific district. A little like the British system.
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Not just a Colorado thing - courts have consistently held that states can’t add qualifications beyond those in the constitution for members of Congress (age, citizenship and inhabitant of state). They say that goes beyond time, place, and manner of running elections.
 


(Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried)
 
avalon said:


oh look! Florida Dems did a thing.
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There was an open seat because the prior holder, Fred Hawkins, was appointed as president of South Florida State College. Fred has no higher education experience and was suspended as a county commissioner (by DeSantis) for impersonating a law enforcement officer before being elected to the FL house. Hawkins got back in DeSantis's good graces though by sponsoring the bill that gave DeSantis the ability to appoint the board of the Disney special district. 5 of the 7 members of the board of South Florida State College were appointed by DeSantis and the original 3 finalists for the position all had doctoral degrees and community college administration experience, but withdrew after some shenanigans. The board then voted to lower the educational requirements for the position and chose Hawkins, who only has a BA. Have to love the GOP grift.

The Pub Keen defeated, Erika Booth, is married to the person who succeeded Hawkins as county commissioner and was herself on the county school board.
 
sounds like they were done with that seat anyways and moving on to “higher” ed
 
Real interesting election today in NY for the Santos seat. Two primary issues, the war in Gaza and Immigration. While you think perhaps the voters would be embarrassed by the Republican party, that is not the case, as the election is a statistical tie. The Dem is former congressman and failed gubernatorial candidate Tom Suozzi, while the pub is Ethiopian born-Israeli raised-former IDF Soldier-now married to a Ukranian American, Mazi Pilip. Pilip is, as you may have guessed, as pro-Israel as they come. Maybe there should be rules about former members of other country's military running for congress, but hey thats America. Good podcast on the Daily about why this is so close.
 
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