Closer to center
Well, at least Maria Gluesenkamp Perez won re-election in the Congressional district that includes the 'Couve. At the current count, she's up by a score of 51.8 percent to 47.8 percent. That's a lot more comfortable a cushion than the 0.8 percent margin by which she was first elected two years ago. I was kind of worried this time around.
So is this the end of Trumpy Joe Kent as a politician? He's never seemed to have an actual day job; maybe running for office is his only way of making a living.
Meanwhile, MGP stressed her moderate views and pointed out the dangers presented by her fringe-right opponent. For her, combined with the power of incumbency, it worked.
No way Kent is done trying to MAGA his way into a cushy taxpayer funded job.
ReplyDeleteThe white male Loretta Smith, as it were.
DeleteShe’s as good a person as there is. I feel sorry for her with the grueling travel and having to work in Congress. She really stepped up and did us a solid re keeping MAGA Joe out of the circus. That said, she is definitely not perfect — just the other day she voted for the bill that would give the Treasury the power to arbitrarily remove the exempt status of any nonprofit that “supports terrorism” … exactly the technique Stalin and Putin use — an apparatchik decides you are insufficiently worshipful of the man at the top and suddenly you are out of business.
ReplyDeleteToo many "nonprofits" are businesses. I wouldn't trust Trump to clean them up, but somebody really ought to.
DeleteAgree that the sector needs a thorough overhaul - there’s a ton of supposed charity (c3s) that ought to be c4s and, ultimately, we need to recognize that the tendency of “cutting government” so often just leads to government functions being done less effectively at twice the price or worse. So much of the military budget is now spent feeding private equity firms, just as so much of every state and local government’s human services budgets are spent feeding NINOs (Nonprofit in Name Only).
DeleteSo many of the roots of our dire situation trace to Reagan — convincing people that the one entity that actually had any power or reason to want to help them was actually the enemy that needed abolition … quite the coup. Creates a ton of opportunities for grifters (for-profit and NINOs alike) to get their cut from everything want from their government, which helps make government look worse, which helps the grifters who feed off it.
I make a distinction between non-profits that get most of their money from private contributions and those that get most of their money from the government. I may not always agree with all of the former but at least they are making an honest living. The latter are basically recycling taxpayer dollars into their coffers and then using some of them to lobby for more taxpayer dollars.
DeleteDidn't his first wife die while serving in the military? He's probably living off her life insurance/whatever veteran's benefits she might have had.
ReplyDeleteShe's been getting some national coverage lately. That is a good thing. The national Dems should take notice.
ReplyDeleteShe's better looking, too.
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