Other Election Races 2024 (2 Viewers)

[Nebaghead]

Creating this thread to talk about other random races throughout the country that don’t warrant their own thread.

Starting it off with the governor race in NC. The GOP candidate Robinson is ultra MAGA and has made comments like women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. News came out yesterday about his Porn addiction back in the 90’s. He used to visit on a daily basis.

MAGA North Carolina Guv Candidate Was Regular at Porn Shop: Employee

“Every night that I worked, which would have been five nights a week, I saw Mark (Robinson),” Louis Money, who worked at Gents Video & News in Greensboro, North Carolina, said.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

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Bernie Moreno, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio, came to the US from Colombia at the age of four. He has said he learned English through Ronald Reagan’s speeches.

That claim has been questioned, but if Moreno did learn the language that way, it seems one famous speech may not have fully sunk in.

At the Republican convention in 1968, Reagan said: “It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

Throughout a tight race – in which defeat for Sherrod Brown, the incumbent Democrat, could decide control of the Senate – Moreno has displayed a distinctly un-Reaganlike tendency to dodge responsibility for questions about his own actions, choosing repeatedly to blame others instead, a review of reporting and court documents shows.

Last month, after Moreno was shown to have falsely claimed to hold an MBA from the University of Michigan, including signing legal documents containing the claim, his campaign blamed “a staffer who made a mistake”.


Moreno told a radio host: “I’m proud that I got a bachelor’s of business administration, and I thank some of the reporting pointing out that it was with high distinction. There was a clerical error made by one of my admins, seven, eight, nine years ago, that put that I had an MBA. It was a BBA.”

Moreno may have been right that his opponents “want[ed] a headline” on the issue but he also claimed they wanted “to confuse people, say, this guy lied by going to college. Absolutely not.”

That is not what Democrats say. Bill DeMora, an Ohio state senator, said: “The new reports that prove he is lying about having an MBA from that school up north are disqualifying. Anyone who lies about having a made-up-business degree from Michigan has no business representing Ohioans.”

The episode of the phantom MBA is not the only one in which Moreno has blamed others for alleged missteps.……..

‘He’s lying’: Ohio Senate candidate blames staffers and family for errors

Republican Bernie Moreno is trying to shrug off responsibility for mistruths, tax bills and a casual sex profile

www.theguardian.com

 

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With Two Weeks to Go, Pennsylvania Senate Shifts to Toss Up, Nebraska Senate Moves to Lean Republican

With two weeks to go until Election Day, the Senate map still favors Republicans. Montana Sen. Jon Tester remains the likeliest Democrat to lose reelection, which along with the GOP’s certain pickup in West Virginia, would get Republicans to 51 seats. But the trio of “Blue Wall” states are...

www.cookpolitical.com

 

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Bridger Aerospace Group, a Montana-based aerial firefighting company helmed by Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, was losing money in 2020 when its top executives made a business pitch to elected officials in the county where it’s based.

At a recorded public meeting, the executives asked whether Bridger could use Gallatin County’s name and pristine credit rating to raise $160 million in a municipal bond offering. If the three county commissioners said yes, Bridger would gain access to lower-cost money to expand its operations.

Gallatin County would also benefit from the deal, company officials promised. The money, they said, would be used to hire more workers, build two airplane hangars at the Bozeman airport with a local construction company and increase firefighting capacity in the region. And if the worst were to happen and Bridger defaulted on the debt, Gallatin County wouldn’t be on the hook.

A win-win-win, the executives said.

Some of the county commissioners expressed hesitancy, the recording shows. Bridger was a startup — just over five years old — one pointed out; another said the county had never done a deal like that at such a scale.

After a 45-minute discussion, the officials unanimously approved the issue. “I think this has a potential to give us significant public benefit,” said Joe Skinner, a rancher and commissioner, the recording shows. That the county wouldn’t be financially liable had clinched the deal.

Four years later, Bridger is still losing money, its securities filings show, and the $160 million bond deal that sprang from that 2020 meeting is under scrutiny as Sheehy vies for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Sheehy, a decorated veteran endorsed by former President Donald Trump, cites his business acumen as a reason voters should send him to Washington. He hopes to unseat three-term Democratic Sen. Jon Tester next month and is ahead in recent polls. A win by Sheehy could turn the Senate red.

But some of the benefits that Bridger officials predicted Gallatin County would reap as a result of the deal haven’t come to fruition. After it issued the bonds in 2022, securities filings show, Bridger used the vast majority of the money it got to pay off previous investors.

All told, $134 million of the $160 million in proceeds left Montana and landed in the New York City coffers of the Blackstone Group, a prestigious private equity firm that previously invested in Bridger. The bond offering disclosed the information, and Blackstone didn’t dispute the calculation..............

Senate candidate Tim Sheehy's firm promised jobs and more to a Montana county. It's still waiting.

After it persuaded Gallatin County officials to issue $160 million in bonds so Sheehy’s company could expand locally, the firm used most of the money to pay off previous investors.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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Bridger Aerospace Group, a Montana-based aerial firefighting company helmed by Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, was losing money in 2020 when its top executives made a business pitch to elected officials in the county where it’s based.

At a recorded public meeting, the executives asked whether Bridger could use Gallatin County’s name and pristine credit rating to raise $160 million in a municipal bond offering. If the three county commissioners said yes, Bridger would gain access to lower-cost money to expand its operations.

Gallatin County would also benefit from the deal, company officials promised. The money, they said, would be used to hire more workers, build two airplane hangars at the Bozeman airport with a local construction company and increase firefighting capacity in the region. And if the worst were to happen and Bridger defaulted on the debt, Gallatin County wouldn’t be on the hook.

A win-win-win, the executives said.

Some of the county commissioners expressed hesitancy, the recording shows. Bridger was a startup — just over five years old — one pointed out; another said the county had never done a deal like that at such a scale.

After a 45-minute discussion, the officials unanimously approved the issue. “I think this has a potential to give us significant public benefit,” said Joe Skinner, a rancher and commissioner, the recording shows. That the county wouldn’t be financially liable had clinched the deal.

Four years later, Bridger is still losing money, its securities filings show, and the $160 million bond deal that sprang from that 2020 meeting is under scrutiny as Sheehy vies for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Sheehy, a decorated veteran endorsed by former President Donald Trump, cites his business acumen as a reason voters should send him to Washington. He hopes to unseat three-term Democratic Sen. Jon Tester next month and is ahead in recent polls. A win by Sheehy could turn the Senate red.

But some of the benefits that Bridger officials predicted Gallatin County would reap as a result of the deal haven’t come to fruition. After it issued the bonds in 2022, securities filings show, Bridger used the vast majority of the money it got to pay off previous investors.

All told, $134 million of the $160 million in proceeds left Montana and landed in the New York City coffers of the Blackstone Group, a prestigious private equity firm that previously invested in Bridger. The bond offering disclosed the information, and Blackstone didn’t dispute the calculation..............

Senate candidate Tim Sheehy's firm promised jobs and more to a Montana county. It's still waiting.

After it persuaded Gallatin County officials to issue $160 million in bonds so Sheehy’s company could expand locally, the firm used most of the money to pay off previous investors.

www.nbcnews.com

Senate candidate Tim Sheehy's firm promised jobs and more to a Montana county. It's still waiting.

After it persuaded Gallatin County officials to issue $160 million in bonds so Sheehy’s company could expand locally, the firm used most of the money to pay off previous investors.

www.nbcnews.com

"In July 2022, the month Bridger began receiving the proceeds of the bond issue, it spent $3.85 million to buy a small, single-engine aircraft, a Pilatus PC-12, from Sheehy, then the CEO, securities filings show.

The company paid Sheehy $850,000 more than what he spent when he bought it a year earlier, the filings show. Bridger also had to repair and upgrade the aircraft for operational use, filings show.

Bridger’s spokeswoman said none of the bond proceeds were used to buy the plane. Sheehy’s campaign didn’t respond when it was asked why he considered the company’s purchase of a plane he owned a good use of the company’s capital."

 

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Bridger Aerospace Group, a Montana-based aerial firefighting company helmed by Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, was losing money in 2020 when its top executives made a business pitch to elected officials in the county where it’s based.

At a recorded public meeting, the executives asked whether Bridger could use Gallatin County’s name and pristine credit rating to raise $160 million in a municipal bond offering. If the three county commissioners said yes, Bridger would gain access to lower-cost money to expand its operations.

Gallatin County would also benefit from the deal, company officials promised. The money, they said, would be used to hire more workers, build two airplane hangars at the Bozeman airport with a local construction company and increase firefighting capacity in the region. And if the worst were to happen and Bridger defaulted on the debt, Gallatin County wouldn’t be on the hook.

A win-win-win, the executives said.

Some of the county commissioners expressed hesitancy, the recording shows. Bridger was a startup — just over five years old — one pointed out; another said the county had never done a deal like that at such a scale.

After a 45-minute discussion, the officials unanimously approved the issue. “I think this has a potential to give us significant public benefit,” said Joe Skinner, a rancher and commissioner, the recording shows. That the county wouldn’t be financially liable had clinched the deal.

Four years later, Bridger is still losing money, its securities filings show, and the $160 million bond deal that sprang from that 2020 meeting is under scrutiny as Sheehy vies for a seat in the U.S. Senate.

Sheehy, a decorated veteran endorsed by former President Donald Trump, cites his business acumen as a reason voters should send him to Washington. He hopes to unseat three-term Democratic Sen. Jon Tester next month and is ahead in recent polls. A win by Sheehy could turn the Senate red.

But some of the benefits that Bridger officials predicted Gallatin County would reap as a result of the deal haven’t come to fruition. After it issued the bonds in 2022, securities filings show, Bridger used the vast majority of the money it got to pay off previous investors.

All told, $134 million of the $160 million in proceeds left Montana and landed in the New York City coffers of the Blackstone Group, a prestigious private equity firm that previously invested in Bridger. The bond offering disclosed the information, and Blackstone didn’t dispute the calculation..............

Senate candidate Tim Sheehy's firm promised jobs and more to a Montana county. It's still waiting.

After it persuaded Gallatin County officials to issue $160 million in bonds so Sheehy’s company could expand locally, the firm used most of the money to pay off previous investors.

www.nbcnews.com

Is the media going to soft-pedal this one too? Or are they going to call it what it is...a pyramid scheme.

 

[MT15]

This guy is a real tool….

Caught on camera: NYS Assembly candidate appears to swipe election mailer

New this morning.. We're less than two weeks away to election day and now we're learning there's video of Republican candidate for New York State Assembly joe m

cbs6albany.com

 

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Conservatives could capture majorities on the Kansas and Nebraska state school boards in this year’s elections, making it easier for them to shape what’s taught in classrooms.

At issue are familiar efforts by conservative Republicans and groups to limit what public K-12 schools can teach about racism, diversity, sexuality and gender.

But also up for debate are skill-building lessons that conservatives reject as social engineering.

An effort to teach soft skills — such as persistence, tolerance for others and managing emotions — came after surveys in recent years suggested that businesses see them as crucial for future employees.

But some parents, state lawmakers and groups see what’s sometimes called social and emotional learning, or SEL, as promoting liberal values.

“We want to turn the direction away from social engineering and back towards education,” said Fred Postlewait, a retired computer systems manager and a Republican candidate for a Kansas City-area seat on the Kansas board.…..

Conservatives could win control of Kansas and Nebraska state school boards

Conservatives could win majorities on the Kansas and Nebraska school boards this year, which would make it easier for them to shape what’s taught in classrooms.

apnews.com

 

[SamAndreas]

I'm putting this in this thread because Jonathan Nez speaks at the 29 minute mark. He's running for Congress.

I go out of my way to support his campaign.

At the two minute mark a tribal elder sings in the traditional the Navajo way of prayer. I would recommend watching that part as well as Nez if one doesn't watch anything else.

I'm watching the whole rally. Senator Kelly speaks at 1:19. Gov Walz speaks at 1:35.

Window Rock is in the background, it's that window through that rock wall. I've never lived there, but my parents lived there for a couple years.

 

[MT15]

Interesting little Twitter post(s). The best comment: “you mean women haven’t gotten over it?”

 

[UriUT]

I hate that Kunce have and Tim Ryan had uphill fights. It's ridiculous. I see it in my family. They speak of values and morals in candidates, and will instantly support people like Vance or Hawley. It sickens me. The rw echo system has to be the most ridiculous garbage heap there is. It sickens me that after correcting the Hunter Biden story, months later the same damn disinformation oral diarrhea comes out.

More:

 

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One day out from Election Day 2024 and Republican control of the Senate is suddenly looking a lot less certain.

It had been seen as a near-inevitability by some for months. With the loss of West Virginia’s seat thanks to the retirement of Joe Manchin, the defeat of Jon Tester — the incumbent senator from Montana, who has been trailinghis opponentTim Sheehy through the summer and fall — was set to throw the majority into GOP hands, unless Democrats unseated a Republican incumbent elsewhere.

But on Monday, that calculus looked a lot different. A pair of new polls released over the weekend from the Des Moines Register and New York Times/Siena College depicted a race swinging suddenly in the Democrats’ favor in just about every major battleground state. That includes Iowa, where Harris now leads Donald Trump by three percentage points in the Register poll.

And Montana may be no different. Stephen Leuchtman, polling director for Pharos Research Group, tweeted Monday that his firm had conducted one last poll of the Montana race, concluding on Sunday. It found Tester four percentage points ahead of Sheehy, according to Leuchtman, who did not release the full poll results (his firm does privately commissioned polling), just within the survey’s 4.97 percent margin of error…….

It looks like Republicans may not take the Senate after all. The reason? Montana

A poorly managed scandal response could once again prevent the GOP from ousting the ‘most vulnerable’ Democrat of 2024. John Bowden reports after a warning that ‘the meltdown is about to begin’ among Trump campaigners nationally

www.independent.co.uk

 

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One day out from Election Day 2024 and Republican control of the Senate is suddenly looking a lot less certain.

It had been seen as a near-inevitability by some for months. With the loss of West Virginia’s seat thanks to the retirement of Joe Manchin, the defeat of Jon Tester — the incumbent senator from Montana, who has been trailinghis opponentTim Sheehy through the summer and fall — was set to throw the majority into GOP hands, unless Democrats unseated a Republican incumbent elsewhere.

But on Monday, that calculus looked a lot different. A pair of new polls released over the weekend from the Des Moines Register and New York Times/Siena College depicted a race swinging suddenly in the Democrats’ favor in just about every major battleground state. That includes Iowa, where Harris now leads Donald Trump by three percentage points in the Register poll.

And Montana may be no different. Stephen Leuchtman, polling director for Pharos Research Group, tweeted Monday that his firm had conducted one last poll of the Montana race, concluding on Sunday. It found Tester four percentage points ahead of Sheehy, according to Leuchtman, who did not release the full poll results (his firm does privately commissioned polling), just within the survey’s 4.97 percent margin of error…….

It looks like Republicans may not take the Senate after all. The reason? Montana

A poorly managed scandal response could once again prevent the GOP from ousting the ‘most vulnerable’ Democrat of 2024. John Bowden reports after a warning that ‘the meltdown is about to begin’ among Trump campaigners nationally

www.independent.co.uk

The pollsters overestimating Republican performance in 2022 did this same thing. They all shifted their final, last minute polls away from Republicans toward Democrats. They did it so they could falsely claim that their polling in 2022 was accurate based on their final polls. Their polling all the way up to the eve of election day was not accurate and they knew it the whole time. They did last minute more accurate polls, so they could dishonestly claim they were right in 2022.

They're doing it again.

 

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So, voters were not allowed to wear clothing like MAGA hats or Harris gear when voting.

That is until Secretary of State and azzhat, Frank LaRose, decided it was OK.

 

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So, voters were not allowed to wear clothing like MAGA hats or Harris gear when voting.

That is until Secretary of State and azzhat, Frank LaRose, decided it was OK.

One of the reasons it's not allowed is to prevent confrontations between voters. My guess is that the Ohio Secretary of State is hoping to create confrontations.

 

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Royce White, the GOP Senate candidate in Minnesota who once wrote that the “bad guys won” World War II, had another bizarre take Monday—this time about the downsides of being married to an “educated” woman.

On a Nov. 1 radio interview on far-right Christian preacher Jesse Lee Peterson’s The Fallen State, White, who also said he believes women “have become too mouthy,” declared that marrying “an educated woman, statistically, would probably not be a good idea.”

In the interview, flagged by progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America, Peterson broaches the subject by saying he tells men “not to marry women who are educated, because educated women do not make for good wives and mothers.”

“Do you agree with that?” Peterson, who has called women’s suffrage “one of the greatest mistakes America made,” asked.

“That educated women don’t make for good wives and mothers? You mean in the traditional sense, like educated in school?” Royce said in response.

After Peterson affirmed that’s what he meant, White said he agreed, and suggested that it would be better if they went to church instead.............

MSN

 

[Nebaghead]

The pollsters overestimating Republican performance in 2022 did this same thing. They all shifted their final, last minute polls away from Republicans toward Democrats. They did it so they could falsely claim that their polling in 2022 was accurate based on their final polls. Their polling all the way up to the eve of election day was not accurate and they knew it the whole time. They did last minute more accurate polls, so they could dishonestly claim they were right in 2022.

They're doing it again.

Yeah, I’m seeing that too. Selzer IA poll results gave them permission to do it. Pollsters hedge their bets. The trend is more important than the results of the poll.

 

[SamAndreas]

The pollsters overestimating Republican performance in 2022 did this same thing. They all shifted their final, last minute polls away from Republicans toward Democrats. They did it so they could falsely claim that their polling in 2022 was accurate based on their final polls. Their polling all the way up to the eve of election day was not accurate and they knew it the whole time. They did last minute more accurate polls, so they could dishonestly claim they were right in 2022.

They're doing it again.

LOL

Thanks for saying what I've been saying for six long months. Both Nate Cohen and Nate Silver poll guroos have confessed, they had been doing what I thought they were doing all along.

(Joe Biden probably wasn't actually losing the election earlier this summer)

 

[LA - L.A.]

LOL

Thanks for saying what I've been saying for six long months. Both Nate Cohen and Nate Silver poll guroos have confessed, they had been doing what I thought they were doing all along.

(Joe Biden probably wasn't actually losing the election earlier this summer)

I was staunchly against replacing Biden and didn't think he was doing as bad as the polls said. However, I'm glad that Biden stepped down, because I like Harris and Walz now a lot more than I've ever liked Biden.