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Marjorie Taylor Greene wins GOP nod for 2nd term in Congress
Source: Yahoo! News

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has made a name in Washington pushing hard-right conspiracy theories, easily won her party’s nomination for Congress on Tuesday. The Associated Press called the race just over an hour after polls closed. With 99% of the vote reported, Greene had 69% of the vote.

Voters picked Greene, commonly known by her initials, MTG, over her Republican challengers, including health care executive Jennifer Strahan. Strahan received 17% of the vote on Tuesday.

Greene will face off against a Democratic challenger in the heavily Republican 14th Congressional District, which includes the exurbs of Atlanta and a rural northwest swath of Georgia.

An effort to remove Greene from the ballot for her role in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, but a state judge determined that Greene’s opponents lacked enough evidence to prove she had “engaged in insurrection.”
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Katie Britt, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in Alabama Senate runoff
Source: Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is going to a June runoff between Katie Britt and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, who overcame losing former President Donald Trump’s endorsement to remain a contender for the GOP nomination.

The candidates are seeking the Senate seat now held by U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, who is retiring. Britt is Shelby’s former chief of staff and the former leader of the Business Council of Alabama. Brooks is a six-term congressman from north Alabama.

The two edged out Mike Durant, a businessman best known as the helicopter pilot shot down and held captive in the events chronicled in “Black Hawk Down,” to advance to a June 21 runoff, which is required when no candidate captures more than 50% of the initial vote.

“It is clear tonight that Alabamians want new blood. They want someone to go to Washington, D.C., and shake it up. It is clear that they want a true Christian conservative Republican who will lead on the America first agenda and doesn’t just talk about it but knows how to actually get something done,” Britt told supporters gathered in Montgomery.
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Texas
Updated May 25, 2022

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(NPR) In Texas, incumbent Attorney General Ken Paxton topped George P Bush, nephew of former President George W. Bush and the state's land commissioner, in a GOP runoff.

There were runoffs for both Democrats and Republicans in Texas' 28th Congressional District. For Democrats, a highly contested race between incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros remained too close to call. Cassy Garcia, a former staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz, won the GOP runoff.
More detailed Texas results here: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1100105 ... -results
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More on the Texas Attorney General Race.

The Worst Lawyer in Texas Just Put an End to the Bush Dynasty
by Tim Murphy
May 24, 2022

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(Mother Jones) If you were to lay out in one place the Bush family’s contributions over the last half century, it would not be a particularly balanced ledger. In one column, you’d have PEPFAR; birth control; good reflexes; and one very succinct distillation of Donald Trump’s inaugural address. In the other: the never-ending War on Terror; two wars with Iraq; Iran-Contra; torture; war crimes; Clarence Thomas; Samuel Alito; same-sex marriage bans; tax cuts for rich people; illegal surveillance; global warming; the AIDS epidemic in the US; private equity; the Department of Homeland Security; air pollution; the Florida Recount; Terri Schiavo; “school choice”; the bungled Hurricane Katrina response; the savings and loan scandal; the Great Recession; Willie Horton; the War on Drugs; and the Texas Rangers’ baseball stadium.

So you do not have to shed any tears over George P. Bush—son of Jeb, nephew of Dubya, grandson of H.W.—face-planting in his bid to unseat Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff. In fact, it would be weird if you did. Bush, the state’s land commissioner, has coasted through his political career on the back of his family name, and he’s now come to at least a temporary stop, in part because of it. But as notable as it is that the Bush dynasty is over (for now), the most important story from the race is that Paxton’s own career isn’t. Paxton, who narrowly held on to his job in the 2018 Democratic wave, heads into the general election as a clear favorite against either Rochelle Garza or Joe Jaworski.

Paxton…has been under indictment since 2015 for alleged securities fraud. Much of his staff quit en masse in 2020 and accused him of abusing his office to help a campaign donor whose home had recently been raided by the FBI. He allegedly cheated on his wife with a state-senate staffer who went on to work for said donor. And he is a bad lawyer. His lawsuit attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election was so error-strewn and poorly argued that the state bar is now suing his deputy over it.
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'Wholesale Fraud' in Michigan Governor Race Could Disqualify GOP Candidates
by Jessica Corbett
May 24, 2022

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(Common Dreams) After weeks of allegations that multiple Republicans running for governor in Michigan submitted fraudulent signatures to get on the ballot, the state Bureau of Elections on Monday confirmed what one journalist called "wholesale fraud" involving five GOP candidates.

"For all the Michigan GOP's feigned outrage over 'election integrity,' several of their candidates seem very comfortable with using shady, underhanded tactics to get on the ballot," said Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, in an apparent reference to 2020.

Though President Joe Biden won Michigan by over 150,000 votes, the state was included in former President Donald Trump's "Big Lie" that the election was stolen. Trump and others unsuccessfully pressured the Board of State Canvassers to refuse to certify the results.

While Michael Brown withdrew from the gubernatorial race after Monday's revelation, the Board of State Canvassers—made up of two Democrats and two Republicans—will vote Thursday on whether to disqualify Donna Brandenburg, James Craig, Perry Johnson, and Michael Markey Jr.

Factoring in thousands of fraudulent entries, those five Republicans fell short of the necessary 15,000 signatures, according to the Bureau of Elections. The candidates, who were also required to have 100 names from each of at least half of the state's congressional districts, were allowed to submit 30,000 signatures in total.
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Recount Officially Declared In Oz Vs. McCormick PA GOP Senate Race
Source: Patch (PA)

PENNSYLVANIA — A recount has been officially announced by the Pennsylvania Department of State in the deadlocked Republican primary for U.S. Senate, with only a tiny margin separating celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz and former George W. Bush administration official David McCormick. The announcement comes a day after McCormick's campaign filed a lawsuit in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in an effort to mandate the counting of undated ballots.

The effort has been staunchly opposed by President Donald Trump, who endorsed Oz, and the Republican National Committee, which claims that McCormick is using a Democratic tactic that would compromise election integrity. The recount is expected to take weeks. The move has been long expected, as recounts are typically automatically triggered if the margin between two candidates is less than 0.5 percent. The margin between Oz and McCormick is just 902 votes, according to the latest unofficial returns. Oz maintains a very narrow lead of 419,365 to 418,463.

McCormick's campaign issued a statement saying they were proud of the results thus far, noting the "razor thin" difference and supporing the recount."This narrow difference triggers an automatic recount," McCormick said. "And we look forward to a swift resolution so the party can unite to defeat socialist John Fetterman in the fall." Oz has not yet issued a public statement on the recount being officially confirmed, although Trump has urged Oz to "declare victory" and has cast the same baseless aspersions on the 2022 primary election process as he did on the 2020 election.

The Department of State estimates the recount will cost about $1 miillino in taxpayer funding. It's the seventh recount that has ever been triggered in Pennsylvania history. Only three of those recounts were actually carried out, as the others were waived by the second place finisher. In all three recounts, the initial results of the election stood. Counties can begin recount process on Friday, but must begin no later than June 1. The deadline for the recount to be completed in June 7, and results must be submitted to the Department of State by noon on June 8.
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Doug Mastriano, Christian Nationalism, and the Cult of the AR-15
by Thomas Lecaque
May 31, 2022

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(The Bulwark) Doug Mastriano…is the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate for Pennsylvania.

…The House Jan. 6th Committee subpoenaed him for being part of a plan to send pro-Trump electors to Congress, and he responded with loyal silence.
Mastriano also has an increasingly familiar religious profile. He has described the Gulf War, in which he served in 1991, as a “holy” war—a belief reflected in his bizarre 2002 graduate thesis, “Nebuchadnezzar’s Sphinx.” He has attended events of the Charismatic Christian dominionist movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation. He shares anti-Muslim memes, hangs out with militia members to guard Confederate statues at Gettysburg, and constantly hits all the main themes of Christian nationalist discourse in his speeches and other activities. In one particularly tasteless moment, he announced his gubernatorial candidacy while wearing a tallit and blowing a shofar—symbols that Christian nationalists have appropriated from the Jewish tradition and use to declare apocalyptic spiritual war.

American syncretic spirituality animates every part of Mastriano’s public profile and political career. Perhaps it should be no surprise that he associates with an extremist sect that places special emphasis on America’s most notorious gun.

…Vice reported last year that Mastriano has been a speaker at Rod of Iron events. It’s no surprise, given how much he and (Rod of Iron movement leader) Rev. Sean Moon have in common.
Source: https://www.thebulwark.com/doug-mastria ... the-ar-15/
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caltrek wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 4:06 pm Doug Mastriano, Christian Nationalism, and the Cult of the AR-15
by Thomas Lecaque
May 31, 2022

Extract:
(The Bulwark) Doug Mastriano…is the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate for Pennsylvania.

…The House Jan. 6th Committee subpoenaed him for being part of a plan to send pro-Trump electors to Congress, and he responded with loyal silence.
Mastriano also has an increasingly familiar religious profile. He has described the Gulf War, in which he served in 1991, as a “holy” war—a belief reflected in his bizarre 2002 graduate thesis, “Nebuchadnezzar’s Sphinx.” He has attended events of the Charismatic Christian dominionist movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation. He shares anti-Muslim memes, hangs out with militia members to guard Confederate statues at Gettysburg, and constantly hits all the main themes of Christian nationalist discourse in his speeches and other activities. In one particularly tasteless moment, he announced his gubernatorial candidacy while wearing a tallit and blowing a shofar—symbols that Christian nationalists have appropriated from the Jewish tradition and use to declare apocalyptic spiritual war.

American syncretic spirituality animates every part of Mastriano’s public profile and political career. Perhaps it should be no surprise that he associates with an extremist sect that places special emphasis on America’s most notorious gun.

…Vice reported last year that Mastriano has been a speaker at Rod of Iron events. It’s no surprise, given how much he and (Rod of Iron movement leader) Rev. Sean Moon have in common.
Source: https://www.thebulwark.com/doug-mastria ... the-ar-15/
Well, the republican base feels that they're protecting what the founders built and that they're preserving such concepts as freedom, liberty and the mindset that protects such concepts. They believe in Ar-15's for the same reasons our founders believed in the militia and the declaration of independence as a tool to fight against the government attacking their liberty and freedom. There's a huge divide in culture and belief in this country and that is what this is really about. One side believes something totally different then their brother across the street. How do we come to any kind of agreement is the question?
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weatheriscool wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 6:31 pm How do we come to any kind of agreement is the question?
Oppression or having a common enemy.
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Supreme Court case may determine winner of Pennsylvania's GOP Senate primary
Source: CNN

(CNN) Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito agreed Tuesday to temporarily block a lower court decision that allows the counting of undated ballots in Pennsylvania in a case that could directly tip a judicial race and also impact the commonwealth's Republican US Senate primary. Alito, who has jurisdiction over the lower court involved in the case, issued an administrative stay in the case to give the justices more time to consider the issue. The case comes as the Supreme Court wades back into electoral politics. At issue is a federal appeals court decision ordering the state to count undated mail-in ballots that were initially set aside.

David Ritter, a Republican state judicial candidate in Lehigh County, wants the Supreme Court to block the appeals court decision, arguing that if the ballots were counted, he would lose his election to Democratic rival Zachary Cohen. How the justices decide the case in the under-the-radar-race could also impact more high-profile contests including the Republican Senate primary between David McCormick and Mehmet Oz, which has gone to a recount. Oz is currently leading by roughly 900 votes. The case has drawn the interest of voting rights experts because it pits state election law against federal law and raises questions regarding when voters can be disenfranchised for making errors in voting that some believe are ultimately "immaterial" to determining the validity of the ballot.

It comes as the last election cycle was one of the most litigious in recent history. "In this case, voters forgot to date their ballots but their ballots arrived on time and we know they were timely," said election law expert Rick Hasen at the University of California, Irvine. Hasen noted that the state ultimately did accept ballots where the voter put in the wrong date. The current dispute at the court dates to 2019, when the Pennsylvania General Assembly enacted new mail-in voting provisions. To receive the mail-in ballot a voter must complete an application, provide her name, address and proof of identification. If the material is consistent with registration information, the voter receives a ballot package with instructions to complete the mail-in ballot.

Under the Pennsylvania Election Code, the voter must date and sign the declaration that is printed on the return envelope. Delivery is timely if received by the board of elections by 8 p.m. on Election Day. The Lehigh County Board of Elections held an election on November 2, 2021, to fill vacancies for the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County. During the count, the board set aside 257 of 22,000 votes because they lacked a handwritten date next to the voter declaration. All the ballots were received by the 8 p.m. deadline. The board initially decided to count the votes, but Ritter challenged the decision in state court. The trial court ruled for Cohen, but the commonwealth court reversed on appeal. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to upend the decision.

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