Friday, October 09, 2020

Friday Lone Star Far Left Roundup


Delta-free, mostly.  A no fly zone.  Everybody ready to vote?


Sure enough, the TexTrib confirms, with their 4 a.m. release ...


... and especially with regard to the US Senate race:


So why should actual leftists NOT vote for these Democrats, even if they doubt the polling that shows the top-ticket Republinuts, Trump and Cornyn, starting to ease out in front?  Here's a few reasons.


There are a lot of Texas Democrats who think that this -- along with ridin' a motorcycle and talkin' tuff -- is the only kind of "Democrat" (sic) that can get elected in Texas.  The polling suggests they're going to be wrong.  Again.  And now you know why I'm not a Texas Democrat any longer.


Cornyn and Hegar debate tonight on teevee, if you don't have anything better to do.


Or watch their two-minute elevator pitch, along with that of David Collins and Kerry McKennon of the Libs here, courtesy HPM.  To be clear (and fair), there are a handful of D progressives worth voting for on your ballot and mine, and Democrats have raised a shitpile of money to try and send Biden and Hegar and a few of the good Donks (along with some that I would not classify as such) to Washington and Austin and your county courthouse.  Like me, you decide which those are, and then go to work -- now if you have your mail ballot, as soon as you get it if you have requested one, and beginning this coming Tuesday if you're voting early in person.


Harris Countians are already lining up to drop off their mail ballots at the NGR Stadium, the only place allowed by Governor Rolling Blunder to do so.


I'll do a more comprehensive voting guide/P Slate post before Monday.  The TexTrib lets you look up your full ballot, but doesn't list the eligible write-ins.  I -- or rather, Mark Jones at Rice's Baker Institute -- have posted that a couple of times, and will do again in the afore-mentioned.


I had almost enough Tweets for a separate post on Ken Paxton.


Monica Roberts, known to her friends as Moni, a Houston resident and a nationally-acclaimed trans activist, also the founder of Transgriot -- passed away yesterday.


I have environmental stories for Monday's Wrangle. Here's some criminal justice updates.


Third Ward's native son with the honey voice also left us this past week.


And a few feel-good items to end the week, but first some mockery and snidery (you wouldn't be reading this blog for something else, would you?)

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