2018 mid-term election

For comic relief, the Cumeo/Nixon race in New York is getting pretty entertaining.
Sort of "Sex, Politics, and the City".
 
lobosrul5 said:
Hmm tweeting about his DWI arrest? I mean the Texas GOP would never nominate someone with a DWI on their record for political office now would they :rolleyes:
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Hmmm.... Let me think, can you say 'George'?

Say what you want, Beto takes a great 'mug' shot.
 
My guess is DeSantis said that to slip and counter-punch his Democratic opponents.

Of course we are going to say he was being racist, and his Floridian base hates that word. He can claim he was using a figure of speech and fire up his base against those racecard-swiping Democrats...
 
dudalb said:
For comic relief, the Cumeo/Nixon race in New York is getting pretty entertaining.
Sort of "Sex, Politics, and the City".
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She did a damn good job. Personally, I have a huge problem with Cuomo.

I'm a union guy, but the way New York has mishandled construction of major projects is a joke. I cannot help but compare the massive overruns and delays on the East side Access Project, the Fulton Transit center, the World Trade Center station, the Second Avenue Subway, the 7 extension with Crossrail in London. In comparison, Crossrail is a much bigger project then what has been happening in New York. And it is on time and on budget.

In contrast, the NYC projects are finishing as much as a decade late and costing 3 times initial estimates.

The East side Access Project had hundreds of workers all making 6 figure plus T&M jobs and yet were doing absolutely nothing. And the contractors were charging the MTA twice those salaries.

And the Governor has failed on oversight.
 
acbytesla said:
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Hmmm.... Let me think, can you say 'George'?

Say what you want, Beto takes a great 'mug' shot.
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Yeah, lord help the Texas GOP if we start excluding everyone with a DUI arrest from participating.

Best response: Tweet

ETA: TXGOP response is not bad, though: Tweet
 
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Currently 538 gives democrats a 72% chance to flip the house, down from 77% at the beginning of August.

There has been a lot of talk about a blue wave but I think it will be smaller than anticipated.
 
The_Animus said:
Currently 538 gives democrats a 72% chance to flip the house, down from 77% at the beginning of August.

There has been a lot of talk about a blue wave but I think it will be smaller than anticipated.
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I don't put that much stock in the polls 2 months early.

If these elections end up being about Trump it will be a tidal wave. But they rarely are about President. Time and time again, people will give Congress poor marks yet speak highly about their local Congressman.
 
acbytesla said:
She did a damn good job. Personally, I have a huge problem with Cuomo.

I'm a union guy, but the way New York has mishandled construction of major projects is a joke. I cannot help but compare the massive overruns and delays on the East side Access Project, the Fulton Transit center, the World Trade Center station, the Second Avenue Subway, the 7 extension with Crossrail in London. In comparison, Crossrail is a much bigger project then what has been happening in New York. And it is on time and on budget.

In contrast, the NYC projects are finishing as much as a decade late and costing 3 times initial estimates.

The East side Access Project had hundreds of workers all making 6 figure plus T&M jobs and yet were doing absolutely nothing. And the contractors were charging the MTA twice those salaries.

And the Governor has failed on oversight.
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It's no secret a Certain Italian American Fraternal Organization is almost always heavily involved with any big construction job in NYC. I am sure that has something to do with the overruns and delays...
And NO, I am not making a Cuemo is in with the Mob accusation. Mayors and Governors come and go, but the LCN is forever, apparently.
 
dudalb said:
It's no secret a Certain Italian American Fraternal Organization is almost always heavily involved with any big construction job in NYC. I am sure that has something to do with the overruns and delays...
And NO, I am not making a Cuemo is in with the Mob accusation. Mayors and Governors come and go, but the LCN is forever, apparently.
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I used to work for a environmental and construction testing lab in NY; asbestos and lead paint on the environmental side and concrete and steel testing on the construction side. I worked at an office in Albany, but the main office was about 30 miles outside Manhattan, and they worked on projects throughout the city. Long after I left the company I ran into someone who had worked at the downstate office for years and left before I had started. He told the story of regularly seeing expensive cars pull into the company parking lot and men in fancy suits with suspicious bulges under their jackets getting out to visit the company owner.
The company shut down a few years after I left after they were found to be falsifying construction test results and double-and triple-billing clients.
 
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Someone took the time to compile a list of politicians and pundits racially bullhorning terms such as "monkey business", "monkeying around" etc.

A few names of note:

Barack Obama
Dick Durbin
Jay Carney
Josh Ernest
Chuck Schumer
John Kerry
Bernie Sanders
Robert Byrd
Adam Schiff

Looks like the Dems are no longer hiding from their long history of racism and are now embracing it fully.
 
Bogative said:
Someone took the time to compile a list of politicians and pundits racially bullhorning terms such as "monkey business", "monkeying around" etc.

A few names of note:

Barack Obama
Dick Durbin
Jay Carney
Josh Ernest
Chuck Schumer
John Kerry
Bernie Sanders
Robert Byrd
Adam Schiff

Looks like the Dems are no longer hiding from their long history of racism and are now embracing it fully.
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The beauty of plausible deniability. Ever hear of context? Doesn't sound like you have.
 
"Let's build off the success we've had with Governor Scott. The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases bankrupting the state. That is not going to work."
-- Ron DeSantis (Aug 28, 2018)


"Ron DeSantis says voters would 'monkey this up' if they elected his African-American opponent."
-- Fake News CNN (Aug 29, 2018)
 
Slings and Arrows said:
"Let's build off the success we've had with Governor Scott. The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases bankrupting the state. That is not going to work."
-- Ron DeSantis (Aug 28, 2018)


"Ron DeSantis says voters would 'monkey this up' if they elected his African-American opponent."
-- Fake News CNN (Aug 29, 2018)
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Er, that is a factual statement. He did say that electing his opponent (who is African-American) would "monkey this up".

See, the thing is that when you cry about fake news, you're supposed to show them saying something that is literally false. I know, I know, Trump doesn't bother with that step, but decent folk do. So give it another go.
 
Venom said:
My guess is DeSantis said that to slip and counter-punch his Democratic opponents.

Of course we are going to say he was being racist, and his Floridian base hates that word. He can claim he was using a figure of speech and fire up his base against those racecard-swiping Democrats...
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I agree to a point. The use of the word may or may not have been a deliberate "slip". I am not one to jump into a camp that presumes that word is automatically racist. However, I think picking such a debatable word choice to assert racism on behalf of a Republican opponent will only serve to fire up his base, and is probably a mistake. I think "my side" is making that same mistake in varying degrees throughout the country this election cycle.
 
phiwum said:
He did say that electing his opponent (who is African-American) would "monkey this up".
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No he didn't! That's not what he said. His comment never used the phrase "electing his opponent."

Recommended course work: Reading Comprehension 101.
 
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