the oddities
God love the anti-abortion Democrats. The last Democratic governor of Louisiana, Jon Bel Edwards, and Congressman from Texas Henry Cueller. And that may just be it — have to look around in state legislators and one ballot line lower than anyone really knows to find anyone else. One of the two is not even in office anymore. What you are stuck with beyond this is someone, dunking on Republicans, claiming Joe Biden as anti-abortion but in his personal beliefso more legitimately so and authentically than the Republicans and religious conservatives — bending any real definition.
Henry Cueller sneaks into mind off of a Te Nehisi Coates interview, as his forges ahead against Kamala Harris with Palestine as his central issue and now is barking at comments from the likes of James Carville on the recent nomination pwins of DSA figures in New York City congressional districts. And here I can’t help but think of it were not for Darializa Avila Chevalier and her track record of pretty illiberal commentary and maybe toss in yesterday’s Colorado winner, Carville’s comments would be a little bit more mooted — clearly not liking this cohort but able to place then “in the big tent” and try to trumpet a bunch of other someone elses. Te Neisha’s response goes to an issue of race — a suggesting of “disenfranchisement” in the very ac of bemoaning the congressional nominees. “I don’t get it”. “That’s a lot of brown people and black people who voted for Chevalier and Lander.” Sure. And that is a lot of black people who voted for James Clyburn in South Carolina and a lot of brown people who voted for Henry Cueller in Texas, and I am pretty sure the response from Te Neisha Coates on what he thinks of those two persons would be along the lines of James Carville on these three DSA politicians. I think his conception of why they won over is big money and power, structures that need to be overcome and the definition of Democracy is when someone out of DSA politics who beats this machinery – – or something in so many words. The funky thing on Cueller– Trump pardoned him for some corruption charges and then was insulted when he remained a Democrat. Dude remains in the tent, I guess.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis exits stage right, and becomes another interesting figure. God bless him. His governing policy of commuting and shortening lots of non-violent offenders, so it is piles of low level druggies, moves into one non-violent conspiracist of January 6th fame. Tina Peters was almost certainly going to get her sentence shortened by the courts anyways, and Polis stepped in and did it himself. I kind of get it. I suppose the big reason not to is because Trump was pressuring him for the release and there is no way the perception of events isn’t just going to be viewed as step a and then step b — and that is how everyone covers it, what a sad sack Polis is as Peters runs off and gets a hero’s cause celebre welcome from the likes of Steve Bannon. But political office appears something of a rich man’s hobby for Polis and he can just walk off after his two terms in office indifferent that the whole world hates him and his status in the Democratic Party is along the lines on Jon Bel Edwards — he served over there for a couple terms and barely was moved by the headwinds every which way in national party politics.