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So Much Wonderful Failure in the Election Results

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Congratulations to Matt Bevin, the new Republican Governor of Kentucky, only the second Republican governor of that state in forty years, and a man thoroughly hated by the GOP Establishment.  The GOP tried to Cuccinelli him… throw the seat to a Democrat rather than let an outsider win. They failed. Failure is a good look for them.

Oh, did I mention Kentucky’s new Lieutenant Governor is an African-American woman and a Tea-Party Activist?  The left-wing Narrative fails again.

Update: The Progressive Narrative also failed in New Jersey, where a very Republican town re-elected a gay, African-American mayor.

Speaking of Failure, anti-gun fanatic Michael “the Midget” Bloomberg tried to buy the Virginia State Senate so he could impose New York style gun control through his proxies there. Bloomberg spent millions trying to flip the VA Legislature to blue by supporting anti-gun candidates, but it will remain in Republican hands.

Progressives who are obsessed with putting men in women’s bathrooms failed to make this the law in Houston.  It failed Big Time. 61% voted against it. Hillary and Obama supported it. And this is the one that really gave the lefties the sadz.

Progressives who are obsessed with driving small businesses out of business failed to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in Portland, Maine; a rare display of common sense in a city that went 75% for Obama in 2012.

In Ohio, a measure to legalize marijuana failed majorly; mainly because people didn’t like the idea of a Government-sanctioned cartel controlling all the Mary Jane. The other ballot issue, the one that outlawed Government-sanctioned monopolies, passed. Republicans in the Ohio Legislature are discussing legalization through the legislative process.

Update: San Francisco’s Sanctuary-City, Hipster sheriff went down to defeat as well, although his replacement is also a Sanctuary-City-Loving leftist hack because San Francisco.

This image pretty much sums up watching Democrats/Left-Wingers/Progressives/Chumps react to election results last night.

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Comments

  1. Participatory Democracy does require participation; our local general election participation was 842 out of 6200 registered voters. = 13.5%

    Fair Disclosure; The two State Legislators were a done-deal due to Party-registration imbalance. The County Freeholders ran unopposed, the local governmental election is non-partisan, and both school boards — local k-6 elementary, and regional 7-12 high school — had fewer nonpartisan candidates than there were open-seat available-for. So one board member for each School District will have to be appointed by the Township Committee.

  2. You think that’s lousy participation? Where I used to live, there were about 100,000 adults in city limits, perhaps 60,000 registered voters… and in the mayoral election, only 2800 votes. Yep, less than one percent.

    This (in part because it was accompanied by some intimidation at the polls by forces of the ruling k/i/n/g/ mayor) was deemed unlikely enough that a voter-watchdog group asked the Secretary of State for an investigation, which was initiated but far as I know nothing ever came of it.

  3. The flip-side is that so few “civilians” participate serving as elected or even appointed officials outside of the pool of lawyers and professional politicians and ‘community organizers’.

    One reason being the intrusive and onerous ethics and financial disclosure-reports required, even to serve on an unpaid local library board here in NJ. A friend on mine serve on his local k-8 school board for many years until it just wasn’t “worth it”. It’s an unpaid position, yet in the final years his ethics and financial disclosure reports were costing him $25,000 in legal and accounting fees due to his business and investments. And his family and business associates were unhappy that EVERYTHING was now on the public record including what most would consider confidential and proprietary business records — not only of his holdings, but of theirs too.

    To serve on a County or State board or commission can cost upwards of $100,000 in legal and accounting services, just for the vetting process BEFORE the public confirmation hearings.

  7. If her lead holds when the ballots are made official on November 17, Jackie Biskupski will make history as the first openly-gay mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah.
    Also most Utah counties had record turnouts.

  8. If that bathroom law passed I would put on my Brezelious costume to use women’s bathrooms far from where I live. Looking like the most horribly dressed STR8 guy imaginable.

  10. Houston failed due to right-wing scaremongering about transgender “rapists.”

    No, Paul, it failed because there were enough people with common sense who voted correctly. This “gender” nonsense is transparently false on its face and LAUGHABLE. BTW, “gender” refers to NOUNS in languages where nouns can HAVE “gender;” the correct word for male and female is SEX, and no amount of surgery can change your chromosomes. There’s NO SUCH THING as “transgender.” These unfortunate people need psychotherapy, no surgery.

  11. Thank you for correctly reporting the results of the Ohio Marijuana initative and its reasons. What we need in Ohio now is a means of preventing amendment abuse. Perhaps a change in the state constitution that requires an amendment to pass by two thirds of both houses of legislature and two thirds of the general population? That would prevent a handful of people from putting initiative after initiative on the ballot with a small percentage of registered voters.

  12. @ Bastiat: I can believe that there are a small number of people who identify with the opposite sex who truly have the brain chemistry of somebody of the opposite sex, and thus may actually benefit from genital surgery. However, I differ to actual doctors on the efficacy of genital surgery in treating gender dysphoria: Johns Hopkins broke ground when they became the first clinic to offer genital surgery to help people with gender dysphoria, and they have since declared that they have noticed no improvement in the mental state of patients who undergo such surgery.

    But honestly, if somebody with a penis being permitted to use the lady’s room is where conservatives draw the line, that suggests that the culture war isn’t really going their way, now is it? As long as conservatives refuse to understand that the political arena is now ancillary to the cultural arena, they are doomed to a slow and humiliating defeat on every issue. Unless, of course, you’re a “make haste slowly” type, in which case, carry on.

  14. BTW, who cares who uses what bathroom? I’ve used the men’s room my entire life, and I’ve never once checked out another man’s junk (or butt if he’s taking a crap). Is it different with women’s bathrooms? Do they flash each other?

  16. If transgender people are so susceptible to suicide, they all argue, then the best response is to reject transgender identities.
    But none of the studies that demonstrate the high suicide rates among transgender people actually prove the point conservatives are trying to make. They actually all indicate that people who are transgender feel ostracized for their identity; their high suicide rates reflect rejection, discrimination, violence, harassment, and the negative life circumstances that result from such treatment.
    For example, one study that has been cited frequently is a Swedish study from 2011. It found that people who had actually undergone sex reassignment surgery were 19 times more times likely to die by suicide. Opponents of trans equality have used this stat to suggest that no trans person should undergo such surgeries, fueling the myths about “transition regret.” But the study did not compare trans people who had gotten surgery to trans people who had not gotten surgery — it compared them to the general population of Sweden, people who are not transgender. Thus, none of its conclusions actually support the claim that there are consequences to transitioning. Furthermore, the mortality rate was only statistically significant for people who had surgery before 1989; for those who had their surgery between 1989 and 2003, the increased mortality for transgender people was not statistically significant.

  17. […] That would prevent a handful of people from putting initiative after initiative on the ballot with a small percentage of registered voters.

    This is part of the problem with the initiative process; it has been abused to the point where it is simply one special interest group after another getting their pet project on the ballot with no limits to what can be done to sway voters. SCOTUS has ruled that paying petition gatherers is perfectly acceptable, and that state limits on campaigns are essentially null & void. So whoever has the deepest pockets and can make the most palatable argument wins.

    This is why there are so many issues in the states which have already legalized cannabis; simply doing so sounds fine in theory, but the reality is much different. (Fortunately CO voters approved the ability of the state to retain marijuana tax revenue rather than being forced to give tax-free holidays to purchasers.) There is much to be said for having potential laws being heard in a legislative body, where testimony for and against is heard and legitimate questions being asked before it becomes law instead of after.

  18. @RSG I’m not opposed to initiative, actually. Often a legislative body is reluctant to pass a law that limits their abilities, such as one which would rescind their ability to grant themselves raises.

    What I am against is the constant changing of the state constitution. This is done to not only do an end around of the legislative process but of the judicial process as well. It needs a check and balance. Try reading the state constitution of your own state. Chances are it is far longer than the U.S. Constitution, included all Amendments, and includes provisions that you say, “Why the hell is this in the constitution?”

    A constitution, whether it be federal or state, should lay out the process of how government should work. Anything more than that should be law, not an amendment to the constitution.

  20. The same people who claimed Mitt Romney was going to outlaw tampons are now mad about the other side making outrageous claims to win an election?

    Too bad. So sad.

    And, gee, mentally ill people are more likely to commit suicide, I never would have guessed.

  21. And on that topic, I have a bone to pick with this whole, “Get over it, it’s just a bathroom,” from the progs.

    If that’s really how they feel, then why is that rule being forced on normal people but not the trannies? If sharing a bathroom with trannies is supposed to be “no big deal” for normals, why can’t using the bathroom assigned to their biological sex be “no big deal” for trannies?

  22. If sharing a bathroom with trannies is supposed to be “no big deal” for normals, why can’t using the bathroom assigned to their biological sex be “no big deal” for trannies?

    Save for the hardcore activists, it probably wouldn’t be. The issue comes when someone is challenged for going into the “wrong” bathroom, such as a person with male genitalia presenting as a woman using the men’s bathroom; or a person presenting as a male with female genitalia using the women’s bathroom. In many areas, there are laws against such a practice, and in the current world, someone would otherwise be accused of being a sexual predator if there weren’t such laws.

    Of course, there have always been very butch looking women in my neck of the woods who were otherwise heterosexual and no one challenged them on anything. But only high maintenance society types would get the vapors if they used the women’s facilities. The issue arises when binary options don’t seem to apply. (Which is why I’m a fan of “family” bathrooms for anyone who might need a little extra privacy and less scrutiny.)

  23. @RSG I’m not opposed to initiative, actually. Often a legislative body is reluctant to pass a law that limits their abilities, such as one which would rescind their ability to grant themselves raises.

    I’m not either; but the feature was designed to be a last resort, not a first resort. But thanks to the SCOTUS decisions on the process of “the right to petition”, it has indeed become the first resort for often dopey legislation that’s usually poorly written and designed to be confusing and open to limited interpretation but not necessarily that which the voters are led to believe.

    What I am against is the constant changing of the state constitution. […]
    Anything more than that should be law, not an amendment to the constitution.

    Ah, but by changing the constitution, we can be sure we get our way without any meddling judges overriding our point of view, because we’re right, dammit. (This applies to both the left and the right on the political spectrum.) Fortunately, my state only allows for the legislature to propose amendments to the state constitution and then only if ratified by two-thirds vote at the next general election. It still doesn’t prevent some drippy amendments getting by that are essentially feel-good proposals without any actual effect, but it does cut down on the insanity compared to those states which are always amending their constitutions by initiative.

  24. *Ah, but by changing the constitution, we can be sure we get our way without any meddling judges overriding our point of view, because we’re right, dammit. (This applies to both the left and the right on the political spectrum.)*

    Yes, because that worked so well for California and Ohio and….

  25. Ballot Initiatives strike me the same as direct, partisan Judicial Elections — not a good idea constitutionally. [note the deliberate small-C]

    One of the dubious-strengths of the U.S. federal-republican system is that it’s cumbersome and doesn’t quickly respond to the occasionally short-sighted desires of the majority — or the demands on the howling-mob. Each step and each level as a counter move and a counterweight to provide an approximate leveling-balance.

    The Rule of Law provides some protections against the Majority, if imperfectly.

  26. Thanks Acacia I was about to mention the colossal foolishness of Bridgeport CT. In Hartford, the murder capital of New England this year 19.1% of the voters, less than 10,000 elected yet another full slate of Democrats despite their clear failing track record.