Local Elections

[zoobernut]

Fivethirtyeight is now projecting that Heitkamp will lose her bid for re-election, putting Democrats at a less than 30% chance of retaking the Senate. Their chances of flipping the House have gone down a few more points as well.

I hate people.

[archibaldcrane]

Jason Kander, who lost the Missouri Senate race in 2016 and was running for mayor of Kansas City, has dropped out of the race to deal with PTSD and depression. He was the guy with the blindfolded AR-15 advertisement.

Fortunately the mayor race primary isn't until June of next year, so there's still other people running on the Dem ticket.

[6souls]

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/new...-ellison-event

A Ellison meet-and-greet has been canceled after an alt-right group that's prone to violent outbursts announced a protest outside of the venue.

[Yabby]

[archibaldcrane]

Political ads chastising senators for not beating up presidential candidates rule.

[Yabby]

Texas being Texas

[Andalusian girls]

the man's not wrong

[Fiye]

That ad rules.

[TummieGaruda]

So, these mailers are apparently going out in Orange County, CA and I couldn't help but to laugh at the shitty math to come up with $700 and the fact that they are trying to use a Disney Annual Pass as something you are missing out on because of the gas tax lol.

[zoobernut]

So, these mailers are apparently going out in Orange County, CA and I couldn't help but to laugh at the shitty math to come up with $700 and the fact that they are trying to use a Disney Annual Pass as something you are missing out on because of the gas tax lol.

Yeah I totally would rather go to Disneyland and then have the freeway collapse on me on the way there because it wasn't properly maintained.

[Melena]

Holy shit I wish the Disney annual passes were that cheap.

[TummieGaruda]

Yeah I totally would rather go to Disneyland and then have the freeway collapse on me on the way there because it wasn't properly maintained.

I could totally see this a rebuttal ad...starts off with your regular white family with 2 kids and the mother talks about how they voted Yes on 6 because the gas tax took money away from them, money that they can now use to go to Disneyland. Then it shows them all getting in the car and the little kids are excited singing Disney songs, then the dad hits a pothole in the road and they get into the most over exaggerated accident on the 5 Freeway. At this point they can just go all in with the ad and have a voice-over that says "Without the Gas Tax, freeway improvements would cease to exist. Do you want families to die on the freeway? Vote No on 6."

[dasva]

Yeah I totally would rather go to Disneyland and then have the freeway collapse on me on the way there because it wasn't properly maintained.

Yeah but if you're lucky it will collapse on someone else and you'll have a shorter line.

In seriousness though it's not like they are getting rid of all funding just the recent hike. A lot of people I talk to are mad cause they paying more but their roads are still shit

[Zealot]

Just play the truck tire in the road scene from Tommy Boy.

[TummieGaruda]

Holy shit I wish the Disney annual passes were that cheap.

I think they were using the Deluxe pricing. Prices are going to keep going up cause apparently they are suffering from a lot of budget cuts.

[synistar]

In seriousness though it's not like they are getting rid of all funding just the recent hike. A lot of people I talk to are mad cause they paying more but their roads are still shit

Because the tax was never indexed for inflation. But not like anyone really says that fact when highlighting the benefits of that tax on top of it being a bit insulated from the boom/bust of the economy.

[TummieGaruda]

If the Gas Tax stays, I fully expect people to start clamoring for a kWh tax for electric vehicle charging at public chargers. Most of the public chargers I charge at have their prices set by the city and a large portion of them are free so it will be interesting to see if they change that if there is a tax passed onto the customer.

[zoobernut]

Yeah but if you're lucky it will collapse on someone else and you'll have a shorter line.

In seriousness though it's not like they are getting rid of all funding just the recent hike. A lot of people I talk to are mad cause they paying more but their roads are still shit

I can actually point to specific road projects in my area like repaving and reshaping and retrofitting that ONLY happened because they were paid for by that tax. IF people are mad it is because they don't pay attention. CalTrans has signs up all over the state to tell you which projects were specifically funded by that tax.

[6souls]

https://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-vi...vorce-records/

Conservative website AlphaNewsMN.com and the conservative-leaning newspaper the Star Tribune are suing to gain access to Ellison's divorce records hoping to find that Keith has a history of domestic abuse. Both Keith and his ex Kim say that they will fight the lawsuit.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/1...abused-ex-wife

The divorce documents have been unsealed and neither Alpha News nor the Tribune found the juicy details they were looking for. Instead, it's been revealed that Ellison was a victim of physical domestic abuse by his ex-wife.

[synistar]

If the Gas Tax stays, I fully expect people to start clamoring for a kWh tax for electric vehicle charging at public chargers. Most of the public chargers I charge at have their prices set by the city and a large portion of them are free so it will be interesting to see if they change that if there is a tax passed onto the customer.

The electric car registration fee kicks in 2020 so those drivers pay their fair share in road maintenance