September 23, 1923.
Casper's mayor has resigned after having been accused of physically assaulting his wife in Texas. In resigning, he stated.
It is readily apparent to me that the City Council has abandoned me, band members who I have worked with for a number of years, have ended their relationship with me and it is apparent to me that every effort is being made to destroy me to the public.
Well, after photographs were run of his wife with a major scar suture on her head, no matter what happened, it'd be in the press. Perhaps the surprising thing this year is that it turned out to matter, given that so little otherwise seems to in regard to public conduct.
We will note that he's disputing her allegations, stating that she was intoxicated and fell.
He'd been in the press with comments a fair amount, including this recently:
Challenging airport funding and looking at subsidization of transportation in a different light.
President.
Democrats:
Joe Biden; the incumbent.
Marianne Williamson.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Republicans.
Donald Trump.
Nikki Haley
Vivek Ramaswamy.
Perry Johnson,
Larry Elder
Asa Hutchinson.
Tim Scott.
Ron DeSantis
Chris Christie
Mike Pence.
Doug Burgum
Will Hurd
Steve Laffey
Ryan Binkley
Green Party
Cornel West.
American Solidarity Party
Peter Sonski
U.S. Senate
Republicans
John Barrasso, maybe?
The long serving Senator has not announced if he's running or not. Right now, because it's pretty obvious that Mitch McConnell is headed on to the next realm, he stands to potentially be Senate Majority Leader.
Reid Rasner.
Rasner has announced and is running essentially as a far right populist. If Barrasso stays in, his campaign will be forgotten within days of the primary election.
September 25, 2023
Former President Trump's comments are getting increasingly extreme, even unhinged.
He's now openly threatening the Press. The scary part here is that his supporters will fall right in line with this.
September 27, 2023
A New York court has determined, in a partial ruling in a case, that Donald Trump committed fraud in the process of building his real estate empire, apparently by misrepresenting his assets. The ruling does not determine damages.
Joe Biden joined UAW picketers yesterday.
September 29, 2023
Some members of the Converse County GOP wish to censure Rep. Forrest Chadwick, whose districts straddles Natrona and Converse Counties. Included in their proposed censure is "failed to vote in a manner that has any semblance to the oath that he made to God to ‘support, obey and defend the Constitution’ or any semblance to the Wyoming Republican Party Platform.”
I'm not certain at all that the oath legislators take is a divine one. They take an oath, but I don't think it's in that context.
Ironically, moreover, many of the populist far right, including in Wyoming, have been supporting sedition, at least in their statements, which is clearly violative of their oaths if they're in office, as it amounts to subverting the U.S. Constitution. Lying, in the Catholic view, with Catholicism being an Apostolic and therefore an original branch of Christianity (and given Apostolic succession, the original branch) is regarded as a grave sin in some circumstances, which does invoke a person's relationship with the Divine, but not for the same reason. Here too, however, the far right position is rather ironic, given what is just noted above.
WyoRino, which recently failed to make an appearance at a Natrona County debate, is mentioned by name.
The effort appears to be tied to his vote against the Life is a Human Right Act as he thought it was unconstitutional and his vote for the budget in the last session. A person could be upset about either of these (although It's hard to grasp being upset about a necessary budget), but that doesn't amount to a violation of his oath of office.
October 3, 2023
I know nothing about Butler, and she may be supremely qualified, but its hard not to assume there's a fair amount of box checking going on in the selection, something that Democratic politicians are particularly likely to do. Butler is black, fulfilling a Newsom promise, and she's gay, making her the first black openly gay U.S. Senator. Should that matter? No, but its statistically improbable while also fulfilling promises to one major Democratic demographic and also satisfying, maybe, the desires of another.
John Kelly, a former adviser to Donald Trump, slammed his former boss in a CNN interview, stating:
What can I add that has not already been said? A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person that did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family – for all Gold Star families – on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.
A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women. A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason – in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.
October 4, 2023
The Trump campaign, in what should be regarded as an expression of concern, is calling on the GOP debates to end, so all resources can be focused on defeating Joe Biden.
A plea to end attention to other candidates, even though they have not touched him so far, demonstrates that something is causing concern in the Trump camp.
October 6, 2023
Cornell West, who may get as many as 5 or 6 votes next November, has ditched the Green Party in favor of running an independent campaign in hopes of actually getting on the ballot in various states.
This is his third switch this season.
West is a figure who fascinates American leftist and is otherwise wholly unknown to the American public.
October 8, 2023
Steve Laffey, a long shot candidate for the Oval Office on the GOP ticket has dropped out of the race and dropped out, as well, from the Republican Party. He called the GOP "dead".
October 9, 2023
Robert F. Kennedy is now running as an independent.
cont:
Will Hurd has backed out and endorsed Nikki Haley.
October 11, 2023
Far right populist Kari Lake has announced a bid for an Arizona Senate seat. She will run against independent incumbent Kyrsten Sinema, the Senates most photogenic member, and Arizona Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego. This assuming, of course, that Sinema runs.
October 12, 2023
Cenk Uygur, a media personality, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic ticket for the Oval Office.
As he was born in Turkey, he's not eligible to be President.
Trump, in a recent interview, stated, regarding Benjamin Netanyahu, the following:
He was not prepared. He was not prepared and Israel was not prepared. And under Trump, they wouldn't have had to be prepared.
Why doesn't it occur to Trump supporters how deeply weird statements like that are?
October 17, 2023
Wyoming Senator John Barrasso has endorsed Kari Lake for Senator from Arizona.
This is politics, of course, but it really shows how far people are willing to go for no other reasons other than politics. Lake is an extremist. The calculation probably is that she might win, and you'd want her to owe you some favors.
October 25, 2023
The absurd flap on which Democratic primary will occur first means that Biden might not appear on the New Hampshire primary ballot.
October 27, 2023
Larry Elder has dropped out of the Republican race.
cont:
Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips announced that he is running for President on the Democratic ticket and that he will seek to appear on the New Hampshire ballot.
October 28, 2023
Mike Pence has dropped out.
From here on out, with Pence breaking the dam, candidates will start dropping out of the GOP race. Pretty soon, it will be Christie against Trump.
While it expresses a minority view, my guess is that as Trump looks more and more childish and faces more and more criminal problems, Christie will gain.
For the second time, it should be noted, Pence has done something for the good of the nation.
October 30, 2023
Arguments commenced today in a Colorado suit on whether Trump's role in the January 2020 insurrection bars him from seeking office.
The Minnesota Supreme Court hears arguments on the same topic later this week.
If Trump loses either of these cases, this issue will be on its way to the Supreme Court, but perhaps not be heard until quite near the 2024 election.
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