Lots of good news tonight with election results.
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Lots of good news tonight with election results. My choices for school board won, which I'm ecstatic about.
The person I really wanted to get a commissioner seat lost by a slim margin (seriously, it was fewer than 50 votes, I think). So that was dissappointing, but not unexpected. I really hope she will run again in the next commissioner race. I think she would be amazing.
But yeah, good news from lots of elections across the country. And this has mainly gotten lost in the noise, but something happened in my state that I didn't expect - they don't have enough votes to call a special session and gerrymander the dickens out of us.
Oh, they'll keep trying, but for now, they have had to give up. I love that for us. We have ONE Democrat in our entire federal delegation, and they want SO BADLY to take her seat.
And for now, they have realized they don't have the votes to do it. I hope we can continue to hold strong on this.
There are some good ads about it. Probably the one that is most effective is the one with a real regular-looking guy, slight drawl, who complains that if they combine the richest county in Kansas with the rural folks, then the rural folks will lose their voice because everything will go the rich folks' way.
That's how we beat the constitutional amendment they were trying to pass previously - ads that pointed out the loss of privacy that could mean for everyone, and how government was trying to get in your personal business. They pivoted away from the classic rhetoric and made it about personal freedom and privacy, and that worked.
As long as we can keep being smart about how we present the issues, we can keep winning here. I have to believe that. We can get back to a state that values rationality and taking care of our neighbors, rather than whatever Christofascist mess they've been trying to make us into.
