I'm still gonna run with the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party ...

And, I, for one, will be heavily contributing to the fundraising drive come this Thanksgiving for CW.com!

Glenn Kirshner is piling on the FBI in this short video.

P.S. He actually uses a swear word for the first time since somebody here turned me on to him.

I used to have some respect for FBI Director Wray but his performance today was wholly disappointing. I can only try to imagine how the courageous gymnasts who testified today feel about his weak testimony. In fact, coming as his testimony did just after these courageous athletes recounted their horrific abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar, Wray looked like a very small man in every sense of the word next to these young women.

Wray believes that all he can do is to learn from this horrific abuse of power by the FBI and its agents and hope that it is never allowed to happen again.

Un-freakin'-believable.

That's all he can do because the agents no longer work for the FBI.

I guess Wray just doesn't understand that what FBI agents did was to break the bloody law or that they should be prosecuted for doing so.

Good luck to the FBI and the public trust that they need to do their job of protecting the American people everyday.

Very interesting, indeed!

So, Caddy's vote may not have actually been counted even if he sees on the site that it was???

Do you know why comments are closed for Chris's latest column?

Can't wait for the audits, right Chris?

Furthermore, I went on the Interwebs and verified that my vote was received and counted. So...

Neener Neener Neener!

Under election law section 11381 (c) it states No person whose recall is being sought may be a candidate to succeed himself or herself at a recall election nor to succeed any other member of the same governing board whose recall is being sought at the same election.

EM-16 Technically yes he did spoil his ballot according to election law section 15341 that states Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no name written
upon a ballot in any election shall be counted for an office or
nomination unless the candidate whose name has been written on the
ballot has complied with Part 3 (commencing with Section 8600) of
Division 8.

Interestingly it will be tough to tease out how many ballots were not counted because people wrote in non-registered people. Because California does not, like most other places(again 34 states), track ballots rendered ineligible to be counted. A non-counted ballot becomes part of the registered voter to votes cast differential.

While California does track and report on rejected ballots, those are completely different as they are ballots that would have been counted but were rejected due to some issue with the ballot submission.

The irksome thing is that if your ballot is rendered invalid the ballot tracking site still reports it as counted....

No, he's not prohibited from running in his recall election. I voted NO on recall and wrote in Gavin Newsom's name in part two.

"So, you're saying that Democrats can't even come up with simplistic messages?" :)

No they can't. That's my point. Democrats want to EXPLAIN things in a very cerebral way. That's what gets them the "elitist" label that turns so many people off. People's eyes glaze over with FACTS.

People would rather agree with a lie that supports the opinions they already hold rather than a reality that contradicts them. Case in point, our former Michale.

Republicans play to this emotion, which is what makes them so effective. Gay marriage or marriage equality won when it connected to people on an emotional level. Democrats need to do the same.

instead of griping about how unfair the electoral college is by giving outsized influence to smaller states, change the demographics of those states by internal migration.

JL

Rinse and repeat.

Technically yes, but since being vax'd and the shift in how we are dealing with Covid sending me back to what I normally do, I tend to be more of a global resident.

Which, with what you have to do to get into places and the social restrictions is not as much fun as it used to be.

I am just active right now because I am on the western hemisphere and I have irons in the fire on the east coast and the west coast... so whilst I wait for the time zones to catch up to me why not recreate...

I can already hear the cries of "power grab", cheating, and illegal ... They really like that last one.

On the surface it looks doable given that we would simply have to decouple/change the election laws pertaining to how the recall election is conducted. Interestingly the constitution does not require that the yes or no recall question AND the replacement question must appear together, that is strictly a function of the election code.

The constitution also does not state that the recalled official must be filled by the result of the replacement question. Even then the Election code stipulates that If no replacement candidate is nominated or qualifies for the position, the office will be vacant and filled according to the relevant laws governing vacancies. So the idea is somewhat already there.

We would however have to amend section 16 and 17 of the constitution to account for the legislature no longer being required to provide for the Nomination of candidates and section 16 which would have to change who performs the recall duties of the Governors office when they are recalled (currently the Lt. Gov). This is where I see the "strum und drang" happening.

Since we are tinkering I also would not mind seeing section 15 reduced to 30 days minimum and not more than 60 days for the election occur. It would weed out the unprepared.

But the whole thing was just such a joke that I couldn't take any of it (including my own vote) seriously.

For the record I worked the 2003 recall election at a Senior citizens apartment complex. I watched a stream of old folk turning in
Recall -- YES
Who to replace with --
Ahh-nolt.

You just can't make this stuff up. It may take decades for the movie industry to figure out how to portray these times. Like the Vietnam War.