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JohnScott https://www.dailykos.com/news/JohnScott News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:17:57 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:17:57 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Morning Digest: GOP Rep. Ryan Costello to GOP: 'Screw you, I'm outta here!' https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/28/1752626/-Morning-Digest-GOP-Rep-Ryan-Costello-to-GOP-Screw-you-I-m-outta-here The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. <h4>Leading Off</h4> <a href="#1" name="1">●</a> PA-06: In one final bid to make life as painful for his party as possible, retiring Rep. Ryan Costello announced on Tuesday that he was <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/ryan-costello-congress-primary-gerrymandering-withdraw-20180327.html">yanking his name from the May 15 GOP primary ballot</a> for Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District. A few hours later, Costello <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/374964471/Ryan-Costello-paperwork-withdrawing-from-May-PA-06-primary-ballot">officially notified the state</a> that he had withdrawn from the race. <a href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" class="dk-action-link" data-action="form" data-slug="get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" data-src="https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v3/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email?format=js&source=widget&can_widget_id=can-form-area-get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email-82045" data-href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email">Campaign Action</a> The only Republican who is running for this now-open suburban Philadelphia seat is attorney Greg McCauley, a veritable Some Dude with no known support network and very uncertain finances. As such, he's far from the ideal GOP nominee for a seat that got significantly more Democratic due to court-ordered redistricting: While Costello's old seat (also numbered the 6th) support Mitt Romney 51-48 and Hillary Clinton by just half a point, the new version of the 6th backed Barack Obama 51-47 and Clinton 53-43. However, Team Red may just have to suck it up. Costello frustrated Republicans when he filed to run for re-election, only to announce days later <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/26/1751622/-Morning-Digest-Republican-Ryan-Costello-bails-from-at-risk-Pennsylvania-seat-after-filing-deadline">that he wouldn't seek a third term</a>. If Costello had stayed in the ballot just long enough to officially win the GOP nomination, local Republicans would have been able to choose a new nominee after he dropped out. But now, their options are fewer, and none are good. Republicans could consolidate behind McCauley and hope he can run a good campaign with their help; they could instead attempt to convince him to drop out after he wins the GOP primary so that they could still belatedly pick another candidate; or, perhaps toughest of all, they could run a write-in candidate against McCauley in May. For what it's worth, it seems like <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/ryan-costello-congress-primary-gerrymandering-withdraw-20180327.html">they're going with door number one</a>. Val DiGiorgio, who chairs both the state and Chester County GOP, said Tuesday, "We've got a candidate in the race, Greg McCauley, I think we've got to get to know him a little bit better and [put] a team around him," adding, "We've got some hard work ahead of us." He's not kidding about that last part: No matter what, businesswoman and Air Force veteran Chrissy Houlahan is now a heavy favorite to turn this seat blue in November. rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos Elections) AdamLaxalt AFT AK-Gov AlanHowe AmandaRenteria AndrewGillum AntonioVillaraigosa AZ-08 BillWalker CA-45 CA-Gov CarolMiller CaryKennedy ChrisKing chrispeters ChristinaHartman CO-06 CO-Gov CongressionalLeadershipFund DannyTarkanian DaveMin DavidBinderResearch DebbieLesko DelaineEastin DittmanResearch DKEMorningDigest DonnaLynne DunleavyforAlaska EdPerlmutter Elections EllenLipton EMILYsList FL-Gov GavinNewsom GeorgeScott GinnyCaligiuri GregMcCauley GwenGraham IA-02 IA-Gov IN-Sen JamesSmith JaredPolis JasonCrow JasonMetsa JimClyburn JoeMorelle JohnChiang JohnCox JohnScott JonTester KimReynolds LukeMesser M.J.Hegar MagellanStrategies MargueriteWillis MD-Gov MI-09 MI-11 MikeBraun MikeDunleavy MikeJohnson MN-08 MT-Sen NRCC NV-03 NY-25 PA-01 PA-06 PA-10 PhilipLevine Polls PublicPolicyPolling RandyBryce RonCorbett RushernBaker RyanCostello SarahClark SC-Gov ScottWallace ShavonniaCorbin-Johnson StenyHoyer TammyBaldwin TimGreimel ToddRokita TravisAllen TroyDowning TX-31 UnitedSteelworkers VanWhite VoteVets WI-01 WI-Sen WV-03 _1752626 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:00:35 +0000 Morning Digest: Rep. Colleen Hanabusa kicks off Democratic primary bid against Hawaii Gov. David Ige https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/9/6/1696263/-Morning-Digest-Rep-Colleen-Hanabusa-kicks-off-Democratic-primary-bid-against-Hawaii-Gov-David-Ige <h4>Leading Off</h4> <a href="#1" name="1">●</a> HI-Gov: On Friday, Rep. Colleen Hanabusa <a href="http://khon2.com/2017/09/02/hanabusa-says-being-a-fighter-record-will-help-her-in-gubernatorial-primary/">announced that she would challenge Hawaii Gov. David Ige</a> in next year's Democratic primary rather than seek re-election to the House. Hanabusa represents half the state in Congress, and she's run statewide once before, losing the 2014 Senate primary to appointed incumbent Brian Schatz <a href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=15&year=2014&f=0&off=3&elect=1">by a slim 49.3-48.6</a> margin, a difference of just 1,635 votes. <a href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" class="dk-action-link" data-action="form" data-slug="get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email" data-src="https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v2/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email?format=js&source=widget&can_widget_id=can-form-area-get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email-129228" data-href="/campaigns/form/get-the-daily-kos-elections-morning-digest-over-email">Campaign Action</a> Ige himself won the governorship that same year after defeating incumbent Neil Abercrombie in the Democratic primary, though Ige's <a href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=15&year=2014&f=0&off=5&elect=1">massive 67-31 romp</a> was as different as possible from the Senate squeaker. As Daily Kos Elections community member Skaje <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/8/15/1321625/-How-Hawaii-Gov-Neil-Abercrombie-lost-by-36-points">explained in an excellent piece</a> just after Ige's win, Abercrombie had managed to offend just about every important major Democratic constituency in the state. Ige entered the race with little name recognition or support, but he benefited from just not being Neil Abercrombie. As Sjake summed it up, "Ige didn't need to offer specific alternatives to Abercrombie's decisions. All he had to say was 'I won't do that!'" However, when folks rally around you because of who you aren't rather than who you are, it's easy for that support to soon disappear. While they were happy to dispatch Abercrombie, Ige's 2014 allies didn't have much loyalty to the new governor once he took office, and they may be more interested in working with Hanabusa, a protégé of the legendary late Sen. Daniel Inouye and a longtime fixture in state politics. It doesn't help that Ige's fundraising has been pretty weak so far: At the end of June, he <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/15/1689600/-Morning-Digest-Embattled-Rep-Bob-Brady-could-face-multiple-foes-in-the-2018-Democratic-primary#6">had just $250,000 in the bank</a>. And while Ige doesn't seem to have turned off as many people as his predecessor did, he's made some missteps during his tenure. Notably, Ige <a href="http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/06/civil-beat-poll-gov-david-ige-could-be-in-trouble-in-2018/">fell far short of his pledge</a> to provide air conditioning to 1,000 school classrooms by early 2016. But as Honolulu Civil Beat's Nathan Eagle <a href="http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/06/civil-beat-poll-gov-david-ige-could-be-in-trouble-in-2018/">wrote a few months ago, Ige's major problem</a> may just be that he "has not produced many tangible results to please voters." Instead, says Eagle, Ige has focused on "important objectives that don't make for easy sound bites or snappy headlines, such as eliminating unfunded liabilities and updating the tax system." rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos Elections) AdamLee AL-Sen andriatupola AnthonyGonzalez AntonioSoave AZ-Sen BettySutton BlakeHuffman BradSchneider BrianKolb CarlosRamirez-Rosa CharlieDent ColleenGarry ColleenHanabusa DanielBiss DanielKoh DanMeuser DavidClarke DavidIge DavidWeber DKEMorningDigest DougMcLinko EdGillespie Elections EllenMurphyMeehan EvanJenkins FredKeller GA-Gov GeneYaw HI-01 HI-Gov IL-Gov JeffVanDrew JeffWheeland JimBridenstine JimmyCarter JoeManchin JohnBaldacci JohnScott JoshGreen JustinSimmons KeithEckel KevinHern KS-02 LoriTrahan LutherStrange MA-03 MarcyKaptur MarioScavello MarkDion ME-Gov MN-Gov MT-AL NealTapio NJ-02 NY-Gov OH-16 OH-Gov OK-01 PA-10 PA-11 PA-15 PatrickMorrisey PeteGallego R.L.Repass RalphBaxter RalphNortham ResearchAmerica RichardCordray RoyMoore SC-Gov SD-AL SenateConservativesFund StaceyEvans TimHarris TomMarino TomWoods TonyMussare TrentFranks TX-23 VA-Gov WhereAreTheyNow WV-01 WV-Sen _1696263 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 12:01:34 +0000 A Tale of Two Goons https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/5/1480526/-A-Tale-of-Two-Goons We found ourselves this week talking about two very different guys, both born in Canada, who skated to triumph thanks to their fans. If you follow hockey, you have already guessed the name of one of them: John Scott, the 6’8,” 275 lbs., unlikely Most Valuable Player in last Sunday’s NHL All-Star Game. As Kelly McEvers put it on NPR’s <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/02/01/465180893/john-scott-named-mvp-with-2-goals-in-nhl-all-star-game" target="_blank">All Things Considered</a>, Scott is a “goon-made-good.” She was invoking hockey slang to describe an enforcer — the “goon” who is charged not to score goals but to knock heads. A professional brawler, if you will, who relies more on brute force than technical skill. He protects his teammates by starting a fight; defends the goaltender by starting a fight; and entertains the crowds by, yes, starting a fight. Scott was a “journeyman” to boot, meaning that he travels from team to team and isn’t considered an elite player. Essential, yes; elite, no. Sort of like the bouncer at a nightspot. Goons are the unlikeliest candidates for the All-Star Game and you have to scratch your head to remember the last time one made it. But John Scott’s fans adore him, and they voted him into last Sunday’s game over the protestations of the NHL brass, who seemed to loathe the very idea of a low-life in their big showcase competition. When officials stepped in to try to stop him, even sending him briefly to the AHL, the minor league of hockey, these regular-guy fans went crazy. As Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo Sports told McEvers, “A chaotic group of miscreants and NHL fans on Reddit and social media pushed John Scott to the top of the popular vote.” How did they do it? They took to the Internet, campaigned hard, and overrode the NHL to secure Scott’s berth. Not only did he score two goals for the victory, his teammates hoisted him aloft (all 300 lbs. of him with his gear), his fans voted him MVP, and the NHL brass had to hand him the gold, a million dollars in prize money. By the end of the night, Scott was the people’s champ — an everyman’s hero, triumphing despite hockey’s elite snobs doing their best to keep him down. Now if you follow politics (as of course you do) you know the other Canadian-born guy in this story is Ted Cruz. He is another kind of enforcer who is always spoiling for a fight. Instead of brawling on the ice, he brawls in the courts, on the Senate floor, and on the campaign trail. In Iowa, if they had wanted an enforcer, you might think the call would have gone to Donald Trump. But Trump is merely a bully who bungles scripture. Cruz is a brute, the Crusader Warrior, armed with spike and shield and holy zeal, summoning true believers to war against the infidels. Deus vult! they cried out in those days. “God wills it!” Unlike John Scott, who is said to be a nice guy, and humble, there’s malice in Ted Cruz’s swagger. When the Christian right in Iowa bested Trump and the GOP establishment on Monday, lofting him to victory, he shouted to the exultant worshippers, “To God be the Glory” — his self-referential pronouncement that a new Messiah had come to town. Yet while Cruz may have won Iowa fighting the GOP elites, he’s no outsider, and he’s no down-to-earth “journeyman.” There is hardly an all-star team that he hasn’t made: Princeton, Harvard Law School, Supreme Court clerkship, boutique DC law firm. As a teenager he told people he <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/03/ted-cruz-high-school-teenager-yearbook-constitutional-corroborators" target="_blank">intended to be president</a>. With a sharp mind and sharper elbows, he has always been determined to win MVP at all costs, never backing down from a fight, or an opportunity to climb higher. Now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with ambition, but here is another striking difference between John Scott and Ted Cruz. Even as the fiercest of enforcers, Scott remains a team player. <a href="http://www.theplayerstribune.com/a-guy-like-me/" target="_blank">As he says, "I make my teammates feel safe to do what they do best."</a> Ted Cruz is no team player. He’s out for no one but himself. And he has a history of switching teams until they fulfill his ambitions. Cruz was on George W. Bush’s team for the Florida recount in 2000, helping to stop the vote tallying there before Al Gore could be declared the winner -- an ambitious 29-year-old gunning for a top post in the White House. When he didn’t get one, Cruz wrote in his 2015 autobiography that it was <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/2015/07/01/x-things-we-learned-ted-cruzs-new-book/" target="_blank">“a crushing blow.”</a> He landed a job at the Federal Trade Commission instead. Cruz didn’t stop fighting, but when his colleagues still didn’t value him as he thought he deserved, he switched leagues and went local back in Texas. As the state's solicitor general, he began climbing the political ladder again, eventually considering a run for Texas attorney general. And when he saw an opening on the tea party team in 2012, he used it to campaign for the US Senate, picking fights with the Washington establishment that he felt had rebuffed him, and scoring an upset victory. Once in the Senate his goon-inspired behavior soon antagonized just about everyone, including his fellow Republicans. No one was beyond the reach of his brass knuckles, sharp elbows, and forked tongue. He fought against the Affordable Care Act (including a 21-hour rant on the Senate floor), immigration reform, Planned Parenthood — and against the Anti-Christ, Barack Obama. Now, to win the White House, Cruz has switched to the God Squad. He is the new Chosen One. His ground game in Iowa relied on scores of fundamentalist clergy, hundreds of volunteers, and his own father, Rafael, a Texas pastor who told a Christian TV channel that his son’s race for the White House was <a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/here-am-i-lord-use-me-ted-cruzs-dad-says-holy-ghost-authorized-white-house-run-video" target="_blank" title="">divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit</a>. It is as calculated as any of his previous plays. Robert Draper, in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/magazine/ted-cruzs-evangelical-gamble.html" target="_blank" title="">The New York Times Magazine</a>, did the math: “Of the 22 states that will be casting their ballots for a Republican nominee between Feb. 1 and March 5, 11 of them feature a Republican electorate that is more than 50 percent evangelical. Even more significant, the first state to vote is Iowa, roughly 60 percent of whose Republican caucus-goers describe themselves as evangelical Christians.” Deus vult! Let us pause, and think upon the words of 18th century satirist Jonathan Swift, a man so versed in the vagaries of faith he served as dean of Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral: <div> But mark me well; Religion is my name; An angel once, but now a fury grown, Too often talk’d of, but too little known… </div> rss@dailykos.com (Bill Moyers) 2016Election Canada Evangelicals IowaCaucuses JohnScott TedCruz _1480526 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:07:09 +0000 Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: New York mayor's race turns negative on the airwaves https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/8/27/1234041/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest-New-York-mayor-s-race-turns-negative-on-the-airwaves <div class="dkimg-c"><a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/signup_page/electionsdigest"><img src="http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/73/Elections-MorningDigest.jpg" alt="Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest banner" height="100" width="550" /></a> <div class="dkimg-cap">Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. <a href="http://campaigns.dailykos.com/signup_page/electionsdigest">Sign up here</a>.</div> </div> Leading Off: • NYC Mayor: Former Comptroller Bill Thompson has <a href="http://politicker.com/2013/08/bill-thompson-launches-ad-blasting-bill-de-blasios-ad/">launched the first negative ad</a> of the Democratic mayoral primary, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URVZbOs2W-k">with a spot</a> attacking Public Advocate Bill de Blasio for telling "lies" about Thompson's position on stop-and-frisk. In a recent ad, De Blasio claimed he was the "only" candidate who would "end a stop-and-frisk era that targets minorities," something Thompson <a href="http://politicker.com/2013/08/bill-thompson-wants-bill-de-blasio-to-take-down-lying-tv-ad/">has angrily disputed</a>. But Thompson isn't arguing from a position of strength. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/nyregion/william-c-thompson-jr-takes-moderate-stand-on-police-stops.html?pagewanted=all">In May</a>, he told the New York Times that there'd been "overreaction to stop and frisk," and the paper reported that he was "pledging to keep stop-and-frisk operations as a crime-fighting tool." De Blasio isn't exactly promising to eliminate stop-and-frisk altogether, either, but he supports two bills <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/nyregion/council-overrules-bloomberg-on-police-monitor-and-profiling-suits.html?pagewanted=all">just passed by the city council</a> that would increase police oversight. Thompson opposes the legislation, which de Blasio has used as the basis for his claim that his own views on stop-and-frisk stand apart. Meanwhile, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's <a href="http://politicker.com/2013/08/new-quinn-ad-touts-newspaper-endorsement-triple-play/">latest ad</a> touts her endorsements from New York's three biggest papers: the Times, the Post, and the Daily News. Mostly it focuses on the NYT, since winning over the troglodytes at Rupert Murdoch's rag doesn't exactly count as a major victory in a Democratic primary. But don't forget that in his two re-election campaigns, the Grey Lady <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/24/opinion/new-york-city-mayoral-endorsement-timeline.html">endorsed Mike Bloomberg</a>, the man Quinn is eager to emulate. The primary is on Sept. 10—just two weeks away—with a runoff between the top two vote-getters on Oct. 1 if no candidate clears 40 percent. rss@dailykos.com (David Nir) BeauMcCoy BernieHerpin BillDeBlasio BillThompson BrucePoliquin ChristineQuinn ChuckHerbster CO-Recall DKEMorningDigest EdMurray Elections EMILYsList GA-Gov GA-Sen GeorgeRivera Georgia IA-Sen JohnLewis JohnScott KasimReed KY-Sen MadisonProject ME-02 MichelleNunn MikeMcGinn MitchMcConnell MT-AL MT-Sen NE-Gov NE-Sen NEW-02 NYC Mayor PeteFestersen Pres-by-LD SC-Sen-B SeattleMayor SidDinsdale SpecialElections WeCanDoBetterColorado _1234041 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:00:14 +0000