Darn those “sneaky lesbians”, it’s obvious the GOP senators think they will survive the 2022, 2024, and 2026 election cycles.
Ron Johnson, you need to lose, besides the usual #GOPhypocrisy claiming right-wing ‘libertarian’ fairness while maximizing the path to single-party rule.
If there’s a single Senate race with more symbolic importance than any other in 2022, it has to be in Wisconsin, where Ron Johnson just declared that he will run for reelection after all, notwithstanding the Republican senator’s pledge to leave after two terms.
Even beyond taking a Republican-held seat with control of the Senate on a knife’s edge, defeating Johnson would be particularly sweet for Democrats. They are so eager to oust Johnson that
a dozen candidates have already declared their campaigns.
One reason for this is that, as much as anyone in the Senate, Johnson has come to embody many of the GOP’s worst pathologies in the age of Donald Trump.
Johnson was first elected in the 2010 tea party wave. He seemed like a typical creature of that moment, in which the party’s plutocratic impulses — low taxes, small government — were channeled through a grass-roots movement. Johnson’s I’m-a-businessman-not-a-politician pitch was particularly apt. “He was hyper-focused on the national debt,” said one Wisconsin Republican.
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Everyone on both sides seems pleased that Johnson is running again. But if Democrats can beat him in what will be a difficult year, it will be a very meaningful triumph indeed.
You could believe Sen. McConnell's speech about how important he thinks the filibuster and 60-vote minimums are, but remember that in 2017 McConnell lowered the threshold to end debate on Supreme Court nominations from 60 votes to 51 solely to help his political party.
The former top editor of the New York Post’s website, who was fired last week, in a new lawsuit accuses the paper’s longtime editor in chief Col Allan of “years of sex-based harassment” — including propositions for sex, extensive verbal abuse, and a demand she delete a story on a rape allegation against Donald Trump.
Michelle Gotthelf worked at the Post for more than two decades, and rose the ranks to editor in chief of the tabloid’s website. Her lawsuit, which was first reported by the New York Times, was filed the week after she was fired from the Post.
According to the lawsuit, Allan propositioned Gotthelf for sex in 2015 when he was top editor of the Post, telling her “We should sleep together.”
The alleged request for sex “was the culmination of several years of sex-based harassment that Ms. Gotthelf had to endure because, according to Mr. Allan, Ms. Gotthelf reminded him of his wife,” the suit states.
The complaint alleges that Allan was verbally abusive, once telling Gotthelf to “get the fuck out,” and that he degraded women generally as “skanks,” “stupid women,” and even called one as a “sneaky lesbian.”
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