Wow, that was a short tenure as a Democratic Party “rising star”!
Representative Jasmine Crockett issued a statement last night conceding the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas to James Talarico, a state lawmaker and seminarian, but not before claiming earlier that she had been defeated by Republican election tampering and that voters had been “disenfranchised.”
“Texas is primed to turn blue, and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person,” she said in her statement. “This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track.” At least Crockett is smart enough to know that bitterly complaining after getting beaten is no way to continue her political career. What is a way will prove elusive in her case. At best, she may try to be Texas’s Stacy Abrams. Talk about low aspirations…
Talarico said in a speech early today that “The people of our state gave this country a little bit of hope.” He didn’t mean it quite the way I do, but he’s right anyway. In a little detail that few news sources (including the New York Times) are bothering to mention, Crockett’s expanded ego led her to believe her own press clippings and run for the Senate rather than try to keep her current seat in the House. She didn’t run in the primary to represent her current district, so at least until 2009, the loud-mouthed, vulgar, jive-talking, in-your-face parody of a black politician is out of national politics. That means both Crockett and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who took turns insulting each other like mean girls during a House session last year, will be out of Congress come January. Greene is already gone. Calloo Callay!
There is indeed hope: Crockett’s ad hominem, “fuck”-filled, ugly style of political discourse lowered the bar to gutter level, and yet the Trump Deranged cheered her on. But even her solid “blue” district had the sense to see that she was a fraud, talking down to black voters with a fake ebonics accent, and generally assuming that Abe was wrong when he said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
As usual, Abe was right. Pssst! Abe! Now do Gavin Newsom…
Ethics Alarms 
The predawn fogginess which accompanies logging on just before 05:00 a.m. CST disappeared rather abruptly when that crossed my screen!
PWS
Is Texas really primed to turn blue? Didn’t that state go +15 or so for the GOP in 2024? And I think that gap was bigger than either 2020 or 2016. Obviously states can trend towards blue (or red) over time, but I think Ms. Crockett is probably speaking (at the very least) in hyperbole to claim Texas is “primed” to turn blue.
Oh well, Jasmine has been wrong about nearly everything else, so why should this be different?
May be true. The influx of economic refugees from blue states may be having an effect on Texas politics. Arizona’s been turned purple by the massive influx of people from blue states. Lefties tend to bring their politics with them as they flee failing blue states. The newspapers seem to be the first thing flipped blue.
“The influx of economic refugees from blue states may be having an effect on Texas politics.”
There’s a term for Lefties who foist despicably imbecilic social engineering/utopian/Brave New World schemes on their living areas and, to no one’s surprise, FUBAR the livin’ $#!t out of ’em, then subsequently (also to no one’s surprise) find them unlivable: LEFTUGEES
MONEY QUOTE: “THE TOP FIVE STATES SEEING A MASS EXODUS ARE ALL DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois lost a combined 4 million residents between 2010 and 2019.” (bolds/caps/italics mine)
PWS
Man. Talk about unintended consequences. You run a good state, and jerks move there and bring their bad governance with them. Back in the ’80s, a guy I worked with said the extreme heat of Arizona was a good thing because “it keeps the assholes out.” Sadly, that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
Prince said something similar about Minnesota and the cold.
-Jut
Texas stopped a man – Malcolm Tanner – who had an idea to turn the state blue. He bought 10 acres in a sparsely populated county – but with lots of oil. Then went online and offered free housing to anyone willing to move there and vote blue in all the local and state elections. Offered free housing to the first 1000 “melanated people” to get in contact with him. I can’t help but think that when you see one mouse, you know you’ve got 10. And when you see one cockroach, you’ve got 1000. Hopefully it is a novel, new scheme.
And Al Green is in a runoff.
Christian Menefee and Al Green headed to runoff for Democratic nomination in newly redrawn TX-18 – Houston Public Media
For a funny state of the news story, I just read a story on the Texas primaries. It confused Vincente Gonzales of the 34th district with Tony Gonzalez of the 23rd district and accused Vincente of Tony’s scandal. To make it more confusing, the Republican primary for the 34th district had Eric Flores beating Mayra Flores. I think Texas needs more diversity in its candidates’ names.