Ballot Issues Giving Rangel Trouble in his Supposed Primary Win

By: Jake (Diary)  |  July 2nd at 12:27 PM  | 

Now, this is blue-on-blue stuff, so I don’t really have a “dog” in the race. Nevertheless, I’d just love to see someone like Charles “Tax Cheat” Rangel gone from Congress. In last week’s primary in New York’s 13th Congressional Distirct, which I posted on earlier, he faced his toughest primary challenge ever against State Senator Adriano Espillat. When the dust settled Tuesday night, Rangel appeared | Read More »

Cynthia McKinney Redux: Raving Anti-Semite Charles Barron (D-NY-08-PRI)

By: Jake (Diary)  |  June 15th at 12:03 AM  | 

You guys remember Cynthia McKinney, right? Georgia’s resident political nutball (not peanuts–sorry, Jimmy Carter, but you’re plenty nutty yourself), Truther, and “Freedom” flotilla supporter who was so–well–nutty that the voters in Georgia’s 4th District voted her out for a guy who thinks Guam can tip over and capsize.* Well, it turns out the raving anti-Semite crowd will probably get some new representation in Congress come 2013 from | Read More »