11.08.2006

Oh Happy Day, Part 2!

Huzzah!

• Jennifer Granholm wins re-election in the Michigan gubernatorial race, handily defeating former Amway cult-leader Chairman Dick DeVos. My friend Aaron's father, who helped turn around the Kwame Kilpatrick mayoral campaign last year, was at the helm to help Granholm win her race...though the Granholm team should be embarrassed that no one thought to note that Amway laid of thousands of Michigan workers to outsource their pills and soap operation to China was an election winner before Kwame's savior came along.

• Michigan agrees not to murder Mourning Doves (ironically, the state bird of peace) for sport. I was a little shocked at how easily the amendment was defeated, given that Michigan is a big hunting state. Maybe they were afraid that Dick Cheney would make his next hunting trip here and incite panic amongst the state's elderly population.

• Little Ricky Santorum loses his job. Oh, would that I could muster some sympathy and compassion, but it's just not in me. As I noted in the Decemberists post, I heard the news last night on NPR driving home from the show. What I didn't tell you then is that I immediately called Kerri to scream like an idiot on her voicemail out of sheer, undiluted joy! In other news, former Florida Secretary of State and famed 2000 election stealer Katherine Harris lost her bid for the Senate and Homo-bigot (and 2004 election stealer) Ken Blackwell didn't fare much better, losing the Ohio gubernatorial race to Ted Strickland.

• Bernie Sanders is the projected winner in the Vermont Senate race. Sanders, for those who don't know, will be be the only Socialist elected to the 110^th Congress. Even better? As of 11:42 a.m., CNN shows him getting 65% of the vote. Hey Wake, you live up and around the New England way--—is it terribly expensive to live in Vermont? Any good job opportunities? Do they like people with funny midwestern accents? See, I'm looking to leave Detroit in the near future, and while Chicago was a serious contender, Obama's got nothing on Bernie Sanders!

• South Dakota rejects the abortion ban, so now Bill Napoli will only get to fantasize about those poor sodomized virgins. Everyone shed a tear for Ol' Bill now, won't you? The forced-birth crowd love to argue that abortion rights were forced on this country by the Supremes and that the people should have been given the opportunity to approve abortion laws. With the South Dakota referendum results in, I have only one thing to say to the anti-choicers: Shut the fuck up! See, the people did decide, and you lost! Not only in South Dakota, but in California and Oregon, both of which defeated parental consent and notification laws. Poor anti-choicers, not quite as popular as you thought, huh? You should try being on the right side of the debate sometime.

• Arizona becomes the first state to turn back a same-sex marriage ban at the polls. Pam's got the scoop about how this isn't just a victory for queers in Arizona, but for grassroots activism all around.

• Oh, I seem to forgotten a big one: Speaker Pelosi! The Dems win the House giving Nancy Pelosi a fat new job title and the honor of being the first woman speaker of the house.

• Oh dear! In the course of writing this, Jon Tester has won the Montana Senate seat, making the Democrats one seat shy of a majority. Just waiting on the Virginia race, where unrepentent racist George Allen is contesting the results and demanding a recount. Funny how only Democrats get called whiny ass titty babies when they ask for recounts...
  

• The Guardian's breaking news:
  
  LATEST: Republican officials say Donald Rumsfeld to step down, it is reported. More details soon ...
  
  
  Sure beats that other memorable British headline.
  

• Michigan's Proposal 2 "“Get those darkies back in fields and women back in the kitchens where they belong"” Affirmative Action ban looks like it is going to pass, despite the fact that the fucking KKK was the only major organization (terms used loosely) to back the damn thing. I hope Ward Connerly is proud of himself--he sold out his race and his morals and jumped in bed with people who might shake his hand today, but only so they can calculate his weight for his eventual lynching.

• My man Amos Williams lost to incumbent Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox after a valiant campaign effort. I'm really pissed because I don't get to make the joke I've been saving up for weeks about Dick DeVos and Mike Cox being tossed out like the couple of pricks they are.

• Wisconsin shocks us all by not only passing the same sex marriage ban, but at 59% to 41%, a much bigger margin than anyone would have predicted. Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, South Dakota and Idaho join the existing oppressor states by refusing to recognize queer marriage rights, while Colorado rejects a civil unions proposal. Incidentally, Britney Spears filed for divorce from her hanger-on husband of two years, Kevin "“K-Fed"” Federline, yesterday. Ahem.

Ho-Hum

• I didn't vote for Debbie Stabenow, since I tend to think anyone who approves of torture is a soulless asshole undeserving of my vote. I proudly voted Green, and actually whispered a "Fuck you, Debbie" in the voting booth while I filled in the little oval on my ballot (we kick it scantron-style in the Shelby T). But, despite the loss of my one little vote (and Kerri's!), she won anyway. And by a huge margin. I can't work myself up enough to put this is the Boo! Hiss! section, but I'm certainly not going to call it a win.
  

Feel free to leave your post-election day cheers and jeers in the comments.

Labels: Politics

annamaria at 12:46 PM

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at Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:50:00 PM  annamaria said...

I had a similar reaction when I first heard the news, but apparently there is all kinds of Detroit insider scoop on Freman Hendrix that made him a less than stellar choice for mayor, stuff to which we mere plebs are not privy. And by "less than stellar" I mean "worse than Kwame."

When are you going to be in Michigan? You'll call and we'll do dinner, yes?

 

at Monday, November 13, 2006 11:24:00 AM  Dane meets Simone said...

By "we'll do dinner," you mean all three of us, yes?

 

at Monday, November 13, 2006 12:08:00 PM  annamaria said...

Of course I meant all three of us! We can check out all those cute-but-empty Westland bars you've been telling me about!

 

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