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Greg Murphy has always been a counterfeit conservative. He was known as Medicaid Murphy in the legislature.

Commented: Friday, November 10th, 2023 @ 8:34 am By: Rino Hunter

My point, Bobbie, if your little brain cannot grasp it, is that we have had black mayors and black council majorities before and they did fine, not bringing race into governamce. There is nothing per se wrong with having a black mayor or a black council majority or both This time there is a racial angst among the Sadler faction that could pose a problem. If you had been present at the Board of Elections election evening, you might understand that. Our only hope is that maybe Horton or Tyre will evolve to be more like Pitt, but I am not holding my breath. Brooks is a hopeless case who has less understanding of what is going on than Joe Biden.

The problem goes beyond just taxes and spending. There is a negative attitude toward out downtown business district and our historic district, and there seems to be a racial angle to that. We have had plenty of black political leaders in the past who have been supportive of both, but the Sadler crew does not seem to be.

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 9:31 pm By: John Steed

If you paid taxes in Washington, Bob, you would understand why the election of Sadler with three of his flunkies on the council is EXTREMELY bad news for our taxapayers. Elected officials with common sense like William Pitt understand that but leftie loons like Sadler never will.

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 4:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

JS - please read the post by JS in this thread. I await your apology.

RH -How Sadler structured his core team differently this time than last indicates a more racially focused governance.

RH - In 2021, his core team and political slate he pushed on election day were Richard Brooks, a barely literate black man who was easy to lead and would do as he was told, Mike Renn, a white white with drinking problems who owed his council seat to Sadler and would do as he was told, and William Pitt, a knowledgeable and experienced black incumbent with a record of making up his own mind and of representing all of the city, not just one segment.
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Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 2:48 pm By: Big Bob

Bobbie, if you go to mortality.watch you can find the entire list. This was just the top countries based on last quarter's excess mortality. The very top countries on this list are also the countries with the highest rates of vaccination with mRNA Covid jabs.

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 2:46 pm By: John Steed

The good- the BO kept race out of the election.
The bad- BO supporters lost that election
The Ugly- Now the racial stuff starts to creep in.

Question- when whites run everything, why isn’t that racial? Why is it that it only becomes so when BiPOC people win?

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 1:23 pm By: Big Bob

How Sadler structured his core team differntly this time than last indicates a more racially focused governance. His 2023 team is much less diverse than his 2021 team, both as to the absence of a token white and to the absence of any blacks who have a mind of their own.

In 2021, his core team and political slate he pushed on election day were Richard Brooks, a barely literate black man who was easy to lead and would do as he was told, Mike Renn, a white white with drinking problems who owed his council seat to Sadler and would do as he was told, and William Pitt, a knowledgable and experienced black incumbent with a record of making up his own mind and of representing all of the city, not just one segment.

Sadler broke with Pitt because it quickly became clear that Pitt would do what he thought best, not what Sadler told him to do. Renn's drinking problams got to the point that he was probably not electable, so he did not run again this year.

The 2021 team incluced an experienced black leader who represented the whole community and a white guy. Sadler's 2023 team excludes both of those groups.

Two well qualifired black candidates who had minds of their own, filed for the council tis year, Leesa Jones and William Pitt, but Sadler had no use for either of them on his slate.

Three more liberal whites also filed, but Sadler did not back any of them either, incumbnet Lou Hodges, and newcomers Ellen Brabo and Mary Beedle. Hodges sometimes displayed a mind of her own, and that was likely enough for Sadler not to put her on his slate. Brabo's first allegiance was to the Chamber of Commerce, and Sadler seems adverse to divided loyalties. While Beedle would probably have jumped on the opportunity to play the Renn role, Sadler apparently never asked her.

It is never good for any elected executive to have a rubber stamp legsilative body like the city council, but that is exactly what Washington has now. Sadler has a reputation of being very secretive about his plans, so it remains to be seen what he will use this power for and just how bad it will be.

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 12:54 pm By: Rino Hunter

Saw some where this morning that Murphy is going to run for re-election.

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 11:30 am By: Countrygirl1411

Those statistics may blow up your leftwing narrative, Little Bobbie, but sometimes the truth hurts. Also, those scientific researchers in one of the other linked articles are a whole lot smarter than you are, Bobbie. All you know how to do, Little Bobbie, is to parrot your far left talking points, and in your myopic tunnel vision confusing them with "truth".

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 9:41 am By: John Steed

I would suggest that county commissioners act to advocate for the removal of drop boxes, then the general assemblies or local boards of election might act to take a more assertive position for their permanent removal. If this action within the states' political purview did not suit the political whim of the Leftist elements within the DO(in)J, that would make for an interesting constitutional fight that I would wager the DO(in)J would lose.

The Bridgepoint Incident is, I believe, just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 8:04 am By: Stan Deatherage

John: What would be your suggestion as to how we end the infamous drop boxes that are appearing to provide the perfect distancing cover to professional Ballot Harvesters?

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 7:47 am By: Stan Deatherage

Comrade Biden is a far leftist who is dishonest and in power in the US, Little Bobbie. Further, polls show that the American people understand that he is working to set up a police state.

As to election day, it is sad that a despicable thug like George Soros can get away with the racist attack ads he did on our black GOP gubenatorial nominee in Kentucky, but we won every other race in that state as well as all statewide offices in Mississippi and Louisiana. In Louisiana, we took the governorship back from the Democrats. I don't know what you are so smug about. The forces of civilization also took out that Soros prosecutor in Loudon County, Virginia, even though she had a 12 to 1 spending advantage.

Commented: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 7:11 am By: John Steed