Are you for real? That sucks. Damn, it’s for real - and even worse:
If the Senator was elected as the nominee of a political party, the Governor shall appoint from a list of three persons recommended by the State executive committee of the political party with which the vacating member was affiliated when elected if that party executive committee makes recommendations within 30 days of the occurrence of the vacancy.
Now, if Cooper wants to play hardball (doubtful), it says he shall appoint, but it doesn’t say when he shall… and apparently “shall” is a fluid concept these days.
I wouldn’t hate it if that was the standard rule across all states. There really should be a constitutional amendment addressing how to fill vacancies.
It would certainly get rid of one of the objections to Biden making Warren his running mate. The next time a governor appoints a replacement Senator would probably be a good occasion for pushing this, although I favor the idea of standardizing it as part of a slate of electoral reform amendments. I have this idea for a voter bill of rights for Democrats to run on, with a list of ways to modernize American democracy.
That was shell-shocked people trying to put a positive spin on a horrible situation in order to cope with what happened. Us political junkies were too jaded to think that way.
On Election Day (night for me), I went to an Election Day party. It was basically a crowd of Hillary supporters watching the election results while getting drunk. Once parts of Florida that normally went blue started going for Trump, I yelled out that it was over and started binge drinking and spent at least 2-3 hours calling people on my Facebook friends list assholes and scumbags for being piece of shit Trump supporters. Unfriended a ton of people that day. Next thing I remember, I wake up with a massive hangover and am late for work by about 15 minutes. I look and feel like shit to the point where my students were asking me if I was sick.
That was the last time I ever got that drunk in my life. Here’s hoping 2020 doesn’t break that streak of hangover-free living.
I stayed in denial much later into the night. Then I wandered around in a state of brain broken disbelief for a few days while the loading bar on the cognitive dissonance slowly filled.
Everybody at the bar thought I was being a downer when I announced it. I sounded like Matt from Chapo Trap House. Once coverage started turning Trump’s way, people were shocked and started leaving. I stayed because I wanted to drink more. Eventually, the place closed and I remember nothing from then to the time I woke up the next morning.
I did that. Then, my workouts went extreme for several months. I was easily in the best shape of my life as a result of being in shock about the election. I would wake up and feel the need to jump rope for like 30-40 minutes lol. Then, do my normal workout. This last winter of video games and soda ruined that temporarily.
Oh, the thing that really set me off is this dipshit I know from high school who knew I won a decent amount on the Mitt/Obama election immediately asking on FB how much I lost hurr durr. He wouldn’t fucking bet on Trump before the election even with odds but was sure there to rub it in immediately after. FTR, I couldn’t get anyone to bet on Trump so didn’t lose any $$.
The new applications for aid add to the total 36.5 million workers that have sought to receive weekly unemployment checks in the past eight weeks, according to the new federal data, erasing years of economic gains and threatening lasting devastation to the country that rivals even the Great Depression.
So like ten senators did the insider trading, but they’re going after the one who wasn’t sufficiently loyal to Trump and isn’t running for re-election? Checks out. When does granny Feinstein get her subpoena?