We cats just took a couple of days out of the news loop, and we're glad we did — because what we saw when we turned on cable news last night appalled us. Nazi-look-alike Mike Pence, surveying hundreds of migrant men behind chain link fence in McAllen, Texas, was so Eastern Europe circa 1943 that we couldn't believe it was the United States of America, 2019. We are still in shock — and will deal with that topic another time.
Meanwhile, we are encouraged by a Congressional race in our own back yard — NY-21. One of our perennial pieces of advice to Democrats who run for office is the tried-and-true "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." You never know: Lightning could strike next time.
Democrat Tedra Cobb ran a spirited but unsuccessful race against our Republican Representative, Elise Stefanik, last year — and, undaunted, has decided to run again. Elise is one of those GOP women who tries to pass herself off as a moderate when she's really a Paul Ryan acolyte and someone who's perfectly comfortable sharing a podium with Benedict Donald. We find phonies like her to be almost more despicable than the out-and-out haters and teabags. Almost.
Anyway, we'd be very pleased to see Elise go down in flames next year. And Tedra has not only declared against her again, but has raised a respectable amount of money to do it ($518,000 in this year's second quarter — the most raised by a candidate in our Congressional district at this stage of the campaign).
Elise, for her part, is looking particularly eggy-on-the-face these days, because since she's been working hard to recruit women candidates to run on Republican tickets, and they keep getting their heads handed to them. The latest case in point is Joan Perry, who was crushed by a person with a penis in North Carolina's special election this week. (At least, we think he has a penis.)
Long story short, with a Presidential year coming up, we're thinking that as of 2021 the ranks of GOP girls in Congress could be set to shrink yet again — maybe even in NY-21. Go, Tedra, go. We cats PURR.
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