Always interesting to read your analysis, Micah, especially when it's about our town! Maybe a small point, but I'd like to point out that, while certainly Latimer has many local supporters who are putting out yard signs, don't forget that Bowman doesn't have the same unlimited funds to mass produce them. There are never as many Bowman signs available as his ardent supporters around here want and, to make matters worse, the ones we have are often stolen or destroyed. Just today several residents wrote the police chief after having had four signs stolen or defaced (he quickly responded with an email to everyone in the village). I personally have removed laminated pictures of hostages or hostile statements that were pasted right over Congressman Bowman's face (the next day, someone had taken the signs). It's discouraging that people think this disrespectful behavior is acceptable.
Yes, I just saw an email from the Hastings police reminding residents that lawn signs are private property and to leave them alone. Clearly there's been a problem; I haven't seen any Latimer signs go missing but have noticed a few Bowmans gone.
Great piece, Micah! It thoughtfully demonstrates not only the deeply distressing character of the Latimer and Jones campaigns, but in the longer run, the essential need for campaign finance reform to protect democracy in this nation. Latimer is clearly buying his next job since he is term-limited and he is doing so with a very ugly attack on his opponent, but he would not make that attack were he not financed by right-wing donors who oppose all the positions true progressives support. It is sad that Jones feels he must join such an ugly effort.
I voted for Jones when he ran in the 10th district because he was by far the best candidate. Calling him just a spoiler for the problematic Niue is unfair.
Stan, I think his point is that Ross follows politics enough to have, with all due respect, a more educated opinion in practical terms about who functioned as a spoiler. Mondaire was never viable there (at the time I supported him in ny 10, too, but in retrospect he clearly spoiled haha)
In retrospect perhaps. But in advance that can preclude serious candidacies just because they may be long shots. If we knew for sure that Jones couldn’t win maybe we wouldn’t have supported him, but he was the best candidate and did have a chance to win.
He's aligned himself with "Genocide George;" as far as I'm concerned, there's no coming back from that.
The atrocities in the Gaza strip are far too real. The International Court of Justice has found that genocide is plausible and ordered provisional measures. Last Sunday night, 45 people were burned to death in a tent encampment Rafah, screaming, burned alive in an aerial bombardment. At least 40 people sheltering in a school building were killed on Thursday. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that the Israeli state spent $ 2 million in advertising to influence U.S. elections and legislation: "Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort." When in 2016 the Russian Federation spent just $ 100,000 to interfere in U.S. elections (as recounted in the Mueller Report), Democrats completely lost it, with Hillary Clinton repeatedly insinuating that her loss to Trump was due to the Russian interference. Today, silence reigns in the face of Israel's similar wrongdoing.
Hamas propaganda repeated doesn't make it true. The part of the hit school was a Hamas command center and was targeted with low impact munitions to limit civilian casualties. The tent encampment wasn't targeted by the Israelis, they hit a Hamas command nearby, again with low impact munitions, but Hamas had a munitions dump there that the Israelis didn't know about and when that exploded it set off the fire in the tents. And Ben Brown & co are about to sabotage Biden along these same lines and bring Trump back into power. It's like Germany in 1932 when the KPD denounced the SPD as social fascists and helped Hitler win.
Yes, the Times repeated the Hamas propaganda line here, just like they did when the PIJ rocket hit the hospital parking lot. The Israeli rockets hit the roome where the Hamas commanders were meeting, and most of the school was left undamaged--there are pictures.
3 classrooms, 3 dead women, 9 dead kids, and 19 dead men. That’s one commander with 6 other fighters and the wife and kids of the commander for each classroom. Nothing indiscriminate about this, it was a successful counter Hamas attack which minimized civilian casualties. Stop being suckered by Hamas propaganda.
Always interesting to read your analysis, Micah, especially when it's about our town! Maybe a small point, but I'd like to point out that, while certainly Latimer has many local supporters who are putting out yard signs, don't forget that Bowman doesn't have the same unlimited funds to mass produce them. There are never as many Bowman signs available as his ardent supporters around here want and, to make matters worse, the ones we have are often stolen or destroyed. Just today several residents wrote the police chief after having had four signs stolen or defaced (he quickly responded with an email to everyone in the village). I personally have removed laminated pictures of hostages or hostile statements that were pasted right over Congressman Bowman's face (the next day, someone had taken the signs). It's discouraging that people think this disrespectful behavior is acceptable.
Yes, I just saw an email from the Hastings police reminding residents that lawn signs are private property and to leave them alone. Clearly there's been a problem; I haven't seen any Latimer signs go missing but have noticed a few Bowmans gone.
Great piece, Micah! It thoughtfully demonstrates not only the deeply distressing character of the Latimer and Jones campaigns, but in the longer run, the essential need for campaign finance reform to protect democracy in this nation. Latimer is clearly buying his next job since he is term-limited and he is doing so with a very ugly attack on his opponent, but he would not make that attack were he not financed by right-wing donors who oppose all the positions true progressives support. It is sad that Jones feels he must join such an ugly effort.
I voted for Jones when he ran in the 10th district because he was by far the best candidate. Calling him just a spoiler for the problematic Niue is unfair.
Take that up with Ross Barkan
But you posted it.
Stan, I think his point is that Ross follows politics enough to have, with all due respect, a more educated opinion in practical terms about who functioned as a spoiler. Mondaire was never viable there (at the time I supported him in ny 10, too, but in retrospect he clearly spoiled haha)
In retrospect perhaps. But in advance that can preclude serious candidacies just because they may be long shots. If we knew for sure that Jones couldn’t win maybe we wouldn’t have supported him, but he was the best candidate and did have a chance to win.
He's aligned himself with "Genocide George;" as far as I'm concerned, there's no coming back from that.
The atrocities in the Gaza strip are far too real. The International Court of Justice has found that genocide is plausible and ordered provisional measures. Last Sunday night, 45 people were burned to death in a tent encampment Rafah, screaming, burned alive in an aerial bombardment. At least 40 people sheltering in a school building were killed on Thursday. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that the Israeli state spent $ 2 million in advertising to influence U.S. elections and legislation: "Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort." When in 2016 the Russian Federation spent just $ 100,000 to interfere in U.S. elections (as recounted in the Mueller Report), Democrats completely lost it, with Hillary Clinton repeatedly insinuating that her loss to Trump was due to the Russian interference. Today, silence reigns in the face of Israel's similar wrongdoing.
Hamas propaganda repeated doesn't make it true. The part of the hit school was a Hamas command center and was targeted with low impact munitions to limit civilian casualties. The tent encampment wasn't targeted by the Israelis, they hit a Hamas command nearby, again with low impact munitions, but Hamas had a munitions dump there that the Israelis didn't know about and when that exploded it set off the fire in the tents. And Ben Brown & co are about to sabotage Biden along these same lines and bring Trump back into power. It's like Germany in 1932 when the KPD denounced the SPD as social fascists and helped Hitler win.
New York Times, Jun. 6, 2024, "Israeli Strike Kills Dozens at Former School Where Civilians Were Sheltering."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/06/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas
How many more "accidents" can we tolerate? How many more "mistakes"? How much more "collateral damage"?
Yes, the Times repeated the Hamas propaganda line here, just like they did when the PIJ rocket hit the hospital parking lot. The Israeli rockets hit the roome where the Hamas commanders were meeting, and most of the school was left undamaged--there are pictures.
3 classrooms, 3 dead women, 9 dead kids, and 19 dead men. That’s one commander with 6 other fighters and the wife and kids of the commander for each classroom. Nothing indiscriminate about this, it was a successful counter Hamas attack which minimized civilian casualties. Stop being suckered by Hamas propaganda.