No Yordan
From the Chron on a Pasadena City Council runoff race this past Saturday:
As of Sunday morning, candidates for Councilmember District B, Bianca Valerio and Bruce Leamon, were tied with 272 votes apiece.
Leamon is a former Pasadena city council member. In looking at the results in this race, there were 7 undervotes cast in early voting and 5 undervotes on election day. An undervote is a voter not marking a candidate in that race. There could be provisional ballots that need to be reviewed or mail ballots that could be received today that could alter the outcome of this tie. There are no tie goes to the runner thing.
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This online story is from Variety:
ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent, Terry Moran, after he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” in a since-deleted post on X.
“ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,” an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement. “The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards – as a result, Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation.”
Moran’s post went out just after midnight on Sunday. In it, he writes that although Miller is “one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy,” he operates not on “brains” but on “bile.”
“Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred,” Moran wrote. “He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.”
The post prompted a response from Miller on X. He wrote Sunday morning, “The most important fact about Terry’s full public meltdown is what it shows about the corporate press in America. For decades, the privileged anchors and reporters narrating and gatekeeping our society have been radicals adopting a journalist’s pose. Terry pulled off his mask.”
Vice President JD Vance also weighed in, writing on X that he knows Miller “quite well,” and that he knows he is “motivated by love of country.” He added that Miller is also motivated by “fear that people like Terry Moran make rules that normal Americans have to follow, but well connected people don’t.”
“It’s why he fought so hard to get President Trump elected and why he works to hard to implement the agenda,” Vance added. “ABC should apologize to Stephen. What Terry posted is disgraceful.”
I don’t know why they suspended Moran. He is telling the truth. The problem is that media heavyweights like Moran should have been calling out the haters back in 2017.
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This is from Politico:
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin told party leaders in a recent private conversation that he’s unsure about his ability to lead the party because of infighting created by Vice Chair David Hogg.
“I’ll be very honest with you, for the first time in my 100 days on this job … the other night I said to myself for the first time, I don’t know if I wanna do this anymore,” he said in a May 15 Zoom meeting of DNC officers, according to a recording obtained by POLITICO.
In the recording, an emotional Martin describes being deeply frustrated by the fallout over Hogg, who has ignited a firestorm in the party by vowing to spend $20 million in safe-blue primaries to oust incumbent Democrats he believes are ineffective. Martin paused twice while appearing to choke up.
The intraparty feud, Martin said on the recording, is making it more difficult for the party to do its work — and had ruined his ability to demonstrate leadership.
“No one knows who the hell I am, right? I’m trying to get my sea legs underneath of me and actually develop any amount of credibility so I can go out there and raise the money and do the job I need to to put ourselves in a position to win,” Martin said, addressing Hogg. “And again, I don’t think you intended this, but you essentially destroyed any chance I have to show the leadership that I need to. So it’s really frustrating.”
It was an extraordinary admission from the chair of the Democratic Party, just a few months after being elected to lead the party through its post-2024 crisis. The nearly two-minute clip does not include the entire conversation, including how Hogg and others may have responded to Martin.
Asked for an interview, Martin, 51, sent a statement through a spokesperson. In it, he said, “I’m not going anywhere.”
“I took this job to fight Republicans, not Democrats,” he added. “As I said when I was elected, our fight is not within the Democratic Party, our fight is and has to be solely focused on Donald Trump and the disastrous Republican agenda. That’s the work that I will continue to do every day.”
Hogg, 25, did not respond to a request for comment.
The Zoom meeting took place a few days after a DNC panel recommended holding new elections for the seats held by Hogg and another vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta, on procedural grounds. DNC members will decide whether to do so in a vote set to begin on Monday.
It looks like DNC Chair Martin can’t handle the rigors of this gig. I have said ti before. I don’t have a problem with Hogg. He is trying to build energy within the Democratic Party. Energy that is badly needed.
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Houstorian tweeted this today:
Today in 1994, @SaintArnold taps its first keg
I guess I will celebrate this evening with a Saint Arnold or two.
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The featured photo is the front page of the hard copy Chron from nine days ago. They obviously got it wrong. Even the Astros can’t say when Yordan Alvarez will return to the lineup. Today there is no Yordan.
The Astros went 4-2 on the roadie, have today off, then host the White Sox tomorrow evening at Daikin Park. I will be there.
