Scandal Plagued Florida GOP Rep. Mills Ousted in Primary
Wasserman Shultz easily won in her black majority Florida district.
Alrighty. Once again, Florida shows it’s efficient at counting votes and hands out results in a timely manner.
So we have everything from Florida. California and Alaska? We’ll probably have to wait until next month.
Cory Mills
Former news anchor Ryan Elijah ousted Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) in the primary to represent Florida’s 7th Congressional District.
Mills is the only incumbent to lose on Tuesday night.
Investigations have bogged down Mills, leading several colleagues to demand he drop out of the race. In May, the Ethics Committee confirmed it authorized over 20 subpoenas and contacted numerous witnesses over allegations of dating violence and violating campaign finance laws.
Elijah will face Bale Dalton in November.
Unfortunately, the once safe red seat is now viewed as a “likely” win for the GOP.
The Republicans have a slim majority in the House, which means the party has to hold onto this seat.
Jared Moskowitz
Incumbent Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz easily fended off a DSA-backed challenger:
Moskowitz, one of the most prominent Jewish Democrats in the House of Representatives, will face Republican former Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer Nov. 3 for the right to represent a district whose boundaries were recently redrawn by Florida legislators to favor the GOP.
The defeat by Moskowitz, 45, of union organizer Oliver Larkin follows mixed results for progressives in this month’s contests, with Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Senate primary followed by Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race.
With 91% of the expected vote in, Moskowitz (D-Fla.) had 63.5% support, easily outstripping Larkin’s 36.5%.
Markowitz has been one of the few Democrats to condemn members of his party for calling Israel’s defense after October 7 a genocide.
The incumbent refused to debate Larkin, saying, “I’m not going to platform him. He’s running against me solely on my religion.”
The GOP could potentially pick up Moskowitz’s seat, though, since it’s rated as a toss-up.
Wasserman Schultz
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her primary in Florida’s majority-Black 20th Congressional District. She also defeated four Black candidates.
Wasserman Schultz faced tons of criticism for her choice.
Yeah, um, Wasserman Schultz had no problem winning the primary.
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Very interesting with Debbie W cause black is thicker than concrete
Maybe too many blacks in one race
Just interesting
She does have very kinky hair
The only way to get a handle on a scandal is to convert to Moose Limb.
No, it means the black voters of the district made their choice, and decided that this white woman would better represent them than any of the black candidates would. That’s a perfectly reasonable choice, and it was theirs to make. Even from a D perspective, the VRA was always about allowing black voters to control a district, not about making them elect black representatives. It was racist, but it was favoring black voters, not black candidates.
It will be a dark day indeed when someone informs you about Santa Claus.
Shhh!
Meanwhile there’s this story about the ICE agent who shot someone in Minneapolis back during the ICE surge there, and then lied to his superiors and claimed the guy attacked him.
He embarrassed the President and the whole department, who went out on a limb to defend him, as well as many of us supporters of the ICE action; when the truth quickly came out it tended to discredit not only what people had said in his defense, but also what was said in defense of the genuinely good shootings at that time.
Of course MN jumped at the chance to prosecute him, and one would expect that the DHS would cut him loose and let him face justice as he should. Apparently he’s in Texas, and Abbott is embarrassing himself and defying the constitution by refusing to extradite him.
That’s not acceptable. Extradition between states is not optional. If there is a valid warrant for someone in one state, and the person is found in another state, that state must extradite him on demand. There’s no discretion whatsoever. It’s a purely ministerial duty that doesn’t even need the governor’s personal involvement. In this case Abbott specifically instructed his underlings to break the law and refuse extradition. He’s not making anything better, he’s just playing politics and showing himself to be an outlaw. The court will of course order him to render the person up, and then he’ll have no choice.
For all of Minnesota’s numerous faults, it’s not actually defying the law.
This isn’t anywhere close to as straightforward as you lay out. You seem to be suggesting that MN has jurisdiction over the conduct of Federal LEO in official acts IOW over Federal LEO operations. Even if that was the case they’d have to overcome his qualified immunity which to my knowledge they haven’t pierced. Then there’s the problem that this matter would removed to Federal CT and the Feds would dismiss it.
Lets skip all that for the moment. Is this guy in the custody of the State of TX or any of its political subdivisions? To my knowledge he isn’t. So MN isn’t asking for TX to simply hand him over at a secure facility to LEO from Hennepin County MN. Instead they seem to be demanding that the State of TX not only go find and detain this guy for them but to set that as the highest priority for the State of TX LEO above any discretion in how TX utilizes or deploys it’s limited LEO resources.
Shooting random people who have not attacked him, and then lying about it, is no part of an agent’s duties. He was on a frolic, and thus the state can charge him.
There’s no qualified immunity to shoot random people. There are plenty of cases that say you can’t do that.
Even if removed to federal court it would be tried by the state prosecutor, under state law. The feds would play no role and thus couldn’t dismiss it. But since the agent wasn’t carrying out his duties I doubt it would even be removed in the first place.
Since people are going on about how TX can’t hold him for more than 90 days, and that this period is about to expire, I can only assume that yes, he is being held in TX.
If you are suggesting that those who thus chatter mistake quite the matter, and he’s not in custody, then so long as TX knows where he is the constitution requires it to arrest and extradite him. “Shall […] on demand […] be delivered up.” The state has no discretion about it.
Again, extradition is not optional. It’s not like international extradition, where there are all kinds of considerations of state, and ultimately the president could just refuse to hand the person over. States don’t have any parallel right with regard to other states.
You are introducing speculative elements which haven’t been proven as well as skipping ahead to remove the legal presumption of qualified immunity before that has in fact occurred then compound that by running right past the ability of the DoJ to remove this matter to Federal CT. Heck in theory they could remove it and dismiss the charges. States don’t get to unilaterally decide that a Federal LEO doesn’t have qualified immunity nor to dismiss relevant issues of Federal supremacy b/c they’re in snit with the Administration.
FWIW IMO the Trump DoJ is making a large error both politically and from a sense of Justice with this guy. They have had enough time to investigate this and should be charging this guy at minimum for lying about what went on that day which we already know to be true. The DoJ should already have this dude in Federal custody pending his trial/plea deal. Personally I’d have maxed this guy for lying about the events.
I’d agree that if he is already in custody of TX then they should (in fact must) hand him over …though nothing prevents them from dragging it out a little, just long enough to get the US Attorney of MN on the phone, him to run down to Federal CT and remove the matter from State to Federal CT.
If he is not in custody, well going to find him is another matter and while TX is required to ‘deliver up’ that’s not a self licking ice cream cone if he ain’t already in custody of TX b/c first he must be ‘found’ before TX is required to ‘deliver up’. The State retains their ability and discretion to allocate LEO resources as they see fit and if other matters take precedence that’s tough cookies until a Federal CT requires action.
‘Normal’ extradition without the Federal LEO angle is much simpler and direct and you make a very good explanation of how it should work. Especially with prisoners under control of the State or its political subdivisions. Gotta hand them over.
No, they can’t. If it’s removed to federal court, it would still be prosecuted by the state DA, and under state law. The DOJ would have no role in the prosecution, so they could not dismiss it.
Whether to remove it in the first place is up to a federal court, but since the guy was on a frolic I don’t see that the court would remove it. Or that the US Attorney would apply to have it removed.
Courts decide that. But the rule is clear; if the cop knew or ought to have known that what he did was illegal then he has no qualified immunity. Since there are any number of cases saying that cops can’t just shoot random people for lulz and then falsely claim to have been attacked, there is no qualified immunity. And since doing so is no part of the cop’s duties, DOJ shouldn’t have any interest in protecting him. Nor should TX, but Abbot is putting on a show.
And on another story doing the rounds, if Trump were having an affair with someone, CNN wouldn’t have to go to all these lengths to invent one that shows no signs of having any truth to it, and only makes CNN look bad.
Every time I think CNN can’t look worse, or more like a wing of the DNC, they prove me wrong.
Good to see another incumbent with less than acceptable actions in DC taken out in a primary by his constituents who didn’t like the behavior. For too long the DC establishment has used incumbency as a shield whether from allegations of improper personal conduct or more often ‘evolving’ in office to become far less ‘conservative’ in voting than their constituents.
I live in FL-25, not surprised in the least that Moskowitz won easily and should be the front runner in November. Singer spent a lot of money in the primary, he will need to quickly refill the war chest or gets a lot of outside money.
In FL-20 the candidates facing Schultz were weak and the the four black candidates split that coalition. Thank goodness she is not my house rep anymore..
FL-27 will be a race to watch. Maria Salazar was a Spanish tv person before getting elected to Congress will be facing Eliott Rodriguez who just retired from an English tv news anchor position after some 25 years to run as a dem.
Isn’t Rep Salazar the one who keeps pushing her amnesty plan for illegal aliens?
I see the gargoyle (DWS) won.