There Is A Difference

How many times have you heard people say I didn’t vote because there is no difference between the parties?

Well there is a big difference…

Democrats ran Muslims, Jews, blacks, gays, lesbians, trans people, a Native American, and scientists and who did the Republicans run? They ran an accused rapist, white supremacists, 3 felons and a brothel owner.

In Connecticut in my House District the Republican’s in a “bait and switch” pulled their Republican candidate on the last day that they could and switched him with another candidate. Why? Because he made online comments that he made before his nomination that criticized the victims of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., and he disparaged Muslims.

I hope that you can see a difference.

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In Colorado a trans candidate won office, the fourth trans candidate to win office in this election cycle!

Colorado’s first transgender legislator: How Brianna Titone flipped a Republican district
Arvada candidate was inspired by Danica Roem’s victory in Virginia
The Denver Post
By Andrew Keney
November 10, 2018

“I was thinking about running but I didn’t know if I could do it,” said Titone, 40. “When Danica Roem won her election, it kind of gave me the courage to say, ‘Someone else has done this, and now I have a chance to do this, too.’”

Titone declared victory Saturday morning and changed her Twitter handle to representative-elect as her lead increased to 368 votes among nearly 49,300 cast. All ballots have been counted except for an estimated 2,100 overseas and military ballots and those where signatures were challenged, according to Jefferson County elections officials. Nov. 14 is the deadline for those.
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In Arvada, Titone’s apparent win is all the more notable because she was running for a seat that Republicans have dominated in recent cycles.

House 27 is currently held by Rep. Lang Sias, a prominent Republican who ran for lieutenant governor this year. Amid a statewide blue wave, it became one of Colorado’s closest races this week, with Republican Vicki Pyne holding a narrow lead on Election Night.
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If other results hold, Titone would be part of the first state House session where the majority of representatives are women, Roesoner noted.

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She wasn’t the only LGBTQ person to win this election cycle…

In ‘Rainbow Wave,’ L.G.B.T. Candidates Are Elected in Record Numbers
The New York Times
By Christina Caron
Nov. 7, 2018

More openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were elected Tuesday night than in any previous election, signaling a shift in cultural attitudes even as the Trump administration has chipped away at L.G.B.T. rights.

The results are still rolling in, but at least 153 have won so far, said Elliot Imse, a spokesman for the Victory Fund, a nonpartisan political action committee devoted to electing L.G.B.T. candidates. The group endorsed 225 candidates in this election cycle, nearly all of whom were Democrats.

L.G.B.T. candidates ran for office in record numbers this year. “Success breeds success,” said Annise Parker, the president and chief executive of the Victory Fund and former mayor of Houston.

“We’re not going out and pleading with people to run,” she added. “These are people who say, ‘I want to go out and do this and bring my whole self to the campaign.’”
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In Kansas, Sharice Davids won a seat in the House of Representatives, becoming the first lesbian congresswoman from the state and one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress. In addition, Brandon Woodard, who identifies as gay, and Susan Ruiz, a lesbian, were elected state representatives.
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Among the notable incumbents who were re-elected were Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon, who is bisexual, and Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, a lesbian who was the first openly L.G.B.T. person elected to the United States Senate.

And hate runs rampant against LGBTQ, Vermont’s Christine Hallquist received death threats and…
But the path to Election Day was not without difficulties. Many candidates faced threats and bias.
Yes, there was a rainbow wave but we are not finished… there is the 2020 elections where we must flip the Senate and the presidency.