Is This Their Best?

The quality of candidates and types of candidates leaves you wondering what type of swamp creatures are they nominating.

Kari Lake will disavow gay-bashing antisemite or the election is over
Opinion: If Lake doesn't rescind her endorsement of Jarrin Jackson, she'll provide proof-positive she is unfit for governor.
Arizona Republic
By Phil Boas
August 20, 2022


Arizona will seldom have moments of clarity like this, so let’s get to the brutal facts.

One of our two-major party candidates for governor has just endorsed a man who hates Jewish people, despises gay people and wants no Black or brown immigrants in this country.

Jarrin Jackson is no casual bigot. He has produced such a stream of internet bile he can only be seen as a committed anti-Semite, homophobe and racist – one of the most vile people in political life, unfit for government and unwelcome in polite society.

And yet Jarrin Jackson, Republican candidate for the Oklahoma state Senate, tweeted on Wednesday that he has won the endorsement of Kari Lake, Arizona Republican candidate for governor. There he was photoshopped together with the smiling Lake, two peas in a tweet.

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On the social media app Telegram and other forums, Jackson said:

• Using the phrase LGBTQ “is using language designed by Satan.”
• “LGBTQ is the gateway to pedophilia.”
• “Call me old fashioned, but I don’t want a society of homosexuals.”
• “(Being gay) is the most disgusting, despicable, stupid blehh (makes gagging noise) thing ever. Insert barf emoji. And yet, we’re supposed to celebrate this and supposed to treat it like it’s normal?"
• "All Jews will go to hell if they don't believe the gospel of Jesus Christ … just like everybody else."
• "I love Jews because Christ told me to, not because they deserve it."
• "I'm not beholden to Jews or any other group."
• "I ain't owned by the Jews. I worship Jesus Christ. He's my Messiah."

On and on he goes.

In Florida a candidate threatens the FBI a so called "Law & Order" party,

GOP Candidate Says FBI Agents Would Be Put In 'Body Bag' If His Home Were Searched
Despite the controversy blowing up over the video Saturday, Sarasota businessman Martin Hyde defended his remarks.
HuffPost
By Mary Papenfuss
August 20, 2022


A Florida Republican candidate for Congress threatened that FBI agents would go “home in a body bag” if they ever try to search his house the way they did Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

In a shocking video he posted to YouTube on Saturday, Sarasota businessman Martin Hyde said, “I wish they’d turn up at my home ’cause they’d have gone home in a body bag.”

“When they turned up at Mar-a-Lago and raided the home of President Trump, that was an assault on every one of the 75 million people who voted for Donald Trump. It was an assault on democracy,” Hyde baselessly claimed in the video. “These people would stop at nothing.”

I’m telling you it is a race to the bottom of the swamp for the Republican party.

Then up in Wyoming we have...

Liz Cheney lost her primary to an anti-LGBTQ lady who people are convinced might be a Batman villain
Queerty
By Graham Gremore
August 17, 2022


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Hageman has also said she supports all of Donald Trump‘s policies, which, of course, included things like the trans military ban, stripping away funding from homeless shelters that house queer folx, scrubbing LGBTQ people from the 2020 census, slashing health services to those living with HIV, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.

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“He was the greatest president of my lifetime,” she gushed to the New York Times last year, “and I am proud to have been able to renominate him in 2020. And I’m proud to strongly support him today.”

Then candidate in South Carolina…

Pro-Trump Candidate Calls for Executing Parents of LGBTQ+ Kids
Mark Burns described the fight for LGBTQ+ rights as a treasonous attempt to “destabilize the republic.”
Advocate
By Donald Padgett
June, 14 2022


The Trump-endorsed Republican candidate in South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District called for the arrest and execution of those who advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and the protection of trans children.

During an appearance on The Stew Peters Show, Pastor Mark Burns was asked by host Jane Ruby to commit to voting for transphobic laws that target LGBTQ+ children and their parents and ending what she called “this war on children.” Burns went much further than committing to voting for legislation.

“Not only will I vote to make sure that those parents be held for child abuse because there’s no such thing as trans kids, only abusive parents, period,” Burns responded adding that trans-supportive parents are unnaturally influencing their children’s development.

In Wisconsin…

GOP governor candidate Michels opposes same-sex marriage
AP News
By Scott Bauer
June 15, 2022


Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate for Wisconsin governor is standing by his opposition to same-sex marriage, telling The Associated Press that he believes “marriage should be between a man and a woman.”

Tim Michels, co-owner of Michels Corp. construction company, is one of four Republicans running for a chance to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November and this month won the former president’s endorsement. Michels spoke with the AP on Tuesday about the race.

His views on same-sex marriage have been in question after he made comments in his U.S. Senate race in 2004 when he backed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. He did not comment when asked earlier this month what he thought of Evers raising a rainbow flag over the state Capitol to celebrate Pride Month.

“My position that is that marriage should be between a man and a woman,” Michels said when asked about it Tuesday.

In Indiana…

'Flow from the pulpit:' The LifeGate church members providing security to Doug Mastriano [Video]
Lancaster Online
By Carter Walker
August 20, 2022


Doug Mastriano is running an unconventional campaign for governor. He’s not raising a lot of money. He prefers to attend closed-door events with his base or campaign at public events where reporters are often kept at arm's length.

But the Republican nominee’s campaign is also notable for another reason: Mastriano has surrounded himself with a non-professional, armed security team whose members include at least one person with direct ties to a militia group.

Mastriano’s detail includes several members of a relatively new evangelical church near Elizabethtown, LifeGate, whose leaders have spoken openly about electing Christians to office to advance biblical principles in government.

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Emery [A member of the security team], along with fellow LifeGate members Stephen and Danielle Lindemuth, won seats on the Elizabethtown Area School Board just a few days before Lamb’s sermon. A political yard sign for the three was placed on LifeGate property.

This year, LifeGate members campaigned to win seats to the local Republican committee. In a break between sermons in March, LifeGate member Sharon Ogilvie encouraged members to get active by signing petitions for local candidates.

All around the country anti-LGBTQ+ candidate have been picked in primaries if the Republicans gain control of the Senate and House we are going to dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ bill introduced and it is my guess that they will not stop at us but also gays and lesbians. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has already introduced a bill Friday that would make providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors a felony, punishable by up to 25 years in prison.

They have nominated a bunch of anti-Semites, homophobes, transphobes, and racist for office.

This is our future if the Republicans win.

Their wins are usually by only a few percentage points, they are able to rally their anti-Semites, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and racist base to get out in vote. We need to get out the independent voters to vote, we need to motivate them to see why their vote is important.