I'd like to remind your readers that Georgia is a "strict voter ID" state. What that means is that Registration to vote is not enough. It is an incomplete. A voter needs a proper ID as defined by Georgia law to be able to cast a ballot. We at VoteRiders (www.voteriders.org) have helped millions of voters get the ID they need to cast a ballot. In Georgia, we have identified 157,000 registered voters who do not have sufficient ID to vote and have their contact information. Our non-partisan non-profit is currently deploying many of our 9,000 volunteers to assist in this effort. Registration is not enough!! Stephen Unger, Chairman, Governance Committee, Board of Directors, VoteRiders®
Cure ballots, starting with Adam Frisch to defeat Lauren Boebert in Colorado. Deadline is Monday at one minute before midnight. Sign up spots through Mobilize appear to have been maxed out (good news!), but money helps boots on the ground in Colorado and whatever else they need.
Activate America is about to launch their GA postcarding effort. E-mail AnnaMartin@activateamerica.vote to be added to their list so you’ll be the first to hear when this campaign launches.
The Center For Common Ground will be launching postcarding and phonebanking into GA in the next 24 hours. Sign up here so you hear about these efforts right away.
SURJ (Showing Up For Racial Justice) has several texting and phonebanking sessions already scheduled to help us win in GA. Sign up for one or more here.
Perhaps with President Biden being now the only Democratic president since FDR in 1934 and JFK in 1962 to have such a successful mid-term, plus the fact he is the most successful since FDR to deliver on promised action, and that all this plus his strong support of Ukraine demonstrate the value of experience over the inexperience of Clinton and Obama once in office - who both had their presidencies neutered after the first mid-terms - perhaps the "political geniuses" calling for Biden's replacement in 2024 with someone less experienced than those two were might shut the hell up.
Especially since it's that particular crowd of lefty know-nothings who think they know it all that didn't turn out at 2018 levels in New York and thereby cost four Democratic seats in close elections, and didn't turn out at 2018 levels in California and are as a result currently losing the other three seats that they did win in 2018 and lost in 2020, and will be why Nancy Pelosi isn't Speaker in January. Maybe both groups of "political geniuses" could take some lessons from Michigan.
My question, ever since I heard Cassidy Hutchinson mention “all the good things TFG accomplished” or when I hear his “legacy will be damaged” WTF are you talking about, people? His “legacy” was a coup. His use of the United States as a personal bank. His corrupt relationship with Putin. Unless the word criminal and corrupt precedes the word legacy, I’m at a loss to explain these references to his administration as anything other than delusional. Anything and everything he’s done as our most anti-American leader is in our faces. Supported by lunatic conspiracy theories, the Q cult, and blind hate of Democrats is hardly a legacy, it’s more like a disgraced loser desperately trying to be relevant. So please, tell me what I missed.
I just recommended this to someone on Dr. Richardson's site this morning. Read whitehouse.gov and state.gov. These sites and other Government sites are where the meat of what is happening in our Government resides. The information there makes for great myth busting, hyperbolic lying busting, and foreign trolling busting. Facts win every time. I just don't argue. Pull out the facts and every single time in the comments section of a newspaper that troll shuts up. Or that FOX spouting MAGA shuts up. I believe it raises our National discourse.
I also view main stream media as political arena entertainment and not information. It's gossip. There are wise people among us. We just need to seek them out and listen. One person I pay attention to is Senator Whitehouse.
Following is an email I sent to my senators. I would be interested in whether you or followers share my concerns. “I have called and emailed your office many times, but have not received a specific response to my inquiry about what you can and plan to do to to require that serious presidential candidates get security clearance before being allowed to proceed. It appears clear to me that Trump would not have been able to reach this threshold. I find it naive and dangerous that we allow people to ascend to the office of president and assume they have clearance. Please respond with your thoughts and plans re this crucial issue. “
A cornered, wounded wild animal fighting for survival is seriously dangerous, often able at least temporarily to overcome extreme odds and inflict consequential damage on its pursuers. Because we are (mostly) civilized Americans with respect for law and order, it always shocks and surprises us when someone ignores the boundaries, fights dirty, cheats, lies and steals to get ahead. We tend to be too polite, blinded by the cult of fame/celebrity, and to extend the benefit of the doubt much further and longer than is wise or safe. "Surely they're exaggerating - he can't be that bad!". Soldiers and hunters learn the hard way not to fall into this trap, not to bring a knife to a gunfight, not to rely on hope alone as a strategy.
We're now facing the end-game of a corrupt, uncivilized meglomaniac - a cornered vicious animal who will do anything to save himself, and for whom the rules that allow civilization to develop do not exist. Fear, greed, irresolution, fatigue, sacrifice and distaste for dirty fighting hamper our efforts - but this is the moment of truth: will we and our way of life survive because we rise to the occasion, or will the lowest common denominator undercut everything we believe and stand for?
This is Valcour Island, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Normandy, Iwo Jima....in the next 18-24 months we'll be called on to step up and defend democracy. We showed how much can be accomplished against precedent and long odds in the recent election. But that was the prelude; now for the main course. We must not underestimate the effort that will be required, or the depth of depravity we are facing. Time to look it in the eye, and defeat it.
Nov 15, 2022·edited Nov 15, 2022Liked by Robert B. Hubbell
The GOP is just one giant con to get the little people (in the GOP's view) to cast their lot with the billionaires and corporations, simply by offering them the chance to "own the libs!"
Last night I read TCinLA's post, I think titled, Make America Great which details the number of Republicans who have died from Covid-19. It astounds. It should be broadcast everywhere if nothing more than to get these people to become vaccinated. My son and his family are not. Texas. ¨No government can tell me what to do mentality.¨ He actually was demoted at his job when all who weren't vaccinated had to wear masks at a company function. He forgot and went to the podium with no mask.
It is so great to wake up in the morning and have a breakfast of pure “substance”.
On the conservative commentator begging Trump not to run again which would destroy Trumps legacy I ask the question “what legacy?”. I cannot think of one positive moment of his presidency, career or life. Perhaps I am being too harsh but maybe someone could enlighten me. The “Fifth Estate” needs to follow Robert’s example and do their job!
One of Gov. DeSantis’ and the Florida legislature’s more egregious acts was their intentional negating of 64+% of Floridians’ votes in the 2016 election. We voted to allow Former Florida Felons the right to vote was passed. DeSantis, et.al., required that all fines be paid prior to their rights being restored. A kink in this is that amounts owed are very often unobtainable by the state; no one knows/will determine/won’t say what is owed. Despite this looking like and sounding like and being a breach of our votes, it has been held. Topping even this off - a few people were informed by state officials in the 2020 election that they could vote. Several did and are now under investigation for voting g illegally.
I ask anyone to correct me if I am wrong, but I had understood, based on precedent, that indictment of Trump or members of his command structure would not occur until after every eligible voter had cast a ballot, a deadline that has been rescheduled in Georgia for after polls close on December 6th. Hence a reason, though likely not the sole reason, for why Trump’s announcement ( if in fact there is one) is scheduled for Nov. 15th.
From reader Stephen Unger:
I'd like to remind your readers that Georgia is a "strict voter ID" state. What that means is that Registration to vote is not enough. It is an incomplete. A voter needs a proper ID as defined by Georgia law to be able to cast a ballot. We at VoteRiders (www.voteriders.org) have helped millions of voters get the ID they need to cast a ballot. In Georgia, we have identified 157,000 registered voters who do not have sufficient ID to vote and have their contact information. Our non-partisan non-profit is currently deploying many of our 9,000 volunteers to assist in this effort. Registration is not enough!! Stephen Unger, Chairman, Governance Committee, Board of Directors, VoteRiders®
From reader Ellie Kona:
What we need to do, urgently:
Cure ballots, starting with Adam Frisch to defeat Lauren Boebert in Colorado. Deadline is Monday at one minute before midnight. Sign up spots through Mobilize appear to have been maxed out (good news!), but money helps boots on the ground in Colorado and whatever else they need.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adam-for-colorado-twitter
Other cure ballot opportunities through Monday/Tuesday, per the inimitable Jessica Craven's "Chop Wood, Carry Water:"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u8kRrtXlFLEyJ3o87XSMIjT4mjE1zv1uBy2VYiBmEho/edit
Support Warnock's runoff campaign, also from Jessica Craven's "Chop Wood, Carry Water:"
Sign up with Indivisible to be on their GA runoff volunteer team. They’ll let you know in the next few days how you can help.
https://act.indivisible.org/signup/ga-runoff-vol-2022/?source=email20221110&utm_source=email&t=5&referring_akid=84468.113385.oIj2Nt
Working Families Party has text banking for the runoffs! Happening almost every day! Sign up here.
https://www.mobilize.us/ga-wfp/event/540617/?fbclid=IwAR0Hzj0jG7C2BOKStK0fQhDSyS3BM8YqeRll9adcyOiaqhMf_XpShMb1mX8
Activate America is about to launch their GA postcarding effort. E-mail AnnaMartin@activateamerica.vote to be added to their list so you’ll be the first to hear when this campaign launches.
The Center For Common Ground will be launching postcarding and phonebanking into GA in the next 24 hours. Sign up here so you hear about these efforts right away.
https://www.centerforcommonground.org/#cfcgcontainershow
SURJ (Showing Up For Racial Justice) has several texting and phonebanking sessions already scheduled to help us win in GA. Sign up for one or more here.
https://act.surj.org/a/ga-runoff?emci=237ae7e6-6a60-ed11-ade6-14cb6534a651&emdi=24c61d93-6c60-ed11-ade6-14cb6534a651&ceid=549472
Donate to Rev. Warnock’s campaign here.
https://warnockforgeorgia.com/
Out of state and want to go knock doors in GA? Sign up here and someone from Indivisible Ventura will reach out!
https://www.mobilize.us/gavotes/event/521492/
Postcards To Voters now has a writing campaign for Warnock in GA.
If you are an approved writer:
1. Text HELLO to (484) 275-2229 or
2. Message HELLO to Abby the Address Bot on their Slack channel here: https://bit.ly/SlackAbby or
3. Send an email to: Request@AbbyAddresses.org
Not yet approved and ready to join Postcards To Voters?
1. Text JOIN to (484) 275-2229 or
2. Send an email to: Join@TonyTheDemocrat.org
https://chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-carry-water-1110-66a
I am a certified-active poll worker (and voter) in Georgia and can confirm the voter ID requirements shown on the Vote Rider web site voterider.org
The more eligible voters in Georgia who cast their ballot the more representative our democracy.
Many thanks to Stephen Unger and the Vote Rider organization and also to Robert Hubbell.
Perhaps with President Biden being now the only Democratic president since FDR in 1934 and JFK in 1962 to have such a successful mid-term, plus the fact he is the most successful since FDR to deliver on promised action, and that all this plus his strong support of Ukraine demonstrate the value of experience over the inexperience of Clinton and Obama once in office - who both had their presidencies neutered after the first mid-terms - perhaps the "political geniuses" calling for Biden's replacement in 2024 with someone less experienced than those two were might shut the hell up.
Especially since it's that particular crowd of lefty know-nothings who think they know it all that didn't turn out at 2018 levels in New York and thereby cost four Democratic seats in close elections, and didn't turn out at 2018 levels in California and are as a result currently losing the other three seats that they did win in 2018 and lost in 2020, and will be why Nancy Pelosi isn't Speaker in January. Maybe both groups of "political geniuses" could take some lessons from Michigan.
My question, ever since I heard Cassidy Hutchinson mention “all the good things TFG accomplished” or when I hear his “legacy will be damaged” WTF are you talking about, people? His “legacy” was a coup. His use of the United States as a personal bank. His corrupt relationship with Putin. Unless the word criminal and corrupt precedes the word legacy, I’m at a loss to explain these references to his administration as anything other than delusional. Anything and everything he’s done as our most anti-American leader is in our faces. Supported by lunatic conspiracy theories, the Q cult, and blind hate of Democrats is hardly a legacy, it’s more like a disgraced loser desperately trying to be relevant. So please, tell me what I missed.
I just recommended this to someone on Dr. Richardson's site this morning. Read whitehouse.gov and state.gov. These sites and other Government sites are where the meat of what is happening in our Government resides. The information there makes for great myth busting, hyperbolic lying busting, and foreign trolling busting. Facts win every time. I just don't argue. Pull out the facts and every single time in the comments section of a newspaper that troll shuts up. Or that FOX spouting MAGA shuts up. I believe it raises our National discourse.
I also view main stream media as political arena entertainment and not information. It's gossip. There are wise people among us. We just need to seek them out and listen. One person I pay attention to is Senator Whitehouse.
Following is an email I sent to my senators. I would be interested in whether you or followers share my concerns. “I have called and emailed your office many times, but have not received a specific response to my inquiry about what you can and plan to do to to require that serious presidential candidates get security clearance before being allowed to proceed. It appears clear to me that Trump would not have been able to reach this threshold. I find it naive and dangerous that we allow people to ascend to the office of president and assume they have clearance. Please respond with your thoughts and plans re this crucial issue. “
"...a feral instinct to fight dirty".
A cornered, wounded wild animal fighting for survival is seriously dangerous, often able at least temporarily to overcome extreme odds and inflict consequential damage on its pursuers. Because we are (mostly) civilized Americans with respect for law and order, it always shocks and surprises us when someone ignores the boundaries, fights dirty, cheats, lies and steals to get ahead. We tend to be too polite, blinded by the cult of fame/celebrity, and to extend the benefit of the doubt much further and longer than is wise or safe. "Surely they're exaggerating - he can't be that bad!". Soldiers and hunters learn the hard way not to fall into this trap, not to bring a knife to a gunfight, not to rely on hope alone as a strategy.
We're now facing the end-game of a corrupt, uncivilized meglomaniac - a cornered vicious animal who will do anything to save himself, and for whom the rules that allow civilization to develop do not exist. Fear, greed, irresolution, fatigue, sacrifice and distaste for dirty fighting hamper our efforts - but this is the moment of truth: will we and our way of life survive because we rise to the occasion, or will the lowest common denominator undercut everything we believe and stand for?
This is Valcour Island, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Normandy, Iwo Jima....in the next 18-24 months we'll be called on to step up and defend democracy. We showed how much can be accomplished against precedent and long odds in the recent election. But that was the prelude; now for the main course. We must not underestimate the effort that will be required, or the depth of depravity we are facing. Time to look it in the eye, and defeat it.
Many of us here in Florida call DeSantis ... DeathSantis with regard to his abysmal performance during the Covid Pandemic. Just saying.
The GOP is just one giant con to get the little people (in the GOP's view) to cast their lot with the billionaires and corporations, simply by offering them the chance to "own the libs!"
Last night I read TCinLA's post, I think titled, Make America Great which details the number of Republicans who have died from Covid-19. It astounds. It should be broadcast everywhere if nothing more than to get these people to become vaccinated. My son and his family are not. Texas. ¨No government can tell me what to do mentality.¨ He actually was demoted at his job when all who weren't vaccinated had to wear masks at a company function. He forgot and went to the podium with no mask.
It is so great to wake up in the morning and have a breakfast of pure “substance”.
On the conservative commentator begging Trump not to run again which would destroy Trumps legacy I ask the question “what legacy?”. I cannot think of one positive moment of his presidency, career or life. Perhaps I am being too harsh but maybe someone could enlighten me. The “Fifth Estate” needs to follow Robert’s example and do their job!
One of Gov. DeSantis’ and the Florida legislature’s more egregious acts was their intentional negating of 64+% of Floridians’ votes in the 2016 election. We voted to allow Former Florida Felons the right to vote was passed. DeSantis, et.al., required that all fines be paid prior to their rights being restored. A kink in this is that amounts owed are very often unobtainable by the state; no one knows/will determine/won’t say what is owed. Despite this looking like and sounding like and being a breach of our votes, it has been held. Topping even this off - a few people were informed by state officials in the 2020 election that they could vote. Several did and are now under investigation for voting g illegally.
Thank you, Mr. Hubbell for a truly excellent edition of your newsletter!
A week ago, Karie Lake was being touted as a new leader and possible future presidential candidate. And, now? More evidence that democracy works.
I ask anyone to correct me if I am wrong, but I had understood, based on precedent, that indictment of Trump or members of his command structure would not occur until after every eligible voter had cast a ballot, a deadline that has been rescheduled in Georgia for after polls close on December 6th. Hence a reason, though likely not the sole reason, for why Trump’s announcement ( if in fact there is one) is scheduled for Nov. 15th.