gop sees even more cash drying up after the death of super-donor adelson

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perhaps his wife's a pro-choicer, or maybe more interested in keeping all that cash for herself...

Bloomberg News reports that Adelson's widow, Miriam Adelson, has been hesitant to fork over the massive sums her husband provided prior to his death in early 2021, leaving what the publication describes as a "financial hole" for the GOP.

In fact, the only money Adelson has given this year has been a $5 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC dedicated to electing Republican candidates.

To put this into perspective, Bloomberg notes that the Adelsons gave more than a half a billion dollars to pro-GOP super PACs in the last decade alone.

my heart bleeds


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=68fcace6a7e24d1fef7125f110ca7474

 

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And no one to replace him. Republicans think they will win this war. But any change they get today will be short-lived. Simply a numbers game

 

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In an article published by The Bulwark on September 1, Carpenter explains, “Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp gets a lot of credit for resisting pressure from former President Donald Trump to ‘find the votes’ to flip the 2020 election results in his state. But that was then. Today, Kemp stands shoulder-to-shoulder with one of the state’s top election deniers. That man is his running mate, the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, Burt Jones.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=56d25c33384d46d8afa94262290cddbf

i don't pretend to know the numbers on this, but as much as it might add votes to kemp from magas, it's as likely to drive independents, never-trumpers, and undecideds away towards Stacey Abrams... which is a good thing

making the rounds again is a viral clip of Mz.Abrams taking kemp to task over his attempts at disenfranchising voters:

In the clip, Kemp asks Abrams why she’s “encouraging people to break the law” for her in the election, Abrams responds by dismissing Kemp’s suggestion out of hand and reminding him of his own proven history of unlawful voter suppression. “What I’ve asked for is that you allow those who are legally eligible to vote to allow them to cast their ballots,” Abrams says. “In fact, we took you to court in 2016 and a federal judge said that you illegally canceled 34,000 registrations.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=56d25c33384d46d8afa94262290cddbf

 

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=56d25c33384d46d8afa94262290cddbf

i don't pretend to know the numbers on this, but as much as it might add votes to kemp from magas, it's as likely to drive independents, never-trumpers, and undecideds away towards Stacey Abrams... which is a good thing

making the rounds again is a viral clip of Mz.Abrams taking kemp to task over his attempts at disenfranchising voters:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=56d25c33384d46d8afa94262290cddbf

I think we are close politically, but I do want to point out that there are no "running mates" in Georgia. The two offices are elected completely independently.

 

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I think we are close politically, but I do want to point out that there are no "running mates" in Georgia. The two offices are elected completely independently.

i'm assuming the article's quotes refer to the governor/lieutenant governor positions (lumping them together as both being republican and so wouldn't they be working together to the same agenda?) but thankyou for pointing out the realities... still finding out more and more about the way America does politics every single day. I'm always happy to learn more about the nuances and reality v hyperbole in order to get a clearer grasp of things.

 

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speaking of kemp, Stacy Abrams is campaigning on 'the fixable problem' that 'won't get fixed under kemp's leadership':

Wellstar Health Systems announced late Wednesday that it will close Atlanta Medical Center on Nov. 1, after losing more than $100 million there last year. The 460-bed hospital, which is more than a century old, is one of two Level One trauma centers in metro Atlanta, and five in the state capable of handling the most serious kinds injury.

It’s also one of two Atlanta hospitals with a heavy caseload of low-income patients, which is the heart of Abrams argument that Kemp is to blame. Georgia is one of just 12 states that have not expanded Medicaid eligibility under Obamacare. As she did when she first ran for governor in 2018, Abrams has made full Medicaid expansion a key part of her campaign.

Georgia has seen 14 hospital closures since 2013, and nearly half of them “have occurred under one governor and one person and that is Brian Kemp,” Abrams said at the press event.

The closing announcement brings what had largely been a rural phenomenon into the heart of Atlanta, and leaves just one Level One trauma center in the area that holds half the state’s entire population, Abrams said. She blamed Kemp’s failure to expand Medicaid, which she said has helped stabilize health care systems in other states.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...pc=U531&cvid=edb74337c87d49b7ed7133c4cde93304