Primary News

I never got back to this story before now, but as you likely already know, Analilia Mejia is my congresswoman.  She won the April 16 special election.

A Latina progressive who used to work for Bernie Sanders is now representing a centrist Republican-leaning district in the U.S. House of Representatives - whod'a thunk?

But the show's not over yet, this one's a double feature.  Representative Mejia has to go through another Democratic primary a week ago from today against, as far as I know, three competitors to stand in November for the full two-year term that starts in January.  And in November, is she wins the primary next week, she'll face the persistent Joe Hathaway on the Republican side once again, meaning I'll have to deal with more racist GOP flyers in the mail.

Meanwhile, the Texas Republican primary runoff to decide the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate is today, in which Republican voters have to choose between incumbent Senator John Cornyn and the Trump-backed, wholly corrupt state Attorney General Ken Paxton.  The winner faces James Talarico, who's competing to be the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since . . . 1988.

Wake me when it's over.