Getting groceries. Took a detour in produce.
Peaches have never tasted so good!
The kind you can smell before you pick it up, with just enough give in the skin to know it’s that perfectly ripe and juicy.
They were so good and I was so excited about the Georgia Senate seats I ate two.
I have no regrets.
I think some may have regrets:
And just a quick reminder as we celebrate democracy:
Today is the day, Georgia!
If you are registered to vote in Georgia, vote today for BOTH Jon Ossoff AND Rev. Raphael Warnock.
If you do not live in Georgia, you can still help through
Living in New York, why do I care about a runoff election in Georgia? And more importantly, why should you care?
Two words, one hashtag: #MoscowMitch
Mitch McConnell, Senator of Kentucky and overall partisan hypocrite.
I know, I know, I shouldn’t start out with calling names, but believe me there are much worse that would be applicable that I am refraining from. He has no conscience. He has no shame.
We came out, 80 million + of us and we sent a clear message that we want the Trump Administration and its policies gone. G-O-N-E. With the amount of votes and the states that flipped from 2016 and especially the states flipping that have been Republican strongholds for years, Arizona and Georgia, it is clear that Republican tactics and policies have been rejected out of hand.
Currently, Senator McConnell is the Majority Leader in the Senate. He has single handedly halted legislation in Congress.
The House of Representatives have passed laws for the past two years – hundred of laws – and sent them to the Senate. Mitch McConnell decides what is brought to the floor for debate and to be voted on. He’s brought nearly none of them. Not voting rights, not covid survival checks for struggling American citizens, not state and local government monies to offset their covid spending for police and fire, not money for testing and PPE.
All Mitch McConnell does is confirm judges, most of them unqualified as determined by the American Bar Association. Many of them with less experience than anyone else on the bench. Mitch McConnell blocked most of President Obama’s agenda including judges and one Supreme Court justice.
On the night that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Mitch McConnell was communicating his intention to confirm a “replacement” justice as soon as possible despite the election coming in mere weeks.
He cried in saying farewell to fellow Senator Lamar Alexander who is retiring and has yet to say any words of condolence for the almost 300,000 Americans who have died during the pandemic this year from covid.
He tells his followers that he doesn’t want to “bail out blue states” while ignoring the reality that the blue states bail out the red states each and every year, and blue states receive less in federal aid than Republican run states.
To put it simply, Mitch McConnell is despicable.
He has already said that he will block Biden’s choices for judges and any Supreme Court justices that are nominated. He will not advance for vote any Cabinet confirmation who he doesn’t agree with.
In other words, McConnell will single-handedly hamstring the Biden Administration that the majority of the country has voted for, has spoken in favor of.
President-elect Biden and Vice-President-elect Harris have been given a mandate to get this country on track and to be better; to move away from corporate welfare and debilitating trade wars and help the people in this country who desperately need the help. They can begin to address the racial disparity that’s been built into our system since its founding.
All that is for naught without the Senate though.
As of this writing (a few days before publishing), 126 House Republicans, 17 Republican Attorneys General, and untold numbers of GOP Senators have signed on, either by name or by silent complicity in attempting to overthrow the will of the people, to have the courts intercede and throw out the election with lies of nonexistent voter fraud and disinformation.
However, we have a chance to nip this un-American, unpatriotic behavior in the bud: if we win the two Senate seats in the Georgia runoff happening on January 5, 2021 and you can help even if you don’t live in Georgia and can’t personally vote for Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock.
Money is still needed.
Volunteers are still needed – for phone calls, for texts, for transporting voters to the polls on January 5th.
We also need to remind people that when they go to the polls during early voting beginning on December 14 (yesterday) and finishing on January 5th, they need to vote for BOTH Warnock and Ossoff. If they are BOTH elected to the Senate, the Senate will be tied 50-50, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be the deciding vote and the Democrats will control the agenda.
Start by going to Vote Save America’s Georgia Page. It will give you all the information you need to get started in volunteering, in getting out the information, and in getting out the vote.
Next week, I will talk about the current Georgia’s Senators’ blatant corruption.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Last Day to Register is TOMORROW. Go here for information and to register.
First Day of Early Voting: December 14
Runoff Election Voting: January 5, 2021
Helpful Links:
Vote Save America – Adopt Georgia
Choose between these two Vote Save America Funds:
Get Mitch or Die Trying – money is divided between Ossoff, Warnock, and Fair Fight
Every Last Vote – money is divided between on the ground orgs in Georgia who work year round.
I have seen reports that Georgia is purging its voter rolls. Check your registration, and check it again, much like you did for the general election and 2020 primaries.
You can register (if you will be turning 18 before the Jan. 5th runoff you are eligible to register) until Dec. 7th and the runoff election is Jan. 5, 2021.
See this original post for most information.
One week and one day ago was Election Day. I was under the impression that this series would conclude on that day, but it is 2020, and 2020 doesn’t allow us to simply move forward. It’s been an obstacle course since the beginning of the year.
While Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won the Presidency and have already begun their transition despite Trump Administration obstacles, we still have a chance to take control of the Senate.
Control of the Senate will ensure that President Elect Biden can choose his own cabinet and pass laws that support his policy priorities without obstruction from current Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He obstructed much of President Obama’s two terms, and all he cares about is his own power.
We need to get behind Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff who are the two Democratic candidates running in each of the two Georgia Senate runoffs.
Start with Fair Fight, Stacey Abrams organization. More information will be coming next week.
In the meantime, read this Vox article on Sen. David Perdue’s racism and this Judd Legum Twitter thread about Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s corruption.
Both Perdue and Loeffler used the covid pandemic to make money through their stocks instead of helping their constituents get through the health epidemic.
Do your research and help get Warnock and Ossoff into the Senate and Democratic control.
VOTE!
Vote Save America – check your registration. People are being purged and voters, especially minorities and Democratic voters are being suppressed. If Republicans had a message and could take the responsibility of governing, they wouldn’t need to cheat by suppressing legal voters from making their choices.
In Georgia, the Republican running against Stacey Abrams is also the Secretary of State of the state of Georgia, and is the one who validates the security and legitimacy of the election, including certifying the election. Currently, there are 53,000 voter registrations that are being held up. 70% of them are African-American voters.
Georgia Lawsuit is Latest…
The Supreme Court just ruled, merely a few weeks ahead of this year’s election that the North Dakota law requiring street addresses (rather than post office boxes) is legal and upheld. This disenfranchises many Native Americans voters, a voting group that primarily goes for the Democratic party. Living on reservations and on rural routes, the post office does not assign street addresses. This is significant.
Native Americans Decry Supreme Court Ruling on Voter ID in ND
Indiana is trying to purge voters in the weeks before this midterm election.
Again, I ask, what are Republican politicians afraid of?
We are still at risk from Russian election interference. Nothing has been fortified since the 2016 election that has been proved to have been compromised.
I’m worried.
You should be also.
Check your registration, drive your friends to the polls, and VOTE!
Fuzzy on the outside, just enough give of the flesh, and at the stem the smell of ripened peach. In my hand, a summer day, under the shade of a tree.
One bite proves the right choice as the juice dribbles down my chin.
(*The Fresh Market, July 2015)
Griffins and Ginger Snaps 