I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

She may not be able to do a lot about some votes, but she is definitely someone we need for the balance I hope will soon ( after the election ) be coiming to our court.

Oops, forgot to put in the picture of our new soon to come on the court judge, Judge Jackson. First black female Supreme Court Judge. Big shoes but I think she will fill them just fine.

SOMETHING to think about for sure.

Pretty much wraps it up in a neat package.

Republicans in Colorado have rejected three election deniers running for statewide office.

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who pleaded not guilty after being indicted earlier this year on 10 counts related to voting machine tampering allegations, lost the GOP nomination to take on Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold in November. In Colorado's GOP Senate primary, voters rejected state Rep. Ron Hanks, who showed up at the Capitol on January 6.And in the state's GOP governor primary, Greg Lopez, who has said he believes Trump won the 2020 election, has lost.

A bit of a caveat on Colorado. Our primaries are open primaries, so independents can vote in either primary as long as they only vote in one. There was a significant surge of unaffiliated voters voting in the Rep primaries trying to vote down the worst of the batch. Our Dem candidates are pretty secure, so unaffiliated votes were less crucial.

"Nearly 30% of the Republican primary ballots returned as of June 24 were cast by voters not affiliated with any party — double the number reported at the same point prior to the state's previous midterm primary election in 2018. Colorado law allows the state's 1.7 million unaffiliated voters — a larger group than either its 1.1 million active registered Democrats or its 956,904 registered Republicans — to vote in either party's primary election in a given year, but not both." - https://coloradonewsline.com/2022/06/27/unaffiliated-voters-give-colorado-republicans-turnout-edge-ahead-of-primary-election/

This opinion piece appeared in the 6/30/22 edition of my local paper The Times Union. I hadn't seen this Republican wish list laid out so clearly before. I like that the author, Carlin Meyer, suggests actions to take by those in New York and other states.

The Texas Republican Party earlier this month adopted its platform, calling on Republican elected leaders to implement the following "through acknowledgment and action":

A Reject "the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election" and affirm "that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States"A Require students to learn that life begins at fertilization; prohibit the "teaching, exposure, and/or discussion of sexual matters" and remove related books or materials from schools;

A Return Christianity to schools and government;

A End gay marriage;

A Eliminate the constitutional power to levy income taxes;

A Treat homosexuality as "an abnormal lifestyle choice";

A Reject the Equal Rights Amendment;

A End all gun safety measures and arm teachers;

A Withdraw from the United Nations and the World Health Organization;

A Support returning prayer, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments to our schools, courthouses, and other government buildings;

A Support the defunding of "climate justice" initiatives, the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency, and repeal of the Endangered Species Act; and

A Call for a vote on "whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation."

It's hard to know which of these planks is most appalling; together they represent a frightening rejection of principles upon which this nation was founded, embodied in the U.S. Constitution. New Yorkers don't share these views, and we should immediately call upon our state's Republican Party to reject each and every one of the Texas planks and publicly withdraw financial and political support of any candidate who does not do so. Simultaneously, we must demand our Legislature use this week's special session to pass to pass the Equality Amendment to prevent any future Legislature momentarily in the throes of an autocratic majority from undermining our rights and values. New Yorkers deserve to know where our Republican officials stand on these issues. If the GOP does not reject them, we must attend campaign events of every Republican for primary and general election insisting that candidates vow to reject each and every one of these planks, resoundingly — not with a whisper or mumble, as many are wont to do when faced with questions about where they stand. No candidate who declines to do so — and this means you, Rep. Elise Stefanik — deserves to hold office.

▶ Carlin Meyer of Palenville is an attorney and professor emerita of New York Law School.

Anyone who requires an AR-15 to hunt, is not, by definition a hunter. They are slaughterers.

Let's stop with the niceties and start exposing the true merits of being a Democrat trying to preserve democracy. The revisionist interpretation of the Constitution is going the way that some Christians interpret the Bible and not in a good way. They should not be able to parse out those sections of an Amendment that support their narrow "Christian" interpretation but look at all tenets of the Amendment. Breyer has pointed out their hypocrisy in interpreting the 2nd Amendment and warned of the dangers of their narrow vision focus. It does not reflect the true tenets of the Amendment and that does not bode well nor serve well for us.