Indefatigable

What a fricking awful map. Louisiana fricking sucks

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Reform and cultural Jews are a Democrat gimme. Its preached in the synagogues.

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Outside of Brooklyn, that’s not an appreciable or relevant population in any electoral constituency

So I ask again…why does ANYONE give a frick about “Jews”? I don’t care about any of the random hilarious labels for Christian churches. Or the Mormons or the Muslims. It seems really easy to me to not interact with any religious group since it’s not relevant to American politics.


Why is any one any where talking about Judaism?

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Yikes.. Oof.

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So what am I missing?

Where are “Jews” as some monolith of the population doing anything collectively? “Jewish” is not a race, it’s a religion.

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lmao This is embarrassing

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Is it?

Where have you ever come into contact with “Jews”?

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And if it comes down to one or two seats?

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Then it really doesn’t matter. 1 or 2 seat majority won’t get anything meaningful done.

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You’re arguing that the State should be able to invalidate the outcomes of elections as long as it possesses the technical authority to do so.

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No one invalidated any election. The position was abolished. Everyone knew before the election that the position was going to be abolished. Duncan was only a candidate because the position was going to be abolished and he/people like you wanted to create this stupid disenfranchisement narrative. It was entirely calculated.

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looked at the betting markets, and it seemed that they are still showing about a 70% chance the democrats retake the House. Am I misunderstanding it?

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No. You’re just falling for the weird narrative that a handful of seats in the South will be determinative going forward.

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I’m wondering what role anyone in New Orleans has in even voting for this office. No one will answer why this position is not an appointed office.

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You’re being obtuse now. This is a one time situation because New Orleans had a terrible setup and the offices needed to be combined.

I’ve been telling you the whole thread to stop painting this as some existential un-democratic encroachment and just say that you don’t like that the State did it this way.

ETA: Because you know what? I’d probably agree that the cleaner way was to consolidate the offices either prior to this election, or after the next one. It’s easier and resolves your alleged issue with it. But the faux outrage puts me in Jeff’s corner

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Every time the state legislature eliminates an office in response to the outcome of the election for that office and transfers the duties of the eliminated office to a different elected office, a new election should be held.

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Start working on an amendment then.

This was also happening regardless of who won any election down there.

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You are stating that Orleans Parish voters elected Napoleon the office of OP Civil Clerk of Court. You are stating there was never an election for Criminal Clerk of Court because voters elected Napoleon to perform all the duties associated with any clerkship.

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Nope. They elected Napoleon for Civil Clerk of Court.

The Legislature made that position bigger and now calls it just the Orleans Parish Clerk of Court. They can, and did, do that if they want to.

It’s just that simple. The fake implication that the dumbest bloc of voters in the State made some considered decision to vote for civil or criminal clerk based on the actual duties of those offices or the merits of the candidates relative to those duties (which are absolutely nothing besides getting a paycheck fwiw) is simply hilarious.

Just say it out loud and it should signal its own absurdity.

“WE DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS LADY TO SCAN IN CRIMINAL PLEADINGS. ONLY CIVIL ONES!”