Katie Hill resigning from office

[Nyvin]

So much for that meme that "Scandals don't affect Democrats because LIBERAL MEDIA".     I saw a lot of Republicans posting stuff like that about this.

[Nyvin]

The fact that the blue avatars celebrate because a smear campaign by an abusive husband against his ex-wife has succeeded makes me sick.

May I ask what basis there is to call this a "smear campaign"?

It literally was revenge porn that was posted about her.  She didn't do anything malicious or harmful (let alone illegal)

[Nyvin]

The fact that the blue avatars celebrate because a smear campaign by an abusive husband against his ex-wife has succeeded makes me sick.

May I ask what basis there is to call this a "smear campaign"?

Because she's a woman and he's a man. Best to just move past this and get a better Democrat in there.

Given that the Democrats have been getting destroyed in competitive elections post 2018, it'll be interesting to see if they can keep this seat.

Where?  In NC-9 and PA-12 the Democrats outperformed Trump's numbers.   In NC-3 the Republicans more or less just held their ground (in a very rural, safe R seat).

There literally hasn't been any special elections in truly competitive districts/states in 2019.

[Nyvin]

The fact that the blue avatars celebrate because a smear campaign by an abusive husband against his ex-wife has succeeded makes me sick.

May I ask what basis there is to call this a "smear campaign"?

Because she's a woman and he's a man. Best to just move past this and get a better Democrat in there.

Given that the Democrats have been getting destroyed in competitive elections post 2018, it'll be interesting to see if they can keep this seat.

Where?  In NC-9 and PA-12 the Democrats outperformed Trump's numbers.   In NC-3 the Republicans more or less just held their ground (in a very rural, safe R seat).

There literally hasn't been any special elections in truly competitive districts/states in 2019.

I'm not even going to address the cherry picking and spin in the above, except to note that you're forgetting the Wisconsin state Supreme Court election, in which 1.2 million votes were cast; it was a statewide election in what is a likely tipping point state next year.

And Hagedorn won by 6k votes or 0.5%,  Trump won it by 0.77%.   

[Nyvin]

The fact that the blue avatars celebrate because a smear campaign by an abusive husband against his ex-wife has succeeded makes me sick.

May I ask what basis there is to call this a "smear campaign"?

Because she's a woman and he's a man. Best to just move past this and get a better Democrat in there.

Given that the Democrats have been getting destroyed in competitive elections post 2018, it'll be interesting to see if they can keep this seat.

Destroyed where?

IIRC Loretta sanchez in the region only got like 38% of the vote against 5 Republicand and still lost an Orange county supervisor seat. The other major California special sd 1 saw ds only get 30% of the vote in a trump +15 district. California specials so far have been bad for Democrats

The board of supervisors thing isn't surprising,  it's a non-partisan office for one thing, but more importantly Orange County still votes pretty Republican downballot.   There's only 1 Democrat on the 5 member board, and all the county-wide elected officials are still Republican too.

SD-1 is exactly the kind of district to trend to Republicans so that's not surprising either.

[Nyvin]

Blue avatars are being absolutely nauseating in this thread, especially the flock of newbie fascists. Shameful to see that such a bunch of little and pathetic human beings infected this place.

What? You don't like people who have opposing political viewpoints from yours? It's very revealing that some of the "red avatars" continue to defend this vile and disgraceful woman, though her misbehavior was her undoing, and has cast her from office after less than a year.

The people I'm referring to are enthusiastic supporters of Roy Moore and Donald Trump. The only thing Hill did wrong is a relationship with a staffer, and it pales near the moral rot of these two. Seeing these small, hateful human beings gleefully talking about how happy they are she was politically and personally destroyed by her abusive husband is absolutely disgusting.

I would certainly agree that what Trump and Moore have been accused of is horrendous, and far beyond what Hill has done. But it wasn't just a relationship with a staffer. Her behavior was in clear violation of the House's ethic rules, and having relationships with subordinates in the workplace, in such a manner, is an absolute "no-no". At any rate, she will be gone, and hopefully, will be succeeded by someone of much greater moral character.

Oh please,  what Hill did was NOTHING compared to what Trump or Moore did, not even remotely comparable.  Nothing about her behavior violated any rules either, you're just making stuff up here.  

Just admit it,  Democrats are indeed held to a higher standard while Republicans are allowed to just skate by while doing disgusting things.  

We have a financial record of Duncan Hunter having an affair and here he is still running for office while Hill has to resign.  It's a two tiered system we have.

Mark Sanford goes and has a kid with a women in Argentina but he continues to serve in Congress until voted out in a primary for criticising Trump.  But a picture of Hill naked with a bong is too much.

[Nyvin]

https://twitter.com/AlexThomasDC/status/1189382581520875520?s=20

Katie Hill should sue the NRCC into bankruptcy.

The police should be involved at this point.

Should honestly rescind her resignation.

No, she really, really shouldn’t.

She really, really should. She shouldn’t give into the right’s smear campaign.

When the media reports on a republican's scandal, it's "good journalism."
When the media reports on a democrat's scandal, it's a "smear campaign," and they should be sued.

Context matters.   Everything points to this not being a true "scandal" against Hill,  rather just blatant sexism and revenge porn put out by an ex.

I really don't see how Hill did anything wrong.

[Nyvin]

It's official: Steve Knight is running again in CA-25:
https://twitter.com/CATargetBot/status/1196576402708918272?s=20

endorsed

Steve Knight is not a good candidate.   He never was popular in his district and only won originally in 2014 a quirky top two race that ended up being RvR

I honestly think even Cenk Uygur would beat him in a top two runoff.