⚠️TRIGGER WARNING...BIG TIME: In light of the recent horrific developments in Georgia, Ohio, Alabama and other GOP-run states, it’s time once again to remember that Republican ignorance of, cruelty about and obsession with all things rape-related has been a thing for decades. 1/
I therefore am once again taking you down memory lane, with a few case studies from the Republican Rape Advisory Chart: goprapeadvisorychart.com 2/
1988: Republican State Representative Stephen Freind of Pennsylvania. 3/
1990: Republican Gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams of Texas: 4/
1995: Republican state representative Henry Aldridge of North Carolina. 5/
1998: Republican state Senator & U.S. Senate candidate Fay Boozman of Arkansas. 6/
2002: Republican state senate candidate Dick Black of Virginia. 7/
2003: Republican Governor Jen Bush of Florida. 8/
2005: Republican state representative Mark Anderson of Arizona. 9/
2005: Republican state representative Wards Nichols of Arizona. 10/
2006: Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck of Colorado. 11/
2006: Republican state representative Bill Napoli of South Dakota. 12/
2008: Republican state representative Jonathan Strickland of Texas. 13/
2010: Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle of Nevada. 14/
2010: Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa. 15/
2011: Republican state representative Kathleen Passidomo of Florida. 16/
2011: Republican state senator Brent Crane of Idaho. 17/
2011: Republican state representative Pete DeGraaf of Kansas. 18/
2011: Republican Governor and Presidential candidate Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. 19/
2011: Republican state representative Roger Rivard of Wisconsin. 20/
2012: Republican state representative John Ragan of Tennessee. 21/
2012: Republican Senator and Presidential candidate Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. 22/
2012: Republican Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas. 23/
2012: Republican state Senator Chuck Winder of Idaho. 24/
2012: Republican Senate candidate Tom Smith of Pennsylvania. 25/
2012: Republican Congressman and Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri (he was the "inspiration" for my decision to start tracking these statements). 26/
I'll stop for now.
Note that I'm only up to 2012.
I added over SEVENTY MORE to the archive over the next 4 years before becoming too sickened to continue after Donald Trump was elected President.
🧵 People have asked me why I started an organized project to raise money *directly* for Democratic candidates up & down the ballot when there's already so many other organizations out there doing this. There's a couple of reasons. 1/
The first is that most of the existing organizations/PACs/etc seem to (in my view) *either* focus ONLY on the true swing districts *or* they raise money for races which are clearly unwinnable without being up front about how long the odds in those races are. 2/
I try to walk the line between these--for district-level races I cast my net wider than most "tossup only!" advocates, but not absurdly wide; for statewide races I *do* include deep red states but also make it absolutely clear that those races are *very* long shots. 3/
A little fun Die Hard trivia for those who don’t know:
The first Die Hard was based on a 1979 novel called Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. In the novel McClain’s character was named Joe Leland. This was a sequel to a 1966 novel by Thorp called The Detective. 1/
The Detective had been made into a film starring Frank Sinatra as Joe Leland in 1968.
This means Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.
In fact, the studio was contractually required to offer the role to Sinatra if he wanted it. Sinatra was 73 at the time.
As for the novel Nothing Lasts Forever (title since changed to “Die Hard”), it follows most of the same storyline and characters, but with a few VERY important differences…
How does the @nytimes know that these are actual federal officials who actually signed it if they did so “anonymously?”
Does that mean the Times is redacting their names? Or does it just say “signed, 400 officials” at the bottom of the letter?
@nytimes I’m not being snarky here—I can’t read the original NY Times article without a subscription; do they clarify how they verified that these 400 people actually are federal officials and that they did in fact sign off on the letter in it?
1. DON'T DELAY; #GETCOVERED BY *DECEMBER 15th* IF POSSIBLE!
#ACA Open Enrollment officially runs from 11/01/23 - 1/16/24, but if you want your coverage to start in JANUARY you only have until December 15th in most states!
Here's a table of the deadlines & when coverage starts for every state +DC (some may be extended at the last minute):