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12 Mar, 9 tweets, 2 min read
Four Democratic U.S. representatives from NY all called on Governor Cuomo to resign within minutes just now: Reps. Jerry Nadler, Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
UPDATE: 8 Dem representatives from NY just called on Cuomo to resign in statements issued within minutes:

Reps. Jerry Nadler, Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Carolyn Maloney, Yvette Clarke, Nydia Velazquez, Grace Meng

(Kathleen Rice had already done so)
UPDATE: 9 Dem representatives from NY called on Cuomo to resign in statements within minutes:

Jerry Nadler, Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Carolyn Maloney, Yvette Clarke, Nydia Velazquez, Grace Meng, Adriano Espaillat

Kathleen Rice had already done so.
UPDATE: 10 Dem U.S. Reps from NY call on Cuomo to resign in statements within minutes

Jerry Nadler, Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Carolyn Maloney, Yvette Clarke, Nydia Velazquez, Grace Meng, Adriano Espaillat, Antonio Delgado

Kathleen Rice already had
This means the majority of the Dems in NY's House delegation have called on Cuomo to resign. That's 11.

As of right now at least, I am not seeing anything from 8: Tom Suozzi, Gregory Meeks, Hakeem Jeffries, Ritchie Torres, Sean Maloney, Paul Tenko, Joe Morelle, Brian Higgins.
UPDATE: *13* NY Dem Reps have called on Cuomo to resign (12 today)

Kathleen Rice, Jerry Nadler, Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Carolyn Maloney, Yvette Clarke, Nydia Velazquez, Grace Meng, Adriano Espaillat, Antonio Delgado, Brian Higgins, Sean Maloney
UPDATE: 14 NY Dem Reps have called on Cuomo to resign

Kathleen Rice, Jerry Nadler, Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Carolyn Maloney, Yvette Clarke, Nydia Velazquez, Grace Meng, Adriano Espaillat, Antonio Delgado, Brian Higgins, Sean Maloney, Paul Tonko
This means 14 of the 19 Dems in NY's House delegation have called on Cuomo to resign.

Of the 5 remaining, Tom Suozzi issued a statement today that pointedly did not. And I've seen nothing so far from: Gregory Meeks, Hakeem Jeffries, Ritchie Torres, & Joe Morelle.
UPDATE: New York's 2 senators and 15 of the 19 NY Dem Reps have called on Cuomo to resign

Schumer, Gillibrand, K. Rice, J. Nadler, J. Bowman, M. Jones, AOC, C. Maloney, Y. Clarke, N. Velazquez, G. Meng, A. Espaillat, A. Delgado, B. Higgins, S. Maloney, P. Tonko, J. Morelle

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10 Mar
The Iowa prosecutor who chose to go after this reporter who was covering BLM protests is a Democrat who hasn't faced an opponent since 1990. Seat is up in 2022. (desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/…)

(Prosecutors matter!)
And prosecutorial elections matter too!

(Hence why we're covering the 2021 races so attentively at @theappeal: theappeal.org/criminal-justi…)

Polk County will have to wait another year.
Too often in cases like this, the basic fact that the trial was *a choice made by a prosecutor to use their discretion in this way* does not get the attention it deserves.

Will this one be different?
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3 Mar
Wow: a shock result in St Louis tonight.

The 2 most progressive candidates in the mayoral election have moved to the runoff. Cara Spencer, Tishaura Jones. (City council president eliminated.)

There were major contrasts in 4-way race on policing, criminal justice, housing. See:
Spencer and T. Jones were only candidates who ran on ending the notorious local Workhouse jail.

Jones faced attacks for supporting the decriminalization of sex work during the campaign.

Reed, one of the perceived front-runners, won’t make runoff. More: theappeal.org/st-louis-mayor…
This is at least 4th recent St Louis-region election where the candidates who won or advanced were those who’d ran the more strongly in the field on criminal justice reform/changing policing.

St Louis County prosecutor
St Louis City prosecutor
Cori Bush’s primary
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Big voting rights news in Virginia!

Both legislative chambers adopted a measure yesterday to restore voting rights to everyone not incarcerated.

VA would be 20th state to allow that, a HUGE turnaround: VA is now one of 3 states where law is *lifetime* loss for all felonies.
Two *buts*

1/ Measure has to be a constitutional amendment, so process is complex: it has to be adopted again next year, then put on 2022 ballot.

2/ State will continue stripping ppl in prison of vote. VA advocates mounted very focused push to end disenfranchisement entirely.
One reason it’s significant: states with*lifetime* bans, when they’ve reformed, have been adopting smaller measures that enfranchise ppl who complete a sentence — leaving many not incarcerated disenfranchised, confusingly.

VA jumped over that stage, at least. (As NV in 2019.)
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Portland's new DA just testified in the Oregon legislature in favor of the bill to abolish felony disenfranchisement, including when people are in prison.

(on the bill: theappeal.org/politicalrepor…)
I asked Schmidt about this when he was runnig last year. (And fwiw I believe I may have been the first person to get him on the public record on whether he supports this: he didn't seem to expect the question, which isn't often asked.)

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Oregon's Secretary of State, @Shemia_Fagan, also testified for the favor.

With this strong encapsulation of the case for it.

(An earlier testimony by Fagan was broadly supportive, but had a big qualifier. See exchange: )

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First Republican to vote to convict: Richard Burr.
Second Republican to vote to convict: Bill Cassidy
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The Houston DA is getting a mountain of Eyes today for prosecuting a doctor.

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