Final Results for #LA02

Gary Chambers lost by 1.6% (around 1500 votes)

First of all, tremendous props to Gary and his team for running a real progressive campaign and way over performing polls and the expectations of most of the pundits.
Second of all, this was a defeat for progressives and the race will now be between a conservative Democrat and a corporate lobbyist who has a record of now showing up for her constituents.
Gary is a lifelong activist and the clear progressive choice. When organisations like Our Revolution and DFA endorsed a lobbyist over him it was misguided and likely an attempt to endorse a more viable candidate when Gary was indeed viable.
If Gary had won the election tonight he’d surely have won in April and would go on to be one of (if not the) most progressive Representative in the US House.
Now, we look forward to special elections in NYC as well as #NM01 and #OH11.

Three progressives will be on the ballot on March 23rd in NYC (with Ranked-Choice Voting)

District 11: @MinoLora
District 15: @elisacresponyc and @LatchmiGopal
Then we have #NM01 where the party will nominate a candidate at the end of March (with @ASL4Justice4all having a very good shot at winning) and we have a special election (date tbd) in #OH11 with @ninaturner
We may not have won but we beat what everyone said and Gary is in a very good position to run for office in 2022.

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21 Mar
Putting the rest of the results and commentary into this thread so bookmark it if you’d like :)

The two parishes with the largest percent of votes in are accession and assumption which are in between the two major cities and have more rural/conservative voters.
Gary has 24% of the vote in East Baton Rouge which will have a lot more results coming. He is also second in Iberville with 23%
Louisiana 2nd Congressional District - Special Election

Troy Carter (D): 42%
Karen Peterson (D): 26.3%
**Gary Chambers (D): 15.3%
Claston Bernard (R): 7.2%

**Progressive

Total Votes: 42252
Estimated Vote Percent: 21.3%
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3 Mar
Why last night was a win for progressives;

While there are small number of ballot waiting to be counted from last night’s elections, we have a lot of them and, as usual, I’d like to reflect on our wins and losses.

(I’ll include thread reader bot at the end)
While at first glance last night may look like a blowout for progressives I do not believe that to be the case, in fact I believe that in many ways we won last night.

Let’s start with Vermont where voters across the state participated in the annual Town Meeting Day.
Voters across the state passed budgets, many progressive, and many towns voted on retail cannabis. The retail cannabis bill was voted on in over 20 towns and passed in major cities across the state, including Burlington and Montpelier and was only rejected in Richmond.
Read 9 tweets
3 Mar
With votes mostly from wards 1, 4, 6, and 7 Democrat Miro Weinberger has a 3% (~350 vote) lead over progressive Max Tracy with independent Ali Dieng trailing with 14% of the vote.
Congratulations to progressive @JackHansonBTV who will be re-elected to the Burlington City Council. Hanson ran unopposed and will receive another term.

The North District race is nearly tied and incumbent Perri Freeman is leading 67-28 in the Central District
For ballot initiatives retail marijuana look like it will pass (79-21) and RCV has a strong 20% lead. All other ballot measures look like they will be approved as well.
Read 4 tweets
2 Mar
🚨🚨 ELECTION ALERT 🚨🚨

Today, March 2nd, there are election all over the country. These include primaries and general elections for municipal offices, as well as multiple state legislative special elections.

This thread will contain the candidates we’re endorsing.
First, we’d like to reiterate our support for @progparty candidate Max Tracy to be the next mayor of Burlington (Vermont). Max is a dedicated progressive organiser fighting for better housing, a cleaner city, and racial justice.
We’d also like to reiterate our support for the Vermont Progressive Party Burlington City Council candidates.

East District: Jack Hanson
Central District: Perri Freeman
North District: Kienan Christianson
South District: Grace Ahmed
Read 7 tweets
12 Aug 20
Now that we have the majority of the results from last night’s primaries, what are the next race progressive are looking at?

On August 18 there will be primaries in Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming. While these states are fairly red they are interesting and we could get some wins.
Note: These are just congressional candidates (there could be many state candidates who are not included).

Alaska this year has gone from a “Safe GOP” state to “Lean GOP” across the board, meaning it’s going to be pretty competitive.
For Alaska Senate we’re backing Al Gross. While Gross may not be a perfect progressive he is a strong candidate who could flip the seat and be an ally to progressives in the Senate (certainly worth looking at his campaign and platform).
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11 Aug 20
Leftists 4 Office Voter Guide and Voter Information August 11 Primaries.
Vermont is the first state to close their polls today (7PM EST/Local Time).

Vermont has a lot of good candidates running across the state (specifically in the VPP).

Progressive Candidates:

US HOUSE: Peter Welch
GOVERNOR: David Zuckerman
LT GOVERNOR: Brenda Siegel
These are the candidates that Bernie has endorsed in Vermont (for those interested)

AG: T.J. Donovan
Auditor: Doug Hoffer
Treasurer: Beth Pearce
State Senate (Chittenden): Erhard Mahnke and Christopher Pearson
State Rep (Chittenden 8-1): Tanya Vuhovsky
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