First up on #FridayNightZillow: A Kentucky prepper paradise built by a Republican liquor store magnate after OBAMA was elected, complete with a $3M ☢️NUCLEAR/BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL FALLOUT SHELTER.
Per the Lexington Herald-Leader, liquor store magnate C. Wesley Morgan said he just wanted to feel safe and also worried about civil war.
He later served one term as a GOP state rep, where, per the paper, he sponsored bills helpful to liquor stores.
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Morgan ran against Mitch McConnell in last year's GOP primary, winning a little over 6% of the vote. The house was featured during a previous listing by Zillow Gone Wild, prompting the newspaper story, which is worth your 99 cents.
Awesome Ohio mansion is back on the market with one insane sink, a lot of gorgeous wood, a bowling alley and some nightmare-fuel bear-chasing-man artwork.
The spaces in this home are just gorgeous. Copper tub seems a little extravagant what with soaring metal prices. I'm a sucker for fantastic wood floors and turrets; you could hold an old-fashioned ball for the ages here.
There are multiple kitchens, endless ballrooms. Less tacky gaudy junk than usual in this size mansion.
So, #FridayNightZillow will be starting soon. Included:
*Redwoods Cabin of the gods
*Affordable island paradise
*Semi-affordable island paradise
*Buddhist ranch
*Historic homes
*Crazy homes
*Cave home
*Ugly homes
*Affordable housing
Etc.
Hopefully an antidote to your doomscrolling. Funscrolling? Hopescrolling? Laughscrolling? Zillowscrolling.
If you haven't been a reader of #FridayNightZillow, this is last week's edition:
Yesterday, btw, a good example of just how many other rules — and especially the unanimous consent rule — matter in the Senate. The 60-vote rule has been gone for almost a decade now on noms, but a single senator can still hold up most for months for any reason.
Harry Reid's nuclear option kept in place the filibuster for noms, but reduced the cloture threshold to a simple majority. Common now for many, many noms now to require a cloture vote, then debate, then final passage, etc.
Both parties have since slow-walked noms as leverage on other things. McConnell even used a tactical nuke to lower the post-cloture time thresholds after a previous bipartisan deal expired.
Grassley wouldn't spill the beans when I asked him this week that it seemed like he must be running given that fundraising email I got from his wife. (He didn't seem to be aware of the fundraising email. He said he'd let me know by Nov. 1.)
The last thing I saw late last night as the Senate finished voting was Grassley literally running by me to the exit.
People sometimes forget Grassley had a decades long political career before his 40+ years in the Senate: