George Santos is not the only #NY03 candidate who's been accused of lying on his personal financial disclosure form. Nassau Legislator Josh Lafazan (D), who lost the NY-3 Dem primary, had to amend his after he was accused of hiding a $100K "personal loan" from Sam Bankman-Fried.
Sam Bankman-Fried was a big supporter of Josh Lafazan (D). SBF helped steer over $1 million to Lafazan's losing #NY03 campaign. Bankman also gave a $100K "personal loan" to Lafazan who then turned around and loaned his campaign $166K. theleaderonline.com/single-post/la…
Sam Bankman-Fried was also active in neighboring #NY01 where Michelle Bond (R), who was the girlfriend of his FTX partner Ryan Salame, unsuccessfully ran for the GOP nomination. SBF & his crypto cronies poured more than $3.5 million into Bond's campaign.
Sam Bankman-Fried was also active in another Long Island Congressional, #NY04. SBF poured over $250K into former Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen (D) losing congressional campaign.
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The story of New Hampshire state Rep. Stacie Laughton (D), the 1st openly transgender person elected to a state legislature in the US is kind of insane. Laughton has a long rap sheet that involved credit card fraud, a bomb threat, fake 911 calls & criminal stalking charges. 🧵1/9
Stacie Laughton made history in 2012 as the 1st openly transgender person elected to a state legislature but after the election it came out that Laughton was a convicted felon with a long rap sheet that included conspiracy to commit credit card fraud. 2/ laconiadailysun.com/news/local/nas…
Under New Hampshire law, convicted felons are ineligible to hold public office until their "final discharge" from prison. In Laughton's case "final discharge" would not occur until 2019 which made Laughton ineligible to serve in 2012. 3/ nhpr.org/nh-news/2012-1…
New York Councilman Ari Kagan is expected to switch parties from Democrat to GOP tomorrow. Kagan represents a district that includes Coney Island & other southern Brooklyn neighborhoods. nydailynews.com/news/politics/…
Redistricting put Councilman Kagan in the same district with progressive Councilman Justin Brannan (D) who Kagan is expected to challenge next year. This part of southern Brooklyn swung heavily to the GOP in the 2022 election.
Worth nothing that both Kagan and Alec Brook-Krasny, who Kagan beat in the 2021 NYC Council Democratic primary, are now both Republican elected officials in Brooklyn. Brook-Krasny switched partied earlier this year & was elected to the state Assembly as a Republican in November.
Asian voters in NYC overwhelmingly swung from Democrats to Republicans this year. Lee Zeldin (R) carried the majority Asian 40th Assembly District in Queens and the heavily Asian 47th & 49th Assembly districts in Brooklyn. nypost.com/2022/11/20/nys…
Precinct analysis shows that Asian majority election districts in NYC voted more Republican than than non-Hispanic White districts did.
Lee Zeldin won 23 predominantly Asian election districts in the 47th & 49th Assembly Districts which included Chinese-populated Sunset Park and even carried 1 election district in Manhattan in Chinatown.
We are now barely 36 hours from the political highlight of the year.
The presentation of the 12th Annual RRH Turkey of the Year award.
Please join us for a trip down memory lane as we celebrate the first 11 winners of our award for memorable, embarrassing failure.
We christened this award in 2011, when we realized we needed some way to recognize all the joy Anthony Weiner had brought to us that year. From the first sext to the press conferences hijacked by Breitbart and Howard Stern, what a first winner! rrhelections.com/index.php/2011…
In 2012, Todd Akin legitimately shut down the GOP's chances of a Senate majority with his mind-bogglingly stupid comments about rape, which nudged Rick Perry and his three departments out of the way: rrhelections.com/index.php/2012…
Quick Election Eve thread on the bane of every nerd's existence this time of year: MIRAGES.
A mirage happens when a state counts heavily R or D ballots particularly early or late in the process, giving one party the appearance of a big lead that disappears as votes are counted.
Ohio, for example, is a BLUE MIRAGE state. In 2020, Ohio counted heavily Dem early/mail ballots first, and Biden led the state deep into the evening. He lost by 8 after the heavily R election day votes were counted.
Pennsylvania is a RED MIRAGE state, although first results will be heavily Dem out of Philly. But the overwhelmingly Dem mail votes will be counted at the end, so don't get too excited over an evening GOP lead.