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Taniel Profile picture
@Taniel
May 17 • 9 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
A ton happened last night.

Here it is in 280-characters, but if you missed it let me walk through the main hits of election night 🧵.
Let's start with the Florida thunder: The GOP lost its most populous city, Jacksonville: Dem Donna Deegan defeated a DeSantis-endorsed Republican tied with Moms for Liberty & will take on the mayorship.
And adding to a terrible night for the GOP in cities, the party also lots the mayorship of the 7th most populous city it governs -- Colorado Springs.

A local political earthquake for people who know the local politics in that region.
In Kentucky, Republicans selected AG Cameron to face off against Dem Gov Beshear in the fall.

And in the SoS race, a MyPillow candidate failed to take out the incumbent Republican SoS who's gone after election deniers very explicitly.
In Philly, we know that Cherelle Parker will effectively be the next mayor.

She defeated a crowded field, including two more liberal candidates Helen Gym & Rebecca Rhynhart, & promised more policing.
On the other side of Pennsylvania, the left experienced a series of triumphs in Allegheny County & Pittsburgh.

DSA's Sara Innamorato won the nod for county executive, and the chief public defender defeated the 24-year punitive DA.
Pennsylvania's supreme court race is set, Daniel McCaffrey (D) vs Carolyn Carluccio (R).

Carluccio defeated a judge who gave Trump a rare legal win in 2020, but she too has amplified false fraud claims.

[More on the Big Lie & PA later.]
And Democrats breathed a big sigh of relief in Pennsylvania: By defending a special House district (#HD163), they kept their narrow foothold in legislative leadership.
And don't lose sight of local DA races: We at @boltsmag reported on the events in Monroe County, see below, and last night an assistant prosecutor who defended the decision to blur a decision showing a teenager shot by police had his hands up prevailed.

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May 17
In 2022, six GOP commissioners in 3 PA counties blocked election certification bc they wanted to kick out some mail ballots.

In PENNSYLVANIA, of all places.

Their fate...? All 6 won their GOP primaries yesterday to stay in office in 2024 & beyond: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania-k…
Similar results played out throughout the state.

In Allegheny County, the state's second most populous county, there's a fake Trump elector on the county board that effectively runs elections. He was running unopposed for the GOP nomination yesterday.
I looked at the list of Republican election officials who blocked certification, alongside those IDed by @ByCarterWalker last week as amplifying false claims of fraud (pennsylvania.votebeat.org/2023/5/9/23716…).

All in all, 18 of those 20 incumbents won yesterday. (boltsmag.org/pennsylvania-k…)
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May 17
JUST IN: Criminal justice reformers scored major wins in the Pittsburgh region's Dem primaries.

The 24-year DA with a punitive record lost to the chief public defender, Matt Dugan.

And Sara Innamorato, a left lawmaker, won the county executive primary:
boltsmag.org/pittsburgh-all…
A third noteworthy result: Bethany Hallam, an at-large county commissioner who is formerly incarcerated, prevailed against a challenger who attacked her over former drug use.

That DA result is really a major coup for reformers given long history: boltsmag.org/allegheny-coun…
BUT: Zappala, the 24-year DA who just lost the Democratic primary tonight, vowed to continue running as a Republican.

How? GOP leaders encouraged Republicans to write-in his name in last stretch, and the threshold was fairly low, so it's likely he can secure the GOP nomination.
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May 16
RESULT: Dems just flipped the mayor's office in Jacksonville, Florida.

This was the most populous city with a GOP mayor anywhere in the country. No more.

Donna Deegan will be the next mayor.
.@apantazi has all the context in this piece: jaxtrib.org/2023/05/16/don…

Also check out this thread on the sustained attacks that the GOP aimed at Deegan on crime, another recent failure for that well-trodden strategy :
The Republican candidate in the runoff, Daniel Davis, attacked Deegan for the mere fact of attending a BLM demonstration in 2020 -- a rally where some Republican local officials were attending too.

Context: dailykos.com/stories/2023/4…
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Taniel Profile picture
May 16
Strong start for Dems, looking to flip Jacksonville's mayoral election: Donna Deegan is up 57% to 43%, as 124K mail-in and early votes are reported at once.

But Republicans will significantly close the gap with Election Day votes, so stay tuned.
About 60% of precincts have now reported their "Election Day" totals in Jacksonville, and Democrat Donna Deegan's lead has been halved, but remains:

53.5% to 46.5%.
Are Republicans about to lose the mayorship of the biggest city they run??

18 precincts left...
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May 12
Pennsylvania votes Tuesday.

At @boltsmag, we went down in the weeds of the local elections with gravest stakes for voting rights & criminal justice.

1️⃣ The judge who gave Trump his biggest legal win in late 2020 is now running for state supreme court: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania-s…
2️⃣ Philadelphia's mayoral election has become the latest testing ground for progressive organizers, weeks after Brandon Johnson's win in Chicago. @mauraewing reports on why left coalesced around Helen Gym, & how it matters to policing: boltsmag.org/philadelphias-…
3️⃣ Big picture, state's DA races are a democracy disaster. 35 of 49 counties drawing only 1 candidate.

Among them? Tom Marino, last seen giving up a Trump appointment in disgrace for his role in opioid crisis.

I took a look at everyone who's running:
boltsmag.org/pennsylvania-d…
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May 5
Georgia's GOP is on brink of adopting a law to enable them to remove locally elected DAs who are not charging certain cases, like abortion or marijuana.

I talked to one of their main targets, Athens DA Deborah Gonzalez: "I have a target on my back."

New: boltsmag.org/georgia-bill-w…
Context: The bill sets up a new board with the authority to oust DAs who don’t fulfill their duties, *and* it redefines the duties of DAs—and so what counts as grounds for removal—to specify they cannot “categorically” refuse to prosecute offenses.
Deborah Gonzalez, who won on a progressive platform in Athens in 2020, has a lot of replies. A core tenet of what she's saying: She is doing what she said she'd do when she won. *And*, she adds, what has changed is the very notion that a DA would be transparent about policies. Image
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