PhD poli sci, Private Wealth @wahdycapital. Democracy, institutional design/reform, and Oxford commas. 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 poli. @PercyFuzzyboots staff. She/her
Jan 30, 2019 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
#HowardSchultz is not a serious candidate for President. He has no real desire to run, never mind win. The Presidency is not his goal. His goal is to control policy in @TheDemocrats.
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.@HowardSchultz not a Ross Perot style billionaire setting out to rattle cages, naively thinking he can buy his way onto ballots in 50 states and have a credible chance of winning by appealing to the disenchanted. He's a hostage-taker. And his hostage is the Democratic Party.
Nov 9, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Broward county has a population larger than Rhode Island.
Partisan election officials can make it harder to count all votes in a timely manner by underfunding and understaffing certain areas. They then use this delay as an excuse to not count those votes at all.
They deliberately underfund certain areas so that they don't have to count all of the votes from there. #VoterSupression don't end at arbitrary deregistration, multi-hour long lineups, and broken voting machines.
It is essential that, as this exchange gets recounted in Anglophone media, it gets translated correctly. The woman used an extremely racist term that excludes everyone whose family does not date back to *1759 or earlier* from ever being accepted as Quebecois. #cdnpoli
Souche = stump. When Anglo media translates it, they often go with "old stock Quebecois", but the term is far more racially charged. "Québecois de souche" is about purity of bloodlines - anyone whose family doesn't date to New France. Especially not non-white Quebecois. #cdnpoli
