by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Not all of the political news from Super Tuesday focused on Bernie and Biden. There were a couple of big stories out of the GOP U.S. Senate primary in Alabama where Roy Moore, a good ole boy known for his fondness of young girls, came in third with just seven percent of the vote and didn't make it into the runoff election, and former U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III, came in second to a former Auburn football coach and did make it into the runoff election - one he would have rather avoided by placing a strong first in the primary. The next morning Sessions was roundly criticized by his old boss, Donald Trump, on Twitter.
(Other Trump sycophants need to pay attention to the miseries of Jeff Sessions and take note. Trump has no loyalty to anyone but Trump.)
There was also a race of national interest in South Texas where incumbent Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar faced his toughest challenge in his fifteen-year congressional career. Cuellar, a 64-year-old self-described "conservative" Democrat who opposes abortion and has voted with Donald Trump seventy percent of the time - the most of any Democrat in Congress - was primaried by a 26-year-old immigration attorney by the name of Jessica Cisneros.
Cisneros, who was supported by the Justice Democrats, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and several nationally prominent individuals, gave Cuellar the political scare of his life on Tuesday when she garnered 48.2% of the vote against the very well-heeled incumbent's 51.8 percent. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came to South Texas to raise money for Cuellar, and he was also financially supported by the infamous Koch family of Wichita, Kansas, as well as by the American Bankers Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Over ninety-five percent of Cuellar's political contributions this cycle came from Political Action Committees and large donors, and less than one percent from small individual donors.
In addition to being an abortion foe and supporting Donald Trump on most votes, Congressman Cuellar also has a 93% approval rating from the NRA and he supports the NSA having the ability to spy on private citizens who have committed no crimes.
But even with all of that money and support, political nobody Jessica Cisneros almost kicked Henry Cuellar off of his seat aboard the national gravy train. Just imagine what she will be able to do in a better political environment two years from now!
The political star of Jessica Cisneros is on the rise in the Lone Star State. She's one to watch!
Citizen Journalist
Not all of the political news from Super Tuesday focused on Bernie and Biden. There were a couple of big stories out of the GOP U.S. Senate primary in Alabama where Roy Moore, a good ole boy known for his fondness of young girls, came in third with just seven percent of the vote and didn't make it into the runoff election, and former U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III, came in second to a former Auburn football coach and did make it into the runoff election - one he would have rather avoided by placing a strong first in the primary. The next morning Sessions was roundly criticized by his old boss, Donald Trump, on Twitter.
(Other Trump sycophants need to pay attention to the miseries of Jeff Sessions and take note. Trump has no loyalty to anyone but Trump.)
There was also a race of national interest in South Texas where incumbent Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar faced his toughest challenge in his fifteen-year congressional career. Cuellar, a 64-year-old self-described "conservative" Democrat who opposes abortion and has voted with Donald Trump seventy percent of the time - the most of any Democrat in Congress - was primaried by a 26-year-old immigration attorney by the name of Jessica Cisneros.
Cisneros, who was supported by the Justice Democrats, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and several nationally prominent individuals, gave Cuellar the political scare of his life on Tuesday when she garnered 48.2% of the vote against the very well-heeled incumbent's 51.8 percent. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came to South Texas to raise money for Cuellar, and he was also financially supported by the infamous Koch family of Wichita, Kansas, as well as by the American Bankers Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Over ninety-five percent of Cuellar's political contributions this cycle came from Political Action Committees and large donors, and less than one percent from small individual donors.
In addition to being an abortion foe and supporting Donald Trump on most votes, Congressman Cuellar also has a 93% approval rating from the NRA and he supports the NSA having the ability to spy on private citizens who have committed no crimes.
But even with all of that money and support, political nobody Jessica Cisneros almost kicked Henry Cuellar off of his seat aboard the national gravy train. Just imagine what she will be able to do in a better political environment two years from now!
The political star of Jessica Cisneros is on the rise in the Lone Star State. She's one to watch!
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