Well, I think we can dispense with the word "grand" now.
Perhaps I was being naïve when I watched the January 6 insurrection by Donald Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol on TV and thought certainly there would be resounding bipartisan condemnation and outrage at this horrific event. Surely, I thought, everyone sees that this has gone too far.
The days to come would prove me wrong.
In addition to being disheartened and angry at the GOP's gaslighting and excuse-making on the national ...
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<p>Howard County (Maryland) blog posts covering topics related to the Republican Party, the Howard County Republican Club, or the Republican Central Committee.</p>
Hall of Shame, GOP Edition – October 10, 2020
During Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence, I came across a Facebook post by a local GOP activist who is one of the ringleaders of Reopen Howard County, also known as the Christina Delmont-Small, Sezin Palmer, and Yun Lu fan club. The post was a live commentary on the debate, and the misogynoir directed at Senator Harris solidified my view that racism and hatred are a feature, not a bug, of the Republican Party. “Nasty bitch,”...
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District 4: Say No to Sezin Palmer (Part 3)
Sezin Palmer is an unsuitable candidate to represent District 4 on the Board of Education in Howard County. This is the final post in a multi-part series discussing the reasons why.
In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I presented Sezin’s own words and behaviors as evidence that she is not the benevolent, non-partisan candidate she makes herself out to be. This evidence revealed her to be a right-wing, conservative candidate, fueled by anti-redistricting senti...
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Hall of Shame – July 22, 2020
The Howard County Republican Club recently took to Facebook to paint the youth-led HoCo For Justice group, who has recently organized rallies in support of Black Lives Matter and in protest of ICE, as “radical progressive extremists.”
Their choice of words - characterizing youths who support immigrants and Black lives as “lawlessness” and “racism” - makes you wonder what it is about a movement based on compassion, equality, and justice that gets under Republicans’ skin.
(The HoCo For Just...
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