primaries

 Let me begin by saying any candidate who hires a sketchy company to get their signatures was never a serious candidate.  Geez Politics 101.

Looked through the list of Michigan candidates and it seems that about half of them are Trumpists, but if they are the only ones running commercials it sounds like the non Trumpists have little funding, and no hope.  

Here in the Land of Lincoln, well-known for our good gummint, we have five reps in the rep primary to unseat jolly rich fat guy Pritzker.  But only three are running commercials so I don't know the names of the other two.  

The top gun among them is Irvin who was the mayor of Aurora and pretty much a Democrat and not an awful guy, but Ken Griffin, the richest guy in the state waved a fat stack of bills in his face and now he is running as a republican, hiding from the press behind a shitload of law and order (he used to be a public defender) commercials.  

The next guy is Baily, some right wing hayseed whose former claim to fame was trying to kick Chicago out of Illinois which is fine for running in a republican primary, but not so good for the general.  He is backed by another rich guy who funds Christian right candidates.

The third guy is Sullivan who is a California crypto hedge fund guy who apparently was born in some small Illinois town and now is back to recover his roots, and as long as he is busting sod, is running for gov as a Christian law and order guy.

Oh and the dems, who think Bailey would be easier to beat than Irvin are running commercials about how Bailey is too damned conservative for Illinois, the intended effect of which is to get more rep voters to vote for Bailey and not Irvin.

Pritzker has run a pretty tight ship with none of his people under indictment and even inching up our pitiful credit rating and is filthy rich and putting in his own money so I don't see any of the republican clown parade beating him.

Did you note the common thread in that listing of candidates?  Big bucks, and I also saw plenty of money bags in the Michigan list.  You can thank that old turtle Mitch McConnel for that.

I hadn't expected any response this morning and was going to discourse on the birth of Beaglesonia, well maybe next time.

At the risk of opening up a can of worms, how about as a single issue how about raising the age for AR-15's to 21?