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chocolatpi's JournalScottsdale campaign sign for Jewish candidate vandalized with swastika
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scottsdale-campaign-sign-for-jewish-candidate-vandalized-with-swastika/ar-BB1anTPp?ocid=hplocalnewsAZ Family, News 3 &CBS 5
10/25/20
Scottsdale campaign sign for Jewish candidate vandalized with swastika
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A campaign sign for an Arizona Senate candidate was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. Seth Blattman, who is Jewish, is running for District 23 in Scottsdale. On Friday, he learned someone drew a swastika on his forehead on a sign near Loop 101 and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard.
“Someone that I have never met, never seen, hates me for a reason I can't control because of who I was born to be," said Blattman.
Blattman said he lost family members in the Holocaust. For him, seeing that symbol of violence on his face was painful.
"I had a great aunt that I remember as a kid asking what the number on her arm meant," said Blattman.
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Scottsdale campaign sign for Jewish candidate vandalized with swastika
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scottsdale-campaign-sign-for-jewish-candidate-vandalized-with-swastika/ar-BB1anTPp?ocid=hplocalnewsAZ Family, News 3 &CBS 5
10/25/20
Scottsdale campaign sign for Jewish candidate vandalized with swastika
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A campaign sign for an Arizona Senate candidate was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. Seth Blattman, who is Jewish, is running for District 23 in Scottsdale. On Friday, he learned someone drew a swastika on his forehead on a sign near Loop 101 and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard.
“Someone that I have never met, never seen, hates me for a reason I can't control because of who I was born to be," said Blattman.
Blattman said he lost family members in the Holocaust. For him, seeing that symbol of violence on his face was painful.
"I had a great aunt that I remember as a kid asking what the number on her arm meant," said Blattman.
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Montini-One Last Spread the Virus..Trip
Soon, we will be free of this assault on our citizens from the dim ones both rump and Ducey.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/one-last-spread-the-virus-barnstorming-trip-to-arizona-for-donald-trump/ar-BB1ap8UW?ocid=hplocalnews
Arizona Republic
One last spread-the-virus barnstorming trip to Arizona for …..rump
EJ Montini
10/26/20
Really, what is the point, other than vanity?
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Sadly, however, there invariably will be infected individuals at such gatherings and, without masks, as Trump supporters tend to be, the infected are pretty much guaranteed to put more than a few of their brethren in the hospital in a week or two, and may well cause some to die.
What that means, I suppose, is that casting a vote for Trump might be among their last living acts for some of his supporters.I can’t imagine how their families will feel about that.
But I’m sure it’s fine with Trump.
Living abroad by Emma Brockes
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/if-youve-made-a-life-abroad-coronavirus-gives-homesickness-a-new-edge/ar-BB1akhKbThe Guardian
If you've made a life abroad, coronavirus gives homesickness a new edge
Emma Brockes
10/23/20
If you've made a life abroad, coronavirus gives homesickness a new edge
The longest I have gone without seeing England is two years, a hiatus taken after the birth of my children, when I couldn’t face the flight. I must’ve missed the place: I remember bingeing old episodes of Inspector Morse as if they were home movies. But like everything from that period not directly involving babies, I can’t quite retrieve the memory. Besides which, my homesickness was mitigated by one major factor: people came to visit me.
No one is coming to visit this time. For many of us with family living further than a drive away – particularly those living abroad – the advent of the holiday season marks the 12-month anniversary since any of us went home. It is one thing to stay away because you can’t be bothered to travel, and another to have that option removed. Technically, it’s doable; a few friends in New York have cracked and flown to see their parents in Britain, factoring in the two-week quarantine. But for most of us, even if we can overcome the fear of exposure on the flight, the restrictions on arrival aren’t practical. What’s the point of trekking home if you can’t see anyone when you get there?
The strange thing is that, viewed from New York, Britain doesn’t look like much of a destination at the moment. While the third wave rages across much of the US, in New York, a city still in shock from its experiences of the spring, virus numbers are low and, for the time being, stable. The schools aren’t back full time and no one’s throwing dinner parties, but some semblance of normal life has returned.
Or rather it has if you ignore the fact that no one with sense will be going home for the holidays. For those with young children, the months have clicked by, and with them a growing feeling of absence. Zoom doesn’t fill the gap where a grandparent should be, and one wonders how long it will take before the relationship is damaged. A year is a long time in the life of a five-year-old who refers to her own recent toddlerhood as “the olden days”.
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For adults, the sense of loss is less tangible but perhaps more alarming. It took me a moment to identify
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dental patients in the city reporting serious jaw strain. Every day, he said, patients came in complaining of cracked teeth, jaw pain, excessive grinding and other expressions of stress, most of which came out in them while asleep, and far in excess of these complaints before the pandemic.
• Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist
Boris Johnson used to be the Teflon man
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/boris-johnson-used-to-be-the-teflon-man-of-british-politics-brushing-off-scandals-gaffes-and-mistakes-not-any-more/ar-BB1alp4ACNN
Boris Johnson used to be the Teflon man of British politics, brushing off scandals, gaffes and mistakes. Not any more
Analysis by Luke McGee, CNN
10/24/20
Boris Johnson used to be the Teflon man of British politics, brushing off scandals, gaffes and mistakes. Not any more
Boris Johnson had big plans for 2020. With the Brexit question that had torn the nation apart for nearly four years finally settled, the Prime Minister was ready to spend some of the political capital he'd earned with his landslide election victory to bring the nation together. Then Covid-19 happened.
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Despite rhetoric, GOP has supported packing state courts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/despite-rhetoric-gop-has-supported-packing-state-courts/ar-BB1am78B?ocid=hplocalnewsAP ASSOCIATED PRESS
Despite rhetoric, GOP has supported packing state courts
By ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press
10/24/20
Despite rhetoric, GOP has supported packing state courts
Republican claims that Democrats would expand the U.S. Supreme Court to undercut the conservative majority if they win the presidency and control of Congress has a familiar ring.
It's a tactic the GOP already has employed in recent years with state supreme courts when they have controlled all levers of state political power.
Republican governors in Arizona and Georgia have signed bills passed by GOP-dominated legislatures to expand the number of seats on their states’ respective high courts. In Iowa, the Republican governor gained greater leverage over the commission that names judicial nominees.
“The arguments being advanced now by Republican leaders — that this is an affront to separation of powers, that this is a way of delegitimizing courts — those don’t seem to be holding at the state level,” said Marin Levy, a law professor at Duke University who has written about efforts to expand state high courts.
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Jeff Tweedy "Give back to black artists"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/wilco-s-jeff-tweedy-challenges-music-industry-to-give-back-to-black-artists/vi-BB1am05ACBS News
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has kept himself occupied despite performing because of the coronavirus. He's written a book, released a solo album and called on the music industry to follow him in working for racial justice. Anthony Mason reports.
Link to check early ballot status Maricopa
https://recorder.maricopa.gov/earlyvotingballot/earlyvotingballotstatus.aspxMARICOPA COUNTY
Early Voting Ballot Status
Resources for Judges on AZ Ballot
Did Russia target Arizona for its 2016 hack?
https://www.abc15.com/news/election-2020/how-to-get-more-information-about-judges-for-the-upcoming-election
ABC15
Doug Ducey
How to get more information about judges for the upcoming election
PHOENIX — As more Arizona voters get their election ballots, more voters likely have the same question: who are all of these judges?
They are likely names you've never heard of doing jobs you don't know much about. Yet, in Maricopa County alone, 40 Superior Court judge decisions are on the ballot.
While smaller counties elect judges, in Pima, Pinal, Coconino, and Maricopa, they are appointed by the governor and you vote to retain them or not.
But since you've likely never visited their courtroom or know who they are, you may just ignore them. Many voters did just that in the Maricopa County 2016 election according to final voting results you can see here.
for the upcoming election
Let Joe Know's Joe Ducey is explaining how voters can get more information about judges for the upcoming election.
Russia targeted AZ voter registration systems
By: Joe DuceyPosted at 4:44 AM, Oct 14, 2020 and last updated 9:38 AM, Oct 14, 2020
PHOENIX — As more Arizona voters get their election ballots, more voters likely have the same question: who are all of these judges?
They are likely names you've never heard of doing jobs you don't know much about. Yet, in Maricopa County alone, 40 Superior Court judge decisions are on the ballot.
While smaller counties elect judges, in Pima, Pinal, Coconino, and Maricopa, they are appointed by the governor and you vote to retain them or not.
But since you've likely never visited their courtroom or know who they are, you may just ignore them. Many voters did just that in the Maricopa County 2016 election according to final voting results you can see here.
If you look at each race or decision, the words "under votes" appear with a total. In these decisions, it means the voter left it blank. In the presidential race, just over 19,000 voters did that. But more than 785,000 people passed on one Superior Court Judge decision. And a check of other judge contests shows similar numbers of voters just leaving them blank.
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