A big shout out to Dennis Hof who overcame the severe handicap of being dead to win election in District 36 of the Nevada State Assembly.
District 36 sits inside Nye County, Nevada. The county’s principal city, Pahrump, is a solid hour’s drive east to Las Vegas. It is home to 36,000 Nevadans, wedged on the Nevada-California border and ominously and perhaps auspiciously, Death Valley lies nearby. Pahrump became noteworthy (at least to me) as a part-setting and general den of inequity for the television drama, Get Shorty.
Hof enjoyed his 72nd birthday celebrations three weeks ago in Pahrump in the company of porn star Ron Jeremy, and recently pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and died the following day.
Death became Dead Dennis. He not only won but won in a landslide. The obvious conclusion is the Democrat candidate, Lesia Romanov, may not have been entirely compelling. But here’s the rub — Hof, in a state of the deepest repose, was seen as a better candidate dead than alive.
The denizens of District 36 were not altogether comfortable casting a vote for a man who owned seven legal brothels.
But dead he was just fine, and the punters came out and voted for him in droves. Dead Dennis received 68 per cent of the vote. Had Still Vaguely in the Vertical Dennis run, it may have gone down to the wire.
What’s next? A dead Abe Lincoln to emerge from his tomb in Springfield Illinois? Dead Thomas Jefferson and dead George Washington to battle it out in Virginia’s sixth district for another shot at the title?
Worse things could happen.
Full column here.
Please, please, please:
Hillary Clinton will run again in 2020
Claims of a Russian conspiracy and the unfairness of the Electoral College shielded Mrs Clinton from ever truly conceding she had lost. She was robbed, she told herself, yet again. But after two years of brooding — including at book length — Mrs Clinton has come unbound. She will not allow this humiliating loss at the hands of an amateur to end the story of her career. You can expect her to run for president once again. Maybe not at first, when the legions of Senate Democrats make their announcements, but definitely by the time the primaries are in full swing.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/hillary-clinton-will-run-again-in-2020/news-story/4d55d4e3bc92bdff3dc455f301434575
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Heck I’ll vote for her in the Wisconsin primary if this occurs.
Dwight. Hills won more votes than Trump and yes she was hammered and cheated. Democracy in the US is a joke.
For Hillary to turn a winning margin into a loss shows a preternatural level of incompetence, Jean. God knows what she could do with an economy. It’s best left with the bloke named Trump who can obviously turn a negative into a positive and thus make the US great again.
Bollocks. As I predicted was likely to happen (check it out) the CIA dropped load of crap on Clintons head a week before the election.
Trump will wreck the US.
I think it was wikileaks that played a role in Hillary’s defeat.
You think! You think you think.
The market is already pricing in a recession for the US in 2020. Government Debt is Skyrocketing in the US. Those that will suffer the most are those in the gerrymandered red states. Your sycophantic nature will not allow you to see the facts. No Surprises.
Dish her up, Dwight shes as crazy as a bedbug! Goodness look at her last campaign having to be helped into Card then 2 hours later appearing on the street all “juiced up”.
Hilary is the gift that keeps on giving to Donald. Cheers
I hope she selects Mook and Podesta to run her campaign again. I loved Groundhog Day.
Gulp, and The Sound of Music too?
I’d be very surprised if H Clinton ran again in 2020.
“Cannon Fodder” for my Donald, Milton. The US Democrats remind me so much of the Australian Greens. Cheers
Me too Milton….I think everyone is getting themselves worked up unnecessarily about this. I still don’t like what’s going on over there though…..so much so, we only recently knocked back a job offer over there. Trouble is next time an offer like that comes through I will have lost all interest in standing up in a classroom full of disinterested student who don’t even know who the President is. Probably not a bad thing….
Well that would have been a big change from you previous locations, Penny. Probably an insight into what we don’t pick up from the media. Maybe less polarised than it’s made out to be, but it’s a bloody big place with a whole lot of different ‘types’. Still, i don’t think a classroom would be my first choice of workplace in the US!!
little milton You are perfectly suited to janitorial work you can clean up your own verbal diarrhea. No Surprises. Fair dinkum.
The lights are out and no ones at home for the Lib/Nat Federal Government of Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison, Mr. Insider as some really bad Poll figures rear their ugly heads for ScoMo.
Barring a miracle we will have Bill Shorten as PM come the Election, one needs quite some “fortifying” with that thought!
https://tinyurl.com/ych9w3hy
Good “buds” meet in France, Mr. Insider as this super quick clip shows Vlad meeting up with Donald and giving Donald the “thumbs up”.
Of course, he shook the delightful Melania’s hand too, his face lighting up as he did so, as would mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mkdQSMrTwg
I was just wondering if anyone remembers the old 1967 Warner Brothers movie – “Cool Hand Luke”?
Yes, and I remember a song “desperado.”
Of course. Wonderful film. Paul Newman vs Strother Martin, “i’m shaking it boss’
Johnno
Oh, my bad. Though I have been living in Sydney for a year, I have only slightly more knowledge and interest in NSW politics, than anyone from NSW has in Western Australian politics. Make that anyone on the east coast.
Johnno
Western where?
This pretty much makes clear what I was thinking the other day, without diminishing the good intentions of Trolley Man (and good luck to him on his windfall).
https://www.smh.com.au/national/brave-he-may-be-but-trolley-man-should-not-be-a-model-20181112-p50fgq.html
So just stand back and let the guy stab people? Real men take their chances Milton.
What people? The people there were 2 armed policemen doing their job.
You were talking generally, don’t come the slippery eel with me bedbug.
I couldn’t have been more specific. Have a look at the video clips of the incident.
Social lubrication Milton, Vlad has made it perfectly clear he thinks Trump is a half wit.
Jack, you may have noticed a theme that David Simon (of The Wire, etc, @AoDespair) is running on the aftermath of a “visit” made by activists to the private home of Tucker Carlson.
For example
Two of my friends were murdered in their newsroom after the President of the United States declared journalists in general to be enemies of the state. Try to imagine the targeting that can result if home visits are normalized for purposes of political action. Better? Or worse?
He’s pretty pungent at times, but on this he is dead right.
Another woman attacked walking through Lighthouse Park (Liverpool) at 11:55pm. I know I will get caned for this but why do dumb women walk through dark parks in the middle of the nite.?When I was 16 my GFriend would not let me take her home to Liverpool…why? She said “Gangs will be waiting for you”. They never touched the girls in those days they just liked to beat up the boyfriends-jealous she used to say! So many women have been killed in Sydney and Melbourne in the last 2 years walking home from clubs, in parks in the early AM. Some women need a lobotomy…and PLEASE don’t tell me it is a woman’s right to walk anywhere at any time dressed any way they like. I would not even walk in those places late at night. To make it worse the women are often scantily dressed showing all of their bits.
These days I’d actually agree with you Bassman.
Our right to “walk anywhere at any time” has had to give way to common-sense in the name of safety. It is what it is. Sad cafe.
Agree Bassy. A really stupid thing to do.
It was actually more dangerous nearly at any other time in modern history than it is now. Australia and America in fact has never been safer for women.
One for the sad, eager to please, needy little coal shills.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/clean-king-coal-emperor-no-clothes-80190/
Love Coal, Mr. Baptiste and here in QLD we have many fine working Coal-Fired Power Stations, plus others of the Renewables too. Such an advanced State we are so much so that PM Morrison just spent 4 sunny days here waxing lyrical about how great we are, he said so!
Need more proof than that fellow, don’t think so. Cheers P.S. My Donald a big supporter of Coal too.
So! We’ll mark you down as a sad, eager to please , needy little coal shill eh Henry?
And PM Morrison p*****d in your pocket for four days. And you liked it. Yep, theres your proof right there.
A shout out if I may, Mr. Insider to a Dinkum Aussie, Tim Fischer who is battling Leukemia. Am sure we all wish Tim well. He is also a fabulous Dad to his Autistic Son Harrison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Fischer