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Is Donald Trump’s U.S. Senate Pick in South Carolina Eligible to Run?
Darline Graham Nordone’s ballot crisis looms large ahead of special primary election…
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The new GOP rule to close the party’s primary elections was a mistake. Governor McMaster was correct in his assessment that closed party primaries don’t serve the long term interests of the GOP. That’s especially true by limiting the field to candidates who“participated in two of the last three party primaries”. Such a retrospective rule is especially unfair to Nordone who should have every right to run for her late brother’s Senate seat. The GOPs shortsighted requirement will now potentially disqualify Senator Graham’s own sister who now has President Trump’s “full and unconditional endorsement”. This new GOP rule also leaves conservative independent voters homeless.
It doesn’t make any difference, every GQP candidate’s head is so far up Trump’s ass they are licking his tonsils.
The humiliation isn’t Trump’s, he wins no matter what. The humiliation is for all these candidates who have to play along with this demented delusional felon-in-chief and pretend things like high gas prices and grocery costs are not singlehandedly caused by Big Daddy.
A runoff is just an extra situational step in a primary. Voting in a runoff is by definition a vote in that process. My concern is that we really have no clue what her politics are, and that’s too much of a risk for a six- year term. How many of us have siblings with drastically different political views than ourselves? Being Graham’s sister, on its face means nothing, predicatively speaking.
Most knew what the late senators politics were and yet chose to send him back over and over. The voting public is truly stupid
Yeah fair point…I try not to say “stupid” though – it’s more just complacency coupled with the fact that SC voters know the power of long-term incumbency in the Senate, where seniority is everything. We were at a political power zenith in the Senate in the late 1990s/early 2000s with Hollingsworth on the “D” side and Thurmond on the “R” side. It’s one of the main reasons we didn’t really lose any of our military bases when many dozens of them were getting closed – in fact they were being enlarged to absorb the people and operations from the closed bases.
Respectfully, it’s “Hollings,” not “Hollingsworth,” unless you added the “worth” for some sarcastic purpose I did not discern.
Otherwise, and not to be alarmist, from published reports, U.S. Senator Darline Graham Nordone must have entered her 60s and shares half her brother’s genes. Though her photos do not reveal excessive obesity, she could benefit from weight reduction, smoking cessation (if she is or was a smoker), abstinence (if she is or was a drinker), a heart health diet, and at least one echo of her heart and arteries and one CT-angiogram with calcium scoring, and whatever medical advice is given to her based on those tests.
The relative protection from heart disease women enjoy compared to men decrease or diminish after menaupose.
Other-otherwise, whatever the distant future holds for her politically, U.S. Senator Darline Graham Nordone can, God willing (and FITS permitting this comment of mine or an open letter to the newly-seated senator) accomplish much in the coming 6 months.
She needs to look at the federal recusal statutes for judges, which statutes set degrees of relationships according to antiquates parentellic inheritance laws, not according to modern medical genetics. I would happily explain to her, in terms a non-physician can understand, that current federal law ERRONEOUSLY sets a federal jurist’s first cousin as a fourth degree relative when biological first cousins share with the jurist the same percentage of genes that great grandchildren or great grandparents, who are classified as third degree, share with the jurist.
Modernizing that statute, and aligning it with GINA would be a much-needed, very feasible, bi-partisan issue which will bring more fairness to all federal courts, and would likely be emulated by state courts.
Another very feasible, medically useful issue, and likely to receive bi-partisan support, is requiring all prisons to provide female inmates who just delivered with facilities to breast-feed the baby or breast pumps with secure transportation of the mother’s milk to the baby outside the incarceration facility.
The babies committed no crimes and should not be punished by denial of mother’s milk. Breast is best.
Not to be alarmist, but from published reports, U.S. Senator Darline Graham Nordone must have entered her 60s and shares half her brother’s genes. Though her photos do not reveal excessive obesity, she could benefit from weight reduction, smoking cessation (if she is or was a smoker), abstinence (if she is or was a drinker), a heart health diet, and at least one echo of her heart and arteries and one CT-angiogram with calcium scoring, and whatever medical advice is given to her based on those tests.
The relative protection from heart disease women enjoy compared to men decrease or diminish after menaupose.
Otherwise, whatever the distant future holds for her politically, U.S. Senator Darline Graham Nordone can, God willing (and FITS permitting this comment of mine or an open letter to the newly-seated senator) accomplish much in the coming 6 months.
She needs to look at the federal recusal statutes for judges, which statutes set degrees of relationships according to antiquates parentellic inheritance laws, not according to modern medical genetics. I would happily explain to her, in terms a non-physician can understand, that current federal law ERRONEOUSLY sets a federal jurist’s first cousin as a fourth degree relative when biological first cousins share with the jurist the same percentage of genes that great grandchildren or great grandparents, who are classified as third degree, share with the jurist.
Modernizing that statute, and aligning it with GINA would be a much-needed, very feasible, bi-partisan issue which will bring more fairness to all federal courts, and would likely be emulated by state courts.
Another very feasible, medically useful issue, and likely to receive bi-partisan support, is requiring all prisons to provide female inmates who just delivered with facilities to breast-feed the baby or breast pumps with secure transportation of the mother’s milk to the baby outside the incarceration facility.
The babies committed no crimes and should not be punished by denial of mother’s milk. Breast is best.
“menopause,” not “menaupose”; and “antiquated,” not “antiquates.”
Faint hands and blurry eyes produce typos.