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JustABozoOnThisBus

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65. How can this happen? Well, for example, District 13: ...

Mon Nov 14, 2022, 02:23 PM

Nov 2022

Seven or eight black candidates vied for the seat in the primary. Sri Thanadar also threw his hat into the ring. Votes were spread across the slate of black candidates, so Thanadar ended up winning the primary with fewer than 30% of the votes.

Adam Hollier came in second with almost 25%. If there was a runoff between the two leading candidates, Hollier would have mopped the floor with Thanadar's cheap wig and would be heading to congress in January. Runoffs don't happen in our primaries.

So in this case, there is no black representative from the 13th because there were too many qualified black candidates. Irony.

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We will not stop the gerrymandering with this court. Thus we need to gerrymander the fuck Demsrule86 Nov 2022 #45

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