Wisconsin Senate Candidate Says Old People Shouldn't Get To Vote Because They're Almost Dead. (Hovde-R) [View all]

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wisconsin-senate-candidate-says-old-people-shouldn-t-get-to-vote-because-they-re-almost-dead/ar-BB1mNAtJ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=7263498555864169b618f03955dd6f32&ei=13

I rec reading the article in the above link but I'll post a few snips from it.

Rethug senate candidate Eric Hovde, a carpetbagging bank owner from California has been parachuted into Wisconsin to run against incumbent Sen Tammy Baldwin-D.

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One of the only reasons we have been partially saved from uniform Republican government over the past two decades is the fact that serious whackadoos have been winning GOP Senate primaries. They've felt compelled to assure us that they are not witches, and talked about paying your medical bills with chickens. Last time around, they came up with the comically terrible Dr. Oz and the terribly comic Herschel Walker. In New Hampshire, Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan was thought to be vulnerable, but the Republican primary coughed up Don Bolduc, a retired general who believed that there were litter boxes in public school classrooms. Hassan won from here to there. In the aftermath, the Republicans announced that they would be vetting their candidates with more care in 2024, when the Senate map seemed tilted in their favor.

Good luck with that. There were soup kitchens in the Depression that did a better job vetting their clientele.

This time, it seems, the GOP has settled on candidates who are not quite as outwardly bananas as Christine O'Donnell or poor old Herschel. But scratch off a little bit of the veneer, however, and the inner wingnut and/or incompetent shines right through. Take, for example, Eric Hovde, the California gozillionnaire whom the Wisconsin Republicans parachuted in to take on incumbent Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin. On the surface, Hovde looked ideal—young, handsome, and rich, and the whole carpetbagger thing doesn't seem to bite anywhere as hard as it once did. Unless, of course, the candidate turns out to be such a klutz that carpetbagging becomes just another example of the candidate's inability to tell his arse from his elbow. So meet Eric Hovde. He really likes you, Meemaw. He just doesn't think you should vote. From Wisconsin Public Radio:

“Well, if you’re in a nursing home, you only have five, six months life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is at a point to vote, and you had … adult children showing up and saying, ‘Who voted for my 85- or 90-year-old father or mother?’” Hovde said.

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He also goes on saying he would support a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act and supports slashing SS benefits and increasing the retirement age to 72 in order to receive benefits.

Fellow Democrats, we really need to make this an issue during campaign season, starting now!

Hovde is this election cycle's version of Herschel Walker, Dr Oz, and Christine O'donnell all wrapped into one carpetbagging psychopath.

Let's keep on reminding elderly voters about him until election day.

Go Sen Tammy Baldwin!!!!