Thursday, May 19, 2022

Meet Mitch McConnell's GOP goofballs: Melissa Carone debacle ends just the way you thought it would

 

Headline:  New York Times, 518/2022
Melissa Carone was supposed to be a star witness for Rudolph W. Giuliani on his election denial tour, but she is perhaps better known as a caricature on “Saturday Night Live” — a mercurial purveyor of wild conspiracy theories about fraud and miscounted ballots whom Mr. Giuliani shushed in the middle of her testimony. 
Her next move was to run for the legislature in Michigan, joining a host of election deniers across the nation who have sought public office since former President Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joseph R. Biden Jr. 
But her plans were short-circuited on Tuesday, when the Michigan Department of State disqualified Ms. Carone, 35, a former election contractor, as a Republican primary candidate for a State Senate seat outside of Detroit.
 

2/22/2022 update starts here

Welcome Guiliani 'star witness' Mellissa Carone


Deadline Detroit, 2/9/2022
Carone has said she does not yet live in the district, which represents a portion of Oakland County. After inititally telling Deadline Detroit she owned property in Lake Orion, but declining to disclose where, she later said she was shopping for a house. 
A candidate committee formed last week lists its address as a UPS location on South Baldwin Road. Its depository is in McLean, Virginia, outside Washington. District lines will be redrawn by the election. 
Original post, Jan. 22: 
Mellissa Carone, who rose to memedom last month during a Michigan legislative hearing on election fraud, is hoping to parlay her infamy into a state House seat.

2/21/2022 update starts here

Welcome Wisconsin Attorney General GOP candidate Adam Jarchow



Big fat 2020 election conspiracy liar Janel Brandtjen cheers on Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial goofball candidate Tim Ramthun.


"You're not crazy," Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen of Menomonee Falls told the gathering of supporters who have embraced the notion the 2020 election was flawed, despite recounts, audits and court rulings that determined Joe Biden won the state's presidential contest by more than 20,000 votes. 
Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a Republican who announced a run for governor on Saturday, was the reason the crowd descended on the Capitol. For months, Ramthun has led an effort to get Republicans who control the Legislature to take up a resolution he wrote to pull back Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes.



Original 2/15/2022 post, "Matthew DePerno' edition, starts here

New York Times, 2/13/2022
In conversations with senators and would-be senators, Mr. McConnell is blunt about the damage he believes Mr. Trump has done to the G.O.P., according to those who have spoken to him. Privately, he has declared he won’t let unelectable “goofballs” win Republican primaries.

 

At a recent pizza-fueled meeting with activists overlooking the ice fields of Lake Huron, Kalamazoo attorney Matthew DePerno described the top Republicans in his state as a crew of corrupt self-dealers, more interested in their own power than the Constitution. 
“We’re going 100 miles per hour off the socialist cliff. The state party wants to slow that down to go 50,” he told the crowd, after describing private conversations in which state party leaders told him that they could not support him. “I want to turn this around and go exactly in the opposite direction.”



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