Thursday, December 07, 2017

Litmus test: It's blue if it says "Single Payer."

click to enlarge and read "single payer," or go to this link

HD 35A. My district. Andy getting an early start. That above screen capture, to me, is worth 900 of these. However, with the nurses endorsing I have trust. The main complaint, I'd have capitalized Single Payer, but stylistically that might be wrong (even though emphatically 100% correct, lower case or not).

Andy has been consistently more of a moderate than me, but that likely puts him more in tune with the mood of the district. Unlike others, Andy seems not at all, in any way whatsoever, nor to any extent, joined to Eric Lucero at the reptilian brainstem.

(Does that characterization require naming names, or is it mainly generic in nature?)

Our Revolution has yet to touch CD6 or any major town or neighborhood in Congressional District Six. If an Our Revolution HD 35A candidate were to file it would merit attention, and a primary would not be overly harmful in product differentiation.

However, one bottom line - Andy as I've seen him, over a few election cycles, does not tout divisive issues having no chance of passage into law, (but put into the hopper nonetheless just to engender mischief and to gain rote attention and rabid approval among a distinct minority of Minnesota's population).

Andy is mature that way. Sagacious. Not an ineffective troglodyte.

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UPDATE: Dead links. Andy emailed of his candidacy, with my copy of the apparently generic email having a website link (with tracking code included):

https://vote-for-andy.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=92fca3f1521ec81f6c24c7212&id=7db753980a&e=b7814c7e21

Absent tracking code, readers are urged to try:

https://www.vote-for-andy.com/

At the time of the original post, the page had sub-pages, which may have been left over from the 2016 campaign, with a "dead link" error in posting resulting. The belief here is that before caucusing some of the 2016 endorsements would not apply unless and until after caucusing and/or primary selects for certain an HD 35A candidate for the 2018 contest.

The belief here is also that Andy, an experienced candidate, likely will emerge as the DFL's HD 35A candidate once things reach a point where each of the two parties has made its commitment going forward, (by some point in time, next year).

To any extent confusion accompanied posting above, readers have my apology.

Interesting developments on the GOP side regarding that party's incumbent in HD 35A (which have been made public by the date of this update - 12/12/2017) suggest HD 35A incumbency shall not be a 2018 factor. Hence, readers are strongly urged to keep Andy's site bookmarked so that as time passes his updating will be helpful to the voter decision-making process. Nonetheless, everyone should note - the headline placed on this post remains relevant and fully applicable, as policy here at Developers are Crabgrass.