Today is Alexa’s birthday: She’s five. But everyone only wants to talk about how much money her dad spent in Seattle’s election. Rude.
Tim Eyman is a sub for lawsuits: And lucky him, more are coming.
Seattle too: pic.twitter.com/DR28laJZSl
— Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) November 7, 2019
Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, told impeachment investigators there was direct quid pro quo: He made the statement during private testimony last month, but his words became public today. Taylor said Rudy Giuliani was the “originator” of the quid pro quo plan. Giuliani tweeted that this new testimony was “a frame-up and hoax.” Read the full transcript here.
The evidence, when revealed fully, will show that this present farce is as much a frame-up and hoax as Russian collusion, maybe worse, and will prove the President is innocent.
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 6, 2019
After the first round of ballot drops, infamous KIRO Radio host Dori Monson had “mixed feelings” about Sawant seemingly losing: “As you know, very few people have generated the kinds of soundbites that fuel a talk show host like Kshama Sawant. It was fun listening to her screeching for the past six years. And now her reign could be coming to an end in Seattle,” he joked. Reminds me of something Rich Smith wrote:
If these Republicans were good at politics, they would be pumping as much money as possible into Sawant’s campaign. Republicans have been blaming Sawant for problems in Spokane since she first took office, and now they’re just going to let her go? Who will they use to scare away centrists in Kirkland if she loses? Who are they going to use as an excuse not to catch up to California and Oregon on statewide rent control legislation? Oh wait, that’s not the Republicans. That’s Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle.
Speaking of ballot drops: Here are today’s returns. Many races won’t be settled until at least Friday. Counting votes takes time, people!
Is it time to count Sawant out? King County Elections has counted 35,291 returned ballots from District 3 as of today, but the county has only reported 23,929 votes so far. That means there’s 11,362 votes to be counted—and only 1,925 separate Sawant from Orion.
— The Stranger 🗞 (@TheStranger) November 7, 2019
A good amount of Seattle votes have yet to be counted: So hold onto your butts.
Our estimate is about 55% of Seattle’s results are reflected as of today’s results posting based on the amount of late returns from drop boxes. Seattle represents about 40% of the ballots we have received thus far.
— King Co Elections (@kcelections) November 7, 2019
Bill Gates suggests Warren isn’t “open-minded”: because she probably wouldn’t “be willing to sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money.” He made the comments today at the New York Times DealBook conference. He also said he made a “mistake in judgement” by meeting Jeffrey Epstein and disagrees “with people who think a corporation should sit there and do fact-checking against that thing,” in reference to political advertising on Facebook. He also said “Jeff [Bezos] likes artificial planets.” LOL.
Op! A clapback:
I’m always happy to meet with people, even if we have different views. @BillGates, if we get the chance, I’d love to explain exactly how much you’d pay under my wealth tax. (I promise it’s not $100 billion.) https://t.co/m6G20hDNaV
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 7, 2019
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper never dated: They’re actors. Breaking news.
.@ladygaga on those #BradleyCooper rumors: “As a performer and as an actress, of course we wanted people to believe that we were in love. And we wanted people to feel that love at the Oscars. It was orchestrated as a performance.” https://t.co/sURg8xuqis pic.twitter.com/M3nHQqWnOi
— ELLE Magazine (US) (@ELLEmagazine) November 6, 2019
Trouble in the Twitter kingdom: Two former Twitter employees have been charged by the Justice Department for “exploiting their access to the company’s internal systems to help Saudi Arabia,” writes the New York Times. This is the “first time federal prosecutors have publicly accused the kingdom of running agents in the United States,” writes the Washington Post.
Jeff Sessions is expected to run for the Alabama Senate: I’m sure the KKK is thrilled.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley endorses Elizabeth Warren: which is expected, because they’re both from the same state, Massachusetts. Other members of “the Squad,” AOC and Ilhan Omar, have backed Bernie.
T.I., the rapper of “Whatever You Like” and actor best known for starring in ATL, checks his daughter’s hymen on the reg: Well, a gynecologist does, but that gynecologist reports back to T.I., which is… something else. He said in a podcast interview that aired yesterday that he makes sure his daughter’s hymen is in tact… yikes. What about butt stuff? The passage:
“Not only have we had the conversation — we have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen,” T.I. said. “Yes, I go with her.”
He then mentioned that after her 16th birthday party, he “put a sticky note on the door: ‘Gyno. Tomorrow. 9:30.'”
Imagine being an 18 yr old girl and having hundreds potentially thousands of strange adults discussing your hymen as a hot topic.
. It being a practice is disturbing enough, his decision to gleefully share it publicly adds some other other disturbing dimensions
— Chaos Agent Of Color (@daniecal) November 6, 2019
