Perfumed and tailored for a certain brand of folksy, identity politics, Pete Buttigieg hoped to blast his way to the White House having run a community of 102,000 constituents in South Bend, Indiana. Mayor Pete was hoping for the best, though his effort did not so much stall as fall over early on before the somnambulist who eventually won both his party’s nomination and the Presidency.
With President-elect Joe Biden hoping to give the impression of full-blooded diversity in his Cabinet, Buttigieg was a natural choice for transport secretary. At least New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the US Conference of Mayors thought so. He spoke well, much like a textbook Rotarian who wishes to justify the club fee. He comes across as tutored, yet to be jaded. And there was that wonderful bonus thrown in: his sexual politics.
By Bill Galluccio
US-POLITICS-VOTE-GEORGIA
Georgia voters came out in record numbers to vote in two runoff elections for seats in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday (January 5), with more than three million people voting early. Officials estimate that 4.6 million people will cast votes, the most ever in a runoff election in the state.
The races will determine which party will have control of the Senate for the next two years. If the Democratic candidates win both races, they will create a 50-50 tie in the chamber, giving Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris the deciding vote. If the Republicans maintain their majority, it will give them the ability to block much of President-elect
While Joe Biden easily won Illinois’ electoral votes, some members of the state’s congressional delegation are planning to object to the certification of electoral votes from other states when Congress meets Wednesday to certify the results of the 2020 election.
President Donald Trump falsely claims he won the Electoral College and accuses states of running a fraudulent election, which many Republicans have agreed with.
Newly elected Congresswoman Mary Miller, R-Oakland, who replaced Republican John Shimkus, released a statement on Dec. 29 pledging to object to the Jan. 6 vote that would certify Biden as the winner of the November election.
“I promised to stand with President Trump and I will keep that promise,” Miller said. “It is my responsibility to the great people of Illinois to object to the Electoral College certification.”