{"id":175875,"date":"2020-11-04T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/04\/there-have-have-been-some-other-races-you-know\/"},"modified":"2020-11-04T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T00:25:00","slug":"there-have-have-been-some-other-races-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/04\/there-have-have-been-some-other-races-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"There Have Have Been Some Other Races, You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Good: <\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/11\/03\/cincinnati-election-results-mcguffey-hoffbauer-hamilton-county-sheriff\/6045439002\/\">Charmaine McGuffey beat incumbent Bruce Hoffbauer for Hamilton County sheriff in Ohio<\/a>. This is a big deal because Hoffbauer fired her for being gay.<\/li>\n<li>Incumbent Jackie Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/voters-oust-da-who-led-ahmaud-arbery-investigation\/7B3CN4MCWVGIFM3E3IQJFA7WYY\/\">was defeated as&nbsp; Glynn County District Attorney<\/a>  by Keith Higgins.&nbsp; Johnson was notorious for attempting to bury the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery by a former employee of hers.<\/li>\n<li>California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-california-proposition-17-give-vote-to-felons-on-parole.html\">proposition 17, giving the vote to parolees<\/a> won.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>California proposition 20, making a number of misdemeanors felonies lost.<\/li>\n<li>California proposition 24, expanding data privacy won.<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts question 1, expanding the right to repair for independent shops and individuals won.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Minimum wage hikes and marijuana legalization generally won.<\/li>\n<li>Colorado proposition 113, allocating electors on the basis of the national popular vote, won.<\/li>\n<li>Colorado proposition 115, restricting abortions, lost.<\/li>\n<li>Colorado proposition 118, paid family and medical leave, won. <\/li>\n<li>Virginia question 1, establishing a non-partisan redistricting commission won.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Bad:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>California proposition 21, expanding rent control lost.<\/li>\n<li>California proposition 15, allowing for higher property taxes of businesses lost. (A partial repeal of the disastrous proposition 13)<\/li>\n<li>Louisiana amendment 1, removing the right to an abortion won.<\/li>\n<li>Illinois rejected a constitutional amendment allowing for a progressive income tax.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Ugly:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>California proposition 22, Uber and Lyft bought themselves an election so that they can continue mistreat their employees.<\/li>\n<li>Florida amendment 1, which is intended to foster bogus citizenship challenges against voters, won.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Good: Charmaine McGuffey beat incumbent Bruce Hoffbauer for Hamilton County sheriff in Ohio. This is a big deal because Hoffbauer fired her for being gay. Incumbent Jackie Johnson was defeated as&nbsp; Glynn County District Attorney by Keith Higgins.&nbsp; Johnson was notorious for attempting to bury the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery by a former employee &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,641,374],"class_list":["post-175875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-plebiscite","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}