Poll of the Day > Democrat makes HISTORY as the first TRANSGENDER Candidate for Governor!!!

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62 y/o Christine Hallquist became the first transgender candidate to be nominated for Governor in a state as she'll face off with Republican incumbent, Phil Scott who survived a bitter backlash from his base over gun restrictions he supported!!

Phil defeted Keith Stern in his quest for a second term as he got over 65% of the vote.

Christine won the Democrat primary with 25,000+ votes, more than double her next challenger James Ehlers, an environmentalist with 12,000 votes.

14 y/o Ethan Sonneborn made headlines recently for being the only youngster in the primary who entered as a progressive with real ideas of change and came in last with an impressive 4400 votes!!

Scott said it was a lot closer than he anticipated based on his actions on guns but that people still supported him because of the progress he made

Christine, a utility executive said her focus is on improving the state's economy and while she acknowledged the symbolism of a transgender candidate being nominaed, she doesn't want people to look at her status as a reason to vote for her but what ideas she brings to thet able and she demonstrated that through her work in civil rights.

She's a married grandmother to a woman who supports a 15 minimum wage, overdose prevention sites and paid family leave insurance. While she supports an AR-15 ban, it's not high on her priority list as governor as well.

Would you ever NOT vote for someone because they were transgender?

Christine -

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Phil - Republican

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I would vote for somebody who has the qualifications, and the fewest skeletons in their ninety square foot walk-in closet. I don't vote for labels. Do what you want to do, so long as it doesn't harm anybody else, and perform your duties well, and you're okay in my book.

I would never support anybody whose goal right out of the gate is to restrict the 2nd Amendment. The majority of firearm deaths in America are suicides, 90% of those being men. Between 60 and 70%, according to FBI and CDC statistics, but I haven't checked the data from the past three years. A small percentage is "accidents" that don't get declared to be suicides, but that's mainly people being willfully careless. The larger remaining portion is plain murder, with around 90% of those being with handguns, not "muh AK-16 deadly assault ghost gun with high capacity murderclips". Of those murders, the majority of those tend to be gang-related, and not "gang sprays wrong house on wrong block and murders child", either. So, how do we solve the problem?
Find out why men are committing suicide, and work to deal with those issues. Provide counseling, schooling, vocational training, and other programs to help those in need, so they don't see death as the only option.
https://www.womenspost.ca/owner-of-shelter-for-abused-men-and-children-commits-suicide-after-financial-ruin-ridicule/
Oops, never mind.
Well, ignoring the men who kill themselves, what else can we do?
Ah, we can work to motivate people to do well in school, to improve themselves, and to get a career in a field that will help not only the worker, but also his or her family, and neighborhood. But no, doing well in school is not "street". You'll get yourself murdered, trying to be the nail that sticks up. Have a job, own your home, and own your vehicle? Yeah, that's not allowed. Maybe crack down on gangs, break them up, and prevent them from rising at all? Well, that's dangerous, and potentially racist. Never mind. Just focus on the good parts of town.
Well, the smallest section of gun deaths, how can we fix that? By teaching people about safe handling and operation of firearms, so that they don't see a gun as a magic kill stick? Take the mystery out of them so that they're just some mundane thing that shouldn't be played with? No, we can't be doing that. We have to save JUST ONE LIFE by taking away all of the scary black rifles.

Also I'm just as poor now as I was when Minimum Wage was $4. Can't afford to buy even a crackhouse, can't get a car with less than 100k miles on it. Tell me how spiking the base rate for every job in the country up to $15 is going to make things better. How is that not going to quadruple the price of a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, or a bag of carrots? Hundreds of thousands of people work in the massive chains that produce and transport these items. Are companies going to just eat the loss in profit to pay floor-sweepers more than I made working for a telecom? No, they'll pass on the expenses to the consumer, and if every company doesn't do it at the same time, the first one to do so will be the first one to go out of business. Larger companies could afford to wait, while the smaller companies would be immediately ruined. Take THAT, small business!
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I don't vote but if I did the person been trans wouldn't matter to me. What matters is what they stand for.
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mrduckbear posted...

14 y/o Ethan Sonneborn made headlines recently for being the only youngster in the primary who entered as a progressive with real ideas of change and came in last with an impressive 4400 votes!!

More like a depressing 4,400, since people didn't bother to learn anything about the candidate.
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As a politician, their job is to not screw up any worse than the people already fumbling around in office. As long as their lifestyle (no matter what it is) doesn't interfere with that and they aren't a hypocrite (family values type that cheats etc.) then carry on.
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What does gender identity have to do with politics, anyway?
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