Geoff Young (D-KY6) won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. He is running for the US House of Representatives in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District (which includes Lexington) against the incumbent Republican, Andy Barr, (a member of the House Financial Services and Foreign Affairs Committees).
Geoff Young on the Issues
- Abolish the CIA
- Get Big Money out of politics
- Abolish AFRICOM
- Help prevent a nuclear war
- We need Medicare-for-All
- End Corruption
- Abortion: I'm totally for Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood. Andy Barr & the GOP are 100% wrong & immoral.
- Legalize cannabis
- Energy & the environment
Long story short, after talking to the guy he's essentially got all of our positions without having all our terminally online brainworms. I'd say if you're in Kentucky country or you got some cash to spare to donate - we have an honest to god fellow traveler (that is to say someone that's aligned with our politics but isn't a political radical) that could use some help spreading his message of anti-imperialism to the Kentucky people and if possible as a bonus - win.
And I mean this in the "Even if he's got no shot to win, trying to spread his anti-war message of America's fuckery in trying to siege Russia and having it backfire in the electoral theater to as many people as possible will help undermine the legitimacy of the state in the minds of the people."
He's said he's running for the House because he views it as 'the peoples house" and hopes to start pushing in the general consciousness of the American people the illegitimacy of the Judicial branch, the aristocratic Senate, and restraining the presidency and the ABC agencies.
Kentucky folks, all I gotta say is screw you for having a cool candidate.
Also he just told me he wants to lead impeachment talks on Biden for becoming an official co-belligerant with the Ukraine in a proxy war on Russia, in driving U.S navy ships illegally in PRC waters trying to provoke a military response, and for continuing the illegal sanctions on Cuba. fuckin based
i assume hes specifically contrasting it to the senate. but idk maybe he's patriotism brained in some way or another
sounds pretty cool as far as electoralists go
Yeah to me it sounds he's being honest about the house's place in the bicameral legislature. Originally senators weren't even elected, so the house was the only representation of the (white male landowning) people's will. Of course, that makes it the lower of the two legislative bodies. In the UK they're even more obvious about it, with the House of Lords and the House of Commons, although from what I can gather from cursory googling the Lords have much less power than the Senate.
House of Lords and Canadian Senate are basically the same thing: unelected political favour posts that do absolutely nothing.
The UK has more of a hereditary thing going for it, and the Canadian one is just straight up party loyalists. It's around the same political favour needed as being appointed diplomat to somewhere tropical but unimportant.
I don't think the Canadian one ever blocked a bill. Conservative Stephen Harper (prime minister for a while in mid 2000s to early 2010s) when he was young campaigned on getting rid of our Senate but ended up using it to reward long-time party members like every single other prime minister.
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That's pretty funny, because there was a constitutional amendment to force a retirement age of 75 for senators in the 1960s. So they definitely could've changed it if they did the age change.
They changed the age probably because Desaulles was appointed at 80, died as a senator at 103 in the 1930s, and only spoke on record twice in 23 years as a senator. Once to thank people for wishing him a happy 100th, and once to deny that his appointment was due to corruption.