UT-04

UT-04

Saturday, August 8th, 2020

The Good Guy

Ben McAdams

Ben McAdams knows how to win as a Democrat in Utah, and that ain’t nothin’, because this one was a squeaker last time. And he’s been the Blue Dog he promised to be, earning accolades for his bipartisanship, but look at what you get from a “conservative” Democrat: look at Ben’s work on suicide prevention and immigration, his impeachment vote, heck, look at the whole dang platform! It’s moderate vs. maniac in Salt Lake City!

Utah

UT-04

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The Bad Guy

Burgess Owens

Burgess Owens is a former NFL player turned manic culture warrior, throwing tantrums about antifa and “radical left” anthem-kneelers, but don’t worry, he’s also a dutiful Trump drone who hangs out with the absolute lunatics of the QAnon movement. Of course, Burgess believes the middle of a pandemic is a jolly good time to steal health care from thousands of his potential constituents. Ultimately, just another wingnut idiot who says stupid shit on TV.

MN-01

MN-01

Saturday, August 8th, 2020

The Good Guy

Dan Feehan

Dan Feehan is an Iraq veteran (he earned the Bronze Star) who served as a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under Obama, but he still puts his teaching experience on equal footing with his showier credentials, because he takes the idea of “service” seriously. Feehan knows his district’s unique needs, and came within a hair of winning in 2018. This one’s like choosing between the ribeye at Gibsons & a dumpster full of diapers.

Minnesota

MN-01

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The Bad Guy

Jim Hagedorn

Jim Hagedorn was already known as an unusually bigoted and misogynistic sack of shit, even by the standards of Trump’s GOP, and then the Black Lives Matter protests sent him over the edge into full white nationalism. Hagedorn hates poor people as much as he hates black people, but there’s nothing he hates as much as Minnesotans who believe they have a right to health care. Losing elections is an old hobby of Jim’s, and it’s time to reacquaint him with that sensation.

FL-26

FL-26

Saturday, August 8th, 2020

The Good Gal

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, the first South American immigrant to serve in Congress, is about two things: hard work and service. She brings valuable experience from the nonprofit sector to the struggle against climate change (crucial for her South Florida district), and a passion born of personal tragedy to the fight for gun control. And lord knows Debbie’s steady leadership on the Congressional Coronavirus Task Force stands in sharp contrast to her opponent’s deadly incompetence.

Florida

FL-26

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The Bad Guy

Carlos Giménez

Carlos Giménez, as Mayor of Miami-Dade County, followed the disastrous Trump/DeSantis/Grim Reaper coronavirus playbook, perhaps assuming voters would elevate him to higher office if only to get him to stop killing them. Also, since Giménez is so corrupt he has a legit monorail scandal on his record, it shouldn’t surprise you to learn he’s waving fistfuls of CARES Act funding around under a GET YER BRIBES HERE sign. Just another servile Trump sellout lookin’ to crawl into the swamp.

Montana

Montana

Saturday, August 8th, 2020

The Good Guy

Steve Bullock

Steve Bullock knows how to win in Montana as a Democrat, he’s been doing it since 2008. A popular two-term Governor, he’s certainly our best possible recruit for this race. 

Bullock is a Get Shit Done Democrat, my favorite kind. He worked with Montana’s Republican legislature to expand Medicaid under the ACA, and he’s enacted some of the strongest campaign finance regulations you’ll find in America. 

Actually, Steve’s been going after Citizens United since his days as Montana’s attorney general, and we could certainly use his passion, experience, and leadership on the national level in that very important fight. 

Shit, Bullock is a leader even among leaders, a former chair of the National Governors Association. A public lands champion. A presidential candidate for an eyeblink.

On issues from gun control to health care to the minimum wage, Governor Bullock would obviously be an enormous upgrade over the yahoo they’ve got in there now. Let’s make this happen. 

Montana

Montana

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The Bad Guy

Steve Daines

Part doormat, part paperweight, Steve Daines is a replacement-level Senator, another wealthy white dude without a single original thought in his head, dutifully transcribing Rush Limbaugh monologues into legislation, just like the Koch family pays him to. 

He’s not even one of the Senators anybody EXPECTS to stand up to Donald Trump; he’s quietly enabled every crime and atrocity, from extorting our allies to unleashing the U.S. military on peaceful protesters. Like most of his GOP colleagues, he’s abandoned principle after principle in service to his Turd Emperor, and he now stands revealed as the feckless coward he always was. 

Of course, Steve is pals with journalist-assaulting thug/gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte, so maybe’s he just an all-around shitty judge of character. 

In an era that desperately needs leadership, Steve Daines has offered only noodle-spined subservience. If the dude’s gonna be a rubber stamp, just fucking buy a rubber stamp and save the taxpayers the cost of a Senator’s salary. If Montana wants a Grade A all-American LEADER working for their interests in Washington, there’s only one choice in SteveBowl 2020. 

TX-21

TX-21

Saturday, August 8th, 2020

The Good Gal

Wendy Davis

Wendy Davis was working to turn Texas blue before it was cool, and when it was way, way harder. With her famous 11-hour filibuster for abortion rights on the floor of the Texas Senate, she reminded us to fight like hell, everywhere and all the time. She understands working class folks’ struggle from experience. She listens and she grows and she fights. And check out this platform!

Texas

TX-21

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The Bad Guy

Chip Roy

Chip Roy used to be Ted Cruz’s chief of staff, and that’s probably enough to make my case, but here are some other ways he sucks, if you need ‘em: he held up a disaster relief bill in one of his wingnut tantrums, he has wet, sticky feelings about drug company profits, and he’s had lots of crazy, racist, dishonest stuff to say about the pandemic. Roy sucks so hard he almost lost this seat in 2018 when nobody really thought it was in play. I’m sure he’ll be happier back on the Zodiac Killer’s staff anyway.

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