Funny enough, this is the only race I'm unhappy with. Shapiro was almost never at any risk of losing, but he's almost certainly going to drag this state further down into the crapper. His favorite talking point in his ads was "I sued the Catholic Church for piles of money". That does not bode well for his priorities as governor.
Don't know anything about the guy or why he sued, but I reckon I'd probably make a bit of a song and dance about it if I sued an organization that persistently protected paedophiles.
I mean, if you're pro-paedo (as unfortunately the Catholic church has been for far too long (I was raised Catholic)) then I definitely would be terrible for you, regardless of all my other governor failings.
The Pennsylvania Catholic Church covered up sexual abuse of >1,000 children, perpetrated by >300 priests.
What would 'Democratic excess' look like, out of interest? Modest regulation?
Which positions? Like, I could see what issues are deemed worthy of what attention in that booklet being used as a form of political advertising for those currently in office. Also, several hundred million pages is a lot of dead trees for something that will be used once and discarded.
Not generally. Most can get all the basic info with a simple search though.
We get a brief synopsis of what the ballot measure is supposed to do followed by whatever the actual legal text and detail is. For example:
For levies there's a quick synopsis that it's a levy for the schools/libraries/whatever, followed by a description of what that levy is supposed to fund, followed by the financial details.
That's...a thing. My state just labels them to vote FOR or AGAINST the amendment/proposal/levy/etc.
None of this would be surprising - midterms historically push against whichever party holds the presidency, being a Trump candidate drives Dem turnout, and no shit the parties are out of touch - there's a reason "not being a politician" was used as a selling point for Trump. As for Democrats being useless, of course they are - there's the party that does shit the big donors want and the party that claims to oppose them but is intentionally ineffective because they are paid by the same donors.
Everyone knows that meth and prescription opioids are far more popular than crack among the white trash set, and the wealthy prefer powder cocaine.
Those numbers are deceptive. Extremely deceptive. They include a very broad range of actions. Some of those actions are rape and sexual abuse of minors, actions certainly deserving of jail time, nearly all of which resulted in defrocking and jail time. A much larger category is priests who had consensual sex with 16-18 year olds (mostly boys), which isn't statutory rape here, wasn't sexual assault in any sense in the 70s when most of these events occurred, isn't something you can even consider prosecuting without the victim agreeing to, and is a type of relationship that users on this forum actively defend in any other context. And in many of those cases, the Church declined to out the priest and boys, and moved the priest to a position that wouldn't be working with youth anymore.
...I don't know about where you are, but where I am, if an adult is in a position of authority and responsibility over a 16-year-old and has sex with them, that's still considered grooming and abuse.
People who are under your supervision and authority are not appropriate lovers.
Where I live, age of consent is 16, except in cases like that, where it's 18, because obviously.
It's just that standing up for paedophiles is such a strange thing to do. I've never understood how Catholics have been able to square that circle of an omnipotent god and child abuse carried out in his name. But we can leave them to their fucked up hypocritical fake morality I suppose.
One of those areas where actions would have spoken louder than words.
Well, it is very popular. Everyone hates them, when things are vague and nebulous, mention specific people or institutions and lots of people behave very differently about the topic.
I'd certainly look twice at a candidate who sues an organization which regularly hides sex offenders, basically launders money, declares itself exempt from taxes and tries to corrupt politicians.
Damn, that gif is so high quality, where'd you get it?Well, it is very popular. Everyone hates them, when things are vague and nebulous, mention specific people or institutions and lots of people behave very differently about the topic.
However, it probably is best to stop playing and move along.
