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Reactionary Tennessee Republican Mark Green, currently sowing his wild oats, will turn 60 two days after his re-election. There’s virtually no chance a Democrat could win in his painstakingly gerrymandered district in central Tennessee, huge red rural swathes of backward Trump voters diluting normal people in part of Nashville, Clarksville and Williamson County. The PVI is R+10 and the partisan lean is R+22. I admire Democrat Megan Barry for even trying. Trump won the district by 15 points against Biden.
One person who probably voted for Green in 2022 but certainly won’t be doing so in November is Camilla Guenther Green, his now-spurned wife and mother of his two children.Mitchell and Alexa. A physician and former state senator, Green was elected to Congress in 2018 when neo-Nazi Marsha Blackburn gave up the seat to run for the U.S. Senate, the dumbest member of that body until Putin ally Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) was elected two years later. Green rose rapidly in the GOP ranks and was appointed chair of the Homeland Security Committee last year.
Previous to running for Congress, Trump had nominated Green, a West Point grad and a vet of both the Iraq and Afghan wars, to be Secretary of the Army, after his first nominee, shady billionaire Vincent Viola, was blackballed by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (for being too crooked). Green wasn’t forced to withdraw his nomination because of being too crooked (although he illegally trades stock on inside information), just too homophobic, Islamophobic and generally bigoted, something not welcome in the Pentagon but a huge positive in the House Republican Conference and the Freedom Caucus.
Anyway, last month the sleaze bag congressman, who’s in the midst of an affair with a 32 year old woman who works for Axios, filed for divorce after 35 years of marriage. Camilla sent an e-mail to Mark’s colleagues in Congress warning them that he had been possessed by Satan, something many people have already noticed about him. Camie warned other Members not to become “intoxicated with power and adoration” the way her husband had. “He is living life greatly deceived. I have offered reconciliation, and he wants nothing of it and has insisted on a divorce. Satan has rewritten our marriage in his mind. I want to make others aware of how readily available ‘predators’ are for our husbands. If my story can prevent this tragedy from happening to someone else, I will tell it.”
The Nashville Banner reported that “She describes Green, who bills himself as a conservative Christian, as having ‘pushed God out of his life’ after spending time with colleagues ‘having affairs and getting divorces, drinking, parties, all while hosting a weekly Bible study in the basement of our home.’… In the email, Camilla Green says the congressman insists on divorce to pursue a new life and has stopped wearing his wedding ring. Camilla and their adult children are still pictured prominently on Green’s congressional campaign website, weeks after he filed for divorce.”
The Greens, of course, aren’t the only good Christian family who are on the highway to hell. I’m sure you’ve seen all the dirt Laura Loomer has been spelling about Marjorie Traitor Greene having sex with anyone who would buy a membership in her gym and then succumbing to exactly what Camie warned about and wrecking her family to pursue sex with other married men. I’m sure she’s aware that the 7th Commandment is very clear: “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.” And I’m not even going to start in on Ms Beetlejuice again and those poor children who were conceived on the same front seat of her truck than at least one of them was delivered on! Instead, let’s go down to Arizona, where the GOP is desperate to hold onto the state House. As Tim Murphy reported yesterday, “control of the state house could come down to Democrats’ efforts to flip one seat and hold another in this district that includes parts of Phoenix and Scottsdale.
The Republicans’ candidate is “a member of a famous Arizona family— Pamela Carter, older sister of the original Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter. On the campaign trail, the candidate Carter has talked up her work as a successful entrepreneur and a record of academic accomplishment, and boasts of having ‘my family’s full support’ for her state house run. But a review of her record and past statements tells a much different story: In contrast to the fourth district’s moderate profile, Carter is a fervently anti-abortion minister who has been ‘blessed with end-time revelation’ and who has made confusing claims about her past. And one notable member of her family is not on board— her famous sister, an advocate for reproductive rights.”
Lynda Carter’s statement to Murphy is pretty clear: “I have known Pam my entire life, which is why I sadly cannot endorse her for this or any public office.” A lifelong huckster, grifter and a Christian nationalist, Pam Carter is way too extreme for Scottsdale and anyplace in Maricopa County.
In her statement opposing Pamela Carter’s candidacy, Lynda Carter praised the late Republican Sen. John McCain for his “decency, justice, and freedom,” while explicitly endorsing both of the Democrats running against her sister:
“As a native Arizonan, I am proud to endorse Kelli Butler and Karen Gresham to represent LD4 in Arizona’s State House. Kelli and Karen are both strong, experienced candidates, born and raised in Arizona,” she said. “They are working mothers fighting for the rights that matter most to Arizonans, especially every child’s right to a quality education.”
Democrats have made inroads in places like LD4 in recent election cycles with an emphasis on protecting public education and reproductive rights from overreach by Republicans at the state capital. Pamela Carter, for her part, has defended the state’s controversial voucher program and vowed to hold the line on one of the biggest issues facing social conservatives in Arizona right now: abortion.
The district offers a glimpse of how reproductive rights is playing at the ballot box in a highly competitive area. Christine Marsh, the district’s Democratic state senator, won her election in 2022 by a little more than 1,000 votes by relentlessly linking a Republican incumbent to the state legislature’s 15-week abortion ban. The current Republican state representative, Matt Gress, was one of three members of his party to break ranks and vote to repeal Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban, which offered no exceptions even for cases of rape. A recent Fox News survey found that supporters of an abortion-rights ballot initiative in Arizona outnumber opponents by roughly three-to-one— and 50-percent of Republicans said they approved. Carter, though, has sung a different tune.
“Hopefully we will stand and not allow any abortion,” she said in 2022, when asked how the legislature should respond to the repeal of Roe v. Wade. “If I were in that position, I would say no on any abortion.”
All which illustrates just what a shithole we all live in. Yet NOBODY asks why, how we got here and, most notably, how do we fix this. We just march alongside the other lemmings toward... we know not what.
I've known for decades. I'm only surprised it's taken this long. But we're almost there.