Tuesday, and time to see if there are any elections being held today to poke at.  There aren’t any.  It looks like our next election contests are… July 17th, the exciting North Carolina Primary run off contest.

Here’s your Tea Party endorsements, in case you care.

After that we got July 31 and the exciting Texas primary run off and the Georgia primary.  And then August 2 for the Tennessee primary.

So, let’s see who’s trying to unseat Bob Corker in the Senate…

The Democrats vying to oppose Corker in November say corporate influence excludes ordinary Tennesseans from the political process.
“He’s a hollow suit,” said Park Overall, an actress and environmentalist from Greeneville who said she entered the race at the urging of the Tennessee Democratic Party. “He goes to the highest bidder.”

The Democrats urged Park Overall to run?  Who?
 Park Overall (b. March 15, 1957) is an American film and television actress, known for her trademark heavy Southern accent. Her best-known role was as nurse Laverne Higby Todd Kane in the sitcom, Empty Nest, though she has appeared in a number of feature films, including Biloxi Blues, Mississippi Burning, Beer For My Horses, and more recently, In the Family. Overall is also an environmental and women’s rights activist, and is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat held byBob Corker.

Sure.  Why not?  The other two candidates:  one is still promoting his last Senate bid on his campaign website, and the other facing charges for soliciting a minor.  Looks like Park Overall is the Democratic nominee.

The Republican Opposition?
“Just look to see who’s contributing to his campaign,” said Zach Poskevich, a tea-party-backed Republican from Hendersonville. He said that might explain why Corker voted for the 2008 bank bailout and for the 2009 Cash for Clunkers program that offered consumers rebates to trade in gas-guzzlers for more fuel-efficient cars.
Poskevich and Brenda Lenard, a Republican from the Knoxville suburbs who also has tea-party support, slammed Corker for his involvement in discussions about financial reform legislation.

All righty then.  Not one but two Tea Party opponents.

Pennsylvania Tea Party News.  And the Republican Senate candidate who will lose to Bob Casey, Jr in November…

The Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania praised a local Tea Party member who had just compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler during a rally over the weekend.
Tom Smith during remarks at the Blair County Tea Party FreedomFest 2012 in Hollidaysburg said the speaker before him had spoken “eloquently.” The preceding speaker, Phil Waite, had just compared Obama’s policies with those employed by Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s, and warned that Obama could try to do the same thing to the United States.
“As the gentleman that was speaking before me was so eloquently saying about so many things,” Smith said prior to giving a speech regarding Obama’s energy policies. […]
 Waite did note in his speech that he doesn’t have any issues with Obama personally and praised Obama’s marriage to first lady Michelle Obama. “I have no problem with President Obama as a person,” Waite said. “I’m glad he’s married. I’m glad he’s married to a woman.”

Nothing… personal.  It’s just that you’re Hitler.

Ugh.  Looking around to other sort of meaningless races where one party is conceding everything.  Interesting.  Mississippi.  Who’s the Democratic Opponent to Wicker?  Why, it’s Albert Gore!

Then there’s this race in New Jersey.:
Gavin Bard, alternative journalist, labor activist, and anarcho-syndicalist, has declared he will run as an independent based on major campaign tenets of opposing any regulation placed on the internet, abolishing CEOs in order to shift power of company decisions democratically to the workers, and convincing Sega to make the final game in the Shenmue series.^[66]

Should really eat into one or the other major party candidate’s support, I guess.

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