https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3mynwzsux7k2u
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.
Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.
Horrific.
No you just don’t vote for that race. You don’t vote for the Republican cuz that just tells the Democrats that you support the Republican cause. That would make them chase Republican ideals even more.
If you find a Democratic candidate so completely abhorrent and you cannot vote for them, then vote for neither. Or vote third party if one of them exists on the ballot and it lines with your values cuz that’ll be much more helpful than anything else.
Now normally I wouldn’t council any of that mind you, but this does seem like it’s pretty dire in this case.
If you vote for the Republican they’ll just assume that Josh Turek didn’t go far enough to the right.
It’s better to write in the Dem runner up from the primary, which is what I’m doing.
Thats also a good option assuming you can do write ins there.
Iowa allows them, yeah. I think only three states restrict them.
Well where I live you can only choose “declared” write ins. Which admittedly does cut down on misspellings invalidating the name. Which when I voted the other day was nice since I had the write ins name down as her nickname and they listed the official spelling there.
Good to hear about Iowa though. That seems like the optimal strategy assuming there isn’t another 3rd party that works.