We can and should do better.

President or Cabinet members - 70

Senators - 75

Representatives - 60

I think those should be the max ages allowed to run. I would prefer younger candidates, but experience is important and that comes with age.

Sounds like a good time for people to move out of the way. Become an advisor or something if you want.

To get fresh perspectives into congress. We do have a minimum age for elected office written into law and I don’t really agree with that either. I’m sure there could be exceptions and outliers at both ends of the age spectrum, I just think it might be healthy for Democracy to have a regular turnover of the generations.

One thing I have to say about Republicans, they rarely age-bash their candidates, office-holders, and voters. Why? They know they will lose voters.

A lot of women spend a disproportionate amount of time on familtly compared to men and enter politics at a later age than men. So you want to arbitrarily tell these women they have missed the boat and cannot serve as long as men no matter what their skillls? Should we have told Nancy Pelosi she had to quit at 60, no matter how effective she was at the time?

You want to break up one of the most effective Democratic movements in history? At the next Indivisable march grab a microphone and tell everyone over 60 that you thank them for their concern and work but don’t dare run for the House of Representatives.

I personally am disgusted by people who want me to vote the way they do but want to tell me I should not have the right to vote run for office, that I can be a follower but not a leader?

I think there are more productive avenues to improving representative democracy.

I view the House as a great training ground for advancement like Senator or Governor etc. but I just don't think it should be a lifetime job. Constant reelection leans toward constant fundraising which leans to compromised ideals.

I apologize if I offended you but just giving my opinion. ☮

Just need to speak up and speak out to defend my rights.

Making everyone done in their 70s.

Term limit Amendment NOW

Good luck!

Cindy Burbank will defeat Forbes in the primary and then drop out and endorse Osborn.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135599

... and endorse Dan Osborn.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135599

I posted a follow up
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135974

an age optimal age range LAW (say 25 to 65) with a law that spells out explicitly cognitive and health fitness qualifications with regular assessments and enforcement to back them up in the LAW.

In addition to initial qualifying assessments, to be effective, the LAW should include pre - and post tests at specific time based intervals and as needed for cause assessments. Other ages might be considered with the contingency that the cognitive, neuropsychological, and physical fitness standards are within acceptable limits.

As with any other enterprise and especially when we are talking about the leadership of our government, if we hire decrepit, mentally unfit psychopaths then we get what we deserve.

I'd also prefer that we get the cash/crypto out of politics, too. But without the leadership, we need to make any of this work. I guess we can all wish in one hand, and you know what in the other and see which hand fills up first.

NC (my home) is familiar with posers and turncoats, by the way. Tricia Cotham* comes to mind.




*Tricia Cotham aka Patricia Ann Cotham

[Rumored girlfriend of North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore(R)]

"Cotham represented the 100th district in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017 as a Democrat. She was elected as a Democrat in 2022 to represent District 112. Cotham formally changed her affiliation to the Republican Party on April 5, 2023, granting the North Carolina House Republicans a supermajority. Prior to her party switch, Cotham had campaigned on a traditional Democratic Party platform and had voted for abortion rights legislation. Shortly after her party switch, Cotham cast the deciding vote for legislation to restrict abortion access in North Carolina.
[2]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricia_Cotham

Not a good candidate to vote for. I don't represent the future next decades.

as the president's approval rating drops. This has nothing to do with age; it is political expediency.

Just like RFK Jr. did.

Cindy Burbank is almost sure to defeat him in the primary. She is only running to beat him and then drop out and endorse Osborn

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135599

Ft. Bend County is interesting....maybe one of the most diverse counties in America, they have a history of some of the worst political figure anywhere.....Tom Delay, the Nehl twins, George family, etc. It surprises me. Although Texas has tons of examples of wacko politicians, I always just assumed that a diverse population would never be so "conservative"?

Same for Delay. I can't explain Nehls as Sheriff, nor any of the others.

Democrats aren't helping right now, planning a five-figure trip to a conference in Hawaii. Really makes me wonder about their grasp of optics.

We seem to have one of those already.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221134616

but, given his position on several other issues, he's not very attractive to Republicans

as Independent.

Sorry - but this guy is a rock ribbed, fundamentalist Trump supporter.

Every single candidate…

They pulled themselves together to fight back, and got Cindy Burbank on the ballot for the sole purpose of beating Forbes, then dropping out to endorse Osborn.

The Republican Secretary of State tried to kick Burbank from the primary ballot. The Nebraska Supreme Court reinstated her March 23rd. It is VERY strange that a March 30 Raw Story article has no mention of Burbank.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135599

both Forbes and Burbank.
The salient point here is that there was no Democratic candidate before the late (last day) filings. (Ergo the Osborn endorsement)

The party was not recruiting. And there was NO CHANCE Bill Forbes would have gotten their endorsement. He was NEVER their "own Senate candidate."

And Cindy Burbank would not have filed if the Trumpublican plant hadn't tried to pull off the dirty trick. His last day filing prompted her's.

The more I thought about the reporting, the more pissed I got.

I looked up the timeline of events and posted a follow up:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135974

(except poor bewildered reporters - having trouble following a fairly rudimentary plot)

as conservatives try either to siphon votes or to clean off the GOP stain. Remember, vet the candidates. Check their education and work histories. Listen carefully to how they frame their positions. It’s not their political party affiliation, but their political ideology and position that matters.

They've done this locally in my neck of the woods. Put up a candidate who is a right winger in disguise. I'm very careful about who I vote for now. Especially in the primaries.

Eyes ALWAYS focused on the prize. Ears wide open to catch ANY kind of manipulation or discouragement strategies.

The enemy plays FOR KEEPS. WE should, too. ALWAYS.

but I just searched her name. She pulled a real dirty trick with the way she voted and how she changed. She gave the republicans a super majority in the legislature and changed her stance on abortion to cast the deciding vote restricting abortion rights. That's beneath contempt.

I'm not in North Carolina, but they've done that where I live. Ran on the Democratic ticket, then switch after the election.

It was when Frist decided not to run for the Senate again, if memory serves me. The Dems had a respectable, qualified and well liked candidate. The Repubs snuck a KKK Clan member, former wizard, into our primary. The piece of crap won the primary but of course he lost the general to another piece of crap Repub...I think it was Crooked Corker.

I was so angry with our local Democratic branch. I had gone door to door, I had made calls. Couldn't they see the piece of crap was a plant? They shrugged and said well people voted for him.....

It's an open primary. Republicons came in and voted for him. The local Democratic leadership said there was nothing they could do. They could have NOT allowed him in our primary ballot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_Senate_election_in_Tennessee#Democratic_primary



The 2012 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the general election including the 2012 U.S. presidential election, elections to the House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker won a second term in a landslide, carrying all but two counties in the state.

Corker narrowly flipped reliably Democratic Davidson County, home to Nashville, which had not voted Republican on the presidential level since 1988. He faced Democratic nominee Mark E. Clayton as well as several third-party candidates and several independents in this election.

Corker easily won the Republican primary with 85% of the vote, and anti-LGBT activist and conspiracy theorist Clayton won the Democratic nomination with 30% of the vote, despite raising no money and having a website that was four years out of date.

The next day Tennessee's Democratic Party disavowed Clayton over his active role in the Public Advocate of the United States, which they described as a "known hate group". They blamed his victory among candidates for whom the TNDP provided little forums to become known on the fact that his name appeared first on the ballot, and said they would do nothing to help his campaign, urging Democrats to vote for "the write-in candidate of their choice" in November. One of the Democratic candidates, Larry Crim, filed a petition seeking to offer the voters a new primary in which to select a Democratic nominee among the remaining candidates the party had affirmed as bona fide and as a preliminary motion sought a temporary restraining order against certification of the results, but after a judge denied the temporary order Crim withdrew his petition.

snip


http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-10-22/politics/35500334_1_yard-sign-tennessee-democrats-senate-race

https://archive.ph/erQkA

We talked briefly of politics, and I was very impressed by him. But he seemed to stay on the fringe, never attracting the people with money.

I'm old, my memory fails me sometimes.

But you got the receipts and posted them!!

Thanks

look at the names:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_Senate_election_in_Tennessee#Democratic_primary



Park Overall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Overall



Park Overall is an American actress, political activist, and former U.S. Senate candidate, known for her trademark heavy Southern accent. Her best-known role was as nurse Laverne Todd in the sitcom Empty Nest, though she has appeared in the TV show Reba and a number of feature films, including Biloxi Blues, Mississippi Burning, Talk Radio, and In the Family.

Robin Williams, Jonathon Winters, & Park Overall on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (9/19/91)

My spouse called her and convinced her to run. She would have been an outstanding solid Liberal senator. She got spooked after that and never ran again. What a loss for TN.

In michigan the republicans have to run as democrats anyway. I know republicans have thrown in a third candidate to keep a particular candidate from winning.

The more times republicans win, the more they feel insecure and need to win even more.

And they con others to cheat too.

And James Talarico is a Presbyterian seminarian.

All apologies.

If no Democrat is going to bother to even sign up to run, I guess we get what we get.

What an attitude

Its a personal belief. I think its a mistake to completely cede any election, and ESPECIALLY any US senate or US house election. Looks like thats not happening here, so i withdraw my initial outrage, but I stand by my thoughts on not fielding candidates for elections. Even Wyoming has 41k registered democrats, there ought to be at least one reasonable option willing to file to be on the ballot;.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135599

(Independent) candidate.
Once more - this was NOT a mistaken strategy on the part of the party. The D party had long since decided (almost certainly correctly) that Osborn was their 'best bet' in defeating a incumbent senator.

This was the GOP exploiting a loophole to insert a 'spoiler' 'stealth' candidate. Too bad about that. But there was never any 'Oops' involved here.

I tend to agree that he's a likely plant as opposed to a DINO

If he was a DINO he would have come clean from the beginning.

He probably filed to throw the race to the GOP!
He knew this would happen.

Here is the Nebraska Democrats statement:
https://nebraskademocrats.org/blog/ndp-press-release-statement-on-u-s-senate-candidate-william-forbes/

The Republican Secretary of State tried to boot her off the primary ballot. The Nebraska Supreme Court reinstated her March 23rd. It is VERY strange that a March 30 Raw Story article has no mention of Burbank.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135599

I posted a follow up:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135974

I find it very strange that a March 30 Raw Story article doesn't mention Burbank.

The Republican SOS tried to kick her off the ballot. The Nebraska Supreme Court reinstated her March 23rd.

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/03/23/nebraska-u-s-senate-candidate-back-on-ballot-state-high-court-rules-sos-acted-too-late/

More here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135599

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This is going to be interesting.

Pete's got some serious baggage to get rid of. I can see why the GOP is desperately trying to fuck up this election.

The more I thought about it, the more pissed I got. I nailed down some of the timeline. That the reporting ignored the existence of Cindy Burbank feels like another sort of "dirty trick." More here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221135974

This might not seem as significant as the big lies out there, but we are being cut to pieces by a million lies of omission and "slant."

Not the first time republicans have pulled this trick.

Years ago they found and completely funded a guy whose name was identical to the D candidate and got him on the ballot, siphoning votes away from the legit candidate.

says "They will come as wolves in sheep's clothing" . Christian Nationalist are all wolves in sheep's clothing .