[Oe List ...] Hooray!

[Lynn]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trumps-lawsuits-are-politics-disguised-legal-strategy/617022/

This article sums up the situation beautifully. This is something I would
have shared with mom (Marianna Bailey), so thanks for indulging me.

Lynn

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020, 6:46 AM Randy Williams via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Tempting though it was, I decided not to take the bait, and let Susan be
> Susan.
> Randy
>
> On Nov 9, 2020, at 6:33 AM, Ken Fisher via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Sisters & Brothers,
>
> Thank-you, David.
>
> Enfranchise ALL the voters of United States, then it would be obvious that
> Trump would be out.
>
> Voter repression and jerrymandering is so much a part of the American way.
>
> Here in the province of Ontario, the boundaries for Provincial and Federal
> elections are the same.
>
> Prisoners vote.
>
> How long oh Lord, how long?
>
> Ken
>
> On Nov 8, 2020, at 4:51 PM, David Dunn via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> Greetings colleagues.
>
>
> It’s too soon and a bit uncouth to shoot “Hooray!” I *can* report a great
> sigh of relief followed, however, by a deeply anxiety “Oh S**t, we’ve got a
> lot of work to do.”
>
>
> Two thoughts:
>
>
> 1. I believe, on good evidence, that it is a statement of fact that, as of
> last night, of the 146,361,058 ballots counted, 50.5% were for V. P. Biden
> and 47.7% were for Pres. Trump. When we say President-elect Joe Biden,
> that’s really shorthand for the more exact phrases like Joe Biden is the
> "projected President elect" or the "putative President elect”?
>
>
> 2. But to be honest, no matter the turn of phrase, it seems probable that
> Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20.
>
> I base that faith statement on an experience of fact, namely, that my
> colleague at Church of the Holy Family, Gayle C., who was an election judge
> this year, is a no BS but good-willed and conscientious guardian of free
> and fair elections. Gayle is the kind of woman, much like you, Susan, that
> some might call a force of nature. It’s a compliment: people who are forces
> of nature are the ones who get things done.
>
> Gaye has checked in with me regularly to report on how things are going in
> Aurora where she is the Democrat on the Republican-Democrat team that
> verifies signatures on ballots against the official electoral signature
> books. She was also asked this year to be an adjudicator on a bipartisan
> team of election judges that look at ambiguously marked ballots and discern
> the intention of the voter when the markings are not clear. One by one,
> Gayle and her Republican partner examine the unclear ballots with the aim
> of forming a consensus about who that voter was voting for. As Gayle
> describes it, such adjudication, though routine, is universally understood
> to be a sacred trust and high honor to be entrusted with the adjudicator
> role at the most grassroots level of our electoral process: the precinct.
> Gayle and her Republican teammates do not mess around. They work long
> hours, day after day, to be sure that they can vouch for the integrity of
> the ballot process in their precinct. No one messes with Gayle.
>
> I can easily believe, with full trust, that the vast majority of election
> workers across America are, in their own personal ways, like Gayle.
> Scrupulous. That’s why it seems to me that our president’s court challenges
> are the sideshow of a desperate man who is psychically unable to own the
> fact of loss.
>
> I wish I could recall who said yesterday that we really just need to relax
> and let the legal process play out in full expectation that the judges in
> the courts will be similarly, as we would expect, scrupulous in their
> devotion to fact and law.
>
>
> That was rather long winded, but it boils down to this. Now I, personally,
> feel the weight of this challenge: to support spirit journeys that allow
> people to embrace both gain and loss as facts of life like birth and death,
> not linguistic inventions like victory and defeat.
>
> It is so painfully obvious that our president, a manifestly broken man
> from a widely noted broken family, has not gone on the spirit journey that
> allows him to embrace what is real. His universe cracked when he was a
> child and he has not been able to rise above that childhood death.
>
> Court challenges do not change the fact that our president has lost this
> election, denies this limit in his life, and inflicts that denial on our
> democracy.
>
> Individual sin has become social sabotage, which boomerangs back as
> self-sabotage of a political campaign.
>
>
> David
>
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2020, at 10:43 AM, Susan Fertig via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> The world is not a monolith. 50% of the people did not vote for Joe Biden.
> I am in that 50%.
> He is not yet President-elect. There is still court challenges going on.
>
>
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