While El Presidente was promoting his golf course to the Koreans, there's a lot more good news from Election Night.
Andrea Jenkins became America’s first openly transgender woman of color elected to public office on Tuesday, as Minneapolis voters elected her to the city council.
Voters in Helena, Montana, the state’s capital, elected progressive candidate Wilmot Collins as mayor last night, unseating incumbent Jim Smith, who had held the office since 2001. Collins and his wife Maddie came to the United States as refugees from Liberia in the 1990s, escaping that country’s brutal civil war.
Democrat Vi Lyles cruised to victory over Republican Kenny Smith to become Charlotte, North Carolina’s first African-American female mayor.
Democrat Ravinder Bhalla, a two-term city councilman in Hoboken, New Jersey, is headed to the mayor’s office after sitting mayor Dawn Zimmer announced she wouldn’t seek another term. Why is this a big deal? He's a Sikh.
In Manchester, New Hampshire, Democrat Joyce Craig beat longtime Republican Mayor Ted Gatsas, becoming the first female mayor in New Hampshire’s largest city.
Seattle elected its first openly lesbian mayor, Jenny Durkan.
Ashley Bennett wasn't the only one pissed at John Carman, a Republican member of the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders (a county legislative body in New Jersey) when he made a sexist joke about January's Women's Marches. So she decided to run against him this year. She won.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/8/16622884/women-minorities-lgbtq-candidates-made-historyhttp://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/8/16623532/ashley-bennett-john-carman-new-jersey-2017-electionMaine became the first state in the USA to expand Medicaid by ballot initiative, in a huge win for healthcare and a big black eye for Gov. Paul LePage, who had vetoed Medicaid expansion five times when the state legislature passed it. The initiative passed by a double-digit margin, with 59% voting for and 41% against.
http://wonkette.com/625507/maine-voters-cram-medicaid-expansion-down-asshole-gov-paul-lepages-throatDespite the GOPs best attempts at killing Obamacare, a record number of people signed up on the first day of enrollment this year.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/07/record-level-of-sign-ups-for-obamacare-plans-reported.htmlThings are looking good for the Dems, and the GOP is very nervous.....