OW | Michigan Democratic Primaries

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Next Tuesday, August 7, 2018, will be the primaries in a number of states. This includes my home state Michigan.

My state’s senior United States senator, Debbie Stabenow, is running for re-nomination unopposed. My congress person, who endorsed Hillary Clinton prior to the February 1, 2016 Iowa caucuses, is unopposed. And then there is the gubernatorial. Both Stabenow and my congressional rep have endorsed this candidate.

This candidate is Gretchen Whitmer. She is, like any typical establishment Democrat, not on board for Medicare for All. She gives the usual standard issue line about protecting the Affordable Care Act. So, naturally, I say no to Gretchen Whitmer. Another candidate is Shri Thanedar. He is pretending he’s in line politically with Bernie Sanders. Yet there is video, from YouTube, showing him cheering at a meeting for Florida U.S. senator and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. I dismiss Thanedar. The third candidate is Abdul El–Sayed. He is the progressive whose policies and leadership ideas—including wanting Medicare For All—are in line with Bernie Sanders. (Sanders has endorsed El–Sayed.) I would support El–Sayed.

Next Tuesday, I will vote in the Democratic primary and vote the 2018 Michigan gubernatorial nomination to Abdul El–Sayed. If he wins the nomination, I will vote for him in the general election. If anyone else—and the polls have it favored to be Whitmer—wins this nomination, I will not vote in the general election for that nominated candidate. Not only that—I will not vote for the Democratic Party, for any office, in the general election.

I came across the following video, at YouTube, in which one person gives his take on this race.

And now for this Open Weekend [OW]…