How many Americans can name any of the three other members of Congress who won special elections in 2025? Almost none. Adelita would be a star in any case, but Mike Johnson inadvertently drew more attention to her than almost any new House member in recent memory.
There were the 2 Republicans from Florida but no one knows their names but their constituents since it was done “because their families were in town”. Mike Johnson made his political calculation and lost.
Exactly. There was also a Democrat elected on Virginia, James Walkinshaw, on September 9, just two weeks before the Arizona special election. He was sworn in September 10, the next day, with no official canvass of his election.
The last special election of the year will be in Tennessee’s safe Republican district 7 on December 2. There will be a runoff in January in the Texas special election that took place on Election Day; the two candidates are both Democrats, as special elections in Texas are like the all-party elections they regularly have in Louisiana or the Alaska, California and Washington State primaries.
The city and county would benefit from taking very swift action to address public homelessness, camping included, in the wake of this HANA issue and Prop 312. This state Supreme Court decision, Supervisor Canó’s One Pima Initiative, the mayor’s Safe City Initiative, and obvious misuse of public spaces combine to put the ball firmly in local governments’ court. The majority of the public has made a clear statement: Let law enforcement do its job in this work. The more the city delays in actively using law enforcement to address homeless and substance-affected people living on the streets, the more we expose ourselve to mountains of lost funding, whether it be through legal liability or the federal government’s punishment of a Housing First-only approach. Lost funding for local municipalities equals more poverty for folks who are already on the brink. Plus, even though the executive and legislative branches will continue to change hands, the current Supreme Court has made it clear where it stands on cities’ failure to use law enforcement to intervene on street homelessness—and that court isn’t changing any time soon!
How many Americans can name any of the three other members of Congress who won special elections in 2025? Almost none. Adelita would be a star in any case, but Mike Johnson inadvertently drew more attention to her than almost any new House member in recent memory.
There were the 2 Republicans from Florida but no one knows their names but their constituents since it was done “because their families were in town”. Mike Johnson made his political calculation and lost.
Exactly. There was also a Democrat elected on Virginia, James Walkinshaw, on September 9, just two weeks before the Arizona special election. He was sworn in September 10, the next day, with no official canvass of his election.
The last special election of the year will be in Tennessee’s safe Republican district 7 on December 2. There will be a runoff in January in the Texas special election that took place on Election Day; the two candidates are both Democrats, as special elections in Texas are like the all-party elections they regularly have in Louisiana or the Alaska, California and Washington State primaries.
I'll say it again. Look in your Funk & Wagnalls under "W" for weasel. See the picture of M. Johnson.
The city and county would benefit from taking very swift action to address public homelessness, camping included, in the wake of this HANA issue and Prop 312. This state Supreme Court decision, Supervisor Canó’s One Pima Initiative, the mayor’s Safe City Initiative, and obvious misuse of public spaces combine to put the ball firmly in local governments’ court. The majority of the public has made a clear statement: Let law enforcement do its job in this work. The more the city delays in actively using law enforcement to address homeless and substance-affected people living on the streets, the more we expose ourselve to mountains of lost funding, whether it be through legal liability or the federal government’s punishment of a Housing First-only approach. Lost funding for local municipalities equals more poverty for folks who are already on the brink. Plus, even though the executive and legislative branches will continue to change hands, the current Supreme Court has made it clear where it stands on cities’ failure to use law enforcement to intervene on street homelessness—and that court isn’t changing any time soon!