Althouse: "Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is appointing Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate,

December 18, 2018

"Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is appointing Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate,

"McSally narrowly lost a race this year to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema for Arizona's other Senate seat, which opened after Sen. Jeff Flake opted against seeking re-election" (CNN).

16 comments:

hawkeyedjb said...: Poor choice. Another seat likely to go to a Democrat at the next election.; 12/18/18, 10:45 AM
readering said...: I think I was first to predict this here.; 12/18/18, 10:50 AM
dreams said...: Seems like a good thing to me.; 12/18/18, 10:55 AM
Anonymous said...: She'll be helped in two years by the contrast to Sinema, who will have taken the moderate mask off and revealed how far left she is.

Buyers remorse will help McSally.; 12/18/18, 11:01 AM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: That’s good news, I’m happy for her, she’s a good person.; 12/18/18, 11:23 AM
Tommy Duncan said...: With Claire McCaskill gone, there is room for Martha on the back bench in the Senate next to Amy Klobuchar.; 12/18/18, 11:26 AM
Wince said...: What, no old white men were available?; 12/18/18, 11:36 AM
jim said...: Well they had one, but he got bored and wandered off.; 12/18/18, 12:22 PM
Hunter said...: NPR commenters are whining that this is undemocratic, because McSally "was rejected by the voters". Yeah sure, only 1.1 million of them voted for her. 1.2 million voted for Sinema. Appointing the runner-up who got nearly half of all votes to the other open seat seems fairly democratic to me.; 12/18/18, 12:42 PM
Phil 314 said...: readering said...
I think I was first to predict this here.

the possibility had been talked about for months (even prior to the McSally/Sinema vote) in AZ; 12/18/18, 12:47 PM
Phil 314 said...: It will be very interesting to watch how each of them performs in the Senate over the next 2 years. Sinema ran as a moderate. McSally ran as a conservative who was on again/off again a Trumpists.

this is the rare chance for an electorate to "take a test drive"

In 2020 the potentially big challenge to mcSally with be Grant Woods,former AZ AG and close ally of McCain, now a Democrat.; 12/18/18, 12:51 PM
Phil 314 said...: If Sinema tacks left in the Senate I imagine a key message in 2020 will be:

"You can't trust a Democrat to do what he/she promises"; 12/18/18, 12:52 PM
TrespassersW said...: Hunter said...
NPR commenters are whining that this is undemocratic...

Proving that NPR commenters are nincompoops. The legally mandated process of the governor appointing a replacement is intrinsically "undemocratic" regardless of who is appointed.; 12/18/18, 2:03 PM
Dad29 said...: NPR yappers should be ecstatic. McSally has to win 2 elections in the next 4 years to keep the seat. And she has only won ONE election in her life--and that was NOT state-wide.

She's another McCain "conservative." They lose a lot.; 12/18/18, 7:02 PM
Big Mike said...: Bad move. If she didn’t want a seat in the Senate enough to fight for it last fall, it should not be handed to her.; 12/18/18, 7:07 PM
Carter Wood said...: Dad29 says: And she has only won ONE election in her life--and that was NOT state-wide.

No, she won election to the U.S. House in 2014 and 2016. You can look it up.; 12/19/18, 12:25 PM