Katie Hill resigning from office

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These giant quotes & quote chains are making me dizzy.

As for the actual story, eh. This is the only place I've seen the story pop up (Not even my California newsletter cares enough to talk about it). Seems to only be a handful of hard-right sites bringing it up.

Not to mention, everyone involved seems to be consensual about it. So what's the story other than "Married couple sleeps with other people with proper consent"? Family values? Is it adultery if both spouses are on the same page about it? The only part of the story I see remotely damning is that she was sleeping with staffers. I don't want to see its all cause shes female, but I do have that inkling.

I'll just say that, as a millennial, this is the first time I've ever heard the term "throuple" before. I guess "polyamorous" isn't spicy enough of a word?

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Just goes to prove my point, the consequences of scandals do not apply to democrats.
They'll just spin a way to portray allegations as "fake" (with the help of their media handlers), dust off their shoes, and keep marching forward.

This almost reads like satire

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And who do you Republicans have to retake this seat? Steve Knight lost by a mile. Even if Hill doesn't run for re-election is doesn't open the door for some triumph Republican return.

CA-25 voted for Newsom by 2 points in 2018. It's hardly a safe seat.

I guess Orange County in 2018 was just a fluke, considering they voted for Newsom by .14%

Also, my Assembly district voted for Newsom by 3.5 points. I bet my Assemblymember, who won by 9 points, is shaking in her shoes

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The fact that the blue avatars celebrate because a smear campaign by an abusive husband against his ex-wife has succeeded makes me sick.

May I ask what basis there is to call this a "smear campaign"?

Because she's a woman and he's a man. Best to just move past this and get a better Democrat in there.

Given that the Democrats have been getting destroyed in competitive elections post 2018, it'll be interesting to see if they can keep this seat.

Destroyed where?

IIRC Loretta sanchez in the region only got like 38% of the vote against 5 Republicand and still lost an Orange county supervisor seat. The other major California special sd 1 saw ds only get 30% of the vote in a trump +15 district. California specials so far have been bad for Democrats

1. This post was really hard to read

2. If there's one thing Southern California Democrats are terrible at, its voting in off-year elections (Turnout was 21% in March 2019 for the 3rd district vs 55% 5 months prior for the 4th district). I wouldn't be surprised if, had the 3rd district been on the November ballot, she'd have gotten north of 40%