aptoast 4w ago • 100%
The onions, he noted, “were tasty.”
Would love to get into the head of the editor who decided to include this line
Hello all, leftist who's never voted for a major party beyond the municipal level. Wanted to ask if there's been any downballot races you've been watching this cycle. I feel like there's been some decent enough candidates who've slipped in during previous cycles, but I haven't heard much talk about anything this year. Obviously not putting much hope into anything, just curious if there's anything to look out for.
Derby, CT is a small, working-class, post-industrial town with a population which has been stagnant at about 12,000 for more than six decades. The geniuses over at the Connecticut DOT decided that this obviously meant that the town's Main Street needed to be widened, by twice the size, destroying a number of historic buildings and uprooting numerous small community businesses in the process. That red stripe on the far left of the "After" pic is the new edge of the street.
[archive.vn link](https://archive.vn/cuIUp) In a race that attracted statewide attention, Jacobson's victory comes a day after a Figueroa aide was condemned for calling him "an Israeli lawyer", and the same day the DCC unearthed a video of Figueroa saying that "We cannot permit a person who is of Jewish origin, of Jewish origin, to represent our community". A close ally of Figueroa, David Michel, [also lost his primary yesterday](https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/unofficial-results-stamford-s-collins-main-beats-19655281.php).