The meeting was supposed to be Acton’s way of making up for calling trans girls "boys
God damn it. Every time I turn on youtube or anything else on the livingroom TV to keep the dogs entertained there’s an automatic 30 second commercial about how Amy Acton was the libral lefty monster who closed schools and businesses and how some time in the past she had an interaction with the cops where there was some level of alcohol and some level of some form of prescription drug in her system, so she can’t be trusted and will kill us all.
It doesn’t mention if it was half a glass of wine and prescription ibuprofen or 250ml of Fireball and a month supply of percocet. They’re just counting on the white trash voters of Ohio to assume it’s the one they have the most experience with.
She needs to be out doing good and making people see that she’s definitely preferable to her opponent “Nazis riding velociraptors.” Instead she’s busy punching the people most likely to vote for anyone who isn’t Republican in the face for no sane reason.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
Inside sources who have gone public now say the “listening session” was a debacle. Acton did not show up, her campaign manager barred Arienne Childrey—Vice Chair of the party’s Pride Caucus, a transgender candidate for the Ohio House, and Ohio’s first openly trans city council member—from even entering the Zoom call. When another advocate demanded to know why Childrey was barred, she was ejected. The Chair of the Progressive Caucus, Kim McCarthy, was locked in the waiting room during the entire “listening session.” And in the end, the campaign ultimately refused to apologize for calling trans girls “boys,” refused to retract Acton’s support for a transgender sports ban, and ended the meeting with no plans for what come next.
This is deliberate hate.
At the end of the day, she’s still a better choice than Vivek. I’m not happy about how she’s treating trans people but compared to Vivek she’s still a better candidate.
But if she’s buying into right-wing framing on trans people it shows she is at best naive. What’s she going to meet the other side halfway on next? Pro-choice except for an ever expanding list of cases?
I’m glad I don’t live in Ohio anymore and don’t have to choose between these shitty people.
Captain Perfect on his way to fight the forces of Good.
When the choice is someone who is legit insane or someone who only pretends to be progressive, you’re kinda fucked either way. See also: fetterman vs Oz.
I couldn’t make that argument to a trans person
I could. Because I know at the end of the day I will continue to fight for trans rights regardless of this election.
But I’m also not a single issue voter.
Kyle Herman, Chair of the Pride Caucus, summarized the room’s frustration: “I am disappointed at how this was handled. I hoped to get clarification that could let us say, ‘See, Acton cares.’ This wasn’t it.
Oh, he got clarification, all right. Just some much more negative than he hoped for.
