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tracker7Kentucky holds its elections for statewide office in odd-numbered years, for some goofy reason. Our primary was last week, and the results were surprising. On the Democrat side, state legislator Rocky Adkins took off to a heck of an early lead, and for a little while, I started asking myself if my "anybody but Bevin" stance would include an anti-choice candidate who's pretty deep in the pockets of coal companies. My preferred candidate, former State Auditor Adam Edelen, made a good showing, but ultimately placed second to current state AG Andy Beshear. Beshear's the son of our previous governor, and has vigorously opposed Bevin's worst excesses. Bevin himself won with just a little over half of the Republican votes - another state legislator put up a hell of a fight. The Republican candidates for AG ran campaigns trying to convince voters that they were more Trumpy than their opponent - so come November, fuck that and let's hope that Greg Stumbo makes a good enough showing.
I'm hopeful that the overall voter turnout (while much lower than it should have been) is a sign of things to come. About 125K more Dems showed up to vote than the other guys. If that kind of turnout happens in November, we can hopefully get Bevin out of office and start unfucking things. Kentucky is really good at voting against its own best interests, though, and, well, Democrats fall in love while Republicans fall in line. Knowing that, I'm bracing for four more years of the nation's most unpopular governor.
Tried something different for an Armada event on Saturday - fleets built at half the standard point allotment. It was a good experience - played on 3'x3' spaces instead of the standard 6'x3', so engagements happened fast. I went 1-2 on the day, losing to other corvette-centered fleets, and ... well, not losing to an ISD because my frigate and transports stayed away from the thing and my fighter squadrons took out their opposite numbers. It wasn't much of a win, but I was happy with it. We're going to use the same format for a casual tournament at the end of June, with large ships explicitly prohibited. Should be another good day of fleet combat.
I'm hopeful that the overall voter turnout (while much lower than it should have been) is a sign of things to come. About 125K more Dems showed up to vote than the other guys. If that kind of turnout happens in November, we can hopefully get Bevin out of office and start unfucking things. Kentucky is really good at voting against its own best interests, though, and, well, Democrats fall in love while Republicans fall in line. Knowing that, I'm bracing for four more years of the nation's most unpopular governor.
Tried something different for an Armada event on Saturday - fleets built at half the standard point allotment. It was a good experience - played on 3'x3' spaces instead of the standard 6'x3', so engagements happened fast. I went 1-2 on the day, losing to other corvette-centered fleets, and ... well, not losing to an ISD because my frigate and transports stayed away from the thing and my fighter squadrons took out their opposite numbers. It wasn't much of a win, but I was happy with it. We're going to use the same format for a casual tournament at the end of June, with large ships explicitly prohibited. Should be another good day of fleet combat.