Election piece for Kay

 MICHIGAN SENATE RACE     

JOHN JAMES (R)  No.  Just, no.  He's the kind of fellow your racist grandma calls clean and articulate.  He is a Ken doll, up top as well as possibly down low, with no independent thoughts or opinions, at least not since the Military Industrial Complex got through with him.  (He flew helicopters, in case you hadn't heard.)  He is a blank canvas onto which Trumpers can project all their I'm-Not-A-Racist-But rhetoric, while he smiles blankly in their direction from the mailbox campaign flyers.  Why does he even want to be a senator?  Is it just the next step after 2.5 kids and corporate gladhanding?  It's not ok for wypipo (and I am the wytest of pipos) to call out Black people for tokenism.  But John James doesn't stand for anything except bland placeholding in the administration of Satan.

GARY PETERS (D)  Ok, sure.  He has a charisma deficit;  where James' teeth are blinding, Peters' might be a bit yellow.  He may have pit stains where James had his sweat glands removed.  He hasn't accomplished much...but that is down to the stranglehold McConnell has had on the Senate, not a single one term senator can point to ANYTHING they've gotten done.  He's a little too moderate for me.  But he is a real fucking human being. He also served in the military reserve for many years, with distinction, but doesn't crow about it.  I can guarantee he has genitalia.  And he has a heart.  He was a vocal supporter of Occupy Wall Street and the UN Population Fund. And last month, he shared the deeply personal story of his family's choice of an abortion to save his wife Heidi's life. (https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a34339956/senator-gary-peters-abortion/)  It was deeply courageous, and in our deeply messed up state, it will probably cost him his job.