Source: NY 1

NY1 projects Mayor Bill de Blasio to be the winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.

With a little less than 86 percent of precincts reporting as of 10 p.m, de Blasio had 74.3 percent of the vote.

His nearest challenger, Sal Albanese, had 15.5 percent of the vote.

Michael Tolkin had 4.7 percent of the vote, Robert Gangi had 3.1 percent of the vote and Richard Bashner had 2.4 percent of the vote.


Read more: http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2017/09/12/primary-day-nyc.html

Source: The Oklahoman.

Oklahoma Democrats added another seat to their House membership Tuesday as Jacob Rosecrants beat Darin Chambers to fill an unexpired term.

The Norman House seat was previously held by Scott Martin, who left the Legislature to run the Norman Chamber of Commerce. It is the third House or Senate seat Democrats have taken from the GOP in special elections this year alone. The minority party will have 28 members in the Oklahoma House when Rosecrants is sworn in, which could be before a special session begins Sept. 25.

Rosecrants beat Chambers, a Norman businessman and Navy veteran, winning more than 60 percent of the vote. He delivered a victory speech to a raucous crowd at the Main Street Event Center in Norman.

Read more: http://newsok.com/democrats-win-special-election-in-norman/article/5563866

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I am not from Oklahoma but I heard there was a special election due to the million emails I get from the DLCC.

This is the 2nd red seat we flipped to blue tonight.

The Onion does it again.

Figured this was relevant again.

Will neo-confedrates and Nazi's on the march I thought we could use an anti-slavery song from the civl war.


The line "we will fill the vacant ranks with a million freemen more" refers to the newly freed slaves who then joined the union army.

With all the horror that has gone on in this country in the last few days, weeks and mounths I figured we can use a good laugh.

And what a better way to do it by mocking the Nazi's.

FAYETTEVILLE, NC—Saying he “never could have imagined” he would have the opportunity to follow directly in his father’s footsteps, 19-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. Tyler Corcoran was reportedly excited Tuesday to take over his dad’s old patrol route in Afghanistan. “It’s just so incredible that I’ll soon be walking the very same footpath as my old man, securing the perimeter of Camp Chapman in Khost Province just like he did so many years ago,” said Corcoran, who explained how, throughout his childhood, he had heard his father’s stories of guarding the forward operating base but never once considered that he would one day be traversing along the exact walls and securing the identical checkpoints his father had during his tours of duty. “To think that I’ll be monitoring the road between the airstrip and detention facility that Dad always talked about, keeping an eye out for IEDs and any suspicious activity the same way he did all those years ago. Honestly, it’s hard to believe—but, wow, it’s really happening.” At press time, a tear fell from Corcoran’s eye as he hugged his dad goodbye in the very same manner he remembered his father doing to him when he was a toddler.

http://www.theonion.com/article/soldier-excited-take-over-fathers-old-afghanistan--56731?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.