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peppertree's JournalRitchie Torres, Mondaire Jones become 1st openly gay Black members of Congress
Source: Yahoo! News
Both gents are Democrats from New York. And both Torres and Jones made history on Election Night.
Democratic New Yorkers Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones have become the first openly gay Black men elected to the U.S. Congress.
Torres, 32, who is Afro-Latino, has been a member of New York City’s city council for seven years.
Jones, 33, won the 17th district, representing Rockland County, which includes parts of Westchester County in New York’s suburbs. The district’s previous representative, Democrat Nita Lowey, retired.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/ritchie-torres-mondaire-jones-become-134739542.html
Congressmen-elect Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres: Making history
Dixville Notch, NH, was divided in 2016. This year was a Biden sweep.
One of the first communities in the nation to reveal its election results voted unanimously for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden early Tuesday, marking only the second time a candidate has swept the tiny New Hampshire hamlet in its 60-year tradition of midnight voting.
All five voters in Dixville Notch, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, gathered at the now-closed Balsams Resort to become some of the first people in the country to formally submit their decisions.
The residents drop paper ballots into a wooden box, and the votes are counted by hand.
The only other time the community’s voters have been in agreement was when all nine chose Republican Richard Nixon over Democrat John F. Kennedy in 1960, the tradition’s first year.
At: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/this-tiny-nh-hamlet-was-divided-in-2016-this-year-was-a-biden-sweep/ar-BB1aETWY
Tanner Tillotson writes the results of ballots cast in Dixville Notch, N.H., shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden carried all five of the hamlet's votes - the first sweep there since 1960.
Proud Boy Trump supporter threatens to bomb North Dakota voting center
Police in Dickinson, North Dakota arrested Anthony Raymond, a 33-year-old self-proclaimed “Proud Boy” — a Trump-loving, anti-feminist men’s group whose members never masturbate and attend white supremacist rallies — for threatening to bomb a polling station in Stark County.
Raymond reportedly sent an anonymous email mentioning his plan to The Dickinson Press, a local newspaper. The police then tracked him down by figuring out his IP address through the email he sent.
They arrested him soon after. He’s now facing felony charges.
At: https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/10/proud-boy-trump-supporter-threatens-to-bomb-north-dakota-voting-center/
Proud boy: Dickinson, ND, bomb threat culprit Anthony Raymond
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