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BadgerMom

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5. Lujan Grisham has a background in government.
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 09:14 PM
Oct 2022

I think the effectiveness of Biden compared to Trump is, of course, because Biden wants to accomplish things for America and Trump cares only about himself. However, I can’t dismiss the fact that Biden has years of experience in government. He knows how the system works. He’s seen it; he’s done it. My parents voted for Kennedy, but after his assassination they knew things would move through Congress because LBJ had been a master politician for decades.

All of this is a roundabout way of saying that experience counts. Ronchetti’s got nothin’. He’d be learning on the job. If he weren’t a Republican, I’d feel this way. But he is a Republican. He’d be led by the nose by the Republican powers that be. I don’t like him; I do think Lujan Grisham has accomplished some good things. But, importantly, he has no government experience.

Lord, I hope he loses.

By the way, I’m in Santa Fe. We moved from Ventura County in California in 2018. Our daughter got her PhD from Wisconsin as she got a job offer from a startup here. We wanted to be near her and her husband. There is much to like-including that the state is blue.

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