Rough Night for Republicans, Conservative Proposals Win, Kamala's Crazy School Plan

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It was a long night, but we're here and we're glad you could join us! Today, Jim and Greg unpack disappointing election results as Democrats win control of the Virginia legislature and Kentucky GOP Gov. Matt Bevin appears headed to defeat. But they perk up as they see conservative policy ideas like protecting taxpayers, rejecting sanctuary city status, and tapping the brakes on affirmative action winning in moderate to liberal parts of the country. And they have zero use for a Kamala Harris proposal that would keep create a 10-hour school day (8 a.m.-6 p.m.) so it lines up with the work schedule of parents.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.
0:05.0	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.0	Three Martini's coming up. Hey, we're glad you're here at the Three Martini lunch.
0:17.0	If it looks like Jim and I haven't shaved or even changed clothes since yesterday,
0:21.0	I really even left the bar.
0:22.0	There's a good reason for that.
0:23.8	It wasn't a good day election day 2019, particularly in the Commonwealth of
0:27.5	Virginia, Commonwealth of Kentucky, actually it was pretty good for Republicans
0:32.1	except for the most important race of the
0:33.6	governor ship and Jim let's start there with our bad martini but before we do that we
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0:50.3	Martini. So Jim, the liberals giddy today because it looks like Matt Bevin is out as
0:56.0	governor of Kentucky although it's not officially called still a few thousand
0:59.8	votes but looks like Bashir is going to end up winning that race.
1:05.0	Bevin was one of the most unpopular governors in America, even though Kentucky is a pretty reliably
1:10.9	red state at least when it comes to presidential races and
1:14.0	federal races but he wasn't very popular in his handling of the teacher
1:19.2	showdown and it certainly seemed to cost him on Tuesday.
1:22.8	Where we live in Virginia, we kind of knew this was coming,
1:25.5	so we were slightly braced for it, but it's still no fun.
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