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Marky Bunny

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Wednesday November 8th, 2023

Election Results Round-up:

Oregon Gubernatorial:
Pullman defeats Noble who refuses to concede race
In what has been the bitterest election of this cycle, Democrat State Senator Kristin Pullman will be the next Governor of Oregon after beating her Republican rival former TV host Amber Noble. The margin of victory looks like being around 70,000 votes (around a 3.5% margin).

Pullman declared it was a "victory for truth, not for conspiracy" and she also praised the outgoing Republican Governor Walter Collins "Governor Collins has served our state well these past eight years, he is a man of honor and dignity, and I think all Oregon's will wish him well for whatever he does next" which was seen as acknowledgement of Collins likely run for the Presidency in 2026.

Amber Noble appeared before her supporters after the networks and the Oregon Elections Division had declared the result for Pullman "As I warned and said, this result is a massive fraud upon the people of Oregon. I am not conceding, because I haven't lost legally" claiming the election which uses all mail in voting had been "corrupted" adding "we have evidence of massive corruption and fraud, we have proof of radical democrats dumping loads of ballots into the drop boxes, and will fight this fake elction result through the courts".

Gubernatorial round-up:
Kentucky
As expected Governor Mark Hampton (R) was re-elected in his own right, after beating Kyle Bowles, the businessman son of the former Senator Calvin. The % margin looks like being around 14%, although Bowles did improve on 2019 candidate Jack Lucas % vote by around 1.5%.
Mississippi
Like Oregon, this was the other state to change from the incumbent party, with Republican Lt Governor Jonas Watts cruising to a 17% victory over State Rep Terrance Potter. Watts who had served under Democrat Alan Fisk for the past eight years, said that he was "ready to work hard" for the state.
South Carolina
No surprise here as Congressman Todd Winters swept to victory to replace the term limited Ethan Butler (like Walter Collins in Oregon he has a clear eye on a White House run in 2026). The margin looks like being around 20% over State Rep Lewis Brunden.
Vermont
Janet Lorton looks like being the longest ever serving governor as she swept to another victory, even bettering her landslide 2019 victory with a 32% margin over State Senator Brandon Teller and Marjuana campaigner Oswald Pollock.

US House Special Election for Indiana's 7th District:
In the special election to replace Olivia Buckland it was an easy win for the Democrat Greg Larrison in a safe Democratic seat.
Greg Larrison (Democratic): 66.54%
Jim Elsener (Republican): 30.78%
Zach Heinz (Libertarian): 2.68%

Ohio Marijuana Vote:
Ohio voters have approved a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana, making it the 26th state to embrace legalization in a push that’s expanding into more conservative parts of the country. The "yes" vote on means people aged 21 and over in the state will be able to use, grow or sell marijuana under a regulation-and-tax program imposed by the state. The measure takes effect in thirty days.
With 98% of the vote in the results are:
Yes 57%
No 43%
 
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MountainDew17

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John Hoynes addressed live crowd at Friday Night Smackdown; says he is "on the mend" in pre-recorded video

Columbus, Ohio- In a pre-recorded video taped from the Hoynes home in Parker, Texas, the former Vice President of the United States John Hoynes gave an update on his health, 3 weeks after he suffered what was reported to be a "massive heart attack" during a taping of Friday Night Smackdown on October 20th. The former VP looked to be in good spirits as he thanked his friends and family, as well as the WWE Universe for all of their support during his recovery. Hoynes also promised that he wasn't done as Smackdown's General Manager, announcing that he was placing the debuting "National Treasure" Nick Aldis as the interim GM. Aldis has been signed with WWE since this past summer and has been working backstage as a road agent.
 

Marky Bunny

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Saturday November 11th, 2023

Noble bizarre phone calls leaked to the press

Defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Amber Noble called up both the states Republican Governor Walter Collins and the Oregon Secretary of State (who is responsible for running the states elections) Chase Elliott on election night to try and get them to both to declare her the winner of the election.

Audio of the calls was sent to all the major media outlets and put up on YouTube after Noble on Friday evening held another press conference claiming that her campaign would "provide 100% proof that the election was rigged and stolen" on Monday. Within minutes of this, the phone calls appeared on line and where received into NBS and the other major news networks. The first call was to Governor Collins was within minutes of the counting starting "hey Walter, we think we have won, but we are hearing lots of funny stories about mass dumps of votes at drop boxes" Collins replies "sorry Amber but that is garbage" asking "where are you getting this information" Noble replies " everyone knows it has been going on, George Soros has been paying for it" at which both of them start taking over each other "Just go out and say I am the winner" but then Collins ends the call.

Around an hour later, Noble then called Secretary of State Chase Elliott with the same allegations and her then asking him "Chase, you need to declare me the winner, along with Walter" Elliott replies "It looks like you are going to lose, I am sorry Amber, but there has been no reports of mass fraud, you are being misinformed". The conservation then goes down hill with Noble almost screaming down the phone "I have won, if you are a good Republican you say I have won, or have you paid off by the communists". Elliott says " you have fought a hard campaign, you need to concede if you lose, with good grace" but Noble was having none of it "I have won, I have won, it's being stolen from me" then Elliott ends the call with "Sorry Amber, I hope you do the right thing".

A source close to Governor Collins told NBS "Kristin Pullman won the election fair and square, she is the Governor elect, frankly Walter (Collins) thinks she (Noble) has probably had some sort of breakdown, and needs medical help" adding "she has been very badly advised".
 
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Marky Bunny said:
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Saturday November 11th, 2023

Noble bizarre phone calls leaked to the press

Defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Amber Noble called up both the states Republican Governor Walter Collins and the Oregon Secretary of State (who is responsible for running the states elections) Chase Elliott on election night to try and get them to both to declare her the winner of the election.

Audio of the calls was sent to all the major media outlets and put up on YouTube after Noble on Friday evening held another press conference claiming that her campaign would "provide 100% proof that the election was rigged and stolen" on Monday. Within minutes of this, the phone calls appeared on line and where received into NBS and the other major news networks. The first call was to Governor Collins was within minutes of the counting starting "hey Walter, we think we have won, but we are hearing lots of funny stories about mass dumps of votes at drop boxes" Collins replies "sorry Amber but that is rubbish" asking "where are you getting this information" Noble replies " everyone knows it has been going on, George Soros has been paying for it" at which both of them start taking over each other "Just go out and say I am the winner" but then Collins ends the call.

Around an hour later, Noble then called Secretary of State Chase Elliott with the same allegations and her then asking him "Chase, you need to declare me the winner, along with Walter" Elliott replies "It looks like you are going to lose, I am sorry Amber, but there has been no reports of mass fraud, you are being misinformed". The conservation then goes down hill with Noble almost screaming down the phone "I have won, if you are a good Republican you say I have won, or have you paid off by the communists". Elliott says " you have fought a hard campaign, you need to concede if you lose, with good grace" but Noble was having none of it "I have won, I have won, it's being stolen from me" then Elliott ends the call with "Sorry Amber, I hope you do the right thing".

A source close to Governor Collins told NBS "Kristin Pullman won the election fair and square, she is the Governor elect, frankly Walter (Collins) thinks she (Noble) has probably had some sort of breakdown, and needs medical help" adding "she has been very badly advised".
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This is another of those wonderful ‘art imitating life’ moments, isn’t it?
 

WestWingNut

Marky Bunny said:
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Saturday November 11th, 2023

Noble bizarre phone calls leaked to the press

Defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Amber Noble called up both the states Republican Governor Walter Collins and the Oregon Secretary of State (who is responsible for running the states elections) Chase Elliott on election night to try and get them to both to declare her the winner of the election.

Audio of the calls was sent to all the major media outlets and put up on YouTube after Noble on Friday evening held another press conference claiming that her campaign would "provide 100% proof that the election was rigged and stolen" on Monday. Within minutes of this, the phone calls appeared on line and where received into NBS and the other major news networks. The first call was to Governor Collins was within minutes of the counting starting "hey Walter, we think we have won, but we are hearing lots of funny stories about mass dumps of votes at drop boxes" Collins replies "sorry Amber but that is rubbish" asking "where are you getting this information" Noble replies " everyone knows it has been going on, George Soros has been paying for it" at which both of them start taking over each other "Just go out and say I am the winner" but then Collins ends the call.

Around an hour later, Noble then called Secretary of State Chase Elliott with the same allegations and her then asking him "Chase, you need to declare me the winner, along with Walter" Elliott replies "It looks like you are going to lose, I am sorry Amber, but there has been no reports of mass fraud, you are being misinformed". The conservation then goes down hill with Noble almost screaming down the phone "I have won, if you are a good Republican you say I have won, or have you paid off by the communists". Elliott says " you have fought a hard campaign, you need to concede if you lose, with good grace" but Noble was having none of it "I have won, I have won, it's being stolen from me" then Elliott ends the call with "Sorry Amber, I hope you do the right thing".

A source close to Governor Collins told NBS "Kristin Pullman won the election fair and square, she is the Governor elect, frankly Walter (Collins) thinks she (Noble) has probably had some sort of breakdown, and needs medical help" adding "she has been very badly advised".
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So how may votes does Noble want Elliot to find for her?
 

lord caedus

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Noble will not pay for recount, plans to file lawsuit over election results

Sunday, November 12th, 2023

Former television anchor Amber Noble, who lost the state's gubernatorial election last week to Democrat Kristin Pullman, will not pay for a statewide recount, her campaign told reporters. Instead, Noble will plan to file a lawsuit over what the former KAEW-TV anchor claims was "widespread" voter fraud.

"I will be filing a lawsuit that will bring out the TRUTH about this last election," Noble announced in a Facebook post. "We will reveal the widespread fraud that RHINOS [sic] Walter Collins and Chase Elliott are too cowardly to admit that they FAILED to prevent."

Two leaked phone calls between Noble and both Collins (the outgoing Republican governor) and Elliott (the Republican Secretary of State) released yesterday showed that Noble attempted to convince both men to declare her the winner, citing unproven conspiracies of mail-in ballots being destroyed or altered. Elliott, in his role as Secretary of State, certified the preliminary results of the gubernatorial election on Friday, naming Pullman as the governor-elect, having won with 50.7% of votes cast ahead of Noble's 47.2% of the vote, far outside the requirements for an automatic recount under Oregon state law.

Collins, who many expect to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2026, controversially attempted to order a recount in that state after it narrowly returned a result for Sam Seaborn in the 2018 presidential election, despite not being empowered to do so under Oregon law. The result was a rare public backlash to the popular moderate Republican governor, where the state legislature overrode his veto to pass legislation explicitly excluding the state governor from the election process, including the ordering of recounts.

No credible allegations of voter fraud have emerged in last week's race. Noble's campaign is expected to file her case in state court tomorrow.

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Sunday, November 12th 2023

Iran executes ten, including supposed planner of massacre

Tehran— The Islamic Republic of Iran executed ten people early today, including Muhammad al-Garbiki, a Bahji leader who the Iranian government claims helped plot the massacre of the village of Qar al-Hudud in northern Qumar, where an estimated 400-450 people were killed by Bahji insurgents in late October.

The government announced the execution of ten people for various crimes, including al-Garbiki, earlier today, having carried out the executions at daybreak local time. Al-Garbiki, a Qumari national, was the only foreigner executed and the only person who Iranian courts had convicted of murder, having been convicted in absentia of orchestrating attacks on Iranian military installations and civilian infrastructure during that country's occupation of northern Qumar from 2016 to 2019 before his capture in September just north of the Iran-Qumar border.

"The innocent victims of Qar al-Hudud have been partially avenged," a spokesman for the Iranian government told reporters. "They can rest easily knowing that the people and government of Iran will stop at nothing to bring their murderers to justice."

The Departments of State and Defense, alongside other international intelligence agencies, have expressed skepticism about Iran's claims of al-Garbiki's involvement in the planning of the attack and massacre at Qar al-Hudud, with a senior intelligence official in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) telling ACN that they have not been able to confirm whether the attack was planned before or after al-Garbiki's capture by Iran.

Secretary of State Paris Stray, meanwhile, condemned Iran for its increase in the use of capital punishment.

"The United States condemns the use of capital punishment for non-violent offenders, and continues to protest the numerous violations of human and civil rights the Iranian government inflicts upon its citizens," Stray said in a statement. "Numerous international and human rights groups have raised the alarm at the increasing use of the death penalty in Iran since the beginning of this year...we reiterate our call for the government of Iran to limit the use of the ultimate punishment a society can inflict to only those who have committed the most heinous offenses."
 

Marky Bunny

2022 Gubernatorial Results
NoStateNotesCandidateCandidate StatusPop VotePop Vote %CandidateCandidate StatusPop VotePop Vote %CandidateCandidate StatusPop VotePop Vote %Pop Vote Margin %Pop Vote MarginTotal Votes CastResult
1KentuckyIncumbent: Mark Hampton (R) Running for relection & a full termGovernor Mark Hampton (R)Incumbent815,58956.41% Kyle Bowles(D)Challenger608,14742.06%Campaigner Leo GeorgeChallenger (Progressive Indep)22,0461.52%14.35%207,4421,445,782Rep Hold
2MississippiIncumbent: Alan Fisk (D) Term LimitedLt Governor Jonas Watts (R)Challenger582,11958.70%State Rep Terrance Potter (D)Incumbent409,50741.30%None17.41%172,612991,626Rep Gain
3OregonIncumbent: Walter Collins (R) Term LimitedFormer TV Host Amber Noble (R)Incumbent Party950,44247.21%State Senator Kristin Pullman (D)Challenger1,020,60650.70%Salem City Councillor Debbie KellyChallenger (Socialist Party)42,1152.09%3.49%70,1642,013,163Dem Gain
4South CarolinaIncumbent: Ethan Butler (R) Term LimitedCongressman Todd Winters (R)Incumbent1,035,96460.10%State Rep Lewis Brunden (D)Challenger687,87639.90%None20.19%348,0881,723,840Rep Hold
5VermontIncumbent: Janet Lorton (D) Running for relectionState Senator Brandon Teller (R)Challenger101,44532.28%Governor Janet Lorton (D)Incumbent202,41064.41%Campaigner Oswald PollockChallenger (Marjuana Party)10,4063.31%32.13%100,965314,261Dem Hold
3,485,55953.72%2,928,54645.13%74,5671.15%8.58%557,0136,488,672
-1.93%3.04%-1.12%
 

lord caedus

Some infoboxes of some events/characters who showed up in parts of the 2023 "season"

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TTL's belated answer to the ACA/Obamacare. With a combination of the Democratic Party being farther to the left on healthcare in both OTL & TTL's 2023 than in 2010 and no Palpatine doppelganger in TTL's Senate, it's got a public option in addition to lowering the eligibility age for Medicare to 60.

Per the real life ACA, its provisions are going to be rolled out gradually, but some things (like outlawing denial based on pre-existing conditions or allowing people 26 and under to remain on their parents' health insurance) have already kicked in.
Brazil was the only candidate to file for the leadership race, so he was declared the winner. The dates are from when the nomination period opened until it closed.

Yes, the Tenth (and Fourteenth) Doctor succeeded the Ninth Doctor. Both men also had the Thirteenth Doctor as their deputy at one point and were Labour MPs during the Twelfth Doctor's brief leadership. Really, we've made the Labour Party leadership chock full of timey-wimey stuff.
The cutest members of the First Family make their appearance (sorry Marty). The picture is one I edited together, with the Seaborn twins played by unnamed twins who appeared in a stock photo I found. The figure behind them is actually Anne Hathaway (Lauren Parker Seaborn), who lets just say she's actually bending her knees slightly and not that her kids are really tall for a pair of toddlers.
The only thing of note for the 2023 gubernatorial elections is that both parties' pick-ups (OR for the Dems, MS for the Republicans) came as a result of popular incumbents who defied their state's partisan bent being term-limited out. Of course, Ethan Butler was also term-limited in South Carolina, but good luck getting a Democrat elected governor there when the face of the party is a Californian liberal pretty boy who hates guns and gives black people things like affordable health care and the vice presidency.

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And, a special thing I did because I was thinking of doing an infobox of the Oregon race, then realized that of course that MD would be mad if I didn't show at least one of the two previous gubernatorial elections there.

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Oregon allows electoral fusion (i.e. candidates can run on multiple parties' ballot lines), so even though both the major parties' nominees are only referred to as the nominees of the Republican or Democratic parties, they are (usually) endorsed by two or more smaller parties with automatic ballot access in Oregon.

Unlike OTL, TTL's Oregon has a lieutenant governor and they are elected on the same ticket as the governor.
Chang shit the bed so badly as governor that despite Ricky Rafferty being certifiably insane by 2015, multiple smaller left-wing parties decided to endorse her rather than the Democratic nominee, with only the Working Families Party still backing the Democratic ticket.

The note on Connell's name indicates that Connell ran on the Republican ticket, but was still registered as a Democrat (he formally switched parties before the 2019 race).

Yes, even with 25% gap between Collins and Chang, the GOP doesn't take Multnomah County (the one with Portland in it). It does say something that IOTL the last governor of Oregon to both be elected and win a majority of counties as John Kitzhaber in 1998
McColl's LG nominee is a new creation.

Similar to 2015, the Democrats only win Multnomah County, with Collins again missing out on becoming the first governor since 1982 (which is also likely the last OTL election that also occurred ITTL) to get a 36-county sweep.
Both lieutenant governor candidates are new.

Pullman was cast by Mark when we were formulating the results, but she makes her debut *here*. She of course will be Oregon's first female governor ITTL since Walter Collins and Chase Elliot somehow weren't persuaded into committing several serious felonies and attempting to subverting democracy by the idea that a shadowy cabal of communists somehow secretly altered tens of thousands of ballots to deny Amber Noble the governorship.

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Cast
David Tennant as Patrick Brazil
Jon Lindstrom as Walter Collins
Ken Jeong as Paul Chang
Mel Harris as Ricky Rafferty
Kassie DePaiva as Candice McColl (new casting)
Sarah Paulson as Kristin Pullman (new casting)
Stacey Dash as Amber Noble
 

MHurtado09

In reflecting on the races for governor this year I'd like to note that no Republican has been re-elected Governor of New Jersey since Alfred Driscoll in... 1 9 4 9 !

That HAS to be a record for either party ITTL and OTL, right (excluding the de facto one party rule by the Democrats in the south)?
 
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I was planning on doing this as a follow-up to the lists of senators that was accurate before last November's elections, but felt I should wait at least until this year's gubernatorial elections were done.

Consider this big entry (12 states!) as make-up for not having done an article in over a week.

A note for this series: I'm listing each governors' number in each state's entry. If there are any discrepancies between the number listed here and numbers in previous infoboxes, consider the number listed here the canonical one.

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Lists of United States Governors (1985-present)
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Governors of Alabama
48. 1979-1986: D. Wire Newman (Democratic)
Elections: 1978, 1982
49. 1986-1995: Robert M. Kirkwood (Republican)
Elections: 1986, 1990
50. 1995-2003: Wesley Burke (Republican)
Elections: 1994, 1998
49. 2003-2008: Robert M. Kirkwood (Republican)
Elections: 2002, 2006
51. 2008-2011: John McCrory (Republican)
52. 2011-2019: Stock Kinsey (Republican)
Elections: 2010, 2014
53. 2019-2027: Edward West (Republican)
Elections: 2018, 2022

The alphabetically first state's pre-2010 gubernatorial history was fleshed out by Tim Thomason. Ironically, the most successful Alabaman ITTL history also was the last Democratic governor there, meaning that the state had zero Republican governors for over 100 years (1874-1986), then has had nothing but GOP chief executives.

Alabama numbers the governors by their first term in office, so Kirkwood is the 49th governor, (and OTL George Wallace is the 45th governor, not the 45th, 48th & 50th governors). It is also a state that allows someone to serve more than two terms, but requires a four-year break between elections, hence why Kirkwood stepped down in 1994 & could return when everyone's favorite Bible thumper, Wesley Burke, retired.

To explain the mid-term changes: Newman resigned early to focus on his (successful) presidential campaign, and Kirkwood finished the remainder of his term (the LG is elected separately in Alabama, hence the Republican Kirkwood succeeding the Democratic Newman). Kirkwood resigned early is fourth elected term due to health issues.

Incumbent governor Edward West cannot run for a third consecutive term in 2026.

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Governors of Arkansas
39. 1975-1981: David Pryor (Democratic)
Elections: 1974, 1976, 1978
40. 1981-1989: Fletcher Carey (Republican)
Elections: 1980, 1984
41. 1989-1993: Jack Griffith (Democratic)
Elections: 1988
42. 1993-2001: Jack Stanton (Democratic)
Elections: 1992, 1996
43. 2001-2005: Matt Talbot (Republican)
Elections: 2000
44. 2005-2013: Bobby Rimmer (Democratic)
Elections: 2004, 2008
45. 2013-2021: Carol-Anne Slater (Republican)
Elections: 2012, 2016
46. 2021-2025: Thomas Booth (Republican)
Elections: 2020

Tim Thomason listed out Arkansas' governors in the old thread. The only updates are Slater & Booth's governorships.

For background, I'm establishing that Arkansas' constitutional amendment IOTL 1984 that extended the term length from two years to four occurred six years earlier IOTL, meaning the 1980 election (which IRL was the only time one William J. Clinton lost a statewide race in Arkansas) was the first four-year term.

Carey is currently the state's senior senator, while Stanton is the dean of the congressional delegation from Arkansas (and the only Democrat to hold a House district there). The state has a two-term lifetime limit, so incumbent governor Thomas Booth can run for a final term in 2024.

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Governors of California
34. 1975-1979: Jerry Brown (Democratic)
Elections: 1974
35. 1979-1986: Owen Lassiter (Republican)
Elections: 1978, 1982
36. 1986-1999: Teddy Bridges (Republican)
Elections: 1986, 1990, 1994
37. 1999-2007: Gabe Tillman (Democratic)
Elections: 1998, 2002
38. 2007-2012: Kevin Clarkson (Democratic)
Elections: 2006, 2010
39. 2012-2023: Abbie Heilemann (Democratic)
Elections: 2012 (recall), 2014, 2018
40. 2023-2027: Gael Cordova (Democratic)
Elections: 2022

I already tackled the nation's largest state & home to the current resident of the White House here & see there for the notes up to Heilemann's term. She, of course, is now the junior senator for California. Cordova had previously served as the first Secretary of Labor in the Seaborn administration.

For mid-term changes: Lassiter resigned in 1986 to contest the GOP nomination for the presidency (which he lost to Joseph Furman) & Bridges served the remainder of his term. Clarkson was removed in a gubernatorial recall & Heilemann was elected to finish the remainder of his second term in office.

Cordova is eligible to serve one more term after his current one ends in 2027.

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Governors of Delaware
69. 1985-1993: Joseph McKenna (Democratic)
Elections: 1984, 1988
70. 1993-2001: John Smalls (Democratic)
Elections: 1992, 1996
71. 2001-2009: Joe Byers (Democratic)
Elections: 2000, 2004
72. 2009-2017: Rachel DeBoer (Democratic)
Elections: 2008, 2012
73. 2017-2018: Declan Molloy (Democratic)
Elections: 2016
74. 2018-2025: Annelise Byers (Democratic)
Elections: 2020

All of Delaware's governors have been established before. Between DeBoer and Pete du Pont (the last OTL governor who also serves as TTL's most recent Republican chief executive in Dover), Delaware had a remarkable run of having five consecutive two-term governors. One of them (Joe Byers) is the father of the current governor.

The only inter-term change was Molloy resigning after the feds launched a campaign finance investigation into some of his staffers who were trying to pay off people who alleged that Molloy had participated in torture during his time as an Army Ranger.

Delaware prevents governors from being elected more than twice, so even though Annelise Byers served a majority of Molloy's term, she is eligible for re-election for a second full term of her own in 2024.

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Governors of Minnesota
36. 1983-1993: Rudy Perpich (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
Elections: 1982, 1986, 1988
37. 1993-2001: Charles Dawkins (Independent-Republican / Republican)
Elections: 1992, 1996
38. 2001-2004: Harry Kimble (Independence)
Election: 2000
38. 2004-2005: Harry Kimble (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
39. 2005-2013: Michael Jack (Republican)
Elections: 2004, 2008
40. 2013-2025: Jarrod Daniels (Democratic-Farmer-Labor)
Elections: 2012, 2016, 2020

I already did this list here, with the notes explaining the party names. The only new addition is that Daniels won a third term in 2020. The only midterm change is that Kimble switched from the Independence Party to the DFL while in office.

Minnesota does not have term limits, so Daniels is eligible to run for a fourth term in 2024.

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Governors of Missouri
48. 1977-1985: Kelso Templeton (Republican)
Elections: 1976, 1980
49. 1985-1989: John Ashford (Republican)
Elections: 1984
50. 1989-1993: Ken Allen (Democratic)
Elections: 1988
51. 1993-1998: H. Stanley Griffin (Republican)†
Elections: 1992, 1996
52. 1998-2001: Eric Smith (Republican)
53. 2001-2005: Chet Turner (Democratic)
Elections: 2000
54. 2005-2013: Henry Shallick (Republican)
Elections: 2004, 2008
55. 2013-2021: Lucas Foley (Republican)
Elections: 2012, 2016
56. 2021-2025: Tim Moss (Republican)
Elections: 2020

I established Ashford & Turner previously in Henry Shallick & Lorraine Underhill's infoboxes. Templeton was noted as being the person who kickstarted Glen Allen Walken's political career, since Walken got his start working on his gubernatorial campaign. Allen, Griffin & Smith are all new inventions. I had Griffin die in office to line up with the gubernatorial numbering in Shallick's infobox.

Missouri is another state with a two-term lifetime limit for its governors, so Tim Moss can run for another term in 2024.

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Governors of Nebraska
35. 1983-1987: Bob Kerrey (Democratic)
Elections: 1982
36. 1987-1993: Sarah Newbury (Republican)
Elections: 1986, 1988
37. 1993-1997: Harris Norman (Democratic)
Elections: 1992
38. 1997-2005: Bill Daniel (Republican)
Elections: 1996, 2000
39. 2005-2009: Roger Tribbey (Democratic)
Elections: 2004
40. 2009-2017: John Moore (Republican)
Elections: 2008, 2012
41. 2017-2025: Ben Lane (Republican)
Elections: 2016, 2020

Nebraska was an interesting one to work out, because all the pre-thread governors have been established, but there were several contradictions that I had to iron out to make this work.

Basically, the Nebraska unicameral reacts to the presidential election cycle realignment by making a special two-year term to bridge the gap between the new gubernatorial cycles. Sarah Newbury (future HHS secretary in the Walken administration) won this abbreviated term and so only served six years as governor instead of eight. Harris Norman chose not to run for re-election in 1996 to focus on his presidential ambitions for 1998, so future junior senator Bill Daniel was elected. Tribbey stepped down from being the Secretary of Agriculture to run.

Nebraska is one of those states that only allows governors to serve two consecutive terms, so Lane can't run in 2024.

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Governors of New Hampshire
74. 1979-1983: Hugh Gallen (Democratic)
Elections: 1978
75. 1983-1991: George Winfield Scott, Jr. (Republican)
Elections: 1982, 1986
76. 1991-1999: Josiah Bartlet (Democratic)
Elections: 1990, 1994
77. 1999-2007: Henry T. Wilkins (Republican)
Elections: 1998, 2002
78. 2007-2015: Kurt Breech (Democratic)
Elections: 2006, 2010
79. 2015-2027: Elizabeth Bartlet (Democratic)
Elections: 2014, 2018, 2022

Bartlettopia's governors were established by Prometheus_2300 back in the old thread. I changed Wilkins to be a Republican to fit with the backstory given to his wife, current senior senator from the Granite State Ellie Wilkins. The only added info is that the former eldest First Daughter from the show has now surpassed her father in terms of time served in the governor's mansion in Concord.

Gallen (the last OTL governor) is a pretty good jumping-off point and he was elected to the first four-year term in the state's history & he survived long enough here to finish out his term after losing to Scott.

New Hampshire does not have term limits, so Liz can run for a fourth term in 2026 if she desires.

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Governors of New Jersey
48. 1982-1986: Thomas Kean (Republican)
Elections: 1981
49. 1986-1990: Joseph Lazzieri (Democratic)
Elections: 1985
50. 1990-1991: Kevin Baster (Republican)†
Elections: 1989
51. 1991-1994: Gregory Reynholm (Republican)
52. 1994-2002: Kate Crossley (Democratic)
Elections: 1993, 1997
53. 2002-2006: Jonathan Fowler (Republican)
Elections: 2001
54. 2006-2010: John Treyman (Democratic)
Elections: 2005
55. 2010-2014: Dan Pritchard (Republican)
Elections: 2009
56. 2014-2018: Annie Long (Democratic)
Elections: 2013
57. 2018-2026: Kelly Hoffman (Democratic)
Elections: 2017, 2021

Excelsior did this one already, and the only new item is Hoffman winning re-election. The only mid-term change here is that Baster was killed in a car accident, and Reynholm served the remainder of his term.

New Jersey does not allow governors to serve three consecutive terms, so Hoffman will not be eligible to run again in 2025.

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Governors of New York
52. 1983-1990: Mario Cuomo (Democratic)
Elections: 1982, 1986
53. 1991-2002: Jack Stephens (Republican)
Elections: 1990, 1994, 1998
54. 2003-2010: Bill Parker (Democratic)
Elections: 2002, 2006
55. 2011-2014: Matthew Lewis (Democratic)
Elections: 2010
56. 2015-2018: Rob Cole (Republican)
Elections: 2014
57. 2018-2026: Hakeem El-Amin (Democratic)
Elections: 2018, 2022

Excelsior already did this one here, and I'm just transferring it from graphic to text.

New York does not have term limits, so El-Amin is eligible to run again when his term ends in 2026.

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Governors of Texas
42. 1979-1989: Alex Hamilton (Republican)
Elections: 1978, 1980, 1984
43. 1989-1997: Jed Lucas (Democratic)
Elections: 1988, 1992
44. 1997-2009: Barton Hopkins (Republican)
Elections: 1996, 2000, 2004
45. 2009-2013: Phil Prior (Republican)
Elections: 2008
46. 2013-2017: John Hoynes (Democratic)
Elections: 2012
47. 2017-2025: Adam De Haan (Republican)
Elections: 2016, 2020

Another state that's pre-thread history was written by Tim Thomason. While it's not laid out there, I'm establishing that Texas' 1972 state constitutional amendment extending the governor's term from two years to four was delayed until 1978, meaning the 1980 election was the first that the governor served four years.

A notable addition to Tim's graphic is that the Lone Star state's 46th governor was Jed Bartlet's first VP, who also is the first former VP since Hubert Humphrey to return to elected office after leaving Number One Observatory Circle. (IOTL the first former VPOTUS to win elected office since Humphrey is some old dude who wants to keep working into his mid-80s).

Texas is a state that doesn't have term limits, so De Haan can run for another term in 2024.

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Governors of Virginia
65. 1982-1986: Chuck Robb (Democratic)
Election: 1981
66. 1986-1990: Richard Collins (Democratic)
Election: 1985
67. 1990-1994: Payton Beckett (Republican)
Election: 1989
68. 1994-1998: Jim Kane (Democratic)
Election: 1993
69. 1998-2002: Hank Rogan (Republican)
Election: 1997
70. 2002-2006: Casey Mitchell (Republican)
Election: 2001
71. 2006-2010: Mark Renton (Democratic)
Election: 2005
72. 2010-2014: Rob Buchanan (Republican)
Election: 2009
73. 2014-2018: Joel McKissock (Republican)
Election: 2013
74. 2018-2022: Bobby Tyler (Democratic)
Election: 2017
75. 2022-2026: Hugh Harrison (Democratic)
Election: 2021

The Old Dominion is the only state that doesn't allow governors to run for immediate re-election, hence why every governor listed is a one-termer.

Collins, and Beckett are new creations. Jim Kane was established as being Bartlet's Secretary of Education, and I'm establishing him as previously serving as Virginia's governor here. Other prominent former governors include the state's junior senator (Buchanan) and the current VPOTUS (Tyler).

As stated, Virginia state law does not allow for immediate re-election, so Harrison can't run for a new term in 2025.
 

Marky Bunny

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Tuesday November 21st, 2023

Noble's running-mate "no election fraud"

Ron Burns, Amber Noble's running mate in the Oregon gubernatorial election has said today during his own press conference that the election was "not stolen" and there was "no election fraud".

The state Senator said he had become increasingly frustrated by the claims still coming from the Noble campaign, and the candidate herself. He decided to call his own press conference to basically break with his former running mate "I cannot continue to stay silent, regarding the claims of election fraud. There was none. We lost fair and square" adding that he had told Noble herself on "several occasions that she had lost, and needed to concede".

Burns said that even during the campaign that he was concerned that the former TV host was being "given the wrong information" by people he calls "wacko's" adding in the days before the election he believed that they where going to lose but Noble was being told that it would be a stolen election if she lost. "I am a public official , I still serve the people of Oregon, and I will not stand back and have false claims made that undermine our state and our democracy".
 
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Republican wins Nebraska special election

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

Republican Mike Scheer has won the special election for Nebraska's first congressional district, easily holding off state senator Carol Baker (D) to keep the seat in the Republican column.

The first district, which encompasses the state capital of Lincoln and much of eastern Nebraska, except for the state's largest city of Omaha and a few of its surburbs, was expected to vote Republican, and has not been represented by a Democrat in over 50 years.

Scheer, who served as speaker of the state legislature before leaving office due to term limits in 2020, handily won the first open congressional race Nebraska has had in two decades, taking over 60 percent of the vote. He will take over the seat formerly held by Adrian Bentley (R), who was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison imprisonment and five years' probation after being convicted of soliciting illegal campaign violations and obstruction of justice in August.

In his victory speech, Scheer promised to work to instill a "culture of accountability" in Washington and took aim at what he called "massive and unexamined waste" in the federal budget that he claimed was due to congressional Democrats and the American Health Care Protection Act, the landmark healthcare bill signed by President Seaborn.

Results of the US House Special Election for Nebraska's First District
Mike Scheer (R): 62.39%
Carol Baker (D): 37.61%​
 

Marky Bunny

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Thursday November 23rd, 2023

Breaking News

Martin Greenwell resigns as Work and Pensions Secretary

Martin Greenwell, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has resigned this morning. The shock announcement followed the Chancellor's Autumn Statement yesterday in which he announced the introduction of new rules on benefits including the right of the DWP to ask banks to check benefit claimants accounts to make sure they not receiving other payments, along with toughing rules for disabled people to claim benefits and the re introduction of "Fair Work" which forces those claiming after six months to be forced to take retraining or do unpaid work placements.

Greenwell said in his resignation letter to the Prime Minister this morning that talks had taken place between the Chancellery and the DWP on some planned changes "no decision had been made" and that he been "undermined by the Chancellor and he been tried and forced into accepting the changes by the announcement in the House yesterday". Greenwell also said that the reintroduction of "Fair Work" which was deemed "unlawful" in 2016 after a serious of challengers by human rights groups in the courts going all the way to the Supreme Court, was a massive mistake "The court made it's decision, minor planned changes will not make it lawful under the courts ruling" .

Greenwell was Business Secretary when he famously lost his seat at the 2018 general election by just five votes, returned to the House of Commons in 2020 at the Esher & Walton by-election was reappointed to the Cabinet by Michael Duggan as Work and Pensions Secretary after he finished third in the leadership election in the summer of 2021.
 
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