Statehouse One-Acts: Showers of Elections edition

... which suggests the existence of Flowers of Elections, too, I suppose

Well hello there, you gorgeous human. 

Apologies for the absence – since I’m no longer on typical nine-to-five schedule, I have to undertake projects as they come, and I was undertookening a couple pretty hard recently.

Anyway, lots going on, not the least of which are [[drumroll]] … elections!

A special election in Alabama a couple of weeks ago garnered a ton of national headlines, and for good reason.

• Democrat Marilyn Lands flipped a swingy state House district in the Yellowhammer state on March 26, and she flipped it in a BIG way – winning House District 10 by 25 freaking points (after losing it by seven in 2022, by the by; Trump carried the seat 49-48 in 2020).

  • Lands’ victory is largely credited to the fact that she ran a campaign focused on reproductive rights and IVF, which is very much on Alabamians’ minds since the February state Supreme Court ruling that defined frozen embryos as human beings (thus attaching all the liabilities that come with ending a human life to tiny chilly clu…