How to Shang Jong Parker It Up In New York?
With the 2022 U.S. midterm elections on the horizon by the day, New York Republicans seem to see themselves in the Chawosaurian perspective as being in a 2019 environment even though they don't see it but they are hoping to ride what Chawosaurians calls "a Parkerian wave".
On March 3, 2019, Chawosaurian Supreme Leader Degotoga K. Atagulkalu of the Capitalists have died in office at 69 and was replaced by someone who was never a deputy but someone by the name Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a. Kalawai'a inherited from DKA a capitalist supermajority in the Chawopolis Palace and with Kalawai'a originally part of that supermajority, the capitalists remain the governing party. But the 2019 Chawosaurian election campaign was a tough environment for the capitalists.
By the time of Atagulkalu's death, he was unpopular and his death didn't help the capitalists solely because of Ekewaka M. Kalawai'a. Ekewaka M. Kalawai'a was uninspiring, he wasn't energetic, he wasn't a household name, spoke above the masses, and he never enjoyed being emotional with people, those were weaknesses the opposition party: the Chawosaurian Communist Party, is going to exploit. That actually made Donald Trump look like a positive alternative to Kalawai'a for the capitalists, right?
No, Kalawai'a was born in the United States in 1950 and he represented the United States' west coast states in the Chawosaurian Senate though he resided in Canada. Kalawai'a's American origins made Donald Trump a looming haunting issue for Kalawai'a because Trump was at the time of the 2019 election the 45th President of the United States and still serving, and even though Kalawai'a was never a Trump supporter, he had to carry a burden and the baggage of being from a country whose head of state is widely regarded throughout the whole world as a narcissistic sociopath. Kalawai'a tried to run away from the Donald Trump issue by specifically attacking Trump and his policies and trying to divert attention from Trump by trying to tie the Hong Kong protests against Beijing rule to his communist opponent former Prime Minister Shang Jong Parker because he is from China. Which obviously didn't work because Shang Parker still won the election in a landslide and as of the day this very blog that you're reading was posted, Parker is still serving as Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria.
All the problems for Kalawai'a, not being a household-named politician and having the Trump shadow following him everywhere he went, all caught up with him on election day. Kalawai'a was defeated in a landslide by Chawosaurian Communist Party nominee and former Prime Minister Shang Jong Parker. Kalawai'a finished with just 14.9% of the popular vote compared to Parker's 79.7% of the popular vote, Kalawai'a lost by a landslide margin of -64.8% burying him. Shang Parker having served as Prime Minister of Chawosauria back in the 1990s made him a household name and a popular one at that, because of that popularity, Parker was able to sweep the Chawosaurian Communist Party to power literally all over Chawosauria from the Chawosaurian central government to continental governments all over Chawosauria.
It was an emotionally tough transition of power for Kalawai'a as he prepared to leave office and give the royal keys to the Chawopolis Palace and the Chawosaurian nuclear codes over to Shang Jong Parker, but as the two men met, it was personally friendly and Kalawai'a was stunned by Parker's professionalism and respectful zeal. Going into Parker's administration, he and Kalawai'a have developed an important political partnership and personal friendship with each other despite their ideological gap. A powerful relationship between incumbent and predecessor that will never exist between Trump and Biden. Kalawai'a was even part of Parker's administration during the COVID-19 pandemic and helped contribute to Parker's successful handling of the pandemic.
Now fast forward to 2021, in the U.S. State of New York. A different environment compared to Chawosauria at the start of it, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York was riding high on celebrity territory for his seemingly masterful leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, he had the press, the magazines, all the stardom that U.S. President Donald Trump could never get as he is widely villainized for his debilitating handling of the pandemic by rejecting science and not really wanting to do anything on the pandemic, so he kinda poured that responsibility to the states. Hey, Republicans do believe in small government and states' rights. Well, of course, that type of governing always sometimes shipwrecks to the ports of disaster territory as states compete against one another for national resources and other needed material to fight the virus, resulting in some states that were behind the state vs. state food chain to suffer which is clearly not what the pandemic needs.
Cuomo, with all the Hollywood fame on his side, will soon learn the hard way of the downside of celebrity fame. It was revealed that the Cuomo administration deliberately underestimated COVID deaths of the elderly in nursing homes, painting a bad picture on Cuomo's COVID record. Then, women who worked for Cuomo alleging that he had sexually harassed them while they were on workplace duty, starting the clock that ticks, tocks, and cuckoos him to his political grave.
The allegations of sexual harassment dogged Cuomo and eventually his family since his brother Chris was an anchor at CNN, who is ironically being anchored out of a news anchoring job by his brother's alleged behavior towards women. The sex scandal was so bad that it triggered an investigation by the New York attorney general which office is headed by Letitia James, and in the summer of 2021, James released a report saying Cuomo has in fact according to the report sexually harassed women who worked for the New York state government in Albany. Cuomo announced his resignation by August 23rd and as promised, he was gone by August 24, 2021, in which his lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, takes over after Cuomo as the Governor of New York, Hochul is also the first woman to hold such office in America, history-making at that.
With the Cuomo saga now behind New York, the question is whether the Republicans there in New York can benefit from this embarrassment in the 2022 New York state elections? Can there be a Parkerian wave for Republicans? Well, sadly, Chawosauria and New York don't have the same political environments. New York is overwhelmingly a Democratic state that has not voted Republican for President of the United States since the Reagan years, New York hasn't elected a Republican governor since 2002, and Democrats have reigned all of the whole empire state since 2019. New York voted for Democrat Joe Biden by a landslide margin of 60-37% in favor of Biden over President Trump.
It doesn't appear that Governor Kathy Hochul, who is running for election to a term of her right, will lose at all. Hochul can excite the Democratic base which women make up an important constituency for the Democratic Party, especially in an environment where Roe v. Wade (1973) could be overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States, and she can distance herself from Cuomo, which she already made an effort at doing with new employee guidelines on sexual abuse on the job. The New York Democrats it is safe to say are standing on safe territory all over New York because of the fact that New Yorkers generally vote Democratic as widely stereotyped by the mainstream media and public perception whether it is favorable or not for New York.
This is a somewhat repeated situation of that in the U.S. State of Alabama, wherein 2017, Governor Robert J. Bentley resigned over a sex scandal where he cheated on his wife and was subsequently succeeded by a woman in Kay Ivey, who went on to win reelection to a term of her own right by a very smooth margin over Tuscaloosa mayor Walt Maddox in 2018 and Alabama Republicans benefited because why would Alabamians abandon the party that they are so passionately loyal to? The same question can be asked about New Yorkers. It's all about party loyalty whether people, in general, like it or not.
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