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Republican Debbie Lesko is projected to win Arizona’s nationally watched special election, fending off a strong challenge from Democrats who have been overperforming in deep-red seats.
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Lesko, a former state senator, defeated Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, a former emergency room doctor and first-time candidate, on Tuesday night in a solidly Republican district that President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE won by 21 points in 2016.
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The Associated Press called the race minutes after the first batch of votes came in, which were all early ballots. Lesko leads with 53 percent, compared to Tipirneni who’s at 47 percent. Those results are likely to change as in-person Election Day ballots are counted.
But even with the early call by the AP, Lesko won by a closer-than-expected margin, significantly underperforming compared to past Republicans in the district. Democrats and political observers were quick to suggest those early results should be a warning for Republicans in November as they navigate much tougher House races.
Tuesday’s special election was triggered by the resignation of GOP Rep. Trent FranksHarold (Trent) Trent FranksArizona New Members 2019 Cook shifts 8 House races toward Dems Freedom Caucus members see openings in leadership MORE, who stepped down in December after allegedly asking a staffer to act as a surrogate mother. Lesko will serve out the remainder of Franks’s term.
It’s possible that there can be another Lesko-Tipirneni match-up in the fall, since both are planning to run for a full two-year term.
“All I can say is wow, this is really something. This is really quite overwhelming,” Lesko said during her election night speech. “Twenty-five years ago, I left an abusive husband and I sure as heck never would have dreamed in a million years that I would be running for Congress and be a congresswoman.”
During her own speech late Tuesday night, Tipirneni told supporters that she’s not conceding and will wait for the rest of the results to come in on Wednesday.
“Something is happening here. What it comes down to is we knew our community and our district and our neighborhoods a hell of a lot better than the pundits did,” the Arizona Democrat said.
“Whatever happens, we know the fight is not over, it’s kind of just beginning,” she added. “Stay with us — win or lose, we’re taking this to November.”
Republicans were expected to hang on to the GOP stronghold, but national groups took a more cautious approach after a major Democratic upset in a special election in Pennsylvania last month.
GOP groups collectively spent more than $1 million to boost Lesko and curb Democrats’ voter enthusiasm. Meanwhile, Democratic groups largely stayed on the sidelines, though Tipirneni outraised Lesko overall.
Following the results, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Steve StiversSteven (Steve) Ernst StiversGOP lawmakers say Steve King’s loss could help them in November Longtime GOP Rep. Steve King defeated in Iowa primary Five things to watch in Tuesday’s primaries MORE touted the committee’s early spending in the race. The NRCC had spent six-figures to boost Lesko.
“Debbie is a strong conservative whose values truly reflect those of the voters in Arizona’s Eighth District,” Stivers, who represents Ohio in the House, said in a statement. “The NRCC was proud to support her and our targeted and early investments proved to be a difference maker in the race.”
Democrats have had a recent string of special election victories in GOP strongholds — most recently in Pennsylvania. While Trump similarly carried that district by 20 points, Arizona’s 8th District was a much tougher landscape for Democrats to compete in — it’s overwhelmingly white, it has a large contingent of retirees and Republicans have a major voter registration edge.
Early voting numbers reflected a much older electorate and a GOP advantage, but polling in the final weeks of the race was all over the map. Polls showed the race anywhere from a statistical dead heat to Lesko ahead by 10 points.
Lesko was a state legislator for more than a decade, establishing relationships in the district particularly in the expansive retirement community Sun City. She played up her support for Trump and his agenda. And, like in other special elections, the president got involved by recording a robo-call and tweeting his support for Lesko hours before the polls closed on Tuesday.
Lesko sought to paint Tipirneni as too liberal for the district, pointing to the Democrat’s support for a public health-care option and opposition to the GOP’s tax overhaul.
But Tipirneni and her campaign pushed back on that characterization, insteading highlighting that she wanted a pragmatic approach to gun control and immigration as well as protections for Social Security and Medicare.
Despite their loss, Democrats are expected to capitalize on the closer-than-usual margin in Trump country as a sign that the party can compete in a large swath of competitive seats to take back the House. Democrats need to flip 23 seats to regain the majority.
“The GOP barely hung onto a seat in a region they’ve represented for 35 years,” Bradley Beychok, president of Democratic group American Bridge, wrote in an election night memo. “That spells disaster for them in November.”
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Ohio’s current attorney general and his immediate predecessor will face off for the right to succeed the state’s term-limited governor, in what is likely to be one of the most hotly contested gubernatorial races in the nation this year. Attorney General Mike DeWine beat out Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor to claim the Republican nomination in Tuesday’s primaries. Former Ohio Attorney General Richard CordrayRichard Adams CordrayPoll: Biden, Trump neck and neck in Ohio On The Money: Trump officials struggle to get relief loans out the door | Dow soars more than 1600 points | Kudlow says officials ‘looking at’ offering coronavirus bonds Ex-CFPB director urges agency to ‘act immediately’ to help consumers during pandemic MORE — until last year the director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — outlasted a surprisingly strong comeback attempt by former Rep. Dennis Kucinich to take the Democratic nod. Both DeWine and Cordray were favored by party leaders. But both primaries involved contentious debates over the future of both the Republican and Democratic parties that could create internal schisms ahead of November. On the GOP side, DeWine and Taylor both sought to paint themselves as the most conservative possible candidate in the race. That meant distancing themselves from the incumbent governor, John Kasich, who has become a frequent critic of President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE. Taylor, elected on a ticket with Kasich, went so far as to pledge to pull out of what one of her advertisements called “John Kasich’s ObamaCare expansion.” DeWine tweeted the hashtag #LockHerUp about his opponent, before apologizing. On the Democratic side, Cordray found himself on the defensive over positive ratings he received from the National Rifle Association in past races. Kucinich attacked Cordray’s pro-gun positions — though media reports that Kucinich accepted $20,000 from a group backing Syrian President Bashar Assad and his past as a Fox News contributor seemed to squelch his momentum. Democrats should face an uphill fight in a state that has trended toward Republicans in recent years. President Trump won Ohio by 8 percentage points in 2016, and Democrats have only held the governorship for four of the past 28 years. But Cordray may have the wind at his back as the political landscape tilts toward the left. Ohio’s last Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, won his single term in office in 2006, another banner year for Democrats when the party reclaimed control of Congress. Both national parties have said they will make Ohio a priority in November’s elections. The Republican Governors Association began reserving television airtime three months ago, while the Democratic Governors Association began reserving their airtime in March. Click Here: New Zealand rugby store
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE’s former campaign chairman on Thursday excoriated former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyGOP votes to give Graham broad subpoena power in Obama-era probe This week: Democrats introduce sweeping police reform package Graham postpones Russia probe subpoena vote as tensions boil over MORE, saying there is “good evidence” that his actions in the final days of the 2016 presidential race “blew the election” for Democrats.
“I’m not going to defend Jim Comey. I criticized him from the day he dropped a letter to [lawmakers] … right before the election,” John Podesta said during an interview on The Hill’s new morning TV show, “Rising.”
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“He refused to take the advice of senior people in the Justice Department, so I’m not going to defend him,” Podesta told co-host Krystal Ball just hours before the release of a Justice Department inspector general report.
Observers expect that report to be critical of Comey’s leadership of the FBI, including his decision to announce the FBI was renewing its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of State just days before the presidential election.
Podesta said it is possible Comey cost Clinton the election, but that he did not believe President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE fired the FBI chief in the midst of the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian meddling in the election just because he hurt his former Democratic rival.
“On the other hand, do you think there is anyone in America, whether they watch Fox News, MSNBC or watch The Hill.com, who believes Donald Trump fired Jim Comey because he was unfair to Hillary Clinton and kind of blew the election for us, which there is good evidence he did,” he said.
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A Holocaust-denying white supremacist, Arthur “Art” Jones, is the only Republican primary candidate running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Illinois’s 3rd Congressional District, meaning he will likely become the party’s official nominee next month, according to local reports.
The 70-year-old resident of Lyons, a suburb of Chicago—who, on his campaign website, declares “it’s time to put America first” and the Holocaust is “the biggest, blackest, lie in history”—told the Chicago Tribune this race is “absolutely the best opportunity in my entire political career.”
“He ran for Milwaukee mayor in 1976 and 13th Ward alderman on Chicago’s Southwest Side in 1987,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports. “Since the 1990s to 2016, Jones has jumped in the GOP 3rd Congressional District primary seven times, never even close to becoming a viable contender.”
Now—although the chairman of the state’s Republican Party has denounced Jones’s candidacy, and he will likely be defeated by one of the Democrats, Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) or the representative’s primary challenger, Marie Newman—his candidacy is prompting national discussions about racism and candidates for elected office following the election of President Donald Trump, who repeatedly disparaged people of color and immigrants on the campaign trail, and has continued to do so as president.
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Jones—who expressed his support for candidate Trump—told local reporters he is a former leader of the American Nazi Party and now leads a group called the America First Committee. Stances outlined on his campaign website include: “No more ‘Sanctuary Cities’,” “No amnesty for illegal aliens,” and “Make English the official language!” He also opposes abortion rights as well as “homosexual marriage and adoption of children by homosexuals,” and endorses concealed carry firearms permits.
“Arthur Jones, who proudly displays Holocaust denial, xenophobia, and racism on his blog and website, has a long history of hateful, extremist, and anti-Semitic views,” said Lonnie Nasatir, a regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, which has tracked Jones’s activity for years. “He has spoken publicly at numerous neo-Nazi rallies and events, expressing xenophobic policies based in racial and religious hatred.”
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His campaigns and comments to reporters have sparked an alarmed discussion on social media, with some political observers linking the development to Trump’s election. Responding to the flurry of tweets about Jones’s campaign on Monday, the Illinois AFL-CIO declared, “The Blues Brothers said it best.”
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Progressive groups and entertainers alike shared appreciation on Thursday for Barry Crimmins, the activist and comedian who died on Wednesday at the age of 64, weeks after revealing he had been diagnosed with cancer.
Crimmins’ wife shared the news via his Twitter account.
Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), remembered Crimmins as a “funny and biting stand-up whose comedy was political and always punched upward.”
“Beloved by fellow comedians, he pioneered in the kind of informed, compassionate, topical comedy that later became mainstream with Jon Stewart and Colbert,” Cohen told Common Dreams in an email.
In addition to his work as a comedian, Crimmins worked as a writer and correspondent for the left-leaning talk radio station Air America.
The frequent political satirist spoke out at anti-war rallies ahead of U.S. involvement in the Gulf War in 1990, but Crimmins’ advocacy on behalf of survivors of child sexual abuse became one of his best-known endeavors.
A survivor himself, Crimmins testified before Congress in 1995, imploring lawmakers and internet companies to stop the use of online chat rooms by pedophiles. He had stumbled upon them while using AOL to find online support groups for victims, and his testimony led to a zero-tolerance policy for pedophilia and child pornography at the company.
Crimmins and his wife Helen set up a GoFundMe fundraiser last year to help with medical bills, as both were diagnosed with cancer within months of one another and didn’t have adequate health coverage until Crimmins’ insurance through the Writer’s Guild of America went into effect in January.
“The only reason Barry didn’t see a doctor right away is because he didn’t have adequate health insurance and he didn’t want to rack up huge medical bills while we were already dealing with my huge medical bills,” wrote Helen. “I lobbied for him to go despite what it would cost, but he had made up his mind to wait until he was covered. The American healthcare system really screwed both of us.”
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A documentary film by longtime friend and fellow comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, Call Me Lucky, was released in 2015, and detailed Crimmins’ activism.
“We have to have enough guts, to open up our ears, and to open up our hearts; to listen, look, watch, believe and testify—about what really happens to innocence in this world,” said Crimmins in the film. “We have to take care of innocence in this world. And we have to be brave enough to stand up and tell the truth about what happens to innocence in this world. So, tell the truth, tell everyone the truth, tell anyone the truth. Because your lives depend on it. My life depends on it. And people who really can’t be heard—really depend on it.”
On social media, fans and comedians who were influenced by Crimmins wrote about him on Thursday.
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As families continue to grieve and hold funerals for the 17 victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., students and educators are calling for a nationwide day of action including school walkouts to protest lawmakers’ deadly inaction on gun control legislation.
The day set for the actions is April 20, which will be the 19th anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School.
The Twitter account National School Walkout, which was started Friday, declares, “We are the students, we are the victims, we are change.”
The April 20 walkout, it says, will be “a polite, passionate, plea for peace.”
A Change.org petition, which has gathered over 6,100 signatures as of this writing, and is linked to the Twitter account, says, “There has been too much complacency on the part of politicians when it comes to gun violence. The time to act is now!”
“The violence of guns is being performed in our schools and our communities. Not the Senate floor. As the future of America, it is time for teenagers to speak their minds and put their frustration into action,” it adds. It also encourages people to sign on to take part in the action, saying, “Nothing has changed since Columbine, let us start a movement that lets the government know the time for change is now.”
The students’ call-to-action comes days after David Berliner, an educational psychologist and Regents’ Professor of Education Emeritus at Arizona State University, issued a call for a national teachers’ strike if lawmakers continue their failure to enact “sane gun laws.”
Berliner’s call, which he sent in a message to education historian Diane Ravitch, states, in part, “Almost all of America’s 3 million teachers—nurturers and guardians of our youth—want sensible gun laws. They deserve that. But they have to be ready to exert the power they have by walking out of their schools if they do not get what they want. They have to exert the reputational power that 3 million of our most admired voters have. Neither the NRA nor their legislative puppets will be able stand up to that.”
He originally said the day should be May 1, May Day, but after being flooded with responses including from the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, he explained to Slate the day got switched to April 20.
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“April 20,” he told Slate, “will become the day on which teachers can say, ‘No. You will never ever be elected again if you don’t pass sensible laws, and there are all sorts of things that can be done that don’t violate the Constitution.’ I’ve just had enough.”
A web page calling for pledges to commit to an April 20 action and sponsored by the Network for Public Education, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, and other organizations says, “The failure to enact rational laws around the purchase of guns that are designed for mass shootings is inexcusable. The time to act is now. Every child deserves to learn in a school that is safe.”
A separate nationwide walkout event sponsored by organizers of the Women’s March is scheduled for March 14. Rather than a day-long event, that action is scheduled to take place “for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone … to protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods.”
On Twitter the National School Walkout explains, “For those of you concerned on the separate dates of our protest and @womensmarch ‘s. We agree that there is strength in numbers. That is why we have contacted them and are waiting for their response. We all would prefer a full day to 17 minutes.”
Among the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School countering lawmakers’ vacuous “thoughts and prayers” and instead making passionate pleas for action on gun legislation in the wake of the Parkland shooting is 17-year-old David Hogg.
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“I don’t want this to be another mass shooting. I want this to be the last mass shooting,” the senior told MSNBC. “Everybody is getting used to this, and that’s not ok. … We’re habituating to this. And what happens when you do that is children are dying and they will continue to die unless we stop it, stand up, and take action.”
“We don’t need ideas. We need action,” Hogg continued. “We need action from our elected officials and we need action from the civil public because without that, this is going to happen again.”
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Students, parents, and teachers walked out of thousands of high schools across the country on Wednesday to demand legislative action to address gun violence in the United States.
The national “Enough” walkout is part of a student-led movement to call for gun control reform after 17 people were killed at a high school in Parkland, Florida last month—just the latest in a series of deadly mass shootings. Students will also head to Washington, D.C. for the “March for Our Lives” on March 24 and are planning a second nationwide walkout for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting.
Using the hashtags #Enough, #NationalSchoolWalkout, and #NationalWalkoutDay, protesters and journalists shared on social media photos, videos, and anecdotes from Wednesday’s demonstrations.
Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School—the site of last month’s massacre—filed out into the football field for a 17-minute moment of silence.
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In Atlanta, about 600 students at Booker T. Washington High School left their classrooms to “take a knee” in a silent protest, taking inspiration from a number of famous athletes who have protested police brutality and institutionalized racism in recent months.
Many students in New England, including in Boston and Portland, Maine, attended protests despite their schools being closed after heavy snow on Tuesday and Wednesday. Boston students marched to the State House to demand their legislators enact tougher gun control laws.
In Granada Hills, California, students and teachers arranged themselves on the football field at Granada Hills Charter High School to spell out the word “ENOUGH,” while a gong sounded 17 times for the 17 people who were killed in Parkland.
At Columbine High School in Colorado, the site of an infamous mass shooting in 1999, students walked out and released balloons in memory of those killed in Florida.
Students in New York City gathered outside one of President Donald Trump’s hotels, and shouted: “Hey hey, NRA, how many kids did you kill today?”
Rosa Rodriquez, a sophomore at Sayreville War Memorial High School in New Jersey—which reportedly threatened to suspend participants—was interviewed by local media about being the only student from her school to walk out.
And Justin Blackman, a student at Wilson Preparatory Academy in Wilson, North Carolina, also walked out by himself to mark the day.
As Democratic members of Congress joined students outside the U.S. Capitol Building in D.C., the demonstrators greeted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) with cheers. Addressing the crowd over chants of “Bernie, Bernie,” Sanders said: “I am absolutely delighted and proud that you are here today. What you are doing is of national significance. You’re leading this country in the right direction. Thank you all.”
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President Donald Trump has shown little concern for civilian casualties overseas during his tenure as commander-in-chief, and according to a report published Thursday by the Washington Post, he actually wishes there were more of them.
“Yes, it was a campaign promise. A sociopathic one that would clearly be a war crime, which is why even US military and intelligence officials—hardly shy about war crimes—were mortified and said they would never follow such a demented order.”
—Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Reacting to footage of a drone strike in Syria in which the CIA waited until the target was separated from his family before firing, Trump reportedly asked, “Why did you wait?”
While Trump’s question was immediately denounced as a display of “actual sociopathy,” it was perfectly in line with his campaign rhetoric insisting that the best way to combat terrorism is to “take out” the alleged perpetrators’ families.
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“We’re fighting a very politically correct war,” Trump lamented during an interview on Fox News in December of 2015. “And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.”
Acknowledging that Trump made the deliberate killing of civilians part of his campaign platform, The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald noted that actually carrying out such a policy “would clearly be a war crime, which is why even U.S. military and intelligence officials—hardly shy about war crimes—were mortified and said they would never follow such a demented order.”
As Common Dreams has reported, civilian casualties overseas increased dramatically during Trump’s first year in the White House.
In an analysis published in January, the watchdog group Airwars estimated that civilian deaths from bombs dropped by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria in 2017 rose 215 percent from than the previous year.
“This unprecedented death toll coincided with the start of the Trump presidency, and suggested in part that policies aimed at protecting civilians had been scaled back under the new administration,” Airwars concluded.
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Days after the Senate Judiciary Committee released a transcript of its interview with Donald Trump, Jr. regarding his meeting with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential campaign, new reports surfaced suggesting that the president’s son met with other foreign entities to discuss the election.
The New York Times reported Saturday that Trump, Jr. met with George Nader, a businessman who was representing the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in August 2016. Nader reportedly informed Trump, Jr. that both countries were “eager to help his father win election as president.”
The report marks the first indication that foreign entities other than Russia may have sought to influence the election, working closely with the Trump campaign.
Erik Prince—brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, advisor to the Trump transition team, and former head of the private military company Blackwater—apparently arranged the meeting, and an Israeli “social media specialist” named Joel Zamel presented information about his company’s ability to give Trump’s campaign an “edge” on social media.
As with Trump, Jr.’s 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, the president’s son’s response to the report of his meeting with Nader, Prince, and Zamel has focused on his claim that nothing came of the encounter.
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“Prior to the 2016 election, Donald Trump Jr. recalls a meeting with Erik Prince, George Nader, and another individual who may be Joel Zamel,” Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for Trump, Jr., said in a statement. “They pitched Mr. Trump Jr. on a social media platform or marketing strategy. He was not interested and that was the end of it.”
According to the Times report, “two people familiar with the meetings said that Trump campaign officials did not appear bothered by the idea of cooperation with foreigners.”
In his investigation into the Trump campaign, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly questioned Nader in recent weeks and has sought information about any attempts by the UAE to financially support Trump’s run. Nader has also been questioned about his role in arranging a meeting between Prince and a Kremlin-connected businessman in January 207.
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Mercedes technical director James Allison has come up with a novel idea to spice up F1, although it’s one that doesn’t stand a hell’s chance of ever getting adopted.
From drastic changes to the technical regulations to the controversial concept of reverse grids, Formula 1’s chiefs are sparing no effort to try and boost the show on the track.
But when it comes to provocative ideas, the typically analytical and rational Allison in not one to be outdone.
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In a recent ‘Ask Me Anything’ video published on Mercedes’ YouTube channel, the brilliant engineer was asked what single technical or sporting rule he would change given the opportunity to do so.
“First off, I wouldn’t really muck around in the technical regulations, it’s a bit of a mug’s game,” Allison explained.
“It’s valuable if you want to make the car safer or if you want to speed them up or slow them down.
“But it’s really really difficult to make a technical change that will materially effect the way in which the cars race against one another.”
Allison then switched to a mischievous grin while putting his eloquent tongue in his cheek.
“Sporting regulations, well that’s a very different prospect,” he added. “There, I would make one change.
“Everyone around me would probably hate me for it – I know Toto would definitely not support it – but I would say, do away completely with the blue flags!
“It would make the races an absolute nightmare for a fast car because as we came up to lap people they wouldn’t get out of our way, we would have to fight our way through them.
“That would make every race interesting all way through the race.
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“It would also mean that teams would have to forge alliances with one another, and where you would have to be very very nervous of teams that you’ve fallen out with which would make it politically incredibly intriguing as well.
“So, such a change would be disastrous for us but probably really interesting in the long term for the sport.”
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