Mandela Barnes, Rochelle Garza, and Maxwell Frost were featured in last week’s Sunday Puzzle.
Mandela Barnes, as many of you already know, is currently Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor, and is the Democratic candidate for the US senate seat currently held by Ron Johnson.
Ron Johnson is a terrible senator — one of the worst currently in the senate, and one of many who need to be defeated and replaced as soon as they’re up for re-election, which Ron Johnson is.
And Mandela Barnes would be a very good replacement. Here, for example, is a 2-minute video of how he stands on health care:
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Mandela Barnes is very good on the issues facing our nation and the world. Here’s a link to Mandela Barnes’ campaign website, where you can learn more about who he is and what he stands for.
Rochelle Garza may not be as well known as Mandela Barnes yet, but she’s also a very good candidate to support. She’s running in Texas for the office of attorney general — an office currently held by Ken Paxton. And just as Ron Johnson is currently one of the worst senators in office, Ken Paxton is currently one of the worst attorney generals in office. He was very involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results in order to keep Trump in power, and he’s been very involved in efforts to outlaw abortion and to punish anyone seeking an abortion or helping .
Rochelle Garza, in contrast, would make the kind of attorney general whom Texans (and the rest of us) need in that office:
Maxwell Frost is the Democratic candidate for congress in Florida’s 10th district. And since it’s a fairly safe Democratic district he is very likely to win the seat — which will make him, at age 25, the very youngest member of the house.
But Maxwell Frost is not new to politics. Maxwell Frost has been an activist working on good causes since he was 15 years old, back in 2012:
Frost has been organizing since around 2012, when he was active with Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. Frost became a volunteer with the Newtown Action Alliance, an organization created in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. He has also identified Occupy Wall Street, the Columbine High School massacre, the killing of Trayvon Martin, and the Orlando nightclub shooting as events that affected his thinking. He later worked for Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Margaret Good….
Frost was an organizer with the American Civil Liberties Union and worked to support Florida's 2018 Amendment 4 and to pressure Joe Biden to stop supporting the Hyde Amendment in 2019. He was the national organizing director for March for Our Lives. In November 2021, Frost was arrested at a voting rights rally in Lafayette Square that was led by William Barber II and Ben Jealous.
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Today’s puzzle features two more Candidates Worth Supporting. But before we get to the clues for today’s puzzle, let’s look at the clues and answers to last week’s puzzles.
These puzzles are JulieCrostics (called that here in honor of Julie Waters, who started the Sunday Puzzle series back in October 2007 as juliewolf). In these puzzles, the clue answers are entered into rows. Each word in a row has all the letters of the previous word, plus one new letter. The add-on letters make columns which spell out the answer to the puzzle.
There were 2 puzzles last week. Here are the clues to the first one:
1. an expression of sorrow 2. priests or monks 3. wooly-haired South Americans
4. Brooks and Gibson 5. eating occasions 6. posts a really insulting comment
7. black, green, white, and herbal 8. sales and income 9. unnamed movie characters
10. take a nap 11. scatter about 12. clock, bell, ivory and Trump
13. let off steam 14. happening 15. scary King
16. couch 17. young horses 18. parade vehicles
And here’s the answer grid:
alas M lamas L llamas Mels A Salem F flames teas X taxes R extras rest W strew O towers vent E event S Steven sofa L foals T floatsAs you can see, each answer in a row contains all the letters of the previous answer, plus a new letter added on. For example, LAMAS contains all the letters of ALAS plus an M. LLAMAS contains all the answers of LAMAS plus an L. And the add-on letter columns, read top to bottom, read MAXWEL LFROST — which, when spaced out properly, spells out Maxwell Frost.
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Next, here are the clues to last week’s second puzzle:
1. plant fluid 2. junk mail 3. wild onions
4. passports and membership cards 5. helps 6. so long
7. a way to go downhill quickly 8. go down 9. Castle, Cannon, and Fury
10. one or more, or even part of one 11. Warhol 12. useful
13. favorite 14. Seeger 15. cone-shaped tent
16. use a chair 17. a straight and narrow cut 18. stationary
19. pig's home 20. remain 21. like potato chips
22. piece of wood 23. online journal 24. sphere
25. kind of potato 26. what you might do with a book 27. A, B, C, D, or E
28. something you might do in a card game 29. something you might feed 30. something you might do to hair
31. night before 32. not odd 33. Jules
34. short name for a kind of dog 35. group of turtles 36. bright flame
37. sit in the sun 38. famous Lee 39. Cruz or Fe
And here is the answer grid for those clues:
sap M spam R ramps IDs A aids O adios ski N sink C Nicks any D Andy H handy pet E Pete E tepee sit L slit L still sty A stay L salty log B blog E globe red A read G grade bid R bird A braid eve N even R Verne lab E bale Z blaze tan S Stan A SantaThose add-on columns read MANDELABARNES (Mandela Barnes) and ROCHELLEGARZA (Rochelle Garza).
If that’s clear, let’s proceed to today’s puzzle. (Or, if that’s not clear, please post a comment saying what’s not clear and asking for clarification.)
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1. visualize 2. flow slowly through small holes 3. general purpose vehicles
4. sugar cube additive 5. boys 6. greens
7. Fleming 8. Fey 9. blemish
10. trolleys and Polestars 11. cat doctors 12. things which win elections
13. cut through 14. Great White and Milky 15. signs of sleepiness
16. [ look left ] 17. state of deep unconsciousness 18. mark used to separate items
19. often comes before a period 20. refs 21. [ look right ]
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22. Tolstoy 23. part 24. Flynn
25. kind of tree 26. hasty 27. garbage
28. some people 29. average 30. where you can find an independent King
31. Bragg and Willis 32. Doris, Dorothy, and Felicia 33. Annie's dog
And now, Poll Cat has a question:
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