* The 2020 Golden Horseshoe Award for Best House Democratic Non-Campaign Staffer goes to Chris Lowery…

With the mountain high challenges this year presented, no one could had helped run the House better than Chris. But really, there’s credit due to every staffer who help kept things going this year.

That is exactly right. I cannot thank all staff at every level enough for the work they’ve put in this year. A big reason I started these awards was to showcase folks who don’t usually get any attention, let alone praise. Y’all are tops in my book.

Runner-up is Margaret Livingston.

* The 2020 Golden Horseshoe Award for Best House Republican Non-Campaign Staffer goes to Eleni Demertzis…

Durkin has her and everyone else either wants her or wants to stay off her radar. Eleni works in the media the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It is her true medium, a master. She has worked for a Governor, a Senator, a Sheriff and now the Leader, they all were better with her than without, especially the Governor. Think for a second how hard it is for a Republican to get press in a blue state with a blue governor a (sadly) hollowed out news media and the largest market being all blue, then think about how much press Durkin and the caucus has gotten and how being outspent by a fortune the House Republican Caucus still picked up a seat and beat up the Speaker enough to survive and end him, then look to Eleni and be afraid. She will smash down all your plate glass windows and put her fist through your steel plated door. If it’s the boss or any member who wants or needs help, she will not stop until she thinks justice is served.

There was no way on Earth that anyone could top that nomination.

We usually have a separate category for spokespersons, but with leave of the body I’m just gonna save some time and give the 2020 Golden Horseshoe Award for Best Spokesperson to Jordan Abudayyeh. Hearing no objections… so let it be written, so let it be done. Putting together daily press conferences is worthy of the honor alone. But her job encompasses so much more than that and she really stepped up when Emily Bittner went on parental leave.

Runner-up goes to Jenn Paswater.

* On to today’s categories…

* Best Senate Democratic Non-Campaign Staffer

* Best Senate Republican Non-Campaign Staffer

As always, make sure to explain your nominations or they won’t count. And do your best to nominate in both categories, please. Thanks.

[”Put a fist through your steel-plated door” explained here.]