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Join Kamala Harris in Brooklyn!
Wednesday July 10th, 2019
Doors open at 6:00pm
Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn, NY
Arrival details provided closer to event date
Ticket Levels:
-$2,800: Backstage Reception + Photo Line
-$1,000: VIP Lounge Section + Photo Line
-$500: VIP Lounge Section with Kamala's husband, Doug Emhoff!
-$250: General Admission + Premium Viewing Section
-$100: General Admission
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Andrew Yang Wants to Save Your Dying Mall
CityLabAccording to his campaign, some 300 malls will fold over the next 4 years, a number in line with an estimate by Credit Suisse that one-quarter of all malls will close by 2022. Many dozens or hundreds more will struggle as anchor stores collapse and retail outlets wither. Yang’s American Mall Act would devote $6 billion to finding new purposes for these dying retail complexes.
Yang announced the plan over the weekend in a video from Columbia Place, a shopping hub in suburban Columbia, South Carolina, that today is only a shadow of its former self. “It’s a massive challenge to try to keep these structures vital and filled,” Yang said in the spot. “No one wants to go to the vast empty parking lot.”
It’s an apparent pitch to Palmetto State voters who recognize the retail apocalypse as a potential spur for suburban blight. With it, Yang has landed on a niche issue that could benefit from some visionary thinking: greyfields, economically obsolete real-estate assets so named for the asphalt expanses of their vacant parking lots.
So now he has TWO minutes of things to say at the next debate?
Miami Herald: Acosta should resign
The Hill“He is an ethically compromised public servant who has failed to address his suspect actions in this case, but he continues to act on citizens’ behalf in the public domain,” the board wrote in an editorial published late Monday. “He has to go.”
Acosta, who was previously U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, approved a deal with Epstein that enabled him to serve 13 months in “custody with work release” after a 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from underage girls. The deal also let Epstein spend 16 hours a day outside of prison.
Acosta has continued to stand by the deal as necessary means to ensure Epstein served time.
North Carolina runoff tests GOP efforts to boost female candidates
PoliticoPediatrician Joan Perry has powerful allies in her corner to help her capture the GOP nomination for the special election, including all 13 Republican women currently serving in the House. She’s been the beneficiary of more than $1 million in support from groups set up to support Republican women.
But Perry is also running headlong into obstacles — namely, a conservative power structure backing her opponent, fellow physician Greg Murphy, including an influential male member of Congress from the state.
The race sets up as a test of whether GOP primary voters see gender diversity as an important value in the way Democrats did in the 2018 midterms, when voters sent a wave of Democratic women to Congress.
Elizabeth Warren takes aim at D.C.'s political consultant industrial complex
PoliticoBut that gamble against conventional wisdom — which is paying off handsomely, given the $19.1 million she raised in the second quarter — is far from the only way Warren is defying the traditional playbook for running a modern presidential campaign.
The campaign has gone without an outside polling firm, and says it has no plans to hire one, even though it is standard operating procedure for most serious candidates. Instead of initially stockpiling resources for a home-stretch TV ad blitz, she's amassed a payroll of 300-plus staffers in the early months of the campaign — overhead that could deplete her coffers if her fundraising ever falters.
And now, the campaign told POLITICO that it is shunning the typical model for producing campaign ads, in which outside firms are hired and paid often hefty commissions for their work. Instead, Warren's campaign is producing TV, digital and other media content itself, as well as placing its digital ad buys internally.
Amy McGrath (KY-SEN) announcement video: "The Letter"
&feature=youtu.beDemocrat McGrath announces 2020 bid to challenge Sen. McConnell
Source: WLEX-TV
(LEX 18) — Democrat Amy McGrath, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and combat pilot, announced Tuesday morning that she hopes to challenge Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his seat in 2020.
McGrath made her announcement with a YouTube video,
She appeared later on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to talk about her candidacy.
In her launch video, titled "The Letter," McGrath speaks softly from a living room while light piano music plays and takes aim at McConnell.
"It started with this man," McGrath says, tying the political dysfunction and hyper-partisan divide gripping Washington to McConnell's long tenure. She goes on to charge that McConnell has "bit by bit, year by year, turned Washington into something we all despise."
Read more: https://www.lex18.com/democrat-mcgrath-announces-2020-bid-to-challenge-sen-mcconnell
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"Misc. Nudes 1"..."Girl Pic Nudes"
Labeled CDs seized from Jeffrey Epstein's home (per CNN this evening)
Pete Buttigieg lost black support between 2 mayoral runs, data shows
Source: Politico
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — As Mayor Pete Buttigieg contends with the fallout from the shooting of a black man by a white police officer in his city, a POLITICO analysis of data from his earlier mayoral elections shows he struggled to win the confidence of the city’s black voters following a series of controversies in his first term.
Detailed precinct results from South Bend's 2011 and 2015 mayoral races show Buttigieg repeatedly lagging in contests against black primary challengers in many of western South Bend's predominantly black neighborhoods. And though Buttigieg still managed to win those precincts in two general elections against white Republican opponents, his support in these areas fell after his first term.
In the 2011 general election, Buttigieg had some of his highest margins of victory in these neighborhoods — a typical result for a Democrat facing a Republican opponent in South Bend. But by 2015, western South Bend gave him his weakest results after his support plunged more than 20 points in some precincts.
Interviews with city council members, former political opponents and local residents suggest that Buttigieg's management style — heavy on outside expertise and top-down implementation — may have alienated grassroots voices, a complaint that registered strongly in South Bend's black communities, where the desire to be heard and consulted has historic resonance.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/08/pete-buttigieg-black-voters-support-1395471
Man who says Kevin Spacey groped him asserts Fifth Amendment right
Source: PBS Newshour
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — The man who accused Kevin Spacey of groping him at a Massachusetts resort island bar in 2016 asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify after being questioned by the actor’s lawyer about text messages the defense claims were deleted.
The man’s refusal to testify caused the judge to question the viability of the case against the two-time Oscar winner.
The man was ordered to testify after he failed to turn over the phone he used that night to the defense and then said it was lost. Spacey’s lawyers say the man deleted messages from his phone that would support Spacey’s claims of innocence and then provided investigators with manipulated screenshots of conversations from that night.
Spacey’s lawyer urged the judge to dismiss the case, calling it “completely compromised.”
Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/man-who-says-kevin-spacey-groped-him-asserts-fifth-amendment-right
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