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January 29, 2018

From Annapolis to Congress? These Three Women Know Tough Missions

NORFOLK, Va. — Elaine Luria commanded an assault ship with a crew of 400 that patrolled the Persian Gulf for hostile Iranian vessels. Amy McGrath was the first female Marine to fly an F-18 fighter jet, dropping bombs over Afghanistan and Iraq. Mikie Sherrill was certified as a Navy helicopter pilot only after passing an underwater crash simulation in which she was blindfolded, turned upside down, and forced to find the sole exit door.

Their military journeys began at the United States Naval Academy, where Ms. Luria and Ms. McGrath were plebes together when Ms. Sherrill was a senior.

Now they are on a mission that no female Annapolis graduate has accomplished: to win seats in Congress.

A powerful wave of political activism is animating women in the era of President Trump, stoked by women’s marches and the movement to expose sexual misconduct. More than 390 women are running for Congress, a record number, and they are overwhelmingly Democrats.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/politics/women-annapolis-democrats-congress-trump.html

A new Hope, indeed.

January 29, 2018

Beto O'Rourke raked in half a million dollars more than Cruz last quarter

Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), who's running against Sen. Ted Cruz (R) in 2018, raised more than $2.4 million in the last three months of 2017, about half a million dollars more than Cruz's $1.9 million, the O'Rourke and Cruz campaigns reported Sunday. O'Rourke, considered the underdog, received individual contributions from 55,000 people in the fourth quarter, up from nearly 33,000 in the third quarter, O'Rourke told The Texas Tribune. The entire $2.4 million is for O'Rourke's re-election campaign, while Cruz's haul is spread among a number of affiliated groups.

Cruz still has a larger campaign war chest — $7.3 million to O'Rourke's $4.6 million — but O'Rourke is closing the gap. Cruz out-fundraised O'Rourke in the third quarter while O'Rourke beat Cruz in the second quarter. "The fact it's the most we've raised and that we are adding tens of thousands of more individual contributions shows that the interest in the campaign is only increasing," O'Rourke told the Tribune. "And the fact that most of that is Texans is really, really encouraging." Peter Weber

http://theweek.com/speedreads/751611/ted-cruz-challenger-beto-orourke-raked-half-million-dollars-more-than-cruz-last-quarter

January 29, 2018

CNN's Toobin 'regrets' his role in pushing Clinton 'false equivalency'

CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin now says he regrets his role in pushing a “false equivalency” between Hillary Clinton's scandals and President Trump's own problems during the 2016 election.

In an interview on Larry Wilmore’s “Black on the Air” podcast published earlier this month, Toobin told Wilmore that he feels he is “somewhat responsible” for a media climate that falsely compared Clinton and Trump.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/media/371221-cnns-toobin-says-he-regrets-his-role-in-pushing-clinton-false-equivalency

A little late for that....

January 29, 2018