May 6, 2021

The Texas legislature is voting tomorrow on SB 7, a dangerous bill set to restrict voting rights for

Black and brown voters, voters with disabilities, and working Texans.

If SB 7 passes through the Texas legislature, there is no doubt that Governor Abbott will sign it into law – and Texans across our great state will have to face even more barriers to the ballot box. SB 7 would make it a state jail felony for local election officials to distribute an application to vote by mail to a voter who didn’t request one, as well as set up new rules for people assisting voters who need help voting, such as those with disabilities or who don’t speak English.

We are the last defense to stop this rampant act of voter suppression from passing.

- Message from local Dem leadership here in TX

May 5, 2021

Amazing that with people still dying we are worried about Liz Cheney

Would like to see a prime time news conference..How much have the Indian and other variants/mutations infected our country and what are we doing about it?

Update on vaccines/boosters to guard against variants? Which states should be praised for highest vaccine %s? Create competition!! Who is on the bottom? Utah?

Maslow's theory - deal with life and death first, now!

May 2, 2021

How Trump scored a big tax break for conserving a golf range

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/special-report-how-trump-scored-big-tax-break-conserving-golf-range-2021-04-30/

When Donald Trump bought his seaside golf course in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb in 2002, he vowed to surround it with “some of the most beautiful houses in California.” But the 261-acre property on the Palos Verdes Peninsula had a problem.

Geologists working for the city would not clear part of it for home-building because of unstable soil underlying the course, built on a landslide-prone bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The denials infuriated Trump, who lobbied and litigated for eight years in a failed effort to reverse the geologists’ findings and secure development approvals, according to interviews with planners and geologists and a Reuters review of public records and court filings.

Trump eventually abandoned a plan to build 16 homes and turned instead to the tax code to offset the lost profits - securing a $25 million tax deduction in exchange for a promise not to develop the land. The agreement with a nonprofit conservancy allowed him to continue using the land as a driving range for the Trump National Golf Course.

More at link...
Note: trump previously won fight to reduce property taxes on this land tract based on a $1.1m assessment value to a $900k value! And then he took a $25 million charitable break on it.