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orrest Dunbar (D) told the Alaska Dispatch News he had a backstage altercation with Rep. Don Young (R-AK) before their debate Friday night.
When the two were walking near each other, Young said angrily, "You're not from Cordova any more than I'm from Fort Yukon. I had you looked into."
Dunbar said he was puzzled and touched Young on his arm lightly and asked: "What are you talking about?"
Then Dunbar said Young, "freaked out. There is no other way to describe it. He kind of snarled at me and said, 'Don't you ever touch me. Don't ever touch me. The last guy who touched me ended up on the ground dead.'"
http://www.adn.com/article/20141003/kodiak-debate-backstage-flare-between-young-and-dunbar
GOP Gov Wants Personal Meeting With Obama On Medicaid Expansion
In an open letter to President Barack Obama, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) said Thursday that he would like to meet personally with him to discuss Pence's proposal to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.
Under Pence and the Republican-controlled legislature, Indiana was one of more than 20 states initially refused to expand Medicaid this year, leaving 182,000 people uncovered. But Pence, like several other GOP governors, has since opened up to the idea -- provided the administration meets his conditions.
Pence has proposed an alternative form of Medicaid expansion, using an existing state program. It includes some provisions that the administration might not be willing to accept. Those would, for example, include allowing coverage to be revoked if an enrollee fails to make payments toward their health care..
"I have been made aware that issues have arisen in my administration’s ongoing discussion with HHS that threaten to compromise the Healthy Indiana Plan’s effectiveness," Pence wrote in the open letter published by the Journal-Gazette in Fort Wayne. "Our administration will not support efforts to remove or water down the Healthy Indiana Plan’s core principles, essentially changing this proven program into an expansion of traditional Medicaid."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mike-pence-obama-meeting-medicaid-expansion
Ex-Kansas Senator: Top Brownback Aide Being Investigated By FBI
A former Kansas state senator said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a top aide to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) over receiving financial compensation from three insurance companies that were involved in Brownback's health care reform, known as KanCare.
The Republican former senator, Dick Kelsey, said Thursday during a news conference that he had talked with the FBI about David Kensinger, Brownback's former chief of staff who serves an advisor to Brownback's re-election campaign and is a lobbyist, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.
"The FBI called me. The investigation is very real," Kelsey said according to the Kansas newspaper. "It's not a political thing with them at all. They do not want government that is corrupt. I am confident it's not finished."
Months earlier the Capital-Journal reported that Kensinger was being investigated for being involved in clandestine dealmaking concerning Brownback's push to privatize Kansas's $3 billion Medicaid program.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dick-kelsey-david-kensinger-kancare-sam-brownback
Forget about the NFL. The next Bush to be elected to office is a stalker.
Back when he was a Rice University student, Bush was investigated for burglary and criminal mischief related to a 4 AM visit to the Miami home of his ex, Cristina Cohen, and her parents.....
According to Cohen, Bush--wearing black shorts and no shirt--arrived at the residence and “went to his daughter’s bedroom window,” pulled it open, and “pushed the screen inward.” As Bush was “climbing in the window,” Murry Cohen awoke and spotted the trespasser. A neighbor of the Cohens also spotted Bush trying to get into the residence and began to argue with him.
With his intrusion thwarted, Bush “backed out of the window.” Cohen reported seeing Bush then “jump into a vehicle and flee.” But he would not be gone for long.
Bush returned to the home 20 minutes later and drove his car through the Cohens’s yard, causing damage to about 80 feet of the lawn.
When police arrived at the residence, the Cohens identified Bush as the perpetrator. Cristina Cohen explained that she used to date Bush, but that they “have been separated for 1-1/2 years.” She added that Bush “has been a problem ever since they broke up.”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/george-p-bush/george-p-bush-stalking-758409
Politico: It's Obama's fault if his life is in danger.
Agents tell me it’s a miracle an assassination has not already occurred. Sadly, given Obama’s colossal lack of management judgment, that calamity may be the only catalyst that will reform the Secret Service.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/obamas-life-is-at-risk-111501_Page2.html#ixzz3EsEg7aDa
Armed contractor with criminal record was on elevator with Obama in Atlanta
A security contractor with a gun and three convictions for assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during a Sept. 16 trip to Atlanta, violating Secret Service protocols, according to three people familiar with the incident.
Obama was not told about the lapse in his security, these people said. The Secret Service director, Julia Pierson, asked a top agency manager to look into the matter but did not refer it to an investigative unit that was created to review violations of protocol and standards, according to two people familiar with the handling of the case who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The incident, which took place when Obama visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discuss the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis, rattled Secret Service agents assigned to the president’s protective detail.
The private contractor first aroused the agents’ concerns when he acted oddly and did not comply with their orders to stop using a cellphone camera to record the president in the elevator, according to the people familiar with the incident.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/armed-former-convict-was-on-elevator-with-obama-in-atlanta/2014/09/30/76d7da24-48e3-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html
This sure isn't the Secret Service I remember.
One afternoon, twenty years ago at around this time late September/early October, some friends and set up a union hall for a rally at which then-Vice President Al Gore was to speak on behalf of the local Democratic ticket. We came up with the stupid idea of setting up candidates' yard sign (along with the metal wiring) along the front of the stage and that was QUICKLY shot down (no pun intended) by the Secret Service agent that was watching us. He was polite, but a firm look in his eyes made it clear he was not to be fucked around with. So, we complied, taking the signs off the wires taping them up. This was hardly a memorable moment in the history of the agency, but such care over a small detail like that makes the White House infiltration all the more baffling and makes me wonder if somebody there just didn't give a shit about this President's safety.
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