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riversedge's JournalRepublicans called Biden's infrastructure program 'socialism.' Then they asked for money.
Source: CNN
Updated 8:06 AM EDT, Fri October 7, 2022
Last November, GOP Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota released a statement slamming the passage of the freshly approved infrastructure law he referred to as “President Biden’s multi-trillion dollar socialist wish list.”
Then in June, Emmer – the House Republican campaign chairman leading attacks on Democrats for supporting the law – quietly submitted a wish of his own.
In a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Emmer expressed his hearty support for a multimillion dollar grant to improve part of Highway 65 in his district. The work was critical, Emmer argued, not just for his constituents, but for people all over Minnesota. Crashes were leading to fatalities. Congestion was leading to huge delays. Plus, Emmer added, “this grant also strives to serve as a social justice measure.”
Emmer’s plea is one of dozens obtained by CNN in response to a public records request, full of instances like Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville modulating his tone from accusing the law of “using fuzzy math and IOU’s to hide the real cost,” to appealing to Buttigieg because “as a former mayor, you understand better than anyone the time and money that goes into applying for highly competitive grants.
The letter writers include high profile attackers of government spending, as well as several in tight reelection races, such as Florida Rep. María Elvira Salazar and California Rep. David Valadao, who like Emmer, slammed the Biden law in public and then behind the scenes asked for money from it. ..................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
@GOP is the Party of hypocrites to say the least.
https://twitter.com/EenuffCed/status/1578356916010434560?s=20&t=ekSfpxs1A0uUdn3UokMkAQ
From left, US Republican Reps. Tom Emmer, Paul Gosar and Ashley Hinson. All three voted against a bipartisan infrastructure bill last year but signed on to requests for money from that legislation to fund projects for their constituents.
'Stop wasting time': Manhattan judge rebukes Trump lawyers in defamation case
Source: raw story
October 07, 2022
Former President Donald Trump’s legal headaches include not only all the investigations he is facing —from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis to New York Attorney General Letitia James — but also, the various civil lawsuits he is up against. One of them has come from journalist E. Jean Carroll, who filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump. When Trump’s lawyers tried to stop a deposition in that case, they received a stern rebuke from U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in a Manhattan courtroom: “Stop wasting time. It goes forward.”
The witness in the case who is scheduled to give a deposition is Stephanie Grisham, former White House Press secretary in the Trump Administration and author of the 2021 book, “I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House.” Grisham was the third of Trump’s four White House press secretaries, coming after Sarah Huckabee Sanders and before Kayleigh McEnany (now a pundit for Fox News).
Grisham, according to Bloomberg News, takes prescription painkillers, which Trump lawyer Michael Madaio pointed out when he was trying to stop her deposition. But Kaplan didn’t see that as any reason why the deposition shouldn’t go forward.
Madaio argued that being on prescription painkillers would affect the quality of Grisham’s deposition, telling Kaplan, “The issue is: The witness advised early in the deposition that she is currently on painkillers, and we were aware that in a related case, she recently filed a notice of unavailability for deposition based on the fact that she was on the same painkillers — and that she would not be able to competently testify based on the fact that she was on painkillers. She remains on the painkillers today.”
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/stop-wasting-time-manhattan-judge-rebukes-trump-lawyers-in-defamation-case/
This judge is not putting up with TRump bullsh**!!
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1578455171667034121?s=20&t=6oB_tAPY8-Y9dcFWnEgDvw
Dershowitz says DOJ has to indict Hunter Biden before they charge Trump, so Merrick Garland can look
damn. I imagine that this will be a wide spreading vile RW talking point from now on.
Dershowitz says DOJ has to indict Hunter Biden before they charge Trump, so Merrick Garland can look like he is being fair and impartial.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1578362804213465089?s=20&t=5v1oav0o-6khsCEDfjWoPw
Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows
Source: nbc news
Lower vaccination rates among Republicans could explain the partisan gap, but some researchers say mask use and social distancing were bigger factors.
Oct. 6, 2022, 1:10 PM CDT Aria Bendix
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A study in June published in Health Affairs similarly found that counties with a Republican majority had a greater share of Covid deaths through October 2021, relative to majority-Democratic counties.
But experts are still puzzling over why these differences exist. Are lower vaccination rates among Republicans responsible? Or did mask use and social distancing guidelines prevent more deaths in counties run by Democrats?
The Yale researchers behind the new working paper say vaccine hesitancy among Republicans may be the biggest culprit.
"In counties where a large share of the population is getting vaccinated, we see a much smaller gap between Republicans and Democrats," said Jacob Wallace, an author of that study and an assistant professor of health policy at the Yale School of Public Health.
Indeed, his paper found that the partisan gap in the deaths widened between April and December 2021, after all adults became eligible for Covid vaccines. Excess death rates in Florida and Ohio were 153% higher among Republicans than Democrats during that time, the paper showed.
"We really don’t see a big divide until after vaccines became widely available in our two states," Wallace said.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-death-rates-higher-republicans-democrats-why-rcna50883?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1578223316883890176?s=20&t=z9789Puc5VZj4juyGK_f_w
Bodies are moved to a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue at Wyckoff Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 6, 2020.Bryan R. Sith / AFP via Getty Images
@GOP Congress House #Republicans!: were all at the December 21 coup planning meeting.
Will these so-called US Representatives be held accountable?? I doubt it.
@GOP Congress House #Republicans!:
Jim Jordan
Brian Babin
Andy Biggs
Matt Gaetz
Louie Gohmert
Paul Gosar
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Andy Harris
Jody Hice
Scott Perry
were all at the December 21 coup planning meeting.
Hold them all accountable!
https://twitter.com/timeindawater1/status/1578019520605696003?s=20&t=WQgmXNV9KzpHMVhwWanGCA
#Jan6
MTG says Justice Jackson "is a communist" who wants to "give more rights to minorities instead of ke
geez, what a stupid ahole MTG is!!
Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦
@RonFilipkowski
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3h
Marge is in NY tonight. She says Justice Jackson “is a communist” who wants to “give more rights to minorities instead of keeping voting rights equal.”
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1577800418876432386?s=20&t=9hoX-XAAJGVZmmgTcPsG-Q
Judge Changes Mind: Paxton Must Testify in Abortion Suit After Fleeing Subpoena
Source: daily beast
AJ McDougall Published Oct. 05, 2022 2:09AM ET
Reconsidering his decision, a federal judge who previously quashed a subpoena ordering Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to testify in a high-profile abortion rights case has reversed course and ordered Paxton to appear on the witness stand. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said Tuesday that Paxton had the necessary firsthand knowledge to explain how his office planned to enforce the state’s trigger ban on abortions and whether it would pursue criminal charges or civil penalties against nonprofit funds that help pay for out-of-state procedures. Paxton has so far gone to great lengths to evade testifying in the case, allegedly tearing off in his truck after a process server attempted to deliver a subpoena to his home last week, according to the server’s affidavit. (Paxton has characterized that version of events as a “made-up controversy,” insisting he feared for his safety.) Pitman quashed the subpoena last Tuesday but changed his mind after learning that lawyers for the abortion funds had repeatedly attempted to reach out to Paxton’s office about testimony.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-ordered-to-testify-in-abortion-rights-suit-after-fleeing-subpoena
Suck it up Paxton. Your day in court is coming.
https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1577620680018989057?s=20&t=5CIZJbQXPsfzqurHP4lw5A
Show me a Governor & spouse who start their own personal hurricane relief fund and start asking for
There are plenty of volunteer and non profit organizations that folks can donate to. I would not trust any organization if Desantis is even remotely connected to.
Show me a Governor & spouse who start their own personal hurricane relief fund and start asking for money…and I’ll show you a couple of con artists. #RonAndCaseyDeSantis
https://twitter.com/leyka33175/status/1577298520532742148?s=20&t=R6cb5xpWylj6c9-StddIhQ
Replying to
@KwikWarren
and
@PatiKRoll11
Cut from the same cloth.
https://twitter.com/Wildwilly1000/status/1577057200438026240?s=20&t=CA3Lmj0W_sYRlHVG3IF29Q
https://twitter.com/AnthonyJTropea/status/1577087218661101568?s=20&t=R6cb5xpWylj6c9-StddIhQ
Replying to
@KwikWarren
The fund existed before him, but surprisingly, it went into the red under the leadership of the board which was appointed entirely by him. This is from Charity Navigator:
https://twitter.com/WarriorLibESQ/status/1577051844089872384?s=20&t=R6cb5xpWylj6c9-StddIhQ
https://twitter.com/ksgoldenone/status/1577099483510239232?s=20&t=R6cb5xpWylj6c9-StddIhQ
"You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'" -Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
@GovRonDeSantis has NOT been working in those boots--nary a speck of dirt!!
"You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'" -- Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
https://twitter.com/Will_Bunch/status/1577235837028560897?s=20&t=CA3Lmj0W_sYRlHVG3IF29Q
Has Republican senate hopeful Dr Oz fashioned his medical career on Dr Nick Riviera of The Simpsons?
I had some chuckles but it is so so dangerously true. Oz is a crook. Period
Has Republican senate hopeful Dr Oz fashioned his medical career on Dr Nick Riviera of The Simpsons? You decide. #Pennsylvania
https://twitter.com/npdrifter/status/1577013215351177217?s=20&t=ps3HLgiw300mS_w5gO0xDw
https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1577098790099877888?s=20&t=ps3HLgiw300mS_w5gO0xDw
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