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turbinetree's JournalDodge City Says It Can't Add Another Polling Place To Its One Outside City
By Associated Press
November 1, 2018 7:45 am
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas county clerk who moved the only polling site in the historic Wild West town of Dodge City to a facility outside the city limits more than a mile from the nearest bus stop says it is not possible to add a second polling site for the upcoming election.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree will hear arguments on a suit from the American Civil Liberties Union whether to force Ford County Clerk Deborah Cox to open another polling site in town for the midterm election.
The group says Cox refused for weeks to talk about improving the polling conditions prior to the lawsuit. During a telephone conference earlier this week, an ACLU lawyer told the judge that Cox forwarded one of their letters to the Kansas secretary of state’s office, with the notation “LOL.” Cox says the polling location had to be moved because of planned construction.
The ACLU noted that Cox moved the polling location just weeks before the election.
“She then compounded any confusion that abrupt change likely caused by incorrectly informing hundreds of newly registered voters that they could vote at the original voting location,” according to their court filing.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dodge-city-cannot-add-another-polling-place-to-outside-city
And as Rachel Maddow basically said last night on her show about this issue........................Cox is full of proverbial shit...........and is a lackey for one Kris Kobach.......................
Toobin Excoriates Kobach: Says He Devoted Career To Blocking Poor Voters
Toobin Excoriates Kobach: Says He Devoted Career To Blocking Poor Voters
By Kate Riga
November 1, 2018 8:08 am
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin excoriated Kansas Secretary of State and GOP gubernatorial nominee Kris Kobach Wednesday night, saying to his face that he has worked his whole life to disenfranchise poor and minority voters.
“Kris has devoted his career to stopping black people and poor people from voting,” Toobin said during a conversation mediated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I mean, that’s been your goal for decades.”
“That’s an outrageous accusation,” Kobach said, openmouthed in indignation.
“So if you like photo I.D., you’re trying to stop people of color from voting?”
“Absolutely,” responded Toobin.
“It is a completely true accusation because, Kris, your whole career…that’s why you had this phony voter suppression commission that was such a preposterous joke established by the President that it disbanded because it couldn’t prove your claim that voter fraud is a problem in this country,” Toobin continued. “Your problem is that some people vote for Democrats and you want to stop that by establishing voter requirements.”
Cooper then stepped in to divert the increasingly heated conversation.
Kobach is in the election fight of his life against Democratic challenger Kansas state Sen. Laura Kelly (D), leading by a single point according to the most recent poll.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/toobin-excoriates-kobach-spent-career-disenfranchising-voters
Oops! Perry 'accidentally told the truth' about dumping nuclear waste in Nevada, roiling Senate race
Trump lies about his plan to flood Nevada with nuclear waste.
JOE ROMM
OCT 31, 2018, 1:24 PM
One thing that unites Nevadans is opposition to President Donald Trump’s effort to turn the state into a huge nuclear waste dump.
That’s why many were surprised when Trump suggested he might abandon that policy after touring the state recently with GOP Senator Dean Heller, who is in a tight reelection race against Democrat Jacky Rosen.
But Trump’s Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, admitted on Friday the administration still supports building the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository outside of Las Vegas.
In doing so, Perry effectively spoiled Trump’s effort to help Heller, as Jon Ralston, editor of the Nevada Independent, explained to Bloomberg: “Poor Rick Perry didn’t get the memo and accidentally told the truth.”
https://thinkprogress.org/rick-perry-accidentally-told-the-truth-about-dumping-nuclear-waste-in-nevada-roiling-senate-race-c3945ba499d9/
Turned on the Morning Joe.................immediately turned it off .......................
they are non-stop on the refugee humanitarian crises from Honduran, and El Salvador to help gin up the right wing fascist bullshit, by calling it a "fucking caravan".......................went over to Democracy Now and listened to a parent Guttenburg who's daughter Amie (sp) was murdered at Parkland, FL, and how the younger generation is mobilizing to vote......................one network talking about the way they want to demoralize and inflame the right wing hate to pad the voters data for the right wing Bullshit , and the other network talking about how to solve military weapons not being able to be purchased and used on the streets of this country ....................FUCK YOU......................MSNBC and your dog whistle media coverage especially on Morning Joe...............
GOP congressman who worked with DeSantis proudly votes against him
By Oliver Willis - October 31, 2018
David Jolly voted for Democrat Andrew Gillum for Florida governor, despite serving in Congress alongside Ron DeSantis.
Republican former congressman David Jolly, who represented Florida’s 13th district from 2014 to 2017, said he voted for Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum, not fellow Republican Ron DeSantis.
“I’ve turned in my ballot. I voted for Andrew Gillum. The reason is simple: it’s because I’ve served with Ron DeSantis,” Jolly told the Tampa Bay Times.
Jolly also said he believes other Republican voters are backing Gillum as a way to repudiate Trump.
“I’ve spoken to Republican voters who under-voted in the 2016 presidential race because they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton. But this go-round, they’re bringing themselves to vote for Andrew Gillum,” he explained.
https://shareblue.com/david-jolly-ron-desantis-andrew-gillum-florida-vote/
“I’ve turned in my ballot. I voted for Andrew Gillum. The reason is simple: it’s because I’ve served with Ron DeSantis,” Jolly told the Tampa Bay Times.
Devin Nunes calls media 'biggest problem in US' after attempted bombing
By Tommy Christopher - October 31, 2018
Just like Trump, Nunes continued to whip up hatred of the media after last week's attempted bombings.
After a string of attempted bombings that included the New York City headquarters of CNN, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) followed Trump’s lead by attacking the press.
During an interview on the “Unfiltered Fresnocast” that was taped Saturday, Nunes told host Jim Verros, “The biggest problem we have right now in the United States of America is, we don’t have a free and fair media.”
He absurdly claimed that 90 percent of journalists are “owned by left-wing billionaires,” and that only 5 percent “are legitimate journalists.”
“And even some of those journalists are not able to get real information out there because they are owned by a billionaire of some kind, and they know if they tell the truth, they can’t get it out,”
https://shareblue.com/devin-nunes-after-bombings-calls-media-biggest-problem-us/
Hey Nunes...................if the press didn't tell us about this shit...........................would you have ................don't think so, even the Fresno Bee thinks your not qualified to be a Congressman.......................I think your enabling traitor
GOP's terrible record on health care could flip a key Ohio seat blue
By Dan Desai Martin October 31, 2018
Voters say health care is their top concern, and overwhelmingly trust Democrats like Danny O'Connor on the issue — not Republicans like Rep. Troy Balderson.
In places like Ohio’s 12th Congressional District, where Republican Rep. Troy Balderson barely won an August special election by fewer than 2,000 votes, the issue of health care could help turn a red seat blue.
Republicans in Congress voted over and over again to take away health care from millions of families and strip away protections for people with pre-existing conditions — and they’ve vowed to try again if they maintain control of Congress.
So it’s no wonder that Americans heading to the polls say they trust Democrats to protect them and their families, not Republicans.
According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, Democrats are more trusted on almost all aspects of health care, including: protecting people with pre-existing conditions; improving rural health care; protecting women’s access to reproductive health care; maintaining the expansion of Medicaid; and protecting the Affordable Care Act.
https://shareblue.com/gops-terrible-record-on-health-care-could-flip-a-key-ohio-seat-blue/
November 6, 2018 cannot get here fast enough.............................vote
Disabled Woodridge teen dresses as Blackhawks bench for Halloween
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- There's a new Blackhawk on Coach Q's roster this year--at least on Halloween. He's 14-year-old Luke Fanella in his latest costume: the Blackhawks bench.
"That's where the players have to hop the boards to get to their shift...Just to see where they go and what they're doing back there is pretty cool...I wanted to be that kid that got to sit on the bench during their warmups and give them all knuckles and high-fives," said Fanella of how he picked the costume.
Trick-or-treating in Naperville, Fanella will be a player himself, on the same line as Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. The gitup includes the glass, the boards and cheering fans in tow, including Luke's Uncle Jim DelGenio who built the outfit from scratch.
https://abc7chicago.com/sports/disabled-woodridge-teen-dresses-as-blackhawks-bench/4577116/
To all Marylander's in the First Congressional District..............Andy Harris, vote out.....
MD Dems File Ethics Complaint Against Andy Harris
Submitted by pfowler on Oct 18 2018
Annapolis, MD—The Maryland Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics yesterday on Congressman Andy Harris’ failure to disclose more than $26,000 in spousal income on his 2017 financial disclosure. His omission is made even more significant by the fact that Indy’s Services sources of income included Harris’ own campaign and the Maryland Republican Party.
After Democrats’ filed their complaint against Harris, The Washington Post reported that Harris’ campaign has paid Beus more than $130,000 since 2014.
“It appears Andy Harris paid his wife thousands of dollars from his campaign, then tried to hide it from government ethics regulators,” said Maryland Democratic Party chair Kathleen Matthews. “This is just more proof that Congressman Harris has become nothing more than another creature of the Washington swamp.”
https://www.mddems.org/press/md-dems-file-ethics-complaint-against-andy-harris
Andy Harris Had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Submitted by pfowler on Oct 19 2018
Annapolis, MD—This week, Andy Harris was criticized by the former president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science for still doubting the existence of climate change in 2018, he lost a televised debate to Jesse Colvin, he was scrambling to respond after Maryland Democrats filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics about his failure to report significant spousal income on his financial disclosure form, and The Post reported that he has paid his wife more than $130,000 from his campaign accounts—oof!
Today, after Harris claimed that there are “different projections” and “differing analysis” on climate change, former University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science president Dan Boesch called the Congressman’s doubts “bogus,” adding that “there’s no credible scientific debate about this.” Read more here.
https://www.mddems.org/press/andy-harris-had-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week
And lets not forget that this Andy Harris character a Club for Growth lackey, Harris is a doctor mind you, that is suppose to protect and help patients, he has voted over the time since he has been office to attack the Affordable Care Act also known as as Obama Care, and someone that is endorsed by the jerk (R) Gov. Larry Hogan of MD, who has issues with his business dealings and is the leader of the Maryland Republican Party and had to know about the issue with Harris (Vote Ben Jealous).
https://www.healthreformvotes.org/congress/412434
https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/opinion/2017/10/02/andy-harris-health-care-votes/723137001/
Solution:
https://www.jessecolvin.com/
While the sexual predator was making headlines about Birth Rights to deflect his lies
Lawrence O'Donnell nailed it about the issue that we the voters must remember, I will paraphrase................
1. The national debt went up to 1.3 trillion under his watch and the republican tax cuts, 83% of the population didn't get a thing out of the tax cut, over 15% made off like bandits
2. Mitch McConnell came out and publicly said said that if the republican's stay in power they will cut Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid to pay for the 1.3 trillion tax cut
3. The republicans will take insurance away from people with pre-existing conditions still in the Affordable Care Act that basic firewall from basic coverage
4. If the republicans stay in power in the Mid-terms it will be a condition that the voters approve and condone the actions of what the leader of there party is doing and it will get worse and they will be embolden to do more damage to this republic .......................with there lies to continue the blame game..................
November 6, 2018 cannot get here fast enough........................vote, this countries democracy is at stake
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