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turbinetree's JournalA dozen family members come out against GOP nominee for governor
By Eric Boehlert - October 23, 20180
Nevada Republican Adam Laxalt gets brutally denounced — by his own family.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s push to become the state’s next Republican governor suffered an awkward, personal hit this week when 12 members of his family implored voters not to support him.
“We are writing as members of the Laxalt family who have spent our lives in Nevada, and feel compelled to protect our family name from being leveraged and exploited by Adam Laxalt, the Republican candidate for governor,” the relatives wrote.
“Over the years, we’ve always supported our family, even when we haven’t always agreed with them or their politics,” they stressed. “But as this Election Day nears, we feel compelled to speak publicly about why we believe that Adam Laxalt is the wrong choice for Nevada’s governorship.”
One of their biggest beefs with the Republican nominee is his hollow claim that he was born and raised in Nevada.
“For those of us who were actually raised in Nevada, it’s difficult to hear him continue to falsely claim that he was raised in Nevada or has any true connections to Nevadans,” the Laxalt family wrote.
https://shareblue.com/dozen-family-members-slam-republican-nevada-governor-nominee-adam-laxalt/
That says something about his principles that his family does not like......................good for them
Constituent slams Devin Nunes for charging $2,700 to meet with him
By Tommy Christopher - October 23, 2018
Devin Nunes has been dodging constituents for years, and they're noticing.
Rep. Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) constituents are starting to notice just how far he’ll go to avoid interacting with the people in his district.
“I recall when Devin Nunes early in his career came to a realtors Thursday morning meeting to address concerns of the real estate community and no one had to pay,” a constituent named Rod Palmer wrote in a letter to Nunes’ hometown paper, The Fresno Bee.
“Now if you want to have concerns addressed, you must pay up to $2,700, be vetted and meet at a secret meeting place,” Palmer continued. “This is not the type of representation one should expect from an elected official.”
Nunes has not held an open town hall event since 2010. And as Palmer notes, any constituent who wants to see Nunes has to go to some pretty extraordinary lengths.
Tickets for several recent Nunes fundraisers topped out at $2,700, and attendees weren’t told where the events were located until after they were vetted.
https://shareblue.com/constituent-slams-devin-nunes-charging-meeting/
This traitor enabling treasonous asshole has been attacking the DOJ and FBI and aiding and abetting the orange hair traitor of the nationalist asshole called trump, makes over $220,000 sitting on the House Intelligence Committee Chair.................and he wants to charge his constituents admission to his fucking show of bullshit..................
.................vote this traitor out
Solution:
https://www.andrewjanzforcongress.com/
GOP lawmaker voted to let corporations scam poor people
By Oliver Willis - October 23, 20181
Minnesota state Rep. Sarah Anderson had a chance to help reign in the payday loan industry as it preyed on the vulnerable. She didn't.
Minnesota state Rep. Sarah Anderson had a chance to stand up to companies that take advantage of low-income citizens. Instead, she decided to stand with predatory loan sharks.
The Payday Lending Reform Bill sought to reign in the payday lending industry, which has notoriously imposed massive costs on vulnerable low-income people who seek out their services as a last resort.
When the Minnesota Assembly considered the issue in 2014, Anderson voted against the bill (HF 2293) alongside her fellow Republicans.
The campaign to curb these loans began in the faith community, where a group of citizens at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Minneapolis saw payday loans hurting their fellow members and neighbors.
An analysis by Minnesota’s Department of Commerce found that on an average $380 loan, borrowers were paying an additional $397.90 in charges to payday lenders.
https://shareblue.com/sarah-anderson-payday-loans-minnesota/
Yes she's a crypto fascist on the poor .............................
Hey Minnesota you can do better......................
Solution:
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Trump gets ready to blame lame duck Paul Ryan for losing the House
By Eric Boehlert - October 22, 2018
The White House is happy to have a fall guy.
Trump is already mapping out how he’s going to blame D.C. Republicans if they lose the House in two weeks.
Trump plans on blaming Congressional Republicans, and specifically Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, if things go sideways for the GOP on Election Day. This would mark a departure from the precedent set by at least the last two presidents, who shouldered the blame for midterm losses.
“According to two people familiar with the conversations, Trump is distancing himself from a potential Republican thumping on Election Day,” Politico reports.
“Look for the White House to say something like, ‘Paul Ryan chose to be a lame duck speaker instead of leaving, which cost Congress the chance to do several things before November,'” one GOP aide told Politico.
Ryan seems to have the most on the line, as Republicans in the House are likely to suffer a far bigger thrashing on Election Day than Republicans in the Senate.
https://shareblue.com/trump-lame-duck-paul-ryan-midterms-house/
Were coming republicans...................you can blame each other till the cows come home, but the voters know.................you fuckers keep forgetting what happened on January 21, 2107.....................let me fucking remind you................
https://www.womensmarch.com/march/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/videonational/womens-march-on-washington-takes-dc-by-storm/2017/01/21/348c04f2-e025-11e6-8902-610fe486791c_video.html?utm_term=.dd42fa0974a6
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.....................vote
Animosity toward Trump could elect record number of women in Michigan
Gretchen Whitmer
Animosity toward Trump could elect record number of women in Michigan
By Dan Desai Martin - October 22, 20180 Comments144
In Michigan, Trump's deep unpopularity could bring historic changes.
Michigan women are ready to show the nation that the Women’s March that happened 22 months ago was the beginning, not the end, of a historic change in America’s political landscape.
“Michigan is poised to elect some of the biggest numbers of women in the state’s history,” reports the Detroit Free Press.
Ledat the top of the ticket by Gretchen Whitmer, who’s running for governor, and including women like Mari Manoogian, who’s running for the state House of Representatives, Democratic women are leading the way toward historic gains at the state level.
“Most of the increased number of women on the ballot are Democrats: eight in the U.S. House of Representatives compared with two Republicans; 17 in the state Senate compared with 10 GOP women, and 58 in the state House, compared with 34 Republicans,” reports the Free Press.
https://shareblue.com/mari-manoogian-david-wolkinson-gretchen-whitmer-trump-women-michigan/
Solution:
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Cancer survivor's mom shames GOP congressman: 'He ignored us'
By Tommy Christopher - October 22, 20181
Steve Chabot can't hide from the people he's tried to hurt.
The mother of a teenage cancer survivor is speaking out against Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) for voting to strip protections from people like her daughter, and for ignoring their pleas for help.
Colleen Bowman and her 14 year-old daughter Ella appear in a powerful new ad for Democratic challenger Aftab Pureval, in which Mrs. Bowman urges voters to remember Chabot’s record on Election Day.
“If Steve Chabot had his way, Ella could be left without healthcare,” Bowman says in the ad.
“Steve Chabot has voted to strip protections from people with pre-existing conditions,” Bowman continues. “I know, because my daughter and I repeatedly contacted Steve Chabot, begging him to protect cancer survivors like Ella. He ignored us.”
https://shareblue.com/cancer-survivors-mom-steve-chabot-ignored-us-health-care/
Solution:
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November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.....................vote
The M.I.A. Academic At Center Of Russia Probe Has A 'Habit Of Disappearing'
By RAPHAEL SATTER
October 22, 2018 9:46 am
LONDON (AP) — The Maltese academic who allegedly dropped the first hint that Russians would interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election has gone missing — and an Associated Press investigation shows that this isn’t the first time.
Joseph Mifsud has emerged as one of the more enigmatic players in U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election.
“Joseph has the habit of disappearing,” said Abdelhamid ElZoheiry, one of Mifsud’s successors at the Euro-Mediterranean University in Slovenia, where the latter had a troubled tenure as president during a between 2008 and 2012.
A U.S. court document made public last year alleged that it was Mifsud who dropped the first hint of the hacking that rocked the presidential campaign when, at a London meeting in April 2016, he told an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that the Kremlin had “thousands of emails” about his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/missing-maltese-academic-russia-probe-joseph-mifsud-disappearing
Inside A Trump Project That Failed. Spoiler: The Trumps Still Won.
By Peter Elkind ProPublica
October 22, 2018 9:55 am
Never-before-published emails offer a window into the Trumps’ approach, this time in a failed condo project in Tampa. “They must think we are the dumbest people,” Donald Jr. wrote in one.
In November 2007, The Wall Street Journal infuriated Donald Trump with an article that dissected his recent real estate setbacks. Headlined “Stalled Condo Projects Tarnish Trump’s Name,” the report raised doubt about what the mogul treasured — and banked on — most in business: the value of his personal brand.
Trump responded with a 512-word letter to the editor. Calling the story “one of the most ridiculous I have read in many years,” he complained that it ignored his “tremendous successes with massive projects” and instead focused on “small jobs” in the Florida cities of Tampa and Fort Lauderdale. He dismissed both as licensing deals “for which I am not responsible for development.”
Trump’s reaction offers another capsule of his habit of twisting the truth regarding his real estate deals — one of the patterns explored in detail in “Pump and Trump,” which focused on a deal in Panama. That article concluded that, contrary to the Trumps’ longtime claims that they merely licensed their name, they were deeply involved in their deals.
A trove of until-now unreported emails from inside the Trump Organization, unearthed during a lawsuit against the company filed after the Tampa project collapsed — the building was never constructed — sheds light not only on a U.S. Trump project, but also provides a rare glimpse inside the organization. (The suit, filed by people who had paid deposits in advance to buy condo units, was eventually settled, with the buyers receiving partial refunds of their deposits.) The documents provide copious detail on one of the “small jobs” that Trump would later claim he had merely lent his name to. And they reveal the same patterns of behavior seen in “Pump and Trump.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/failed-trump-project-still-won
He is still a fucking fraud.......................
EXCLUSIVE: Mar-a-Lago member Lana Marks headed to South Africa post?
By Christine Stapleton
Posted Oct 19, 2018 at 10:44 AM
Updated Oct 20, 2018 at 4:51 PM
President Donald Trump is said to be ready to nominate couture handbag designer and Palm Beach resident Lana Marks to become ambassador to South Africa, making her the fourth member of the Mar-a-Lago Club that the president has tapped for an ambassadorship.
The potential nomination of yet another Mar-a-Lago member to a top post in the administration may again raise questions about whether Trump is doling out favors to those who can afford Mar-a-Lago’s $200,000 membership fee, annual dues of $14,000 and a $2,000 minimum dining requirement.
Other club members recruited by Trump for top diplomatic posts include:
Robin Bernstein, a founding member of Mar-a-Lago and staunch supporter and defender of the president, as ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
Philanthropist Patrick Park, who once claimed that most of the 200 fundraisers he hosted were at Mar-a-Lago, was picked as ambassador to Austria but cited family responsibilities when he turned down Trump’s invitation.
https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/20181019/exclusive-mar-a-lago-member-lana-marks-headed-to-south-africa-post
This is just beyond words....................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.......................vote
Heritage Foundation's Ethically Dubious Law Clerk 'Training Academy' Suspended
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Kate Riga
October 19, 2018 10:22 am
The Heritage Foundation’s “training academy,” set up to groom law clerks for prominent judicial posts, has been suspended after the New York Times published the questionable requirements of the program, including secrecy about the teaching participants received there in exchange for the financial backing of “generous donors” who allowed them to complete the program.
Some legal experts told the Times that it is inherently problematic for a very conservative group to secretly train future judges to have loyalty to its ideals and practices.
Some of the questions on the application materials — since removed from the Heritage Foundation’s website — reportedly inquired about potential participants’ stance on originalism and ideological alignment with current or former Supreme Court justices. As the Times points out, it is unclear if a participant who took liberal stances on those two essay questions would have been admitted.
“Law clerks are not supposed to be part of a cohort of secretly financed and trained partisans of an organization that describes itself on its own web page as ‘the bastion of the American conservative movement,’” Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan told the Times. “The idea that clerks will be trained to elevate the Heritage Foundation’s views, or the views of judges handpicked by the foundation, perverts the very idea of a clerkship.”
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Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch were picked from a list of contenders curated by the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, another conservative organization focused on the judiciary.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/heritage-foundation-training-academy-suspended
Must be like Trump University........................and that fucking scam, but these "guy's are more dangerous, look at what the court is getting............a serial drunk, that assaulted woman, and another one, who's wife sits on the board of right wing hit jobs, and another one that thinks if you freeze to death and get fired oh well................and others along with the other total of five, that think unions should be broken up (fuck majority employee votes), and the voting rights act is a piece of toilet paper right along with the Constitution......................and they were "training" law clerks"...........................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.....................vote
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