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turbinetree's JournalGOP congressman blasted for refusing to face constituents for 6 years
By Tommy Christopher - October 12, 2018
Ohio Rep. Steve Chabot most recently snubbed black voters at an NAACP forum.
Democratic challenger Aftab Pureval was left to answer questions next to an empty chair at Wednesday night’s Cincinnati NAACP candidates’ forum after Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) failed to show, despite multiple invitations.
Pureval took questions from moderator Colin Mayfield on issues like health care, criminal justice reform, and the #MeToo movement. He earned several rounds of applause for his record of diversity, his promise to fight GOP sabotage of Obamacare, and for promising to be accessible to residents of the district.
“I’ll show up for you when I’m in Congress,” Pureval told the crowd in his closing remarks, adding “My closing argument? This empty chair.”
https://shareblue.com/steve-chabot-ohio-ignore-constituents-naacp-forum-aftab-pureval/
Anti-woman Republican who won in a landslide is losing his lead
By Oliver Willis - October 12, 2018
Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai is facing a serious challenge from Emily Skopov.
Democrat Emily Skopov is taking on Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai (R) and is within 5 percentage points of him according to a poll from GBA Strategies.
Turzai won the race in the 28th House District by over 30 points in 2016, and Trump won by 9 points.
In recent years the district has been trending Democratic. Hillary Clinton received more votes there than President Barack Obama did in 2012, and Trump’s margin of victory was lower than Mitt Romney’s.
In a statement, Skopov said, “This poll shows we can defeat Mike Turzai because voters disagree with his belief that our children have no right to an equal education, and they are sick of his obsession with controlling women’s bodies.”
https://shareblue.com/anti-woman-republican-who-won-in-a-landslide-is-losing-his-lead/
Zinke's controversial, EPA-style 'secret science' order isn't going over well with Democrats
Experts worry national parks and endangered species could be heavily impacted by the proposal.
E.A. CRUNDEN
OCT 12, 2018, 11:51 AM
House Democrats are calling on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to stand down from plans to reign in the use of confidential data when crafting agency policies, a controversial move that follows similar efforts to limit the use of science at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In a letter sent Thursday, House Natural Resources ranking member Raúl Grijalva and other representatives expressed “alarm” over a Sep. 28 “Promoting Open Science” order distributed to Interior Department staff. The order instructs staff to prioritize “publicly available, reproducible, peer-reviewed” science in their crafting of policy and decision-making.
In addition to Grijalva, the letter was signed by Democratic Reps. Jared Huffman (CA), Donald McEachin (VA), and Niki Tsongas (MA). They warned that what sounds like an effort for more transparency will actually limit the type of science used in decision-making.
These limitations could endanger ecosystems and sacred Native American spaces. Thursday’s letter notes that polar bear habitat protections and safeguards against drilling in the Arctic are among the areas that could be impacted by the rule.
https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-interior-epa-secret-science-zinke-pruitt-lamar-smith-b68d87da6461/
Zinke.........................FUCK YOU and your horse that you ride on, and your right wing libertarian assholes in Congress especially that asshole Lamar Smith.............................another enabling TRAITOR......................
Colin Kaepernick among this year's recipients of Harvard's prestigious W. E. B. Du Bois medal
The award is bestowed to notable individuals "in recognition of their contributions to African and African American culture."
ADAM PECK
OCT 12, 2018, 12:21 PM
Two years after first taking a knee on the sidelines of a preseason NFL game during the national anthem in an act of protest against police brutality and institutionalized racism, Colin Kaepernick stood on stage at Harvard University to accept a 2018 W. E. B. Du Bois medal.
The award is administered by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, and is generally considered one of the highest honors “awarded to individuals in the United States and across the globe in recognition of their contributions to African and African American culture and the life of the mind.”
Kaepernick was one of eight recipients at Thursday evening’s ceremony, and the only athlete. Since his peaceful protest began, thousands of athletes at every level of competition across the country have staged similar demonstrations on the sidelines before games, often during the national anthem. In response, antagonists listening to racist dogwhistles have sought to falsely portray the protests as disrespectful towards the military, an argument obscured by their simultaneous support for Donald Trump, a draft dodger who has routinely insulted military veterans, attacked Gold Star families, and lied about fallen heroes and their families.
Kaepernick’s protest began in 2016, and was followed a year later by his ostracism from the National Football League. Despite being just 30 years old, with a long track record of success while the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers — including a run to the Super Bowl in 2012 — Kaepernick remains unsigned by any of the 32 teams in the NFL. His league-wide blacklisting led him to file a lawsuit against the NFL arguing that officials and team owners were colluding to keep him out of a job. That lawsuit is still ongoing, despite numerous attempts by the NFL to have the charges dismissed.
https://thinkprogress.org/kaepernick-web-du-bois-medal-c41f978fa31d/
Arrested Texas Democrat tells MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about 'harrowing' ordeal
In Texas......................the state that gets billions from taxpayers, and it's only mission is to terrorize people if you are democrat...............no more being "nice"
GOP candidate faces calls to resign over suppressing black voters in Georgia
By Oliver Willis - October 11, 2018
Republican Brian Kemp, who is running for governor but also serves as Georgia's secretary of state, is facing calls to resign after his office held up the registrations of over 53,000 mostly black voters.
Republican Brian Kemp is the secretary of state in Georgia, but he’s also running for governor — which means that Kemp is the chief official overseeing his own election.
And now Kemp is facing calls to resign from that position following a report by the Associated Press that Kemp’s office is holding up the registrations of over 53,000 voters, most of whom are black.
The report reveals that while Georgia’s population is 32 percent black, 70 percent of the registrations currently on hold by Kemp’s office are for black voters.
Kemp’s opponent, Democrat Stacey Abrams, would become the first black woman governor in the United States if she won.
On Thursday, Abrams called for Kemp to resign as secretary of state, “so that Georgia voters can have confidence that their Secretary of State competently and impartially oversee this election,” Abrams spokeswoman Abigail Collazo said in a statement.
https://shareblue.com/brian-kemp-stacey-abrams-georgia-voter-suppression/
He isn't going to resign, racist never resign, not when you follow the playbook of the John Roberts and the other five justices of the court.........................it just sounds wrong to say justices, there as racist as this asshole
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough..........................vote
Solution
https://staceyabrams.com/
Ohio GOP congressman used first 3 votes to back tax scam for the rich
By Dan Desai Martin - October 11, 2018
Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH), who narrowly defeated Danny O'Connor in a special election, voted to extend the unpopular Republican tax scam.
Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) has only taken a few votes since his narrow special election victory, and he used them to double-down on the wildly unpopular Republican tax scam.
Balderson defeated Democrat Danny O’Connor in an August 2018 special election to replace retiring Republican Pat Tiberi, with the winner serving out just the remainder of Tiberi’s term.
Sworn in on Sept. 5, Balderson refuses to be an independent voice for Ohio. Republicans broke their newest tax scam into a package of three bills, each of which Balderson obediently rubber-stamped for Trump.
The main bill extends provisions in the Republican tax scam which would lavish tax breaks on the richest 1 percent. According to the Tax Policy Center, the wealthiest 1 percent would be handed more than 40 times as much as the median American family ($40,000 compared to $980).
https://shareblue.com/troy-balderson-ohio-tax-scam-champion/
Hey Ohio, do you think this asshole wants to turn your state into a third world country..................
War hero senator blasts Trump for saying Nunes deserves Medal of Honor
By Tommy Christopher - October 11, 2018
With his insulting remarks, Trump combined two of his favorite activities: undermining the Russia investigation and disrespecting our military.
Trump said Thursday that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) deserves “the Medal of Honor” for relentlessly undermining the Russia investigation — which earned Trump a sharp rebuke from a combat veteran serving in the U.S. Senate.
During a rambling 46-minute interview on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning, Trump went on an extended rant about the Republican campaign to smear the Russia investigation. He claimed that Nunes, who has led this dishonest effort, should be awarded our nation’s highest military honor for his “bravery.”
“Devin Nunes should get the Medal of Honor,” Trump said. “What he’s gone through, and his bravery, he should get a very important medal.” Or, Trump added, perhaps Nunes should get the Medal of Freedom, a civilian honor.
This comment drew the ire of Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a U.S. Army veteran who lost both her legs while serving in the Iraq War.
https://shareblue.com/tammy-duckworth-blasts-trump-devin-nunes-medal-of-honor/
So this asshole, asks the service to get claims in for the medal of honor out, so that he looks like he important in his mind, to perform the function, like he is handing out candy on Halloween, and then to just push the media buttons some more he comes up with this shit............................that he wants to give a medal to a fellow traitor..................
Hey asshole just for my own commentary of you...............you really are a demented narcissistic psychopathic malignant asshole, if you could demean shit you would somehow figure out how to do it, just so that you could get attention.
Bill Nemitz: As laughable claims go, Collins' talk of fundraising 'extortion' takes the cake
The senator, who has benefited from copious donations, dismisses a legitimate crowdfunding effort to buoy a future opponent as a 'bribe.’
Few things in Washington, D.C., make me laugh these days. But in her sit-down with CBS’ “60 Minutes” following her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, Maine Sen. Susan Collins served up a knee-slapper.
“I think that if our politics has come to the point where people are trying to buy votes, buy positions, that we are in a very sad place,” Collins told interviewer Scott Pelley.
The senator’s angst stems from a fast-growing account on the political fundraising site Crowdpac.com that centers on a simple message: Vote for Kavanaugh, Senator Collins, and we’re going to fund your Democratic opponent in the 2020 election.
The effort is spearheaded by progressive activist Ady Barkan, the Maine People’s Alliance and Mainers for Accountable Leadership. It has ballooned to more than $3.6 million since Saturday’s dramatic Senate vote to confirm Kavanaugh – despite his tempestuous testimony to the Senate over allegations that he committed sexual assault while in high school and college.
By Maine’s political metrics, $3.6 million is serious money. It’s far more than the $2.3 million that Democratic challenger Shenna Bellows raised in her bid to unseat Collins in 2014, and more than half the $6 million Democrat Tom Allen raised against Collins in 2008.
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/11/bill-nemitz-as-far-as-laughable-claims-go-collins-takes-the-cake/
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