[KSTP] 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has obtained a photo of Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges posing with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign.
The man in the photo is a twice-convicted felon for drug selling and possession and illegal possession of a firearm. He is currently sentenced to five years at the St. Cloud Correctional Facility, with the prison term stayed for three years while he is under supervised probation until 2016. If he violates terms of his probation during that time, he will serve the five years behind bars.
The photo was taken a week before the November election while the mayor canvassed neighborhoods with a nonprofit group in a get-out-the-vote event. Hodges declined repeated requests for interviews, but her spokesperson told us the mayor enjoys meeting with many people who are organizing on the North side.
The spokesperson also says the man in the photo is well regarded by the nonprofit that employs him and the mayor is simply "pointing at him" in the photo. Retired Minneapolis police officer Michael Quinn, who also managed the department's Internal Affairs Unit, says the photo is "disappointing because it puts coppers at risk."
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After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1991, she attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, graduating in 1998 with a master's degree in sociology.
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Hodges served on the Linden Hills Community Council from 2000 to 2005
Linden Hill is an exclusive area with a mix of old money and fine arts graduates. In other words, these folks haven't worked a day in their lives.
So there she is slumming with the Black folks. She probably doesn't know that's a gang sign. She also doesn't know that, if it weren't for the cameras and police bodyguard, she would be shot by the rival gang. She would also be shot for wearing the wrong color clothes.
She probably thinks the cops are those mean people who tell you to turn the TV down, not the guys who risk their lives every day to save from being killed, raped and torn apart by a bunch of psychopaths.
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"She probably doesn't know that's a gang sign."
She probably doesn't know there are gang signs, Al. (Or gangs, for that matter. The idiot probably thinks they're just boys' clubs.)
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[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Democrats are planning an extensive review of what went wrong in the 2014 and 2010 elections, hoping to find ways to translate success in presidential campaigns into future midterm contests.
A party committee will conduct a "top-to-bottom assessment" of the Democrats' performance in recent midterm elections and try to determine why they have struggled to turn out its core voters in nonpresidential elections.
"It's apparent that there are increasingly two separate electorates: a midterm electorate and a presidential electorate. We win one and we don't seem to be able to win the other," said Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... , who leads the Democratic National Committee, in an interview Saturday. "That is a fundamental dynamic that we have to change." Right. Good observation, Debbie Wasserman. If there're two separate electorates then you don't have to change anything you're doing, just wait for the next election to roll around and power will be yours.
Democrats suffered heavy losses in last week's elections, ceding Senate control to the Republicans and surrendering more seats in the already GOP-majority House as Republicans ran against an unpopular President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... .
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Democrats are planning an extensive review of what went wrong in the 2014 and 2010 elections
Please permit to assist your review. You are foking Dems! That's what went wrong, and what has been going wrong for about the last 80 years.
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You could start by listening to your constituents, and not just the fringe.
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Here's a point to ponder for them. How come every time I see Obama, Reid, Pelosi, or Wasserman-Schulz on my television, I wanna put my foot through it?
Feel free to bring that up at the Big Meeting...
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As #2 posted, how about paying attention to largely unemployed and under employed blue collar white males that used to make up one of your most significant voting blocks fifty years ago. Their issues are not of those of the urban privileged white female upper-middle class (see-Wendy Davis). Just a thought.
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Their real problems started in 1968 in Chicago and came to a head in the nomination of McGovern.
It took a while for all the old FDR types to die off so there was still a viable base. Now they have reached the point where the only thing that keeps Democrats relevant are the takers at the top and bottom, crony capitalists (aka fascists) and the welfare hoard.
Oh yeah, with the support of the Stupid Party and their coterie of beak-dippers.
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Well Democrats, West Virginia should be easy. In 2009 I was at a conference at one of their "U"s. At lunch I asked the professors what businesses were profitable in the state as it still looked pretty poor. They replied coal, government and crystal meth. Obama removed coal from the mix and replaced it with nothing.
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DWS should be kept on at the DNC. The GOP should even offer to pay her salary
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1. You did not present enough voter fraud in the election. You never were a majority party in the US. You probably never will be.
2. You are Godless Pagans that worship nothing but government. Most people are skeptical of government.
3. You hold absolutely no expert power in government. you fill all positions with incompetent staffers and marxist Utopian idiots that never held a job before.
4. Everything you know is the opposite of the truth and reality.
5. All your issues are fake issues. You attack cardboard targets while the world burns around you. You drive like Mr magoo.
6. You are dirty, nasty, liars about everything.
7. You put the nastiest people in the highest offices in the land.
8. Your whole party is flat out EVIL.
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A 2 minute analysis: First mid term elections have voters voting that are paying attention to the candidates and issues. The presidential elections are a spectacle type event and draws people to vote for no other reason than being part of it, sort of like two free concerts where they could care less who is playing as long as they are at the concert with the biggest crowd and its a popular event, mob mentality defined. This also explains why so much money was spent on this election. Trying to hype up the election to get the "follower" vote. It did not work, there was no mob to define cool. The folks that voted in this election are the voters our politicians should be paying attention to, these are the voters that pay attention to what's going on and not necessarily to the hype. If a party, either side, were to listen to this base voter, they would have them working for them and solid during the presidential cycle. They, both parties need to pay attention here, is will save money, drive votes, and build a more solid platform.
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use your thieves, you take government money, but do nothing to earn it.
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They're not going to change a damn thing; this is just ass covering.
Take part of Obama's interview w/ that old fossil Bob Scheiffer:
“I think there are times, there’s no doubt about it where i think we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we’re trying to do and why this is the right direction. So there is a failure of politics that we have to improve on.”
Schieffer asked Obama which criticisms of his administration were “valid.”
“I just mentioned one,” Obama said.
In other words, the voters recent rejection of his politics is the real failure here. Color me surprised...
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The problem with the dems is that they can not simply tell the truth that they are for higher taxes, bigger GIVERnment, more regulation and more sacrifice on every worker.... They need a liar who can evoke emotion. Their rising stars are politicians who lied, raised taxes and still got re-elected.
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We win one and we don't seem to be able to win the other," said Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
The DNC might consider dumping Little Miss Debbie as a first step. But on the other hand, I don't really give a flip about the Democratic Party--they are the party of evil.
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The dems are greedy and evil.
the pubs are greedy and stupid.
The pubs have one chance to stop the free fall of the national govt, then it will be over for the world as we know it.
I would recommend that we individuals keep stockpiling and making contingency plans for a bankrupt govt. I would not depend on the pubs to pull a rabbit out of their collective a$$es, based on history.
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I am waiting for Reid, Pelosi and Maria Shriver to call me.
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The Democrats have a well-developed farm-team system in California. They can pack the benches with relatively young talent, right up through the Assembly. The problem is that's where it stops. Aside from Barbara Boxer and Comptroller John Chiang, every other Democrat who gets elected via state-wide election is from the Bay Area. And even then, Boxer is still considered a Bay Area politician. Because that's where the California nomenklatura 's influence is.
So yes, if they run again, the rubes will vote them back in. The Party is that powerfully effective.
[FREEBEACON] The network of political and policy groups backed by the shadowy liberal donor club the Democracy Alliance was responsible for more than one of every three dollars spent by super PACs during the 2014 election cycle, public records show.
Members of the Democracy Alliance network that disclose political spending dropped more than $250 million on the midterms, according to data reported to the Federal Election Commission.
That included more than $180 million in expenditures by super PACs, more than a third of the $515 million spent by all such groups during the 2014 election cycle.
The groups' extensive involvement in Democrats' political efforts undercuts common media characterizations of the Democracy Alliance, which generally present the array of groups it supports as less involved in electioneering than those of similar collaborative donor networks on the right.
Such reports frequently downplay the scale of the Democracy Alliance network, commonly reported as consisting of fewer than two dozen organizations.
While DA's 21 "aligned network" and "dynamic investment" groups form the core of its collaborative fundraising efforts, the Alliance in fact backs a far larger array of liberal political and policy groups.
As Democracy Alliance president Gara LaMarche told attendees of its April 2014 conference in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , DA now encourages its donors to support groups on its "Progressive Infrastructure Map," which, LaMarche said has "now grown to 180 organizations," in addition to its 21 primary beneficiaries.
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If the Republicans want to be the party of the present & future then this is the target they need to shoot at.
The biggest selling point for the Tea Party that resonates with the younger voter is the point that crony capitalism, the fascist oligarchs whatever you choose to call them has to be reined in.
The Beltway Bandits buy and sell government. The way to get noticed is to shrink the ability of government to payoff their campaign donors with grants, laws and billions of dollars.
The Democrats use this system to grow their own power and wealth, and to grow the control of their progressive government over everyone and everything.
The Republicans use the system to grow their own wealth and that of their buddies while ignoring the ideological bits.
If the 'pubs can fight their urge to reward their buddies AND push the core principles of individual liberty and responsibility they can make huge gains by making the plutocrats responsible for their damage.
Stop privatizing the gains and socializing the costs.
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One of the Tea Party/Libertarian guys at Chicagoboyz blogged a couple of months ago about how he did some quiet outreach to the Occupy-Chicago kids. He reasoned - rather fairly, I thought - that some of the issues that the Tea Partiers were PO'ed about, like a bloated and over-intrusive big government, crony-capitalism and an existing oligarchy calling the shots and subverting the constitution - the Occupy kids were also PO'ed about. He reasoned that the Occupy kids just needed a little nudging in the right direction. He found them to be actually rather receptive, as long as one went about it tactfully. I think that the Occupy kids that he encountered were basically kids ... not the professional Leftard protesters.
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Rahm Emanuel was correct, she is the "shadow chief of staff" ....and she is trouble. When ValJar leaves, you'll know they've thrown in the towel. Axelrod and Emanuel sniffed her out and both found something else to do.
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Yep, Politico says she should be promoted to chief of the library to get her out. From the same article she purportedly wants the library to be at Columbia "because it would be fun for all of us to live in NEwYork".
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Like all powers behind the throne, as the tool weakens, the veil slips away and the true power is revealed. ValJar has been the author of much of the policy of this administration, and consider her pedigree: Born in Iran, Communist father, Chicago Lawyer and Slumlord, mentor to the Wookie and first introduced Champ to the Chicago coterie that brought him to local, state and national politics. Imagine the ideas about America from those roots! I don't think she will exit gracefully....
[Fox] After already receiving a controversial $1.6 billion construction loan from U.S. taxpayers, the wealthy investors of a Mexifornia solar power plant now want a $539 million federal grant to pay off their federal loan.
"This is an attempt by very large cash generating companies that have billions on their balance sheet to get a federal bailout, i.e. a bailout from us - the taxpayer for their pet project," said Reason Foundation VP of Research Julian Morris. "It's actually rather obscene."
The Ivanpah solar electric generating plant is owned by Google and renewable energy giant NRG, which are responsible for paying off their federal loan. If approved by the U.S. Treasury, the two corporations will not use their own money, but taxpayer cash to pay off 30 percent of the cost of their plant, but taxpayers will receive none of the millions in revenues the plant will generate over the next 30 years.
"They're already paying less than the market rate," said Morris, author of a lengthy report detailing alleged cronyism and corruption in the Champ administration's green energy programs. "Now demanding or asking for a subsidy in the form of a grant directly paying off the loan is an egregious abuse." Not sure whether to post under Lurid Crimes, S&T, or Economy. I went with Crime.
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Midterms are over so it is time to close up this money laundering scheme.
I do feel bad for Google with $50 billion in cash and several billion a quarter rolling in. You would think the GIVERnment would be borrowing from them instead of the other way around.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Democrats are planning an extensive review of what went wrong in the 2014 and 2010 elections, hoping to find ways to translate success in presidential campaigns into future midterm contests.
