[FREEBEACON] An ethics watchdog will notify congressional Sherlocks on Monday of its finding that Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) used his office's taxpayer-funded resources to assist the campaign of Jon Ossoff, a former Johnson aide, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) says Johnson violated congressional ethics rules that ban members from using their office for partisan campaign activities, and will submit its complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) says Johnson violated congressional ethics rules that ban members from using their office for partisan campaign activities, and will submit its complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics.
FACT says links to positive stories about Ossoff were posted on Johnson's official congressional website. Ossoff has worked both for Johnson's office and as Johnson's campaign manager in the past.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the links were removed from Johnson's website after it reached out to the office for comment over the weekend.
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This should make an impressive campaign add for the anti-Ossoff folks. Nicely done Hank.
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A lttile background on Hank. On October 5, 2014 The Washingtonian published their biennial "Best & Worst of Congress" list. Rep. Johnson was voted "Worst Speaker" and "Most Clueless" by congressional staffers.
He also stated that he expected Guam to sink into the ocean due to over-population. He expresses a lack of fondness for Jewish folks (some would say he is an anti-Semite). He is one of three Buddhists in Congress. He said he has Hepatitis C and that it causes his confusion; he does not know how he contracted it.
We've reached a major tipping point in politics and there's no turning back.
Welcome to the Swear Zone.
Remember the good old days, when decorum was still intact? The days where without a hot mic we never would have heard George W. Bush call a news hound a "major-league asshole" or Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... 's aside to Barack Obama It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.... that passing health care reform was "a big fucking deal."
Those days are over. Politics are not only wildly unpredictable, they're NSFWAF. Blame Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... for taking us to new lows, but here's something new: the Democrats are jumping deep in the mud with him.
Last weekend, for example, with children on stage behind him, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez leaned right into a microphone and told an audience in Las Vegas that Trump "doesn't give a shit about health care." In Portland, Maine, Perez said, "They call it a skinny budget, I call it a shitty budget." Earlier this month the DNC began selling a t-shirt that read, "Democrats give a shit about people."
[IsraelTimes] Police say 143 people detained at ’anti-fascist, anti-capitalist’ demonstrations across La Belle France.
Police said Monday they tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! more than 100 people after election night unrest in Gay Paree, with protesters hurling bottles at security forces, torching cars and smashing shop windows.
Six coppers and three protesters were slightly injured in the violence in central Gay Paree, police said, adding that 143 people were arrested, with 29 held overnight.
Hundreds of youths gathered to protest against far-right leader Marine Le Pen and former banker Emmanuel Macron, who both qualified Sunday for the May 7 run-off in La Belle France’s two-stage presidential election.
The "anti-fascist, anti-capitalist" demonstrations were held in several French cities including central Lyon, southwestern Bordeaux and the western cities of Nantes and Rennes.
[Wash Times] Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to President Trump, said Monday that Democrats’ opposition to the border wall is about preventing Mr. Trump from succeeding rather than actual objections.
"They don’t want the president to have a victory on this," Ms. Conway said on "Fox & Friends."
She noted that in 2006, Democratic senators supported the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which passed, but the fencing wasn’t complete.
"The president is making the very reasonable request to finish it," Ms. Conway said.
Despite remaining committed to getting the wall done, Mr. Trump isn’t willing to shut down the government over it, she said.
Ms. Conway explained that "building a wall remains a very important priority" for Mr. Trump but that immigration reform can happen in pieces over time.
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Those around Hillary never told the Empress she had no clothes? They kept telling her she was the entitled and inevitable next POTUS. I'm not certain what Crinegum Ulaigum2776 said but most likely I agree with it if it is anti-Helldebeest.
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she should cheer up. After all, her loss is proving to be our country's gain.
And it was her gain too. She could have supervised the continuing decline of the United States both in the world and at home, or gone to battle against her own idiot supporters; a lose lose proposition in either case.
She should rejoice at the outcome of the election.
[FREEBEACON] Rep. Comrade Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) is slated to pay her daughter another $108,000 for running a lucrative campaign operation that pulls in hundreds of thousands of dollars each election cycle, FEC filings show.
Karen Waters, the daughter of Rep. Waters, collected nearly $650,000 to date for running the operation for her mother's campaign.
Karen is in charge of a "slate mailer" operation for Citizens for Waters, Rep. Waters' federal campaign committee. Slate mailers, or endorsement mailers, involve a candidate or political group paying for the endorsement of another politician.
A candidate pays Citizens for Waters from their own political committees for her endorsement. If a candidate that she endorses does not directly pay her campaign committee, they must credit their own committee with in-kind contributions from Waters.
The mailers are sent to nearly 200,000 residents in South Central Los Angeles, an area where Waters holds considerable clout. The mailers contain an "official sample ballot" and brief quotes from Waters about the candidates and measures that she supports.
During the 2016 election cycle, Waters' campaign committee hauled in nearly $300,000 from more than 20 payments for slate mailer endorsements.
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[Politico] When President Barack Obama announced the "one-time gesture" of releasing Iranian-born prisoners who "were not charged with terrorism or any violent offenses" last year, his administration presented the move as a modest trade-off for the greater good of the Iran nuclear agreement and Tehran’s pledge to free five Americans.
"Iran had a significantly higher number of individuals, of course, at the beginning of this negotiation that they would have liked to have seen released," one senior Obama administration official told reporters in a background briefing arranged by the White House, adding that "we were able to winnow that down to these seven individuals, six of whom are Iranian-Americans."
But Obama, the senior official and other administration representatives weren’t telling the whole story on Jan. 17, 2016, in their highly choreographed rollout of the prisoner swap and simultaneous implementation of the six-party nuclear deal, according to a POLITICO investigation.
In his Sunday morning address to the American people, Obama portrayed the seven men he freed as "civilians." The senior official described them as businessmen convicted of or awaiting trial for mere "sanctions-related offenses, violations of the trade embargo."
In reality, some of them were accused by Obama’s own Justice Department of posing threats to national security. Three allegedly were part of an illegal procurement network supplying Iran with U.S.-made microelectronics with applications in surface-to-air and cruise missiles like the kind Tehran test-fired recently, prompting a still-escalating exchange of threats with the Trump administration. Another was serving an eight-year sentence for conspiring to supply Iran with satellite technology and hardware. As part of the deal, U.S. officials even dropped their demand for $10 million that a jury said the aerospace engineer illegally received from Tehran.
And in a series of unpublicized court filings, the Justice Department dropped charges and international arrest warrants against 14 other men, all of them fugitives. The administration didn’t disclose their names or what they were accused of doing, noting only in an unattributed, 152-word statement about the swap that the U.S. "also removed any Interpol red notices and dismissed any charges against 14 Iranians for whom it was assessed that extradition requests were unlikely to be successful."
Three of the fugitives allegedly sought to lease Boeing aircraft for an Iranian airline that authorities say had supported Hezbollah, the U.S.-designated terrorist organization. A fourth, Behrouz Dolatzadeh, was charged with conspiring to buy thousands of U.S.-made assault rifles and illegally import them into Iran.
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So we still don't know the full story on the Iran deal? What was Obama's real quid pro quo in the deal--he wasn't just a boy scout doing a good deed where he got some jamocos released from an Iranian prison in exchange for giving away the house.
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When palletized millions in USD and Swiss fracs began to be shipped to Iran in the middle of the night, a special session of congress should have been called. Nothing happened, and for obvious reasons, I suspect nothing will.
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I think part of the deal was that Iran will give Obama a few hundred millions in return for the one or two billions that's freed up for Iran to use again. Follow the money folks.
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I'm suspicious by nature. I would not be surprised if billions of $s were sent thru Iran (laundered) and then part of it found its way back to the U.S. and Obama's and the Donk pockets in exchange for these favors to Iran.
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I think part of the deal was that Iran will give Obama a few hundred millions in return for the one or two billions that's freed up for Iran to use again.
[Daily Caller] A sheriff from California’s Central Valley is digging in his heels against the spread of sanctuary cities and counties across the state.
Far from limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood wants to ensure that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have continued access to his jails so they can identify and deport illegal alien felons.
Youngblood plans to ask the Kern County Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution that would declare Kern a "law and order" county and not a "sanctuary" county, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"Sheriff’s deputies don’t enforce immigration laws and we don’t go on federal immigration sweeps, but we do have to allow our federal partners to do their job," Youngblood told the LA Times.
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You get far enough away from LA and San Francisco and you start to meet reasonable people.
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The sheriff of El Dorado County CA is a superb example of what a sheriff ought to be, just like Kern County's . He hands out copies of the Constitution to graduates of the county Citizens Academy and the Sheriff's Volunteer Unit and emphasizes fidelity to it and to the laws. CA still has remnants of actual traditional American values amidst the wreckage of what was once paradise.
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We've reached a major tipping point in politics and there's no turning back.
[IsraelTimes] Police say 143 people detained at ’anti-fascist, anti-capitalist’ demonstrations across 
[FREEBEACON] Rep. 
[Daily Caller] A sheriff from California’s Central Valley is digging in his heels against the spread of sanctuary cities and counties across the state.
