[FREEBEACON] A Los Angeles food services director who was invited to the White House by former First Lady Michelle Obama to share his tips for getting kids to eat healthy has been indicted for stealing $65,000 in public funds.
David Binkle, a chef who served as the director of food services for Los Angeles Unified School District until he was fired in 2015, was charged last week with multiple counts of embezzlement, misappropriation of public funds, conflict of interest, forgery, and perjury, the L.A. Times reported.
In 2014, Binkle traveled to the White House for a nutrition roundtable with Mrs. Obama. Binkle bragged that he had replaced chicken nuggets with edamame in L.A. schools. He posted as a guest blogger on Mrs. Obama's Let's Move website, and thanked the former first lady for pushing uniform standards in school cafeterias that cut sodium and mandated whole grains.
A year later an inspector general investigation accused Binkle of misappropriating school funds, and he was removed from his job.
Binkle now faces charges of siphoning $65,000 off school lunch program funding into his private culinary consulting firm and a personal bank account, the L.A. Times reported. As food services director he earned a $152,000 salary.
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It's like a contagion. Just keeps spreading from a point of origin.
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Well there is precedent. Upon leaving the White House in 2001, the Clintons took more than $75,000 worth of china, cutlery, and furniture as they were looking to furnish new homes in upstate New York and Washington:
The examination of gifts to the Clintons also found that 17 separate gifts of china, cutlery and furniture worth more than $75,000 arrived in December 2000 alone, at a time when the Clintons were looking to furnish two newly purchased homes, one each in Washington and Chappaqua, N.Y. America Rising
[FREEBEACON] Texas Democrats are struggling to find a candidate to run against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott after losing every gubernatorial race in the state for nearly three decades.
For months Democratic leaders have been searching for a high-powered candidate to run against Abbott but have been unable to find a suitable opponent to challenge the incumbent, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported Tuesday.
This could spell trouble for the Democratic Party in Texas after losing the governor's race in 2010 and 2014 with two high-profile candidates. Former Houston Mayor and U.S. Energy Department official Bill White lost to then-Texas Gov. and current Secretary of Energy Rick Perry in 2010.
Wendy Davis, the former Democratic state senator known for her 12-hour filibuster opposing anti-abortion measures, lost the 2014 election to Abbott by more than 20 points.
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The Democrats have no *platform* other than the unfettered "right" to kill unborn babies any way and any time they damn well wish to do so. The believe in *nothing*...other than that THEY should be the ones making the decisions.
[BREITBART] Omar Navarro, 28, says he’s had "enough" of watching Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s liberal politicians let the Golden State and country fall apart.
The young, Latino conservative is challenging left-wing Rep. Maxine Waters U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 25.688738542411336 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 40.68668515432099 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist... '>Comrade Maxine Waters (D-CA) for her seat in the 43rd Congressional District in the 2018 elections.
"When I realized Comrade Maxine Waters was my representative, I said, ’Wow, this person is representing me? How are people electing this person year after year?'" Navarro said. "I started doing research and looking into her background and I did not see one candidate running a legitimate campaign against her in 27 years."
In an interview with Breitbart News, Navarro said he is tired of seeing "liberal politicians that are running their own districts, their own counties down to the ground. Enough is enough."
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If enough people get fed up enough with Comrade Maxine and the Hispanic population (Race - Hispanic or Latino 46.9%) in the 43rd Congressional District votes for Navarro and the corrupted vote is controlled, he might just oust this crazy, unhinged dingbat.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 25.688738542411336 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 40.68668515432099 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist...
