[JustTheNews] Congresswoman Deb Haaland, President Biden’s newly confirmed Interior secretary, omitted from her Senate vetting questionnaire two tribal casino-related jobs that she held in the last decade and previously disclosed on other government forms, Just the News has learned.
Haaland, a member of the Pueblo Laguna in New Mexico, did not report on her Senate questionnaire that she served as a paid board member of the Laguna Development Corp., her tribe’s gaming and development arm, from 2010 to 2015 or received pay working for another Pueblo’s band's casino in 2016-17.
Just the News discovered the omissions by reviewing earlier government disclosure forms that Haaland filed with the state of New Mexico when she ran unsuccessfully in 2014 for lieutenant governor and with the U.S. House clerk when she filed to run for Congress in 2017.
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[Federalist] A new bill introduced by California State Assembly Member Ash Kalra in San Jose would prohibit police officers from serving if they have used arbitrarily defined "hate speech" or are affiliated with a "hate group."
The bill, known as the California Law Enforcement Accountability Reform Act (CLEAR Act), claims to combat "the infiltration of extremists in our law enforcement agencies" and would mandate a background check for all officers who have "exchanged racist and homophobic messages."
Kalra claims that AB 655 is necessary to prevent "the apparent cooperation, participation, and support of some law enforcement" in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
The bill defines hate speech as "as advocating or supporting the denial of constitutional rights of, the genocide of, or violence towards, any group of persons based upon race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability."
Pacific Justice Institute Senior Staff Attorney Matthew McReynolds said this broad and purposefully arbitrary definition could give way for Christians and conservatives to be classified as "hateful" based on the premise of rejecting abortion or supporting Proposition 8 in California, a same-sex amendment that passed in 2008.
McReynolds also questioned how this would affect those of the Muslim faith — since many religious mosques and followers have taken a stance against homosexuality.
"Under the guise of addressing police gangs, the bill at the same time launches an inexplicable, unwarranted, and unprecedented attack on peaceable, conscientious officers who happen to hold conservative political and religious views," wrote Reynolds. "Indeed, this is one of the most undisguised and appalling attempts we have ever seen, in more than 20 years of monitoring such legislation, on the freedom of association and freedom to choose minority viewpoints."
The California GOP currently states in its platform that it believes in traditional marriage and does not believe that Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court case on same-sex marriage decided in 2015, can "coerce a church or religious institution into performing marriages that their faith does not recognize."
According to this new Democratic bill, disagreeing on moral or religious grounds with homosexuality would technically mean the state GOP is espousing hate speech.
"Should the state now ban from public service qualified, fair-minded people who happen to hold religious or political views that conflict with controversial Supreme Court decisions on marriage and abortion?" asks Greg Burt, Director of Capitol Engagement with the California Family Council. "This is a blatantly unconstitutional violation of religious liberty and freedom of speech. It is also a tyrannical abuse of power from a politician seeking to ruin the lives of those he disagrees with."
On April 6, AB 655 will head for a vote before the Assembly Public Safety Committee. That would be about 90% of the rank and file. They only want those that buy into the approved groupthink
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So beliefs that offend unbelievers are not to be tolerated. In other words, everyone must conform to his beliefs. Sounds unbelievable. And prolly rayciss, too.
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Kalra's bill violates the 1st Amendment doubly, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Heathen.
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Communism is here. Ash Kalra is the local commissar.
For the bourgeoisie, substitute conservative white Christians.
For the proletariat, substitute blacks.
For the Party ... The Party.
[Gateway Pundit] After countless irregularities in the 2020 election and questions that arose due to the handling of ballots, counting of ballots, and absentee ballots, a Michigan judge has ruled that Michigan’s Secretary of State did in fact direct city clerks to ignore signature matching law on absentee ballots in the 2020 election. However, the ruling appears to be too little too late to have any effect on the fantastically mismanaged 2020 election that millions of reasonable Americans do not trust.
100 Percent Fed Up reports — A 2019 lawsuit filed in Michigan by Marc Elias of the infamous Democrat’s law firm Perkins Coie on behalf of the progressive group, Priorities USA insisted that signature verification was somehow illegal because it disenfranchised voters.
According to a new ruling in a separate case in Michigan, Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson likely agreed with that sentiment.
The Detroit News Reports:
State Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray has ruled invalid Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance issued to Michigan clerks in early October that instructed them to presume the accuracy of absentee ballot signatures.
Because Benson did not go through the proper rule-making process when issuing the guidance, clerks do not need to comply with it for future elections, Murray ruled last week.
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Of course. This explains how Wayne County MI went from a 2016 error rate of 40% -- that is, 40% of its precincts' ballots were found to be invalid after Hillary demanded a recount -- to a 100% acceptance rate in 2020.
Just change the rules. Illegally.
Presto! A state full of blue-collar voters for Trump, one where he routinely drew massive crowds, suddenly flips to a brain-dead muppet who didn't even set foot in the state and whose campaign workers refused to even knock on doors. Mmm-kay.
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Legislature needs to amend the law to require jail time for government officials who violate the law this way. A five-year stretch in the state pen would be a powerful deterrent to future violations. Make it ten, a ten-year stretch. Oh hell, put 'em in front of a firing squad for subverting our democracy.
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The jury has found you guilty of vote tampering, you will be given an immediate execution by
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[NYPOST] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... now admits that the mess on the border involves more than "love," but her laughable fallback is that the "challenge" is all former President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... ’s fault.Somehow, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... ’s loud reversal of his predecessor’s policies isn’t why nearly as many children crossed last month as in all of 2020. It’s bad, so it’s on Trump.
What Biden "inherited is a broken system at the border," Pelosi said on ABC this weekend, and had to fix it "in the children’s interest," which has created this "humanitarian challenge."
In other words, a surge that’s forced Biden to call in the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help in handling the kids is just part of "a transition from what was wrong before to what is right."
Up is down, black is white and war is peace, she might as well have continued. We have always been at war with Oceana...
Sorry: "Wrong" is encouraging the desperate to make the perilous and illegal journey north. There’s nothing "right" about basically inviting people the government can’t handle to flood in.
Customs and Border Protection is seeing nearly double the tide from a year ago and already holds a record high of 4,200 kids in its facilities as of Sunday, up 31 percent in a week and headed higher. Children now spend an average of 107 hours in cramped quarters critics deride as "jail-like."
And Team Biden won’t let news hounds see the detention facilities or install cameras. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama... promises she’ll arrange for journalists to visit but refuses to set a date.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand...... the president is going to Pennsylvania and Georgia to trumpet his $1.9 trillion stimulus bill on his "Hope Is Here" tour. Psaki confirms he has no plans to visit any border state.
He probably doesn’t want to see his policies’ impact. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy ...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's... just went down and reports it’s not only Central Americans heeding Biden’s invitation, but also illegal migrants colonists from Iran, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , Sri Lanka, China and other countries, including suspected terrorists.
Terrorists? Don’t be surprised if that prompts Pelosi to next say it must be all President George W. Bush’s fault.
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On March 26, 2021, Nurse Nan will be Eighty-One Years Old...is she thinking clearly...does she know what day it is...
[NYPOST] As we predicted the other day, the Legislature is looking to take advantage of Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo’s weakness to push tax hikes that New York can’t afford.Three days after OKing a full impeachment inquiry, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced a mind-numbing $208.3 billion spending plan, which includes a whopping 22.6 percent jump in general-fund outlays over last year, plus nearly $7 billion in tax hikes.
This comes as New York’s getting a huge $100 billion federal bailout, including $12.7 billion straight to state government. Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.27706 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... crowed last week that the new law just erased the state’s budget deficit and negated any need to raise taxes.
But the Legislature’s addiction to spending is strong; the bailout just gives it reason to get greedier. Heastie’s plan adds all manner of gifts for the Democratic majority’s allies, donors and special interests. No matter that dropping more cash into bloated social services and education budgets won’t put hurting New Yorkers back to work.
Yes, many of the new taxes are aimed at the rich alone. But it’s easier than ever for the rich to move away and pay no New York taxes — nor employ any New Yorkers. And Heastie’s $2.45 billion in new business taxes is basically a giant "kill some more jobs, please" sign.
"The combined state and city [income-tax] rate for city residents would top out at 15.75 percent, the highest in any state," notes the Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon. Florida is rubbing its hands in anticipation.
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The money will solve nothing. Going down only direction they are headed.
[NYPOST] The Senate on Monday confirmed Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, making the New Mexico congresswoman the first Native American to lead a Cabinet department.She was confirmed by a 51-40 vote.
Haaland’s confirmation was hailed by Democrats and tribal groups.
As interior secretary, she will lead a powerful department that routinely deals with the 600 federally recognized tribes.
"Rep. Haaland’s confirmation represents a gigantic step forward in creating a government that represents the full richness and diversity of this country," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.27704 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... said.
"Native Americans for far too long have been neglected at the Cabinet level and in so many other places," said Schumer. "Justice Learned Hand? Chopped liver!"
On the other side of the aisle, Haaland has been criticized by several Republicans during her confirmation process for her embrace of the progressive Green New Deal and her anti-fracking stance.
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said Haaland’s "extreme views" and support of "catastrophic legislation" such as the Green New Deal would make her confirmation as interior secretary disastrous, harming America’s energy supply and economy.
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Wonderful, Maybe now the dialogs will continue and expand to an updated view of Native American (NA) contributions to the United States backbone.
Generally, people have not been conscious of the fact NA Tribes are independent nations, outlined by the US Constitution but are treated as domentic dependent nations by the US Government.
So, does this appointment mean there has been a change in status (?) or was a NA 'foreigner' just installed in the US Government (?)
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[Federalist] A new bill introduced by California State Assembly Member Ash Kalra in San Jose would prohibit police officers from serving if they have used arbitrarily defined "hate speech" or are affiliated with a "hate group."
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.27706 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 45.27704 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
