[Daily Mail - You know the Rest] 'I thought he's done a hell of a job... that's why it's so sad ': Biden says he 'respects' Cuomo's decision to resign after AG report found he sexually harassed 11 women
President Joe Biden told reporters Tuesday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's downfall was 'sad' because he had done a 'hell of a job' as governor before an investigation found he sexually harassed 11 women.
'I respect the governor's decision and I respect the decision he made,' Biden said doing Q&A with reporters after giving infrastructure remarks Tuesday afternoon.
When asked by CBS' Ed O'Keefe - who mentioned how Biden and Cuomo had worked together on infrastructure projects - to grade the governor's performance outside the harassment allegations, the president gushed about the New York Democrat.
'I thought he's done a hell of a job. I thought he's done a hell of a job,' Biden said, highlighting specifically voting rights and infrastructure. 'That's why it's so sad.'
That response prompted CNN's Kaitlan Collins to pop up and ask how Biden could say that since the governor had been accused of sexually harassing women.
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Joe will be completely out of it mentally when they announce his "resignation for health reasons." Wish I could be there when Dr. Jill takes her walk in Ft. Marcy Park...
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"Hell of a job, Brownie..."
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[Breitbart] GHP Management Corp. and several other companies owned by developer Geoffrey Palmer are suing the City of Los Angeles for $100 million over its eviction moratorium, saying the policy has resulted in massive losses to the firm.
The suit further alleges that the plaintiffs cannot find help from banks, who will not refinance mortgages on properties that fall under the city’s eviction moratorium.
The Biden administration and Democrats in state and local governments have cast such moratoria as measures to protect the poor, but they could hurt the poor in the long run by making it less likely that developers will build housing in Democrat-run cities, or that they will invest in low-income housing at all.
Los Angeles Times — which took care to note that Palmer is a Republican donor and Trump supporter — reports:
Palmer’s companies also contend that they will have little success in recouping losses from their tenants after the one-year grace period that follows the end of the city’s COVID-19 emergency.
“The city orchestrated a regulatory regime designed to provide a compulsory and de facto rent forgiveness to be foisted on landlords throughout the city,” the lawsuit states.
Palmer has tangled with the city before, persuading a three-judge panel in 2009 to strike down rules requiring developers near downtown to provide a specific percentage of affordable housing in their residential projects.
The case is being closely watched, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a new federal eviction moratorium, despite being told in June by the Supreme Court that it lacked constitutional authority to do so. President Donald Trump issued an initial, temporary moratorium when the pandemic first struck in early 2020.
In his recent “State of the City” address, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was recently nominated as ambassador to India, boasted that the city had passed “one of the first eviction moratoriums in the United States” in 2020.
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...There are indications of a growing movement of landlords considering filing 1099s on tenants who haven't paid. That oughta gum up the works right quickly.
Mike
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Eviction moratoriums = assaults on private property rights.
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/\ When the property owner's income is exhausted and he can no longer pay property taxes, to whom does his property migrate. Yes, a rhetorical question indeed.
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Connecticut, land of very high taxes, has a "Social Equity Council" to sort out inequities based on race? It's anything but that; it's racist. Most likely, it's unconstitutional too. What if someone wants to set up a dispensary in a largely white community? What will the council do? Idiocracy reigns supreme in these blue cities and states. What's the racial make-up of the social equity council?
Was a civil war Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman statement to enlist freed slaves in support of his battle efforts against the Confederate States of America. He offered land and self determination in hopes of gaining their labor support.Note: He already had a documented history of NOT feeding, protecting and abandoning freed slaves in his War Crimes applicable March to the Sea and back up.
For the record NO no such statements or promises has had US Congressional authority, legal nor budget authority.
Plus this was prior to the end of the Civil War and there was no such level of official backing by President Lincoln either.
It was just a unauthorized offer made by Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865. An sometime later, was followed by a series of conversations between Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who suspected as having a role in the Lincoln assassination and then running a kangaroo court to eliminate political opponents.
So this amounted to an invading nation giving away another nations property before a war ended and peace terms had been agreed on.
THE REAL QUESTION
So how many slaves did Connecticut have between 1800-1848?
Because its slavery officially ended in 1848. Well according to the USA Census from 1800-1848 there were about 1030 total slaves counted during that 48 period in Conn. with only 54 the last year slaves were counted.
Since slavery was a STATE matter and NOT a Federal Gov. matter until 1860, Connecticut can then only be held responsible for its own actions. So let us use the Connecticut 1800-1848 total numbers of 1030 x what 40 ac and mule cost in 1865 adjusted for 2021 inflation would be about $5,917.31 X 1030 for a total of $6,094,829.30.
BTW: That $6.09M would be SPLIT across only living Connecticut blood related decedents of the 1030. Since the offer was made to ONLY include living freed slave adults at the time and NOT future Offspring's. So this boils down to a shared Trust Fund Inheritance. Not a identical individual 40ac/Mule awards for future generations.
Lets say that of the estimated 371,412 Black-Americans now living in CONN, 50% are blood related decedents of the 1030 counted between 1800-1848. That equals about 185,706.
IF it were legalized by the courts, that $6,094,829.30 / 185,706 would equal $33.00 +/- for each qualified person of the shared Trust Fund Inheritances.
I'd say make it a 1 time Conn State Tax deduction of $33 if approved by the courts.
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^ Please cut to the chase. Do people who never owned slaves owe people who are not provably descendants of slaves anything? No. Let's move on now...
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So the Connecticut pols think that the best opportunity for blacks is in the drug trade. Stereotype much, Nutmeg-ers?
The only thing keeping both parties in Congress from using the 25th Amendment is it would make Harris become President, Pelosi VP and maybe AOC speaker of the house???
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Actually I don't believe Pelosi would become VP. Harris would nominate a new VP and the Senate would approve. Besides I don't think Pelosi would give up her power as Speaker - unless she planned on ascending the presidency.
When Nixon Resigned and Gerald Ford became president he nominated Nelson Rockefeller - who's nomination passed the Senate and House.
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Harris installed via the 25th Amendment? She would be way over her head if this happens--most sensible people. One only needs to reflect on the primary results.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce she’s stepping down “probably after next year’s midterm elections,” writes Edward-Isaac Dovere for The Atlantic in a piece about Hakeem Jeffries potentially taking the reins from the California Democrat.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce she’s stepping down “probably after next year’s midterm elections
I want to see the incoming house speaker paddle her to death in front of the capital and then cancel all the 1/6 prosecutions.
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Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun of your hand?
Hey Joe, I said, where you goin' with that gun in your hand? Oh
I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady
You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man, yeah…
From a week ago, but heartening to those who care about clean votes. This will make it harder for the Democrats to cheat next year.
[WashingtonTimes] Wisconsin elections officials said Wednesday that they have removed more than 205,000 voters from the rolls as part of routine work to keep the state’s registration lists up to date.
Purging voters from the rolls has been a point of major contention in the perennial swing state. Conservatives filed a lawsuit in 2020 demanding that the Wisconsin Elections Commission remove voters from the rolls if they didn’t respond to mailings within 30 days. The lawsuit ultimately failed and Democrat Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage... went on to beat Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... by about 20,000 votes.
Commission officials announced Wednesday that they deactivated 174,307 voter registrations on Saturday because the voters hadn’t cast a ballot in four years and didn’t respond to a mailing. They said they are required by law every two years to identify registered voters who haven’t voted in the previous four years and deactivate them unless they wish to remain registered.
The commission on Saturday also deactivated 31,854 registrations of voters who may have moved and didn’t respond to a mailing. The commission mailed postcards during the summer of 2019 to more than 230,000 voters identified by the Electronic Registration Information Center as having possibly moved.
The commission voted that summer not to deactivate them until after the April 2021 election to give them several chances to affirm they hadn’t moved. That stance prompted a lawsuit from a conservative law firm, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, demanding the commission remove those voters within 30 days if they didn’t respond to the mailing. The state Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... ultimately ruled that the commission wasn’t required to remove voters within that window.
Voters who were removed from the rolls can become eligible to cast ballots again by re-registering. People can check their registration status through the MyVote Wisconsin website at https://myvote.wi.gov or by contacting their municipal clerk.
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It's basically absurd that any dead person ever remains on voter rolls. A death certificate must be issued. Every one I handle shows state of residence and county where death occurred. All this stuff is in the same courthouse and as of the last ten years or so, in a computerized database. It's political convenience that keeps voter rolls polluted with bad data. Nothing else.
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As for people who have moved, PeeAye hopefully (greedily, stupidly) send tax document to my new Florida address for two years after I moved. Wouldn't have been hard in this modern age to find that I sold my property in PeeAye and didn't buy another. Of course, a hopeful tax collector could probably come up with more scenarios than the Warren Commission that involved me still being taxable my the commontheft of PeeAye.
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#4 Agreed. Each state has some agency that deals with death records; in some places it is an agency such as a health department, vital statistics or the secretary of state.
It should not be that difficult to cull out the voting rolls by matching up death records with voting records. The Social Security Death Master File was started in 1962. It would seem that file could also be checked against voter registrations.
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With a few exceptions, I suspect everyone should be required to appear in person at his or her designated polling place. No guarantees, but this method should substantially reduce the number of dead people attempting to vote.
#9
...its organized enough, that someone claiming to be the dead person votes either on the day of election. It's one form of busing that Donks support.
#10
Yes. Make the invalid gather in an approved location 1 month prior to any election to vote, If that's too hard, they are on their way out and don't need to vote.
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[NYPOST] Reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... coppers turned their backs on Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black... when she visited a hospital after two of their colleagues were shot, one fatally — and a former cop has blasted progressive politics for the death.
Officer Ella French, 29, is the first Windy City cop killed since Lightfoot became mayor in 2019, but the city’s officers have faced a surge of gunfire in the past two years.
French and her partner were hit by gunfire on the city’s South Side on Saturday after pulling a car over for expired plates, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Emonte Morgan, 21, and his brother Eric Morgan, 22, both convicted felons, have been charged in the brazen attack.
On Saturday, about 30 rank-and-file officers gave Lightfoot the cold shoulder when she showed up at the University of Chicago Medical Center and approached them as they stood vigil, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
When Lightfoot tried to talk with the injured officer’s father, himself a retired cop, he lambasted the mayor and blamed her for what happened earlier in the day, two sources at the scene told the newspaper.
And when she then tried to comfort the grieving officers nearby, they walked away and turned their backs on her, the sources told the outlet.
[Epoch Times] Yellen detailed the emergency maneuvers—chiefly pausing investments in certain government employee pension funds—in an Aug. 2 letter to congressional leaders that came as a two-year suspension of the federal debt ceiling expired. Would an interest rate increase because of inflation effect your planning, Secretary Yellen?
The reimposed borrowing limit caps the federal debt at the current level of around $28.5 trillion, restricting the government’s ability to raise additional funds by selling government securities. The reinstated ceiling has forced Yellen, like her predecessors in prior administrations, to resort to emergency measures to allow the Treasury to keep meeting federal debt obligations.
Yellen said in the letter she was suspending investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund that are not immediately required to pay beneficiaries. She also said the extraordinary measures would involve suspending daily reinvestments in the federal retirement "G-Fund," with all the emergency measures going into effect Monday.
Federal retirees and employees will not be impacted by the moves and, once the debt ceiling is increased or suspended, all the affected funds will be made whole, Yellen said. Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Yellen in June pleaded with congressional representatives at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing to raise the legal cap on how much the government can owe, warning that if they don't agree, there could be "absolutely catastrophic economic consequences."
Raising the debt ceiling would require buy-in from at least 10 Senate Republicans to overcome the filibuster. Some GOP senators have said it's unlikely their caucus will back boosting the cap unless some spending reform measures are adopted. A dime here and a dime there, and pretty soon you're talking about a cup of coffee.
Republicans have been vocal in their opposition to the Biden administration's big-ticket spending proposals, with President Joe Biden's full budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 totaling around $6 trillion.
A standoff on raising the debt ceiling in 2011 resulted in the first downgrade on a portion of the federal government's AAA-bond rating by rating company Standard & Poor's. Venezuela here we come!
[NYPOST] One of Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo ...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out.... ’s accusers said Monday that Cuomo once refused to hire a woman because she wasn’t "pretty enough" — and thought then-President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... ’s sex scandal involving White House intern Monica Lewinsky was "funny."Karen Hinton, who worked as a Cuomo press aide when he was Clinton’s housing secretary, told The Post that during that time, he conducted a job interview with a woman who had "worked on Capitol Hill for years."
"I knew her, she had a very good understanding of Capitol Hill politics and policy," Hinton said.
"She came in for an interview and I sat in since I had recommended her, and he said to me after, ’No, I don’t think so,'" she said.
Hinton added: "I asked, ’Why?’ He said, ’She’s not pretty enough. I don’t like the way she looks.'"
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Simple:
1. Vehicles inspected every year
2. Mileage noted
3. Tax Bill Issued and must be Paid at Inspection
4. Not Paid you are SOL = Nova = No Go = Take a bus Home
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With higher fuel mileage and EV increasing, and with fed gas tax not increasing for many years, the per mile plan may be an option. The part i have trouble with is that you locations are being documented during that mileage collection. If we go mileage, then what O. W. Said. But reluctantly
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Oh yeah, forgot extra surcharge on 'fuel used' to build alterative infrastructure
Gasoline (retire & decontaminate environment)
Electric (build EV stations, power plants, solar, wind etc.)
Hydrogen (ditto, all of EV plus 'hazard tax' for firefighting equiptment)
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Won't they be bittery surprised to find they aren't fighting frogs?
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Unlike Lee, Austin will be executed immediately. Not firing squad or rope, he'll be tranpled by cavalry horses...
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So the GIVERnment forces vehicle manufactures to produce cars that get 30 MPG (and they all look the same) and produce EVs . Then due to lack of revenue makes them pay more for driving a vehicle they really would not rather have.
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Big Nanny government has been trying to get this approved for years. Easy way to track you without going through all the stupid hoops with your cell data.
#16
Does this include farm vehicles? Ranchers feeding cattle?
^bman, Of course, cattle are bad-they fart and cause global warming. And who needs farmers - food comes from grocery stores.
In the olden days, cars had analog odometers with gears and wheels. An unscrupulous helpful mechanic could drill a teensy hole and use a dental pick to physically roll back the digit wheels. Or chuck the odometer cable in a electric drill and 'drive' it back.
Nowadays, it's a digital world. You hook an electronic dingus to the car's CAN bus and you can talk to its computer, which is how your mechanic reads the Check Engine codes or turns off the Service Required warning. I would be totally un-surprised if there was a way to set as well as read the mileage, even if it is not in the official documentation. Data is malleable.
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Unlike Dominion voting machines, the chip in your car has an error flag that announces it has been altered.
My first impulse is to snark that error flags are data and like the man said, "Data bees malleable". But I don't know enough about the innerds of auto data systems to say. I would be pleased to see that automakers have tried to create some barriers to hacking, unlike Dominion machines which seem designed to be "updated".
Worth noting is a general principle in computer security that if someone has physical access to the device, then all bets are off.
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I think 2 links per comment/post is the limit. We had trolls that would linkfest the shit out of RB
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This really hits if you live rurally or in the fly over states. Every time I go out a RT is a minimum of 40 miles and driving all the way into the city is up to 100 miles RT
The monitoring sucks even more.
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Never mind those who travel around checking cows...off road. Harvest time as well.
In the olden days, cars had analog odometers with gears and wheels. An unscrupulous helpful mechanic could drill a teensy hole and use a dental pick to physically roll back the digit wheels. Or chuck the odometer cable in a electric drill and 'drive' it back.
It occurred to me this is meant for those readers under 40, who likely didn't get my joke.
Exclusive: The leader of the Minneapolis chapter of @MinnesotaDFL, a group that works to elect Democrats, has come out in support of far-left violent extremism. @Devinforparks expresses support for arson & says "decorum is a hallmark of white supremacy." https://t.co/h3lwO47Xhf
[NYPOST] Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) blasted the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill as chock-full of "stupid stuff" Monday night, hours ahead of a final Senate vote on passage.
Kennedy told Fox News’ "The Ingraham Angle" that he was likely to vote "yes" on the package until he received a copy of the 2,700-page measure.
"I realized pretty quickly that if you look up ’stupid stuff’ in the dictionary, there’s a picture of this bill," said Kennedy. "They told us it was a real infrastructure bill. It’s not; only 23 percent of the bill is real infrastructure, the rest is Green New Deal and welfare. They told us the bill was paid for; it isn’t, we’re gonna have to borrow maybe up to $400 billion to pay for it. They told us there were no tax increases. There are; my state’s gonna have to pay $1.3 billion in new taxes on our petrochemical industry.
"They told us ... the Democrats were really wary of this bill and that if we passed this bill, it would make it harder for them to pass their $5 trillion tax and spending binge, reconciliation bill," Kennedy added. "Well, if that’s true, how come every Democrat voted for this infrastructure bill? And finally, they told us that it’s not going to add to inflation, but it will."
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Comprehensive: 13 across for Washingtonese "sh*t sandwich..."
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You ain't seen nuttin' yet. House Dems are trying to get the $3T+ Green New Deal package revived ala "buget reconciliation". That's the one with gun registration and red flag laws to name a few turd niblets.
[Daily Mail - American Journalist R Lazy] 'She works hard, she listens to people, she cares,' Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan told The Wall Street Journal. 'In any state, you want for your lieutenant governor somebody who can do the job of governor. It doesn’t always happen, but in Kathy Hochul’s case she has the ability to do the job if it comes to it,
She describes herself as 'progressive' and is keenly pro-choice and pro-LGBTQ rights. Hochul is well-liked upstate, where Cuomo's popularity has evaporated. 'She is probably one of the most down-to-earth people that you could ever meet,' Assemblywoman Karen McMahon told Politico recently. 'She’s gone to great heights in government, yet one-to-one, she is so accessible and so warm and just a very generous person. She’s always able to help — particularly women, too.'
Unlike Cuomo — whose father was a governor, and who grew up in wealth and New York society — Hochul's family are Irish immigrants. On her public bio, she recounts how her mother and father once lived in a trailer on the grounds of the steel plant where her father worked in Buffalo.
I assume the Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, which closed in 1983.
Her husband is William J. Hochul Jr, a prosecutor of 23 years whose convictions include those of the Lackawanna Six — six American men who joined al-Qaeda.
Yemeni-Americans from Lackawanna’s First Ward section that used to be primarily Black and now has halal abattoirs cheek by jowl with little Yemeni mosques, while the public schools let the Muslim kids leave class to conduct their prayers. The Six were so egregious that the elders of their mosque called the authorities to report them.
He is now a private attorney but was previously the United States attorney for the Western District of New York from 2010 to 2016. The pair live in Buffalo in a $800,000, three-bedroom apartment, according to public records.
Why are they paying New York City prices in Buffalo, where housing is relatively inexpensive? You can get a nice 3 bedroom mid-century ranch house in a good school district on 1/2 acre property for about $180,000.
Their kids are in their early 30s. Katie, or Caitlin, works for PR firm Concepts Inc whose past clients include The Gates Foundation and the Justice Department. Her son, William Hochul III, is a DC lawyer.
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...One thing to keep in mind though that is that Governor-designate Hochul is the first upstate politician in decades to even get close to the Governor's Mansion. She's not as beholden to the Big Apple as others have been, and that will make for some interesting dynamics - look for one side or the other to lay down some markers hard and fast.
Mike
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On her public bio, she recounts how her mother and father once lived in a trailer on the grounds of the steel plant where her father worked in Buffalo.
...Their kids are in their early 30s. Katie, or Caitlin, works for PR firm Concepts Inc whose past clients include The Gates Foundation and the Justice Department. Her son, William Hochul III, is a DC lawyer.
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Hochul won her first major elected role in a 2011 special election to replace Rep. Chris Lee, her married male colleague who was caught soliciting women for sex on Craigslist.
There seems to be a pattern in NY politics. Maybe, it's that everyone is being screwed but some cases are especially egregious so that they get noticed.
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^No. It's that some of the Nomenclature need to be replaced and "sexual misbehavior" (which is abased on how female "victim" feels - not any objective criteria) can be used on any hetero male.
Do notice that Cuomo escaped investigation into 10,000+ wrongful deaths (or whatever the lawyer lingo is).
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/\ (which is abased on how female "victim" feels - not any objective criteria)
"Feelings" not limited to the four-dimensional continuum (time & space, etc, etc). Simply put.... shi* changes with these people.
Prevention: Remain professional, avoid private encounters at all costs. Limit discussion to the business at hand. Break both conversation and eye contact as quickly as possible.
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..or as Vice President Pence said, leave the doors open and have a 'chaperon' in the room. Of course, Biden is still known to do that crap in public and still gets away with it.
[Breitbart] Senate Republicans granted President Joe Biden a significant victory on Tuesday in helping the bipartisan so-called infrastructure bill pass through the Senate.
The Senate passed H.R. 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, 69-30, which featured overwhelming Democrat support and strong Republican support.
Nineteen Senate Republicans voted for the infrastructure bill. The Senate Republicans that voted with Democrats for the legislation reportedly include:
1. Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
2. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
3. Mike Crapo (R-ID)
4. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
5. Richard Burr (R-NC)
6. Deb Fischer (R-NE)
7. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
8. Rob Portman (R-OH)
9. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
10. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
11. Jim Risch (R-ID)
12. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
13. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
14. Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
15. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
16. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
17. John Hoeven (R-ND)
18. Susan Collins (R-ME)
19. Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on the Senate floor this bill, passed under Biden, is the first major infrastructure bill in over a decade.
Schumer said the bipartisan bill serves as the "first track" of the "two-track" strategy on infrastructure.
Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the Senate as the chamber passed the bill.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), who is retiring soon, said the Senate made history by passing the bill through the Senate: Never mind the Pubs can seldom find a single Dem to support any legislation they produce.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dade Phelan had filed a petition to overturn the order, according to KVUE-TV.
"In this case, there can be little doubt that the Plaintiff’s arrest and subsequent transport back to the Capitol falls comfortably within the Legislature’s (and the Speaker’s) broad power to compel the attendance of its members," the petition said.
"Plaintiffs are 19 state legislators who sought and obtained public office and swore an oath to uphold the Texas Constitution — the very same Constitution that authorizes each House to compel the attendance of its members," it continued.
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.
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway. A racist to the bone, Lori sez that people with the same skin tone all think alike, not quite getting the implications for a city with a population less than thirty percent black...
Yellen in June pleaded with congressional representatives at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing to raise the legal cap on how much the government can owe, warning that if they don't agree, there could be "absolutely catastrophic economic consequences."
...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out....
She describes herself as 'progressive' and is keenly pro-choice and pro-LGBTQ rights. Hochul is well-liked upstate, where Cuomo's popularity has evaporated. 'She is probably one of the most down-to-earth people that you could ever meet,' Assemblywoman Karen McMahon told Politico recently. 'She’s gone to great heights in government, yet one-to-one, she is so accessible and so warm and just a very generous person. She’s always able to help — particularly women, too.' 
