[NYPost] One person was killed and three others were injured when shots rang out at a California lawmaker’s party, reports said.
Gilroy City Council Member Rebeca Armendariz was hosting a large outdoor party when someone opened fire around 1 a.m. Saturday, according to NBC News.
Two of the survivors had "life-threatening injuries," the article said.
"We are giving our full cooperation to the Gilroy Police Department in this investigation," the Democrat said in a statement to an NBC network affiliate.
"Our primary concern is for the individuals impacted and their families. We hope the Gilroy community will come together with love and support for those touched by yesterday’s events at the appropriate time."
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Obama's "fundamental transformation" that he talked about in 2008 turns out to be the destruction of the Constitution and the placement of Abombinites in the courts and Executive Branch. Rigging of elections was a part of that equation as well.
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Merrick Garland is more concerned about terror threats from bake sales and pissed off moms. When will you accept that the government may no longer be by the people, for the people?
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We the Weasels of the Union of Soviets, in Order to form a more perfect Onion, establish WokeJustice, insure domestic Strife, provide for the common alien, promote the general Impoverishment, and secure the Blessings of Graft to ourselves and our Posteriors, do ordain and establish this Destitution of the Union of Socialist Soviets of America.
[FoxNews] Attendees at the conference include Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Eric Lander, and EPA Administrator Michael Regan.
Biden climate advisers John Kerry and Gina McCarthy will also be in Glasgow.
[FoxNews] Want proof that President Biden is just another "limousine liberal"? Check out his 85-vehicle motorcade through Rome this weekend ahead of Sunday's COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, says Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe.
Boothe called climate change a "limousine liberal issue" during an appearance on Fox News' "The Big Saturday Show" in the aftermath of Biden's extravagant vehicular display overseas.
"The issue of climate change is a limousine liberal issue," Boothe said. "The Republican Party has turned into the party for the American worker, and Democrats are the party for coastal elites. This issue alone underscores that point."
[NYPOST] The FDNY shut down 26 firehouses across the Big Apple as of 7:30 a.m. Saturday because of staff shortages caused by the vaccination mandate, The Post has learned.Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican who represents Staten Island and Brooklyn, tweeted Saturday that five of the companies were in her district — and said it’s Hizzoner who could have blood on his hands.
"If someone dies due to a slower emergency response, it’s on Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... and his overreaching mandates. I hope this fool fixes it ASAP!" she tweeted.
The shuttered companies included Engine 55 in Lower Manhattan, Engine 234 in Crown Heights, Engine 231 in Brownsville, Ladder 128 in Long Island City and Engine 158 and Ladder 78 in Richmond on Staten Island, according to an FDNY alert sent Saturday morning.
"Twenty six companies out of service is an unconscionable number," said Councilman Joe Borelli, a Staten Island Republican who chairs the committee on fire and emergency management. "The firefighters who are unable to work have all been tested within the week and are not Covid positive, and I doubt New Yorkers care about the vaccine status of the person applying defibrillators to their chest."
US President Joe #Biden will meet with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip #Erdogan on the sidelines of the #G20 summit in Rome, a senior US official confirms.https://t.co/LaghUbNRwu
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Biden Thinking: "I wonder if anyone will notice if I start sucking my thumb...This Prez Gig is tougher than I ever thought...I want some ice cream... maybe a n-a-a---zzz 😴"
[Just The News] Legislative Republicans excoriated Gov. Tom Wolf for "playing favorites" after a report concluded his administration helped only Democratic counties secure $21 million in private grants ahead of the 2020 election.
Broad + Liberty reported the Pennsylvania Department of State and various left-wing groups worked together to funnel private grant funding to Democratic-leaning counties without offering the same assistance to Republican-leaning counties.
"This latest report indicates the administration and the Department of State played favorites when they connected certain counties to large sums of grant funding while ignoring other counties," Rep. Seth Grove (R-York) said. "Not only did this create unequal access to voters, but it also essentially disenfranchised voters in counties that did not receive equal funding."
About half of the money — procured through the Chicago-based Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL)
...Mr. and Mrs. Mark Zuckerberg’s private “grant mentor” NGO that gave millions of dollars to favoured boards of elections heading into November 2020...
— went to Philadelphia County, Grove said, representing about $10 spent per voter there. Other counties received around $1 per voter, he said.
The Center Square previously reported 13 counties across Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia received the private grants last year after challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic forced local officials to burn through their annual budgets long before the Nov. 3 election.
In an interview with APM Reports, Chester County's acting Director of Voting Services Bill Turner described the $2.5 million grant his office received as "a lifesaver" that he used to fund 14 drop boxes, body cameras and extra poll workers.
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Woof can't run again and his AG is running for the job. If the electorate of my former home state is too dumb to move away from dem insanity, at least I'll only have to read about it, not live it.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Five people holding tiki torches stood outside Glenn Youngkin campaign bus
They were in Charlottesville, in a deliberate echo of the August 2017 rally under the banner Unite The Right which saw neo-Nazis clash with counter-protesters
Stuart Stevens, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and former Republican strategist, defended the move to CNN's Chris Cuomo
'Listen, every day I hear people pleading with the Lincoln Project to help show Democrats how to win, how to play hardball. You know, this is an example.'
The organization refused to apologize and suggested it would continue to show up until Youngkin disavowed former President Donald Trump
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"people plead with the Lincoln Project to help show Democrats how to win, how to play hardball. You know, this is an example"
So your little grifting vehicle has f-all to do with Lincoln's party and it's principles -- it's actually about defeating them.
I'm not in favor of violence against such little monsters as this thief and his fellow scam artists. But as a matter of justice, they deserve to have their faces rubbed in their own fecal matter at some point.
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The principals of the Lincoln Project are all butthurt political consultants who were made to look foolish by Trump's unconventional campaign. They are like all bitter losers, just out to spoil the party they were not invited to. The bigger picture is that political consultants have been a pox on the republic, selling often inferior product to the electorate via "anything goes" tactics.
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Youngkin Keeps Lincoln Project Away By Holding Rally Within 500 Feet Of A School - its the Bee
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RE#1 Why are you not in favor of violence against these type of "people"? Do you think that they wouldn't use it against you?
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All the Lincoln Project people have tax and / or ped0 problems. As long as they run losing campaigns for Pubs or work dirty tricks against Pubs, they have a ticket to play.
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Billionaire Democratic donors give big to anti-Trump Lincoln Project Billionaire investor Stephen Mandel — a longtime backer of Democratic groups — gave $1 million to The Lincoln Project last month. Bain Capital executive Joshua Bekenstein chipped in $100,000 to the group. DreamWorks founder David Geffen — a million-dollar donor to Democratic super PACs in 2018 — also gave $100,000 to the Republican-led group. So did billionaire cable TV pioneer Amos Hostetter, another major Democratic donor. Retail developer Joseph Kaempfer added $75,000.
Some current and former Republican donors also bankrolled The Lincoln Project in the second quarter. Investor and former Jeb Bush backer David Seldin gave $75,000. His political contributions have shifted entirely to Democrats in the Trump era. Michigan oil executive Sidney Jansma, who is backing critical Republican congressional candidates in his state such as John James, Peter Meijer and Lynn Afendoulis, (RINO back sabbers) donated $100,000. (RINO back sabbers)
[EpochTimes] Several U.S. states on Friday mounted multiple federal lawsuits against the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors.
Texas sued individually in a federal court in Galveston. Another lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Missouri involves Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Yet another lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Georgia, involves Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia.
The lawsuits come a day after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president... announced he sued the administration over the same vaccine mandate. As of late Friday, the total number of states suing the Biden administration over the mandate is 19.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.... on Sept. 9 issued a far-reaching executive order that requires almost all federal employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment, including civilian federal employees and contractors. The order goes into effect on Dec. 8. Regular COVID-19 testing isn’t an option, but religious or medical exemptions from vaccination may be granted, according to the order. Contractors that don’t comply may lose out on government contracts.
All 19 states seek to block Biden’s requirement, arguing that the mandate violates federal procurement law and is an overreach of federal power. The states also argue that Biden’s vaccine mandate violates the 10th Amendment that separates the power between federal and state governments; uses federal spending to coerce the states, which is unconstitutional; and did not properly allow for 60 days of public comment.
The Biden administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Why did you vote to both defund the police and abolish the gun violence reduction team last year if public safety is one of your top priorities? What did you all on the city council think would happen with fewer officers responding to violent crimes? https://t.co/MUuBtgICTA
[TimeOfSanDiego] The San Diego Association of Governments board of directors Friday approved a "road usage charge" tax as part of several updates to the transit agency’s region plan, but its timeline was refined to more closely mirror a similar effort by the state.
The four-cent-per-mile tax — and two half-cent regional sales taxes scheduled for 2022 and 2028 — is envisioned as a way to help fund SANDAG’s long-term regional plan, an ambitious 30-year, $160 billion proposal which could include no-cost public transit and a 200-mile, $43 billion regional rail network.
According to SANDAG, the timeline of the tax hikes "was refined to adjust timing of the road usage charge to align more closely with state planning efforts, ensure adequate time to study and pilot potential strategies and include a diversity of funding sources that allows for flexibility in the future."
"The 2021 Regional Plan is an unprecedented investment in the San Diego region’s future," SANDAG Chair and Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear said in a statement. "We have listened to the community and are proposing a modernized transportation system through the 2021 Regional Plan that works for everyone, with affordable options that get us to the people and places we want to go in a safer and cleaner way."
SANDAG, San Diego County’s regional transportation planning agency, received more than 1,500 comments on the draft 2021 Regional Plan. Some were positive, but many were critical of the agency’s proposed tax increases.
San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond said the proposal was intended to "force everyone on to trolleys and buses" by pricing people out of their cars.
"This proposal should never see the light of day," Desmond said. "San Diegans already pay some of the highest prices to drive in the country. From the current gas taxes to a vehicle registration tax, San Diegans feel the effects, in their wallets, every day."
And now a word on SANDAG's director. Check out where he was educated: Hasan Ikhrata Biography
Considered one of the preeminent transportation planning experts in the nation, Hasan Ikhrata is the Executive Director of the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG).
SANDAG is the leading research, planning, and transportation agency for the San Diego region. The agency builds consensus; makes strategic plans; obtains and allocates resources; plans, engineers, and builds public transportation, and provides information on a broad range of topics pertinent to the region's quality of life. Agency policymakers are elected officials from each of the area’s 18 cities and the county. Mr. Ikhrata leads a staff of about 350 professionals who develop public policy initiatives for elected officials on numerous issues encompassing population growth, transportation, environmental management, economic development, municipal finance, binational coordination, and public safety.
Mr. Ikhrata has over 30 years of public and private sector transportation planning experience in the region. As Executive Director of SANDAG, he directs day‐to‐day operations of the agency and implements policies set by its governing board. In addition, Mr. Ikhrata is the Chief Executive Officer of the SANDAG Service Bureau, the nonprofit public benefit corporation chartered by SANDAG.
Mr. Ikhrata has received several awards and honors from various organizations and agencies including the American Society of Public Administration, Southern California Leadership Council, Orange County Transportation Authority, Orange County Business Council, League of California Cities, City of Los Angeles, State of California Certificate of Recognition, Association of the San Bernardino County Special Districts, the Building Industry Association, regional chapters of the Women’s Transportation Seminar and numerous others.
Mr. Ikhrata holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Civil and Industrial Engineering from Zaporozhye University in the former Soviet Union; a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from UCLA, and a PhD Candidacy in Urban Planning and Transportation from the University of Southern California.
Prior to joining SANDAG in 2018, Mr. Ikhrata worked for Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD).
Mr. Ikhrata is an adjunct professor in the business school at California State University, Northridge.
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Trying to force everyone to live in Soviet-style dense apartment complexes centered on trolley routes. He can FOAD. They're pretending this is a citizen's initiative so the don't have to get a 2/3rds vote, just a majority
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As I recall, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had a doctorate in traffic engineering. Hmm.
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How do they plan to track the mileage? I drive out of CA many, many times every year. Thousand of miles outside of the state. Are they going to try to put a GPS locator on my car? Good luck with that. I might have to attach that device to the top of the nearest city bus.
Just about done with CA altogether. Heading to a free state soon I hope.
#G20 leaders have formally endorsed the global agreement for a minimum 15 percent corporate tax, US Treasury Secretary #JanetYellen said, hailing it as a “historic” step. https://t.co/kVe2UOmSd1
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How about a 15 percent tax on all PACs and political donations?
And given that our Congresscritters get to covert their reelection slush fund to private assets upon retirement, how about taxing that too as Unearned Capital Income?
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.
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
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[EpochTimes] Several U.S. states on Friday mounted multiple federal lawsuits against the 
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
