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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Florida woman who found Ashley Biden's diary in 'halfway house' is under FBI investigation for SELLING the journal in which president's daughter recalled 'showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate)' and details of her drug and sex addiction
  • Aimee Harris is under investigation for selling Ashley Biden's diary after the president's daughter left it behind at a Palm Beach 'halfway house'

  • Previous reports claimed the Bidens reported it stolen in an alleged burglary, but DailyMail.com has learned Harris is not being investigated for theft

  • 'It's her selling of the property that could be considered a crime. And the fact Ashley is the president's daughter kicks it to a different legal level,' a well-placed source said

  • Harris, 39, moved into a Palm Beach home and found the diary under the mattress shortly after Ashley moved back to Philadelphia in 2020

  • She is said to have later passed the private journal around at a Republican fundraiser before selling it for $40,000 to right wing organization Project Veritas

  • The diary contained shocking and sensitive information, such as details about her chronic drug abuse, sex addiction, and being 'hyper-sexualized' in her youth

  • 'I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate),' she wrote in a January 2019 entry
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  You meant that Harris under invisigation by the DBI? (Democrat Bureau of Investigation.)
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 06/17/2022 4:16 Comments || Top||

#2 
IF the USA returns to normal.
We need to flush out the DOJ of Politics and require that it be run solely according to law and procedures that follow the US Constitutional. Or face a mandatory 10 year sentence for each violation.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/17/2022 5:27 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ I remember when we conservatives just wanted to get rid of the departments of education and energy. Now I'm thinking that a wholesale removal of the unelected bureaucracy is the minimum to begin with.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 6:29 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ you think? It's time someone publish for July 4 the entire text of the Declaration of Independence.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2022 6:43 Comments || Top||

#5  As long as we are dreaming big, reduce all elected officials' staff to one secretary apiece. No pierced, skinny jeans metrosexuals and so on writing our laws while the congresscritters drink lunch.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 6:47 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Biden gives Kamala Harris ANOTHER job: VP will now head an online harassment task force to add to her port failfolio that includes the border and voting rights
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Most likely the only thing she is good at.
Posted by: Dale || 06/17/2022 4:01 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ I actually already read a prediction yesterday that she will fail at this too. I believe it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I am excited that she has been named head of an effort that I want to fail. Any cabinet member would have suited my needs as they are uniformly incompetent and have a viable time as they aren’t doing their real jobs.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/17/2022 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Not that any of Trump's cabinet exactly wowed me either...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 12:36 Comments || Top||


Economy
Social Security Solvency: Lindsey Graham Thinks Seniors May ‘Have to' Take Less Money
[GO Banking Rates] In a June 13 Fox Nation debate, Sen. Lindsey Graham said seniors may have to “take a little less” and “pay a little more in” when debating Social Security solvency, reports Knewz via MSN. Graham made the comments while debating Sen. Bernie Sanders during a “Senate Project” debate.

“Let’s do something like Ted Kennedy would do: get Republicans and Democrats to find a way — like the Gang of Six, the Simpson-Bowles plan. Senator Sanders: bring your Social Security plan to the floor. All it does is raise taxes. To get out of this mess, people like me are going to have to take a little less and pay a little more in. We’re going to have to adjust the age one more time like Ronald Reagan and Tip — Tip O’Neil did. There is a bipartisan way forward. You describe problems, but your answer is always the government — it’s always socialism,” Graham said.

The estimated average Social Security retirement benefit in 2022 is $1,658 a month, announced the Social Security Administration. While this is a $93 increase from the year before, benefits only cover a portion of seniors’ living expenses. For his part, Sanders admitted that Social Security “does have a solvency issue,” but that his proposal — also backed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren — would extend solvency for 75 years while increasing benefits for recipients by $2,400 per year. Sanders’ proposal would ostensibly fund this expansion of Social Security via a tax on high-earning households, per CNBC.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/17/2022 02:24 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

HEY! DC DUMB$hits, retirees are barely making ends meet now.

Want to see the number of Bankruptcies sky rocket?
Want to see businesses and Financial institutions lose a few $100 BILLION quickly?


So how about LESS DC spending instead?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/17/2022 5:16 Comments || Top||

#2  The politicians are ready to break that "promise" now that those generations of voters are about to die off. Time to make new promises to new generations of rubes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  The establishment is trying to feed the Social Security Ponzi scheme with immigration (legal and illegal). Scaring Seniors with a loss of $$$$ is part of the plan to get support for the establishment Dreamers and open border policies.
Posted by: Airandee || 06/17/2022 5:58 Comments || Top||

#4  It's all BS. Social Security was justified before SCOTUS as a tax. The 'tax' accounting was finally merged in the 1960s under Johnson and the Democrats. 'It' is a game of three card monte as much as all the governments bookkeeping. As long as they have a printing press, it won't run out of money. Whether that 'money' is worth anything is another matter.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2022 6:37 Comments || Top||

#5  The politicians are ready to break that "promise" now that those generations of voters are about to die off. Time to make new promises to new generations of rubes.

With inflation pointing to a potential Social Security COLA increase of over 6 percent, nice time to redraw eligibility criteria.

'Needs based' is the key. 'The rich' (anyone making over $50,000 per year) will not be eligible for full benefits. See income offset at table 4b.

[sarc off, but not by much]
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/17/2022 7:02 Comments || Top||

#6  And there is a huge steaming pile of 401K and IRA savings which can be used to further fund Social Security.
Politicians have been drooling over those for decades...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/17/2022 7:09 Comments || Top||

#7  As long as SCROTUS is at least 7-2 conservative, it won't happen, even with Roberts riding the fence. Any move to grab retirement funds not under the gummint's control would be injoined immediately because there would be no unwinding it later if gummint lost in court.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 7:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Lindsey, I might have politely listened to what you had to say.

But then you said “Let’s do something like Ted Kennedy would do".
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/17/2022 7:28 Comments || Top||

#9  He will be primared out of office with that statement
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/17/2022 8:04 Comments || Top||

#10  So Lindsay is fixin’ to take a drive in an Oldsmobile????
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/17/2022 8:10 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ We should be so lucky...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 8:10 Comments || Top||

#12  The abject filth and nonsense that comes out of these politicians' gobs.

Graham is one reason (of several) why I'd never donate one thin dime to the GOP.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/17/2022 8:40 Comments || Top||

#13  I got a fundraising letter from the RNC; it has Lindsey's name on it. Opened it up, read the letter, laughed, then I threw it in the trash.
Posted by: Raj || 06/17/2022 9:08 Comments || Top||

#14  FWIW just started drawing social security at 64. Amazed the system was still solvent. Due military damage full medical coverage from the VA. At 65 I must sign up for Medicare A (free) and B (premium required). If I declined part B (due existing full coverage from the VA) then I forfeit my social security benefits. What a racket!
Posted by: Cloluck Bourbon1058 || 06/17/2022 10:35 Comments || Top||

#15  #14 get a medicare advantage plan (MA), not a medicare advantage prescription drug plan (MA PD) with a part B give back, if you don’t need the prescription coverage, since you get it from the VA.
Posted by: Beavis || 06/17/2022 10:44 Comments || Top||

#16  Go with both CB. You did good, probably better than the remaining 97 percent. There really is no such thing as a bad retirement annuity, civilian or military, regardless of the amount.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/17/2022 10:48 Comments || Top||

#17  Social Security is a pyramid/Ponzi scheme, but the only difference is that you can actually quit a Ponzi scheme...not so with Social Security.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/17/2022 10:58 Comments || Top||

#18 
#9 He will be primared out of office with that statement
Posted by: DarthVader 2022-06-17 08:04


...From your lips to Ol' Strom's ears, Brother. It's a pity Graham isn't running this year, because I would truly love to vote against him.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/17/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||

#19  It was always the gummint's money. They just pretended to let you believe you had earned it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 11:57 Comments || Top||

#20  So how about LESS DC spending instead?

Of course that's the obvious answer but don't count on Lindsey Graham to admit it. He'd rather keep sending billions, trillions, to places like Afghanistan and Ukraine.

Ultimately, Social Security should be phased out and replaced with something like a 401k with as little government involvement as possible. Oh, and this 401k should be strictly voluntary. You can contribute as much or as little as you want or you can opt out of it altogether. You are responsible for yourself. The folks who administer a 401k have a fiduciary responsibility to you, unlike Big Brother who is never responsible for anything.

Social Security is socialism. It is Big Brother at his very worst. He doesn't trust you with your own money and, besides, he wants it for his own nefarious purposes. So he takes your money with a flimsy promise to repay you when you get old, which is whatever his definition of old is. And if you croak one day after you reach that age, well, too bad. Your wife may keep receiving partial payments until she croaks but you cannot pass that money to your children. People who talk about how great Franklin Roosevelt was make me sick because, forget about Biden or any of the others, Roosevelt was the worst president ever.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/17/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||

#21  You still have to pay Medicare out of your social security benefits. I had to get a job to suppliment my social security and now have to pay income tax on 85% of my social security as well as paying social security, medicare, and income tax on my paycheck. We don't have a government, we have an organization that takes money.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/17/2022 14:52 Comments || Top||

#22  Got good service at Social Security office today. Was handled by a 40 year old white guy- didn’t know the government employed any of those anymore.
Doubt I will get any S.S. benefits in 2 years when I was planning to sign up.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/17/2022 14:56 Comments || Top||

#23  Just FYI - make sure your "Fiduciary" is an actual Fiduciary. They need to have your interests vs commissions and payouts
Posted by: Frank G || 06/17/2022 19:49 Comments || Top||

#24  Everything is turning up roses for the GOP so this idiot decides to piss on their most solid voting block.

If Democrats had dirt on him I don't think he'd act any differently.
Posted by: ruprecht || 06/17/2022 21:38 Comments || Top||

#25  GOP, and that slob gentleman from South Carolina in particular, are simply out of touch.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/17/2022 21:42 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Fulton Co. GA Caught AGAIN!!!!
[EmeraldDB3] Fulton County Gets Busted Certifying False Election Results!

Ex-Dominion employee Dominic Olomo refuses to show election records to Fulton County election officials.

Today I’ve got exclusive coverage of Fulton County elections — and the obvious fraud being conducted in Georgia using Dominion Voting machines. That’s because I’ve obtained documents from a source who has been in contact with Fulton County election officials, and those documents show that the claims made by Fulton County’s IT Director (and ex-Dominion Voting Systems employee and Nigerian citizen) Dominic Olomo are clearly false.

Let’s recap this story for you: the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (BRE) met on May 29th and certified the 2022 Primary Election results — those results were counted, tabulated and provided using Dominion Voting machines.

A week later, on June 5th, Fulton County BRE called an emergency meeting to recertify the election results because their IT Director, Dominic Olomo, claimed that the May 29th results had not been properly counted! So it’s beyond dispute: the May 29th election which used Dominion machines was a failure.

Why had the May 29th results not been properly counted — according to Fulton County IT Director Dominic Olomo? He claimed that poll workers had not properly pulled vote results from the machines.

At the June 5th “emergency recertification” meeting, Fulton County election officials asked for the updated election results, and received none from their own IT director — but they “certified” the election anyway!

This crucial exchange was caught on video.

Some members of the Fulton County BRE subsequently consulted with election integrity experts and were told that they needed to specifically request the “batches loaded” reports and the cast-vote record and the poll pad check-in lists from the machines in order to duly certify the election.

The next day, a complaint was filed with the State Election Board about the missing election results at this June 5th meeting.

On June 9th, the Fulton County BRE held its regularly scheduled meeting — but Dominic Olomo did not have any of the election results that he told Fulton County officials that he would provide! Some members of the Fulton County BRE demanded that Dominic Olomo release those specific election records from the machines to them.

The next day, on June 10th, Dominic Olomo sent an email to members of the Fulton County BRE with his explanation of the revised vote results. He also included the flashcard details — including the 6 precincts from which they came, and the number of votes on each — but these were not the complete election records that members of the Fulton County BRE had demanded.

Using this very limited information, my source has shown that Dominic Olomo’s explanation for “re-certifying” Fulton County’s elections is false. Here’s the explanation from my source.
The rest at the link.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/17/2022 06:54 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  How many times was Chicago "caught" with Daley? Philly's Rizzo?

I see the GOP have been all over this election fraud for a good 50-60 years, wanting to get to the bottom of this, you know.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/17/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Bring back Biblical. Make all the inner-city types go on a pilgrimage to vote. Way out in the country.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  BUT, would Chicago (America?) rather have Daley and the mob back or continue with this bizarre being named Lightfoot? Same with Philly. Or Baltimore (Pelosi's daddy)....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/17/2022 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  She's a mediocrity. Definitely rather have that than an actual professional crooked machine pol any day.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 8:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Why stop? It works.
Posted by: Angstrom || 06/17/2022 10:05 Comments || Top||

#6  solution: no machines. hand count. no absentee voting.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 06/17/2022 15:16 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^^ common sense is not readily available these days evidently.
Posted by: Chris || 06/17/2022 16:03 Comments || Top||

#8  no absentee voting.

Thanks for disenfranchising our military on orders out of state and out of country.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2022 16:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Provo, they already effectively disenfranchise the military when they think they need to, by delaying or losing ballots or requests.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/17/2022 20:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
New Biden approval numbers flash warning signs for Democrats this November
[NYPOST] A new Siena College poll has warning signs for President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan...
and other Democrats in the Empire State in what could be bruising elections for their party later this year.

Just 35% of respondents say President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle......
is doing a "good" or "excellent" as president while 37% and 25% respectively say the state and country are heading in the right direction.

Such numbers could help sink Democratic hopes of retaining several swing districts in the US House from New York are their narrow majority hangs in the balance this November.

Voters’ awareness of an ongoing increase in crime could weigh down Democrats as well despite the relative popularity of new gun restrictions at the state level, according to the poll of 802 registered voters conducted June 7-9 and June 13.

"About two-thirds of New Yorkers think crime in their community is a serious problem, including 78% of New York City voters — 40% very serious — 61% of upstaters and 51% of downstate suburbanites," pollster Steven Greenberg said in a blurb.

Posted by: Fred || 06/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Far worse than reported, after all he is the president. Come on man.
Posted by: Dale || 06/17/2022 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2 
Here in GA.and some other states, they still have Dominion voting machines as a fallback backup.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/17/2022 5:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I think the dems will get hosed in November. All the talk in Washington after that will be how to make sure that never happens to either camp of the uniparty again.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 6:33 Comments || Top||

#4  It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes. They got away with outright fraud two years ago. Why should they be worried about doing it again? [cause they can't read history].
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2022 6:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Here in Georgia I have had several "hood" black people tell me they want Trump back.
Posted by: Chris || 06/17/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to
Cry if I want to
You would cry too, if it happened to you
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2022 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7  The warning signs are flashing but the Dems continue down the same road and appear to be stepping on the gas. Hopefully, at the last minute, they will respond by pouring money into Beto’s campaign which would be akin to holding a currency bonfire.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/17/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||


Disney delays relocating workers to Fla. during battle with DeSantis, GOP
[NYPOST] The Walt Disney Co. has delayed its plan to relocate 2,000 employees from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, to Florida until 2026 amid a feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
and the Republican-dominated state legislature over the firm’s opposition to the new "Don’t Say Gay" law.

Initially, Disney planned to have the workers from its theme parks as well as its experiences and products division on the ground in the Sunshine State by the end of this year or at the beginning of next year.

But the company now says it wants to give those workers added "flexibility" by pushing back their scheduled move east, The Hollywood Reporter is reporting on Thursday.

A Disney spokesperson told THR that while "a growing number of employees" have already settled in central Florida, "we also want to continue to provide flexibility to those relocating, especially given the anticipated completion date of the campus is now in 2026."

The move has reportedly upset some employees who had already sold their houses in California and were working with local Orlando-area realtors on buying a home in central Florida, Orlando Business Journal reported.
Posted by: Fred || 06/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Disney said they are delaying relocating workers, but I suspect they're really are making excuses and laying off workers discretely.

There's no actual workers to 'relocate'!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 06/17/2022 4:19 Comments || Top||

#2  It's not like they have enough of a workforce to swing a statewide election.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 6:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Recall that Disney fired American employees and filled the jobs with H1Bs.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2022 6:40 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/17/2022 13:14 Comments || Top||

#5  GROQMER+: drag queens are just entertainers, and every children's school should have at least one.

Also GROQMER+: we're going to make you celebrate gay by having drag queens throw out the first pitch at Fenway.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/17/2022 13:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Disney: "We're not doing what we weren't going to do. So there!"
Posted by: magpie || 06/17/2022 14:45 Comments || Top||


Biden Administration Announces Sweeping Executive Order to Facilitate 'Gender Transition' Procedures for Kids
[Western Journal] President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order promoting transgender procedures for children, calling them "gender-affirming care."

In a White House background call to the news media, an unnamed senior administration official said the order was designed to "fight back against the onslaught of hateful anti-LGBTQI+ legislation that we’re seeing in the states."

"President Biden always stands up to bullies," the senior administration official said. "And that’s what these extreme MAGA laws and policies do — they bully kids. Hateful, discriminatory laws that target children are out of line with where the American people are. And President Biden is going to use his executive authority to protect kids and families."
Just like he did with Corn-Pop!
The official accused states of passing "un-American policies."

The order gives the Department of Health and Human Services the lead role in ensuring that minors can undergo "gender transition" surgeries, according to Fox News.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Transgenderism is a Mental Illness.
So the DC Coup is supporting mental illness as a way of life?

But then again, I'd expect this from the DC Coup running things now. Anything for a vote.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/17/2022 5:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Imperial Decrees

The Emperor has dismissed the Senate.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2022 6:41 Comments || Top||

#3 
#1, It's not about votes.
DC is overrun with gays and trannys. More so than San Fran. They have become entrenched into the fabric of government. They hire same and promote same. Essentially they have become strong influencers to the elected officials.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 06/17/2022 6:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden just made crimes against humanity a policy of his administration.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/17/2022 7:06 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ I still think it's 60+ years of Big Pharma and the Central Planners messing with female bodily chemistry.

If those hens would just stop laying we could put them to good use in business and industry as taxpayers.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/17/2022 7:09 Comments || Top||

#6  As opposed to funding Social Security.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/17/2022 13:15 Comments || Top||


Shock GOP House win in Texas suggests big red wave in November
[NYPOST] A deep-blue House district in South Texas turned bright red following a special election Tuesday — suggesting November’s midterms could be even more successful for Republicans than previously thought.

Mexico-born GOPer Mayra Flores stormed to victory with 51% of the vote in the four-person race to succeed outgoing Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela. Democrat Dan Sanchez, Vela’s pick to follow him in Congress, came in second with just 43.3% of the vote.

The outcome in a district where 85% of the residents are Latino — and which Barack Obama
teachable moment...
and Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
won by more than 20 percentage points in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, respectively — sent shockwaves through the political landscape.

"This is sort of how I felt seeing some of the shifts in Appalachia in 2010, or blue collar areas in 2016," RealClearPolitics senior elections analyst Sean Trende tweeted as the results rolled in Tuesday night. "Except this I genuinely didn’t think I’d see for another 20 years or so. Just astonishing."

Signs of a rightward shift in the district appeared in the 2020 election, when President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle......
only defeated Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
by four percentage points, and Flores paid tribute to the 45th president in her victory speech.

"We cannot accept the increase [in the price] of gas, of food, of medication, we cannot accept that. And we have to state the facts, that under President Trump, we did not have this mess in this country," she told a cheering crowd.

Flores, who is married to a Border Patrol agent, ran heavily on border security and was strongly backed by the Republican National Committee — spending more than $1 million on TV ads introducing herself to voters, according to the Texas Tribune. As a result, she became the first Republican to represent any part of the Rio Grande Valley since 1870.

"Congratulations to Mayra Flores, the next Congresswoman for TX-34! Mayra is leading the charge for Republicans who are working to flip South Texas red," RNC chair Ronna McDaniel said in a statement. "She is a fierce conservative who will make the RGV proud, and we will continue working to reelect her in November."

Flores also earned the support of her most famous new constituent, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who owns a home in in Boca Chica — part of the district that snakes up the Gulf coast between Brownsville and Corpus Christi before turning inward into rural South Texas.

"I woke up this morning still feeling surreal from everything that’s happened over the last 24 hours," Flores tweeted Wednesday. "Earning Elon Musk’s vote was just the icing on the cake and I can’t wait to work with his team! The American Dream is worth fighting for."

Flores won’t have long to serve in Congress. As she finishes the remainder of Vela’s term, she will have to run to keep her seat against Rep. Vicente Gonzalez. The redrawn 34th District will be more friendly to Democrats, who cited the low-turnout nature of Tuesday’s special election and the money behind Flores to downplay her victory.

"Based on the results, we came up short tonight despite being outspent by millions of dollars from out of state interests and the entire Republican machine," Sanchez said in his concession statement. "Too many factors were against us, including little to no support from the National Democratic Party and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee."
Posted by: Fred || 06/17/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's says "we didn't cheat enough" for one party.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/17/2022 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  ^They didn't think it necessary to cheat in their own backyard. Now, they face having to fund a cheating scheme in a much expanded battlefield. I believe that is the source of their "panic".
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/17/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, those conspiracies where three are trying to keep a secret and two are dead is difficult in a 50 state situation.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/17/2022 10:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Don’t plan on it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/17/2022 15:16 Comments || Top||

#5  They have taken Latinos for granted for decades. Now the left favors their most extreme wing and everyone can see the lies. Democrats are gonna have to gin up some serious anti-Mexican hoax to blame on the GOP or the are in big trouble.
Posted by: ruprecht || 06/17/2022 20:56 Comments || Top||

#6  IF hispanics ever pass 51% voting for GOP we might actually see the Democrats support the border wall.
Posted by: ruprecht || 06/17/2022 20:57 Comments || Top||



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