While in the middle of meeting to terminate 2 local police officers for gross misconduct, the GBI arrived and asked him step outside.
[Fox5Atlanta] Thomson Mayor Benjamin Cary Cranford, 52, was arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday for allegedly providing inmates with alcohol while they worked in the city.
Investigators say the incident in question happened on June 4.
A warrant for the mayor's arrest was issued on Wednesday. He was promptly taken into custody and booked into the McDuffie County Jail where has been charged with furnishing prohibited items to inmates and criminal attempt to commit a felony.
Further details about the arrest and the incident have not yet been made public.
* Thomson Mayor Benjamin Cary Cranford was elected in a landslide. Unseating what many saw as a politically controlled puppet mayor of 12 years. The former mayor was said to have been installed by the 2 ruling political families (D's) in the county. The former mayor was also the elite's chosen city council member for 20 years.
* Many see Thomson Mayor Benjamin Cary Cranford election as having ticked off the 2 ruling political (D's) families in the town.
* The NEW Mayor, on taking office, quickly uncovered serious financial waste, spending and missing money issues. However, requested audits are still not finished?
* The power brokers even fought Mayor Cranford's efforts and voters demands to rename a street after a famous 101-Year-old WW-II vet that landed in D-Day and fought many a several key battles. One power broker went so far as to say the Vet needed to be dead 1st and then maybe only proclamation issued.
In short, the mayor's arrest is seen by many as purely Political because the New Mayor bucked the Status Quo, uncovered $$$$$ & Contract award issues and disrupted the 2 political families control.
The Thomson Police Department Chief of Police requested the GBI to investigate an allegation that the mayor reportedly left a bottle of gin on the roadside for an inmate work detail to later find, on June 4.
The indictment states that the mayor placed a bottle of gin in a ditch where it was claimed the inmates from the Jefferson County Correctional Institution were working and later found. Note: Jefferson is not even his own county?
A Grand Jury arrest warrant was issued for Cranford on Wednesday. Cranford was arrested the next day, during a meeting to discuss the dismissal of Thomson Police officers for misconduct. Thus delaying that personnel action.
[NYPOST] Vice President Kamala Harris' plan to grant the federal government expansive new authority to control food and grocery prices was roundly criticized Thursday by several Republicans and economists, who argued that it was ''big government on steroids'' and ''economic lunacy.''
The 59-year-old Democratic presidential nominee's economic agenda calls for the ''first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries'' to be implemented within her first 100 days as president in order to ''bring down Americans' grocery costs and keep inflation in check,'' according to the Harris campaign, which released details of the plan ahead of Friday's official unveiling.
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What is America to do about its communist problem?
The Constitution and Communism are incompatible.
Being Anti-Communist is obviously not enough.
Solutions need to start being discussed.
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Come on, man! Just because price controls never worked in the history of Ever does not necessarily mean they won't work now. If you keep flipping a coin, it eventually comes up heads, amirite?
And if we are being pedantic, price controls *do* work, at least in the short term. "Short term" being the week or so it takes for the supply chain to empty and for producers to realize that if a thing costs $2 to make, selling it for $1 is not a winning move. But that's nothing more wage & price controls can't fix, at least until the entire economy craters.
It only took us 66 years to go from manned flight at Kitty Hawk to landing on the Moon. If centrally-planned economies could work, someone would have done it by now. In the meantime, we need to nationalize everything to stop wreckers, hoarders, and kulaks from gumming up the works.
[TheMaineWire] Peter Mills, the former executive director of the Maine Turnpike Authority, emerged this week as one of the top faces of "Republicans for Harris."
The group mirrored in Maine the sudden emergence of a supposed Republican outpouring of support nationally for far-left Vice President Kamala Harris It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day ’s presidential campaign.
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No one thought otherwise. Just to be sure, I deep dived into the social media history of a half dozen of these jokers, and not one had any Pro Republican messages.
[GEO.TV] Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor 's campaign said Thursday that she would debate her Republican rival Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... twice, while their running mates would do so once, seeking to draw a line under weeks of election brinkmanship.
The two camps had already agreed to one presidential debate on September 10 and a vice-presidential face-off on October 1, but the Trump campaign had been pushing for two further presidential debates in September and an extra VP encounter.
"The debate about debates is over. Donald Trump's campaign accepted our proposal for three debates - two presidential and a vice presidential debate," the Harris campaign said in a statement.
It added that, "assuming Donald Trump actually shows up on September 10," Harris running mate Tim Walz ...Kamala's running mate, governor of Minnesota. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... would debate Trump's VP pick JD Vance on October 1, and then there would be another Trump-Harris face-off later in October.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to an AFP request for its reaction to the statement.
Harris's late entry into the race -- replacing President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... after his withdrawal amid concerns over his age and unpopularity -- has effectively turned it into the kind of sprint to election day more common in Europe.
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My opinion she and her VP will go into hiding as Biden did. Let the media do all the work for them.
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/\ Yes, her strategy (or Deep State strategy) appears to be one of Trump avoidance. She is incapable of debating vital domestic or international issues.
A failed assassination attempt now means dem candidates must return to the previously employed, basement strategy.
The media attempt at a Margaret Thatcher make-over is absolutly astonishing.
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The media attempt at a Margaret Thatcher make-over is absolutely astonishing.
Agreed. The 'makeover' is certainly cut from the whole cloth.
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Dale the media is already hard at work hiding her awful non-record and her Communist stance on everything. Her plagiarizing some of Trump's economic policies.
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I think she agreed because she is betting the judge will jail Trump before the debates and she won't have to debate him. If he isn't jailed, expect her to back out.
[WFB ht Insty] Vice President Kamala Harris is stonewalling a congressional inquiry into her national security adviser's ties to an Iranian government influence network, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) launched the inquiry last month into Harris adviser Phil Gordon's longstanding relationship with Pentagon official Ariane Tabatabai, who was outed last year as an alleged member of an Iranian-run influence network that reported back to Tehran's foreign ministry.
Cotton and Stefanik gave Harris an Aug. 9 deadline to provide detailed information about Gordon's relationship with Tabatabai and links to pro-Tehran advocacy groups, which the lawmakers said raise questions about his eligibility to hold a top-secret security clearance. Harris did not reply.
"You failed to respond by my deadline or to appropriately address this threat to national security emanating from your staff," Cotton wrote to the vice president's office on Thursday, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Free Beacon. "The presence of such an obvious security risk in your inner circle should have elicited your utmost attention. It raises the question of whether you've been aware of Mr. Gordon's possible links to the Iranian regime and simply find your policies aligned enough with Tehran's interests that ties to that regime don't concern you."
Gordon has emerged as one of Harris's closest foreign policy advisers and is expected to play a central national security role if she is elected president, including potentially as secretary of state. Harris has already onboarded several campaign advisers who support increased diplomacy with Iran, including Ilan Goldenberg, her former Middle East adviser and current campaign liaison to the Jewish community.
Harris has also expressed a willingness to publicly clash with Israel and pressure it to stop confronting Tehran's terror proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah. She called in March for an immediate Israeli ceasefire, rebuking the Jewish state for sparking a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza.
"I understand that it may be difficult to discern Iranian agents from the left-wing ideologues on your staff," Cotton wrote. "But you have the responsibility to make these difficult distinctions and appropriately vet the people you elevate to positions of distinction and trust."
According to an initial July 31 investigatory letter from Cotton and Stefanik, Gordon published multiple articles with Tabatabai "blatantly promoting the Iranian regime's perspective and interests."
Those pieces were published after Tabatabai was alleged to be working for the Iran Experts Initiative, an influence network that included several American policymakers associated with the Biden administration's former Iran envoy, Robert Malley, who was indefinitely suspended from his job amid allegations he leaked classified information.
In a March 2020 article, Gordon and Tabatabai "claimed continued sanctions on Iran would create 'catastrophe' in the Middle East," according to Cotton and Stefanik's letter. In another piece, Gordon and Tabatabai claimed economic sanctions on Tehran could prompt Iran to "lash out with attacks on its neighbors, and on Americans and American interests in the Middle East."
"Each prediction was as wrong," Cotton and Stefanik said last month, "as it was biased in favor of Tehran."
Tabatabai was found to have visited the Biden-Harris White House at least eight times after her links to the Iranian influence network were exposed, the Free Beacon first reported earlier this week. Those visits included meetings organized by the White House Presidential Personnel Office, which is responsible for recruiting and vetting nominees across the government.
Gordon met in February at the White House with Ali Vaez, a pro-Tehran analyst who, along with Tabatabai, reportedly has ties to the Iranian influence operation, visitor logs show.
Harris, Cotton said in his latest letter, must "immediately investigate Mr. Gordon's ties to the Iranian regime and provide responses" to the July 31 letter.
Cotton further notes that, since that initial letter, Gordon has continued "to demonstrate a pattern of anti-Israel bias, which furthers Iranian interests."
In an Aug. 10 tweet, for instance, Gordon said he is "deeply concerned about reports of civilian casualties in Gaza" and accused Israel of targeting "innocent Palestinians."
"If he's willing to ridicule Israel so unfairly in public," Cotton wrote to Harris, "we can only imagine what he is telling you in private."
A Biden-Harris administration official derided Cotton's letter as "baseless and absurd" and defended Gordon's "career as a national security expert and public servant respected on both sides of the aisle."
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.
...Kamala's running mate, governor of Minnesota. 
[WFB ht Insty] Vice President Kamala Harris is stonewalling a congressional inquiry into her national security adviser's ties to an Iranian government influence network, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
