[Breitbart] Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) has been accused of "betraying" his own party for speaking out against male transgender athletes in girls’ sports, with one Salem lawmaker even calling on him to resign.
"Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face," Moulton said in an interview with the New York Times published Thursday.
"I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that," he added.
Moulton’s campaign manager and director of his political committee, Matt Chilliak, immediately resigned without commenting on the controversy, according to the Boston Globe.
In the congressman’s hometown of Salem, Mayor Dominick Pangallo and the School Committee sent out a joint memo saying Moulton’s remarks "do not reflect our values."
"We want to reassure our LGBTQ+ students that we as district leaders will always celebrate your identities, support your dreams and aspirations, and applaud your accomplishments," the email to Salem residents stated.
Progressive Massachusetts state Rep. Manny Cruz (D) took to X to denounce the congressman’s stance, saying Moulton "betrayed" his previous commitment to stand against anti-LGBTQ hate crimes:
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At at time when every House seat matters, convincing a elected member to switch parties because of the absolute intolerance of anything but hard Leftist agenda isn't a good idea politically.
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Just because somebody has "dreams and aspirations" doesn't mean they should be supported, applauded and celebrated. It kinda depends on the nature of the dreams and aspirations, doesn't it?
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#1, yeah, whatever happened to the "Big Tent"? It can't be very big if there is no room for any kind of dissent.
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The big tent is surrounded by concertina wire.
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This clarifies matters. Evidently, the only possible responses to LGBTQ+ issues are (1) a tongue bath or (2) a hate crime. No middle ground.
If this goes into practice, you're not gonna like how it comes out.
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You can see that he is headed towards Jimmy Carter type invalidity.
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"We know that somebody else is running the country. It certainly hasn't been Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. I think conventional wisdom believes it to be a cabal made up of the Obamas, Senate Majority Leader (for now) Chuck Schumer (D-NY), former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett...and whomever else they have surrounded themselves with. Speculation maybe, but who else in Washington has as much power as they do? The lobbies?
Who are the traditional lobbies? Oil? Auto industry? Those guys have seen their influence wane as the green monster has picked up steam. Big Pharma? Big Tech? Probably, since they have been caught serving the interests of the progressives in government. Defense manufacturers? Yeah, maybe them too. We all know what Eisenhower said about them. "
[Denver7] Trailing by around 2,500 votes, incumbent Democrat Yadira Caraveo conceded the race on Sunday.
For nearly a week, the race to represent Colorado's 8th Congressional District has been too close to call. Officially, the race has not been called, with roughly 2,500 votes separating the candidates.
On Sunday, incumbent Democrat Representative Yadira Caraveo conceded the race and her Republican challenger Gabe Evans declared victory.
In a statement issued Sunday, Caraveo said in part:
While this isn’t the outcome we had hoped for, the work is not over. I look forward to returning to Washington to finish out this term and will continue to be an independent voice for the people of this district.”
Meanwhile, Evans released a statement saying in part, he is "humbled to be chosen as the next Congressman for Colorado’s 8th" and thanked Caraveo for her "service and gracious concession."
Evans plans to speak publicly on Monday.
Colorado's 8th Congressional District is the newest in the state, and encompasses most of Adams, along with portions of Weld and Larimer counties. It was created after redistricting in 2020.
The First Vice Chairman of the Weld County Republicans, Hunter Rivera, is excited about Evans' victory.
"Over the last two years, our goal has always been to win Congressional District 8, and a lot of hard work has paid off to get us to this point," Rivera said. “Most of us did not expect the Weld dump from yesterday to be as good as it was. I mean, that changed a lot of our races here in Weld County. It definitely did.”
Rivera said the 8th Congressional District is likely the most competitive district in Colorado.
"You have Adams County. I would dare to say Adams County is a pretty blue County. You have Weld County. We're a very deep red county here in the here in the state," Rivera explained.
The race has received national attention due to it's impact on which party will control Congress.
“Over the last few days, when we kind of didn't know the results of this election, it was very interesting. Some of the calls I was getting on, and they're like, 'Well, we have these people from Elon Musk's team coming out here. We have people from Trump's team coming out here,'" Rivera recalled.
With Evans securing the seat, Colorado will send four Republicans and four Democrats to Congress.
"I think there's a lot of common ground between Republicans and Democrats. I really believe in bipartisanship," Rivera said. “My hope for Congress, regardless of which party ends up winning the majority, is I really hope they can reach across the aisle and deliver for the American people."
Adams County Clerk and Recorder Josh Zygielbaum told Denver7, this election brought an "unprecedented number of ballots" and a severe snowstorm forced building closures, combined with travel risks, which impacted their timeline. As of Sunday, Zygielbaum said there's around 1,290 ballots related to the 8th Congressional District that still need to be processed. Military and overseas ballots have until Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. to arrive, which is the same deadline for any ballots that must be cured.
Zygielbaum continued to say, "we are committed to processing ballots as quickly as possible and uploading accurate results to the Secretary of State’s website as soon as possible.”
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IIUC the remaining counts are primarily in Red districts
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218 is a simple majority necessary to pass a bill. Bills can then move to the Senate where 51 votes are required to pass a bill. 218 votes in the House would hopefully stop Dem moves such as those suggested by Raskin to impeach Trump.
[JustTheNews] If bill becomes law, Biden would be able to create a board that could suspend or modify regulations and laws that can slow recovery.
Two bills have been filed in the U.S. House of Representatives directed at disaster relief following the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and other states in the South.
Authored by U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the legislation is supportive of an Oct. 3 letter signed by 14 members of the House and directed to President Joe Biden and four members of his Cabinet.
“Congress can, and should, pursue commonsense solutions to aid in disaster recovery efforts – the solutions that I have placed on the table help lead the way,” Foxx wrote on social media.
The Disaster Recovery and Resilience Act of 2024, also known as House Resolution 10087, in part amends the Stafford Act. A low bidder for work in a federal disaster declaration area can be awarded the work separate of payment requirements backed by the union.
The president, if the bill becomes law, would be able to create an Emergency Recovery Board inclusive of federal, state and local entities that navigates suspension or modification of regulations and laws that can slow recovery and development.
The Helene Recovery Support Act, also known as House Resolution 10088, would appropriate $12.5 billion to FEMA. Further, it appropriates $1.5 billion to the Small Business Administration, $1 billion to the New Markets Tax Credit, and rescinds $15 billion from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
In their letter, the congressional delegation said discretion is needed with regard to the National Environmental Policy Act in order for people of the region to “rebuild and return to normal.”
“The federal government,” the letter reads in part, “can support these communities by ensuring federal regulations are waived or interpreted to provide maximum discretion to state and local authorities, consistent with applicable laws and regulations.”
The letter is addressed to Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Interior Department Secretary Deb Haaland, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell, and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan.
The letter is signed by Foxx and U.S. Reps. Dr. Greg Murphy, R-N.C.; Chuck Edwards, R-N.C.; Dan Bishop, R-N.C.; Patrick McHenry, R-N.C.; David Rouzer, R-N.C.; Richard Hudson, R-N.C.; Dr. Richard McCormick, R-Ga.; William Timmons, R-S.C.; John Rose, R-Tenn.; Kat Cammack, R-Fla.; and Dr. Neal Dunn, R-Fla.
The mountain counties of North Carolina on Friday began the seventh week of recovery from the storm which came ashore in the Big Bend of Florida. Helene dissipated over the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, dumping more than 30 inches of rain in multiple places.
Helene is responsible for 231 fatalities across the South, including 102 in North Carolina. Respective state officials say 49 were killed in South Carolina, 34 in Georgia, 25 in Florida, 18 in Tennessee, two in Virginia and one in Indiana. Numbers were confirmed by The Center Square based on information supplied by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; South Carolina Department of Public Safety; Georgia Emergency Management Agency; Florida Department of Law Enforcement; Tennessee Emergency Management Agency; Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin; and the Gibson County Sheriff’s Office in Indiana.
Helene is the fourth most deadly hurricane from the Atlantic Basin in the last three-quarters of a century. Only Katrina (2005, deaths 1,392), Audrey (1957, deaths 416) and Camille (1969, deaths 256) killed more people.
Flooding was catastrophic, arguably the worst storm for North Carolina since Hurricanes Floyd in 1999 and Hazel in 1954 – the latter the only Category 4 hurricane to make landfall on state shores, the former causing a once in 500 years flood.
According to PowerOutage.us on Friday morning, the total without power in Yancey County is 304. At the height of the storm the last weekend of September, more than 1 million lost power.
According to DriveNC.org, the total road closures because of Helene is 292. This includes one interstate, 21 federal highways, 29 state roads and 241 secondary roads.
[PM] Payback to Schumer should be hard, prolonged, and painful
Senator-elect Dave McCormick is coming to Washington on Monday to attend Senate orientation sessions. He’s daring Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to tell him that he can’t attend.
Schumer has not invited McCormick to attend, claiming the results of the Pennsylvania Senate election are yet to be determined, even though McCormick has been declared the winner, according to Fox News. Sen. Bob Casey has refused to concede defeat.
Schumer, who will lose his status as majority leader when the Senate convenes in January with a Republican majority, remains in denial over the results. "With over 100,000 ballots left to be counted in Pennsylvania, the race has not been decided. As is custom, we will invite the winner once the votes are counted."
Several Republican senators demanded some sense of reality from Schumer on X. "@AP declared @DaveMcCormickPA winner of #PASen 3 days ago. Denying legit election results & blocking @DaveMcCormickPA from participating in Sen. orientation this week is outrageous & a disservice [to]PA & the country. Casey should concede. He has no path to overturn these results," wrote National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT).
"Schumer and Senate Democrats are denying the election results in #PASen. Trying to block @DaveMcCormickPA from attending Senate orientation this week is an outrage. Casey must concede immediately or Senate Democrats face consequences," said Senate Republican conference Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY).
The AP called the Pennsylvania Senate race on Nov. 7: 48 hours after Election Day. McCormick is over 30,000 votes ahead of his Democratic opponent. .
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Does Schumer have the chutzpah to instruct the Sergeant at Arms to physically block McCormick? If so will this be the first TKO in Senate history?
A brilliant idea. Put in place a young (she’s only 60), far-left justice who is woefully incompetent by any metric — as well as unceasingly annoying — to replace a slightly less far left, slightly less incompetent elderly justice, and thus not only maintain the current conservative-to-Progressive ratio but keep future Democratic presidents from adding someone to the bench actually able to persuasively argue Progressive positions.
[NYPOST] A liberal pundit Sunday floated nominating failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress to replace US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor while the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... still cling to power.
Bakari Sellers, a CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... commentator and former state politician in South Carolina, was adamant on social media that progressives need to ramp up pressure on Sotomayor, a 70-year-old type 1 diabetic, to step aside even as she resists the effort.
"Sotomayor needs to resign. The court is currently 6-3. [Her resignation] would limit Trumps ability to make it 7-2. It’s silly to believe there is no difference," Sellers wrote on X.
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Sotomayor can at least speak in semi-coherent sentences.
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First, she has to resign, which she said she would not. Second, Harris would have to pass the Senate testimony, which would be public, brutal, and an embarrassment to the Dems. Even the dumbest Dem in office would not consider this level of stupidity.
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Even the dumbest Dem in office would not consider this level of stupidity.
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A pretty low bar: Maxine Waters, Hank, Swallwell, AOC,...
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Dems would have to blow up the filibuster to get her in. That would be the most moronically timed political stupidity of all time.
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#8. That was/is a national tragedy. I hope some day history doesn't just gloss over that and instead has the courage to tell the truth about that episode ("the powers that be gave up on any illusion that they were striving for excellence and instead were all about rubbing the peoples' noses in right-think").
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We've got to stop awarding a prize to everyone who participates. That's how we got (along with an unhealthy amount of cheating and rigging) the most recent POTUS, who was totally incompetent.
[NY Post] Suck it, Mark Cuban
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik has accepted President-elect Donald Trump’s offer to be his enforcer as United Nations ambassador, The Post can reveal.
The 40-year-old upstate Republican, who helped force out two Ivy League presidents with her sharp questioning on campus antisemitism, will the lead Trump’s "America first" and pro-Israel message in Turtle Bay.
"I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter," Trump, 78, said in a statement to The Post Sunday night.
Stefanik, the No. 4 House Republican, has been a close Trump ally, including serving on his ceremonial defense team in 2020 during his first impeachment trial for pressuring Ukraine to investigate alleged Biden family corruption.
The Harvard grad worked to turn the tables on what she called the "Biden Crime Family" and has regularly appeared on TV to drive home the Republican positions on issues — setting up a likely a contrast from the outgoing UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who rarely courted media attention.
"I am truly honored to earn President Trump’s nomination to serve in his Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations," Stefanik said in a statement confirming her acceptance of the role.
"During my conversation with President Trump, I shared how deeply humbled I am to accept his nomination and that I look forward to earning the support of my colleagues in the United States Senate."
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Elise gets to burnish her international resume and live close to home. She was a good soldier, but isn’t probably the person you would want to tear a federal agency down to the studs and eject all the parasites and traitors.
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Wait. Why waste Stefanik's talents on that cesspool? Give her a job where she can actually accomplish something worthwhile.
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What Frank said. It will be hard to replace her with someone as good as she is.
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.
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