[NYPOST] Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo’s book deal now looks like sufficient reason to impeach him, all by itself.It’s now clear that top aides Melissa DeRosa and Stephanie Benton plus other staff assisted Cuomo with drafts of "American Crisis" despite an ethics ruling that cleared the deal only if he didn’t use state resources to write it. That makes it a plain violation of state law.
The book deal reportedly netted the gov a cool $4 million, even though his 2014 memoir, "All Things Possible," sold fewer than 4,000 hardcover copies.
Cuomo flak catcher Rich Azzopardi claims that staffers acted voluntarily in helping the gov. Yet no one thinks that anyone in Cuomo World dares to tell the boss "no."
Plus, DeRosa was helping to edit early drafts and attending video meetings with publishers even as she and other top aides were working to censor the then-pending Health Department report about the virus’ toll on nursing homes by deleting the full corpse count. In other words, they were using their official power to protect not just the gov’s image, but his $4 million payment for a project they were intimately involved in.
As Mayor 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... put it, the gov’s team "covered up the truth about the nursing home scandal . . . to benefit himself financially and politically."
Plus, the nonpartisan Citizens for Responsibility in Washington, a government-ethics watchdog group, has filed a complaint with the state Board of Elections suggesting that campaign funds also went to promoting the book that brought Cuomo significant personal income, another legal no-no.
A full investigation is clearly in order, though at this point the Assembly’s Judiciary Committee already has multiple impeachment-worthy Cuomo activities on its plate. It shouldn’t need to investigate all of them before it reports on any of them.
Clear proof of a single crime should be enough to move rapidly to get Cuomo out of office, before he can again betray the people of New York for his own selfish ends.
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Book deals are typically a way to launder money around election laws. Typically politician comes out with a book. Political party buys up a shit ton to make it a best seller, make sure the politician gets well paid, and publisher isn't left hanging. Then the Political party gives them away to donors or destroys them.
If Cuomo sold 4,000 I suspect that means he didn't know how it works and get things setup ahead of time.
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Cuomo is not going to write a tell-all book putting himself in legal jeopardy. It's going to be a white-wash account of things and it will try to make him look like a selfless saint.
[NYPOST] Hunter Biden recalled how he used to scrounge through the carpet looking for crack cocaine after getting high — saying he probably wound up smoking "parmesan cheese.""I spent more time on my hands and knees picking through rugs, smoking anything that even remotely resembled crack cocaine. I probably smoked more parmesan cheese than anyone," President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter...... ’s son said on "CBS Sunday Morning."
"I went one time for 13 days without sleeping, and smoking crack and drinking vodka throughout that entire time," he said during an interview to promote his memoir, "Beautiful Things," out April 6 from Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
He said his then-vice president dad tried to intervene after he began binge-drinking vodka following the death of brother Beau Biden in 2015.
"He came to my apartment one time. And this was when he was still in office as vice president, and so he kinda ditched his Secret Service, figured out a way to get over to the house," Hunter said.
"And I said, ’What are you doin’ here?’ He said, ’Honey, what are you doing?’ I said, ’Dad, I’m fine.’ He said, ’You’re not fine.'"
Hunter later teared up in the interview saying his dad still calls him every night. "But we NEVER discuss business"
"We talk at least every night," he said. "By the way, not only does he talk to me every night; he calls every one of my daughters and he talks to each one of them every day. And I know that he talks to me, and I know that he talks to my sister."
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I like the part where Joe chased Hunter down his driveway.
President's son is the most deranged asshole we have ever seen in proximity to the WH. No one comes close to this madman. Not Billy Carter. Not Roger Clinton. Not Neil Bush.
No one has been such a nasty wretched walking national security risk as this depraved moron. No one.
This asshole is a walking national security risk. A sieve. A gift to the CCP and the PLA.
And for his obvious crimes, his lies, his gross corruption involving him and his shitty uncle and his shit-for-brains dad, this berserker receives not a prison sentence but... freedom and a multi-million $$ book CONTRACT?
It’s been a while since we heard from him — he must be really unhappy with our beloved president.
[MSN] The panel on ABC’s This Week got particularly heated over the new Georgia election law, with former New Jersey governor Chris Christie going off on President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... in particular.Christie told George Stephanopoulos that Biden’s "broken his own rule" about stating the truth, saying the president is "lying to the American people" about what the law says.
"He’s lying about this bill, he’s lying to the American people about it, to cause the raging fire he said he was going to put out. I’m very disappointed," Christie added.
Christie even accused Biden of "doing exactly what he sat around in the campaign and the transition and accused Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... of doing."
"He is lying to cause racial divisions in this country. That’s what he accused Donald Trump of doing. And he’s a liar and a hypocrite," he added.
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Some of these so-called journalists these days must be so desperate for a quote from somebody, anybody, that every so often they'll even listen to irrelevant old hacks like jimmuh carter. I dunno but I think that's even more desperate than listening to Chris Christie. Gotta be a close call.
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Biden is a liar and stole the last election. Tell us something we don't know.
[BIGLEAGUEPOLITICS] Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has filed a legal brief to weaken an upcoming audit of suspect ballots in his latest peculiar move to stand in the way of electoral transparency.Activists with VoterGA have pushed to subject ballots in Fulton County, GA to a forensic audit. A judge has acquiesced to their demands, but Raffensperger is fighting to keep the ballots from being properly inspected. The amicus brief filed by Raffensperger’s office can be seen here. Say what you want. At least he stays bought
"The Secretary respectfully requests that the Court permit Petitioners to inspect ballot images only, and deny Petitioners’ request to inspect and scan ballots," the brief states.
"Petitioners have submitted to the Court a proposed order granting their Motion to Unseal, which would grant Petitioners sweeping and unprecedented access to all ballots," the brief adds.
VoterGA claims that Raffensperger misrepresented their position in his amicus brief. They are also weary of Raffensperger’s request to provide the activists with only "ballot images" that are curated by the Secretary of State’s office, rather than the actual ballot itself.
"Ballots are then scanned through optical voting scanners selected and furnished by the State of Georgia pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 21-2-300. Once scanned, an electronic ballot image is created and stored on a memory card," the amicus brief explains.
Using ballot images rather than the ballots themselves, Raffensperger and his goons could potentially alter the ballot information and undermine the entire audit. Considering Raffensperger’s string of dishonorable and disreputable behavior since last year’s election, vote fraud whistleblowers are certainly wise for having these concerns.
Raffensperger believes that the common people must be kept in the dark with regards to these ballots, and only government babus bureaucrats — who tend to investigate themselves and find they have done nothing wrong — are qualified to inspect ballots and ensure their integrity.
"The Elections Code is furthermore clear that it is only authorized elections officials who are legally permitted to verify and tabulate ballots in an election," the amicus brief states.
"Moreover, the scanning and tabulation of ballots is only permitted under Georgia law to be conducted on the equipment selected and furnished by the State of Georgia," the brief continues.
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I hope the forensic audit includes the signatures on the envelopes because I suspect that is the main place you'll find fraud.
Of course if they did have a Dominion software cheat that might show up in paper ballots that didn't exist (which might be part of Raffensperger's gambit to have them look at images that could easily be duplicated to match the necessary numbers).
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This is how you know that Raffensperger has something to hide. Maybe he's afraid he'll end up in jail.
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Jay Valentine has been writing at American Thinker about fraud detection methods and tells in the private sector, and how that would apply to the past election. His back list can be explored here.
Quoting: "The paper ballots have been sealed, and recent updates to the Georgia Open Records Act allow for the public disclosure for ballot images only (not ballots). In fact, we worked with the Georgia legislature to make sure ballot images could be made available for review."
I would say it was very convenient to have all those "RECENT" changes restricting access to the ACTUAL vote on a Paper Voted Ballot.
Look I worked in ITSEC and IT Forensics for many years. Images can be screwed with, adjusted, created, and etc.
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I have feeling he will be a 1 term GA. SOS and well rewarded in engineering contracts on leaving political office.
He'll be Abrams' Lt. Governor next election.
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Ask a professional fraud detector -- a forensic accountant, an insurance expert, an computer scientist for PayPal or one of the eCommerce giants -- what he thinks of the likelihood the Democrats are enabling fraud on a mass scale.
Bet you $10k he tells you the chances of fraud happening with the "reforms" are close to 100%
[The Hill] Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Sunday weighed in on President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, saying it looks more like the Green New Deal, an ambitious climate proposal touted by progressives.
"It looks more like the Green New Deal than it looks like an infrastructure plan," Reeves told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s "State of the Union."
"The problem with this particular plan though is although the Biden administration is calling it an infrastructure plan, it looks more like a $2 trillion tax hike plan to me," Reeves said.
"That's going to lead to significant challenges in our economy, it's going to lead to a slowing GDP, it's going to lead to Americans losing significant numbers of jobs," Reeves added.
The governor went on to say that infrastructure is an area in which "Republicans and Democrats ought to be able to come together and do something good for the country."
But he said that Biden’s proposal is a "political statement and not a statement on trying to improve our infrastructure for America," pointing to subsidies for electric vehicles.
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We like to think of Kay-sick as a joke, but he was one of those guys up on the stage until Trump knocked him off.
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don't remember that, tw.
Gov. Kaysich was clever and took the Obamacare money for expanding Medicaid, Abu Uluque, But the money had a time limit, while the expansion was permanent, leaving the state’s taxpayers on the hook for the upcharge. We Ohio taxpayers would have been better off if the former governor had been a little more principled and left the money on the table.
[BREITBART] Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) is "stunned" American Airlines issued a statement opposing an election integrity bill, Senate Bill 7, following passage early Thursday morning, as the CEO admittedly did not read the legislation.
"I am stunned that American Airlines would put out a statement saying ’we are strongly opposed to this bill’ [Senate Bill 7]," the lieutenant governor said, "just minutes after their government relations representative called my office and admitted that neither he nor the American Airlines CEO had actually read the legislation."
Patrick said he heard the same outcries from corporations in 2011 — claims that Texas passed a "voter suppression" bill when it passed a photo voter ID bill. He said the opposite of voter suppression occurred.
"Voter turnout in Texas soared from 7,993,851 in 2012 to 11,144,040 in 2020, a 39 percent increase. Gubernatorial election voter turnout has increased by 76 percent since photo voter ID was passed," he said in his statement.
[NYPOST] Former President Obama has gone to bat for Major League Baseball, issuing a rare tweet Saturday praising their decision to move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta to protest restrictive new voting laws in the Peach State.
"Congratulations to @MLB for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens. There’s no better way for America’s pastime to honor the great Hank Aaron, who always led by example," the former commander in chief said.
Georgia earned liberal ire last month after Gov. Brian Kemp signed the restrictive new measures into law. The bill requires photo IDs for mail-in voting and forbids bringing food or water to people waiting in voting lines. AKA: electioneering within 150' of a poll place
Republicans say the law is necessary to curb voter fraud. The issue became a cause célèbre in the state after former President Trump narrowly lost Georgia to Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... in the 2020 presidential election. Though there is no evidence of widespread fraud influenced the outcome, Georgia and a number of other GOP-controlled states have moved swiftly to tighten up voting anyway
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Of course he does. Anything to divide America and get us to bicker amongst ourselves s good in this traitors eyes....
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What I find interesting is that the Dems seem to lack confidence their own ballot theft bill will ever get through congress and/or Supreme Court because it should make the GA one largely irrelevant.
Or perhaps this is all fight both battles just in case, or just fire up the troops now so that killing the filibuster can be the last desperate attempt to End Jim Crow or something.
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Voting has largely been a states rights issue. For the feds to step in and control it will immediately be a SCOTUS undertaking.
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49 Pan, don't count on the Supreme Court to defend federalism.
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For the feds to step in and control it will immediately be a SCOTUS undertaking.
The last time the feds, supported by the Supreme Court, intervened in state voting procedures, it was to put an end to discrimination, so if the Democrats can pre-sell the concept that this is more of the same...
[JSONLINE] Only hours after Major League Baseball announced Friday it was moving this year’s All-Star Game from Atlanta, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett made a plea to Commissioner Rob Manfred to bring the game to American Family Field.
Manfred and MLB made the decision to remove the game from Atlanta’s Truist Park in response to Georgia enacting a new law last month restricting voting rights. The game was slated to honor legendary Brave and Basball Hall of Famer Henry Aaron, who died on Jan. 22 at the age of 86.
Because of that scheduled tribute to Aaron, Barrett wrote to Manfred that it made perfect sense to move the game to Milwaukee, where the former home run king began his career with the Braves and ended it with the Brewers.
"As you review alternative sites for the game, I ask you to consider Milwaukee," Barrett wrote in his letter. "It is a particularly appropriate location to honor Hank Aaron, who is a revered and beloved former Milwaukeean. He started and concluded his Major League career with teams here.
"The City of Milwaukee would be honored to host the All-Star Game, and you would have the full support of my office to make the festivities a success."
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Come for the ball game. Stay for the "hooping..."
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Chicago, or Detroit.
Then watch the show (not the game).
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[DAILYWIRE] The Georgia county that was set to host the 2020 Major League Baseball All Star Game said over the weekend that it will lose more than $100 million after the league pulled the game and draft out of the state — a decision that comes after Democrats made a number of false claims about the state’s new election law and signaled they would support the league boycotting the state.
Holly Quinlan, president and CEO of Cobb Travel and Tourism, said that the "estimated lost economic impact" for the county was more than $100 million.
"This event would have directly impacted our county and the state, as visitors spend their dollars on local accommodations, transportation, entertainment and recreation, food and retail throughout the county," Cobb County Travel and Tourism said. "This would have been a big boost to Cobb businesses and help with recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic."
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Local politicians should remember this the next time a corporation wants a tax break
Democrats escaping from Fulton brought their politics with them.
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You need an ID for damn near everything these days. I don't buy the argument that requiring voter ID is voter suppression. The same argument applies to mail-in ballots or strictly limiting mail-in ballot--it does not present a hardship or suppress votes. COVID 19 was just an excuse to try to weasel-in another lefty vote rigging scheme to insure the Dems control government forever. You don't like a two-party system. You are going to absolutely going to hate a one-party system. After 2020, we are rapidly approaching that Dem dream.
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[NYPOST] Gov. 
...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...
...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter......
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until I saw this a few years back. 
[BIGLEAGUEPOLITICS] Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has filed a legal brief to weaken an upcoming audit of suspect ballots in his latest peculiar move to stand in the way of electoral transparency.Activists with VoterGA have pushed to subject ballots in Fulton County, GA to a forensic audit. A judge has acquiesced to their demands, but Raffensperger is fighting to keep the ballots from being properly inspected. The amicus brief filed by Raffensperger’s office can be seen here.
[The Hill] Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Sunday weighed in on President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, saying it looks more like the Green New Deal, an ambitious climate proposal touted by progressives.
[BREITBART] Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) is "stunned" American Airlines issued a statement opposing an election integrity bill, Senate Bill 7, following passage early Thursday morning, as the CEO admittedly did not read the legislation.
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
[JSONLINE] Only hours after Major League Baseball announced Friday it was moving this year’s All-Star Game from Atlanta, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett made a plea to Commissioner Rob Manfred to bring the game to American Family Field.
[DAILYWIRE] The Georgia county that was set to host the 2020 Major League Baseball All Star Game said over the weekend that it will lose more than $100 million after the league pulled the game and draft out of the state — a decision that comes after Democrats made a number of false claims about the state’s new election law and signaled they would support the league boycotting the state.
