[DAILYCALLER] The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of a trial lawyer who was convicted after he secured a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron in Ecuadorian court by bribing the judge.
After Chevron sued Donziger in U.S. courts, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan found his victory was "obtained by corrupt means," citing in his 2014 opinion the fact that Donziger had bribed the judge and ghostwritten both the environmental report and the court opinion. In 2021, Donziger was convicted on civil contempt of court charges after failing to hand over his electronics to Chevron’s forensic experts, a conviction he appealed on separation of powers grounds, according to Rooters.
When Kaplan initially charged Donziger in 2019, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan declined to prosecute the charges due to lack of resources, prompting Kaplan to appoint private lawyers, Rooters reported. Donzinger, who ultimately spent 45 days in prison and 993 days on house arrest, argues that the court-appointed private prosecutors violate the separation of powers because they were operating without executive oversight.
After the Second Circuit upheld his conviction, Donzinger petitioned the Supreme Court to grant certiorari in September, which the Supreme Court denied on Monday.
Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh issued a dissenting opinion, arguing that the case “broke a basic constitutional promise.” One branch cannot install “nonofficer employees” for another, they wrote.
“However much the district court may have thought Mr. Donziger warranted punishment, the prosecution in this case broke a basic constitutional promise essential to our liberty,” they wrote. “In this country, judges have no more power to initiate a prosecution of those who come before them than prosecutors have to sit in judgment of those they charge. … Our Constitution does not tolerate what happened here.”
[AMGREATNESS] The megalomania of the current crop of students, faculty, and administrators at our radical universities blinds them to the claims of their generations of benefactors.
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In most cases the taxpayer is the owner, but that seems to be like owning a squatter hotel.
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The problem is, even when something is taxpayer owned, the taxpayer has no say in the management of the organization.
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Trustee jobs are usually political patronage jobs handed out by governors. Newsom is safe, but others can be made to feel to heat.
[Breitbart] House Armed Services Subcommittee for Military Personnel Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) in a recent exclusive interview with Breitbart News blasted the Army for not providing the actual data for a survey it published last month, that Army officials claim shows that wokeness is not affecting recruiting.
“The Army is hiding behind some report that they won’t even release the methodology behind that report, that says that wokeness isn’t affecting recruitment in the military, but they can’t prove it,” he said.
“They don’t want to release it because they know the methodology is faulty,” he said.
Banks said if the Army does not release that data, Republicans would use the yearly defense bill that authorizes the Pentagon’s budget, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, to force the service to do so.
The survey, conducted by the service’s own Army Enterprise Marketing Office, was based on potential recruits between the ages of 16 and 28, according to the summary.
It listed 16 top barriers to service in the Army. The summary showed that the top three barriers were, “I’d be putting the rest of my life on hold,” “Women and racial or ethnic minorities are discriminated against in the Army,” and “I don’t trust military leadership based on the way they’ve handled recent events or missions.”
Army officials argued at recent hearings, including one held by Banks on Thursday, that this survey showed that progressive policies pushed by the Biden administration were not causing the Army to miss its recruiting goals, which it did by 25 percent last year, and is expected to miss again this year.
Banks has requested the data the summary is based on, but the Army has not provided it to him, citing privacy issues of those they surveyed. Their refusal to provide the information prompted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), an Army veteran, to press Pentagon officials at a separate hearing.
However, the summary said the ninth top barrier was that “the military is placing too much emphasis on ‘wokeness’ — in other words, diversity/equity, training, marginalizing those with conservative views, etc.”
The sixth top barrier was related to not wanting to get a coronavirus vaccine, which the Biden administration had mandated and was forced to roll back by Republicans. The mandate was overwhelmingly supported by the left.
Republicans also queried during hearings whether the Biden administration’s focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) was actually causing young people to think what the survey listed as the second top barrier, that “women and racial or ethnic minorities are discriminated against in the Army.”
However, Army officials insisted that there was no evidence that the Biden administration’s policies — including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s military-wide stand-down to discuss extremism in the military — had anything to do with that answer.
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), who served as a Marine colonel, grilled Under Secretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo at a hearing on Wednesday that focused on the military’s recruitment struggles, but he and other military service leaders denied that the Pentagon’s focus on extremism had anything to do with it.
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Poor, sick bastard. I suppose we should be thankful Fetterman and Feinstein have been removed from public view and are resting comfortably in extended care or hospice.
[theconservativetreehouse] Put a fork in the opposition denials to what was increasingly obvious; it’s over.
Last summer we saw the fingerprints of the professional republican apparatus all over the construct that was creating the Ron DeSantis 2024 effort. The data was all going in one direction, all of the constructs were identical to the Karl Rove playbook with the single addition of the Republican Governor’s Association as a participant. As the months moved forward the Rovian elements became more and more clear. The DeSantis supporters tried to deny it, but the truth of the issue is just too obvious.
Now, insider republican political pundit Mark Simone admits that Team Bush and Karl Rove are the specific organizers of the DeSantis 2024 effort. Appearing on Fox Business, Larry Kudlow asks directly, "who is behind the DeSantis campaign?" Simone admits, "yeah, it’s Karl Rove — Karl Rove has been advising DeSantis, that’s why he’s been getting a little bit better every week."
Thanks to user ’Escalated Entrophy" who cut the clip for me after I found it. Additionally, CTH has also heard from a new source that has been hired to do part of the DeSantis 2024 campaign operation. Anticipate a formal 2024 campaign announcement within the next two weeks. The RdS team goal is not for DeSantis to win, the goal is to stop Trump from winning.
Everything is exactly what I have been saying it was since last August. CTH was 100% correct.
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So, will all (12) "no one but Trump" voters sit out the 2024 election if he's not the Pub nominee?
That would put the lie to their claims of being desperate to defeat progressivism.
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Most Republicans want change away from Biden and away from the squad. We will certainly vote against McConnell, Romney and Graham type Republicans in the primaries. I use Rove as a marker for who not to vote for.
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As long as LA, Phoenix, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta are able to continue to get away with voter fraud, won't make any difference who the Trunks put up.
[BREITBART] The U.S. economy is expected to fall into a recession later this year, said a majority of economists surveyed in an influential semi-annual poll.
Fifty-eight percent of economists said they expect the economy to be in a recession to begin this year, according to the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Policy Survey.
The largest share—24 percent—said they expect the recession to begin in the third quarter of this year. Sixteen percent said they expect the recession to begin in the second quarter, which begins at the end of this week as April starts. Another 13 percent said the recession will begin in the fourth quarter of this year.
Five percent said they believe the economy is already in a recession. That’s down significantly from the 19 percent who expressed the view that the economy was currently in a recession when asked in the August survey.
Twelve percent expect a recession to start in the first half of next year. Twenty-two percent said they expect no recession until the second half of next year or later.
"More than half of NABE Policy Survey panelists expect a recession at some point in 2023," said NABE President Julia Coronado, president and founder, MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC.
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Economists- They're always the last to know.
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[NATIONALREVIEW] Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Internal Revenue Service (IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ) Commissioner Daniel Werfel demanding an explanation of why the federal agency deployed federal agents to visit "Twitter Files" journalist Matt Taibbi.
Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent the notice on Monday requesting more information into the timing and circumstances of the raid on Taibbi’s house in New Jersey on March 9.
Federal agents were dispatched to Taibbi’s residence the very same day that the investigative journalist appeared before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, also chaired by Representative Jordan.
According to the letter, first obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Taibbi notified Jordan that the IRS instructed him to phone the federal agency four days later, and he was later told that both his 2018 and 2021 tax filings were requested because of "concerns over identity theft."
Taibbi shared his 2018 tax submission with the Select Committee, which showed that his filing was "electronically accepted" and that no problem was registered with the return for "more than four-and-a-half years," the Journal editorial notes.
While Taibbi’s initial 2021 return was rejected twice despite his accountant using an "IRS-provided pin number." Taibbi added that the issue at stake is not "monetary" and that the federal agency actually owes him a "considerable" amount of money.
During Taibbi’s visit to Capitol Hill, Representative Stacey Plaskett (D., Virgin Islands) denounced the former Rolling Stones journalist as a threat.
Courtesy of The Walking Unvaxxed, the Wall Street Journal’s take on the story:
Democrats are denouncing the House GOP investigation into the weaponization of government, but maybe that’s because Republicans are getting somewhere. That includes new evidence that the Internal Revenue Service may be targeting a journalist who testified before the weaponization committee.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter Monday to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen seeking an explanation for why journalist Matt Taibbi received an unannounced home visit from an IRS agent. We’ve seen the letter, and both the circumstances and timing of the IRS focus on this journalist raise serious questions.
Mr. Taibbi has provoked the ire of Democrats and other journalists for his role in researching Twitter records and then releasing internal communications from the social-media giant that expose its censorship and its contacts with government officials. This effort has already inspired government bullying, with Chair Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission targeting new Twitter owner Elon Musk and demanding the company "identify all journalists" granted access to the Twitter files.
Now Mr. Taibbi has told Mr. Jordan’s committee that an IRS agent showed up at his personal residence in New Jersey on March 9. That happens to be the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter. The taxman left a note instructing Mr. Taibbi to call the IRS four days later. Mr. Taibbi was told in a call with the agent that both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected owing to concerns over identity theft.
Mr. Taibbi has provided the committee with documentation showing his 2018 return had been electronically accepted, and he says the IRS never notified him or his accountants of a problem after he filed that 2018 return more than four-and-a-half years ago.
He says the IRS initially rejected his 2021 return, which he later refiled, and it was rejected again—even though Mr. Taibbi says his accountants refiled it with an IRS-provided pin number. Mr. Taibbi notes that in neither case was the issue "monetary," and that the IRS owes him a "considerable" sum.
The bigger question is when did the IRS start to dispatch agents for surprise house calls? Typically when the IRS challenges some part of a tax return, it sends a dunning letter. Or it might seek more information from the taxpayer or tax preparer. If the IRS wants to audit a return, it schedules a meeting at the agent’s office. It doesn’t drop by unannounced.
The curious timing of this visit, on the heels of the FTC demand that Twitter turn over names of journalists, raises questions about potential intimidation, and Mr. Jordan is right to want to see documents and communications relating to the Taibbi visit.
The fear of many Americans is that, flush with its new $80 billion in funding from Congress, the IRS will unleash its fearsome power against political opponents. Mr. Taibbi deserves to know why the agency decided to pursue him with a very strange house call.
[AT via Lucianne] Sometimes fraud is so far beyond the pale, so egregious, that it is difficult to accept that it happened. But evidence can be too blatant to explain away, especially when two totally different sources of information confirm the existence of the very same fraudulent activity. Such a convergence of evidence occurred in the 2020 election.
AN ANONYMOUS TIP
An explosive allegation was made: In Pima County, thirty-five thousand (35,000) votes had been added to each Democrat candidate in the election, including Joe Biden. The allegation was made anonymously by someone claiming that he or she met with Democrat Pima County election officials on September 10, 2020, where a plan to rig the vote was hatched.
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I have been surprised at the lack of whistle blowers with regard to the cheating. The Atlanta video demonstrated fewer criminal skills than what we are seeing with the flash-mob shoplifting at Walgreens. Any normal investigation team would have been able to break one of those clowns. The lack of indictments is consistent only with complicit investigation organizations.
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"Adding in the 35,000 phony ballots is what made the turnout rates so high and caused Biden to win the state. And, as the tipster said, the ballots were spread widely. Those 8 dots on the right side of the graph, from 92 percent to 100 percent, represent over 140 precincts. Forty of those precincts have virtually impossible turnout rates of 97 percent or more, according to Dr. Ayyadurai’s analysis. Imagine: Forty precincts with 97 percent or higher turnout!"
[Breitbart] Revelations of the sheer number of FBI informants involved in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot have shaken a trial of members of the Proud Boys in Washington, DC, as one FBI informant had infiltrated the defense team.
As Julie Kelly, who has covered the January 6 trials extensively, reports, there are at least ten informants now known to have been involved in the Proud Boys — more than twice the five defendants who are on trial.
One shocking revelation last week was that one FBI informant, Jen Loh, a member of Latinos for Trump, had been in close contact with the defendants and their legal team throughout the trial, potentially compromising their constitutional rights.
If the government had spied on discussions among the defendants and their lawyers by using an informant, that would violate the attorney-client privilege and the Sixth Amendment.
CNN reported:
Over the past year, Texas woman Jen Loh has been in touch with several Proud Boys now on trial for seditious conspiracy, talking with the members of the far-right group and their defense counsel about the case and suggesting possible witnesses and attorneys who could help.
All the while, Loh was also a paid FBI informant.
That revelation threw a wrench into the ongoing trial this week in federal court in Washington, DC, when defense counsel learned of her relationship with the government.
The defense objected to the continuation of the trial until the prosecution told Judge Timothy Kelly, an appointee of President Donald Trump, that Loh had not informed them about the defense in the trial.
Defense attorneys are scheduled to question Loh on Monday. But questions are growing about the extent to which FBI informants knew about the Capitol riot, and may have encouraged the crowd during the riot.
Many of the defendants in January 6-related prosecutions who have pleaded guilty have acknowledged that they alone decided to trespass or to commit other crimes. However, the role of informants remains unclear.
Some Trump supporters have claimed, incorrectly, that the riot was fomented by left-wing groups, or that it was entirely orchestrated by the FBI. But the shroud of secrecy surrounding FBI informants has fueled such claims.
Trump himself has argued that he urged Congress to accept National Guard help in the days leading up to Jan. 6, but that then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declined.
[JustTheNews] New guardrails likely to protect Americans under FISASection 702, House Intelligence Committee members say.
After years of evidence that the FBI has abused its spy authorities, Congress is embarking on a bipartisan effort to revamp a key surveillance law to better protect civil liberties, including appointing special lawyers to advocate on behalf of Americans secretly targeted by the government.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702 powers allow the government to rummage through phone records in terrorism and counterintelligence probes without a warrant and have long raised deep concerns, starting with ACLU litigation years ago and continuing through the bungled FISA warrant that unlawfully targeted the Trump campaign and adviser Carter Page during the Russia collusion probe.
But lawmakers continued to renew the law to ensure the government had the powers it needed to fight terror threats. But since its last renewal, the FISA Court and the U.S. intelligence community released devastating reports in 2020 and 2022 chronicling years of FISA abuses that went far beyond the Russia probe and even included targeting of a sitting member of Congress.
Those revelations have increased the resolve of lawmakers to make substantive changes this year when the law expires, including inside the House Intelligence Committee, where a bipartisan group was selected last week to craft suggested changes.
"I think that you will see changes made to it," Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), one of the newest members of the House Intelligence Committee, told Just the News, adding there was clear evidence that the law's past safeguards have been breached by the FBI and intel agencies.
"Unfortunately, there have been some people that have leaped those guardrails, for lack of better terminology, and there have got to be consequences for those people who were entrusted," Scott said in an interview with the "Just the News, No Noise" television show. "If you were entrusted with the ability to query that information, and you abused that, then there have to be consequences."
Scott said lawmakers on the committee want to address who in government can query the database, who can be targeted and who must sign off on such warrantless surveillance. He also suggested there is some support for adding lawyers to the secretive process to help defend the rights of Americans who are being surveilled without their knowledge.
"Absolutely," Scott said when asked whether adding legal advocates was on the table for the FISA process. "I think you will see a broad bipartisan agreement on this. I'm not saying everybody's going to agree on it, you know, but I think you'll see broad bipartisan agreement on what we come up with."
Scott said one of the dynamics that could help inform the reform process is Americans affected by abuses "personally talking about what has been done to them in the past."
That process started earlier this month, when Rep. Darrin LaHood (R-Ill.), a member of the intelligence panel, disclosed he was the lawmaker targeted for surveillance who was referenced in a declassified intelligence community report on FISA abuses released in December.
"I have had the opportunity to review the classified summary of this violation, and it is my opinion that the member of Congress who was wrongfully queried multiple times solely by his name was, in fact, me," LaHood said during a hearing in early March.
Since then, Intelligence Committee Chairman Jim Turner (R-Ohio) and Vice Chairman Jim Himes (D-Conn.) created a panel of lawmakers to craft meaningful reform and bring it to the House. It's one of several areas of unexpected bipartisan consensus on national security matters that has broken out since Kevin McCarthy took over as Speaker in January.
The House has an obligation "to ensure that these authorities do not violate Americans' constitutionally protected rights and to look at further reforms to protect those rights," Himes said in announcing the initiative this week.
The evidence of FBI abuses of Section 702 and FISA in general have mounted over the last years, starting in 2019 when the Justice Department inspector general released a devastating report concluding the FBI warrant targeting Page was riddled with errors, violated policies and involved misconduct that included withholding required information from the court and even doctoring a piece of evidence.
That was followed a year later by the release of a declassified opinion by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that chronicled how the FBI had been "seriously and systematically abusing its warrantless electronic surveillance authority" for years outside the Russia collusion case.
And then in December, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified version of a 2021 report that found additional abuses, including the targeting of Americans with clear constitutional protections such as the member of Congress and a political organization.
The FBI said it has been working on its own internal Section 702 reforms and wants to constructively engage with Congress to add better protections and ensure all Americans have confidence in the bureau's work.
But the newly released audit report said the FBI continues to abuse the Section 702 system despite its internal reforms and training.
[ISSUESINSIGHTS] ... We could start just about anywhere, but we begin with Florida International University, a public institution that mirrors the hard boys’ march through our institutions. Its diversity We are assured it's our strength. If you actually believe that, you may consider an IQ test to see if you've been Fettermanned , equity, and inclusion program "condemns the United States as a system of ’white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... ,’" and "segregates scholarships and student programs by race," says author and filmmaker Christopher Rufo.
Elsewhere in Florida, Rufo tells us, universities funded by taxpayers’ dollars are:
encouraging "active discrimination against the ’oppressor’ class, characterized as ’male, white, heterosexual, able-bodied, and Christian’";
using psychological conditioning to address, among other issues, the killing of unarmed blacks, systemic racism and privilege, presumed to be all white;
creating racially segregated counseling programs;
adopting a series of DEI programs that divide "Americans along a ’matrix of oppression,’ castigate Christians for their ’Christian privilege,’ and offer a racially segregated scholarship that deliberately bars white students from applying."
Remember, these few examples, which make Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle, are in Florida, a red state whose governor is diligently trying to ensure that schools educate rather than indoctrinate. Imagine how deeply embedded the rot is elsewhere.
Moving on to the federal level, we have an administration bent on tearing down a half-century of progress.
"There is nothing that President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... has done while in office that has as much long-term potential for doing damage to American society and government as his embrace of the woke ...the on-going war against good sense... DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion — catechism," writes Jonathan S. Tobin, editor in chief of the Jewish News Syndicate.
DEI, says Tobin, "which stems from critical race theory ideology," runs counter "to the principle of equality and the vision of a color-blind society that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of." Yet Biden’s mandate "that every federal department, agency and office devise and then implement its own equity plan ensures a future of quotas and heightened racial division."
Divisive programs have even infected the Pentagon, which has a DEI office whose chief has sown division, and a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who’s said "I want to understand white rage, and I’m white, and I want to understand it."
Locally, teachers, administrators, and school boards are wrecking the MLK legacy. If they’re not telling white students that they are racist, should be ashamed of themselves, and indulging radical speakers who believe schools are "spirit murdering" black children, then they’re lowering standards to aid minorities, fully consistent with the soft bigotry of low expectations.
And then there are the DEI shysters such as Robin DiAngelo, a white woman who has grown fabulously wealthy making progressive rich whites feel guilty for sins they haven’t committed (while simultaneously being disappointed by them), and telling "people of color" they "need to get away from white people and have some community with each other."
None of this is what Martin Luther King Jr. lived or died for. But it’s a pot of gold for grifters, race hustlers, status seekers, political hacks, and just plain mean people. At least we know who they are.
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[JUSTTHENEWS] Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... on Monday announced plans to run for reelection in 2024. I guess Massachusetts is out of Kennedys, so there's room for fresh young faces like Fauxcahontas.
"We've won some big victories for working families in Massachusetts and across the country, but there's a lot more to do" Warren said on Twitter as a caption to a campaign ad featuring endorsements from voters and fellow Massachusetts Democrats. "So today I'm making it official: I'm running for re-election to keep up the fight."
A failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, Warren has held her Senate seat since 2012. She had more than $2.3 million in her campaign account as of the end of last year, according to Federal Election Commission reports reviewed by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Warren, 73, is the only declared 2024 Senate candidate for Massachusetts. 2024 is next year, so that'll make her 74. Assuming she serves another term, that'll make her 80 when it's time to announce her run in 2030, and 86 when she announces her run for 2036.
...by which time she’ll be completely incapable of doing the math, so that’s ok.
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For those with any interest, the Republican Party is dead in Massachusetts, so don't expect a 'Pub challenger in the general election.
On the Dem side, it's really early, but I'll throw two names out there - current Gov. Maura Healy and current congresscritter Ayanna Pressley. We'll see more names & speculation down the road for sure.
[NBCNEWS] Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ...the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome... said Sunday that she plans to run for mayor of Houston later this year, shaking up an already crowded race.
Jackson Lee announced her decision to run for mayor while speaking City Cathedral Church in Houston on Sunday, which the Houston Chronicle first reported. She's served in the House since 1995 and before that sat on Houston's city council.
"I hope I've been a humble servant for you for 28 years. Many of you are in my district," the longtime congresswoman said, according to video of her remarks. "Sheila Jackson Lee wants to come home to be your mayor for the city of Houston. I will not be able to do it without each and every one of you." Sheila Jackson Lee and "humble" in the same statement? The apocalypse is upon us
Jackson Lee's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The current mayor, Sylvester Turner, cannot run for re-election due to term limits.
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Does this mean that she won't be running for Congress?
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The greatest danger here is that, if she gets it, Sheila Jackass Lee would be required to actually do something, as opposed to as opposed to just bitch and gripe all the time.
(Sorry about the language. I truly detest the woman. Worked for years in her district.)
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The greatest danger here is that, if she gets it, Sheila Jackass Lee would be required to actually do something, as opposed to as opposed to just bitch and gripe all the time.
Yeah, she'll do just like Lori Lightfoot in Chicago.
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I guess she is adverse to minority status, so to speak.
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Big money in the Houston area Mexican cartel drug and human trafficking racket.
[FOXNEWS] Arne Duncan, who served as the Secretary of Education under President Obama, wrote an op-ed for the Chicago Tribune on Friday that supported Paul Vallas for reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... mayor because of his pro-police stance.
While Duncan complimented progressive candidate Brandon Johnson for his campaign priorities, he ultimately sided with Vallas for his focus on law enforcement.
"I salute Johnson’s courage for running. I agree with his broad commitment to ’invest in people.’ If he wins, I am 100% committed to helping him succeed. We all have to unite behind the next mayor no matter who wins on April 4," Duncan wrote. "But, given the desperate need to reform CPD, tell police the truth and hold them accountable, Vallas is our best hope for a safer Chicago."
He continued, "Vallas comes from a family of police and, as an unpaid adviser to the FOP and the union representing police sergeants, he negotiated meaningful reforms in both contracts. He also has not taken campaign contributions from them."
Vallas and Johnson became the official candidates for Chicago’s next mayor on Feb. 28 after being the top two front-runners in the original election. Both candidates defeated incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous former Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rose she blamed the guns, which are banned anyway... ’s campaign which ended her one-term tenure. They will face off against each other again in the April 4 runoff election.
Vallas, who maintained a lead against Johnson in the first election, ran a campaign focused on crime, citing the unprecedented rise in criminal activity under Lightfoot. Duncan agreed that crime should be a major issue regarding the next Chicago mayor.
"Worst of all, too many violent mostly peaceful crimes never get solved. In high-crime neighborhoods, arrest rates for nonfatal shootings and even homicides are so low that people feel they have to take matters in their own hands. Absent real justice, you get street justice," Duncan wrote. "That’s why Chicago needs a mayor who can tell CPD and its union the hard truth. We need CPD to take responsibility for its long and troubled history of abuse. We need to deploy police where and when crime is happening — instead of where and when they choose to work. We need to recruit good police, not just more police."
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Well, Vallas is the least objectional of the bunch.
Meaning that he is a classic Chicago liberal as opposed to being a full-blown Marxist.
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At some point, after exhausting all other avenues, you have to try the obvious solution.
Who Knew?
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In NYC Adams was the pro-Police candidate for the Dems. It was rational to vote for him and to expect better than he has delivered. Mostly he halted the plunge into socialist hell.
In Chicago both candidates are beholden to the previously lousy status quo, but both are improvement over Lightfoot’s new rock bottom. Expect Adams-like results.
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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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