Broward County’s supervisor of elections, Brenda Snipes, has “withdrawn her resignation,” the Hill reports, after Florida governor Rick Scott threatened to cut off her pension.
Snipes, who presided over an utterly embarrassing recount effort in Broward County following the 2018 midterm elections, told reporters on Saturday, through her attorney, that she refuses to be shamed by Scott and would not simply leave office quietly.
“Dr. Snipes hereby rescinds her resignation,” attorney Burnadette Norris-Weeks told media, adding that the governor’s efforts to remove Snipes from office before January were nothing more than an attempt to “tarnish [Snipes’s] record.”
Snipes will be “fighting this to the very end,” Norris-Weeks said.
Snipes officially resigned her position after the Broward Country recount was completed, and after days of errors and missteps that saw Broward lag far behind neighboring counties in handling ballot issues (Snipes’s team, even, at one point, lost more than 2,000 ballots, with hours remaining until the election results had to be certified). She would have remained in office until January, and would have been eligible for a $170,000 state pension.
But Governor Rick Scott announced late last week that Snipes was overstaying her welcome, and Scott officially removed her from office, appointing a Republican supervisor of elections to take over immediately.
“Every eligible voter in Florida deserves their vote to be counted and should have confidence in Florida’s elections process,” Scott said in a statement about his actions last week.
“After a series of inexcusable actions, it’s clear that there needs to be an immediate change in Broward County and taxpayers should no longer be burdened by paying a salary for a Supervisor of Elections who has already announced resignation,” Scott added.
That turned out to be a bad deal for Snipes, who is now refusing to leave office unless she is removed by the state of Florida. Her current term isn’t scheduled to end until the 2020 election year.
In a separate statement at a press conference held Saturday, Snipes accused Scott of being “vindictive” — even though Scott ultimately won the recount in Broward county and will now serve as Florida’s junior Senator — and pledged to seek out transparency.
She urged the audience to “have an open mind about this whole process,” and claimed that “we have always done our work in an air of quality and integrity.”
“Cynthia Busch, chairman of the Broward County Democratic Party, questioned why Scott did not appoint someone from the community and appointed someone who is a ‘Republican Party stalwart,'” the Times reported. “Rep. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat from Broward, called the suspension a ‘play on his politics on his part.'”
The way forward may be easier than it looks, though. Snipes can be removed by state action, though Scott may leave any further movement to the Florida legislature rather than to his own office.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is learning the hard way what it’s like when you actually start to grow up. From whining that she couldn’t afford an apartment in D.C. because she wasn’t getting paid her exorbitant salary as a member of Congress yet to sharing the deets of selecting her new insurance plan, it’s painfully clear that she is truly clueless about what it’s like for most Americans in this country.
Yes, Alexandria, government involvement in healthcare sucks. You figured it out.
But her solution for fixing the problem of government destroying our healthcare is MORE government involvement.
The “Rev.” Al Sharpton has officially reached a point where you could tell me virtually anything about him, and no matter how made up it is, I’d be inclined to believe you.
Sharpton thinks that the royal wedding between the United Kingdom’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is somehow related to the decline of “white male supremacy”? Oh, wait, that one actually happened.
Sharpton has the unmitigated gall to make a nationally beloved woman’s death all about himself? Actually, that one’s totally believable and very much true.
The latest story involving Sharpton may be the most absurd of them all, however.
The man who’s made a living out of making a national spectacle of himself is turning his life story into a money-maker by itself — by selling the rights to it to the nonprofit he founded. (Or at least leasing them.)
According to tax filings obtained by the New York Post, Sharpton has decided to sell his “life story rights for a 10-year period” to the National Action Network.
The kicker here is that the National Action Network is Sharpton’s own creation. He is the president of NAN and it’s almost impossible to go to its website and not see Sharpton’s face splashed across virtually every image.
Now, far be it for me to suggest that an organization allegedly trying to better society should inherently be allowed to utilize the life story of one of its founders, but at the very least, they should receive a steep discount in such an arrangement.
Not here. Sharpton has reportedly sold his life story to NAN for a hefty sum of $531,000. That amounts to a tidy $53,100 for each year NAN can use Sharpton’s life story. That seems like an extra $53,100 a year that NAN could have spent on any of its missions, including criminal justice reform, voting rights and youth leadership.
Do you think Al Sharpton is a crook?
As the Post notes, Sharpton was already paid by NAN — by virtue of being the organization’s founder and president — a generous $244,661 in 2017.
Sharpton and NAN both apparently feel that those movie rights can be flipped for a profit to Hollywood, though neither could tell the Post if there were any deals in the pipeline.
According to what Sharpton told the Post, the veteran huckster wants to create a revenue source for NAN after he plans to step down in a year.
“This way they make a profit from the beginning and all of the revenues,” Sharpton told the Post.
Sharpton also made the eyebrow-raising claims that he already has two contracts for movies, with a third one being worked on. One of the movies is allegedly already in development. Of note, Sharpton didn’t provide any additional details to the Post.
Even shadier, Sharpton’s organization told the Post that a donor put up the money to purchase the Sharpton film rights, but did not name the donor.
Linda Sugin, a Fordham University Law School professor and associate dean, told the Post about just how shady this kind of business could be.
“When I see this kind of thing, it just makes me roll my eyes because there’s so much potential for funny business,” Sugin said.
Marcus Owens, a former IRS official and a partner with the Loeb & Loeb law firm in Washington, told the Post that NAN could lose its tax-exempt status because it was doing business with its own president. There are strict IRS rules in place regarding a nonprofit excess benefits to its key members.
But even if the whole thing is strictly within the rules of the IRS, for a man to take a half-million dollars from a nonprofit he founded is morally criminal.
This is all to say that, much like most things that spew out of Sharpton’s mouth, there’s a good chance that not enough thought was put into this.
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Remember that whole song-and-dance about how Planned Parenthood was mostly involved in providing women with health care and that the abortions they provided were safe, legal and extremely rare?
Well, at least one affiliate of the organization isn’t even pretending.
According to Boise State Public Radio, the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Idaho’s biggest city will only be continuing its work on the “reproductive health” end of things.
“After receiving letters announcing an end to primary care services, some Boise residents were worried about the state of Planned Parenthood in Idaho,” BSPR reported Friday.
According to the report, the change does not impact any of the group’s reproductive health services.
“It’s true that Planned Parenthood is ending some primary care services in Boise, but its main services, things like women’s health and reproductive care, are safe and going strong.
“Broader primary care services at the Boise clinic — treating things like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and more acute colds and flus — were part of a pilot program that started in 2016. Those particular services are the ones that are no longer being offered.”
Apparently, people weren’t going to Planned Parenthood for those sorts of things.
“It was successful. Our patients had great reports in terms of the quality and their happiness with the service, our staff could access the care and they loved it,” Kara Cadwallader, vice president of medical affairs and senior medical director for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, said.
Do you think Planned Parenthood should be defunded?
However, it wasn’t terribly successful in terms of attracting parents.
I suppose that’s not terribly surprising — why entrust your health to a brand synonymous with death, after all? — but it’s yet another instance of exposing the lie of what Planned Parenthood says it is.
For instance, we hear time and time again how huge the role of prenatal care is in Planned Parenthood’s mission. The problem is that the group doesn’t provide very much in the way of prenatal services and, at some centers, doesn’t even provide those services at all.
And then there’s that “3 percent” number that the organization always gives about abortions in relation to its other services — a number which even The Washington Post gave “Three Pinocchios” and a statistic for which the hosts of the “The View” raked the organization’s new director over the coals.
The fact is that Planned Parenthood remains America’s largest abortion provider, killing well over 300,000 babies each year. Not only that, it’s provided a kind of industrialization of the abortion industry, proudly acting as its top franchiser and advertiser.
And it does it all with your taxpayer money, which it claims isn’t used for abortion because it can magically sequester it or something.
Perhaps the most telling reason behind the Boise clinic ending basic health care services is that the services can be procured elsewhere. That’s true for almost everything that Planned Parenthood does — except, of course, leading the abortion industry.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is warning investors that its decision to remove certain “assault-style” weapons from its Field & Stream stores cost it dearly and may limit its future gains.
The sporting goods retailer was forced to confront angry shareholders late last week after its stocks tanked more than 4.5% and financial conglomerate J.P. Morgan Chase downgraded Dick’s shares, saying the company was “overweight.”
“Gross margin-driven upside appears less probable given 3Q’s performance, changing comparisons, and rising inventory levels,” an analyst for J.P. Morgan told CNBC. The same analyst noted that same-store sales for Dick’s outlets are expected to grow less than 1% even as the company’s inventory rises.
“The analyst pointed out that Dick’s same-store sales growth for 2019 is expected to be less than 1 percent after averaging 2.1 percent between 2011 and 2015. He also noted that while the company’s 25 percent Black Friday store discount will help boost sales, it will not boost margins,” the analyst continued. “Inventory levels, meanwhile, rose 1 percent in the third quarter after falling 5 percent in the first half of 2018 “with inventory days estimated to return back to 2015-2017 levels.”
Dick’s says it can trace the downturn not just to an overall retail downturn, but also directly to its decision to take action on “gun control,” banning the sales of “assault-style” rifles at its Field & Stream affiliated retailer, and discontinuing any gun sales to people under the age of 21.
Speaking to USA Today, Lee Bolitsky, Dick’s chief financial officer, called out the company’s gun sales plan directly, but also pointed out that gun sales are down across the board — not just at Field & Stream (largely the result of the Trump Administration, which is not the kind of pointed threat to gun rights its predecessor was).
“In addition to the strategic decisions we made regarding firearms earlier this year, the broader industry has decelerated and remains weak as evidenced by most recent national background check data,” Bolitsky told investors. “We believe this also contributed to the decline.”
But while Bolitsky didn’t come out and say it directly, it seems that Dick’s’ decision to cut down on its gun sales had an impact in other areas of its business. Gun owners and pro-gun consumers may not be ale to buy their guns from Dick’s any longer, but they also seem to have made the conscious decision not to trust Dick’s as an outfitter for any of their other needs — particularly their hunting needs.
Dick’s has seen a decline in sales of its hunting gear overall — such a decline that they’re considering removing hunting and outdoors equipment from all of their stores in order to boost their bottom line and cull some of their excess inventory.
“Months after Dick’s Sporting Goods made the move to stop selling assault-style rifles, the company is now considering removing all hunting gear,” a Texas ABC affiliate reported on Friday. “Dick’s CEO Edward Stack revealed during a conference call that they removed all hunting gear from 10 stores as a test run.”
Those stores — including stores in Texas — will replace the hunting gear with more “traditional sporting goods,” like “baseball, licensed products, and outerwear.”
The Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists this week demanded the take-down of the Christmas display because they believe it violates the separation of church and state. The association has been involved in similar state cases in the past, the WZZM-TV reported.
What did residents say?
The flap is happening even though thousands of Newaygo residents want the display – a Christmas tradition for more than 40 years – to remain.
More than 2,000 residents have reportedly signed an online petition to keep the display in place.
"Here it’s a tradition," said Stacie Johnson, one of the residents participating in Friday night’s Christmas walk. "You can see it coming from White Cloud."
"Majority are saying leave it alone," said Johnson.
The civil rights group, on the other hand says it violates separation of church and state.
"It clearly conveys the message of the Christian nativity," MACRA’s Mitch Kahle told the news outlet.
He also said the organization got involved following a complaint.
"We were approached by a complainant from the area," Kahle told the TV station.
The school district’s attorney is working with school leaders to issue a response.
"And they have promised to get back to us by Dec. 7," Kahle said. "You have a public school that’s promoting the story of the Christian Nativity and that’s not permitted under the Constitution.”
What’s next?
If the display must come down, supporters hope to get permission to place it on a tall hill at the north end of the city. The site is on private property and is unlikely to face any sort of legal challenge, supporters told the TV station.
The picture emerging from California’s election is grotesque. How again did Democrats engineer their strange midterm victory in Orange County and in other traditionally Republican areas? In that election, apparently winning Republican candidates were all unseated as the ballots just kept arriving, and arriving, and arriving, until the results flipped. Each and every time. And no such flips happened for Republicans, just Democrats, after they learned that Republicans were winning. And Democrats say it’s just ‘counting all the votes.’
Cali new law for 2018 election “allow anybody to walk into an elections office and hand over truckloads of vote by mail envelopes with ballots inside, no questions asked, no verified records kept. It amounts to an open invitation to large-scale vote buying, voter coercion”
Which is why it’s illegal almost everywhere in the world. California, on the other hand, back in 2016, passed AB1921, a law that actually permits it. Anyone can turn in ballots now, no questions asked, no chain of custody required. Back at the time, Democrats were hollering about low turnout and how getting more turnout was a priority, even though they were running a one-party state at that time, as they are now. They painted themselves as all concerned about ‘democracy’ given the low rates of turnout in their districts, many of which were known as ‘rotton boroughs‘ full of non-citizen voters. But what they really had in mind was ‘ballot harvesting.’ Most of the attention at the time from Republicans was focused on the involuntary registration of voters through the Department of Motor Vehicles, which has led to what was feared: the registration of illegal immigrants. But the bigger thing was going on on the outside, with the mail-in ballots nobody asked for and the apparent real purpose for these unasked for and unwanted ballot, which was … ballot-harvesting.
I sign up for every party mail list in order to read what all political sides are thinking, so I get lots of Democratic Party mail, including polls of members, which I answer, probably horrifying Democrats who open such returned polls, as I tell them to get rid of Obamacare. If they want to know what I think, I tell them. Could the fact that I am on those lists be the reason why I got a mail-in ballot when everyone else in my household gets sample ballots and goes to the polls on election day? Despite my Republican registration, it sure sounds like it.
This signals a grotesquely changed electoral landscape. Turns out the mail-in ballots are all that matters now, because all anyone has to do is harvest, and keep harvesting them, until Democrats get the result they want. I wrote about those lingering questions in the recent midterm here.
‘Count all the ballots!’ has been the Democrat rallying cry. Yet in reality, it was their defense of this sneaky little project, making anyone who doen’t like it someone who wants to disenfranchise people.
It’s a lie. It’s not about counting all the ballots in the slightest, it’s about selectively counting the ballots of only voters who fill in the Democratic slots. The Democratic operative who called herself ‘Lulu’ in the video clip wanted to collect only the ballot of the voter in the household who had no party affiliation, not the ballots of the Republicans, so it wasn’t about counting all the ballots, it was about counting all the Democratic ballots and the ballots of those on the fence who could be muscled into voting Democrat. She after all, offered to ‘help’ that voter, which we all know means the ballot would be filled out a certain way. Oh and here’s another goodie in this: Ballots can be harvested and mailed even on election day, when the counts are happening and Democrats can see which candidates are performing weakly. The operatives can be dispatched like flying monkeys to those districts to intrude on the private spaces of voters who maybe didn’t want to vote or who were planning to go to the polls in the evening, and ‘harvest’ those votes. And you can bet a certain number of those ballots would be cast by people who were afraid of consequences if they didn’t vote the way that ballot harvestor standing at the door wanted them to vote. After all, the harvesters, by coming to the homes, signaled they knew where the voters lived, and theoretically, many of these voters could have been illegal immigrants registered whether they liked it or not by the DMV to vote. Oh, and could the operative have steamed open the ballots to see how those people voted and make sure they were delivering the votes? With zero chain of custody rules, they certainly could.
The specter of involuntary registration, combined with ballot harvesting on the other end really does present some selective voting as well as fraud opportunities. This is the kind of thing that went on in Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua, where the elections were denounced as fraudulent and unfair by global electoral monitors, which may well be where the California Democrats got the idea.
Democrats have yelled for years about turnout and this was what they came up with. They’ve effectively ended the right to abstain, which up until now, has been an acceptable choice, and like commie place they are effectively making voting compulsory for people who don’t want to vote. Lefties have been yelling for years about turnout, and this is the result: ballot-harvesting, the actual thing they had in mind.
Republicans didn’t know about it. Now they do, and now they will have to set up their own ‘ballot-harvesting’ teams for the next election, collecting only Republican ballots just as Democratic operatives collect only Democratic ballots from people who can’t be bothered to go to the polls, or who have a mail-in ballot they didn’t ask for sitting on their dining room tables.There should be quite some competition for people who aren’t registered to any party, with each side considering those ballots their very own and rushing to ‘harvest’ them first. Pity those guys.
But what we have here is a real corruption of democracy, the end of choice in whether to vote, and the selective ‘harvesting’ of votes as now the new ground game. In the era of 3-D and other high-tech printers, and a very badly run electoral operative, the prospect of ballot stuffing is there, too, now that anyone can turn in ballots with zero chain of custody rules.
It’s not democratic, it’s the sort of thing dictatorships in badly run impoverished countries do, and hey, what a coincidence, California leads the nation in poverty. It’s also the kind of thing United Nations observers and the international community’s usually liberal electoral integrity commissions condemn. Where’s the condemnation for this clearly outrageous practice going on in California and on track to get very, very worse?
The picture emerging from California’s election is grotesque. How again did Democrats engineer their strange midterm victory in Orange County and in other traditionally Republican areas? In that election, apparently winning Republican candidates were all unseated as the ballots just kept arriving, and arriving, and arriving, until the results flipped. Each and every time. And no such flips happened for Republicans, just Democrats, after they learned that Republicans were winning. And Democrats say it’s just ‘counting all the votes.’
Cali new law for 2018 election “allow anybody to walk into an elections office and hand over truckloads of vote by mail envelopes with ballots inside, no questions asked, no verified records kept. It amounts to an open invitation to large-scale vote buying, voter coercion”
Which is why it’s illegal almost everywhere in the world. California, on the other hand, back in 2016, passed AB1921, a law that actually permits it. Anyone can turn in ballots now, no questions asked, no chain of custody required. Back at the time, Democrats were hollering about low turnout and how getting more turnout was a priority, even though they were running a one-party state at that time, as they are now. They painted themselves as all concerned about ‘democracy’ given the low rates of turnout in their districts, many of which were known as ‘rotton boroughs‘ full of non-citizen voters. But what they really had in mind was ‘ballot harvesting.’ Most of the attention at the time from Republicans was focused on the involuntary registration of voters through the Department of Motor Vehicles, which has led to what was feared: the registration of illegal immigrants. But the bigger thing was going on on the outside, with the mail-in ballots nobody asked for and the apparent real purpose for these unasked for and unwanted ballot, which was … ballot-harvesting.
I sign up for every party mail list in order to read what all political sides are thinking, so I get lots of Democratic Party mail, including polls of members, which I answer, probably horrifying Democrats who open such returned polls, as I tell them to get rid of Obamacare. If they want to know what I think, I tell them. Could the fact that I am on those lists be the reason why I got a mail-in ballot when everyone else in my household gets sample ballots and goes to the polls on election day? Despite my Republican registration, it sure sounds like it.
This signals a grotesquely changed electoral landscape. Turns out the mail-in ballots are all that matters now, because all anyone has to do is harvest, and keep harvesting them, until Democrats get the result they want. I wrote about those lingering questions in the recent midterm here.
‘Count all the ballots!’ has been the Democrat rallying cry. Yet in reality, it was their defense of this sneaky little project, making anyone who doen’t like it someone who wants to disenfranchise people.
It’s a lie. It’s not about counting all the ballots in the slightest, it’s about selectively counting the ballots of only voters who fill in the Democratic slots. The Democratic operative who called herself ‘Lulu’ in the video clip wanted to collect only the ballot of the voter in the household who had no party affiliation, not the ballots of the Republicans, so it wasn’t about counting all the ballots, it was about counting all the Democratic ballots and the ballots of those on the fence who could be muscled into voting Democrat. She after all, offered to ‘help’ that voter, which we all know means the ballot would be filled out a certain way. Oh and here’s another goodie in this: Ballots can be harvested and mailed even on election day, when the counts are happening and Democrats can see which candidates are performing weakly. The operatives can be dispatched like flying monkeys to those districts to intrude on the private spaces of voters who maybe didn’t want to vote or who were planning to go to the polls in the evening, and ‘harvest’ those votes. And you can bet a certain number of those ballots would be cast by people who were afraid of consequences if they didn’t vote the way that ballot harvestor standing at the door wanted them to vote. After all, the harvesters, by coming to the homes, signaled they knew where the voters lived, and theoretically, many of these voters could have been illegal immigrants registered whether they liked it or not by the DMV to vote. Oh, and could the operative have steamed open the ballots to see how those people voted and make sure they were delivering the votes? With zero chain of custody rules, they certainly could.
The specter of involuntary registration, combined with ballot harvesting on the other end really does present some selective voting as well as fraud opportunities. This is the kind of thing that went on in Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua, where the elections were denounced as fraudulent and unfair by global electoral monitors, which may well be where the California Democrats got the idea.
Democrats have yelled for years about turnout and this was what they came up with. They’ve effectively ended the right to abstain, which up until now, has been an acceptable choice, and like commie place they are effectively making voting compulsory for people who don’t want to vote. Lefties have been yelling for years about turnout, and this is the result: ballot-harvesting, the actual thing they had in mind.
Republicans didn’t know about it. Now they do, and now they will have to set up their own ‘ballot-harvesting’ teams for the next election, collecting only Republican ballots just as Democratic operatives collect only Democratic ballots from people who can’t be bothered to go to the polls, or who have a mail-in ballot they didn’t ask for sitting on their dining room tables.There should be quite some competition for people who aren’t registered to any party, with each side considering those ballots their very own and rushing to ‘harvest’ them first. Pity those guys.
But what we have here is a real corruption of democracy, the end of choice in whether to vote, and the selective ‘harvesting’ of votes as now the new ground game. In the era of 3-D and other high-tech printers, and a very badly run electoral operative, the prospect of ballot stuffing is there, too, now that anyone can turn in ballots with zero chain of custody rules.
It’s not democratic, it’s the sort of thing dictatorships in badly run impoverished countries do, and hey, what a coincidence, California leads the nation in poverty. It’s also the kind of thing United Nations observers and the international community’s usually liberal electoral integrity commissions condemn. Where’s the condemnation for this clearly outrageous practice going on in California and on track to get very, very worse?
Disgraced Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes took back her decision to resign as the county’s elections chief on Saturday after Gov. Rick Scott suspended from her duties.
Snipes’ attorney announced at a Saturday press conference that her client would be rescinding her decision to resign from the post in January and vowed she would be “fighting this to the very end.”
“We believe these actions are malicious,” said Snipes’ attorney, Burnadette Norris-Weeks, telling Broward County voters that Scott’s appointment to the post could affect the predominantly Democratic county in the 2020 elections.
Scott suspended Snipes via executive order on Friday, appointing his former general counsel, Peter Antonacci, to the post to serve out the rest of her term. Antonacci would serve until November 2020, when voters will choose Snipes’ replacement.
State law requires the Florida Senate to vote on removing or reinstating county officials if the governor decides to suspend them.
The outgoing Florida Republican governor cited her “misfeasance, incompetence, and neglect of duty” during the recount for the 2018 U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races.
The 75-year-old Broward County elections supervisor initially resigned from her position after her office came under fire for botching the vote count in the November 6 elections, specifically the recount of a tight Senate race between Scott, a Republican, and incumbent Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL).
Broward County failed to meet the state’s deadline for turning in recount results in the midterms, misplaced thousands of ballots, and opened 205 provisional ballots before they were determined to be valid or invalid.
The disgraced elections supervisor also had a history of illegally destroying voter ballots in a 2016 Democratic primary for a congressional race between Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) and Democratic challenger Tim Canova and had been accused of not removing dead voters from voter rolls.
Riot police have deployed water cannon, tear gas, and stun grenades against protesters on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France, as the “Yellow Jackets” stage their third major rally against President Emmanuel Macron’s “green” tax hikes on fuel.
The clashes on the famous avenue leading the Napoleon Bonaparte’s iconic Arc de Triomphe come as Macron himself is in Argentina for the G20, threatening to disrupt a planned trade deal between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur over a disagreement with Brazil’s new president Jair Bolsonaro — dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics” — over a disagreement on climate change.
The globalist poster boy’s green policies are running into substantial opposition at home, however, with the “Yellow Jackets” movement which has united the anti-establishment left with the populist right in a loose coalition in defence of the French working class bringing the presidency of the man who once boasted he would govern “like Jupiter” to the brink.
Over 80 people have already been arrested over Saturday morning, according to Sky News, with the authorities complaining of around 1,500 “agitators” among the protesters.
“There’s a lot of incitement on social media and we are expecting excess and violence,” remarked David Michaux, of the UNSA Police union.
VIDEO: On a third day of unrest, clashes between “yellow vest” protesters and riot police break out on the Champs-Élysées in Paris pic.twitter.com/WJUjgTPrW7
Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins sat down with Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum to discuss the caravan currently camping out in his city.
Gastelum told Fox News that the federal police should arrest the organizers of the caravan for “putting people at risk.”
“Let’s take care of them in a legal way,” Gastelum added.
It’s not surprising that Gastelum is growing impatient with the caravan. There is an estimated over 6,000 migrants settled in his city, and they are beginning to cause problems.
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“We’ve have never, never, never, never had this problem,” Gastelum said. “Some of these people are coming in violently, disrespectfully, not as a good, law-abiding citizen. And that’s what’s hurt us.”
Gastelum said the migrants are also significantly hurting Tijuana economically, according to Fox News.
Caravanners Devastated As Tijuana Gov’t Lays Down the Law: If You’re Still Here in 2 Days, You’ll Be Completely Cut Off https://t.co/PZHeGE8vJf
“We won’t compromise the resources of the residents of Tijuana,” Gastelum said during a press conference. “We won’t raise taxes tomorrow to pay for today’s problem.” ~ TIJUANA MAYOR JUAN MANUEL GASTELUM on the invading caravan infected with TB, respiratory infection, chicken pox. pic.twitter.com/xSXW6PfsuW
