Republicans in the Arizona House have passed the Save Women’s Sports Act, a bill that protects female athletes from having to compete against biological men who “identify” as women.
HB 2706 was passed along party lines and is now headed to the Senate.
The legislation details the needs for the law, including:
There are ‘[i]nherent differences’ between men and women,’ and that these differences ‘remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual’s opportunity.
‘These ‘inherent differences’ range from chromosomal and hormonal differences to physiological differences,’ and ‘Men generally have ‘denser, stronger bones, tendons, and ligaments’ and ‘larger hearts, greater lung volume per body mass, a higher red blood cell count, and higher hemoglobin.’
‘Men also have higher natural levels of testosterone, which affects traits such as hemoglobin levels, body fat content, the storage and use of carbohydrates and the development of Type 2 muscle fibers, all of which result in men being able to generate higher speed and power during physical activity,’ the text of the bill stated.
“Males should participate with males and compete against males, and females should compete against females,” Rep. Nancy Barto, a Phoenix Republican who sponsored the bill, told Fox News. “Recent research actually verifies that even with cross-sex hormones, men have an unequivocal advantage. They’ve got stronger bones, they’ve got greater lung capacity.”
“Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field. Forcing them to compete against boys isn’t fair, shatters their dreams, and destroys their athletic opportunities,” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Christiana Holcomb said in a statement about a lawsuit three female athletes in Connecticut filed challenging their school district’s transgender athletes policy. “Having separate boys’ and girls’ sports has always been based on biological differences, not what people believe about their gender, because those differences matter for fair competition. And forcing girls to be spectators in their own sports is completely at odds with Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics.”
“As in Connecticut, the Arizona Interscholastic Association, which governs school athletics, allows athletes to play on teams consistent with their gender identity, regardless of their biological gender,” Fox News reported.
Fox News also included remarks from a Democrat critic of the bill, Rep. Isela Blanc, who called the bill “completely inappropriate” and said that Arizona Democrats have dubbed it the “Show me your genitals” bill because of now-deleted parts that would’ve required a physical exam.
Fox News reported Barto amended the bill to require a genetic test.
It makes no sense,” Blanc said. “It’s completely wrong, inhumane, unkind, inappropriate and just mean-spirited.”
The Fox News report noted that the leftist American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is mounting the fight against the bill.
“Republican Gov. Doug Ducey did not say whether he would sign the bill if it passes the Senate,” Fox News reported.
You have to give them credit: the Democrat establishment has carefully cultivated and trained a massive welfare state clientele over the decades, and when the word goes out, boy, does everybody fall in line. This is true even when the designated candidate is the monumentally stupid and corrupt Joe Biden.
This constituency is composed most famously of the long-suffering poor black community — like the folks at the beck and call of Jim Clyburn in South Carolina. It includes lots of poor whites as well, the ones in the Yankee “opioid belt”; they keep places like New England and Minnesota voting blue. Then there are characters like Amy Klobuchar and Mayor Pete, who were on TV saying they were going to fight it out all the way to Milwaukee, until they got the phone call, and then they weren’t.
Here in Kentucky, our primary is not for several months. But the orders came down here, too, as they did everywhere, to get behind Old Joe if you know what’s good for you.
I even have a friend who does property management, which includes some Sect. 8 homes. He was struck this week by one of his favorite black tenants, who was a huge Bernie-backer and always wanted to talk politics whenever he came by to fix something. This last week, though, she was visibly shaken when he asked her about the election. One of the many social service workers she sees every week had laid down the law. (She is a grandmother raising the grandkids, with the parents imprisoned or disappeared, and is a prolific customer of government programs.) Bernie, she was given to understand, “uses bad language” and was now beyond the pale, and she didn’t want to talk about it.
Think about that when somebody complains about Republicans not making enough of an outreach to black voters. It’s a rigged game. Too many poor people are cordoned off on the “liberal plantation” of deep blue cities, sort of like urban Indian reservations, where there are a lot of crime and very little legal private economic activity. What work there is comes from government social agencies or the worthless public school systems. Republicans have a better chance of guest-hosting an MSNBC program than finding quality time with voters in these places.
And they would need a lot of that time, because the residents get a daily barrage of race-crazy politics from whoever the local Maxine Waters-style activists might be — and well funded ones at that, those billions of union dollars for politics each year go for “street money” to keep the operation running smoothly. Mayor Bloomberg, by the way, will chip in more money for this garbage in 2020, as he did in 2018.
But there is a little bit of light here. First, there’s now a historic movement of black America out of the cities. This will mean more black citizens living in normal, mainstream America and a small but helpful upswing for Trump in 2020.
Second, and more interestingly, on Super Tuesday, the one group of Democrats that definitely did not follow orders were the Latinos, who powered Crazy Bernie to victory in California, Colorado, almost Texas, and then Nevada last week. Now, Crazy Bernie’s own Latino voters are not likely to go for Trump, but it does show that the Hispanic community overall is not so easily “bossed.”
Nor is it so well connected to the welfare state, nor tuned into the race identity politics the Democrats are selling. All but the poorest Latinos assimilate easily into American society, and polls now showing Trump doing superbly among Hispanics are likely to hold up.
The Judis/Teixeira thesis has always been that as we got more “people of color” in America, no matter how contrived that term may be, the Democrats would keep them all under lock and key. A favored few pajama-boy liberals at the top like Devon Archer would then run the country, while their army of minority underlings took the welfare crumbs without complaint.
That theory still has a lot to recommend it, but it must be under serious reconsideration in 2020. Whether it pans out that way or not is the great political question for our national future.
You have to give them credit: the Democrat establishment has carefully cultivated and trained a massive welfare state clientele over the decades, and when the word goes out, boy, does everybody fall in line. This is true even when the designated candidate is the monumentally stupid and corrupt Joe Biden.
This constituency is composed most famously of the long-suffering poor black community — like the folks at the beck and call of Jim Clyburn in South Carolina. It includes lots of poor whites as well, the ones in the Yankee “opioid belt”; they keep places like New England and Minnesota voting blue. Then there are characters like Amy Klobuchar and Mayor Pete, who were on TV saying they were going to fight it out all the way to Milwaukee, until they got the phone call, and then they weren’t.
Here in Kentucky, our primary is not for several months. But the orders came down here, too, as they did everywhere, to get behind Old Joe if you know what’s good for you.
I even have a friend who does property management, which includes some Sect. 8 homes. He was struck this week by one of his favorite black tenants, who was a huge Bernie-backer and always wanted to talk politics whenever he came by to fix something. This last week, though, she was visibly shaken when he asked her about the election. One of the many social service workers she sees every week had laid down the law. (She is a grandmother raising the grandkids, with the parents imprisoned or disappeared, and is a prolific customer of government programs.) Bernie, she was given to understand, “uses bad language” and was now beyond the pale, and she didn’t want to talk about it.
Think about that when somebody complains about Republicans not making enough of an outreach to black voters. It’s a rigged game. Too many poor people are cordoned off on the “liberal plantation” of deep blue cities, sort of like urban Indian reservations, where there are a lot of crime and very little legal private economic activity. What work there is comes from government social agencies or the worthless public school systems. Republicans have a better chance of guest-hosting an MSNBC program than finding quality time with voters in these places.
And they would need a lot of that time, because the residents get a daily barrage of race-crazy politics from whoever the local Maxine Waters-style activists might be — and well funded ones at that, those billions of union dollars for politics each year go for “street money” to keep the operation running smoothly. Mayor Bloomberg, by the way, will chip in more money for this garbage in 2020, as he did in 2018.
But there is a little bit of light here. First, there’s now a historic movement of black America out of the cities. This will mean more black citizens living in normal, mainstream America and a small but helpful upswing for Trump in 2020.
Second, and more interestingly, on Super Tuesday, the one group of Democrats that definitely did not follow orders were the Latinos, who powered Crazy Bernie to victory in California, Colorado, almost Texas, and then Nevada last week. Now, Crazy Bernie’s own Latino voters are not likely to go for Trump, but it does show that the Hispanic community overall is not so easily “bossed.”
Nor is it so well connected to the welfare state, nor tuned into the race identity politics the Democrats are selling. All but the poorest Latinos assimilate easily into American society, and polls now showing Trump doing superbly among Hispanics are likely to hold up.
The Judis/Teixeira thesis has always been that as we got more “people of color” in America, no matter how contrived that term may be, the Democrats would keep them all under lock and key. A favored few pajama-boy liberals at the top like Devon Archer would then run the country, while their army of minority underlings took the welfare crumbs without complaint.
That theory still has a lot to recommend it, but it must be under serious reconsideration in 2020. Whether it pans out that way or not is the great political question for our national future.
Two establishment-backed Democratic candidates face accusations of illegally coordinating with a liberal dark money group, according to ethics complaints filed as voters prepare to cast ballots in the Super Tuesday primaries.
VoteVets has spent tens of millions of dollars backing Democrats in key 2020 Senate races, including Cal Cunningham in North Carolina and M.J. Hegar in Texas. The dark money group spent over $7 million supporting the pair in February. The seven-figure ad blitz has helped Cunningham and Hegar secure their frontrunner status ahead of contested Super Tuesday primaries. The ad blitz also drew scrutiny from watchdogs who accuse Cunningham and Hegar of illegally coordinating with the dark money group in ethics complaints obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Campaign photos and videos released by Cunningham and Hegar were later used in VoteVets ads. The short turnaround suggests "coordination with an outside organization," which is illegal under campaign finance law, according to the complaints, which will be filed on Tuesday.
Charges of wrongdoing are hardly new for VoteVets. In February, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) accused the group of "exploiting our broken campaign finance laws" through its support of former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg. Sen. Gary Peters (D., Mich.) was also accused of illegally coordinating with the group in December. The repeated allegations call into question VoteVets’ legitimacy as an organization, according to Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust executive director Kendra Arnold.
"VoteVets is pumping millions of dollars into political campaigns throughout the country—from Senate races in Michigan, North Carolina, and Texas, to the presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg," Arnold said. "Evidence gathered by FACT suggests that many of the ads that VoteVets has been running on behalf of these candidates were the result of illegal coordination, calling into question the entire scope of VoteVets’ activity and the legality of their actions."
VoteVets did not respond to a request for comment.
Cunningham and Hegar have each spent more than $3 million to win the Democratic nomination in crowded primary fields. Outside spending takes on even more importance in such closely contested races, as it allows candidates to save funds for the general election.
The FEC has largely failed to enforce coordination complaints in recent years, and both Cunningham and Hegar have vowed to fight the same campaign finance loopholes they are now accused of exploiting. Cunningham’s corruption plan promises to reform the FEC "so it can carry out its watchdog function over our elections, instead of letting the current gridlock create loopholes for those willing to violate campaign finance laws and get away with it." Hegar has touted an endorsement from End Citizens United PAC, a liberal group that focuses on campaign finance reform.
The Cunningham and Hegar campaigns did not respond to requests for comment.
VoteVets has emerged as a key power broker in progressive politics. Since its 2006 founding, the group has spent more than twice as much money on elections as long-standing liberal groups NARAL Pro-Choice America and Sierra Club combined. While the group characterizes itself as a "grassroots" organization, a Center for Responsive Politics review of VoteVets’ 2014 tax documents revealed that the group receives most of its funding from labor unions and fellow liberal dark money groups. America Votes has given VoteVets $775,000 since 2011, and the group received $2 million from labor groups, including the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and AFL-CIO in 2013 and 2014 alone.
Though VoteVets downplays its progressive nature—its mission statement makes no mention of a partisan goal and prioritizes "matters of national security"—the group has spent tens of millions of dollars backing Democrats and no money supporting Republicans. Some of its 2020 ads have failed to discuss foreign affairs, instead touting candidates based on their progressive views on issues such as health care.
"[Cunningham] will fight to guarantee coverage for preexisting conditions, take on drug companies jacking up prices, and work to finally expand Medicaid," a February VoteVets ad said.
Both Cunningham and Hegar are expected to win their respective primaries Tuesday, and VoteVets will no doubt continue to boost the Democrats to make up for their fundraising disadvantages. Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) holds $5.4 million on hand compared with Cunningham’s $1.5 million. Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) has $12 million on hand compared with Hegar’s $850,000.
Washington, DC Judicial Watch today announced that U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted Judicial Watch’s request to depose former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about her emails and Benghazi attack documents. The court also ordered the deposition of Clinton’s former Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills and two other State Department officials.
Additionally, the court granted Judicial Watch’s request to subpoena Google for relevant documents and records associated with Clinton’s emails during her tenure at the State Department.
After his late jump into the Democratic primary and, as critics argue, purchasing his way into the primary debates, former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg has received mixed coverage from corporate media, with many negative critiques of the current presidential contender’s history, conduct and connections.
Yet, despite efforts by other campaigns and more progressive-leaning media outlets to dampen Bloomberg’s chances at the nomination, one clear weakness of Bloomberg’s has thus far evaded meaningful media coverage: his ties to key players in the Epstein scandal, including Leslie Wexner, Ghislaine Maxwell and even Jeffrey Epstein himself.
Silence among outlets that largely oppose Bloomberg’s candidacy regarding his connections to Epstein and those in his close social orbit is odd, especially when reporting on an individual’s connections to the intelligence-linked pedophile are a sure-fire way to generate considerable negative attention and fodder for rival campaigns. This is particularly striking given that the numerous accusations that Bloomberg has long stoked a toxic culture of sexual harassment at his company, resulting in no small number of non-disclosure agreements over the years, have received some media attention. Yet, the fact that many of Bloomberg’s close friends have been accused of far, far worse has received hardly any coverage by comparison.
For instance, when it was announced last week that the controlling stake in the Leslie Wexner-owned lingerie company Victoria’s Secret would be sold to a private equity firm called Sycamore Partners, only one media outlet — The Intercept — revealed that Bloomberg has at least $136 million of his money in that firm. The Intercept noted in passing that Wexner — the source of most of Jeffrey Epstein’s supposed fortune, his close collaborator for decades and alleged rapist of many of his victims — had been pressured to step down following the scandal, which also hit Wexner-owned companies hard and had forced the Ohio-based billionaire to seek a buyer for his lingerie brand and its tarnished reputation. Yet, the outlet did not make the direct connection that Sycamore Partners-backer Bloomberg is a friend of Wexner’s and has attended Wexner’s personal social parties for years prior to the most recent scandal.
Here’s alleged-rapist Mike Bloomberg attending a fancy horse party at Les Wexner’s place (Wexner furthest right) in 2010, about a year before Wexner formally transferred ownership of his Manhattan townhouse to Jeffrey Epstein. Cheers to good friends ? pic.twitter.com/gS8wpUVF00
— ePal, Your Close Friend™-Enterprise Edition (@wash_cloth) February 17, 2020
Yet, even well before this recent opportunity to point out Bloomberg’s ties to Leslie Wexner, there have been plenty of opportunities for the media to question Bloomberg about his now-infamous picture with Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of Mossad-connected Robert Maxwell and Epstein’s alleged madam and co-conspirator.
From left to right, Tamara Mellon, Mike Bloomberg and Ghislaine Maxwell
That picture, taken in 2013 at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York, has not been mentioned by mainstream media following the launch of Bloomberg’s candidacy late last November. Similarly, mainstream media have failed to question Bloomberg regarding why his name and five different telephone numbers for him appear in Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous list of contacts often referred to as his “little black book.”
Bloomberg and the Manhattan Swamp
The extent of the Maxwell-Bloomberg relationship is unknown, though Bloomberg’s deep ties to his former employer Salomon Brothers is a possible link, given that that firm served as one of the Maxwell family’s maininvestment bankers in the years prior to and following Robert Maxwell’s mysterious death in 1991. Similarly, Epstein had close ties to prominent figures on Wall Street, some dating back to his time at Bear Stearns, who are also close to Bloomberg.
Another mutual Epstein-Bloomberg associate is disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein was part of an investment group with Epstein that sought to purchase New York magazine in 2003. Another member of that investment group was frequent MSNBC commentator Donny Deutsch, who has recently fervently backedBloomberg’s candidacy.
Weinstein was recently convicted of rape and has dozens of accusers, whose decision to come forward about Weinstein’s sex crimes in recent years helped spark the “Me Too” movement. Weinstein also has ties to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was a close friend and business associate of Epstein’s, and it was Barak who personally introduced Weinstein to former Mossad spies that Weinstein hired to intimidate his accusers. In addition to being Prime Minister, Barak is also the former head of Israeli military intelligence, the foreign intelligence agency that sponsored Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation involving underage girls in the United States.
Bloomberg’s candidacy has yet to be strongly challenged over his ties to Weinstein, which are considerable. For instance, Weinstein was a major backer of Bloomberg’s mayoral campaigns and even recorded robocalls on Bloomberg’s behalf to boost his election chances. Bloomberg, in turn, appointed Weinstein to a charity board and Weinstein later praised Bloomberg for aiding his film company. While Bloomberg’s ties to Wexner, Epstein and Maxwell have gotten the silent treatment, some outlets (mostlyright-leaning) have covered the Bloomberg-Weinstein ties, but there has been little pressure on Bloomberg from mainstream media to address those ties directly.
Another close Bloomberg associate who recently has been accused by numerous women of sexual harassment is hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt. Steinhardt is a long-time fixture in Bloomberg’s social circle and has long appeared at Bloomberg’s dinner parties. Steinhardt is also connected to Leslie Wexner through his membership in the so-called “Mega Group” — an exclusive group of organized-crime-linked “mega” donors to pro-Israel causes that Wexner co-founded in 1991. Steinhardt also boasts close ties to the now deceased founder of Glencore, the Mossad-linked Marc Rich, and Steinhardt — along with top Israeli politicians and spies — aggressively lobbied former President Bill Clinton to controversially pardon Rich before leaving office.
“Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are”
The oft-quoted saying “Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are,” seems to hold true for Bloomberg. For instance, his eponymous media conglomerate has received no small number of lawsuits over the years alleging rampant sexual harassment and even the rape of female workers, much of its allegedly egged on by Bloomberg’s long history of comments that have been derided as sexist. Many of those lawsuits ended in female accusers being asked to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). More recently, The Nationreported that Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign is making use of NDAs in such a way “that could prevent staffers from reporting workplace abuse.”
In addition, a 1999 profile of Bloomberg in Wired magazine quoted Bloomberg as saying “My daughter is tall and busty and blonde. We went to China together. And what’s a 16-year-old going to do on a business trip? So, I got her dates in every city in China.”
Bloomberg, not unlike Epstein and Wexner, also has a history of cozy ties to the CIA. For instance, during his tenure as Mayor of New York, Bloomberg actively promoted a controversial post-9/11 program that saw the CIA work directly with the NYPD to spy on the city’s Muslim communities. Even though the CIA is technically prohibited from spying on Americans not linked to criminal activity, one of the CIA officers working as part of the Bloomberg-backed program said he had “no limitations” on what he could do. Bloomberg has long defended this program and its merging of the CIA with local police.
In the case of Epstein and Wexner, as MintPress News reported in its viral series on the Epstein scandal last year, Epstein once claimed to have worked for the CIA during the 1980s and Epstein and Wexner were the key players behind the relocation of CIA front company Southern Air Transport to Ohio, where Wexner’s business interests have long been based.
Rudy Giuliani, left, New York Gov. George Pataki, center, and Mike Bloomberg during a “Salute to Israel Parade, May 5, 2002, in New York. Shawn Baldwin | AP
In addition, Bloomberg was also a key player in a controversial initiative regarding Israel’s intelligence-linked technology sector. For instance, Bloomberg created a $2 billion project that involved opening a Manhattan campus called “Cornell Tech” that brought together Cornell University and Israel’s Technion, which has close ties to Israel’s national security state and military-industrial complex. Bloomberg personally gave over $100 million to facilitate completion of that project. That campus is now a partner in the recent creation of two Israeli-run “cybersecurity” centers in New York City that are tied to Israeli intelligence and were recently reported on by MintPress.
Jeffrey Epstein was also involved with Israeli military intelligence-linked technology companies and, as previously mentioned, Israeli military intelligence was also the sponsor of Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation that targeted mostly U.S. politicians and public figures for the benefit of the state of Israel, whose military currently receives $3.8 billion per year from U.S. taxpayers.
While these aspects of Bloomberg’s past have received considerable media attention as of late, these same outlets have failed to note that Bloomberg’s inner circle boasts many individuals accused of harassment, rape or worse. With his clear ties to the “Epstein network,” the fact that mainstream media has declined to even question Bloomberg about his social appearances with Ghislaine Maxwell or Leslie Wexner and having five different telephone numbers of his in Epstein’s list of high-profile contacts is a damning indictment of the current landscape of both American media and American politics.
Far-left Denver City Democrat Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca stated from her government Twitter account on Monday that she stands in “solidarity” with someone who posted a graphic stating that if they became infected with the coronavirus, they wanted to attend as many Trump rallies as possible in an apparent effort to infect supporters of President Donald Trump.
CdeBaca, who has advocated for communism in the past, responded to a tweet that featured a graphic that stated: “For the record, if I do get the coronavirus I’m attending every MAGA rally I can.”
CdeBaca responded by writing, “#solidarity Yaaaas!!”
The coronavirus, which originated in China, has infected well over 90,000 people worldwide and has killed well over 3,100 people. The outbreak has led to panic in different parts of the world, and that fear, combined with government-imposed quarantines, has threatened economic growth that has already cost the world economy well into the billions of dollars.
Democrat Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca appears to say that she stands in with apparently using the coronavirus as a weapon against supporters of President Donald Trump. https://t.co/gxbHSD8cnRpic.twitter.com/F9WMdyvMcP
9 News highlighted that the account was indeed CdeBaca’s government account in a separate report that documented false statements that she has made about other politicians.
CdeBaca gained notoriety over fringe comments that she made in March 2019 during a candidate forum for City Council District 9:
I don’t believe our current economic system actually works. Um, capitalism by design is extractive and in order to generate profit in a capitalist system, something has to be exploited, that’s land, labor or resources.
And I think that we’re in late phase capitalism and we know it doesn’t work and we have to move into something new. And I believe in community ownership of land, labor, resources, and distribution of those resources.
And so, whatever that morphs into I think is what will serve community the best and I’m excited to usher it in by any means necessary. [Emphasis added]
Encyclopedia Britannica defines communism as a “political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society.”
The Communist piece, I’ve been in places where we’ve demonized people for being Communists. I’ve been to Cuba. I love Cuba. I love the way there’s not that rampant consumerism like we have here. But I do understand that Cuba, in the global context, they still have to deal with capitalism. They still rely on tourism. They’re still shut off from a world that’s making them think they’re missing out on something. But I don’t think rampant consumerism has served us well. I think there’s a clear problem with our structure, both political and economic. We’ve allowed the concentration of wealth through the concentration of political power.
CdeBaca, who said that she loved socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) campaign logo because it was based on “political propaganda,” also said that she thinks that everyone misunderstands what communism is and that she identifies as an anarchist.
“Yes, that the way we understand communism is the problem,” CdeBaca said. “Even the way we understand anarchy — you could call me an anarchist. That would fit better than any other label. Anarchy is about us not needing that imposed structure from anyone, and just being cognizant and caring and compassionate enough to take care of ourselves and our communities and each other without anyone making it happen. It’d be like democratic socialism, except without anyone calling it that and imposing a structure.”
CdeBaca has come under fire for trying to hire her live-in girlfriend as a paid staff member after running on a campaign against corruption. After facing public scrutiny, CdeBaca withdrew her waiver request to hire her girlfriend, KDVR reported.
“I am modifying my request seeking permission from the Ethics Board to hire my life partner, despite her many contributions, long hours and sacrifices to get me where I am. Instead, the waiver will simply seek permission to officially allow her to continue volunteering; yes that is a requirement in the rules,” she wrote in a press release. “I am committed to opening up a dialogue about how appointees function in Denver and whether there needs to be clear parameters for both City Council and the Mayor’s Office. I am open to your feedback about ways we can make the Council hiring process more transparent – which was my intention from the very beginning and which is why I sought a waiver in the first place – and I’m willing to introduce legislation to that end.”
“Originally Published at Stream.org. Reprinted with permission.”
Monalisa Foster didn’t know bananas were supposed to be yellow. The bananas she ate were green.
It wasn’t her fault. She grew up in Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist Romania, where food was scarce and people waited in line for rations. Now, especially with the presidential election coming up, Monalisa worries that the U.S. could be headed down the same path with socialism.
She writes a story based on her childhood in the short story Pretending to Sleep. She’s seen and heard things in America that remind her of her childhood in a communist country. And she’s terrified.
(post created with information from investigative reporter Marty Watters)
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is now free. It’s time for him to drop the goods on former Illinois Senator – President Barack Obama and the Deep State gang of dirty cops led by partners in crime, Mueller and Comey.
As previously reported, former FBI Directors Mueller and Comey were not only involved in the fraudulent Trump – Russia sham and protecting Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election, but they also were involved in protecting incoming President Barack Obama in the 2008 election and they were involved in the Valerie Plame scandal known as Plamegate.
The Mueller – Comey gang committed their crimes by projecting the crimes of those they protected (i.e. Obama or Hillary) onto a chosen target (i.e. Governor Blago or President Trump).
Blago’s case is not unique.
In 2008 Obama had a history of receiving bribes and favors from convicted felon Tony Rezko: Rezko’s partner, Saddam Hussein bagman Nadhmi Auchi: and former Chicago cop Daniel T Frawley, who claimed in an email to have passed $400k in cash bribes through Rezko to Obama.
In order to divert attention from Obama’s criminal dealings with Rezko and Auchi, FBI Director Mueller opened an investigation into Rezko’s dealings with Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and simultaneously swept Obama’s crimes under the rug. The five year “investigation” of Blago came to an abrupt end when the Justice Department leaked information to the Chicago Tribune in order to avoid having to arrest Obama’s presidential election campaign co-chairman, Jesse Jackson Jr., for trying to buy Obama’s senate seat.
Blago faced criminal prosecution while Obama moved on to become President.
Now that Blago is out of prison, he is free to talk about the crimes Obama committed in Illinois, how Muller covered them up, and how it all relates to Comey’s seditious acts that followed.
In the video below of taped conversations involving Blago, the former governor claims that Obama was trying to get away from Chicago politics, which meant that he was working on distancing his problems with Rezko and moving the focus to the former governor:
Blago was targeted and outed as the patsy to cover up Barack Obama’s crimes in Chicago politics, and eventually arrested. Blago found out he was recorded but he had to know that the recordings implicated Barack Hussein Obama and his associate Rezco. Blago must have figured that the threat of exposing Obama could get him a backroom deal to get off scot-free from any charges because Blago turned down a plea deal for 18 months in prison that the Feds initially offered him. (Per his interview after he was released – See attached at the 1:57 mark:)
Blago mentions a touching moment with citizen Donald Trump when he was on the future President’s show where Trump said some very nice things about Blago to his daughters after the former governor was shamed on ‘The Apprentice’.
At the end of Blago’s interview with Mancow above, he says he is exploring every way to release the tapes of his conversations from a decade ago. The prosecutors would not allow this but he says he’s going to look at any way he can to get the truth out.
What Blago did not realize in 2010 was just how invested the “Deep State” was in protecting Obama, or the lengths that they would go to do so. Back in 2010 Blago was pleading his innocence and claiming the government (the Mueller gang) was after him. He said this many times, including on the O’Reilly Factor:
We now know the Deep State was doing all it could to protect President Obama who they determined was not going to be held accountable for his corrupt actions in Chicago politics. The Deep State hacks who protected Obama are the same people who went after President Trump. They will do it again if not stopped.
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