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[Daily Caller] Operatives connected with tech firm New Knowledge created thousands of Twitter accounts posing as Russian bots to boost the election-year chances of Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, The New York Times reported on Dec. 19. The accounts began following then-Republican senatorial candidate Roy Moore’s Twitter account in October 2017. Jones has since called for a probe.
The scheme worked like a charm. It attracted attention from local and national media, falsely suggesting Russia was backing Moore’s candidacy. The Montgomery Advertiser, for instance, was the first to cover the story using the Russian bot angle. National media outlets quickly followed suit. Some media pundits even mocked Moore for accusing Democrats of trolling his account.
Former President Barack Obama campaign organizer, Mikey Dickerson, was instrumental in a disinformation campaign targeting Moore, reports show, as was Evan Coren, who has worked for the National Archives unit since Obama’s first term. Hoffman and his associates were connected to another misinformation campaign during that same year.
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Former President Barack Obama campaign organizer, Mikey Dickerson, was instrumental in a disinformation campaign targeting Moore, reports show. He was not alone. Evan Coren, who has worked for the National Archives unit since Obama’s first term, also targeted the Republican’s campaign.
Coren, for his part, is a progressive activist who handles classified documents for the Department of Energy. He has not responded to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment about the nature of the campaign, which was designed to fool conservatives into believing Moore intended to reimpose prohibition.
[The Hill] Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Thursday began calling members of Congress informing them he is running for president and is quietly making overtures to members for support, three congressional sources told The Hill.
"Yes, he is reaching out to members for their support," said a former Democratic aide with direct knowledge of Booker’s intentions. "He's going to do it during Black History Month," which starts on Friday.
"I don't know if it's going to be tomorrow, I just know it's going to be soon."
Among those who received a call Thursday were senior members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), of which Booker is a member.
"He’s making calls," a fourth source, Rep. Frederica "The Hat"
Wilson (D-Fla.), confirmed to The Hill on Thursday night. "He left me a voice message. I have to call him back."
A Booker spokesman declined to comment for this story.
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This is going to be interesting. Build your coalition on disparate victim and special interest groups, then have everyone run. How do you do that without alienating too many of the groups as to keep enough voters to show up on the final election day?
[The Hill] Two Georgia Democrats are planning to skip President Trump's State of the Union address next week.
The offices of Reps. John Lewis and Hank Johnson confirmed to The Hill Thursday that they would not be in attendance on Feb. 5.
"I have a problem with defiling the Speaker’s chair in the House of Representatives," Johnson told AJC. "I don’t want to see it lowered, as is what happens when Donald Trump comes to our floor and starts talking about groups of people, particularly Latinos, and disparaging them as a people."
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Oooh! What a sick burn! Speaking Truth to Power! Or not speaking, since you won't be there. A little dignity and respect for the office is obviously too much to ask.
Seriously, Representative dudes, aren't you a little old for playing Mean Girls?
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Selective nonparticipation only shows pettiness and child like tendencies. If you don't like Trump stay and fight him. But as an elected official you have to participate, "It's your JOB"!
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"We hate Trump, so we will leave the SOTU and go to the lake and stare at our reflections in the water," said the two narcissists.
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[InfoWars] Colorado’s Senate has passed a bill to have the state award its presidential electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
This would be the true death of the republic and would establish America as merely another Democracy where two wolves and a sheep vote on what’s for dinner.
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Decertify, disqualify their delegates to the Electoral College. Send them back to Colorado without letting them vote.
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Hey, let's have a popular referendum on late-term abortion!
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This is the millennial answer. I want to be on the winning team so bad I give all my votes to it, and not I don't have to actually think about what is best for our nation, or even go vote...
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Liberals like to use other people's money. Now they want to use other people's votes. I would imagine west slope Coloradins are getting sick of Denver and Co.
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When the Senate of a state nullifies the votes of their entire electorate they need to be replaced by special election.
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Has this bill also passed in Colorado’s House? Will this be reversed if the national popular vote goes to Mr. Trump? Any chance a group of Colorado voters will sue in federal court over being dienfranchised, taking the the thing to the Supreme Court?
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Of course, one possibility is that Trump wins the popular vote. In which event we would have Warp-9 schadenfreude.
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Of course, one possibility is that Trump wins the popular vote. In which event we would have a federal judge saying that that Colorado bill is unconstitutional.
The Democratic-controlled Colorado State Senate voted this week to join other blue states in a pact aimed at getting rid of the Electoral College system.
The Senate on Monday approved a bill adding Colorado to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. That pact would change the way presidents are picked by allocating each state's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote – regardless of how the state votes.
In theory, the game-changing compact only takes effect once it signs on states representing at least 270 electoral votes, the threshold to win the presidency. With the addition of Connecticut's seven electoral votes last year, the group now has 172.
Colorado would be the 13th jurisdiction to join the pact if the state’s House also passes it and the state's Democratic governor signs it into law.
The uphill campaign, if ever brought to fruition, would almost certainly face a court challenge.
[Daily Caller] The Democratic Virginia delegate who has recently come under fire for sponsoring a bill in the Virginia House of Delegates that would allow the termination of a pregnancy up to 40 weeks old, is also the chief patron of a bill that would protect the lives of "fall cankerworms" during certain months.
Democratic Virginia Del. Kathy Tran introduced "House Bill No. 2495 ‐ Fall cankerworm; spraying prohibited during certain months" on Jan. 9, the same day as "House Bill No. 2491 ‐ Abortion; eliminate certain requirements."
Tran came under fire Tuesday for her support of legislation that would allow an abortion to be performed just moments before the birth of a child.
"Where it’s obvious a woman is about to give birth...would that be a point at which she could still request an abortion?" Republican Del. Todd Gilbert asked Tran. (RELATED: Trump Rips Virginia Democrats On Abortion Comments)
"My bill would allow that, yes," she confirmed.
Tran’s other piece of legislation aims to protect insects such as "gypsy moths" and "cankerworms."
According to Virginia’s Legislative Information System, House Bill No. 2495 is:
A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2403 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-926.4, relating to cankerworms; eradication; prohibition on spraying during certain months.
Tran apparently deleted all of her social media following backlash to her abortion bill.
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Cankerworms! Now there is a Knick name that might stick for these Moth Loving baby killers.
Some actual voter roll clean-up is now happening? Bless President Trump for not continuing his predecessor’s policy of threatening states that dared to think about doing such things./td
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A top Pennsylvania politician called on the state Wednesday to immediately expunge the names of 11,198 noncitizens whom the state confirmed are registered to vote, despite not being eligible.
State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a Republican and former chairman of a House government oversight panel, said the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, belatedly acknowledged the large number of noncitizens in communications over the past two months.
"I believe that we need to take action and have those people removed immediately from the rolls," Mr. Metcalfe told The Washington Times. "They were never eligible to vote."
Just days earlier, officials in Texas announced they had found nearly 100,000 noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls.
The numbers, while not yet evidence of massive voter fraud that President Trump said marred the popular vote in the 2016 election, are nonetheless higher than the almost-zero levels of voting mischief that the president’s critics have suggested.
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People can make as much fun of Florida as they want, this transplant does not miss PeeAye at all...
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It's just the beginning. They're probably hoping this is a big enough number to fool people into thinking the problem is being dealt with. Plus all the other avenues for voter fraud, it's a huge problem.
[FRONTPAGEMAG] Newark is the most dangerous city in New Jersey, Tallahassee is the most dangerous city in Florida, and South Bend is the most dangerous city in Indiana. But instead of fixing their failed cities, the current mayor of South Bend, and the former mayors of Newark and Tallahassee want to run for president.
Mayor Peter Buttigieg has announced that he’s forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 run. Media reports have focused on the possibility that he might become America’s first gay millennial president, instead of on the fact that he’s headed a city since 2011 which has double the national and statewide violent crime rates. And a city where Hispanic poverty rates are 10% higher than the national average, African-American households have double the poverty rate, and Asian-American incomes are halved.
South Bend was recently rated one of the "worst cities" to live in. The unemployment rates are higher than average, the property values are lower, and even the water quality is below average.
Gushing media reports about the gay millennial mayor, a Harvard grad and a Rhodes scholar, overlook South Bend’s poverty rate of 24.7% and that 45% of households are living near the poverty level.
South Bend has a little over 100,000 residents, but there were over 100 criminal shootings in 2017 in the failed city which hosts murderous gangs such as the Latin Kings and Gangster Disciples.
In January 2019, just as Buttigieg was prepping his presidential run, three shootings in one week killed two teens and left a woman paralyzed from the waist down. In one summer week, the casualties included a 12 and a 13-year-old. In March, 6 people were hurt in one shooting spree.
"It is a season for boldness and it is time to focus on the future," Mayor Buttigieg declared in his presidential debut video. "Are you ready to walk away from the politics of the past?"
Buttigieg’s past is a poverty-stricken murder capital so it’s understandable that he would want to walk away from its blighted streets, wrecked industry and general misery to focus on his political future.
And he’s not alone.
Andrew Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor, coming off a humiliating defeat in the Florida gubernatorial race and still struggling with an ethics complaint tangled in an FBI investigation, also wants to throw his tattered hat into the 2020 ring.
Tallahassee’s murder rate tops bigger cities in Florida. And Leon County’s murder rate rose 83% in 2017.
"Tallahassee had the highest number of murders in history last year and we top the state for the highest crime rate," his former chief of staff warned in his own campaign.
The poverty rate in Tallahassee is at 28.4%. That’s even worse than South Bend. One single zip code in Tallahassee has the highest concentration of poverty in Florida. 1 in 5 adults in Leon County have trouble reading. And even Florida State University had more violent crimes on campus than any other state school.
That’s another reason why the Florida city was also ranked as one of the worst places to live in America.
There’s no conceivable reason why running South Bend or Tallahassee would qualify you for higher office, lower office or even any office at all. But Cory Booker exploited his tenure running the worst city in New Jersey to represent the entire state in the United States Senate. Booker has also joined the dozens of candidates vying for the opportunity to be the Democrat nominee for the White House.
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Calling them the worst cities is mean. Let's just call them the least best!
When I'm king of the forest, anyone running for public office will have to demonstrate they have successfully played SimCity without driving all the sim-citizens away and turning the place into SimDetroit. Pro tip: borrowing money is appealing in the short term, but it will bite you in the arse.
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Some malcontent sez it's unpalatable
To live in teh differently habitable.
Well, you can tell Steve
He is welcome... to leave,
Or relax and enjoy if inevitable!
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... starts shifting the semantic granules to avoid a political loss. The financing for, and construction of, a see-through fencing system (Trump’s position) is the request of DHS and Border Patrol, and supported by the vast majority of Americans.
Today, Speaker Pelosi starts by claiming no wall will ever be permitted, then garbles her way through a pretzel response by saying "Normandy Barriers" being replaced by "Normandy See-Through Fencing", is ok. She’s trying to avoid a political loss.
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I AM only going to say this to you once you BITCH. That is MY WALL
I do not give a damn what you care about Trump or whatever.
That is MY WALL BITCH
And I should take your Vineyards and your fucking hotels to fund it, BITCH.
[FOXNEWS] After their failure to prevent the elevation of Justice Brett Kavanagh to the Supreme Court, the left is now going after Neomi Rao, who is the Trump administration's nominee to the important D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. With Kavanagh, they went back to his high school yearbook, searching desperately for anything that would slime his teenage character. With Rao, they've gone to her college writing!
BuzzFeed, which claims to be a journalistic enterprise, says she wrote "inflammatory op-eds in college."
She had written against racial preferences. Since when has that disbarred anyone from a judgeship?
She also wrote that progressives preach tolerance but don't practice it.
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Stewart Varney is a shameless and totally bought shill of twitter and facebook. He has no business saying anything about the sewage that runs out of the pipes he loves so much.
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I find Varney shamelessly blunt and refreshing.
[PJMedia] On Thursday evening, Baltimore attorney Glen Keith Allen, who is suing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for racketeering, wire fraud, defamation, and other claims, told PJ Media that the SPLC has hired a high-powered attorney to defend them in the case. Among other things, Allen's suit demands a court judgment against the SPLC's 501c3 tax-exempt status, which could seriously cripple the organization. Oh pleaseohpleaseohplease!
"The SPLC Defendants have engaged Chad Bowman of Ballard Spahr, a large and well-regarded D.C. law firm, as their counsel," Allen told PJ Media in an email statement. He also said that he has formally "served" the SPLC, Heidi Beirich, and Mark Potok and that they have acknowledged and received the service. In other words, it's on.
Ballard Spahr is a Philadelphia-based law firm with more than 650 lawyers nationwide. It was founded in 1885 and is highly respected in the legal field.
Chad R. Bowman is a Washington, D.C. counselor and litigator who focuses on working with new media and legacy media organizations, as well as other nonprofit and for-profits engaged in speech and public advocacy. Before joining Ballard Spahr, Bowman worked as a reporter at The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA). He has represented media clients in cases involving defamation, privacy, copyright, subpoena, access, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and other First Amendment issues.
Bowman defended the Associated Press against a libel claim from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, defended Gawker against a defamation claim from former Major League Baseball pitcher Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams, defended The New Yorker against a defamation claim from Canadian art authenticator Paul Biro, and defended CBS Interactive against a defamation claim from Hall of Fame basketball player Scottie Pippen.
The SPLC's decision to hire an attorney with such a high profile, rather than looking to their own internal counsel, suggests a real fear that Allen's lawsuit has teeth and may prevail. We can only hope.
For his part, Allen told PJ Media he "filed a pro hac vice motion for the admission of Frederick C. Kelly, a New York lawyer," to serve as co-counsel.
The lawyer is expecting the SPLC to file a motion to dismiss. Of course they are. Honestly I don't know how much merit a push like this has, but it would be freakin' awesome to use it more against other liberal hate factories if this succeeds.
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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[PJMedia] On Thursday evening, Baltimore attorney Glen Keith Allen, who is suing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for racketeering, wire fraud, defamation, and other claims, told PJ Media that the SPLC has hired a high-powered attorney to defend them in the case. Among other things, Allen's suit demands a court judgment against the SPLC's 501c3 tax-exempt status, which could seriously cripple the organization.
