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Government Corruption
One big state [TX] needs to stop paying lobbyist salaries
[FoxNews] In recent years, Texas has seen a surge of local governments, school districts and associations — such as the Texas Association of School Boards — hiring lobbyists with your tax dollars to wine, dine and entertain legislators in an effort to influence legislation.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/13/2025 01:31 || Comments || Link || [90 views] Top|| File under:


(Rep) Scott Perry ~ the homes that Joe Biden owns cannot be afforded on a Govt salary
[X] He could afford them just fine, so long as dear little son Hunter Biden was serving on interesting company boards and selling his interesting paintings. But that seems to have gone away, for some unknown reason, and somehow also no one is interested in paying Papa Joe large fees to make speeches. How long do you think it will be until all involved choose to simplify their lives and downsize to more humble surroundings, dear Reader?
Posted by: Fred || 05/13/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [166 views] Top|| File under:

#1  DC is a dirty town. Joe is guaranteed a jury of his peers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/13/2025 11:50 Comments || Top||

#2  They have been living like kings. Yet tell us it is the military and social security that is bankrupting us. It was us! It was our prolific spending that got us here (despite always voting for the guy who said they would balance the budget and reduce the deficit).
Posted by: mossomo || 05/13/2025 12:47 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: badanov || 05/13/2025 14:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Ace of Spades:

Silly Socialite and Aged Madame of the Deep State Whorehouse Sally Quinn Whines That Liberals Don't Feel "Safe" or Social in Trump's DC

Nobody feels safe. Nobody feels protected. This is a city where people seek and, if it all goes well for them, wield power. But today in Washington those who hold — or once held — the most power are often the most scared. It is not something they are used to feeling. I lived through the paranoia and vengefulness of Watergate. This time in Washington, it’s different. Nobody knows how this will end and what will happen to the country. What might happen to each of


The heart bleeds.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/13/2025 22:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'Enough is enough': GOP senator unleashes bill with severe consequences for harming police
Ohio freshman GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno has introduced legislation that would increase the criminal penalties for harming a police officer after a sheriff’s deputy was killed in the line of duty in Cincinnati, Ohio, earlier this month.

Moreno’s Larry Henderson Act, being introduced this week, would update existing law stating that anyone who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any law enforcement officer engaged in official duties be required to face one to eight years in prison, depending on the severity.

Moreno’s bill would up that mandatory minimum to 20 years.

The bill also "establishes federal jurisdiction over these crimes as exclusive and preemptive, superseding state or local prosecution for federal officers."

Related from local television station WCPO: TIMELINE: What we know about the deaths of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton and deputy Larry Henderson
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/13/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [167 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule


#2  While you are at it, how about putting more teeth in the Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law. Lots of TikToks out there of LE breaching basic rights.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/13/2025 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry, but there's already *plenty* of laws on the books. What we seem to lack is a willingness to enforce them fairly and evenly.
Posted by: Crusader || 05/13/2025 10:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Means nothing. Harsh penalties which aren't enforced do not change behavior. Minor penalties consistently enforced do.
Posted by: Angstrom || 05/13/2025 10:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Police/Law Enforcement/Prosecutors abuse laws when it comes to harming (touching or being touched by) police. J6'ers were charged with assaulting/interfering for merely being beaten by cap police.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 05/13/2025 11:06 Comments || Top||

#6  It would supersede the Soros DAs, but I am not sure how much I want to further increase the power of federal law enforcement. The FBI, DOJ and Federal Judiciary has proven themselves to be capricious and despotic. I don’t think that this is the solution to Soros DAs.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/13/2025 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  If one more law will solve it, how about a dozen more. Cant go wrong with a dozen new laws to solve a problem. Next can we pass a law that the actually enforce the laws they pass.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/13/2025 12:48 Comments || Top||

#8  establishes federal jurisdiction No, just NO. creeping federalization is a BUG not a feature.
Posted by: magpie || 05/13/2025 16:39 Comments || Top||


Homeland Security subpoenas California for possible cash benefits to illegals
[FoxNews] The Department of Homeland Security issued subpoenas to the government of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, on Monday seeking records related to alleged disbursements of federal funds to illegal immigrants colonists.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations [HSI] office in Los Angeles filed the subpoenas this week, targeting the state's Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants colonists [CAPI].

According to the program's website, CAPI is intended to provide monthly cash benefits to aged, blind, and disabled non-citizens who are ineligible for federal Supplemental Security Income, but the White House claims it provides benefits to illegal immigrants colonists who cannot access social security benefits.

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem criticized California politicians in a statement, saying, "Radical left politicians in California prioritize illegal aliens over our own citizens, including by giving illegal aliens access to cash benefits. The Trump Administration is working together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally."

She added, "If you are an undocumented Democrat, you should leave now. The gravy train is over. While this subpoena focuses only on Los Angeles County — it is just the beginning."
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/13/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [198 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Published: August 9, 2024

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/13/2025 1:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Mrs Mundi worked county govt in CA for 25 yrs. They were turned into bank tellers for the illegal trafficking op. We were giving the farm away n she's got the receipts.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/13/2025 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Why just CA? Surely, a similar compensation was given in NY and IL. In other states, the scam is more likely to pass the compensation through NGOs. That will be in Red States as well. The Haitian enclave in Springfield, Ohio was neither spontaneous nor was it humanitarian. Determining how the cash flow was happening can be ascertained by investigating the finances of folks being beported.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/13/2025 11:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Why would the federal government trust Newsom with federal money? If the feds want to help disabled non-citizens who are here legally, they should administer the program themselves instead of letting Newsom do it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/13/2025 11:50 Comments || Top||

#6  #1, 2: Post-SCOTUS ruling on Grants Pass' eviction of encampments, many, if not most, of CA Counties have been doing this already.
Gavin's running to get in front of the parade for his POTUS 2028 campaign. He's a lying fake
Posted by: Frank G || 05/13/2025 12:00 Comments || Top||

#7  I like the part where greaser was like, "Couldn't get it done because of the courts, simple executive order, and now we are getting results."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/13/2025 12:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Just a part of the annual looting of the Treasury.

"...While the liberal media previously scoffed at the necessity of the Department of Government Accountability (DOGE), suggesting that the federal government wasn’t losing a significant amount of money through fraud, CBS’s 60 Minutes did something astounding on Sunday night: admit the truth. Cecilia Vega actually spoke with a former official with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) who suspected the U.S. was approaching nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer money lost to fraud."

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/05/12/60-minutes-admits-us-gov-loses-750-billion-fraud-year
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/13/2025 14:40 Comments || Top||


#10  Why just CA? Surely, a similar compensation was given in NY and IL.

Test case to establish the precedent, I imagine. Afterward it will be easy to reapply it wherever else it applies — if the other states choose the hard route rather than fixing it themselves so they retain some control of the process.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/13/2025 22:54 Comments || Top||



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