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northland10 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:29 pm If Biden were to agree with their demands, they'd just move the goalposts again.

poplove wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:04 pm NV RNC member files lawsuit challenging election worker protection bill
https://thenevadaindependent.com/articl ... ction-bill

Nevada lawmakers this year voted unanimously in both chambers to approve SB406, which was signed into law by Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, on May 24. Under the law, those who harass, intimidate or use force on election workers performing their duties in Nevada could face a felony, fine and up to four years in prison.

Sigal Chattah is an election denier who ran for NV attorney general last year and she's pals with this guy:

One of the plaintiffs is far-right GOP donor and activist Robert Beadles — a native Californian, cryptocurrency investor and purveyor of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, prominent Jewish families and other “elites.”

Link to case on Courtlistener: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67 ... v-aguilar/

Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump wrote: Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde suggests people in nursing homes shouldn't vote: “If you're in a nursing home, you only have a five, six-month life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote."

Tom Cotton @SenTomCotton wrote: Israel has no responsibility to provide aid to Gaza.

We didn’t provide aid to Germany or Japan during WWII, and the Biden administration’s efforts are undermining Israel.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:28 pm One of his recognitions is creepy in hindsight.

See Dr. Thomas E. Lipin MD PA's Awards and honors

Distinguished citizen award from Boy Scouts of America for community service 2005

W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:20 pm So you were a male escort for a nun?!

W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:20 pm So you were a male escort for a nun?!

northland10 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:43 pm

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:28 pm One of his recognitions is creepy in hindsight.

See Dr. Thomas E. Lipin MD PA's Awards and honors

Distinguished citizen award from Boy Scouts of America for community service 2005

A "Distinguished Citizen Award" is likely a local council's distinguished citizen award dinner/luncheon honoree. These are to recognize somebody's efforts in the community but not necessarily those who are actually involved in the Boy Scouts, and often, those who are involved with Scouts are involved at the donor level and not the actual program. The dinner is a benefit dinner, i.e. black-tie fundraiser.

northland10 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:37 pm

W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:20 pm So you were a male escort for a nun?!

80-year-old nuns pay well.

Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:44 pm

northland10 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:37 pm

W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:20 pm So you were a male escort for a nun?!

80-year-old nuns pay well.

And they have clean Habits.

The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller wrote: WATCH: “Mr. Speaker, I move to table the amendment that would allow 1st cousins to marry.”

@GinoBulso (R-BRENTWOOD) —who admitted his grandparents were 1st cousins— fights to save 1st cousin marriage in TN, even claiming it violates Obergefell

@MontyFrittsTN32 joined him.

Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski wrote: After introducing a bill to ban Pride flags, TN Rep. Gino Bulso then tried to block a law that would ban marriage by first cousins, citing the fact that his grandparents were first cousins. Story …

Maine House Democratic Campaign Committee @MaineHDCC wrote: Yesterday Rep. Michael Lemelin (R-Chelsea) insinuated that the enactment of LD1619, a bill expanding abortion rights, caused the October mass shooting in Lewiston as a result of God's wrath. We are dismayed by this reprehensible statement and lack of empathy for the victims.

@GinoBulso
(R-BRENTWOOD) —who admitted his grandparents were 1st cousins— fights to save 1st cousin marriage in TN

Former MI GOP house speaker charged with embezzlement and conducting a criminal enterprise

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's (D) office has charged former state representative Lee Chatfield (R) — who was speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives in 2019 and 2020 — with 13 felonies after a lengthy investigation.

Local news site MLive reported that Chatfield and his wife, Stephanie, have both been charged with embezzlement, conducting a criminal enterprise and various other financial crimes. Nessel said the charges were filed as the result of a years-long investigation that began in 2021.

"Our investigation has uncovered evidence that Lee Chatfield used various different schemes to embezzle, steal and convert both private and public monies to fund a lavish lifestyle that a state salary could not possibly afford," Nessel said during a press conference.

Nessel's office uncovered the alleged crimes while probing both Chatfield's campaign accounts as well as a nonprofit "dark money" organization called the Peninsula Fund. Both Chatfield and his wife allegedly used Peninsula's account to pay for opulent vacations and excursions, including a $32,000 trip to the Bahamas, a family vacation to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida and purchases of luxury items.

"The evidence shows that Stephanie Chatfield made payments to Lee Chatfield’s personal credit cards directly from Peninsula Fund accounts," Nessel said.

According to CBS News, the charge of conducting a criminal enterprise carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The four counts of embezzlement of funds from a nonprofit organization (between $1,000 and $20,000) each come with a maximum prison sentence of up to 10 years and/or a $15,000 fine. The three charges of embezzlement by a public officer of more than $50 each carry a potential prison sentence of up to 10 years along with a $10,000 fine.

Chatfield is also facing one charge of conspiracy to commit embezzlement from a nonprofit organization — punishable by up to 10 years in prison — three counts of embezzlement and one felony count of violating the Charitable Trust Act. The latter two alleged crimes are each punishable by up to five years in prison.

In addition to Chatfield and his wife, Nessel also charged Anné and Rob Minard in the investigation, who worked as Chatfield's political director and chief of staff, respectively. Both are charged with more than a dozen counts of embezzlement for allegedly raiding those same accounts to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Nessel's investigation into Chatfield began after his sister-in-law accused him of repeated sexual assaults for roughly a decade, though Chatfield denied those allegations and described it as a consensual affair. Nessel credited her for being the catalyst of the investigation, but said the investigation into those allegations had been closed, saying "we cannot reach the appropriate proofs required as it relates to the allegations of sexual assault."

Pete Ricketts, Nebraska’s junior U.S. senator and former governor who in 2022 voiced support for a total abortion ban in the state, including in cases of rape and incest, is now backing an effort to enshrine a 12-week abortion ban in the state’s constitution.

Ricketts last month donated $500,000 to the Protect Women and Children committee, which launched a ballot initiative in March aimed at amending the state’s constitution to bar most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy with exceptions for rape, incest and medical emergencies — a proposal that mirrors the abortion parameters that already exist in state law.