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I'm sick of them doing the thing. How about doing SOMEthing?
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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I don't like them blasting her for her looks. I heard her speak in the debate with Cheney, and she is a train wreck. I would like them to concentrate on that, there is an awful lot of material there. The comments on the tweet are a left wing cesspool. Be better.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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CNN: Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleads guilty to DUI charge:Looks like a game of nut-job telephone: "Questions were asked" why Pelosi's mugshot hasn't been released (hint: California doesn't have Florida's sunshine laws) to charges have been dropped to Newsom ordered the charges to be dropped.TheLeoTerrell @TheLeoTerrell wrote: Tell me it’s not true. All DUI charges against Paul Pelosi a.k.a. Nancy Pelosi’s husband have been dropped.
Of course, those who insisted the charges against him were disappeared will have long since forgotten ever being wrong about this (or anything else).Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to driving under the influence of alcohol in May.
Judge Joseph Solga sentenced Pelosi to five days in jail but he will receive credit for two days already served and two days for conduct credit. His remaining one day will be served through a court work program. Pelosi will be on probation for three years and pay upwards of $1,700 in fines.
The court also ordered an interlock ignition device to be installed on his vehicle for one year, restitution to remain in the court's jurisdiction and his attendance in a three-month drinking-driver class.
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German wrote some stories Telles didn't like, and then Telles lost his re-election bid.
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/police-co ... stigation/Police confirm search at county official’s home in connection with journalist’s homicide investigation
Las Vegas police confirm a search warrant was served Wednesday morning at the home of Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles who has been the focus of recent investigative stories by reporter Jeff German.
The video below shows police at the Telles home which is located near Charleston Boulevard and Hualapai Way. Police are still on the scene.
German, 69, was found stabbed to death outside of his home on Saturday morning, Sept. 3. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said he was killed on Friday morning but not discovered until the next day.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Uh-oh.
Brett Clarkson @BrettClarkson_ wrote: BREAKING: Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles is taken out of his house on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance. Telles has been arrested in the slaying of @reviewjournal investigative reporter Jeff German. Story: https://reviewjournal.com/post/2635486
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Los Angeles City Council President Steps Down After Racist Comments
In a meeting last year, Nury Martinez mocked Indigenous immigrants and the Black child of a fellow council member. She will remain on the council but relinquished her leadership role.
By Shawn Hubler and Jill Cowan
Published Oct. 9, 2022 Updated Oct. 10, 2022, 2:30 p.m. ET
LOS ANGELES — The president of the Los Angeles City Council stepped down from her powerful leadership role on Monday after a leaked audio recording revealed racist and disparaging remarks that she had made about the Black child of a white council member, and about Indigenous immigrants in the city’s Koreatown neighborhood.
“I take responsibility for what I said, and there are no excuses for those comments. I’m so sorry,” Nury Martinez, the council president, said in a statement on Monday announcing that she would resign from the leadership role, but not from the council as some people had demanded. “As a mother, I know better and I am sorry. I am truly ashamed.”
The comments, which Ms. Martinez made during a meeting last year with two other council members and a labor official, exposed longstanding racial tensions in the governance of one of the nation’s most multicultural cities, as well as fault lines among the city’s Democrats.
In the profanity-laced recording, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times and which was first reported by The Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Ms. Martinez, who is Latina, compared the Black child of a white council member to a “changuito,” Spanish for little monkey. She also called Oaxacan immigrants living in Koreatown “short little dark people.”
It was unclear who leaked the recording of the October 2021 meeting, which included Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León, council members representing parts of the city’s East Side, and Ron Herrera, president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. Also unknown was who made the recording, which was initially uploaded to Reddit earlier this month by an unidentified, now-suspended user, and continued to circulate via email after the post was taken down. No one has disputed the recording’s authenticity, and Ms. Martinez, Mr. de León and Mr. Herrera have issued apologies.
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VLADIMIR GABBARD LEAVES DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
WE ALL KNEW IT!
SHE LEFT YEARS AGO!
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VLADIMIR GABBARD LEAVES DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
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So no mention of an alternative, just vague notions. I used to have high hopes for then-Rep. Gabbard. I are disappoint.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
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As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
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I strongly suspect this is a misspeak. At least I hope so. Kinda funny though.
RNC Research @RNCResearch wrote: Democrat Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig: "I will never stop standing up for Big Pharma and standing against my constituents!"
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El Paso prosecutor resigns after facing accusations of incompetence
November 28, 20229:42 PM ET
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EL PASO, Texas — A Texas prosecutor facing mounting criticism over the handling of the 2019 Walmart mass shooting in El Paso that killed 23 people resigned Monday after the county took the extraordinary step of seeking to remove her from elected office.
El Paso County District Attorney Yvonne Rosales, a Democrat who was elected in 2020, agreed to resign during a court hearing Monday, El Paso television station KTSM reported. Her last day will be Dec. 14.
Rosales' job was put in jeopardy over accusations of incompetence involving hundreds of criminal cases in El Paso and slowing down the case against Patrick Crusius, the suspected Walmart shooter who faces the death penalty if convicted. He has pleaded not guilty.
El Paso County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal wrote last week in an amended petition that when it came to the Walmart shooting, Rosales' office "could not even tell the court what work had been done on this case in the last few months."
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(original: Fox News)Major Democrat donor tied to Biden indicted for allegedly embezzling millions from suffering clients
Aaron Kliegman
Wed, February 1, 2023 at 11:40 PM GMT+1
A high-profile former lawyer who donated big money to Democrats and hosted a fundraiser for President Biden was indicted by federal grand juries on Wednesday in two states for allegedly embezzling more than $18 million from legal clients.
The Justice Department announced that Tom Girardi, 83, was charged in Los Angeles with five counts of wire fraud, which carries a maximum 20-year federal prison sentence. According to prosecutors, the charges were part of an indictment accusing him of embezzling more than $15 million from clients and using the funds to cover his law firm's payroll and pay his personal expenses.
The case also includes charges against Christopher Kamon, the former chief financial officer of Girardi's LA-based law firm, Girardi Keese, indicating they "devised, participated in, and executed a scheme to defraud victim clients" until the firm collapsed in late 2020.
In Chicago, meanwhile, Girardi, his son-in-law David Lira, and Kamon were charged with eight counts of wire fraud and four counts of contempt of court. Prosecutors allege the trio stole more than $3 million in settlement funds meant for family members of those who died in a Boeing plane crash off the coast of Indonesia.
Wednesday's indictments mark the latest chapter in the remarkable downfall of Girardi, who was one of the most prominent attorneys in LA before being disbarred in disgrace in California last year.
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(original: WFXT)Boston Mayor’s finance director charged with money laundering in prison drug smuggling scheme
Bob Ward
Sat, February 11, 2023 at 5:36 AM GMT+1
Freda Brasfield, the Administration and Finance Director in Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s office, was arraigned Friday on money laundering charges in an alleged prison drug smuggling scheme.
Brasfield, who is also a longtime Boston Democratic political activist and community organizer, appeared in Woburn Superior Court, along with two co-defendants, Jaime Liberty and Jayleen Rivera, both of whom are facing charges of conspiring to smuggle drugs into MCI Shirley.
Brasfield, who is represented by Boston attorney David Meier, entered a plea of not guilty to one charge of money laundering and a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Brasfield, Liberty, and Rivera were released on personal recognizance.
According to records on file at Woburn Superior Court, a grand jury indicted Freda Brasfield on Dec. 15, 2022.
Prosecutors allege the smuggling scheme stretches back to January 2021 and that it involved a conspiracy to smuggle synthetic cannabinoids known as K2 and Spice into MCI Shirley. Prosecutors say it involved four inmates, including Brasfield’s nephew, and five “non-incarcerated relations or significant others,” including Freda Brasfield.
According to the Commonwealth’s Statement of the Case, Manuel “Junior” Dasilva, a former MCI Shirley inmate, worked with the nine co-defendants to get synthetic drugs inside MCI Shirley.
The use of synthetic drugs is a growing problem inside the Massachusetts prison system.
The Statement of the Case says the drug, when smoked, “can cause psychosis, violent behavior and other problems.”
K2 and Spice are liquid drugs that are sprayed onto papers that are smuggled into the prison, often disguised as letters and legal mail.
According to court documents, the drugs are sprayed onto 8″ x 11″ sheets, which are cut down into one-inch squares and sold in prison for $400 each. One sheet of paper can earn as much as $32,000 behind bars. Defendant Manuel Dasilva allegedly negotiated bulk pricing and quoted prices as low as $250-300 per sheet.
The Commonwealth alleges that the defendants at MCI Shirley are a “coordinated group of individuals who contact co-conspirators to purchase the cannabinoid-laced papers from a single dealer.”
The Commonwealth’s Statement of Facts indicates that five seizures at MCI Shirley that resulted in the confiscation of the drug-laced sheets.
Authorities allege Fred Brasfield used a mobile banking app to move money that was used during a seizure of drug-laced sheets in Boston on Jan. 27, 2022.
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(original: National Review)Maryland Mayor Arrested on Child-Porn Charges Visited White House at Least Six Times
Brittany Bernstein
Fri, March 3, 2023 at 10:14 PM GMT+1
A Maryland mayor who was recently arrested on 56 child pornography related-charges has visited the Biden White House at least six times since June 2021, according to a new report.
Democrat Patrick Wojahn resigned from his role as the mayor of College Park, Md., on Wednesday, shortly before he was arrested on 40 counts of possession of child pornography and 16 counts of distributing child pornography.
Law enforcement began investigating Wojahn after the National Center for Missing and Exploited children notified Prince George’s County police of a suspicious social-media account that was ultimately attributed to the mayor. Police searched his home in late February and seized multiple cell phones, a storage device, a tablet, and a computer.
Wojahn, who had overseen the city of 35,000 people since 2015, first visited the White House on June 25, 2021 for an event “Commemorating LGBTQ+ Pride Month,” Fox News reported. He posted pictures to Instagram posing alongside Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Buttigieg’s husband with the caption, “Always great to see these guys at the White House.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maryland-may ... 34942.html
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FAFO. Sad to see someone lose their job over a tweet, but she really asked begged for it.
https://azgovernor.gov/office-arizona-g ... rnor-hobbsStatement from the Office of Governor Hobbs
News Release - March 29, 2023
PHOENIX — The Office of Governor Hobbs released the following statement:
"The Governor does not condone violence in any form. This administration holds mutual respect at the forefront of how we engage with one another. The post by the Press Secretary is not reflective of the values of the administration. The Governor has received and accepted the resignation of the Press Secretary."
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion ... 059813007/A call to violence is never a good call. Gov. Katie Hobbs' spokeswoman had to go
Opinion: Josselyn Berry's tweet, posted on the day that six people were murdered in Nashville, was astonishingly tone deaf. Good call by her to resign as Gov. Katie Hobbs' spokeswoman.
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WTF!!!?????
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Rs would have doubled down.
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Exactly.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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More a commentary on our battle with Father Time and Mother Nature but you can make this partisan if you will:
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You mean more partisan than posting it in this thread?
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Oh by the way Joe is losing the the battle with Father Time and Mother Nature.
I don’t understand how we accept these truths.
Partisan horse spit
I don’t understand how we accept these truths.
Partisan horse spit
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Everyone in the world is losing that battle eventually.
And would you prefer that we accept untruths?
And would you prefer that we accept untruths?
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Let the truth reveal itself.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 8:31 pm Everyone in the world is losing that battle eventually.
And would you prefer that we accept untruths?