See Bye-Bye, Bernie!
He better win Michigan:
"As attention turns to Tuesday’s vote in Michigan, one county tests both Sanders and Biden" by James Pindell Globe Staff, March 6, 2020
MAYBEE, Mich. — The largest field to ever run for president is now down to two major Democratic candidates, and the most important showdown yet between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden will be in Michigan, one of six states to vote on Tuesday.
Michigan, the first of the three Rust Belt swing states to hold a primary, doles out the largest number of delegates that day, in what is effectively a fight for whether Sanders’ progressive wing of the party can beat back the resurgence of moderates behind Biden.
Voters will test the former vice president’s claim that he can rebuild Barack Obama’s winning coalition of Blacks, white liberals, and Reagan Democrats in a state that will be critical in the general election. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the other Rust Belt states that swung Republican and handed President Trump an Electoral College victory, don’t hold primaries until next month.
For Sanders, the onetime front-runner who was put on the ropes by Biden’s Super Tuesday victories this week, the Michigan contest is a chance to stay in the hunt — maybe the Vermont senator’s final chance.
His campaign seems to think so: It canceled a planned Friday rally in Mississippi, which also votes next week, and held an event in Dearborn instead. Sanders will follow up with another rally in Grand Rapids on Sunday, and he is on the airwaves with negative television ads against Biden statewide.
Biden, for his part, has been announcing local endorsements, including from the current governor and two former ones, a freshman Democrat who ousted a Republican in a swing district, a former US senator, and Detroit’s mayor. Biden is scheduled to return to the state Monday for a private fund-raiser in Grosse Pointe Farms and potentially a public event.
“I think Michigan is going to be very telling,” said Washington-based Democratic strategist Jennifer Holdsworth. “There is no question that Joe has the momentum now, and I think Senator Sanders is going to need to pull a rabbit out of his hat in order to salvage his chances at the nomination,” and there is precedent for a Sanders comeback in Michigan: In 2016, Clinton was the strong front-runner for the nomination. She had won three of four early states and had a winning Super Tuesday. The last polls in Michigan had put her up over Sanders by well over 20 points, but Sanders shocked everyone and narrowly defeated Clinton, a win that allowed him to extend the contest another three months until the bitter end.
This year, the latest polls have Biden winning Michigan, but all of them were taken before his Super Tuesday rout, and the consolidation of moderates behind him.
I wondering how long the lines will be as Joe continues to drive towards the nomination and beat the conventional wisdom.
"I see no reason for things to change. Biden should just run out the clock, and without a debate there isn’t much that Sanders can really do about it,” said Jake Davison, publisher of the Inside Michigan Politics newsletter.
There isn't going to be a brokered convention.
If there is one place to test whether Sanders can pull off another comeback — or whether Biden can be a convincing general election winner — it is in Monroe County, located on Lake Erie halfway in between Detroit and Toledo, Ohio.
There are a dozen Michigan counties that voted for Democrat Barack Obama in 2012 before swinging to Republican Donald Trump. Some, like Macomb County, are famous as the home of the “Reagan Democrat.” Others, like Oakland County, get more press lately as places where the battle for the suburbs is being waged, but neither saw a bigger swing than Monroe County, which voted twice for Obama before giving Trump a 22-point win over Hillary Clinton.
This time, however, not only is Biden doing much better among the demographic groups that live there compared with Sanders in the 18 states that have already voted, Sanders is less focused on them, according to Michigan State University political science professor Matt Grossman.
“Bernie’s coalition has traded rural, white, working-class voters for Hispanic voters, and that is a bad trade in Michigan,” said Grossman, noting that only five percent of the state is Hispanic.
OMFG!
In the 2016 Michigan primary, whites without college degrees were the plurality of voters, roughly 36 percent. Sanders overwhelmingly won this group, according to exit polls, pushing him to victory.
Monroe County is overwhelmingly white and working-class. Sanders beat Clinton there. It has the most union households per capita in the state. The county seat, also called Monroe, has the fourth-highest concentration of union members in the country, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Today, the major Ford plant is gone, but there are still a lot of union jobs at the local coal and nuclear plants.
It was at this point that I noticed that the Globe is not putting white in capitals like it now does Black.
The political transition from Democrat to Republican began a bit earlier in the more rural parts of the county like in the village of Maybee, where one of its two square miles is a rock quarry.
There are three churches, two bars, a gas station, and no stoplights.
Jean Haddix, 73, has worked at one of the bars — behind it, actually — for 41 years. At Little Brown Jug recently, she was serving Budweisers to Matt Petree, 23, who grew up down the road.
“Around here, most assume your friends and family support Trump and it’s a surprise when you learn they don’t,” said Petree. “It’s like, ‘Oh.’ ”
This is a dramatic change from the past, when Monroe County was one of the most staunch Democratic places in the state. Inside of the county courthouse on Thursday night, county Democrats wondered whether they will be able to swing Monroe back.
Several county Democrats said in interviews they are backing Biden in Tuesday’s primary, but were more hopeful than positive that either potential nominee will be able to carry Monroe in the general election. The head of the local carpenters union, Mike Hayer, 49, said he always thought Biden would give Democrats the best opportunity to at least compete in Monroe — though he admits that not all of his union members agree.
Bill LaVoy was the last Democrat to win a State House seat in the region. He is against abortion rights and sits on the board of statewide gun rights group. He was elected to his first two-year term as state representative in 2012, when Obama was reelected. He was then defeated in 2016, when Trump swept the region. Now he worries if he will be the last Democrat the county sends to the State House.
He, too, is a Biden supporter, though the Democratic candidate running for the same seat this time, Christopher Slat, backs Sanders and thinks Biden would hurt his chances of knocking off the Republican incumbent, but as LaVoy put it, “The Trump wave came here and the tide never receded. One of the things we hope to begin to figure out around here on Tuesday is whether it ever will.”
Oh God!
That means Trump keeps Michigan and its electoral votes!
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Bernie may win Wisconsin; however, it will be far too late by then.
The Long Goodbye (and below the fold):
"Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bid has ended. But she won’t step back on campaign issues" by Liz Goodwin Globe Staff, March 6, 2020
WASHINGTON — Now that she’s officially ended her campaign, Senator Elizabeth Warren has no intention of abandoning the sweeping policy agenda she sold for more than a year on the trail, and is mulling the best way to continue to push it forward in a field that’s narrowed between her ideological ally, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and former vice president Joe Biden, whom she met decades ago when they were on opposite sides of a policy fight over credit card companies.
Then why not stay in?
“She has issues and people she cares about; she has leverage, and we expect her to put the same strategic instincts into her next steps as she always has,” said Adam Green, the cofounder of the liberal Progressive Change Campaign Committee and a close ally of Warren.
Warren’s most obvious piece of leverage right now? Her endorsement.
In an interview with the Globe, Warren struck a defiant note, suggesting she is not necessarily going to endorse either man.
“Why would I owe anybody an endorsement?” Warren asked. “Is that a question they asked everybody else who dropped out of this race?”
Is she that naive?
If history is any guide, Warren may decide that the best way for her to wield influence over the future Democratic nominee is to hold her endorsement until a winner emerges, which could happen in a matter of weeks given how many delegates are awarded over the next two Tuesdays. That would give her a say no matter who wins the nomination, instead of risking alienating a candidate who could end up as president.
Or she could be frozen out entirely because the endorsement would come after the "game" is over!
In 2016, Warren stayed neutral during the primary between Sanders and Hillary Clinton — even though she was more ideologically aligned with Sanders and faced pressure from his supporters to endorse — and then backed Clinton once she was the presumptive nominee.
Brian Fallon, a top aide to Clinton at the time, recalled that Warren’s later endorsement of Clinton gave Warren influence over some of the candidate’s staffing plans for her future administration. Warren, who believes strongly that “personnel is policy,” had binders full of liberal professionals she pushed Clinton to appoint instead of the old-guard centrists who had staffed prior administrations.
“She was primed to have a big say over people who may have worked in, say, the Clinton Treasury Department,” Fallon said.
Yeah, right, after Summers and Rubin ran it her husband.
Warren likely would want to retain the same degree of influence if Biden is the Democratic nominee, which could lead her to hold back on an endorsement until it becomes clear who has won the nomination.
Not if, when.
“She knows how to acquire and wield power, and she may well conclude that not endorsing is the best way to wield power and influence,” Fallon said.
That's why she lost.
Biden, who’s struggled to adapt to the more populist rhetoric of the modern Democratic Party, could especially benefit from Warren’s help if he becomes the nominee. “If we’re not willing to take on the economic status quo, then we’re not going to win in November,” said Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. “I think she’s going to be a really important surrogate for whoever wins the nomination.”
She is going to carry whose child?
If Warren does choose to endorse early, her nod will not necessarily go to Sanders, despite their close agreement on a host of liberal policies including free college and Medicare for All. Warren has also spoken to Biden, and her allies say her primary concern will be taking whatever action gives her the most power to enact her agenda in the coming months.
On the trail, Warren has criticized both men — and if either man is elected president, Warren is likely to return to her inside-outside strategy of pushing for her agenda of financial reform from within Congress while also marshaling her social media reach and extensive supporter network to demand change from the outside.
“She still packs a fearsome punch,” said Adam Levitin, a Georgetown law professor who is friends with Warren. “Certainly Biden knows that when she needed to be, she could be a thorn in the side of the Obama administration.”
Warren launched an aggressive grass-roots strategy in 2014 to get the Obama administration to crack down on for-profit colleges, jettisoning the polite back-channeling that is more customary among allies in Washington. She did so again later to tank Obama’s nomination of a Wall Street banker to a Treasury job.
Since Warren can be a fierce opponent from the outside, a Democratic nominee like Biden could be especially motivated to bring Warren into his administration, co-opting the senator to avoid her outside pressure.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday, the senator gave little hint of her future plans. She jokingly did not rule out running for president again when pressed, and batted away a suggestion that she could end up as vice president to either man. Biden floated the idea of running for president with Warren on his ticket when he was considering a 2016 bid, even inviting her to the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory for a 90-minute discussion.
At one point, she directed viewers to her presidential campaign website to read one of her many plans, showing her continued attachment to the meticulous agenda she put together as a candidate.
Those who know her well say they wouldn’t be surprised if she ran for president again, depending on how this election shakes out.
“She’s going to go wherever she thinks she can make the maximum impact,” said Democratic strategist Doug Rubin, who advised her during her 2012 Senate run. “If that’s in an administration role, she would do that. If that’s in [the Senate], she would do that. If that’s running for president again, she would do that.”
Representative Jim McGovern, who endorsed Warren, pointed out that the 70-year-old senator is still young, compared to the two men who outlasted her.
“I don’t think it’s the end of anything,” McGovern said. “She’s going to continue to be a major force.”
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"Warren supporters in Michigan, ‘heartbroken’ and saddened, weigh next move" by Brian MacQuarrie Globe Staff, March 6, 2020
Lonnie Scott’s absentee ballot lay on a counter at his Michigan home Thursday afternoon, already marked for US Senator Elizabeth Warren and ready to be cast.
“She’s the progressive, to me, who can actually win because she’s the progressive who can explain her positions,” said Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, a political activist organization.
Except she didn't, wasn't, isn't.
“Someone told me that you have to vote your heart, and currently my heart is broken,” Scott said. “Maybe tomorrow that changes. For now, it feels good that I voted for the person who I feel is the best to do the job.”
That is where I have a problem. Do you care about the cause and policy agenda, or do you care more about the personality?
In Michigan, voters who already have completed or cast absentee ballots can swap them for new ones before the primary. That’s what Scott plans to do, although he’s not yet certain who will get his vote.
Many of Warren’s supporters across this battleground state shared Scott’s feelings of shock, sadness, and uncertainty about their next move. Suddenly, they face an array of unpalatable options: Should they switch allegiances to former vice president Joe Biden, or progressive US Senator Bernie Sanders, or show their dejection by not voting at all?
“I’m very disappointed that it came to this. She’s clearly the best candidate in the field,” said Mark Brewer, a supporter who is the former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party.
Warren was not expected to win in Michigan, one of seven states voting Tuesday in the next round of primary elections, but she invested heavily there, created a strong organization, and even spent the evening of Super Tuesday at a rally in Detroit.
Which makes her sudden flip-flop a day later odd.
Clear the way for Joe and you will be rewarded?
If she had remained in the race, Warren’s campaign would have been desperate for a strong showing in Michigan after the disappointing results of Super Tuesday, when she failed to finish in the top two in any of the 14 states that voted.
Now it is over, and the progressives who embraced her support for initiatives such as Medicare for All, a wealth tax, and affordable higher education are left looking for a home.
There is only one place to go, right?
"I’m obviously saddened by this,” said Ed Bruley, a Warren supporter and chairman of the Macomb County Democratic Party. “She would clearly be our best candidate in November.”
She must feel isolated given the lead, above-the-fold article with which I led this post.
Where Warren’s supporters go seems to be a toss-up, said Brewer, a member of the Democratic National Committee.
“My sense is that they will splinter among the remaining candidates,” Brewer said. “I really don’t think it benefits Biden or Sanders more than the other.”
I was told 43 percent would backed Sanders while 36 percent would chose Biden.
Brewer said Warren was not a “perfect candidate,” although he gave high marks for her debate performances.
Warren’s support for Medicare for All proved to be a challenge, Brewer said. He added that she was hampered by the early voting in Iowa and New Hampshire, which are not demographically representative of the country.
“Sexism also is at play here. I think women are held wrongfully to a higher standard in terms of electability,” Brewer said.....
It's the old hammer and nail thing, and they didn't shed a tear for Moulton.
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More crying in their beers as they mourn the final days of Warren’s campaign:
"Is Elizabeth Warren’s pinky promise of women in power too big a hope for America?" by Jeneé Osterheldt Globe Columnist, March 5, 2020
Elizabeth Warren is heartbroken.
You could hear it in her voice as she announced the end of her presidential campaign on Thursday.
Warren is a warrior, and dismantling the patriarchy was at the top of her agenda, but America won’t let us win. We can smash a glass ceiling only to encounter a layer of cement, a trap door, another series of rungs to climb. A woman, no matter how qualified, brilliant, and prepared, will be punished for her womanhood. This is a country committed to controlling women in 2020.
I thought you were supposed to earn it, not have it handed to you.
Barack Obama, a Black moderate, was far too big a change for a country steeped in racism, sexism, and oppression, and Trump was the response to a Black man in power.
See White I mean?
Has the Globe gone Black Nationalist?
Don't get me wrong; I have no problem with it at all. May prefer it even. Maybe not. Depends on whose in charge.
This country craves a “normalcy” that a Madame President would not bring. Obama knew that.
“This is still a country that is less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement,” Obama told wealthy liberal donors back in November. "Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision, we also have to be rooted in reality. The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it,” but the average American is wrong. This system is broken and so is our ability to dream big and fight hard beyond one candidate. We need a revolution.
Joe Biden performed best on Super Tuesday because he does not represent sweeping structural change. He makes white folk comfortable while speaking just enough about equity so everyone can think they aren’t racist and pat themselves on the backs for having Black friends.
Like Deval Patrick?
Related:
"Utah Senator Mitt Romney, the lone Republican who voted to convict President Trump in last month’s Senate impeachment trial, was in a position to play spoiler on the Homeland panel. The panel’s chairman, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, plans a vote Wednesday to proceed with an investigation of Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine, but will need every Republican vote to issue a subpoena. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens, but....."
All things being equal, it's all conspiracy theory.
He won because a lot of Black folk know white America wasn’t really going to go the distance with Warren. They aren’t low-information voters. They are survivors, and they know it will require some real soul searching for America to get behind Bernie Sanders and beat Trump.
I understand why Biden makes sense for so many, but I was with Warren. I’m not looking for normalcy or a remix of 2008. Now, I’m looking more and more like a Bernie Bro.
Welcome aboard!
He’s progressive. Sanders and Warren overlap on universal child care, free college tuition, economic justice, and so much more. I just believed Warren had the plans and tact to make it happen. I found her measured and thoughtful in a way that felt more likely to reach across the aisle and get things done.
She didn’t know it all, but worked with others to find solutions. She made mistakes and owned up to them.....
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Here is someone who clearly has not owned up to his mistakes:
"Bill Clinton explains Monica Lewinsky affair as ‘managing my anxieties’" by Neil Vigdor New York Times, March 6, 2020
Former president Bill Clinton, recalling the sex scandal that led to his impeachment in 1998, says in a new documentary series that his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky was a way of “managing my anxieties.”
When I first read that I had a virulent reaction. He saw all the women over all the years as an object, a tool to be used. How anyone can still defend this piece of excrement is beyond me.
The four-part documentary series, “Hillary,” which was released on Friday on Hulu, focuses on Hillary Clinton’s life, her marriage to Bill Clinton, and her unsuccessful campaign for president in 2016.
In the series, Bill Clinton, 73, is asked by the director, Nanette Burstein, why he engaged in an affair with Lewinsky, then a White House intern, and whether he weighed the risks.
I went backtracking through some old posts and that was the beginning of the end for Bill Clinton.
“Nobody sits down and thinks, ‘I think I’ll take a really irresponsible risk,’ ” Bill Clinton says. “It’s bad for my family, bad for my country, bad for the people who work with me.”
How about feeling bad for your victims, you sickening puke?
Clinton says that he was under enormous pressure, but that his actions were inexcusable.
“You feel like you’re staggering around — you’ve been in a 15-round prizefight that was extended to 30 rounds, and here’s something that’ll take your mind off it for a while,” Clinton says. “Everybody’s life has pressures and disappointments and terrors, fears of whatever, things I did to manage my anxieties for years.”
Like Mena air base being blown wide open?
Yeah, poor self-pitying Bill the punching bag, boo-hoo.
Clinton’s explanation drew derisive reactions on Twitter, with some commenters suggesting that the president should have turned to Xanax, Valium, or meditation.
The House impeached Clinton on charges that he lied to a grand jury about his affair with Lewinsky and obstructed justice, making him only the second president to hold that distinction until Donald Trump. Like the current president, Clinton was acquitted by the Senate.
Clinton at first denied having sexual relations with Lewinsky during a videotaped deposition in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee who claimed that Clinton had exposed himself to her and propositioned her in a hotel room in 1991, when he was governor.
In the documentary, which features behind-the-scenes footage from Hillary Clinton’s campaign against Trump and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Hillary Clinton says Bill Clinton sat on the side of the bed one morning and said a newspaper was set to publish allegations that he had sexual relations with an intern.
“I was, like, having a hard time processing it,” Hillary Clinton says. “He said, ‘Well, there’s nothing to it. It’s not true.’ He was adamant and he was convincing to me.”
OMG!
He lied right to her face about it!
Lewinsky was an intern for Jennifer Palmieri, a special assistant to the White House chief of staff and later the communications director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Palmieri says in the documentary that Evelyn Lieberman, the deputy chief of staff at the time, expressed concerns about Lewinsky’s presence in Bill Clinton’s orbit.
What you start to notice is the prevalence of a certain amount of chosen people surrounding this (as well as Trump's impeachment) and it starts to look like Monica might have been a MEGA group honey pot.
“I didn’t think anything of it because, of course, who would think that Bill Clinton could be that stupid?” Palmieri says.
What he should have done is resigned, written a book, and become a college professor.
Hillary Clinton publicly stood by her husband when the allegations first emerged, including during an interview with Matt Lauer on the “Today” show. Bill Clinton eventually confessed to the affair.
He must have felt a kinship with Lauer.
“I was just devastated,” Hillary Clinton says in the documentary. “I could not believe it.”
That is where she lost me after all the previous women that did she knew about.
Bill Clinton says the most difficult part of the ordeal was facing the couple’s daughter, Chelsea.
“She said, ‘Well, you’ve got to go tell your daughter,’ ” Bill Clinton says of his wife’s reaction. “She said, ‘That’s worse than me.’ ”
Bill Clinton says he is a different person now.
“You know, we all bring our baggage to life and sometimes we do things we shouldn’t do,” he says. “It was awful what I did.”
I'm surprised that they didn't blame Russia.
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Related:
"A special prosecutor announced Friday that a white, former South Bend police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of a Black man last summer....."
No different than New York City.
Also see:
"A Massachusetts medical device company paid kickbacks to surgeons to get them to use its device in spinal surgeries, federal authorities allege in a complaint against the company. The civil health care fraud complaint filed Thursday by the US attorney’s office in Massachusetts against Malden-based SpineFrontier, Inc. says the company paid doctors kickbacks in the form of sham consulting fees in order to boost sales for its spine surgery devices....."
Lelling is getting a spine when it comes to “medical device companies that pay surgeons kickbacks, directly or indirectly, corrupt the market, damage the health care system, and jeopardize patient health and safety,” but the Globe says it is time for him to stand down.
"Ex-leader of PIMCO seeks new sentence in college admissions case, saying key evidence was hidden for a year" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, March 6, 2020
Douglas Hodge, the former head of the global investment management firm PIMCO who was sentenced last month to nine months in prison for his role in the college admissions cheating scandal, plans to seek a new sentencing based on documents the government recently disclosed.
Attorneys for Hodge, 62, of tony Laguna Beach, Calif., signaled that the wealthy asset manager’s intention in a motion filed Thursday in US District Court in Boston. PIMCO manages $1.91 trillion dollars, according to the company’s website.
Hodge pleaded guilty in that courthouse in October to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services and wire fraud, as well as conspiracy to commit money laundering.
While stressing Thursday that Hodge takes responsibility for his actions and will surrender to authorities on March 20 to begin serving his sentence, his legal team also noted that late last month, “the government provided material to Mr. Hodge and other defendants that contained exculpatory information” that US Attorney Andrew Lelling’s office knew about for over a year.
That information, according to legal filings, includes notes taken by the scheme’s admitted ringleader, William “Rick” Singer, in which Singer indicated that in correspondence with parents, he characterized payments as legitimate donations to college athletic programs, rather than bribes. Prosecutors contend parents knew they were paying bribes.....
So the government omitted certain things as the brought the case?
Even when they are allegedly doing good it turns out they are lawless liars.
Lori Loughlin was smart to have pled innocent and draw out the case.
Dis-missed!
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Perhaps the Warren campaign was infiltrated:
"Erik Prince recruits ex-spies to help infiltrate liberal groups" by Mark Mazzetti and Adam Goldman New York Times, March 7, 2020
WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, the security contractor with close ties to the Trump administration, has in recent years helped recruit former American and British spies for secretive intelligence-gathering operations that included infiltrating Democratic congressional campaigns, labor organizations, and other groups considered hostile to the Trump agenda, according to interviews and documents.
Did they recruit one to write a phony dossier and then funnel it up through national security and law enforcement channels, or was he just setting up backchannel talks with Putin and Russia?
One of the former spies, an ex-MI6 officer named Richard Seddon, helped run a 2017 operation to copy files and record conversations in a Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers’ unions in the nation. Seddon directed an undercover operative to secretly tape the union’s local leaders and try to gather information that could be made public to damage the organization, documents show.
Does he know Christopher Steele?
Using a different alias the next year, the same undercover operative infiltrated the congressional campaign of Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer who went on to win an important House seat in Virginia as a Democrat. The campaign discovered the operative and fired her.
I was just about to say that this article from the New York Times looks like a limited hangout.
Both operations were run by Project Veritas, a conservative group that has gained attention using hidden cameras and microphones for sting operations on news organizations, Democratic politicians, and liberal advocacy groups. Seddon’s role in the teachers’ union operation — detailed in internal Project Veritas e-mails that have emerged from the discovery process of a court battle between the group and the union — has not previously been reported, nor has Prince’s role in recruiting Seddon for the group’s activities.
Oh, I see. The Times is going after the veracity of Project Veritas.
Both Project Veritas and Prince have ties to President Trump’s aides and family. Whether any Trump administration officials or advisers to the president were involved in the operations, even tacitly, is unclear, but the effort is a glimpse of a vigorous private campaign to try to undermine political groups or individuals perceived to be in opposition to Trump’s agenda.
Like Obama using the IR$ to audit his political opponents?
Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has at times served as an informal adviser to Trump administration officials. He worked with the former national security adviser Michael Flynn during the presidential transition. In 2017, he met with White House and Pentagon officials to pitch a plan to privatize the Afghan war using contractors in lieu of American troops. Jim Mattis, then the defense secretary, rejected the idea.
Much of it has been already.
Prince appears to have become interested in using former spies to train Project Veritas operatives in espionage tactics sometime during the 2016 presidential campaign. Reaching out to several intelligence veterans — and occasionally using Seddon to make the pitch — Prince said he wanted the Project Veritas employees to learn skills like how to recruit sources and how to conduct clandestine recordings, among other surveillance techniques.
Sort of like the Black Cube.
James O’Keefe, the head of Project Veritas, declined to answer detailed questions about Prince, Seddon, and other topics, but he called his group a “proud independent news organization” that is involved in dozens of investigations. He said that numerous sources were coming to the group “providing confidential documents, insights into internal processes, and wearing hidden cameras to expose corruption and misconduct.”
“No one tells Project Veritas who or what to investigate,” he said.
A spokesman for Prince declined to comment. E-mails sent to Seddon went unanswered.
Prince is under investigation by the Justice Department over whether he lied to a congressional committee examining Russian interference in the 2016 election, and for possible violations of American export laws. Last year, the House Intelligence Committee made a criminal referral to the Justice Department about Prince, saying he lied about the circumstances of his meeting with a Russian banker in the Seychelles in January 2017.
Once a small operation running on a shoestring budget, Project Veritas in recent years has had a surge in donations from both private donors and conservative foundations. According to its latest publicly available tax filing, Project Veritas received $8.6 million in contributions and grants in 2018. O’Keefe earned about $387,000.
The financial document also listed the names of others who gave much smaller amounts to Project Veritas last year. Several of them confirmed their donations.
The group has also become intertwined with the political activities of Trump and his family. The Trump Foundation gave $20,000 to Project Veritas in 2015, the year that Trump began his bid for the presidency. The next year, during a presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump claimed without substantiation that videos released by O’Keefe showed that Clinton and President Barack Obama had paid people to incite violence at rallies for Trump.
In a book published in 2018, O’Keefe wrote that Trump years earlier had encouraged him to infiltrate Columbia University and obtain Obama’s records.
Last month, Project Veritas made public secretly recorded video of a longtime ABC News correspondent who was critical of the network’s political coverage and its emphasis on business considerations over journalism.
Why the New York Times failed to mention that the reporter was complaining about ABC quashing the Epstein story (although I suppose sitting on it for 14 years like they did is explanation enough) is beyond me.
Many conservatives have gleefully pounded on Project Veritas disclosures, including one particularly influential voice: Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son.
The website for O’Keefe’s coming wedding listed Donald Trump Jr. as an invited guest.
Prince invited Project Veritas operatives — including O’Keefe — to his family’s Wyoming ranch for training in 2017, The Intercept reported last year. O’Keefe and others shared social media photos of taking target practice with guns at the ranch, including one post from O’Keefe saying that with the training, Project Veritas will be “the next great intelligence agency.” Prince had hired a former MI6 officer to help train the Project Veritas operatives, The Intercept wrote, but it did not identify the officer.
That's where the print version ended.
Seddon regularly updated O’Keefe about the operation against the Michigan teachers’ union, according to internal Project Veritas e-mails, where the language of the group’s leaders is marbled with spy jargon.
They used a code name — LibertyU — for their operative inside the organization, Marisa Jorge, who graduated from Liberty University in Virginia, one of the nation’s largest Christian colleges. Seddon wrote that Jorge “copied a great many documents from the file room,” and O’Keefe bragged that the group would be able to get “a ton more access agents inside the educational establishment.”
Honestly, who gives a damn what the Michigan Teachers Union thinks?
As education secretary, DeVos has been a vocal critic of teachers’ unions, saying in 2018 that they have a “stranglehold” over politicians at the federal and state levels. She and Prince grew up in Michigan, where their father made a fortune in the auto parts business.
AFT Michigan sued Project Veritas in federal court, alleging trespassing, eavesdropping, and other offenses. The teachers’ union is asking for more than $3 million in damages, accusing the group of being a “vigilante organization which claims to be dedicated to exposing corruption. It is, instead, an entity dedicated to a specific political agenda.”
Other Project Veritas employees on the emails include Joe Halderman, an award-winning former television producer who in 2010 pleaded guilty to trying to extort $2 million from the comedian David Letterman. Halderman was copied on several messages providing updates about the Michigan operation, and in one message, he gave instructions to Jorge. Project Veritas tax filings list Halderman as a “project manager.”
He's like Avenatti then.
Two other employees, Gaz Thomas and Samuel Chamberlain, were also identified in emails and appeared to play important roles in the Michigan operation. Efforts to locate Thomas were unsuccessful. A man named Samuel Chamberlain who matched the description of the one employed by O’Keefe denied he worked for Project Veritas. He did not respond to follow-up phone messages or an email.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement: “Let’s be clear who the wrongdoer is here: Project Veritas used a fake intern to lie her way into our Michigan office, to steal documents and to spy — and they got caught. We’re just trying to hold them accountable for this industrial espionage.”
In 2018, Jorge infiltrated the congressional campaign of Spanberger, posing as a campaign volunteer. At the time, Spanberger was running to unseat a sitting Republican congressman in a race both parties considered important for control of the House. Jorge was eventually exposed and kicked out of the campaign office.
It was unclear whether Seddon was involved in planning that operation.
Seddon was a longtime British intelligence officer who served around the world, including in Washington in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He is married to an American diplomat, Alice Seddon, who is serving in the U.S. consulate in Lagos, Nigeria.
Doesn't that give her immunity?
O’Keefe and his group have taken aim at targets over the years including Planned Parenthood, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Democracy Partners, a group that consults with liberal and progressive electoral causes.
It's okay if they do it, though.
In 2016, a Project Veritas operative infiltrated Democracy Partners using a fake name and fabricated resume and made secret recordings of the staff. The year after the sting, Democracy Partners sued Project Veritas, and its lawyers have since deposed O’Keefe.
In that deposition, O’Keefe defended the group’s undercover tactics, saying they were part of a long tradition of investigative journalism going back to muckraking reporters like Upton Sinclair. “I’m not ashamed of the methods that we use or the recordings that we use,” he said.....
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I'd say he is living a charmed life, wouldn't you?
"Officials say gunmen kill 32 at ceremony in Afghan capital" by Tameem Akhgar Associated Press, March 6, 2020
In the wake of a peace deal, huh?
What a stink!
KABUL — Gunmen opened fire on Friday at a ceremony in Afghanistan’s capital attended by prominent political leaders, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens more before the two attackers were slain by police, officials said.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its website.
ISIS™, huh?
Militants from IS have declared war on Afghanistan’s Shi’ites, and many of those at the ceremony were from the minority Shi’ite sect. The ceremony commemorated the 1995 slaying of Abdul Ali Mazari, the leader of Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazaras, who are mostly Shi’ite Muslims.
The Taliban said they were not involved in the attack, which came less than a week after the United States and the group signed an ambitious peace deal that lays out a path for the withdrawal of American forces from the country.
Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said 32 people were killed and 81 wounded in the attack in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of Kabul.
The Health Ministry gave the same death toll but said 58 were wounded. All of the casualties were civilians, Rahimi said.
Opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah, who is the country’s chief executive and was a top contender in last year’s presidential election, was among several prominent political officials who attended the ceremony but left before the attack and were unhurt.
Several TV journalists were covering the ceremony inside a walled compound when the gunmen began shooting, and a reporter and a cameraman for a local broadcaster were among the wounded.
This is starting to stink even more than a false flag.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the violence and any US troop pullout from Afghanistan would be tied in part to promises by the Taliban to fight terrorism and the Islamic State. During the withdrawal, the United States would retain the right to continue its counterterrorism operations in the country.
They would retain the right to continue occupation -- as if they had any!
The Taliban have been fighting Islamic State militants in its headquarters in eastern Afghanistan. US military officials have said the Islamic State has been degraded because of US and Afghan operations but also by Taliban assaults. A US Defense Department official said that they worried the Islamic State was expanding its footprint into Kunar province, where the Taliban knows the terrain and could be an asset in tracking down the Islamic State.....
I hate to say I told you so, but.....
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Related:
Peace elusive as US attempts Afghan exit
The Globe surprisingly says that the war-weary people of America deserve a peace that generations of them have never known.
"Suicide bombers attack near US Embassy in Tunisia" by Elian Peltier New York Times, March 6, 2020
So much for drawing down there, huh?
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the US Embassy in Tunis on Friday, killing one police officer, and injuring four more along with one civilian, according to officials, in the most serious attack to hit Tunisia in recent months.
Two men approached a security patrol across the street from the embassy and detonated explosives around 11 a.m. local time, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said in a statement. No group had yet claimed responsibility.
The attack took place in the business district of Lac II, an area in the east of Tunis that is home to several embassies and offices of international institutions.
“Emergency personnel are responding to an explosion that occurred near the US Embassy in Tunis,” the embassy’s account posted on Twitter. “Please avoid the area and monitor local media for updates.”
This is stinking of a staged and scripted crisis drill, folks, and it wouldn't be the first time.
Tunisia was the birthplace of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, and has sustained a sometimes fractious transition to democracy since those protests deposed its authoritarian ruler, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. But it has become a target of Islamist militants, with three major attacks in 2015 that were claimed by the Islamic State group and killed dozens of people.
Guess jwho was the unexpected beneficiary of the Arab Spring.
The attackers on Friday drove a motorcycle toward a police truck, which was parked near the embassy and was damaged in the explosion.
Security forces cordoned off the area, as debris could be seen on the road by the embassy, along with human remains believed to be from the attackers.
All I can think of is that guy running down the street with the blood stain in the center off his back separating; had he been shot like that he'd be dead on the ground.
Tunisia had one of the largest contingent of militants to join the ranks of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, with at least 5,500 citizens going to Syria and Iraq. As many as 1,500 fighters flowed to neighboring Libya.
The US Embassy in Tunis was attacked in 2012 by crowds protesting an anti-Muslim video.
They trotted out that cover story lie again?
In recent years, Tunisia has struggled to control a threat from Al Qaeda and other Islamist groups.
It remains under a state of emergency, and porous borders with Algeria and Libya have allowed militants to leave and return.
Tunisia’s security and police forces have also been the target of smaller-scale attacks. Last June, two suicide bombers set off explosions in separate attacks in Tunis, killing a police officer and wounding eight people. The two attacks were directed a police patrol and a police station.
In October 2018, a woman injured 15 people, including 10 police officers, when she blew herself up in central Tunis.
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"A defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday he was “not going anywhere” even after he again fell short of a parliamentary majority with his hard-line allies in his country’s third election in less than a year. Convening what he called an “emergency conference,” Netanyahu accused his opponents of trying to “steal the elections” by aligning with Arab-led parties he said were hostile to the state. The election results looked to extend the country’s year-old political deadlock and weaken the longtime leader as he prepares to go on trial for corruption charges later this month. The embattled Netanyahu had been looking for a decisive victory in Monday’s vote, but a final count announced by the election commission determined that while Netanyahu’s Likud party emerged as the largest individual party, with his smaller allies, his right-wing bloc captured just 58 seats, well short of the 61-seat majority (AP)."
He's acting like you know who.
"Lebanon’s prime minister said Saturday the government will suspend payment of $1.2 billion in loans, marking the crisis-hit country’s first-ever default on its sovereign debt amid ongoing popular unrest. Hassan Diab made the announcement in a televised address to the Lebanese people, saying the country will seek to restructure its massive debt. The $1.2 billion Eurobond matures on Monday. The default marks a new chapter in the crisis and could have severe repercussions on the tiny country, risking legal action by lenders that could further aggravate and push Lebanon’s economy toward financial collapse. The currency has already lost up to 60 percent of its value on the dollar on the black market and banks have imposed crippling capital controls on cash withdrawals and transfers. Diab said Lebanon’s debt reached $90 billion or 170 percent of GDP, making it one of the highest in the world. He added that the total debt and interest Lebanon had to pay back in 2020 is at $4.6 billion (AP)."
Looks like regime change is underway in Lebanon.
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"Israel election challenger gets extra security after threats" by Aron Heller Associated Press, March 8, 2020
JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament on Sunday beefed up the security detail protecting Benny Gantz, the main electoral challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after deeming various death threats against Gantz to be credible.
The threats came in the wake of last week’s volatile and inconclusive election, in which Netanyahu was unable to capture the parliamentary majority needed to form a government.
Gantz revealed that a man tried to assault him Saturday evening as he arrived at a speaking engagement, and that Netanyahu supporters have been threatening him online. One post called for Gantz to be murdered just like former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by a Jewish ultranationalist in 1995. Another portrayed him and his fellow party leaders in Arab headdress, similar to images that circulated of Rabin before he was killed.
In his comments, Gantz vowed to unseat Netanyahu with a more worthy leadership and warned the prime minister to tamp down his divisive rhetoric before it was too late.
Initial exit polls had indicated his Likud party and smaller religious and nationalist allies may be able to eke out a razor-thin edge in parliament, but when the dust finally settled after Monday’s vote, final results showed Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc capturing just 58 seats, well short of the 61-seat majority required to form a new government.
A defiant Netanyahu still insists he has emerged as the winner, and accused his opponents of trying to “steal the elections” by aligning with Arab-led parties he claimed were hostile to the state.
“I promise you, I am not going anywhere,” Netanyahu told supporters Saturday.
While Netanyahu’s opponents control a majority of seats in the incoming parliament, they are deeply divided, with a hard-line nationalist party and the predominantly Arab Joint List among them.
Those divisions could make it difficult for Gantz to establish an alternative coalition. If neither he nor Netanyahu can form a government, the country could be headed to an unprecedented fourth-straight election, but even if he can’t build a government himself this time, Gantz’s party looks to be promoting legislation in the new parliament that would bar anyone indicted of a crime being able to lead a government. If it passes, the proposal would essentially end Netanyahu’s career.
Earlier reports say that legislation is symbolic and going nowhere.
With his back against the wall, Netanyahu has intensified his attacks. His allies have lashed out in all directions — threatening to fire the attorney general, blackmailing lawmakers who didn’t defect to his camp, comparing his opponents to the ancient enemies of the Jewish people, and hinting that supporters would angrily take to the streets if he was voted out.
Convening what he called an “emergency conference” Saturday night, Netanyahu himself accused Gantz and his partners of undermining Israeli democracy......
There he goes again, projecting his behavior on others.
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Also see:
"At least 26 Iraqis were among those killed in a Syrian highway accident last week, in which a fuel truck collided with passenger buses and other cars, Iraqi’s foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday. Ahmad al-Sahhaf said at least 16 Iraqis were also injured in what he described as a “regretful” traffic accident, and not a militant attack. Iraqi politicians called for an investigation, saying the passengers were Shi’ite pilgrims on their way to visit shrines in Damascus, which has been largely protected from the ongoing war, but such convoys have previously come under attack from armed groups....."
Prepare for the same in Afghanistan:
"At least 26 Iraqis were among those killed in a Syrian highway accident last week, in which a fuel truck collided with passenger buses and other cars, Iraqi’s foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday. Ahmad al-Sahhaf said at least 16 Iraqis were also injured in what he described as a “regretful” traffic accident, and not a militant attack. Iraqi politicians called for an investigation, saying the passengers were Shi’ite pilgrims on their way to visit shrines in Damascus, which has been largely protected from the ongoing war, but such convoys have previously come under attack from armed groups....."
Prepare for the same in Afghanistan:
"US peace accord with Taliban remains cloaked to most Americans" by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt New York Times, March 8, 2020
WASHINGTON — In a secure facility underneath the US Capitol, members of Congress stopped by all last week to review two classified annexes to the Afghan peace accord with the Taliban that set the criteria for a critical element of the agreement: What constitutes enough “peace” for the United States to withdraw its forces?
The Taliban have read the annexes. Nonetheless, the Trump administration insists that the secret documents must remain secret, though officials have struggled to explain why to skeptical lawmakers.
Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, in congressional testimony, appeared unaware of — or seemed unwilling to discuss — the secret annexes just days before the agreement was signed, and lawmakers who have paid the most attention to the peace plan also openly express frustration with the lack of a mechanism for verifying compliance that they believe Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had promised.
At the core of the two documents, according to people familiar with their contents, is a timeline for what should happen over the next 18 months, what kinds of attacks are prohibited by both sides and, most important, how the United States will share information about its troop locations with the Taliban.
While it may sound odd that the US military is sharing troop locations with its enemy of 18 years, the goal is to give the Taliban information that would allow it to prevent attacks during the withdrawal. Pompeo described the annexes last week as “military implementation documents.”
That is part of it, but they appear to be much more because the documents lay out the specific understandings between the United States and the Taliban — including what bases would remain open under Afghan control — the details are critical to judging whether the United States is making good on its promise to leave only if conditions allow, or whether it is just getting out, but another reason for the secrecy, according to several people familiar with the matter, is that the annexes leave the markers for peace remarkably vague, making it far from certain that the Taliban must convert into a counterterrorism force — as President Trump suggested a week ago — or that they are required to make complete peace with the elected government of President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan.
In fact, as written, they appear to give Trump, or his successor, enormous latitude to simply declare that the war is over and leave. But many of Trump’s aides suggest that US counterterrorism forces and a significant CIA presence should remain in the country. How that will be resolved within the US government, with the Taliban and with the Kabul government remains to be seen, and any resolution likely will prove difficult.
Many of the Republicans and Democrats who have taken the opportunity to review the documents say they are unimpressed.....
They talked to Liz Cheney and Chris Murphy before the print ended.
Overall, the annexes make up no more than a few pages, often with just one to two sentences laying out each component. For example, the Taliban are not to conduct suicide attacks, and the Americans forgo drone strikes — portions of the agreements that thus far have held.
“The documents provided none of the assurances that I felt like we heard from Secretary Pompeo and others about a rigorous process that was going to make sure we hold the Taliban accountable for their end of the deal,” said Representative Andy Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, who served in Afghanistan as a civilian adviser to General David H. Petraeus.
Another Deep State Democrat.
Another Deep State Democrat.
“I saw nothing in there that gives me any confidence” that those assurances are in place “beyond trusting the word of the Taliban,” he said. “This vague, thin package of documents is all we could actually get agreed to by the Taliban. I don’t really understand how we can say we have what we need to be able to commit to the troop level agreements that have been articulated.”
He added, “How can I meaningfully talk to my constituents about this when I’m not even allowed to share information with them that the Taliban already knows?
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Related: 21st-Century Pentagon Papers
They didn't even get shuffled around.
Also see: Ethiopia's first shot at real democracy could be derailed before elections are held
Cui bono?
They didn't even get shuffled around.
Also see: Ethiopia's first shot at real democracy could be derailed before elections are held
Cui bono?
Joe is coming at you beneath the radar:
"‘We’ve come back home’: Joe Biden rebrands as the underdog" by Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff, March 8, 2020
ST. LOUIS — Former vice president Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are in a neck-and-neck, two-man contest for the Democratic presidential nomination heading into another big election Tuesday this week, even as Biden has taken the lead in national polls, but Biden’s slew of Super Tuesday victories last week after his big South Carolina win has rejuvenated him and his supporters, allowing him to expand his advertising and ambition as he shifts his message. Now Biden is billing himself as the unlikely underdog, as he attempts to strike at the core of Sanders’ “electability” pitch.
Pumped up audiences in Missouri and Mississippi, which are among six states with primary contests this Tuesday, greeted Biden over the weekend with an electricity missing in Iowa and New Hampshire as his campaign faltered. There was a warm appreciation for his folksy, if at times awkward, persona as he slimmed down his stump speech and emphasized his fighting spirit.
The money has come pouring in for Biden since his Super Tuesday wins — as have the endorsements from his one-time rivals. The coveted endorsement still pending is that of Senator Elizabeth Warren,
Justin Idleburg, 40, a racial equity consultant, had planned to vote for former housing secretary Julián Castro and considered former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, but he said when the field narrowed to Biden or Sanders, Biden was the obvious choice, he said.
Biden ended the weekend with a raucous rally at Mississippi’s Tougaloo College, where the Southern Komfort Brass Band warmed up a crowd of a couple thousand, and people roared when actress Vivica A. Fox and former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick ticked off Biden’s signature accomplishments, including efforts to combat policy brutality and pass the Affordable Care Act.
Biden helped pass the crime bill that led to the mass incarceration of blacks.
Biden helped pass the crime bill that led to the mass incarceration of blacks.
“He had Obama’s back, now we got his back,” said Michelle Coleman, 59, a retired compliance officer with the American Cross who watched Biden speak in St. Louis.
The livelier crowds have been a foil to the handful of protesters who have continued to infiltrate Biden’s events with disparate causes, leading to brief but distracting interruptions.....
Those staged and scripted disruptions aren't fooling anyone, unless its a signal that Joe's security isn't safe.
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I don't even know why you youngsters would want to vote.
Related:
"The Rev. Jesse Jackson endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president Sunday, offering support that the senator and his team hope will rally black voters to their side before a key primary race in Michigan. Speaking before thousand of voters gathered in the western Michigan city of Grand Rapids, Sanders lavished praise on Jackson, citing his insurgent bid for the White House in 1988, when he became a leading candidate before ultimately losing to Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. “It is one of the honors of my life to be supported by a man who has put his life on the line for the last 50 years fighting for justice,” he told a largely white crowd of thousands gathered for an outdoor rally. “Everything that Jesse Jackson said is what this campaign is about.” Sanders has cast his two presidential campaigns in the lineage of Jackson’s 1988 presidential bid, telling advisers in 2015 that he hoped to model his 2016 operation after that effort. Political contemporaries, the two septuagenarian liberal activists are longtime allies: In 1988, Sanders, then the mayor of Burlington, Vt., was slapped by an “irate citizen” after supporting Jackson in the state’s caucuses. Michigan’s caucuses that year marked a high point for Jackson’s campaign. He beat Dukakis in the state by building support among black voters and liberal white caucusgoers....."
Yeah, keep hope alive like the carrot in front of the donkey; however, Jackson is right when he says “ our needs are not moderate and that people far behind cannot catch up choosing the most moderate path.”
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I don't even know why you youngsters would want to vote.
Related:
"The Rev. Jesse Jackson endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for president Sunday, offering support that the senator and his team hope will rally black voters to their side before a key primary race in Michigan. Speaking before thousand of voters gathered in the western Michigan city of Grand Rapids, Sanders lavished praise on Jackson, citing his insurgent bid for the White House in 1988, when he became a leading candidate before ultimately losing to Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. “It is one of the honors of my life to be supported by a man who has put his life on the line for the last 50 years fighting for justice,” he told a largely white crowd of thousands gathered for an outdoor rally. “Everything that Jesse Jackson said is what this campaign is about.” Sanders has cast his two presidential campaigns in the lineage of Jackson’s 1988 presidential bid, telling advisers in 2015 that he hoped to model his 2016 operation after that effort. Political contemporaries, the two septuagenarian liberal activists are longtime allies: In 1988, Sanders, then the mayor of Burlington, Vt., was slapped by an “irate citizen” after supporting Jackson in the state’s caucuses. Michigan’s caucuses that year marked a high point for Jackson’s campaign. He beat Dukakis in the state by building support among black voters and liberal white caucusgoers....."
Yeah, keep hope alive like the carrot in front of the donkey; however, Jackson is right when he says “ our needs are not moderate and that people far behind cannot catch up choosing the most moderate path.”
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It's because of impeachment, not the coronavirus.
It's because of impeachment, not the coronavirus.
