Well, it looks like Bill Shine, former Fox News president who resigned over sexual harassment claims, is going to be the new White House communications director. You just can’t make up this stuff.
There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.
I want you to meet Wichita County, Texas, county commissioner, Republican Jeff Watts.
Jeff is a Christian conservative, which is only provable because he says he is.
Ole Jeff says some brilliant things like …
While not typically within the purview of a County Commissioner, I believe that every elected official must do all that they can to help solve our current water crisis. Without water, industries leave, citizens relocate, and our County literally dries up.
Literally? That’s amazing, Jeff.
So, now he’s got his panties all bunched up because his Democratic opponent, Catie Robinson, filed a request with the Texas Ethics Commission last month for an advisory opinion on allowing all Texas candidates to use campaign funds for child care expenses. This is Catie and her family.
Texas candidates are currently restricted from using political donations for personal purposes, but the commission can provide guidance through an advisory opinion.
“A political campaign is a full time job, and one that is unpaid,” Robinson said.
Robinson was a stay-at-home mother with two girls. She began incurring child care expenses while campaigning so she started working as a barista at Starbucks.
I have known my own county commissioners to spend campaign funds on “campaign clothes,” a “campaign pick up truck,” baseball and rodeo tickets, and a “hunting trip to entertain donors.”
This Ethics Opinion will reverberate across the state, so Catie added …
“It’s not a question of being able to personally afford childcare,” she said. “If the cost is directly related to the campaign, then campaign funds should be allowed to be used.”
Robinson said, “I really believe that this might be the deciding factor for lots of other Texans out there who may be on the fence about running for office, so I am really happy to be a part of it.”
Yeah, Momma.
Anyway, Christian Jeff is opposed to it. I suspect he’s also opposed to women running for political office. Or, you know, being sassy and such.
Thanks to Alfredo for the heads up and the information that Texas is now the third state to allow childcare expenses as part of a political campaign.
Anthony Kennedy, the mostly right wing leaning swing vote on SCOTUS announced this morning that he’s retiring. Trump has already announced that he’s going to nominate a judge candidate from his list of white radical anarchists. I’m SURE that Mitch McConnell is going to jump in, invoke the “Biden Rule”, and hold up hearings for a new nominee until after the mid-term elections, right? I mean, since he did the same thing to Obama’s nominee for over a year, right? After all, Joe Biden suggested that in 1992 for those mid-terms, even though no one was nominated and no candidates were considered…
I mean, after all, McConnell’s going to be consistent, right? Right?
There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.
You remember Trump’s victory lap a couple of weeks ago after his “summit” with Kim Jung Un? You know, the summit where he lavished praise on Little Rocket Man and saluted his general? Remember when he declared that North Korea’s nuclear threat was over?
Not so fast, bucko. New satellite images FROM LAST WEEK show that the North Koreans are rapidly constructing new buildings and expanding facilities at Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center. Noted are additions to the facility where plutonium is extracted from spent fuel rods.
As Trump boasts of his negotiating prowess and his neutralizing of Kim, it appears we need to add yet another lie to his pile of lies that now exceeds 3,200 since the inauguration.
There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.
Joe Crowley, 10 term congressman from New York and chair of the House Democratic Caucus, was defeated tonight by a 28 year old Latina running in her first political race. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was outspent 10 to 1 by Crowley, ran a social media based
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confronts the Border Patrol
campaign, focused on social justice and equality. Crowley had been dismissive of Ocasio-Cortez, even no-showing TWO primary debates. Once angling to be Nancy Pelosi’s replacement and future candidate for speaker, Crowley now gets to go home with his tail between his legs after being pummeled by this young woman. Who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. And an activist. And tough. She ran way to the left of Crowley calling for the abolishment of ICE, universal healthcare, and a federal jobs guarantee. Crowley made a huge mistake by not taking her seriously.
Yes, this is a heavily Democratic district. A Dem is going to win the general election, but this should be a wake up call to the Democratic establishment. After the shenanigans of the 2016 presidential campaign and the establishment’s continued tone deafness to income inequality, destruction of labor unions, and stagnation of wages, voters have had enough. The message is clear – Lead, or get the hell out of the way. We have a young generation coming behind us who have rejected the party machine and it’s calcified leadership.
Thank God.
