February 14, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
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Be honest, passionate and be yourself!’
Edit: Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s campaign is paying social media influencers and a social media firm to flood Instagram with fake messages purportedly sent by the billionaire.
Bloomberg’s campaign is offering social media influencers a fixed $150 fee to create content that “tells us why Mike Bloomberg is the electable candidate who can rise above the fray, work across the aisle so ALL Americans feel heard & respected,” The Daily Beast reported last week.
The campaign is using Tribe, a “branded content marketplace” that allows brands to reach “micro-influencers” with 1,000 to 100,000 Instagram followers.
“Are you sick of the chaos & infighting overshadowing the issues that matter most to us? Please express your thoughts verbally or for still image posts please overlay text about why you support Mike,” the campaign’s Tribe page said. “Show+Tell why Mike is the candidate who can change our country for the better, state why YOU think he’s a great candidate.” “Be honest, passionate and be yourself!” the paid listing urges.
Bloomberg has also contracted Meme 2020, a new company that houses some of Instagram’s most-followed accounts, The New York Times reported Thursday. The company is headed by Mick Purzycki, the head of Jerry Media, a social media marketing firm that came under fire last year for reportedly stealing memes without crediting creators.
Some accounts affiliated with Purzycki’s companies have already posted memes promoting Bloomberg. All the memes are fake direct message exchanges in which Bloomberg purportedly reached out to influencers to “make me look cool.”
All the posts reviewed by The Times included disclosures that they are ads. “Yes this is really #sponsored by @mikebloomberg,” one account said. George Resch, a director of influencer marketing at Brandfire who created the popular @Tank.Sinatra account, told The Times that the ads are successful because they fool people into believing they are real.
The paid memes quickly became a point of mockery on social media. Some Twitter users posted parody memes of the Bloomberg direct messages, taking aim at his racist policing policies during his time as mayor and his unbridled ad spending in the Democratic primary.
The Fat Jew, a popular Instagram account with more than 11 million followers that has also come under fire for stealing memes, said he was also asked to participate but refused.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/be-honest-passionate-and-be-yourself-bloomberg-is-paying-social-media-influencers-to-post-fake-messages-to-make-him-look-cool/
1‘Straight-Up Swampy’: Trump to Headline $580,600-Per-Couple Reelection Fundraiser at Home of Billionaire
“Shows everything that is wrong with our campaign finance system and with Trump, that fake ‘friend of the worker.'”
Edit: “The dinner… shows how enthusiastically Trump has embraced big-dollar fundraising in his bid for a second term—a dramatic about-face from 2016, when he criticized the influence of wealthy donors on the politicians who court them,” the Post reported Thursday. “It also shows the special access enjoyed by many of Trump’s wealthiest donors, including business executives and lobbyists, who get the chance to air their grievances with the president’s tariffs or promote their pet projects.”
Because yes, it is actually legal for individuals to give $580,600 to Trump’s joint fundraising committee.
It shouldn’t be. #Oligarchy much?
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/14/straight-swampy-trump-headline-580600-couple-reelection-fundraiser-home-billionaire
2DNC in a fix over “THE FIX”.
There Needs to Be Accountability,’ Says Ocasio-Cortez as Documents Show DNC Involvement With Iowa Caucus App
“If the DNC was responsible for security and there were security failures, we need to address that.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded that the Democratic National Committee be held accountable after documents published by Yahoo News late Thursday detailed the DNC’s involvement with the mobile app at the center of the Iowa caucus disaster.
“If this reporting is correct, then there needs to be accountability at the DNC,” the New York Democrat tweeted. “Even if the DNC’s access to the tool was ‘solely for security testing’ as they claim, ProPublica found major hackable vulnerabilities almost immediately—which means they didn’t do their job.”
Yahoo obtained a copy of the contract between Shadow, Inc.—a secretive for-profit tech firm owned by the Democratic digital non-profit ACRONYM—and the Iowa Democratic Party, which was signed on Oct. 14, 2019.
“Consultant agrees to work with the DNC Services.”
Corporation/Democratic National Committee (‘DNC’) on an on-going basis as Consultant [Shadow] develops the software,” the contract states. The app was designed for the stated goal of getting caucus results to the public more quickly.
Under the terms of the contract, Shadow agreed to “provide DNC continual access to review the Consultant’s system configurations, security and system logs, system designs, data flow designs, security controls (preventative and detective), and operational plans for how the Consultant will use and run the Software for informational dissemination, pre-registration, tabulation, and reporting throughout the caucus process.”
Yahoo also obtained an email showing that DNC CEO Seema Nanda and DNC deputy chief technology officer Kat Atwater were involved in drafting language in the contract that gave the national Democratic party access to the app.
“They were intimately involved in this process,” an anonymous source who worked on the Iowa caucus told Yahoo, referring to the DNC’s role.
In the wake of the Iowa caucus fiasco, which delayed the reporting of results for days and raised widespread doubts about the credibility of the process, DNC chairman Tom Perez has faced calls to step down. On Wednesday, Troy Price resigned as head of the Iowa Democratic Party.
The anonymous Iowa source told Yahoo that Perez’s behavior in the aftermath of the Iowa debacle has been “extremely frustrating” because he has shifted blame onto the Iowa Democratic Party—while neglecting to mention the DNC’s involvement with the app.
In a statement to Yahoo, DNC communications director Xochitl Hinojosa said the party “requested access to the tool solely for the purpose of doing security testing” and denied that it helped develop the app.
“The DNC drafted broad language to make sure whatever vendor [the Iowa Democratic Party] ultimately hired was required to work with the DNC’s cyber-security consultant,” said Hinojosa. “We did not build the application, nor did we provide ‘oversight’ of its development—that’s the vendor’s responsibility. We only provided security assistance.”
Ocasio-Cortez, who is backing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic presidential primary, tweeted Thursday night that “candidate preferences aside, the integrity of our primaries [is] incredibly serious.”
“We cannot afford to be pointing fingers—we need to pinpoint solutions,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “If the DNC was responsible for security and there were security failures, we need to address that.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/14/there-needs-be-accountability-says-ocasio-cortez-documents-show-dnc-involvement-iowa
3Pollingtics:
Doubling Support Since October, Bernie Sanders Takes Lead in 2020 Texas Poll
Sanders surged from 12% support in October to 24% in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune survey.
Edit: A University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll released Thursday night showed Sen. Bernie Sanders leading the 2020 Democratic presidential field in the delegate-rich Super Tuesday state after doubling his support since last October. The survey, conducted between Jan. 31 and Feb. 9, showed Sanders with 24% support among likely Texas Democratic primary voters. Former Vice President Joe Biden polled in second place with 22% support and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in third with 15%.
With the March 3 Texas primary just over two weeks away, the poll indicates a significant shift in the dynamics of the Democratic presidential race over a period of several months. In October, a University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll showed Biden leading the field with 23% and Sanders in fourth with 12%.
“Most of the movement has been Sanders and [billionaire businessman Michael] Bloomberg, with Biden [holding] still,” Joshua Blank, research director for the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, told The Texas Tribune. “To be unable to increase his vote share is pretty telling for Biden.”
The internet survey of 1,200 registered voters has an overall margin of error of +/- 2.83 percentage points and a margin of error of +/- 4.09 percentage points for the Democratic race.
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NEW: Bernie Sanders is now the leading Democratic presidential candidate among Texas voters, according to our latest poll. Bernie Sanders: 24% Joe Biden: 22% Elizabeth Warren: 15% Michael Bloomberg: 10% Pete Buttigieg: 7%
The poll also found that President Donald Trump is leading all 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in Texas, with Sanders trailing the president by the smallest margin.
“The Trump trial ballots confirm what we’ve seen, that Trump is winning, but he clearly is under-performing, given the party profile in the state,” Daron Shaw, a government professor at the University of Texas at Austin who co-directed the poll, told the Tribune. “It is interesting when you put a flesh and blood Democrat up there, it drops that number, but here’s a Republican in a Republican state who’s not at 50%, which is a sign of weakness.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/14/doubling-support-october-bernie-sanders-takes-lead-2020-texas-poll
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