December 31, 2019 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.
Backatcha I am really feeling the Blue!
1Happy Blue Year to you and yours, too.
2blue blue blue Happy 2020….I am happy to kick 2019 outa here….
3Bail reform, farmworker rights and other laws launch in 2020 -AP/Dec 31st 2019
Edit: Farmworkers can unionize and the number of people held in jail awaiting trial is set to decrease under a host of new laws taking effect in 2020 in New York.
The newly Democratic-controlled Legislature passed 935 bills this year — a marked increase from typical years. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has approved 747 bills and vetoed 168 as of Monday, when about 20 bills remained.
The pile of new laws marks a victory for Democrats who had long lacked control of the Senate. Some bills taking effect in January include:
– BAIL REFORM
New York’s bail law eliminates pretrial detention and money bail for the vast majority of misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases. The law also requires release for certain violent felonies — second-degree burglary and second-degree robbery.
The law would still require cash bail for major drug trafficking offenses, sex offenses, criminal contempt in a domestic violence case, witness tampering or intimidation and certain offenses against children.
Cuomo estimates the new law will keep about 90% of defendants out of jail at least until their case gets resolved.
– FARMWORKER RIGHTS
Another new law taking effect Jan. 1 gives farmworkers the right to organize, collect overtime and get a day off.
Under current law, farm laborers do not have the right to organize. The new law ensures that farmworkers earn overtime if they work more than 60 hours a week. They would also be guaranteed one day of rest each week.
– MINIMUM WAGE
The minimum wage is rising to $15 an hour for all workers in New York City, as of Dec. 31.
Workers elsewhere in the state will make less: $13 in the city’s near suburbs and $11.80 upstate.
– TEENS PREREGISTERING TO VOTE
It’s about to become easier for teens to get ready to vote once they’re of age.
Starting Jan. 1, New York is allowing individuals 16 years or older to preregister to vote.
Once those individuals turn 18, the Board of Elections will automatically register them to vote.
– PUBLIC CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Lawmakers missed a December deadline to block a politically appointed commission’s plan to use public money to fund campaigns in New York.
The plan has drawn scrutiny from Republicans and Democrats alike who are expected to fine-tune the plan’s details next year. And lawmakers will have time to make changes. Commissioners delayed the program four years for state legislative races and six years for statewide races.
New Yorkers who give $250 or less would see their donations matched with public funds 6 to 1 for statewide office candidates such as governor. So a $100 donation would be worth $700 to a candidate. Donations to local candidates would also be matched: 12 to 1 for the first $50, 9 to 1 for the next $100 and 8 to 1 for the final $100.
https://libn.com/2019/12/31/bail-reform-farmworker-rights-and-other-laws-launch-in-2020/
4OT – Twas just before tax disclosure with Caligula and spouse,
Not a creature was stirring, not even the dead Deutsche Bankers who were found hung in their house…
Edit: Just try phoning Trump’s private banker, Rosemary T. Vrablic at Deutsche Bank’s U.S. headquarters in Manhattan.
Back in 2017, before too many bankers involved with Deutsche Bank started turning up dead, Trump once dared reporters to call her, saying she was the “the head” of the bank and “the boss.”
The good news is that Vrablic, 58, is alive. That is not something to take for granted when you look at two dead Deutsche Bank executives with ties to Trump, Russia and possibly at dead pedophile money man Jeffrey Epstein. One banker was found hanged in 2014 and one in November.
Former Deutsche Bank Exec Connected to Trump Loans Dies by Suicide in Malibu. Thomas Bowers, who worked above Trump’s personal banker, was 55
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/deutsche-bank-death/
Rosemary T. Vrablic, a managing director at Deutsche Bank who became Trump’s private banker in 2010 after being introduced by her client, Jared Kushner, reported directly to Bowers. Vrablic reportedly helped Trump secure loans from her bank, which Bowers approved—including more than $100 million to buy his Doral resort in Miami—even after Trump and Deutsche had to settle messy litigation over a Chicago loan that went bad.
“Rosemary is widely recognized as one of the top private bankers to the U.S. ultra high-net-worth community,” Bowers said in a press release when Deutsche Bank hired her in 2006. Bowers hasn’t been employed by Deutsche since at least 2015, when he joined Starwood Capitol Group as COO, and was then appointed to the Board of Directors of Opus Bank in 2016.
– Yes, a dog leash! Bowers isn’t the first Trump-connected Deutsche exec to commit suicide. In 2014, Deutsche derivatives analyst William S. Broeksmit, who reportedly had links to Trump and Russia, hung himself from a dog leash at his home in London. read more:
5https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/heres-why-congress-wants-to-look-inside-the-bank-that-fronted-donald-trump-2-billion/
I bet Alex Jones is feeling the wrong kind of blue after another court ruling today, although the case is not over yet:
Alex Jones and his InfoWars website to pay $100,000 in legal costs…
6https://www.statesman.com/news/20191231/alex-jones-must-pay-100000-for-resisting-sandy-hook-discovery
Happy New Year Salon regulars and visitors !
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7Happy Blue Year to you too JJ – and all other patrons of the best darn hair salon in the US of A. May 2020 be an excellent year for all of us and a less than stellar year for the undeserving politicians!
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