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The President will serve 4 years, but their Supreme Court appointments will serve for life! 40-50 years! Lasting far beyond our lifetime into your children and grandchildren's generations!
Retired U.S. General Announces U.S. Senate Run As A Republican
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By HANK BERRIEN
June 24, 2019 A brigadier-general who served 36 years with the U.S. Army and received two awards for valor, five Bronze Star medals, and two Purple Hearts is running as the GOP candidate to replace New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
Brigadier-General Don Bolduc, a lifelong Republican, led one of the first groups in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in Southern Afghanistan. His record includes serving as Commander, Combined Joint Special Operations Component Commander in Afghanistan, as Deputy Director for US Africa Command (USAFRICOM) and as Special Operations Command-Africa (COMSOCAFRICA).
Bolduc has relentlessly advocated on behalf of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress (PTS). While admitting he had fought against PTS himself, his efforts on behalf of others earned him the nicknames "Captain America" and "Everyone's General" by his fellow officers and soldiers.
On Monday, announcing his candidacy, Bolduc stated:
During my time of service, I have been in three-quarters of the countries in the world, which included 10 tours of duty in Afghanistan. But regardless of which continent I was on, I never forgot my roots in the Granite State, because no matter where I was, when foreign or tribal leaders would ask where I was from, I would tell them that I'm from New Hampshire. Now, these folks couldn't point out New Hampshire on a map – but they always responded: "Live Free or Die." …
In response to encouragement, and after some long conversations with my family I now plan to do what I have been taught and trained to do my whole life: to try and make a positive difference in the lives of the people I love, the state I love, and the country I love. So with your help, that is exactly what I intend to do. … Today, I am announcing my candidacy to represent New Hampshire in the United States Senate. ... Let me tell you something – after 36 years in the Army – I don't give a damn about politics, I'm trained to finish the mission and get the job done.
In late April, WMUR reported that Bolduc was being recruited to run against Shaheen but was reluctant, saying, "My answer is that it's very flattering and thank you very much. But at this point I'm happy with pushing and pursuing veterans' issues and teaching at Southern New Hampshire University, where I teach homeland security." Of his fight to help veterans with PTSD, Bolduc stated, "I'm just trying to raise everyone's understanding of what post-traumatic stress is, how it affects service members and their families, and I use myself as an example of living proof as someone who has dealt with it and what therapy can do and has done in making me a better version of myself."
Bolduc added, "Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and as president, we want him to be successful. We have to work together to make that happen."
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Confederacy Of States: Oregon Votes To Ignore Electoral College In Favor Of Popular Vote
tPublished: 6/10/2019 6:20:06 PM
Democrats in Oregon have succeeded in eliminating the Electoral College in their state in favor of the NPV, or national popular vote.
On April 9, the Oregon state Senate voted 17-12 to pass legislation (SB 870) to join the National Popular Vote (NPV) compact. On Wednesday, the state House of Representatives voted 37-22 in favor of the legislation. [link]
The governor is expected to sign. Make no mistake, this is the EXACT opposite of what our founders intended. They LOATHED the idea of electing the President by popular vote.
Federalist 68:
It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture.
It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.
A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.
Democrats have decided they know better than the founders. Democrats have decided to use their pre-established bodies to eliminate the electors. Democrats are engaged in a cold civil war against the constitution.
Also from Oregon today…
An illegal alien in Oregon is charged with creating and distributing over 10,000 fake IDs, voter registration cards, & Social Security cards
Charlie Kirk✔@charliekirk11
Wow:
How many illegal aliens were able to vote and exploit our welfare state because of his crimes?
How can Democrats support this?
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Nigel Farage Could Be Prime Minister Of The UK With The BREXIT Party [VIDEO]BY DEMI ELLIOT
Nigel Farage has warned the Brexit Party will 'stun everybody' in a general election if Britain fails to leave the European Union on October 31. The former Ukip leader has called his European elections 2019 results 'one hell of an achievement' after the Brexit Party secured a majority with 31.7 per cent of the votes in the UK.
Metro reports,
But could Nigel Farage become prime minister? He told Good Morning Britain during his glory rounds this morning: 'When people woke up on March 30 this year, and realised we hadn't left the European Union, that's when in large numbers they became ready to vote for a different party. 'The Brexit Party is only six weeks old, think about it that context, this one hell of an achievement. 'I would say this looking ahead, the next date we are supposed to leave on is October 31, and that date will become a bigger and bigger factor in people's minds as these next five months go by.
'If we don't leave on October 31, then the Brexit Party will go on to a general election and stun everybody there too.' After the 2016 referendum, Farage retired as leader of Ukip with intentions to stand down as a member of the European Parliament.
However, when he realised the UK would be forced to take part in the European Elections he founded the Brexit Party. Farage shocked, then prime minister, David Cameron into calling for a referendum after winning four millions of the votes and securing 24 MEPs for Ukip in the 2014 European elections. This year, with the Brexit Party, he took it one step further and secured 28 seats in Brussels. So yes, if the European elections results are anything to go by, Farage could win a majority if a general election is called later this year and land in the leading seat.
But if this is his plan, Farage still has a long way to go. The current plan is to have fresh Tory leadership by the end of July, where the candidate will automatically become Britain's next prime minister. Conservatives secured just 9 per cent of the votes and lost 15 seats. Labour has threatened to call for a vote of no-confidence in the next PM, which could result in a general election. Farage's 'primary goal' is for the UK to leave EU, and has warned the 'ball is in their [the Government's] court', to deliver Brexit or face humiliation by his party.
However, he admitted he had 'absolutely no idea' what will happen over the next months, but said they were 'getting ready' for a general election.
It has begun: Germany calls for Europe to become Islamic
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We always knew that this is what they wanted, there is simply no other explanation as to why they kept invading us with endless millions of brown Muslim Arabs while banning Europeans from even criticizing this whole genocide "or else". So it has begun!
Those so called "liberals" are nothing but criminals worse than communist dictators, masquerading around as "liberals". What liberal? What liberty is this? Invading us with millions of Muslims then forcing us to accept this whole thing?
Everyday measures are key to preserving the European way life, say Germany's health minister and the premier of Schleswig-Holstein state.
Jens Spahn and Daniel Günther want a faith that shares the continent's values.
Two senior German politicians have called for a more progressive form of Islam in order to align the religion with the European way of life.
Jean-Claude Juncker called those who love their own country "stupid nationalists" in a recent interview.
Health Minister Jens Spahn and Schleswig-Holstein State Premier Daniel Günther published the appeal Thursday in a guestcontribution for the Rheinische Post regional daily.
"Instead of tolerating symbols of a reactionary, misogynistic form of Islam, we must promote the development of a European Islam, which shares our values, in order to preserve our free European way of life," penned the two Christian Democrats.
The topic of burkas is one of particular concern for both Spahn and Günther. "When women and girls appear fully-veiled at universities and schools, then we do not just have the option to resist, we must resist," they wrote.
The pair also spoke about "burdens on the local population" when "deportations fail" before emphasizing that integration was essential for a successful society.
Both men are members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat (CDU) party. Spahn, who failed in a bid to become Merkel's successor, is seen as a conservative, while Günther is on the liberal wing of the party.
The joint declaration also called for the European idea to become tangible in everyday lives of EU citizens.
You can read this article as it originally appears at Deutsche Welle here.
New poll: 4 of 5 largest parties in the EU elections will be nationalist-populist
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by EU Times on May 25th, 2019
Four of the five largest parties in this week's European Parliament elections will be nationalist-populist eurosceptics according to the website EuropeElects.
The data collected by the website, show the Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage is likely to cause a huge upset and take the most seats of any single party on the continent with 28 elected MEPs.
The Brexit Party's staggering lead over the second place Liberal Democrats has meant that Mr Farage's party now polls better than the Conservatives and the Labour Party combined.
On second place with 25 projected MEPs is the League party led by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who has made a real effort to unite the eurosceptic conservatives and the populist movement ahead of the elections.
Salvini has also rejected working with the German Christian Democratic Union, who are likely to come in third place, saying that Chancellor Angela Merkel, along with French President Emmanuel Macron, had "ruined" Europe.
The conservative Law and Justice party, the ruling party in Poland, is expected to win 22 seats in the European Parliament and is well-known as being a strong ally of conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
The French populist National Rally is also looking to cause a huge upset in the election and is currently looking at a victory over the party of sitting French President Emmanuel Macron.
National Rally leader and former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has labelled the EU vote a referendum on the presidency of Macron and said earlier this month that if his La République En Marche! lose the election then he must resign as president.
"So it becomes a referendum for or against Emmanuel Macron, this European election. I accept that, but in these conditions, he must do as General De Gaulle: if he loses this election, then he will have to leave", she said.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey Signs Bill Banning Abortion, Would Make Killing Unborn Babies a Felony
STEVEN ERTELT MAY 15, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed the bill into law that would make aborting unborn babies a felony and put abortionists in prison for life for killing unborn babies.
In her statement announcing her decision to sign the bill, Ivey points to the fact that the bill "was approved by overwhelming majorities in both chambers" of the state's legislature.
"Many Americans, myself included, disagreed when Roe v. Wade was handed down in 1973. The sponsors of this bill believe that it is time, once again, for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit this important matter, and they believe this act may bring about the best opportunity for this to occur. I want to commend the bill sponsors, Rep. Terri Collins and Sen. Clyde Chambliss, for their strong leadership on this important issue," Ivey said in her statement.
The bill represents the views of Alabama voters. Last year Alabamans voted 6-40 for a ballot amendment that says unborn babies have a right to life. 55% of the voters were women, according to figures from the Alabama Secretary of State.
State House Bill 314, sponsored by Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur, would make an abortion and attempted abortion a felony. Exceptions would be allowed if the mother's life is at risk. Mothers would not be punished for having an abortion under the legislation, which would make killing a baby in an abortion a Class A felony — punishable by life or 10 to 99 years in prison for abortionists who kill them.
Lawmakers approved the ban on a 25-6 vote late Tuesday. The legislation will take effect six months unless a court stops it. The Republican-dominated House of Representatives voted 74-3 in favor of the proposal.
Although abortion activists claim the bill targets women, the language of the bill makes it clear that's not the case: "This bill would provide that a woman who receives an abortion will not be held criminally culpable or civilly liable for receiving the abortion."
Abortion activists immediately threatened a lawsuit.
"We will not stand by while politicians endanger the lives of women and doctors for political gain," wrote Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project, in an email to CBS News following the vote. "Know this, Governor Ivey: If you sign this dangerous bill into law, we will see you in Court."
Collins said the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong in Roe v. Wade, and unborn babies deserve a right to life.
"Just last year, roughly 60 percent of voters across the state ratified a constitutional amendment declaring Alabama as a pro-life state, and this legislation is the next logical step in the fight to protect unborn life," she said, WDHN 18 reports.
Earlier, she told the Times Daily that she expects a legal challenge, and hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will uphold protections for the unborn.
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"With liberal states like New York rushing to approve radical late-term and post-birth abortions, [the] passage of this bill will reflect the conservative beliefs, principles, and desires of the citizens of Alabama while, at the same time, providing a vehicle to revisit the constitutionally-flawed Roe v. Wade decision," Collins said.
If approved and enforced, the legislation could save thousands of unborn babies' lives every year. The Alabama Department of Public Health reported 6,768 abortions in 2017.
However, the abortion industry is expected to sue to block the law in court.
"They are trying to tee this up as an opportunity for the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade and its progeny. There are already cases in the pipeline that will get to the Supreme Court long before this does," said Randall Marshall, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama.
Marshall said the case could cost state taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees, and he cited another case where Alabama taxpayers were forced to pay Planned Parenthood and the ACLU $1.7 million after a court struck down another pro-life state law.
That is a concern for a number of pro-life leaders. Even some pro-life advocates express concerns about the strategy of such legislation, because when states lose these battles, taxpayers often are forced to pay pro-abortion groups' legal fees.
The abortion industry has succeeded in overturning similar laws in court. In 2012, the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a personhood bill as unconstitutional because it recognized unborn babies as human beings who deserve the right to life.
When considering a similar Missouri statute in 1989, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist ruled that the statute was nothing more than a statement of position that had no bearing on banning abortions or even limiting them in any way.
Missouri had approved a statute saying, "the life of each human being begins at conception" and "unborn children have protectable interests in life, health, and well-being." The statute required that all Missouri state laws be interpreted to provide unborn children with rights equal to those enjoyed by other persons.
There is more hope that the new conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court may consider an abortion ban, but it is difficult to say if it would for certain.
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Battleground Florida: Soros-Funded Groups Work to Register 1.4 Million Ex-Felons Ahead of 2020
AARON KLEIN
22 Apr 20195875
Progressive organizations, many financed by billionaire activist George Soros, are working overtime to restore voting rights for Florida's nearly 1.4 million ex-felons as the nation's biggest swing state seems poised to play a pivotal electoral role in the 2020 presidential race.The current battle revolves around a Florida state amendment that was passed last year restoring voting rights for felons, with progressive groups opposing a local bill that would require the state's ex-felons to first pay civil fines and court fees before registering to vote.
Florida's Amendment Four was approved by voters during last year's Midterm election.
The heavily Soros-funded American Civil Liberties Union and Brennan Center for Justice based in New York both served as consultants in drafting Amendment Four.
Soros's Open Society Foundations donated $50 million to the ACLU. The Brennan Center has been the recipient of numerous grants from Soros's Open Society Foundations totaling over $7,466,000 from 2000 to 2010 alone.
Desmond Meade, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, helped lead activism that put Florida's Amendment Four on the ballot last year, including a news-making petition to restore voting rights to the released felons. His group is currently opposing efforts to require the former felons to pay their court fees prior to regaining their voting abilities.
"When I looked out of the plane, I said somewhere down there's an imaginary line that divides Florida from Georgia. And it reminds me of the days of slavery when all a slave had to do was cross an imaginary line to get to freedom," Meade said, comparing the ex-felon registration drive to the fight against slavery.
"And I said there is no way in hell in the 2000s should any American citizen have to escape another state to experience their freedom and their democracy."
Meade's official bio boasts that in his capacity at the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, he has "orchestrated the reorganization and incorporation of a coalition comprised of over 70 state and national organizations and individuals"
Meade's coalition, formed to help the ex-felon voting efforts, is comprised of numerous Soros-financed activist organizations, including the ACLU, NAACP, PICO National Network, and the Florida chapter of the radical League of Women Voters.
Following the passage of Amendment Four, Representative James Grant authored the bill to guide the implementation of the amendment by helping to define criteria for the restoration of voting rights to the ex-felons. The legislation requires the former felons to pay their court fees and fines before being able to register to vote.
Grant's bill passed the Florida House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice last month and could come to another vote as soon as this week.
"This bill is just flying directly in the face of what two-thirds of Florida voters said very clearly," claimed Sean Morales-Doyle, an attorney at the Soros-funded Brennan Center.
Julie Ebenstein, a lawyer with the Voting Rights Project of the Soros-funded ACLU, claimed Grant's bill is "truly untethered to the text of the amendment."
"What this will do, in effect, is disenfranchise people who can't afford to pay all of these obligations," she argued.
Numerous Amendment Four defenders cite research conducted by the Sentencing Project, a national group focused on criminal justice issues. The Sentencing Project boasts it is funded by Soros's Open Society Foundations as well as the Tides Foundation, to which Soros has contributed.
The restoration of voting rights to ex-felons comes alongside larger efforts by the Democratic Party and progressive organizations to deploy a massive ground game to Florida to register voters, increase turnout and lobby Floridians against President Donald Trump.
With its 29 Electoral College votes, Florida is the nation's biggest swing state and is critical to Trump's path to victory in the upcoming race. If statewide 2016 voting patterns are repeated, the Democratic candidate for president would be able to win the White House by capturing Florida and one other swing state — Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin or Michigan.
Democrats seek to transform Florida's current voter map of 4.96 million registered Democrats, 4.7 million Republicans and about 3.6 million voters with no declared party affiliation.
Failed gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum announced his own Florida voter registration initiative committed to registering no less than one million new voters for 2020 while aiming to "evict Donald Trump" from the White House.
"We are going to commit ourselves to registering and engaging one million voters between now and 2020's presidential election," Gillum said last month in Miami, addressing his new group which calls itself Bring It Home Florida.
"The road to the White House runs through Florida," added Gillum. "We can deny Donald Trump a second term right here in the state of Florida."
"How many states can you say, by themselves, have the ability to deny this man a return to the White House?" Gillum asked. "I can't think of a bigger, better, more important state than the state of Florida, than for us to send that message."
Billionaire and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is reportedly putting capital into voter turnout and registration efforts in Florida and other swing states.
Mitch Stewart, a Bloomberg adviser who headed Barack Obama's 2012 battleground strategy, told Politico:
As we looked at the gaps in the current ecosystem, we said, "Could we set something up right now that could provide the infrastructure, provide the data and technology to whomever the eventual nominee is so they're not at such a disadvantage once the primary is over?" We can.
The Florida Democratic Party itself is reportedly planning to spend at least $2 million to register new voters. The party is seeking to hire full-time organizers and utilize the services of data science firms in their Florida efforts, Politico reported.
Juan Peñalosa, executive director of the Florida Democratic Party, said the party would work with Gillum on the drive to flip Florida. "As one of the more exciting leaders of our Party in Florida, we're excited for Andrew Gillum to direct his energies toward registering voters and we are working closely with Mayor Gillum to ensure we meet aggressive goals to bring more Floridians into the democratic process," Peñalosa said.
Gillum is leading Democratic efforts focused on implementing Amendment Four.
Writing at the Tampa Bay Times last Wednesday, Gillum argued that Grant's legislation and other bills that would require ex-felons to pay their fines seeks to disenfranchise voters.
Gillum opined:
While supervisors of elections all across our state opened the rolls to ex-felons almost immediately, lawmakers moved swiftly to prevent our newly redeemed citizens from participating in democracy. They've resorted to the same tactics implemented in 1885 by Florida neo-confederates scared of the future and social equality — a poll tax. And make no mistake, that poll tax was effective in preventing minorities from participating in democracy and enriching our state for generations — and this one would be effective, too.
By requiring full monetary restitution to be paid before civil rights are restored, lawmakers would be unconstitutionally burdening reformed ex-felons attempting to participate in our society.
Gillum has been closely associated with like-minded progressive groups.
Breitbart News previously reported Gillum served as the director of a radical youth training organization whose mission was to challenge U.S. "predatory capitalism," abolish the prison system, fight a "spiritual resistance" battle against "Christian hegemony," redefine the meaning of "borders" while aiding "undocumented" aliens, and enact the "collective liberation" of "communities of color" amid what it described as the scourge of "white supremacy."
Gillum's group accused the U.S. of being a "colonialist" power perpetrating "structural violence" and "continued genocide." It claimed conservatives in the U.S. judicial system were "justifying white supremacist policing practices."
All of that extremist rhetoric and more was posted on the official "issues" sections of the organization's website while Gillum not only served as its active director, but while his picture, position and bio were brandished on the same site on the "staff" page.
The organization in question is Young People For, or YP4, one of two youth training groups that Gillum directed and oversaw while he worked at the George Soros-financed People for the American Way, or PFAW, as a field organizer in 2002 and then Director of Youth Leadership Programs from 2005 until January 13, 2017. He departed PFAW just ahead of his gubernatorial run.
Also, Breitbart News reported Gillum graduated from an Oakland, California-based training school for progressive revolutionaries that has spawned a list of activists who have gone on to become the who's who of the far-left leadership world, with many taking senior positions at organizations financed by Soros.
In scores of cases, graduates of the Rockwood Leadership Institute founded or directed notorious Soros-financed activist groups, such as Black Lives Matter, Media Matters for America, MoveOn.org and the Tides Foundation, one of the nation's largest funders of progressive groups.
Aaron Klein is Breitbart's Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio." Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.
Joshua Klein contributed research to this article.
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Elizabeth Pipko (Courtesy/Jexodus)
With Jexodus, this model wants to lead Jews to the promised land of Trump
'We left Egypt and now we're leaving the Democratic Party,' says Elizabeth Pipko, spokesperson behind new movement, in remarks retweeted by president
By ERIC CORTELLESSA
Today, 4:21 am 10
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump did what he does frequently: he tweeted something controversial. But this time, he quoted a new Jewish group that almost no one had previously heard of: Jexodus.
Trump had railed against Democrats last week — calling them "anti-Israel" and "anti-Jewish" and reportedly saying they "hate Jewish people" in the wake of Rep. Ilhan Omar's charge that pro-Israel activists push elected officials to have an "allegiance" to Israel.
Trump and others criticized the Democrats for not passing a resolution condemning anti-Semitism or directly castigating Omar, instead passing a "watered down" House resolution condemning various forms of hate.
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This week, he ramped up his critique: Not only are the Democrats bad for Israel and the Jews, but Jews are now abandoning the Democrats as a consequence, he claimed.
"Jewish people are leaving the Democratic Party. We saw a lot of anti-Israel policies start under the Obama Administration, and it got worsts (sic) & worse," he tweeted, citing Elizabeth Pipko of Jexodus. "There is anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party. They don't care about Israel or the Jewish people."
Few people were likely familiar with Pipko or Jexodus when Trump tweeted that out at 9:12 a.m. local time — except for viewers of the president's favorite morning news program, the conservative Fox and Friends.
Earlier in the morning, Pipko appeared on the show to introduce the new organization for which her title is spokesperson. "We left Egypt," she told anchors. "And now we're leaving the Democratic Party."
Jexodus — a play off of Exodus — aims to pull support away from the Democrats, whom the vast majority of American Jews have long backed. The group is planning an official launch, with events in New York and Florida, in April.
But the focus of the right-wing organization's prime-time debut revolved around the Omar controversy, which has dominated headlines for the last two weeks.
"The scariest part was not the original anti-Semitism," Pipko told Fox, referring to Omar's comments. "It was the lack of leadership coming into play when they were supposed to condemn what had happened and they failed. When the leadership fails to condemn that, they are a party of anti-Semitism."
Not long after the segment — Fox and Friends airs from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday — the president catapulted awareness of Pipko's organization with his tweet. Beyond the thrust of her movement, there is something else to endear Pipko to Trump — she was a staffer on his 2016 campaign.
What — or who — is Jexodus?According to its website, the group is composed of — or designed to cater to — young Jews who are disenchanted with the Democratic Party.
"We are proud Jewish Millennials tired of living in bondage to leftist politics," its About page explains. "We reject the hypocrisy, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism of the rising far-left."
It goes on: "Progressives, Democrats, and far too many old-school Jewish organizations take our support for granted. After all, we're Jewish, and Jews vote for Democrats."
It is not clear how Jexodus plans to carry out its mobilization campaign — or even how big it is. Its website only mentions one person associated with the group: Pipko.
She did not respond to a request for comment.
Indeed, the American Jewish vote has historically gone overwhelmingly to Democrats. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won 71 percent of the Jewish vote; in 2012, Barack Obama won 69%, and in 2008 78%; and in 2004, John Kerry won 76%.
Jewish Democrats hit back at Trump's Tuesday tweet by noting his own unpopularity with the American Jewish community.
Halie Soifer heads the Jewish Democratic Council of America. (Courtesy of JDCA)"President Trump may think he can present the American people with alternative facts, but these are lies, plain and simple," said Halie Soifer, executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America.
"There is no loss of support for Democrats among the Jewish community. Republicans have lost support among Jewish voters since President Trump took office. According to exit polling, support for Trump among the Jewish electorate in 2016 was 24%, while support for Republicans among Jewish voters in 2018 fell to 17%."
Besides Pipko's stint in politics during Trump's 2016 campaign, she has worked as a professional model. According to her biography on the Jexodus website, she grew up in New York City and attended Rabbi Schneier Park East Day School, a traditional Jewish day school on the Upper East Side. As a child, she was a competitive figure skater.
In January 2019, Pipko revealed to the New York Post that she was a full-time staffer for the Trump campaign. She had previously kept that a secret, she said, because she feared it would jeopardize her modeling career.
Since then, she's spoken to or appeared on a number of right-wing media outlets, including the Daily Caller, Fox & Friends, and the Daily Wire.
Last year, she married her Darren Centinello at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida resort. Centinello currently works on Trump's reelection campaign.
In the New York Post piece, Pipko suggested she may join him.
"I'm already hoping to take part in the reelection in some capacity," she said. "And this time, I'm not going to hide it."
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Maxim model Elizabeth Pipko Pipko, who is also a former Trump campaign staffer, is now the spokeswoman for "Jexodus," a group that seeks to turn Jewish Democrats into Republicans. "We reject the hypocrisy, anti-Americanism, and anti-Semitism of the rising far-left," said Pipko. Pipko says she will travel around the country to promote the movement starting next month.
PODCAST: SPLC — Coming Soon to a Voting Booth Near You
June 25, 2019/by Family Research Council
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been quieter than usual since its blockbuster scandal rocked the liberal world. Now the group is slowly coming out of hiding, and staffers like Nancy Abudu are trying desperately to make up for lost time. If her latest attack against Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is any indication, nothing at the Poverty Palace has changed. Including, the state would tell you, its approach to the facts.
Now that it's "hate lists" are completely discredited, SPLC is apparently venturing out in a new area: voting rights. Last month, the Montgomery headquarters announced that it was creating a Voting Rights Legal Team — with about the same level of integrity Americans have come to expect from an organization knee-deep in systematic racism and bigotry.
For their first hit job, Abudu didn't stray far from home. The deputy director of SPLC's project took aim at the organization's state for supposed voter suppression — a charge John Merrill would have a good laugh at if he weren't so annoyed. "You know," he told our listeners on "Washington Watch," "they're entitled to their own opinion, but they're not entitled to their own facts." And those facts tell a far different story than what Abudu suggested in a wildly inaccurate op-ed in the Montgomery Advertiser.
To anyone paying attention in Alabama, the suggestion that state leaders are intentionally suppressing voter registration is almost too ridiculous to repeat. For four years, five months, and two days, Merrill said, "we've made a concerted effort… to ensure that each and every eligible U.S. citizen as a resident of Alabama is registered to vote [and] has a photo ID." They've traveled to all 67 counties each year, he explained. They go to festivals, events, and other activities to promote voter registration. They even created a mobile application so that Alabamians can register to vote on the computer or on their phones. Then, of course, there's the Board of Registrar's Office. "It's open each and every day. The courthouse is open in every county in the state, and we ensure that we provide a photo ID or the opportunity to register to vote for any citizen that wishes to register [who] is qualified to do."
The idea that his staff or anyone in the state is actively trying to turn people away from their civic duty is preposterous. In fact, Merrill explains, Alabama has been such a success story that officials have been invited to Congress to testify twice about the great work they're doing. And why not? Since his time in office, the state's registered a whopping 1,278,824 new voters. "We now have a state record, 3,491,599 registered voters in Alabama. Those numbers are unprecedented and unparalleled in the history of our state," Merrill says proudly. But there's more. "[W]hen you compare our per capita to every other state in the union, we surpass every other state in the union when it comes to voter registration and photo."
If SPLC is insinuating that Alabama is intentionally targeting minorities, they'll have a tough time proving it. Ninety-six percent of all eligible African-Americans in the state of Alabama are registered to vote. If Morris Dees's old group is being honest, what SPLC is most upset about is that Merrill and his team have cracked down on the rampant fraud plaguing Alabama. While Democrats benefit from a slow and duplicative system, the 53rd secretary of state in Alabama says: not on my watch. "You also need to know that we removed more than 780,000 people from the voter rolls because those people have moved away, they passed away, or they've been put away, and whenever that happens, they need to come off the voter rolls."
Even so, Alabama still broke voting records in the state for everything from the presidential primary in 2016 to the general election and the midterms in 2018. "Voter registration is important," he agreed, "but voter participation is better." Fortunately for his state, there's both. "I am proud to ensure that in Alabama, we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat." That's clearly disappointing to SPLC!
Tony Perkins' Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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Michigan GOP headquarters vandalized
June 25, 2019 by Jerry McCormickLiberals are once again trying to use threats and intimidation to get conservatives to cow to their demands.
Over the weekend, the Secchia-Weiser Republican Center in Michigan was attacked by vandals with an anti-Ice sentiment…
Laura Cox✔@MIGOPChairOver the weekend, @MIGOP was vandalized attacking my previous role as an @ICEgov agent.
This criminal act by the radical left will not intimidate me or my staff. @realDonaldTrump is working to fix the crisis at our border and this deserves serious discussion, not graffiti.
Stop Being a Part of the ProblemLaura Coz, who is the Michigan GOP chair, stated she will not allow such actions to intimidate anyone in this organization.
Furthermore, she chided them for being so destructive rather than coming to the table with real solutions.
Cox stated "This criminal act by the radical left will not intimidate me or my staff.
"[Donald Trump] is working to fix the crisis at our border and this deserves serious discussion, not graffiti."
Nothing Has ChangedWhile Democrats in office and liberals are putting the onus of the problems at the border on Trump, that is beyond misguided.
The fact is, many of these policies were put in place during both the Obama and Bush administrations. Trump inherited this mess, he did not create it.
Furthermore, the Democrats are encouraging the problem at the border right now with their constant defense of illegal immigrants.
Tony Zammit, Michigan Republican Party Communications Director, stated, "Many of the policies being pursued by the federal government were being pursued by (former President Barack) Obama as well, and this type of violence and was not used. We're left cleaning up another liberal mess."
Democrats can say what they want, but they do not want this issue solved right now. If the issue gets fixed, they have nothing to rail about any longer and Trump wins.
Even at the cost of holding up humanitarian aide with poison pills, Democrats will do whatever is necessary to keep this narrative running for as long as possible.
A Republican Rich Valdes, who plans to challenge Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her congressional seat in 2020 has opened an early salvo in the race. Rich Valdes, a producer for the Mark Levin Show
AOC's Republican challenger calls her 'All Out Crazy' and says her 'misguided policies don't represent the district'
Rich Valdes blasted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at event in Queens on Thursday
He plans to move from New Jersey to her district to challenge her for Congress
Admits he is a 'carpetbagger' but says he speaks 'better Spanish' than AOC
By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 01:54 EDT, 7 June 2019
A Republican who plans to challenge Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her congressional seat in 2020 has opened an early salvo in the race.
Rich Valdes, a producer for the Mark Levin Show, spoke before an audience of about 100 people at Queens Village Republican Club on Thursday evening.
'AOC (All Out Crazy) wants to establish a new Soviet Republic. I believe in capitalism over socialism. Her misguided policies don't represent the district,' he said, according to the New York Post.
Republican Rich Valdes (left), a producer for the Mark Levin Show, plans to run against Ocasio-Cortez (right) for Congress in 2020 despite her heavily liberal district
European elections 2019: Brexit Party dominates as Tories and Labour suffer
The UK's European elections 2019
Media captionBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage: "There's a massive message here"The Brexit Party was the clear winner in the UK's European elections, with the pro-EU Lib Dems coming second.
The Conservatives and Labour suffered heavy losses, with the former heading for less than 10% of the vote.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the two main parties "could learn a big message" from the results.
Overall, out of 64 MEPs declared so far, Mr Farage's party has won 28, the Lib Dems 15, Labour 10, Greens seven, the Tories three and Plaid Cymru one.
All 28 EU member states are electing MEPs. The big centre-right and centre-left blocs in the European Parliament have lost ground, amid a surge in support for liberals, Greens and nationalists.
The UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but when that deadline was missed, participation in the election became mandatory.
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The Brexit Party topped the polls in every region of England apart from London. It also dominated in Wales, with Plaid Cymru second.
Scotland is yet to formally declare, but with most votes counted, the SNP is on course for a resounding victory, with about 38% of the vote.
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Pro-Trump college GOP activist Charlie Kirk will launch a new group to target Democrats in 2020
PUBLISHED MON, MAY 20 2019 4:53 PM EDT
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Charlie Kirk, a firebrand conservative activist and staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, is preparing to unveil a nonprofit that will allow his organization to campaign against Democrats during the 2020 election season.
CNBC discovered Kirk's new project, called Turning Point Action, after reviewing an embedded donor link that shows the soon-to-be-finalized group targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
The page concludes with a notice that Turning Point Action is a 501(c)(4) entity, which by law can campaign either for or against candidates running for office.
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with moderator Charlie Kirk after a discussion at the Generation Next forum in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCharlie Kirk, a firebrand conservative activist and staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, is preparing to unveil a nonprofit that will allow his organization to campaign against Democrats during the 2020 election season.
CNBC discovered Kirk's new organization, called Turning Point Action, after reviewing an embedded donor link that shows the soon-to-be-finalized group targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
"Far-left radical Ilhan Omar doesn't even want the Department of Homeland Security to receive '1 DOLLAR' to enforce immigration laws and stop terrorists from infiltrating our open border," the page reads. It adds: "Let's show her how much we're willing to donate to fight to REMOVE HER from office."
Kirk has criticized Omar previously, and in one tweet called her anti-Semitic, but he had not said she should be voted out of office.
Charlie Kirk✔@charliekirk11One year ago @realDonaldTrump moved the embassy to Jerusalem
Zero.
That is how many elected Democrat office holders went to the ceremony
The Democrat party does not stand with Israel
Instead, they tolerate horrific anti-Israel, anti-semitic leaders like Tlaib and Omar
The group's official launch is expected June 1, according to a Turning Point Action representative who explained that the Omar link was the first of many beta phases to see what resonates with potential supporters. The representative also acknowledged that Kirk's new entity will allow him and his allies to be more active in directly taking on candidates they oppose. The spokesperson declined to name the other Democrats they'll be targeting, or the types of media formats they intend to use.
Turning Point Action appears to have a Twitter account from 2015 but nothing has been posted on the site and only has 13 followers, including Kirk himself.
In 2012, Kirk founded Turning Point USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit grassroots organization that encourages conservative college students to rally for causes such as free market policies. The Internal Revenue Service prohibits 501(c)(3)s to participate, either directly or indirectly, in political campaigns.
Many of the themes expressed by Turning Point USA, either through its digital content or at its events, will be part of Turning Point Action's messaging in 2020, the spokesman added. In the past, Kirk has advocated for a border wall and attacked political correctness on college campuses. He's been one of Trump's most vocal advocates and the commander in chief has noticed as he praised him at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference.
"He has done an incredible job, thank you very much Charlie," Trump said at the time.
Based on the strong fundraising apparatus of Turning Point USA, its new sister organization will likely not have any issues raising cash for a 2020 operation.
According to Turning Point USA's most recent tax filing, the group raised just more than $8 million in the fiscal year ended in June 2017, which was almost double from the prior cycle.
While the group does not disclose its donors, a report by the International Business Times shows that Republican megadonors or their affiliated foundations have previously bankrolled Turning Points USA, including Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and conservative financier Foster Friess.
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Trey Gowdy warns of Eric Swalwell presidency: That should 'scare the ever-living hell out of you'
Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy has officially warned the public about the potential dangers of one 2020 hopeful.
"President Eric Swalwell, that ought to scare the ever-living hell out of you," Gowdy said of the Democratic congressman from California,who has spent the better part of the last two years perpetuating the false claim that President Donald Trump has ties to the Kremlin.
Trump-Russia HoaxGowdy's remark came during a Friday appearance on Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum. The former congressman was asked to respond to a video clip from MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber in which Swalwell accuses Donald Trump of "acting on Russia's behalf."
"Here's what we know," Swalwell told Melber on Wednesday. "The Russians helped Donald Trump."
Melber agreed, but asked Swalwell to clarify whether he is "maintaining that [Trump] is effectively a 'Russian asset.'"
"No," Swalwell admitted. "I think he acts on Russia's behalf and I challenge him to show me otherwise."
Gowdy Fights BackIt was that last remark that left Gowdy reeling.
"[Swalwell's] last sentence is exactly the difference between a prosecutor and a politician," Gowdy told MacCallum. "Prosecutors prove that you did something, politicians make you prove you did not."
In addition to being a former congressman, Gowdy is also a former federal prosecutor. And as such, he knows the importance of due process — and "innocent until proven guilty."
"Did you hear his last sentence? 'I challenge President Trump to prove that he did not do something,'" Gowdy lamented. "That's what politicians do."
Guilty Until Proven InnocentSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller's report makes it clear that there is no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, and there was insufficient evidence to prove that the president obstructed the collusion investigation. But to Swalwell, that doesn't seem to matter.
Indeed, the California representative appears to be basing his presidential campaign on not much more than the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. And since he's assumed that Trump is guilty until proven innocent, it doesn't look like that will be changing any time soon.
America with Swalwell's burden of proof would be a dangerous place to live.
Mitch McConnell announces 2020 re-election bid
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell officially announced on Wednesday his intent to seek re-election in 2020, and unveiled an innovative and persuasive new campaign advertisement to mark the occasion.
A McConnell victory next year would all but guarantee his continued control of the Republican Senate.
Political heavyweightMcConnell has led Senate Republicans since 2015, and since then he has played an instrumental role in reshaping the Supreme Court into a conservative-leaning institution. The newly released — and nearly three-minute-long — promotional video for his 2020 campaign, titled Kentucky Leads, trumpets the Kentucky senator's transformative accomplishments, placing particular emphasis on his refusal to hold confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in March 2016.
"Let's let the American people decide who Americans trust to nominate the next Supreme Court Justice," McConnell declared eight months before the 2016 presidential election. His new campaign ad captures the historical moment when McConnell stood up to President Barack Obama and the Democratic minority and rejected demands to put Garland's nomination up for a vote.
Three years later, Democrats are still sour with McConnell, even though the last time a SCOTUS nominee has been confirmed in an election year when the president and Senate were controlled by opposing parties was 1880.
The fact remains that Garland lacked the two-thirds majority required at the time for nomination by the Republican-controlled Senate, yet Democrats demanded that McConnell move forward with this futile exercise anyway.
Watch McConnell's dramatic campaign video below:
Knock-down, drag-out fighterGarland's failed confirmation was not the last time that the Senate majority leader would stand up to his colleagues across the aisle. As demonstrated in his campaign video, McConnell successfully withstood Democratic grandstanding and a calculated smear campaign to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh — the Senate's second successful Supreme Court nomination in less than a year and a half.
"Mitch McConnell has led the fight for our conservative values in the Senate. Confirming two Supreme Court Justices, cutting government regulations, passing historic middle-class tax cuts, Mitch has delivered on President Trump's promise to Make America Great Again," McConnell's new campaign website explains.
His site goes on to warn: "Left-wing billionaires, progressive activists, and Hollywood liberals will fund our opponent. They will raise millions to flood the airwaves with attack ads and baseless smears."
McConnell is also proud of what he has accomplished for his constituents in Kentucky, including the passage of a massive farm bill that legalized hemp and benefitted his state's robust agricultural community. After reviewing these achievements, McConnell's ad concludes by dubbing the senator "Kentucky tough."
Sizing up the competition Although no Democratic contender has stepped forward to try to unseat McConnell next year, someone from the left is likely to take on the responsibility as the campaign season approaches. In 2014, McConnell faced the toughest challenge of a political career going back to 1985 when Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes received nearly 41% of the vote.
Although the senator still won by a comfortable margin, the re-election campaign forced McConnell to spend millions television ads challenging his opponent. Seeking to avoid a repeat performance, the Senate majority leader is getting a early start on what promises to be another competitive election.
This time, however, McConnell will be facing his potential contender with a string of hard-fought political victories under his belt, giving the GOP's most powerful legislator a leg-up in 2020.
58,000 non-U.S. citizens may have voted in at least one election here, election official says
BY ANNA M. TINSLEY
JANUARY 25, 2019 04:15 PM,
UPDATED 3 HOURS 21 MINUTES AGO
In a jailhouse interview with the Star-Telegram, Rosa Ortega said she has lost custody of her children and will likely be deported when her eight-year sentence is up.
By Brandon WadeUpdate: Texas' efforts to purge voter lists: Protect elections or suppress votes? And Nearly 20 percent of Tarrant voters flagged for citizenship scrutiny didn't belong on list
Texas election officials said Friday that tens of thousands of people whose U.S. citizenship could not be confirmed cast ballots in one or more election in the state during the past 22 years.
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley said a year-long evaluation found about 95,000 people described as "non-U.S. citizens" who are registered to vote in Texas. About 58,000 of them voted in Texas elections between 1996 and 2018, Whitley said.
"Integrity and efficiency of elections in Texas require accuracy of our state's voter rolls, and my office is committed to using all available tools under the law to maintain an accurate list of registered voters," Whitley said.
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These voters were found as state workers updated voter registration lists, comparing data with the Texas Department of Public Safety, to make sure those who cast ballots were eligible to do so, Whitley said.
No information was available Friday afternoon on where those voters live or voted in Texas.
Voter fraud has been a longtime concern for Texas lawmakers, who have said that was part of the reason they passed a law requiring voters to show a photo ID when voting.
Some civil rights officials weighed in Friday, acknowledging that the numbers are alarming. But they question whether the list includes duplications and factors in that about 50,000 Texas residents become naturalized citizens every year.
It's not surprising that officials announced this news "using alarmist language that is clearly intended to advance a false political narrative to further restrict access to the ballot box," said Beth Stevens, voting rights legal director with the Texas Civil Rights Project.
"Unfortunately, the state has opted to over zealously pursue election prosecutions and ruin the lives of Texans for minor mistakes while ignoring the substantial issue of our outdated and archaic election system that actually stops eligible voters from casting a ballot that counts," Stevens said.
There have been several cases of voter fraud recently filed by the Attorney General's Office in Tarrant County.
Among them, an alleged voter fraud ring in Fort Worth that led to the indictment of four women: Leticia Sanchez, Leticia Sanchez Tepichin, Maria Solis and Laura Parra.
ELECTION FRAUDIn a prepared statement, the Secretary of State's Office said it has forwarded information about the non-citizen voters to the Texas Attorney General's Office, which investigates and prosecutes cases of voter fraud.
"Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice," Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a prepared statement. "My Election Fraud Unit stands ready to investigate and prosecute crimes against the democratic process when needed."
"Nothing is more vital to preserving our Constitution than the integrity of our voting process, and my office will do everything within its abilities to solidify trust in every election in the state of Texas."
Illegally voting is a second-degree felony, punishable by two to 20 years in prison.
In 2017, a Grand Prairie mother of four, Rosa Maria Ortega, made national news when she was sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally voting. Ortega, who has a green card and isn't a U.S. citizen, lost an appeal to the 2nd Court of Appeals late last year. It is uncertain if she plans to appeal that verdict.
The Attorney General's Office notes that state law lets non-citizens receive driver's licenses by showing "proof of lawful presence" to the DPS.
"However, only citizens are eligible to vote," according to a statement from the Attorney General's Office.
ELECTION ADVISORYWhitley, the secretary of state, issued an advisory about the voter registration list to Texas officials Friday afternoon.
He said election workers reviewed the statewide voter registration database, and compared the information to a DPS-provided list in order to identify possible non-U.S. citizens who are registered to vote.
They reviewed names, social security numbers, DPS-issued driver license or personal identification card numbers and dates of birth.
The list of those believed to be non-U.S. citizens who voted has gone to the attorney general's office. And from now on, the Secretary of State's Office plans to review data shared by DPS on a monthly basis to confirm the citizenship of Texas voters.
Heider Garcia, Tarrant County's elections administrator, didn't immediately respond Friday afternoon to a request for a comment from the Star-Telegram.
But he and other county election officials across the state will receive lists over the next few days of anyone identified as a "non-U.S. citizen" who voted.
Election officials will then send out letters to the alleged non-citizen voters, giving them 30 days to provide proof of citizenship, said Sam Taylor, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's Office.
"Identifying ineligible registrations and removing them from the voter rolls is the first step toward restoring integrity to our electoral process," James Dickey, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, said in a prepared statement Friday afternoon. "We can not afford voter fraud in 2020 and must stop this abuse now. It is a crime and it is damaging to our republic."
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTOFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICYH.R. 1 – For the People Act of 2019
(Rep. Sarbanes, D-MD, and 236 cosponsors)
The Administration opposes House passage of H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2019. H.R. 1 proposes an overreach of Federal power that would violate constitutional principles of separation of powers, federalism, and freedom of speech.
H.R. 1 proposes to have the Federal Government micromanage elections that are largely and properly within the purview of the States themselves. For example, H.R. 1 would prohibit commonsense efforts to clean up voting-rolls to limit opportunities for voting fraud. The bill would also require States to adopt online registration, same-day registration, and automatic voter registration, thus imposing a one-size-fits-all standard for weighing the competing values of voter access and voting integrity. Furthermore, H.R. 1 would enhance the powers of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chairman and reduce the number of FEC members from six to five, thus increasing the chances that the FEC becomes a partisan entity with undue power to shape and regulate elections nationwide.
In addition, the legislation further advances political redistricting mandates. Specifically, the legislation would force States to create unelected bodies and then delegate redistricting decisions to them. This would suppress the voices of our Nation's citizens and cut off a nationwide debate on how best to pursue fair and ethical redistricting processes throughout the country.
H.R. 1 also chills free speech by creating requirements that would limit the ability of Americans to participate in advocacy without undue compliance costs and without fear of public reprisals. The bill would establish costly and unnecessary programs to finance political campaigns, and force American taxpayers to finance Federal candidates they may not support.
Finally, the legislation would implement a number of well-intentioned but misguided ethics reforms for Government officials. Many of these reforms, such as giving the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) the authority to review and approve decisions throughout the Executive Branch and sheltering its director from removal, are inconsistent with the constitutional structure of the executive branch, and would effectively restrict the ability of the executive branch to fully function as well as its ability to hire and retain an experienced and knowledgeable workforce.
If H.R. 1 were presented to the President, his advisors would recommend he veto the bill. ****** *
George Soros-backed candidate declares victory in Queens DA primary race
A far-left prosecutor with hopes of becoming the district attorney of Queens, New York received campaign backing from George Soros.
Despite reports alleging the primary race was too close to call, 31-year-old Tiffany Cabán declared victory Tuesday night over the party machine's candidate, Queens borough president Melinda Katz, who is calling for a recount. Cabán is just the latest far-left prosecutor to be elected to a DA's office nationwide with the help of Soros' money.
Soros-backed candidate declares winProgressives including Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) celebrated Cabán's apparent victory this week, which seemed to echo Ocasio-Cortez's shocking primary win last summer against the Democratic establishment.
However, Cabán's fight may not have been as much of an underdog battle as imagined. The Working Families Party, which supported Cabán's candidacy, received $70,000 from the Soros-funded Justice and Public Safety PAC.
A self-described "queer Latina," Cabán has won plaudits from the far-left for her plans to drastically change the criminal justice system in Queens. The public defender will bring a social justice agenda to the DA's office, blurring the lines between political activism and prosecution.
Cabán's "decarceral" approach will involve "prosecuting less" — that is, prosecuting the enemies according to her Marxist analysis (like landlords, bosses, police officers, and ICE agents) — while decriminalizing low-level drug offenses and "crimes of poverty" like jumping turnstiles and even prostitution. She also wants to end cash bail, shorten sentences for violent felons, and close down Rikers Island's prison without replacing it.
Indeed, Cabán sees violent criminal offenders as victims who need therapy rather than punishment. Her approach to "prosecution" is straight out of Marxist theory: prisons are holding cells for the poor,and "exploitative" bosses should be prosecuted for "wage theft."
A simple way to sum up this agenda might be "punish the rich, empty the prisons." In fact, that seems to be not far off from what Cabán envisions; the Indypendent reported: "In a race where most candidates are calling themselves 'progressives,' she prefers the label 'decarceral.' Her goal is to keep as many people as possible out of jail."
Planning for pushbackWhile Cabán's apparent win — which still hasn't been officially called — was met with cries of victory on the left, some former New York prosecutors and police officers are predicting that she will face resistance from the more traditionally conservative Queens DA office. (Although, let's face it: any prosecutor's office is "conservative" by comparison with Cabán's platform.)
"I'm sure a bunch of people there who have been there their entire careers, who never anticipated or thought about new leadership – particularly leadership like this – they're going to look to get out," said Kenneth Montgomery, a former assistant prosecutor in the Kings County district attorney's office.
Woke prosecutors – with Soros' moneyThe push for Cabán to win in New York is part of a nationwide effort by the left to infiltrate and radically reform the criminal justice system from within. Otherwise quiet local DA races have become prime targets in the left's agenda — and it's not a conspiracy theory: Cabán is just one of several "woke prosecutors" who have claimed power, often with the backing of Soros's Justice and Public Safety PAC, according to The New American.
Many of these prosecutors share a philosophy of prosecuting criminals less while targeting police. They tend to see crime as a "public health" problem, like polluted water or a disease epidemic, rather than an act of wrongdoing by an individual with free will. To them, the solution to crime is not to punish wrongdoers, but to target "oppressive" authorities that are blamed for crime instead — like the police, the wealthy, and so on.
A recent national controversy involving "woke prosecutors" dealt with Chicago's Cook County prosecutor Kim Foxx, who dropped charges against hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett. Soros poured $408,000 into Foxx's election.
In Philadelphia, Soros-backed DA Larry Krasner has been blamed for a rise in violent crime in his city. The city's police union has accusedKrasner of prejudice in favor of criminals and against police and victims of violence. Krasner, who backed Cabán, received nearly $1.5 million from Soros.
Soros also poured more than $1 million into two recent local DA races in Virginia through his Justice and Public Safety PAC. On June 11, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti and Steve Descano unseated the incumbents in the Arlington County Commonwealth's Attorney's office and Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney's office, respectively.
Indeed, if confirmed, Cabán's victory is just the latest win for Soros in an effort to replace law and order with chaos. How long can we let this continue?
Report: Democrat Senator Quitting – Goodbye…
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) may leave his Senate seat to run for governor in West Virginia. The Senator is reportedly frustrated with a lack of bipartisanship in the Senate and constantly thinks of leaving, according to the Daily Caller.
While Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has tried to talk him into staying in order to hold the seat in 2020, other colleagues report that Manchin much preferred being governor from 2005-2010 and is looking for a way out of the Senate.
Manchin's frustration comes as a result of partisan gridlock that has led to endless debate on bills that have little hope of passing a divided Congress or being signed by a president of the opposite party. "I want to make sure whatever time I have left in public service is productive," he said to a fellow lawmaker over the Memorial Day holiday.
Democrats already have to win an additional three to four seats in order to gain control of the Senate. This will be an uphill battle because of the current Senate makeup.
Manchin's departure will make gaining seats even more difficult, and may lead to a Republican gaining the seat and adding to the current 3-seat majority.
Democrats Pursue Voter Fraud Leading Up To 2020
by Rod Thomson
Mark Hemingway at Real Clear Investigations recently wrote a solid piece about the "data problem" with getting clean voter rolls and eradicating voter fraud.
He's right, there is a data problem. And a management problem. And a competence problem. After all, government runs elections and government is pretty famously awful in all of those categories. But those are manifestations of a deeper problem that is going to dog the country in 2020 and almost assuredly beyond.
One of our two major parties opposes any attempts to enforce voting laws and block illegal voting, and has even begun making overt attempts to create legal voting pathways for non-citizens.
It's fairly clear that the Democratic Party sees electoral benefit in non-citizens voting, and rightly so because of the gargantuan number of illegal Hispanics in the U.S. and first generation Hispanics are heavily Democratic voters.
Further, Democratic leadership sees a winning issue with the base and some Independents by painting Republicans as racistly trying to suppress the minority vote in their modest attempts to clean up voter rolls — even when those attempts are mandated by law.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is not only supposedly the most moderate among the Democratic presidential candidates, he's just as quick as any new radical or old school Democrat to play the race card against Republicans.
Race is used dishonestly as a cudgel on virtually any issue. In 2012, speaking to a largely black Virginia audience about Mitt Romney's plan to allow some deregulation of Wall Street, Biden told the crowd: "They're going to put y'all back in chains."
Pretty despicable, but also a hardened part of the Democratic platform in every election — and a real hot-button when connected with voting rights.
Republicans support basic voter identification laws to ensure ballot integrity. You just need to prove who you are to be able to cast that vote. This seems like it should be a bipartisan mom and apple pie issue.
But to Democrats like Biden, who supposedly represents the less radical arm of the Democratic Party, voter ID laws are an opportunity to slap down that tattered race card yet again. They purposely oppose every effort to create clean, up-to-date voter rolls.
Laws vary from state to state, but voter identification laws generally require that identification be presented before a voter reaches the ballot box. In some states, such as Florida where statewide vote margins can be razor thin, the ID must be shown at the polls, while other states only require it for voter registration. But in some states, such as Arizona, any ID, including a utility bill, will do.
Republicans say these laws protect against voter fraud by ineligible voters, including voting by illegal immigrants and double and triple voting.
For Democrats, it's an opportunity to invigorate racial division and fear mongering. Here's Biden at it again during a rally last month in South Carolina:
"You've got Jim Crow sneaking back in. You know what happens when you (black people) have an equal right to vote? They lose."
So if Democrats see an opportunity to whip up racial tension among blacks and Hispanics that translate into more votes, they have zero motivation to actually try to ensure ballot box integrity. We've seen this recently in multiple states, including Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania, where attempts to make sure the voting rolls were cleaned up were met with vitriolic opposition and lawsuits.
The interesting fact is that there is no real evidence that voter ID laws actually suppress the votes of legal voters, including black voters. Even the left-of-center data site FiveThirtyEight substantially concludes this by looking at laws and voter turnout.
So does the left-of-center Brookings Institute in looking at Pennsylvania and Georgia, which both cleaned up their voting rolls prior to the 2018 election. Yet both saw huge jumps in black voter turnout — during a non-presidential midterm election.
"In fact, Georgia is one of the few states where black voter turnout exceeded white voter turnout in 2018. Moreover, its 2018 black voter turnout of 60 percent exceeded its turnout in the 2016 presidential election by 1 percent," according to Brookings.
But this record black turnout, exceeding white turnout, does not stop Democrat Stacey Abrams, who lost a close race for Governor, to claim that she is the real winner because of voter suppression that limited the black vote. Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris has said the same thing, both claiming to black audiences that Abrams was robbed of the victory by the GOP.
And of course San Francisco has voted to allow illegal immigrants and other noncitizens to vote in local elections. The fear by illegals that they will be identified by ICE has kept their numbers down, but the city has spent more than $300,000 in voter registration drives aimed at illegal residents. They really, really want illegals voting.
This is the undeniably glaring problem with trying to have clean, legal elections without fraud. Democrats don't want it. They want both illegal votes of non-citizens, mostly Hispanics, and they want to fear monger blacks into high turnout while voting 90 percent Democrat.
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Royal A Brown III
June 8, 2019 at 10:24 AM Agree with article but get a little tired of being presented with problems but no solution so what is the solution ?
16 states still do not require any form of Identification in order to vote and some states like #1 population CA issue Driver's licenses to illegals which can then be used to vote.
First of all – driver's licenses should not be issued to illegal aliens – period.
Secondly, may seem socialistic but why not a law requiring a National ID Card w photo, only basic info (name, address) & an ID (alpha/numeric) issued free to every citizen managed by states given federal taxpayer $ to cover costs e.g. not another unfunded mandate.
In order to register to vote and to vote, one would have to show their National ID card.
Other potential solutions ?
'The people's victory': Le Pen tells Macron to dissolve parliament over EU election results
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A triumphant Marine Le Pen demanded President Emmanuel Macron dissolve parliament "as a minimum" after preliminary results suggested her party would top the election in France.Speaking to supporters Marine Le Pen said: "The French have placed the National Rally at the top of the European elections. I see the people's victory, who with pride and dignity have retaken power this evening.
"I widespread movement for an alternative is born."
The far right party leader said President Emmanuel Macron must deal with the consequences of the result, which exit polls suggested would see Le Pen's party pick up 24 percent of the vote compared to 22.5 percent for Macron's La Republique en Marche.
Le Pen, who lost out to Macron in a bitter presidential election in 2017, called for the head of state to dissolvethe parliament and call new elections, a proposal that was immediately rejected by the government.
"It is up to the president of the republic to draw conclusions, he who put his presidential credit on the line in this vote in making it a referendum on his policies and even his personality," she added.
"He has no choice but to dissolve parliament, as a minimum and put in place a voting system that is finally more democratic and more representative of the real public opinion in the country," she said.
 « Les Français ont placé la liste du RN conduite par @J_Bardella en tête des élections #Européennes2019.
J'y vois #LaVictoireDuPeuple qui, avec fierté et dignité, a repris ce soir le pouvoir.
Un grand mouvement pour l'alternance est né. » pic.twitter.com/i7tXnKLoMB
— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) May 26, 2019Marine Le Pen's French far-right National Rally called for the formation of a "powerful group" in the European
parliament after exit polls indicated the party would top the election in France.
"The gains for our allies in Europe and the emergence of new forces across the continent... open the way for the formation of a powerful group in the European parliament," the lead campaigner for National Rally, Jordan Bardella, told supporters.
Hungary: "Europe is for Europeans, and needs leaders to defend it, migration should be stopped, not organised"
 Listen to Post Posted by EU Times on May 23rd, 2019
In the radio program "Good Morning, Hungary", Prime MinisterViktor Orbán said that a strong message must be sent to Brussels in the EU elections: "we want change, and a Europe that protects its borders on land and at sea".
He also said that "we want to see leaders in Brussels who don't want to organize migration, but who want to stop it".
The Prime Minister added that there is a "liberal mafia" – including politicians, journalists and analysts – who are "flush with money", and are working to convince the world that there is nothing that can be done to stop migration.
But, he said, when it turns out that there is indeed something that can be done – when Hungary stops migration on land, Italian Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini does the same at sea and US president Donald Trump decides to build a wall – then these opponents of migration "start to be treated as hate figures".
Mr. Orbán stated that "the EU elections are about accepting or breaking free" from the way of thinking that such pro-migration people "are trying to force onto us", he stressed, adding that Europe needs leaders to defend it, because Europe is the home of Europeans and Hungary is the home of Hungarians.
He said that the majority of Hungarians "feel a chill run down their spines" when they hear so many European politicianssaying that migration is good, but that it should be better organised than it is today.
Asked whether there is any candidate for the post of President of the European Commission that he would support after having withdrawn his backing from Manfred Weber, Mr. Orbán said, "there will be, after the election".
He said that two days after the election negotiations will begin for the selection of future European leaders, and "We'll see how much support has been received by which political figures in which countries".
UK's 'Mr. Brexit' Nigel Farage eyes EU election success
With Brexit postponed, the UK is holding European Parliament elections. Supporters of Nigel Farage's new party are hoping for a strong showing. DW's Birgit Maass reports from Wales on an unusual campaign season.
Nigel Farage has traveled to Wales to campaign on behalf of his new Brexit Party ahead of the European Parliament elections. An exuberant crowd awaits him in the small coastal town of Newport. "I´m back!," he tells his supporters, with his last word drowned out by loud applause. Hundreds of Farage fans have come here today from the surrounding area to see their political idol in person.
Farage's new party could emerge as the strongest British party competing in the European Parliament elections. In Wales, he tells his fans that his political movement wants nothing less than a "rebirth" of British democracy. Brexit was merely the beginning of this renewal, he says, accusing other UK lawmakers of failing to actually go through with the move.
Feeling of betrayal
By and large, Farage supporters feel they have been betrayed by the British political class. Many people in Newport voted for the Conservative Party in the last elections, yet now feel that Prime Minster Theresa May and her government are not delivering as promised.
Monima O'Connor, who lives in a tiny village in western Wales, is one of those people. She cannot fathom why after all this time Britain still has not managed to emancipate itself from the much maligned "Brussels bureaucrats." Together with her husband, O'Connor runs a shop selling sanitary goods. As they only sell to domestic customers, she does not see the point of Britain being in the European Union.
Farage drew a passionate crowd of supporters for his rally in Newport
Many Farage fans like her feel Prime Minister May has "betrayed" them. They want Britain to leave the EU as fast as possible, no matter the cost.
Farage draws roaring applause from the crowd when he rails against Westminster politicians. He accuses them of just serving themselves — a reproach he used to only direct at Brussels lawmakers.
Read more: Brexit drives firms to relocate to Germany
'We must stop Farage'
Meanwhile, an hour's drive further south in the city of Bath, Rachel Johnson is campaigning for her new party, Change UK. She is former Foreign Minister Boris Johnson's sister, and it's the first time she has run for a seat in the European Parliament.
Rachel Johnson is adamant that "we have to stop Farage" and has called for a second Brexit referendum. She says this would be paramount to put an end to the protracted political chaos.
Frustration over handling of Brexit
Change UK is a pan-party alliance of British lawmakers from both the Labour and Conservative parties. What unites them is their frustration about their respective parties' inefficient way of dealing with Brexit. That's why they're campaign for a second referendum. This is the first the time the party has competed in the European Parliamentary elections.
But unlike Farage's exuberant campaign event in Wales, far fewer people have turned up to hear Johnson speak in Bath. She says she can understand why many Brits are fed up with the status-quo and now want to finally leave the EU because they're sick and tired of the topic.
Competing forces
MEP and former Belgium Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, meanwhile, is campaigning on behalf of the Liberal Democrats in central London. "We want to be the alternative to all nationalists and populists in Europe," he says.
However, polls show that Farage's Brexit Party could win up 35% of the vote, while the Liberal Democrats are projected to take just 16%. And just 5% of the electorate will, if the polls are accurate, cast their ballot for Change UK.
Pro-European parties do not look like they have a chance against Farage's party. And instead of joining forces, they are competing against each other, arguing that Brexit is the wrong response to real issues that need to be addressed.
Farage's message, in contrast, is simple and catchy. He promises to make Brits proud of their homeland again. And lashes out against "career politicians," even though he himself has spent many years working as a Brussels lawmaker.
After the Newport campaign stop draws to a close, many attendees join Farage's party. And Monima O'Connor grabs a Farage poster, which she wants to put up in her village. Because, as she says, his Brexit Party is "wonderful."
The 2019 Legislative Session is now history.
Here are decisions of significance for property rights.
Mandatory Property Rights Element in All Local Comprehensive Plans
The goal of CPR's proposal was to protect property owners seeking to develop or use their property in local decision making. CPR hears countless stories of property owners seeking to use or improve their property only to be opposed by local governments. The mandated addition of the property rights element in every Florida local comprehensive plan would "remind" all local governments of the legislative intent of comprehensive planning laws, "recognize and respect judicially acknowledged or constitutionally protected private property rights."
The House version of this proposal (HB 291) sailed through three committees and then was passed 73 – 42. All Republican representative voted for the bill except for Rene Plasencia who voted "no" with 41 Democrat representatives.
The Senate version (SB 428) passed its first committee unanimously but, was stopped when Senator David Simmons chose to NOT put the bill on the Judiciary Committee's final agenda. Attempts to amend this bill to another failed to happen.
This was a disappointing end to a bill that would greatly strengthen private property rights. However, this was the furthest this proposal has ever gone towards becoming law after several years of seeking its approval.
Protecting Property Owners with Septic Systems
The goal of CPR's proposal was to open Florida's free-market to septic system products which are affordable and effective at nitrogen reduction. For years, Florida's Department of Health and its Bureau of On-site Sewage has stood in the way of permitting known, affordable, effective innovative products into Florida's market. Due to BMAP mandates, Florida's home owners have been left with only one approved option; an option that is untested in "real-life" conditions, expensive to install and operate, and dependent on electricity.
CPR's proposal was to get government out of the way by appointing nationally-recognized organizations to test septic system products according to a Florida standard for nitrogen reduction. (Florida has yet to establish a standard, by the way.) Unexplainably, the bill's sponsor, Representative Kamia Brown, filed the wrong bill language and, due to the confusion created, the bill was not heard in any committee.
Protecting the Everglades and Managing Storm-water
Property rights are tangential to almost all environmental issues. Sometimes, the use of property can contribute to environmental damage. But, most often, property owners are the best stewards of their property and the environment, in general. In April, CPR released a research paper on Everglades restoration to assess storm-water management and the restoration of the Everglades. The paper made seven recommendations to the Legislature regarding the allocation of funds; it was released just before the appropriations committees of the House and Senate began budget discussions and helped influence funding needs for water storage projects north of Lake Okeechobee.
A View Towards the 2020 Legislative Session
This year, several environmental issues regarding septic systems surfaced but, the Legislature chose to make no decisions.
Undecided issues included:
Fining wastewater treatment plants which unlawfully release untreated or partially treated sewage into the environment.
Requiring FDEP to account for moneys used in the implementation of BMAPs.
Establishing a state-wide data-base to track septic systems.
Transferring the Bureau of Onsite Sewage from FDOH to FDEP.
CPR provided information to many legislators and made proposals to:
Set a standard for nitrogen reduction in septic systems.
Designate non-government organizations to test and certify septic systems.
Require so-called "Advanced Septic Systems" to be tested periodically for their nitrogen reduction capabilities.
Document the delivery of septage to waste treatment facilities.
These undecided issues, recommendations by CPR, and other issues such as the property rights element help to form a slate of agenda issues which CPR will bring to legislators in the next few months. The work done to address issues with legislators in the "off-season" is often more important than what can be done during legislative session.
CPR is the dedicated Voice for property rights in Florida. That's why CPR continues to need your financial support.
Will you please consider making your contribution today by clicking on this link?
www.cpr-fl.org/home/
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Far-right Party Wins Seats in Spanish Parliament for First Time in 40 Years
Spain's Socialists appear to be ahead in the snap election held Sunday, but short of majority. Far-right group Vox was seen winning lower house seats
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Spanish far-right party VOX leader and candidate for prime minister Santiago Abascal arrives to vote at a polling station in Madrid during general elections in Spain on April 28, 2019.AFP
Deeply divided, Spaniards vote with eye on far-right's rise
Holocaust denier from far-right party Vox to run for parliament in Spain
Netanyahu party's foreign affairs director endorsed Spain's far-right party Vox – then apologized
The Socialists of outgoing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez were seen leading Spain's election as polls closed on Sunday, according to a survey by GAD3 published shortly after mainland voting ended.
The survey showed no single party close to winning a parliamentary majority. Far-right group Vox was seen winning lower house seats, making it the first party of its political hue to sit in Spain's parliament since 1982.
Spaniards cast their votes in numbers close to record highs in the country's most highly-contested election for decades, and one likely to lead to months of negotiations to form a government in a bitterly divided parliament.
>> Netanyahu party's foreign affairs director endorsed Spain's far-right party Vox – then apologized ■ Holocaust denier from far-right party Vox to run for parliament in Spain
This is the third national election in four years, and both the first two eroded the decades-long dominance of the two biggest parties, the Socialists and the conservative Popular Party. Another repeat is a distinct possibility.
A splintered vote followed by protracted talks to form an administration is becoming a recurrent theme in European politics as voters reject traditional parties in favour of new groups often at the extremes of the political spectrum.
In recent Spanish elections, early evening opinion polls carried out with a different methodology failed to give an accurate picture of the eventual outcome.
FLORIDA Heartbeat Bill Needs your Help
 - Florida Eagles: TAKE ACTION NOW!
The Heartbeat Bill is being held up in committee in the Florida House and YOU can help today to move it forward!
Republican House Speaker José R. Oliva has so far refused to hold a hearing for the Heartbeat Bill, and the clock is running out! He is a self-proclaimed pro-life Republican, yet he is not working to advance this wonderful legislation that would save the lives of the unborn.
The Heartbeat Bill already has huge support in Florida. There are an unprecedented 20 co-sponsors in the Florida House and 10 in the Senate! And pro-life Governor DeSantis has said he would sign the bill! But Speaker Oliva seems to ignore that support.
Please call and email Speaker José Oliva (R-Miami Lakes) TODAY and ask him to advance the Heartbeat Bill. We need your help Florida Eagles!
Call Speaker Oliva at 850-717-5110 or email him at jose.oliva@myfloridahouse.gov. Ask him to:
"Please advance the Heartbeat Bill. This legislation is constitutionally sound and would save millions of babies. Please do not let pro-abortion advocates succeed in killing this bill. Please take a bold stand for the unborn by hearing the Heartbeat Bill!"
PLEASE, be courteous in all communications!
Thank you for your action!
Local contact:
Priscilla Gray | (561) 702-9911
Florida Director, Phyllis Schlafly Constitution Center
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Dems Secret Plan To Beat Trump In Florida Backfires, Will Keep Florida In GOP Hands For Generations
Lower voting age to 16? How about raising it to 30?
By World Tribune on March 21, 2019
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2019
People do not become fully "adult" until they're in their 30s, according to scientists who study the brain.
"There isn't a childhood and then an adulthood. People are on a pathway, they're on a trajectory," said Peter Jones, a professor at Cambridge University.
"What we're really saying is that to have a definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly absurd. It's a much more nuanced transition that takes place over three decades."
Children legally become adults at age 18 in the United States and can then vote and join the military (without parental consent – 17 with parental consent). The drinking age is 21.
Several Democratic politicians support dropping the voting age to 16. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said "I think it's really important to capture kids when they are in high school when they are interested in all of this, when they are learning about government, to be able to vote."
Writing for the Washington Examiner, columnist Madeline Fry noted: "Some students don't take government classes until their senior year of high school, and we expect them to stop eating tide pods long enough to cast a ballot for president?"
According to the University of Rochester Medial Center, "It doesn't matter how smart teens are or how well they scored on the SAT or ACT. Good judgment isn't something they can excel in, at least not yet.
The rational part of a teen's brain isn't fully developed and won't be until age 25 or so."
Scientists who study the brain and nervous system say the age at which you become an adult is different for everyone.
"I guess systems like the education system, the health system and the legal system make it convenient for themselves by having definitions," Jones said.
"I think the system is adapting to what's hiding in plain sight, that people don't like (the idea of) a caterpillar turning into a butterfly," he said.
The United States' Founders created the ELECTORAL COLLEGE to ensure the STATES were fairly represented.
Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the nation?
The following list of statistics has been making the rounds on the Internet.
It should finally put an end to the argument against the Electoral College . Do share this. It needs to be widely known and understood.
There are 3,141 counties in the United States. Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.
There are 62 counties in New York State. Trump won 46 of them.
Clinton won 16
Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.
In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan,
Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes
than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond)
Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.
The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles.
When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of
those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome
of a national election.
Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc.)
DO NOT and SHOULD NOT speak for the rest of our country!
And...it's been verified and documented that those aforementioned 319 square miles are where the majority of our nation's problems foment.
National Popular Vote, Fairfield Glade, TN
http://www.thevillagesteaparty.org/dems-leftist-indivisibles-socialist-etc.html