The Hill: “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday blasted Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s embrace of “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party.” “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is…
Month: February 2021
GOP AR Governor Praises Biden’s ‘Seamless’ Vaccine Distribution
AP: “Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine has been “seamless” under the administration of President Joe Biden. Hutchinson said on ABC’s “This Week” that anything that can be done to speed up production of vaccines, including invoking the Defense Production Act, would be good. “In terms of the vaccine…
BLM Activists Convince Regions Bank to End Financing of Private Prison
AL Political Reporter: “Regions spokesman Jeremy King told APR by phone Saturday that the decision came after company executive met Tuesday with representatives from Black Lives Matter Birmingham, Faith in Works and Alabama Students Against Prisons. Those groups had asked the bank to stop doing business with CoreCivic, which is set to build two of Alabama’s three…
SC, NC Attorneys Quit Trump Impeachment Defense Team
CNN: “Former President Donald Trump’s five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin, according to people familiar with the case, amid a disagreement over his legal strategy.It was a dramatic development in the second impeachment trial for Trump, who has struggled to find lawyers…
TX Based Founder of The Lincoln Project Accused of Sexual Misconduct
NY Times: “John Weaver, a longtime Republican strategist and co-founder of the prominent anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project, has for years sent unsolicited and sexually provocative messages online to young men, often while suggesting he could help them get work in politics, according to interviews with 21 men who received them. His solicitations included sending…
“Georgia voted blue. NC didn’t. Democrats are looking to their neighbor for answers.”
News & Observer: “A better ground game. An earlier start. A more inclusive approach. A willingness to listen. Those are some of the things Democrats say they need if they are to duplicate their Georgia counterparts’ electoral success in North Carolina. What they don’t need, they say, is a single figure who can lead them…
“AJC poll: Republicans in dicey political territory in Georgia”
Atlanta-Journal Constitution: “After suffering major losses, Georgia Republicans enter a new election cycle in a dire political position, according to an exclusive Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll that found leading Democrats earned significantly higher ratings than their GOP counterparts…. Adding to the Republican struggles, a narrow majority of Georgians backs the Democratic-led effort to convict Trump on…