Month: April 2022

The Daily Beast: “When former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) was asked on the 2020 campaign trail about the recently purchased private jet she was flying around Georgia, the former CEO and multimillionaire senator defended the expense as saving taxpayer dollars. But previously unreported corporate filings reveal something that Loeffler’s campaign disclosures did not: She was…

Political Wire: “In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall law. I don’t know on those things. I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next.” — Rep….

NC Policy Watch: “If legislators had stood at my side as I cared for the uninsured sick, many who were essential workers, I think they would reconsider their votes against Medicaid expansion. More than one in eight essential workers are uninsured in our state. Expansion would have provided basic coverage for many of them. For…

AR Times: “William Graves — who, if you know him, you know him as Uncle Willie — doesn’t want a gun. Not at all. An ex-felon who spent more than 30 years in and out of prison and now mentors, mediates and does whatever else he can think of to keep people from following his…

Political Wire: “A local Republican Party leader in North Carolina threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal access to voting equipment,” Reuters reports. “The party official, William Keith Senter, sought evidence to support false conspiracy theories alleging the 2020 election was rigged against former U.S….

LA Times: “There’s a rot at the core of the Republican Party, and neither the party nor the country will heal until it’s excised. The latest evidence of that malignancy comes in a New York Times report about the Jan. 6 insurrection and how GOP congressional leaders responded in the immediate aftermath. The shock and revulsion reflected…

Watauga Watch: “It’s happening all over North Carolina let alone the rest of the nation — the Trumpist movement to take over school boards and hound out “cultural diversity” or diversity of any kind (among other things). It’s happening in Watauga County, which is why the School Board primary on May 17 is so crucial…

Sun Herald: “A Harrison County grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing by law enforcement in the May 3, 2021, death of La’Mello Parker, a 3-month-old shot in the back during a Interstate 10 police pursuit. La’Mello was kidnapped in Louisiana earlier that day by Eric Smith, who shot the infant’s mother and her nephew. New…

FL Politics: “The Battle of Reedy Creek could be the Gettysburg of America’s culture war crusades. Today, in the first wave of the battle, the Florida Senate dutifully passed the demands by General Robert E. DeSantis to attack and dismantle Disney’s land holdings in Orlando. Even for Floridians, Reedy Creek is obscure; a small, strange…

The Guardian: “A Memphis prosecutor has dropped all criminal charges against Pamela Moses, the Memphis woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote. Moses was convicted last year and sentenced in January. She was granted a new trial in February after the Guardian published a document showing that had not been given…