Month: August 2022

HuffPo: “Critics went espresso on the insults against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after he bashed coffee shop workers as “slacker baristas” for not paying off their student loans. On his “Verdict With Ted Cruz” podcast earlier this week, the conservative called young working Americans “slackers,” who will benefit from the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan. President Joe Biden announced on…

Politico: “Beto O’Rourke, Texas’ Democratic candidate for governor, will “postpone events” after being hospitalized with a bacterial infection, he wrote Sunday on Twitter. “While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations,” O’Rourke said. He has been discharged from the hospital, campaign communications director Chris…

HuffPo: “A judge ruled Monday that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp must testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating possible illegal attempts by then-President Donald Trump and others to influence the 2020 election in the state — but not until after the November midterm election. Lawyers for Kemp had argued that immunities related to his position as…

AP: “Four years ago, Georgia Democrats had a contested primary for governor because the party old guard didn’t believe in Stacey Abrams. She blew away the elders’ alternative and, in a close general election loss, established herself as de facto party boss in a newfound battleground. That previewed 2020, when Joe Biden put Georgia in…

WUNC: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a local North Carolina district attorney from prosecuting state Attorney General Josh Stein or anyone else for his 2020 campaign ad through a criminal libel law. The majority of a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, granted the request by…

Austin American-Statesman: “Starting in September, Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s campaign will host 120 “volunteer rallies” across the state as part of an effort to bolster his organizing ranks heading into the fall campaign season. The goal of these events is to recruit and train thousands of new volunteers who can aid the campaign’s efforts to knock on 5…

The Courier: “Former Texas Right to Life Political Director Luke Bowen has been charged with online solicitation of a minor after an Aug. 3 sting operation by Montgomery County Internet Crimes Against Children. Bowen is out on a $50,000 bond. The charge is a second-degree felony, which could result in a two- to 20-year sentence…

NY Times: “A former police detective admitted on Tuesday that she had helped mislead a judge into wrongly authorizing a raid of Breonna Taylor’s apartment in Louisville, Ky., setting in motion the nighttime operation in which the police fatally shot Ms. Taylor. The former detective, Kelly Goodlett, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count…

Political Wire: “Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said there is “very little election fraud” but that it “happens occasionally,” comments that clashed with ongoing claims from former President Donald Trump’s wing of the party, which has insisted that voter fraud is rampant and the 2020 election was stolen, NBC News reports.”

WRAL: “Education is perhaps the top policy priority for Robinson. Robinson said he’d work to keep history, science and a number of other subjects out of first through fifth grade curricula and instead prioritize reading, writing and math. “In those grades, we don’t need to be teaching social studies,” he writes. “We don’t need to…