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Betsy DeVos Is Using Taxpayer Money To Promote the Koch Agenda
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 6 years ago
“While outrages of the Trump administration make headlines, members of his cabinet are continuing with their nefarious activities to promote...”
For example Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been flying under the radar lately, but that doesn’t mean she has not been busily trying to destroy America’s public education system. DeVos is famous for wasting taxpayer dollars, and it is estimated that providing her security costs nearly...
Trump And The NRA Busted For Illegal Coordination
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 23 Comments • 6 years ago
“Documents show that the Trump campaign and the NRA illegally coordinated their advertising during the 2016 election.”
Reporting by The Trace shows that the NRA and the Trump campaign employed the same operation — at times, the exact same people — to craft and execute their advertising strategies for the 2016 presidential election. The investigation, which involved a review of more than 1,000 pages of Federal...
Woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race
Via: Don Overton • Now Trending • 1 Comments • 6 years ago
“An absentee ballot witness said Monday that a Bladen County, N.C., electioneer paid her to collect absentee ballots from last month's midterm...”
Ginger Eason told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, that Leslie McCrae Dowless, Jr. paid her between $75 and $100 to pick up completed absentee ballots for North Carolina's 9th District, the results of which are being officially investigated. "I was helping McCrae pick up ballots,"...
The racist origins of the 'pro-life' abortion movement they never talk about
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 16 Comments • 6 years ago
“Fundamentalist Christians and [the KKK] are pretty close, fighting for God and country. Someday we may all be in the trenches together in the fight...”
Reversing Roe v. Wade goes against the will of the people. A recent Quinnipiac pollshows that a clear majority support the Supreme Court ruling ensuring a patient’s access to abortion care. That, of course, won’t stop opponents to the measure from ruling by minority; it’s exactly what the...
Trump’s budget director reveals plans to attack Social Security and Medicare
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 348 Comments • 6 years ago
“Americans will not be fooled into allowing Mick Mulvaney to make what he deemed “easy” cuts to earned benefit”
Opponents of Social Security and Medicare are so eager to end these two overwhelmingly important and popular earned benefits that they can’t contain themselves. Mick Mulvaney, the Trump administration’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, is the latest to make crystal clear the...
Senate Committee Refers Perjury Cases to Mueller For Prosecution
Via: Don Overton • Op/Ed • 17 Comments • 6 years ago
“The Senate Intelligence Committee has referred perjury cases to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) ”
The Senate Intelligence Committee has referred perjury cases to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said Friday. Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and Burr’s committee has done its own investigation into the same matter. Burr...
Federal Workers Told Not To Discuss Impeachment Or ‘Resistance’
Via: Don Overton • Op/Ed • 0 Comments • 6 years ago
“This is the first time such a memo has been sent out, the paper reports, and critics say it’s overreaching.”
According to The New York Times all federal workers received a memo this week telling them that they cannot discuss the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached at work. The Times said the memo went to over two million federal employees telling them that it was “illegal for them to...