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Wait I thought Obama was a communist that's what my father in law says
And an African Muslim. Who tried to destroy health care.
Wait I thought Obama was a communist that's what my father in law says
His first job in government came in 2014, when he took a position as special assistant to Brooklyn’s first African-American district attorney, Kenneth P. Thompson, who died of cancer two years ago. Mr. Rose’s portfolio centered on a program called “Begin Again,” designed to resolve low-level warrants tied to summonses.
“We set up little courthouses in churches to erase these warrants that were effectively concentrated in low-income communities,” he recalled. “You get one of these summonses and, if you don’t pay it off, you have a record. It provided them an opportunity to pursue a better life.”
From there, he became chief of staff of Brightpoint Health, a nonprofit provider with 800 employees and clinics in all five boroughs. The role convinced him of the importance of preventive and integrated medicine. “It’s not just the right way to provide social services and health care,” he said. “It’s also incredibly cost-efficient.”
In this 50-second piece , Cagle can be heard candidly discussing the GOP primary’s sharp turn to the right, saying the five-man race came down to “who had the biggest gun, who had the biggest truck and who could be the craziest.”
Kemp has garnered his own strong criticism — and national headlines — for a series of provocative television ads ran during the primary. In one ad, Kemp holds a shotgun and pretends to threaten a young man interested in his daughter. In another, Kemp says “I got a big truck,” as he slams the door on a pickup, “just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take ’em home myself.”
The state Republican Party is launching a new strategy for this fall's congressional elections: making and distributing lists of which Democrats support socialized programs, among other things.
Party chairman Val DiGiorgio said the effort comes in response to four candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America winning state legislative primaries.
The Republicans are mailing surveys to all the Democrats running for Congress, and say they plan to use the responses--or lack thereof--in campaign material.
Besides asking if candidates support the DSA, the surveys hit on other GOP talking points--whether they support House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and whether they agree with Congresswoman Maxine Waters' call to heckle the president's cabinet members in public.
On the ACLU Voter website, entering an address pulls up a scorecard for senators and representatives, ranking them based on what percent of the time they voted along with the ACLU’s guidelines. In its 2018 scorecard, Democrats almost universally get much higher ratings than Republicans, with the occasional exception of a libertarian like Sen. Rand Paul or Rep. Justin Amash.
“We want [elected officials] to be competing for a higher score on civil rights and civil liberties,” said Shakir. “Next time when we say there’s a vote recommendation, it’s not because we’re offering a friendly piece of advice. It’s an implied threat.”
Officially, the ACLU is nonpartisan, and an “ACLU Voter,” as the group envisions the term, chooses candidates not based on party but on issues like criminal justice, net neutrality, and voting and reproductive rights.
DeWine has previously said that Medicaid expansion is financially unsustainable. His campaign also launched attack ads during the GOP gubernatorial primary earlier this year against rival Mary Taylor claiming she supported expanding Medicaid - something that the Ohio Democratic Party noted in a statement deriding DeWine's announcement.
The ACLU Wants To Do What The NRA Does: Get People To Vote
This is a pretty well-done site. Enter your address and it will show you your Senators and congressperson and the % of times they've voted the way the ACLU recommended. Then scroll down further and it walks you through the key races for you in 2018, and shows your districts on a map (all the way down to state rep.)
https://www.aclu.org/voter/
There was a pitiable chance of success when Danny O’Connor knocked on Tami Halliday’s door Thursday morning to ask for her vote. All the data showed that Mr. O’Connor, a Democrat running in an August special election for a House seat here, was all but wasting his time.
But when Ms. Halliday asked him his stance on gun control, things got brighter fast. Mr. O’Connor said he favored an assault weapons ban, along with preventing people with domestic violence records and mental illness issues from having guns. “Do you take money from the N.R.A.?” she asked. “No,” Mr. O’Connor replied. “I have an ‘F’ rating from the N.R.A.”
With that, Ms. Halliday, who voted for President Trump in 2016, said she would vote for Mr. O’Connor.
This is one hell of a political ad. Good luck John Carter.