Ain't CA great?
‘Ballot Harvesting,’ California Dems’ Latest Election Stealing Tool
Scott Morefield | December 03, 2018
In 2016, California took yet another significant step in its decades-long quest to become the world’s largest banana republic when then-Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1921, a then-barely-noticed revision to the state’s vote-by-mail procedures.
The change was a small but significant one. California, in its infinite wisdom, decided to make the practice of “ballot harvesting” legal. Thus, instead of only relatives or those living in the same household being allowed to legally collect and turn in absentee ballots for voters - as was previously the law - any “third party” can do it, including activist groups, Democratic operatives, or street-corner panhandlers.
Ain't CA great?
‘Ballot Harvesting,’ California Dems’ Latest Election Stealing Tool
Scott Morefield | December 03, 2018
In 2016, California took yet another significant step in its decades-long quest to become the world’s largest banana republic when then-Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1921, a then-barely-noticed revision to the state’s vote-by-mail procedures.
The change was a small but significant one. California, in its infinite wisdom, decided to make the practice of “ballot harvesting” legal. Thus, instead of only relatives or those living in the same household being allowed to legally collect and turn in absentee ballots for voters - as was previously the law - any “third party” can do it, including activist groups, Democratic operatives, or street-corner panhandlers.
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Media is a part of our duopoly.Fate of The Weekly Standard is uncertain, editor tells staff
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New York (CNN Business)The fate of The Weekly Standard, the conservative magazine that has staked out a position as a publication on the right still critical of President Donald Trump, is uncertain, Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hayes told staff in a series of phone calls Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The magazine's precarious position comes after its leadership spent months searching for a buyer, the people told CNN.
The people explained that The Weekly Standard's leadership had butted heads with MediaDC, the current parent company of the magazine, and that the two parties had agreed to allow Hayes to search for a new owner.
However, MediaDC recently informed The Weekly Standard's leadership that the company was no longer interested in a sale, the people said.
Instead, Ryan McKibben, the chairman of MediaDC, asked to meet with Hayes in a meeting tentatively scheduled for late next week, the people said. McKibben, they said, also requested the entire staff of The Weekly Standard be made available following the meeting.
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That request, coupled with MediaDC's Monday announcement that its other conservative news organization, The Washington Examiner, would be expanding its magazine into a weekly publication, has left The Weekly Standard's leadership worrying about the future of the magazine.
Employees at the magazine are bracing for the worst, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN.
Alex Rosenwald, a spokesperson for MediaDC, told CNN in a phone call on Tuesday morning that he was not aware of The Weekly Standard's situation. Rosenwald said he was focused only on the marketing for the just-announced Washington Examiner Magazine. Rosenwald did not respond to an email or phone call on Tuesday afternoon requesting comment after CNN had learned of Hayes' phone calls to staffers.
Hayes also did not respond to emails on Monday and Tuesday requesting comment.
The Weekly Standard was founded in 1995 by Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes. During the presidency of George W. Bush it was widely considered to be aligned with the administration and larger forces of neoconservatism.
Under Hayes' leadership, The Weekly Standard has remained steadfast in its criticism of Trump. Supporters of Trump have lashed out at The Weekly Standard and its influence in Republican circles has dwindled.
But while The Weekly Standard's influence in Republican politics has declined, its web traffic has increased, people familiar with the data said.
The magazine has also earned praise for some of the recent work it has done. In November, for instance the magazine published audio of Republican Congressman Steve King telling attendees at a campaign event in Iowa that "there's plenty of dirt" coming from Mexico, apparently referring to Mexicans themselves
Like the PBS retraction of the Don Jr. story. How about the two View girls going at it today? Joy reminds me of a few of the catty fellows here. Bitter and ugly.
Has been since 2016. We still don’t know how many votes were hacked by the Russians to favor Trump. Nor whether what was known about Hillary, by the Russians, was not already known by American voters. And, whether and if the Russians did disclose information about Hillary, how many Americans changed their minds in the electoral process. These smart people crack me up.
Another Democrat displaying her intelligence
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And yet millions more vote for Dems than Republicans. Maybe they don’t just make base, emotional decisions like a mob. “Lock her up!” “Drill baby drill!”Sen. Mazie Hirono: ‘Democrats Have a Hard Time Connecting To People’s Hearts Because We Democrats Know So Much’
Posted at 6:37 am on December 05, 2018 by Elizabeth Vaughn
In case you’ve ever wondered why Democrats have a hard time connecting to people’s hearts, you now have your answer. It’s because of “how smart they are.” Yes, she really said it. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) was interviewed by journalist Dahlia Lithwick at the “Bend Towards Justice” conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
Lithwick asked Hirono: What is the thing that Democrats need to be saying about why the courts matter? Hirono replied:
One of the things that we Democrats have a really hard time with is connecting people’s hearts instead of here (points to her brain). We’re really good at shoving out information that touch people here (points to brain again), not here (points to her heart). And I have been saying at all of our Democratic retreats that we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody’s fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so people actually know that we’re actually on their side. We have a really hard time doing that and one of the reasons that was told to me at one of our retreats was that we Democrats know so much. That is true. (Interviewer chuckles)
And we have to tell everybody how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain and we think, really? That is not how people make decisions and one of the books I always bring up is “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt where the image is of an elephant. And the elephant is making all the decisions – go right, go forward, whatever. There’s a rider on the elephant. The rider simply explains the elephant’s decisions. Republicans speak to the elephant, the Democrats speak to the rider. That is why we’re not speaking to people here (heart) and we’re just mainly going here and it’s a huge issue.
And yet, you voted for Hillary, twice.
Once, like most people.
