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Wisconsin GOP lawmakers force Kaepernick’s name out of Black History resolution

Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke of Kaukauna said Republicans wouldn’t support the resolution that included Kaepernick “for obvious reasons,” referring to protests during the national anthem.

Democratic Rep. LaKeshia Myers of Milwaukee said Kaepernick “decided to take on ownership of a problem that he saw, which was police brutality.”

“Whether you dislike the method that he used, understand that it is a part of America’s DNA — not just African-Americans’ protest,” said Myers, who was the lone vote against the resolution.
 
In his latest effort to boost the coal business — and in the process help a major supporter — President Trump has called on the Tennessee Valley Authority to, essentially, ignore the advice of its staff and keep a large coal-fired power plant operating.

The move has drawn extra scrutiny because that plant buys coal from a company headed by a large campaign donor to Trump, Murray Energy Corp. Chairman, President and CEO Robert Murray.

The facility at issue is the last remaining unit at TVA's Paradise Fossil Plant in Western Kentucky.

In an environmental assessment signed Monday TVA staff proposed retiring the coal-fired plant. The report says, "As a large coal unit with medium operating costs and a high forced outage rate, as well as the need for significant repairs, PAF Unit 3 does not fit current and likely future portfolio needs."

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/6939...llies-push-to-save-a-very-specific-coal-plant

Imagine a scenario in which an investigative reporter uncovered a secret document from the White House. The document, in this hypothetical, showed Donald Trump using the power of his office to pressure a public agency to do a favor for one of his campaign supporters, who has an obsolete coal plant, but who has the president trying to pull strings for him behind the scenes.

In this scenario, the investigative reporter would have quite a scoop. It’s the kind of story that raises questions about corruption and abuses at the highest levels.

In 2019, however, we apparently don’t need an investigative reporter to uncover such a controversial document – because Donald Trump will simply put all of this on Twitter without a whole lot of thought.

“Coal is an important part of our electricity generation mix,” the president wrote yesterday, “and [the Tennessee Valley Authority] should give serious consideration to all factors before voting to close viable power plants, like Paradise #3 in Kentucky!”

And why, pray tell, would Trump take time out of his crushingly busy schedule to lobby the Tennessee Valley Authority in support of a single aging coal plant? Because as Politico reported overnight, the president apparently wants to help one of his top supporters, who’s eager to keep the TVA as a customer.

[Trump’s] missive came just days before the TVA board is slated to vote on the future of Paradise Unit 3, a 49-year-old coal plant that the federally owned utility has said would be too expensive to keep operating.

The 1,150-megawatt plant gets the bulk of its coal from a subsidiary of Murray Energy, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. Robert Murray, the CEO of the mining company, is a major Trump supporter who has personally lobbied the president to take other actions to help the ailing coal industry, particularly in regions where he sells coal.

Murray is also, the report added, “a prolific GOP donor.” His support included exceedingly generous contributions to a leading pro-Trump super PAC in 2016.

It’s a tough dynamic to defend. It’s not cost effective for the Tennessee Valley Authority to prop up an aging coal plant. Trump is lobbying the TVA to do it anyway. (Remember when it was Republican orthodoxy that the government isn’t supposed to pick winners and losers?)

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-intervenes-support-coal-plant-owned-major-donor
 
Hüsker Dü said:
In his latest effort to boost the coal business — and in the process help a major supporter — President Trump has called on the Tennessee Valley Authority to, essentially, ignore the advice of its staff and keep a large coal-fired power plant operating.

The move has drawn extra scrutiny because that plant buys coal from a company headed by a large campaign donor to Trump, Murray Energy Corp. Chairman, President and CEO Robert Murray.

The facility at issue is the last remaining unit at TVA's Paradise Fossil Plant in Western Kentucky.

In an environmental assessment signed Monday TVA staff proposed retiring the coal-fired plant. The report says, "As a large coal unit with medium operating costs and a high forced outage rate, as well as the need for significant repairs, PAF Unit 3 does not fit current and likely future portfolio needs."

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/6939...llies-push-to-save-a-very-specific-coal-plant

Imagine a scenario in which an investigative reporter uncovered a secret document from the White House. The document, in this hypothetical, showed Donald Trump using the power of his office to pressure a public agency to do a favor for one of his campaign supporters, who has an obsolete coal plant, but who has the president trying to pull strings for him behind the scenes.

In this scenario, the investigative reporter would have quite a scoop. It’s the kind of story that raises questions about corruption and abuses at the highest levels.

In 2019, however, we apparently don’t need an investigative reporter to uncover such a controversial document – because Donald Trump will simply put all of this on Twitter without a whole lot of thought.

“Coal is an important part of our electricity generation mix,” the president wrote yesterday, “and [the Tennessee Valley Authority] should give serious consideration to all factors before voting to close viable power plants, like Paradise #3 in Kentucky!”

And why, pray tell, would Trump take time out of his crushingly busy schedule to lobby the Tennessee Valley Authority in support of a single aging coal plant? Because as Politico reported overnight, the president apparently wants to help one of his top supporters, who’s eager to keep the TVA as a customer.

[Trump’s] missive came just days before the TVA board is slated to vote on the future of Paradise Unit 3, a 49-year-old coal plant that the federally owned utility has said would be too expensive to keep operating.

The 1,150-megawatt plant gets the bulk of its coal from a subsidiary of Murray Energy, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. Robert Murray, the CEO of the mining company, is a major Trump supporter who has personally lobbied the president to take other actions to help the ailing coal industry, particularly in regions where he sells coal.

Murray is also, the report added, “a prolific GOP donor.” His support included exceedingly generous contributions to a leading pro-Trump super PAC in 2016.

It’s a tough dynamic to defend. It’s not cost effective for the Tennessee Valley Authority to prop up an aging coal plant. Trump is lobbying the TVA to do it anyway. (Remember when it was Republican orthodoxy that the government isn’t supposed to pick winners and losers?)

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-intervenes-support-coal-plant-owned-major-donor
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Rachel maddow? The confused one?
You are Fake News.
 
espola said:
Defunked?
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Yes, like parliament funkadelic.
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messy said:
Yeah those are desperate measures. A simple tax return as with every single other president in the modern era and some bank transactions.
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Nobody's Business......what was relevant has already been reviewed.
The Democrats are creating another Witch Hunt to cover for ALL the
crap they did for eight years under Barry Soetoro and the Illegal Coup
they tried before/during and are still trying currently.....Hundreds of
the previous administration belong in jail for what they've done !

You are a poor Troll for the Democratic Party.....
 
Friesland said:
You should start planning your Inauguration 2021 party... you might be serving fine Friesland booze.

Unlike huli huli boi, some folks are willing to put their money where their pie-hole is and perhaps they will end up with a nice little ROI.

Huli huli boi knows he's wrong, however, so like the chicken, he just crossed the road...

But Racist Sterno Joe...can he really pass up the chance at 100 cases of sterno? That's got to be at least a weeks worth of slurping for Racist Joe! C'mon Joe. Be like the hirsute one, take a chance. Put your markers on the table! You never know if you might profit!

Kek.
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You should have made it 10 %.
I probably would have let that slide.
 
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