Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…
Seriously?
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound. I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security. The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version! 3:59 PM – 30 Dec 2018
In one of his most recent arguments for a southern border wall, President Trump on Sunday falsely claimed that the Washington home of former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama is surrounded by a 10-foot wall….
C180478 12/31/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 12/31/2018 $161,781.99
[emphasis added]
C180478 : Citizens To Protect Tax Revenues And Jobs
Committee Type: Political Action
Po Box 156
Jefferson City Mo 65102
Established Date: 06/25/2018
[….]
Previously, this year:
C180478 06/28/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 6/26/2018 $200,000.00
C180478 07/27/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 7/26/2018 $200,000.00
C180478 08/17/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 8/16/2018 $14,858.00
C180478 08/17/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 8/17/2018 $100,000.00
C180478 09/28/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 9/27/2018 $18,640.82
C180478 10/05/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 10/4/2018 $20,000.00
C180478 10/05/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 10/4/2018 $13,771.50
C180478 10/26/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 10/26/2018 $15,631.00 C180478
11/11/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 11/9/2018 $21,000.00
C180478 12/27/2018 Citizens to Protect Tax Revenues and Jobs Penn National Gaming, Inc. 825 Berkshire Boulevard Wyomissing PA 19610 12/26/2018 $101,363.38
Charter Amendment F Saint Louis County 11/6/2018 [in support] $28,770.00 $540,892.40
It was on the November ballot to allow smoking in casinos in St. Louis County.
Someone draw the line here for us – from “protecting tax revenue and jobs” to allowing smoking on up to 50% of gaming space in a casino (“excursion gambling boat”) in St. Louis County.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) has formed a 2020 presidential campaign exploratory committee.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) [2016 file photo by Jerry Schmidt]
The transcript:
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D): In our country, if you work hard and play by the rules, you ought to be able to take care of yourself and the people you love. That’s a fundamental promise of America – a promise that should be true for everyone.
Growing up in Oklahoma, that promise came through for me and my family. After my older brothers joined the military and I was still just a kid, my daddy had a heart attack and couldn’t work. My mom found a minimum wage job at Sears, and that job saved our house and our family. My daddy ended up as a janitor, but he raised a daughter who got to be a public school teacher, a law professor, and a Senator. We got a real opportunity to build something.
Working families today face a lot tougher path than my family did. And families of color face a path that is steeper and rockier, a path made even harder by the impact of generations of discrimination.
I’ve spent my career getting to the bottom of why America’s promise works for some families, but others who work just as hard slip through the cracks into disaster. What I’ve found is terrifying: these aren’t cracks that families are falling into – they’re traps. America’s middle class is under attack.
How did we get here? Billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie, and they enlisted politicians to cut them a fatter slice. They crippled unions so no one could stop them, [….] dismantled the financial rules meant to keep us safe after the Great Depression, and cut their own taxes so they paid less than their secretaries and janitors.
[….]
After Wall Street crashed our economy in 2008, I left the classroom to go to Washington and confront the broken system head on.
[….]
We created America’s first consumer watchdog to hold the big banks accountable.
[….]
I never thought I’d run for office – not in a million years. But when Republican Senators tried to sabotage the reforms and run me out of town, I went back to Massachusetts and ran against one of them – and I beat him.
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Today, corruption is poisoning our democracy. Politicians look the other way while big insurance companies deny patients life-saving coverage, while big banks rip off consumers, and while big oil companies destroy this planet.
Our government’s supposed to work for all of us, but instead it has become a tool for the wealthy and well-connected. The whole scam is propped up by an echo chamber of fear and hate designed to distract and divide us. People who will do or say anything to hang on to power point the finger at anyone who looks or thinks or prays or loves differently than they do.
But this dark path doesn’t have to be our future. We can make our democracy work for all of us. We can make our economy work for all of us. We can rebuild America’s middle class – but this time, we gotta build it for everyone.
No matter where you live in America, and no matter where your family came from in the world, you deserve a path to opportunity. Because no matter what our differences, most of us want the same thing: to be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules, and take care of the people we love.
That’s the America I’m fighting for, and that’s why today I’m launching an exploratory committee for president. But the outcome of this election will depend on you.
In the last two years, millions of people have done more than they ever thought they thought they would to protect the promise of America. And here’s what we learned: if we organize together, if we fight together, if we persist together, we can win – we can and we will.
We shoot hundreds of frames when we cover an event. This image was not included in our original coverage.
Again, I learned online of an organized rally and march on immigration to be held in front of the Boone County Courthouse in Columbia, Missouri, midday on June 30, 2018. I made the drive to Columbia, arrived early, and found a parking spot north of the courthouse.
It was hot. So much so that early arrivals staked out spots in nearby building shade and under trees on the courthouse grounds.
Did I mention it was hot?
These two women were at the front of the crowd of around five hundred individuals listening and reacting to rally speakers on the courthouse steps.
Making a choice was prompted by an exchange on social media.
I really do care. Do U?
On Twitter:
Michael Bersin @MBersin
Replying to @cathysherwin
@KurtEricksonPD My favorite image of the year – June 22, 2018 – immigration protest in front of Rep. Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office in Overland Park, Kansas. #change #YearInReview
[….] 12:03 PM – 29 Dec 2018
F 4.5, 1/400, ISO 200, 180 mm – June was a busy month for public protest.
I had read online that there would be an immigration demonstration in front of Representative Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office in downtown Overland Park on the 22nd starting at 4:00 p.m. I arrived early, parked on the street at a nearby park, and walked to the district office. I had expected a handful of protesters. By the time the demonstration was at its peak there were over five hundred people picketing on the sidewalk. There were a few counter protesters, not more than a handful.
Usually protesters face the street with their signs. Early on I noted this individual with her back to the street. I took a series of images.
It was over four months to the general election, this was Johnson County, Kansas, and over five hundred people showed up. That’s when I realized Kevin Yoder’s (r) 2018 reelection campaign was in trouble.
Sharice Davids (D) is now the Representative-elect for the Third Congressional District of Kansas.
In the late afternoon of June 29, 2018 at a Kansas City rally in support of Muslims, Immigrants, & Refugees a young woman with poster board and a marker took it upon herself to peacefully confront a right wingnut counter protester.
The announcement for the March for Our Lives event held in Kansas City, Missouri. There was a lot of interest. There were a lot of people attending four days later.
“There should be a background check before the NRA is allowed to buy a senator.”
A company in the process of creating an “up to” 6,999 beef cattle confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) on 400 acres on U.S. 50 in western Johnson County, just west of Powell Gardens, faced a public permit hearing in Warrensburg with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Hundreds showed up.
Attorney General Josh Hawley (r) (and now U.S. Senator-elect) literally shit on Powell Gardens (“Kansas City’s botanical garden”) by intervening against a Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission stay of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources decision in support of a confined animal feeding operation [CAFO] up wind of the gardens.
Revenue estimate shows Missouri in for yet another rough budget
The official revenue estimate released today for FY 020 shows Missouri has yet another rough budget year ahead and again proves [the] folly of attempting to tax-cut your way to prosperity. While the estimate reflects an expected $193 million in revenue growth, it is silent on the $320 million in revenue Missouri won’t collect next year due to the next phase of implementing an ill-advised 2014 tax cut [SB 509] As House Democrats warned then, this tax giveaway for [the] rich is resulting in serious consequences for everyone else.
State Rep. Kip Kendrick
House Budget Committee, Ranking Democratic Member
D-Columbia
The final vote to override Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of SB 509. Representative Jeremy LaFaver (D) (left) – bearing witness, Representative Keith English (center) – casting the 109th vote necessary for the override, and Representative Ron Hicks (r) (right) – his escort on and off the House floor. May 6, 2014.
Kip Kendrick @Kip_Kendrick
Replying to @MBersin @Martha4MO
3 years into 5 year phase in and conservative estimate is $320 million this year. Year 4 and 5 will basically double this year’s cost. 6:13 PM – 28 Dec 2018
What, a $640 million shortfall the year after that?
