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Right wingnuts throw shit against the wall to see if it sticks

10 Thursday Dec 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Missouri General Assembly, Missouri House

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Arizona, Donald Trump, Eric Schmitt, Georgia, HR 2, jiggery-pokery, Joe Biden, Justin Hill, Michigan, missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, right wingnuts, Texas, toadies, U.S. Supreme Court, Wisconsin

In Jefferson City, of course. What else is new?

At the end of the special session, reportedly signed on to by sixty-six republicans:

HR 2
Confirms the Missouri House’s lack of faith in the 2020 election results
Sponsor: Hill, Justin (108)
Proposed Effective Date: 8/28/2020
LR Number: 1241H.03I
Last Action: 12/10/2020 – Referred: Special Committee on Government Oversight(H)
Bill String: HR 2
[….]

The resolution text:

SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
House Resolution No. 2
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BYREPRESENTATIVE HILL.

1241H.03I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk

WHEREAS, the President of the United States has immense enumerated powers and serves as both the head of the executive branch of government of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces; and

WHEREAS, the election of the President of the United States should be free and fair in order to preserve the legitimacy of the government, avoid constitutional crisis, and promote the general welfare of the people of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the legislatures of the states are delegated primary responsibility to ensure that free and fair elections for the office of the Presidency of the United States are held under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States which allows each state to appoint presidential Electors in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct; and

WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States is authorized under Amendment XII of the Constitution of the United States and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to independently evaluate whether or not free and fair elections have occurred and to uphold the fundamental principle that the laws governing elections that are enacted by the legislatures of the states prior to the election are fully complied with during the election process; and

WHEREAS, historically low absentee ballot rejection rates occurred in the 2020 election despite the overwhelming new and unprecedented use of absentee ballots and mail in votes by many different persons and organizations; and

WHEREAS, a razor thin margin favoring Biden was reported in the days after election day in many swing states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada and political analyst Robert Barnes observed that Trump would win the election if any historical absentee ballot analysis process and rejection rate was assumed;

WHEREAS, statistically abnormal vote counts were reported in numerous states late on election night and the Biden-to-Trump ratio in reporting was 90 percent or more for some batches of votes;

WHEREAS, the manifest lack of any absentee ballot and mail in ballot oversight by unelected election administrators shows that the laws passed prior to election day were likely ignored and violated in numerous ways and that this violation was of significant magnitude to change the results for the election of the President of the United States; and

WHEREAS, in Pennsylvania 23,000 absentee ballots have impossible return dates, 86,000 absentee ballots are questionable, 50,000 votes held on 47 USB cards are missing in Delaware County, and signature matching for mail in ballots has been rendered impossible by the destruction of ballot envelopes; and

WHEREAS, in Georgia, Matt Braynard’s Voter Integrity Project estimates that 20,312 nonresidents cast ballots, there is video evidence of the statistical anomalies that occurred when Biden overtook President Trump with 89 percent of the votes counted, and for 53 different individual batches of votes counted, Biden led by the same 50.05 to 49.95 percent margin in every single batch; and

WHEREAS, a full and fair investigation of the election results, including analysis of absentee and mail in ballot samples for compliance with state election law, is necessary to ensure a free and fair election and should be conducted by Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada:

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the House of Representatives of the one Hundredth General Assembly, Second Extraordinary Session, hereby have no faith in the validity of the results of the 2020 presidential election reported by the states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if a full and fair investigation is not completed, that the United States Congress sitting in joint session refuse to accept electoral votes for the office of President of the United States from the states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for each house of the United States Congress.

These people really are that stupid.

Uh, Robert Barnes (whatever non-entity he is) is not the arbiter of any election in this country.

Uh, Matt Braynard (whatever non-entity he is) is not the arbiter of any election in this country.

Previously:

Uh, the job description says Missouri (December 9, 2020)

A party in disarray (December 10, 2020)

Arizona, put on your Biden shades

12 Thursday Nov 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Arizona, election, Joe Biden

Arizona
2020 General Election
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Unofficial Results
Precincts Reporting: 100% Registered Voters: 4,281,152 Ballots Cast: 3,401,300 Voter Turnout: 79.45%

FEDERAL
President of the United States
Choice Votes Percent

Biden, Joseph (DEM)
1,663,447
49.41%

Trump, Donald J. (REP)
1,651,812
49.07%

Jorgensen, Jo (LBT)
51,057
1.52%

There you go.

Joe Biden (D) [2014 file photo].

Campaign Finance: “…Arizona’s favorite child…”

06 Friday Mar 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Arizona, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC

Yesterday, at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C201164 03/05/2020 Arizona Democratic Party – MO Non-Fed Arizona Democratic Party 2910 North Central Ave. Phoenix AZ 85012 3/4/2020 $115,000.00

They must be doing well.

Dumber than a cinder block…

10 Saturday Nov 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist, social media

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Arizona, count the votes, Donald Trump, election, Florida, Resist, sicial media, Twitter

…and twice as dense.

That’s you, too, if you buy into it.

Yesterday, via Twitter:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Just out — in Arizona, SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. Electoral corruption – Call for a new Election? We must protect our Democracy!
2:33 PM – 9 Nov 2018

One of the responses:

Signatures not matching does not equal corruption or fraud. Everyone’s signature varies somewhat, and if one signature is on paper and the other is on a device, there can be a lot of variance, especially if the person doesn’t sign on devices often.

Read the sequence. This is all about counting the votes that have been cast in this election. For those of you who have difficulty with reading comprehension and facts (The Faux News Channel, for instance), read this slowly and out loud, that might help you understand it.

1. When voter turnout is higher than expected it takes longer to count the votes because of the volume of ballots which have to be processed.

2. States which have voting by mail have a very high volume. It takes a longer time to count and certify those results due to the very high volume.

3. News media does not count the votes, local election authorities do.

4. Media usually reports on the votes that have been counted, as long as their attention holds. They rarely report on the certified results.

5. Election races are “called” by the media when they believe that the outcome will not be changed by the ballots remaining which have yet to be counted. This is not a certified election result. It’s a bauble for people with short attention spans.

6. Elections are certified by election authorities when all of the votes have been counted.

7. Sometimes, when elections are really close, the media will not “call” the election until it has been certified. Sometimes media makes a mistake and “calls” the election anyway because math is hard for some people.

8. If, at any point, the number of ballots which have not been counted is greater than the reported margin between two candidates, then any media “call” of the race is worthless. That’s how math works.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Senator John McCain (1936-2018)

25 Saturday Aug 2018

Posted by Michael Bersin in US Senate

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Arizona, John McCain, U.S. Senate

Senator John McCain – campaigning for President – Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri – July 17, 2008.

But it’s a dry heat

29 Saturday Jul 2017

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Arizona, health care, Planned Parenthood, Trumpcare, Tucson

There were a number of “Our Lives on the Line” rallies supporting Medicaid, Medicare and the ACA across the country today. The rally in Tucson started at 10:00 a.m., in the July morning heat, with over thirty individuals attending.

OFA, Planned Parenthood, and LUCHA were among the sponsoring organizations.

“Our Lives On the Line” rally, Rudy Garcia Park, Tucson, Arizona, July 29, 2017.

There are thousands of health care stories:

Much like the Indivisible events in Kansas and Missouri, many attending these rallies tell their health care stories.

Previously:

Sen. Roy Blunt (r): there are thousands of health care stories (July 25, 2017)

Talking about health care at Sen. Roy Blunt’s (r) office in Kansas City – July 14, 2017 (July 14, 2017)

Gabby

16 Wednesday Mar 2016

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Arizona, Gabby Giffords, guns, Hillary Clinton, president

A thirty second ad from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign:

Gabby Giffords: I’m fed up. We have a gun violence problem. So, I’m voting for Hillary Clinton. She’s tough. She will stand up to the gun lobby. She will fight to make our families safer. It matters.

Hillary Clinton: I’m Hillary Clinton and I approve this message.

A lot of people do.

The First Amendment is for everyone

22 Friday May 2015

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Arizona, Doug Ducey, sign

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (r) is a popular guy. Facing a main thoroughfare:

“Support public education. My child is an honor student, my governor is a lunatic.” – On Broadway, west of Columbus, in Tucson, Arizona.

Steller: Broadway wall sends political message, welcome or not

….Monday night, I talked to both of the neighbors across Broadway who have the most direct view of the wall. Neither of them wanted their full names used because they don’t want to get involved in neighborhood disputes. And neither of them like it.

One said he finds it obnoxious that he has to see the wall every time he sits down for dinner and looks out the window. The other told me she simply didn’t like seeing such a negative message day after day….

What do you bet the second neighbor watches the Faux News Channel all the time?

Previously:

Signs we’ll be seeing for the next ten years (May 11, 2015)

Welcome to post-racial America – Arizona edition

31 Thursday Jul 2014

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Arizona, immigration, race

Early morning in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Coronado National Forest, Southern Arizona.

On a recent trip to Southern Arizona I had a conversation about immigration with a long time friend of Hispanic descent. Toward the end of our conversation on the subject she related that recently, “People have told me, ‘Go back to Mexico’. I was born here. I was raised here. I went to school here. I’ve lived here my entire life…”

Welcome to post-racial America.

Truman Days 2013 – Rep. Raul Grijalva (D) – May 18, 2013

20 Monday May 2013

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Arizona, Democrats, Kansas City, missouri, Raul Grijalva, Truman Days

“….the greatest integrative force in this country has been our public education system. The greatest integrative value developing part of this country has been our education system. And we need to strengthen that. As a new demography comes in there has to be a touchstone, an American touchstone that translates and brings to that accommodation who we are as a nation, what our values are, and what it means to be an American. I learned that in school, I learned it from my family. And we cannot rob the next two or three generations of the opportunity in our school system to become fully empowered and American like the rest of us. [applause]….”

Previously:

That’s Liza with a Z, not Lisa with an S… (May 18, 2013)

Truman Days in Jackson County – 2013 (May 18, 2013)

Truman Days 2013 – Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) – Breakfast Keynote – May 18, 2013 (May 19, 2013)

Truman Days 2013 – Attorney General Chris Koster – May 18, 2013 (May 20, 2013)

Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva (D) was the keynote speaker at the Jackson County Democratic Committee’s Truman Days dinner in Kansas City on Saturday night.

Representative Raul Grijalva (D) was the keynote speaker at the Jackson County Democratic Committee’s

annual Truman Days dinner in Kansas City on May 18, 2013.

Part 1:

Part 2:

“… I go, you know, Pops, why with the union, you know? And I’m speaking more for myself. Why do I have to come? But he took it as a question directed at him, like I do at the union. And I think that’s been kind of a guiding principle since he said that. He said to me, you know…on the job they can work me like a dog. But with the union they have to treat me like a man. [applause, cheers]… “

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