Racist Ron & The State of Mississippi's Favorite Welfare Queen

[RayGravesGhost]

According to racist Ron's accounting this is just more proof that black people get the majority of welfare funding...always have
In Mississippi the federal money never even makes it to black people...white conservatives steal it with the help of the governor



This is excerpt ..click the link to read the entire article


https://mississippitoday.org/2022/09/13/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare/

Former Gov. Phil Bryant helped Brett Favre secure welfare funding for USM volleyball stadium, texts reveal​

Never-before-seen text messages show former Gov. Phil Bryant tried to shepherd a proposal to use welfare funds on the construction of a new volleyball stadium for retired NFL player Brett Favre – a project prosecutors have called a scheme to defraud the government. Bryant has previously denied any involvement with the project, which has emerged as the centerpiece of a massive criminal scandal in which prominent officials misspent or stole millions in welfare funds intended for the nation’s poorest residents.

by Anna Wolfe
September 13, 2022

Text messages entered Monday into the state’s ongoing civil lawsuit over the welfare scandal reveal that former Gov. Phil Bryant pushed to make NFL legend Brett Favre’s volleyball idea a reality.

The texts show that the then-governor even guided Favre on how to write a funding proposal so that it could be accepted by the Mississippi Department of Human Services – even after Bryant ousted the former welfare agency director John Davis for suspected fraud.

“Just left Brett Favre,” Bryant texted nonprofit founder Nancy New in July of 2019, within weeks of Davis’ departure. “Can we help him with his project. We should meet soon to see how I can make sure we keep your projects on course.”

When Favre asked Bryant how the new agency director might affect their plans to fund the volleyball stadium, Bryant assured him, “I will handle that… long story but had to make a change. But I will call Nancy and see what it will take,” according to the filing and a text Favre forwarded to New.

The newly released texts, filed Monday by an attorney representing Nancy New’s nonprofit, show that Bryant, Favre, New, Davis and others worked together to channel at least $5 million of the state’s welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at University of Southern Mississippi, where Favre’s daughter played the sport. Favre received most of the credit for raising funds to construct the facility.

Bryant has for years denied any close involvement in the steering of welfare funds to the volleyball stadium, though plans for the project even included naming the building after him, one text shows.

New, a friend of Bryant’s wife Deborah, ran a nonprofit that was in charge of spending tens of millions of flexible federal welfare dollars outside of public view. What followed was the biggest public fraud case in state history, according to the state auditor’s office. Nonprofit leaders had misspent at least $77 million in funds that were supposed to help the needy, forensic auditors found.

New pleaded guilty to 13 felony counts related to the scheme, and Davis awaits trial. But neither Bryant nor Favre have been charged with any crime.

And while the state-of-the-art facility represents the single largest known fraudulent purchase within the scheme, according to one of the criminal defendant’s plea agreement, the state is not pursuing the matter in its ongoing civil complaint. Current Gov. Tate Reeves abruptly fired the attorney bringing the state’s case when he tried to subpoena documents related to the volleyball stadium.

The messages also show that a separate $1.1 million welfare contract Favre received to promote the program – the subject of many national headlines – was simply a way to get more funding to the volleyball project.

“I could record a few radio spots,” Favre texted New, according to the new filing. “…and whatever compensation could go to USM.”

 

[RayGravesGhost]

What an amazing coincidence...this story ran last night and whaddya know?
Conservative Gov. Tate Reeves just announced clean water has been restored

Amazing what happens when racist corrupt political operations in Mississippi get some scrutiny during an election season

 

[LinksGator]

Jackson mayor is a progressive lib and was the most guilty in the water fiasco, so let’s blame the republican governor whose help was refused.

 

[Budster22]

Looks like they could just use volleyball court money to fix it...

 

[RayGravesGhost]

Looks like the the trumpanzees are waving the white flag...

There will be no periodic reporting (mainly because the special master says this won't take very long LOL)

And the trump lawyers don't get to see the documents at all until trump is indicted 😲 just like every other criminal suspect



https://www.lawfareblog.com/cannon-...master-order-response-eleventh-circuit-ruling

Cannon Strikes Two Provisions of Special Master Order in Response to Eleventh Circuit Ruling​

By Katherine Pompilio
Thursday, September 22, 2022, 12:59 PM

On Sept. 22, Judge Aileen Cannon struck down two sections of her Sept. 5 order to appoint a Special Master to oversee documents seized by the FBI from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in response to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’s decision granting the Justice Department's motion for a partial stay of her order.

The provisions of Cannons order that were stricken include Paragraph 6, which requires the Special Master to submit interim reports and recommendations to the court throughout their review, as well as Paragraph 5(b)(i)(bb), which requires that classified documents under review be made available to Trump’s counsel for inspection under supervision of the special master.

You can read Cannon’s response here

 

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics...es-ended-aileen-cannons-reign-of-madness.html

Judge Aileen Cannon’s Reign of Madness Is Over​

Here’s why the 11th Circuit, including two Trump judges, ruled in favor of the Department of Justice.​

BY MARK JOSEPH STERN
SEPT 22, 20223:20 PM

Judge Aileen Cannon suffered a rout on Wednesday night when the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shredded every aspect of her decision that halted the criminal investigation into Donald Trump. The three-judge panel, which included two fellow Trump nominees, gave the Justice Department a complete victory, identifying multiple grievous errors in Cannon’s reasoning. Technically, the 11th Circuit ruled against Trump, but much of its reasoning reads like a ruling against Cannon herself—a vehement repudiation of her sloppy effort to run interference for the president who appointed her. Most notably, the panel emphasized the most dangerous consequence in Cannon’s decision: In twisting the law for Trump, the decision created a startling and unlawful threat to national security.

Cannon’s decision was so sweeping that this element of the case has been easy to miss. But national security experts like Slate’s Fred Kaplan have been ringing the alarm from the start, pointing out how Cannon’s injunction kneecapped federal law enforcement and potentially jeopardized people’s lives. The reason why is simple: In her first ruling, the judge prohibited the government from “further review and use of any of the materials” seized from Mar-a-Lago “for criminal investigative purposes,” including about 100 classified documents. She added, however, that the government could “continue to review and use the materials seized for purposes of intelligence classification and national security assessments.”

This distinction is utterly impractical, even fantastical. It is impossible to abide by. Here’s the problem: The FBI and Justice Department officials conducting the criminal investigation into Trump are working on the damage assessment, as well. These two tasks have been intertwined from the start. As Norm Eisen and Fred Wertheimer explained in Slate, those officials assessing the damage caused by improper handling of classified materials must communicate with officials considering possible criminal penalties. In some cases, the same individuals will participate in both the damage assessment and the criminal case. These overlapping roles make perfect sense: The criminal case against Trump will rest, in part, on the damage that his behavior inflicted on national security. So by halting the Justice Department’s criminal investigation, Cannon effectively halted its damage assessment, too. Her roadblock has hamstrung the intelligence community’s efforts to determine whether Trump’s illicit seizure of classified documents imperiled the nation’s security by compromising American spies still working undercover.

The Justice Department explained all this to Cannon, who apparently didn’t care enough to change her ruling. Luckily, the 11th Circuit did. It relied heavily on a declaration submitted by Alan E. Kohler, Jr., the Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI. The appeals court credited Kohler’s explanation that “as part of a classification review to assess the existence and extent of damage” to national security, the FBI “needed to access evidence and disseminate it to other intelligence agencies to assess potential harm.” Consider a few of the government’s most pressing concerns: Who accessed the classified material? What portion of it was compromised? Are there any other classified papers still unaccounted for?

These questions are equally relevant to the intelligence community and to the criminal investigators. But as the 11th Circuit pointed out, under Cannon’s ruling, government officials cannot answer them without risking “contempt of court.” The consequence will be a “chilling” of their “national-security duties,” since those responsibilities are “inextricably intertwined” with the criminal investigation.

The 11th Circuit did not spell out how, exactly, Trump’s seizure of classified documents may have harmed the security of the United States. That reticence is understandable, since many key details of the case remain secret. And yet, an unredacted portion of the warrant that authorized the Mar-a-Lago search showed that these records included information provided by spies. Some documents were marked HCS, or Human Intelligence Control System, which indicates that they may contain the identity of undercover informants. This is a problem for more reasons than the obvious: Just last year, the CIA warned that a shocking number of its informants had been arrested and killed by foreign nations. The agency also noted its struggle to recruit new informants. It is hard to imagine that anyone would want to sign up if they knew that a former president could keep documents revealing their identity in an unlocked room at his resort—then persuade a federal judge to prevent the FBI from ascertaining how much danger they’re in because of the president’s negligence.

Here, then, is the chief distinction between Cannon and the two Trump nominees who ruled against her, Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant. All three judges are extraordinarily conservative. All three might even bend the rules to favor Trump. But Brasher and Grant were not willing to fully break the rules, at least when doing so could subvert the U.S. government’s ability to protect itself from foreign threats. Cannon’s conduct places her in a separate class of hard-right judges—you might call them ultra-MAGA—who will do anything to further their political and ideological agenda. There’s an analogy here to the conservative judges who ordered the Navy to deploy unvaccinated SEALs and attempted to keep an insubordinate anti-vaxxer in command of a naval warship. There is no limit to the lunacy these judges will unleash in furtherance of their agenda. And so the somewhat less radical adults in the room must step in. Much like Justice Brett Kavanaugh shot down conservative judges who inserted themselves into the Navy’s chain of command, Brasher and Grant had to stop Cannon from wresting control over the FBI.

If Trump dares appeal the 11th Circuit’s decision to the Supreme Court, he will lose, perhaps unanimously. The appeals court made it abundantly clear that judicial interference in the government’s review of these classified documents crossed the line into lawlessness. Cannon’s wildly disruptive reign of madness is finally drawing to a close.

 

[RayGravesGhost]

The smell of desperation & fear of fellow Americans runs deep in the current modern day GOP



https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-county-validates-thousands-voters-042624727.html

Georgia county validates thousands of voters challenged by Trump allies​

By Daniel Trotta

(Reuters) - A Georgia county has validated 15,000 to 20,000 registered voters whose status was challenged ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm election, officials said on Wednesday, leaving another 16,000 pending cases to resolve, according to the group leading the challenge.

The voter challenge campaign in Gwinnett County, a suburb of Atlanta, is led by VoterGA, which backs Donald Trump's false claims that widespread fraud cost him the 2020 election. Supported by prominent allies of the former president, VoterGA has contested 37,000 voter registrations in the county of about 562,000 active voters.

Similar challenges are taking place in counties across Georgia, which has tight races for governor and U.S. senator on the ballot, and the queries have overwhelmed Gwinnett's elections board.


Voting rights advocates contend the campaign disproportionately targets areas with a higher African-American population. VoterGA disputes that, calling it a lie.

Gwinnett County Elections Supervisor Zach Manifold told the county's election board on Wednesday that a review of the challenges found 15,000 to 20,000 were eliminated from further scrutiny because the process by which those voters had their ballots delivered to them was legitimate.

Manifold said he had been informed just before the meeting that a further 6,275 challenges had been withdrawn by VoterGA.

VoterGA co-founder Garland Favorito told Reuters those challenges were withdrawn after a previous review by Gwinnett County determined they were legitimate, leaving a total of around 16,000 pending cases.

"I would be surprised if any more entries were removed (from the voter rolls) prior to the election," Favorito said.

The effort follows Trump's false claims that widespread fraud allowed now-President Joe Biden to win the state and the country as a whole in 2020. Trump's claims have been rejected by multiple courts, state reviews and members of his former administration.

This year's voter role challenges are being filed under Georgia's Election Integrity Act of 2021, or SB 202, which made it easier for citizens to question the eligibility of registered voters.

VoterGA volunteers scoured public records to compile their claims, seeking to verify whether voters had improperly registered, moved away, had invalid addresses, or otherwise could not be accounted for.

The group is backed by the American Project, which was founded by former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and former Overstock.com Inc Chief Executive Patrick Byrne. The American Project announced in August it would sponsor lawsuits related to claims about the 2020 election in Georgia, including several involving VoterGA and Favorito.

Favorito said he did not vote for Trump and has never met Flynn or Byrne but welcomes their help.

Voting rights advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union and All Voting is Local say that VoterGA is abusing the law, which they say was intended to enable citizens with personal knowledge of an irregularity to report it, such as when a neighbor moves away and is still registered to vote locally.

The group is bringing "tens of thousands of what we would call baseless challenges that take up the resources of offices that really have better things to be doing at this time," said Vasu Abhiraman, senior policy counsel for the ACLU of Georgia.

 

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https://sports.yahoo.com/telepathy-trump-claims-could-declassify-032720342.html

Telepathy? Trump Claims He Could Declassify Documents 'By Thinking About It'​

Ed Mazza
Wed, September 21, 2022 at 11:27 PM·3 min read

Donald Trump just made one of the broadest claims of presidential power yet, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity he had the ability to declassify government documents with his mind.

Or, as one U.S. senator summed it up, Trump appears to think it can be done “telepathically.”

The claim comes after the FBI discovered highly sensitive government documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago private club in Florida while executing a search warrant last month.

Trump and those close to him have claimed ― although not in court ― that he had declassified those documents while he was still president, but they haven’t offered evidence.

On Wednesday, the ex-president took it to a new level, insisting that he not only didn’t have to tell anyone but that he could do it without a word.

All he needed was his mind.

“There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” he told Hannity. “You’re the president of the United States. You can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified.’ Even by thinking about it.”





Trump also claimed he might not have been the real target of the search anyway, telling Hannity the FBI may have been looking for documents on his 2016 presidential rival, Hillary Clinton.

But it was his claims of being able to use the power of thought to declassify documents that lit up Twitter:

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/armed-man-clown-wig-hoping-215400567.html

Armed man in clown wig hoping to ‘restore Trump as President king’ arrested at Dairy Queen in Pennsylvania​

Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News
Tue, September 13, 2022 at 5:54 PM·1 min read

He wasn’t just clowning around.

An armed Pennsylvania man plotting to “restore (Donald) Trump as President king of the United States” was arrested at a Dairy Queen on Saturday.

Cops said Jan Stawovy, 61, threatened to kill “Democrats and liberals” and claimed he was protecting himself from “drug traffickers,” Pittsburgh NBC affiliate WPXI reported.

Stawovy was arrested in Delmont, about 20 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh.

Police got a call about Stawovy driving erratically in the area, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

When cops caught up with Stawovy, he was spotted wearing a rainbow clown wig and walking into a Dairy Queen with a handgun.


Stawovy was quickly detained inside the store, WPXI reported. Cops later said they found two more guns and more than 60 bullets in his vehicle. Stawovy did not have a permit for the weapons, police said.

“Ofc. Stull detained the male and was able (to) prevent the possibility of a mass casualty incident,” Delmont police chief Timothy Klobucar said in a Facebook post. “I am grateful for Ofc. Stull’s fast response and actions (in) this incident that had the potential to end very differently.”

Stawovy was formally charged with making terroristic threats, carrying firearms without a permit and disorderly conduct.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/armed-trump-lover-arrested-dairy-180544761.html​

Armed Trump Lover Arrested at Dairy Queen Wanted to ‘Kill All Democrats’​

Nikki McCann Ramirez
Wed, September 14, 2022 at 2:05 PM·2 min read


A man claiming he sought to “restore Trump to president of the United States,” and would “kill all Democrats” to do so was arrested in a Pennsylvania Dairy Queen after entering the establishment armed with a handgun.




According to an affidavit obtained by WTAJ, Jan Stawovy of Hunker, Pennsylvania, allegedly entered the Dairy Queen last Saturday, placing $120 on the counter and telling the manager it was a “tip” for “non-Democrats.” Police were alerted later in the day to an erratic driver, and reached the Dairy Queen after Stawovy returned to the location. Police found additional weapons in Stawovy’s vehicle.


Stawovy, dressed in what witnesses say was a rainbow clown wig and a bright yellow safety vest, attempted to convince police officers at the scene that he was “undercover with Pennsylvania State Police” and there “working on a major drug sting.”

According to the affidavit, Stawovy went on to claim that he was a prophet who had “talked to God” and needed to “kill all the Democrats because Trump was still president.”

According to KDKA, Stawovy was expelled from two different churches due to his erratic behavior, and was advised by both to seek professional treatment for his mental health. KDKA reports that in one instance Stawovy came to Barren Run United Methodist Church in a clown costume, frightening congregants.

No one was injured in the encounter at Dairy Queen, and police arrested Stawovy, who is now in custody awaiting arraignment.

Stawovy’s arrest is one of several recent examples of Trump supporters turning to violence or threatening violence. Days after the FBI’s raid of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month, a gunman who had posted pro-Trump content on social media tried to break into an FBI office in Cincinnati before he was killed by law enforcement after a standoff. This past Sunday, a Michigan man devoted to the QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that Trump is combating a cabal of satanic pedophiles that run the world, shot and killed his wife and the family dog, as well as injuring his daughter. The man’s other daughter, who was not home at the time of the shooting, shared in a Reddit post that her father’s behavior had become increasingly erratic after becoming involved in the QAnon conspiracy.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/armed-trump-lover-arrested-dairy-180544761.html​

Armed Trump Lover Arrested at Dairy Queen Wanted to ‘Kill All Democrats’​

Nikki McCann Ramirez
Wed, September 14, 2022 at 2:05 PM·2 min read


A man claiming he sought to “restore Trump to president of the United States,” and would “kill all Democrats” to do so was arrested in a Pennsylvania Dairy Queen after entering the establishment armed with a handgun.

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According to an affidavit obtained by WTAJ, Jan Stawovy of Hunker, Pennsylvania, allegedly entered the Dairy Queen last Saturday, placing $120 on the counter and telling the manager it was a “tip” for “non-Democrats.” Police were alerted later in the day to an erratic driver, and reached the Dairy Queen after Stawovy returned to the location. Police found additional weapons in Stawovy’s vehicle.


Stawovy, dressed in what witnesses say was a rainbow clown wig and a bright yellow safety vest, attempted to convince police officers at the scene that he was “undercover with Pennsylvania State Police” and there “working on a major drug sting.”

According to the affidavit, Stawovy went on to claim that he was a prophet who had “talked to God” and needed to “kill all the Democrats because Trump was still president.”

According to KDKA, Stawovy was expelled from two different churches due to his erratic behavior, and was advised by both to seek professional treatment for his mental health. KDKA reports that in one instance Stawovy came to Barren Run United Methodist Church in a clown costume, frightening congregants.

No one was injured in the encounter at Dairy Queen, and police arrested Stawovy, who is now in custody awaiting arraignment.

Stawovy’s arrest is one of several recent examples of Trump supporters turning to violence or threatening violence. Days after the FBI’s raid of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month, a gunman who had posted pro-Trump content on social media tried to break into an FBI office in Cincinnati before he was killed by law enforcement after a standoff. This past Sunday, a Michigan man devoted to the QAnon conspiracy theory, which holds that Trump is combating a cabal of satanic pedophiles that run the world, shot and killed his wife and the family dog, as well as injuring his daughter. The man’s other daughter, who was not home at the time of the shooting, shared in a Reddit post that her father’s behavior had become increasingly erratic after becoming involved in the QAnon conspiracy.

This guy sounds like @Capt Ron

 

[Mdfgator]

it wasnt @GhostOfMatchesMalone he cant afford a plane ticket...

 

[Mdfgator]

well he also came up with many cures for covid, the guy does have some serious skills.

 

[Mdfgator]

question for the board, who is the bigger sore loser, Hillary and her gang, or trump and the loyal trumpanzees??? my vote goes to trump and his loyal band of slurpers.

 

[RayGravesGhost]

GOP has pulled AD money from another fine trumpanzee candidate that lies about his service to the country


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/politics/ohio-jr-majewski-afghanistan.html

House Candidate Says He Served in Afghanistan, but Air Force Has No Record of It​

By Neil Vigdor

• Sept. 22, 2022

J.R. Majewski, a Republican House candidate in northern Ohio, has frequently promoted himself as a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but the U.S. Air Force has no record that he served there, unraveling a central narrative of his political ascension that has been heralded by former President Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Majewski, 42, was deployed for six months in 2002 to Qatar, the Persian Gulf nation that is now home to the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East, according to Air Force records obtained by The New York Times.

The Associated Press reported earlier about Mr. Majewski’s misrepresentations of his military service, noting that he worked as a “passenger operations specialist” while he was in Qatar, helping to load and unload planes. In addition to Air Force records, it used information that it had obtained through a public records request from the National Archives but that was not immediately available on Thursday.

Melissa Pelletier, a campaign spokeswoman for Mr. Majewski, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In a statement to The A.P., Mr. Majewski did not directly address the inconsistencies, saying that his accomplishments were under attack.

“I am proud to have served my country,” Mr. Majewski said in the statement.

The inconsistencies in Mr. Majewski’s public accounts of his military service brought renewed scrutiny to a candidate who had already been facing questions about his presence at the U.S. Capitol on the day of the Jan. 6 siege and sympathies for the QAnon conspiracy movement.

The fallout from the revelations appeared to be swift and significant, with the National Republican Congressional Committee on Thursday canceling television ads it had booked for the final six weeks of the campaign in support of Mr. Majewski, according to AdImpact, a firm that tracks campaign advertising. The decision was also reported by Medium Buying, a political advertising news site.

A spokesman for the N.R.C.C. did not immediately respond to several requests for comment on Thursday.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-gop-house-candidate-misrepresented-164111522.html

Ohio GOP House candidate has misrepresented military service​

BRIAN SLODYSKO and JAMES LAPORTA
Wed, September 21, 2022 at 12:41 PM·11 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaigning for a northwestern Ohio congressional seat, Republican J.R. Majewski presents himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, once describing “tough” conditions including a lack of running water that forced him to go more than 40 days without a shower.

Military documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request tell a different story.

They indicate Majewski never deployed to Afghanistan but instead completed a six-month stint helping to load planes at an air base in Qatar, a longtime U.S. ally that is a safe distance from the fighting.

Majewski's account of his time in the military is just one aspect of his biography that is suspect. His post-military career has been defined by exaggerations, conspiracy theories, talk of violent action against the U.S. government and occasional financial duress.

Still, thanks to an unflinching allegiance to former President Donald Trump — Majewski once painted a massive Trump mural on his lawn — he also stands a chance of defeating longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in a district recently redrawn to favor Republicans.

Majewski is among a cluster of GOP candidates, most running for office for the first time, whose unvarnished life stories and hard-right politics could diminish the chances of a Republican “red wave” on Election Day in November. He is also a vivid representation of a new breed of politicians who reject facts as they try to emulate Trump.

“It bothers me when people trade on their military service to get elected to office when what they are doing is misleading the people they want to vote for them,” Don Christensen, a retired colonel and former chief prosecutor for the Air Force, said of Majewski. “Veterans have done so much for this country and when you claim to have done what your brothers and sisters in arms actually did to build up your reputation, it is a disservice.”

 

[RayGravesGhost]

The republican elections board commissioner is guilty of election fraud? Seriously?
These are the people screaming about election integrity

The GOP inmates are running the asylum


https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-election-official-arrested-upstate-024900108.html

GOP election official is arrested in upstate NY, charged with brazen ballot scheme​

The Republican elections board commissioner in upstate Rensselaer County was arrested Tuesday on charges of carrying out a brazen ballot scheme that allowed him to cast votes in voters’ names.

Jason Schofield applied for absentee ballots for voters who did not want to vote, and, in some instances, personally pushed voters to sign absentee ballot envelopes, positioning himself or his associates to commit voter fraud in primary and general elections in 2021, according to court papers.

The 12-count indictment charging Schofield said ballots were counted from at least four voters who were instructed to sign ballot envelopes but were not allowed to complete them.
“Schofield was able to vote — or have other people vote — in the RVs’ names,” said the court papers, using an acronym for registered voters.

The nine-page indictment was filed last Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.

Schofield, 42, of Troy, N.Y., faces up to five years in prison on each of 12 counts of unlawful possession and use of a means of identification, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Albany.

“He maintains his innocence,” Danielle Neroni, his lawyer, said by phone Tuesday afternoon.

The Albany Times Union reported that Schofield was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday morning outside his home, and entered a not guilty plea at court in the afternoon.

Schofield was released pending a trial scheduled before Judge Mae D’Agostino. He declined to comment as he left his arraignment hearing, according to the Times Union.

The Times Union reported that he was subpoenaed earlier this year in connection with a sweeping ballot probe that has also led a Troy city councilwoman to plead guilty to a count of identity theft.

The Rensselaer County Board of Elections did not immediately return a request for comment. The elections board is located in Troy, about seven miles northeast of downtown Albany.

Rensselaer County, a swing county, went for former President Donald Trump in the 2016 election and President Joe Biden in 2020.

 

[RayGravesGhost]

Guess which party was against the people of Michigan having a say in how their elections are conducted?

Come on trumpanzees...Let's all cheer "States Rights" !!! 🤣


https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigan-board-approves-ballot-measure-152736665.html

Michigan board approves ballot measure on voting access​

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan election board on Friday voted to put a question on the November ballot about whether the state should expand opportunities to vote, including through absentee and early voting, after the state Supreme Court ordered it to do so.

The court sided Thursday with supporters of Promote the Vote 2022, a coalition of organizations that submitted signatures to put the proposed constitutional amendment before voters.

The measure would require state-funded absentee ballot drop boxes, as well as postage for absentee ballots and applications, and allow voters to join a permanent list to have absentee ballots sent for every election. It also would allow Michigan voters to verify their identity with a signed statement or a photo ID, and it would require nine days of in-person early voting.

Promote the Vote 2022 has said that the initiative will help ensure that every state voter’s voice is heard.


Republicans oppose the measures, saying they would open the door to fraud. In Michigan and elsewhere, the GOP has pushed stricter rules around voting and repeated former President Donald Trump's lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Trump lost the state and the presidency to Joe Biden.

Promote the Vote asked the court to order a state elections board to certify the measure for the Nov. 8 ballot after the Board of State Canvassers voted along party lines on Aug. 31 not to do so. The four-member board’s two Democrats said the initiative should be on the ballot, while its two Republicans said it should not.

The Republican members and other opponents said some of the language on the petitions was unclear, and Michigan GOP spokesman Gus Portela called it “a dangerous proposition.”

Promote the Vote argued it submitted more than enough signatures to meet the 425,000-signature requirement to be certified, and called opponents' arguments against it “frivolous.”

All four board members voted Friday to put the measure on the ballot, following the Supreme Court's directive.

 

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BSC911 might be the winner of a Signature Stackburger 🤣

 

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More School Lessons From The Special Master trump Is Being Forced To Pay For...LOL



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...rump-back-allegation-fbi-planted-ev-rcna49023

Special master in Mar-a-Lago case asks Trump to back up his allegation that FBI 'planted' evidence​

Raymond Dearie has given the former president a "final opportunity" to identify the materials that he claims were "planted" by investigators by Sept. 30.

Sept. 22, 2022, 5:38 PM EDT
By Dareh Gregorian

The special master appointed to review documents federal agents seized at Donald Trump’s Florida estate has given the former president until Friday of next week to back up his allegation that the FBI planted evidence in the search on Aug. 8.

After the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Trump and his lawyers have publicly insinuated on multiple occasions without providing evidence that agents planted evidence during the search. “Planting information anyone?” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Aug. 12.

In a filing Thursday, Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie of New York, the court-appointed special master, ordered the government to turn over copies of all non-classified items seized in the case to Trump's lawyers by Monday.

He then ordered Trump's team to submit a "declaration or affidavit" of any items in the inventory that were removed from Mar-a-Lago that the "Plaintiff asserts were not seized from the Premises," meaning items that were put there by someone else.

Dearie also asked Trump's lawyers to identify any items that were seized by agents but not listed in the inventory. "This submission shall be Plaintiff’s final opportunity to raise any factual dispute as to the completeness and accuracy of the Detailed Property Inventory," he wrote.

Both sides were ordered to appear for a status conference on Oct. 6.

The ruling was not the first time that Dearie — whom Trump's team had proposed for the role of special master — has pressed the former president's lawyers for details about their allegations.

Dearie previously asked Trump’s attorneys for more information about which of the over 100 sensitive documents federal agents found at his country club might have been declassified.

While Trump has claimed in statements to the public that he could declassify materials just by thinking about it, his lawyers' arguments in court have been narrower. In filings, they have suggested that at least some of the White House documents that he took to Mar-a-Lago had been declassified, but they have never actually asserted that was the case.

Trump’s attorneys told the judge in a letter Monday that they did not want to disclose that information yet because it could force them to prematurely “disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment.”

That issue became irrelevant Wednesday, when a federal appeals court ordered that the classified documents should not be included in the special master's review

 

[BamaFan1137]

How many threads are you going to need on the special master?

This post wouldn't have fit nicely into ONE of the others? No one is going to read it anyway. Get a grip, man.

 

[RayGravesGhost]

How many threads do you clowns start about Joe Biden?

Poor Barney can't handle the truth

 

[RayGravesGhost]

Guess who's potentially going to jail for "election security" reasons... 🤣



https://www.yahoo.com/news/judges-ruling-arizona-fake-electors-131400886.html
After a judge's ruling, Arizona fake electors could be one step closer to real jail

EJ Montini, Arizona Republic
Fri, September 23, 2022 at 9:14 AM·2 min read

They were part of a scheme involving other Republicans in other states that tried to overturn the results of a democratically decided presidential election.

There should be a price to pay for that.

It should involve prison.

At the very least they should be publicly exposed and vilified and, thanks to U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa, there’s a slightly better chance that will happen.

Judge Humetewa said the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection could subpoena the records of Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward.

Ward and her would-be band of bungling election thieves put together a phony electoral slate and sent it sent to Washington, D.C., attempting to cast Arizona’s ballots for Donald Trump instead of rightful winner Joe Biden.

When do we start the Hillary chant?​

They’ve since tried to argue that the phony electors were only meant to be considered the real thing “in the event that the legal challenges to the Arizona results succeeded.”

Except that nothing in the document sent by certified mail to the U.S. Senate and National Archives spoke of legal challenges. Instead, the document falsely asserted that the 11 Arizona shills were the “duly elected and qualified” presidential electors, with no conditional language.


Lock.

Them.

Up.

You may recall how, in July, The New York Times reported on emails that displayed what the article describes as the “often slapdash efforts of advisers” to then President Trump used to try to subvert the election. The names of reactionary Republican notables like Arizona’s Kelli Ward and attorney Jack Wilenchik show up in the article.

The report quotes an email from Wilenchik to Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn that reads, “We (Arizona Republicans) would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the ‘fake’ votes should be counted.”

Substituting 'alternative' for 'fake'​

Imagine that.

Blatantly admitting that the electors were “fake.”

Kind of damning, don’t you think?

Perhaps that is why the report noted that Wilenchik sent a follow-up email saying, “‘alternative’ votes is probably a better term than ‘fake’ votes,” followed by a smiley face emoji.
It’s uncertain what Ward’s phone records will reveal.

The fact that Ward and her cohorts have tried so hard to keep them out of public view doesn’t bode well … for them.

What we know for sure is that the phony electors and their crackpot scheme put our electoral process – our country – in danger.
An attempted breach of that process should have the same consequences that are facing the insurrectionists who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Real consequences.

Jail.

 

[FresnoGator]

You were warned about spamming the board with double digit new threads / day.

Put them all in one thread and post the link, not the whole article. Clutter will be deleted ...

@RayGravesGhost

 

[kalimgoodman]

Looks like the the trumpanzees are waving the white flag...

There will be no periodic reporting (mainly because the special master says this won't take very long LOL)

And the trump lawyers don't get to see the documents at all until trump is indicted 😲 just like every other criminal suspect



https://www.lawfareblog.com/cannon-...master-order-response-eleventh-circuit-ruling

Cannon Strikes Two Provisions of Special Master Order in Response to Eleventh Circuit Ruling​

By Katherine Pompilio
Thursday, September 22, 2022, 12:59 PM

On Sept. 22, Judge Aileen Cannon struck down two sections of her Sept. 5 order to appoint a Special Master to oversee documents seized by the FBI from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in response to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’s decision granting the Justice Department's motion for a partial stay of her order.

The provisions of Cannons order that were stricken include Paragraph 6, which requires the Special Master to submit interim reports and recommendations to the court throughout their review, as well as Paragraph 5(b)(i)(bb), which requires that classified documents under review be made available to Trump’s counsel for inspection under supervision of the special master.

You can read Cannon’s response here

This entire situation isn't looking good for @jfegaly. This is why it's never smart to blindly support someone. Just let it play out.

 

[BillCutting4585]

it wasnt @GhostOfMatchesMalone he cant afford a plane ticket...

I believe you can’t afford your premium membership

 

[BamaFan1137]

How many threads do you clowns start about Joe Biden?

Poor Barney can't handle the truth

I can't remember the last one I started. Sure as sh1t I don't start 5 to 10 per day.

Seek professional help.

 

[HONKifUvCOACHED4BAMA]

I can't remember the last one I started. Sure as sh1t I don't start 5 to 10 per day.

Seek professional help.

Can you imagine the time spent on posting all of that redundant bullschit?
Liberals and their (nothing but) leisure time…..

 

[RayGravesGhost]

You were warned about spamming the board with double digit new threads / day.

Put them all in one thread and post the link, not the whole article. Clutter will be deleted ...

@RayGravesGhost

Threads are about different topics...they have to all be put in one thread? 🤣

I have the front page from yesterday open in another browser window

At 5pm yesterday I had started 7 new threads for the day
Some of which you decided to merge since 7 was just too many

Would you like me to send you the screen capture?

 

[RayGravesGhost]

When the court is testing your propensity to lie its never a good sign...


https://www.yahoo.com/news/special-master-mar-lago-case-111426510.html
Special master in the Mar-a-Lago case is testing Trump's lawyers to see if they will lie in court, analyst says

• The special master in the Mar-a-Lago case has asked Trump's lawyers to back up some of his claims.
• CNN's legal analyst saw this as a test of whether they were prepared to lie for him in court.
• Lying in court, unlike in the media, is a punishable offense, noted Elie Honig, the analyst.

Raymond Dearie, the special master reviewing government records the FBI retrieved from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, is putting the former president's defense to test, a CNN legal analyst said.

In court hearings this week, Dearie has challenged Trump's attorneys to present evidence to support two of Trump's key claims: that he declassified the documents kept at Mar-a-Lago, and that the FBI planted evidence there.

 

[RayGravesGhost]

https://sports.yahoo.com/one-mans-p...llion-mississippi-welfare-scam-233358957.html
One man's plea deal may shed light on Brett Favre's possible ties to a $70 million Mississippi welfare scam
Charles Robinson
Thu, September 22, 2022 at 7:33 PM·3 min read

In a development that could impact Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre, a key figure in an unfolding Mississippi welfare misappropriation scandal entered into a plea deal with state and federal prosecutors Thursday.

In a deal announced by the U.S. Department of Justice, John Davis, the former director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, entered a guilty plea Thursday for his role in a scheme that misdirected more than $70 million in welfare funds earmarked to support the state’s neediest residents. In exchange for the plea, Davis is expected to cooperate with investigators who are seeking additional indictments in the scam.

Davis' cooperation is believed to be key for state and federal prosecutors, who are seeking information on other possible individuals involved in the various stages of misdirecting funds. Those under investigation include multiple unnamed (for now) co-conspirators with Davis.

Favre has come under media scrutiny for nearly $8.1 million in welfare funds that were allegedly doled out to entities tied to the former NFL star. Of that sum, $1.1 million directly went to Favre for public speaking appearances that he allegedly didn’t make, along with $5 million to the construction of a volleyball building at Favre’s alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, and another $2 million to a pharmaceutical startup that Favre has been tied to as an investor.

 

[RayGravesGhost]

Thin skinned baby boy donald trump always responded to hecklers by telling his crowd to beat them up


https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-responds-heckler-speech-everyone-191808404.html

Biden responds to heckler at speech: ‘Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot’​

President Biden responded to a heckler while delivering remarks in Milwaukee on Monday, saying, “Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Biden traveled to Wisconsin on Labor Day to deliver a speech at Milwaukee Laborfest, where he spoke about his support for unions and lauded Democratic legislative victories such as last year’s coronavirus relief package and a bill to invest in domestic semiconductor manufacturing that he signed into law last month.

At one point, someone in the audience could be heard trying to disrupt the speech.

“No, no, no, don’t — let him go. He’s, look, everybody’s entitled to be an idiot,” Biden said. It was not immediately clear what prompted the heckling or what the person was saying.





Biden also responded to protesters while delivering a prime-time speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday. Hecklers shouted “F Joe Biden” and the anti-Biden phrase “Let’s go, Brandon.”

“They’re entitled to be outrageous. This is a democracy,” Biden said during that speech, also saying, “Good manners is nothing they’ve ever suffered from.”

 

[FresnoGator]

Threads are about different topics...they have to all be put in one thread? 🤣

I have the front page from yesterday open in another browser window

At 5pm yesterday I had started 7 new threads for the day
Some of which you decided to merge since 7 was just too many

Would you like me to send you the screen capture?

Yes 7 is too many. I merged 9-10 threads you started, BTW.

You will get some leeway if you post links instead of full articles or by all means keep pushing. You are making the board harder to moderate than it needs to be. You should care about that if you want your threads to stick around. EVERYONE has been told this, yet you and only you persist ...

 

[gatordad3]

it wasnt @GhostOfMatchesMalone he cant afford a plane ticket...

Issues with paying $11.00 per month now? Looks like you can't even afford the promo Jason is advertising.

 

[nail1988]

How many threads are you going to need on the special master?

This post wouldn't have fit nicely into ONE of the others? No one is going to read it anyway. Get a grip, man.

@RayGravesGhost must have ran out of adderall

 

[gatordad3]

This is undeniably @FresnoGator and @RayGravesGhost.

 

[Dr. Curmudgeon]

Yes 7 is too many. I merged 9-10 threads you started, BTW.

You will get some leeway if you post links instead of full articles or by all means keep pushing. You are making the board harder to moderate than it needs to be. You should care about that if you want your threads to stick around. EVERYONE has been told this, yet you and only you persist ...

Some people just can't take a hint.

 

[RayGravesGhost]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/does-tate-reeves-really-delay-110000566.html
Does Tate Reeves really need to delay returning welfare scandal-related campaign donations?

Gov. Tate Reeves has garnered $45,600 in interest earnings through May of this year from his main campaign account.

Those earnings presumably include interest accrued from the campaign donations he has received from Nancy New and her son Zach New, both of whom have pleaded guilty in state and federal court to profiting from public funds that were intended to provide services for poor Mississippians and schoolchildren with special educational needs.

Investigators allege the News and others were part of the misspending of $77 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Funds. Among other egregious charges, federal prosecutors alleged that Nancy New used at least $76,889 in public funds that were supposed to go to her now shuttered New Summit School to purchase a house.Reeves and the News have a long-term relationship as the governor has been one of the state’s most ardent supporters of providing public funds to private schools, and the News over several years have given him numerous campaign contributions.

Granted, the less than $10,000 the governor received from the News played a minimal role in boosting his interest earnings. Overall, Reeves was able to garner the significant earnings because the account contains more than $7.4 million in campaign contributions. The News’ offering to Reeves was only a tiny fraction of the total.

But the campaign contributions from the News were significant enough for the governor to tell Mississippians in 2020, soon after the revelation of the misspending of the welfare funds became public, that he intended to divest himself of the donations from the News.

“I can tell you right now, anything they gave to the campaign is going to be moved to a separate bank account,” Reeves said in 2020. “Anything they gave the campaign will be there waiting to be returned to the taxpayers and help the people it was intended for. If that doesn’t happen, the money will go to a deserving charity.”

As of the last campaign finance report made public in early June, Reeves had not placed the money in a separate bank account and had not given it to charity.

 

[BamaFan1137]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/does-tate-reeves-really-delay-110000566.html
Does Tate Reeves really need to delay returning welfare scandal-related campaign donations?

Gov. Tate Reeves has garnered $45,600 in interest earnings through May of this year from his main campaign account.

Those earnings presumably include interest accrued from the campaign donations he has received from Nancy New and her son Zach New, both of whom have pleaded guilty in state and federal court to profiting from public funds that were intended to provide services for poor Mississippians and schoolchildren with special educational needs.

Investigators allege the News and others were part of the misspending of $77 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Funds. Among other egregious charges, federal prosecutors alleged that Nancy New used at least $76,889 in public funds that were supposed to go to her now shuttered New Summit School to purchase a house.Reeves and the News have a long-term relationship as the governor has been one of the state’s most ardent supporters of providing public funds to private schools, and the News over several years have given him numerous campaign contributions.

Granted, the less than $10,000 the governor received from the News played a minimal role in boosting his interest earnings. Overall, Reeves was able to garner the significant earnings because the account contains more than $7.4 million in campaign contributions. The News’ offering to Reeves was only a tiny fraction of the total.

But the campaign contributions from the News were significant enough for the governor to tell Mississippians in 2020, soon after the revelation of the misspending of the welfare funds became public, that he intended to divest himself of the donations from the News.

“I can tell you right now, anything they gave to the campaign is going to be moved to a separate bank account,” Reeves said in 2020. “Anything they gave the campaign will be there waiting to be returned to the taxpayers and help the people it was intended for. If that doesn’t happen, the money will go to a deserving charity.”

As of the last campaign finance report made public in early June, Reeves had not placed the money in a separate bank account and had not given it to charity.