Florida elections supervisor who was vilified by Republicans resigns. She blames Rick Scott and his racist allies for her resignation.
The racists won. Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott are racist.
They played upon the fears of a Black leader.
They claimed that immigrants are scary Brown people.
Republicans gerrymandered Florida to favor them regardless of the popular vote.
GUN VIOLENCE WILL GET WORSE IN FLORIDA. MORE IDIOTS WILL KILL PEOPLE OF COLOR CLAIMING THEIR LIVES WERE IN DANGER. MORE WHITE TERRORISTS WILL ENGAGE IN MASS SHOOTINGS. MORE REPUBLICANS WILL NOW BE ENABLED TO BE OPENLY RACIST. IF DONALD J. TRUMP, MIKE PENCE, RON DESANTIS AND RICK SCOTT CAN GET AWAY WITH IT, WHY NOT THE NEXT WAVE?
The woman at the center of a controversy in the highly contentious Florida governor and U.S. Senate race resigns citing racism and death threats made towards her. She claims that Scott and his allies created a situation to distract Floridians from the real issue of voter suppression.
Sen-elect Scott and Gov-elect DeSantis both won on dirty politics. They clearly knew how to win the Florida election. Even though former Democratic nominee Andrew Gillum won the popular vote, DeSantis had the districts in his favor. Scott also played upon being currently the governor and chief investigator into voting matters to take the seat away from Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL).
Gerrymandered districts favored the former Republican congressman and Florida governor.
Both Republican candidates were extremely unpopular and yet they won.
Now the Broward County supervisor of elections Brenda Snipes is stepping down. She is frustrated that the Republicans and Fox News created a dangerous environment for her and workers.
Three white men played upon the fears of a Black leader.
"Although I have enjoyed this work tremendously over these many election cycles, both large and small, I am ready to pass the torch. It is time to let someone else (do the job)," Snipes said.
When asked about why she planned on resigning, she somewhat cited the toxic environment.
"Well, I haven't finalized that. I'll just check with my family. They'll tell me what I'm doing," she said.
Republicans made her a scapegoat in the Florida race. Broward and West Palm Beach County are Democratic-leaning counties. Republicans claim that the ballots were rigged to favor Gillum and Nelson. They were trying to claim that Snipes squarely delayed the appointment of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis.
Former governor Jeb Bush who appointed Snipes called for her resignation.
This is a trial run for what we're expecting in 2020. With Florida and Ohio remaining in Republican hands, they can sway the election to Trump.
They will start purging again voters. Especially people of color.
Snipes who is an African American woman was subjected to racist comments, death threats and attacks on her character.
Gillum and Nelson conceded over the weekend. They believe Florida needs reform on voting.
Pullman Police brutalize a shopper because of a bogus claim of passing off phony bills.
A man has filed a federal lawsuit against a Washington state law agency for a brutal helping of knuckle style chili. The man claims that the Pullman Police Department used excessive force.
In the federal lawsuit, the man claimed the cops used excessive force, violated his civil rights, his due process, and misrepresented events to make the claim of resisting arrest. The charges were dismissed later in court.
This happened last year in February.
Please watch & RT this horrifying abuse of power by the Pullman Police Department. Treshon Broughton was tased & assaulted for allegedly using a fake $20 that couldn't be found after his arrest. This isn't okay. pic.twitter.com/c1HZ90KQY6
The man, Treshon Broughton was inside a local store with his girlfriend and friends. They were purchasing alcohol and snacks. The incident happened at a Bob's Corner Market where the two workers were having a long line of college students and a night of stressing.
Broughton was inside the store engaging conversation with one of the cashiers when the cop injected an order to show ID. During the incident, he pulled away from officers and refused to placed his hands behind his back as they tried to subdue him with a neck hold and other maneuver. One officer ultimately fired a Taser into Broughton's back. Officers and witnesses reported Broughton was drunk during the incident.
He was accused of trying to pass off a fake $20 at the store. He was never charged for the alleged offense and the fake bill was never found.
The Spokesman-Review sued for a public-records request. The videos were obtained and shown publicly to prove that the situation was clearly elevated by the cop and not Broughton.
The surveillance video has no sound and depicts a mirror image of the store. It shows Broughton and his girlfriend entering the store and walking immediately to the checkout counter where they spoke to a cashier.
Broughton and his friend briefly disappeared from the video. They come back up with a bottle of wine and a can of malt liquor. Broughton pays for the items with a card. After some conversation with the cashier and a man standing behind them in line, Broughton and his girl leave the store.
Broughton and his friend reappear in the video frame and interact with the cashier as well as a group of men standing in line with cases of beer. Broughton tries to pay for items with what appears to be cash, but the cashier apparently notices something is wrong with the currency as he places it in the register.
The cashier claims the bill look suspicious. He holds up the bill and another bill to point out they were different.The one Broughton gave him was slightly darker in color.
The cashier calls another employee to inspect the money, and Broughton eventually begins to leave the store again. On his way out, Broughton got into a verbal argument with a woman, her boyfriend and others.
The police were called and they arrived.
The cop, Shane Emerson enters the store just as Broughton comes inside behind him. Emerson didn't notice Broughton until they are both at the counter.
The body camera shows the encounter.
Broughton comes back asking for the cashier to return his card.
"You got ID with you, partner?" Emerson says, briefly placing a hand on Broughton's right arm just above his elbow.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll take it out," Broughton replies, still engaging with the cashier. "I mean, I got ID with me. It's probably somewhere around her, but."
"K, I need to see it," Emerson said.
"Fine, you can see it, whatever," Broughton says, placing a lighter and a tube of lip balm on the counter. "I don't care, bro."
The situation quickly escalates and then Emerson reaches for his right arm. Then the cop throws his arm upward while turning to the cop.
The cops said, "I don't care about your ID right now."
The other cop, Alex Gordon comes into the store and then he and Emerson pursue to restrain Broughton. Gordon hooks his arm around Broughton's neck and then strikes him with his knee.
The two cops pulled Broughton to the ground.
Emerson served the man a knuckle style chili.
Then a police intern who shadowed Emerson then steps into the frame. She tries to gain control of Broughton.
Gordon then deploys the Taser. Broughton then screams in agony and then is told to straighten his body out and soon he complies. The cops then place him the cuffs.
Emerson then talks to the cashiers and ask if the bill was in the register. The cashier said he didn't see the bill and couldn't find it.
Shortly after the arrest, Emerson tried to offer an explanation to some of the Washington State University students about the encounter.
Broughton, was a former member of the football team.
While talking about the situation, Emerson claimed Broughton was uncooperative, though he seems to embellish some of Broughton's statement.
"So, they told me he tried to use a $20, a fake $20 in there, all right," Emerson said. "So I needed to detain him. I said, 'I need to see your ID.' He said, 'I'm not giving you shit. I'm not working with you.'"
"Then he starts pulling away and trying to run, so w're trying to get him on the ground, and he was fighting," Emerson says. "I had enough reason to detain him and he was completely fighting."
Pullman Police Department claims that Broughton was seen on body camera footage shoving something into a toilet to flood his cell, telling the cops that he will not stop until they give him toilet paper. Officers removed him from the cell and place him in a restrain chair. He refused a paramedic check on him.
Broughton said to cops, that he doesn't want to die. He lost a family member to police brutality.
"You don't know what I've been through," Broughton says to the junk food media.
Police are doing damage control. After the video went to the press, many are calling for the cashiers and cops involved to be fired out the cannon.
Pullman PD takes seriously our responsibility to protect & serve our community and all of its members. We are listening and we care. In response to comments/questions about use of force in the Treshon Broughton case, Chief Jenkins has issued the following response: pic.twitter.com/BF5nGINvVx
Another controversy for the country's most popular Mexican grill restaurant.
A situation was elevated when a Chipotle manager got into it with Black customers. She was fired from her job. However, someone unearthed one of the Black customer's social media with allegations that he "faked an incident." The social media thread is lit over the allegations from both the manager and the customer.
Who is right in this situation?
The incident happened in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metroplex and it went viral.
The manager denied service to a customer. She accused him of theft. She was fired out the cannon for that more than denying the customer service. Now there's a campaign to get her job back.
The store manager was fired out the cannon after three Black customers complained about her service. A video of the incident was posted on Twitter by 21 year old Masud Ali.
Ali claimed that he and his friends were treated unfairly on Thursday by the manager. He believed he was racially profiled by the manager. The manager said she refuses to make their order because she believed the men had a history of eating the food without paying for it.
"You gotta pay because you never have money when you come in here."
Ali and his friends could be heard shouting at the workers and a customers who just received his meal.
Police were called to the restaurant after the incident elevated.
The manager was immediately fired upon the video going viral. They ordered all the employees to go through sensitivity and anti-bias training.
Ali was about to get a television interview. That was halted.
@ChipotleTweets you need to look deeper into this. That manager had obviously previously dealt with these guys who don’t pay. They’ve bragged about STEALING from your business (and others) serveral times.
Someone unearthed his previous tweets. Between 2014 and 2016, Ali joked about dining and dashing from Chipotle and other restaurants. Those tweets were quickly removed.
"Can a group of young well established African American(s) get a bite to eat after a long workout sessions. @ChipotleTweets ??"
Chipotle said that they are taking all issues seriously.
Masud Ali posted a video on social media recently. It went viral showing a Chipotle worker denying him service. She accused him of theft. The situation elevated when she was fired and trolls unearthed comments that suggested he scammed her and others.
"Our actions were based on the facts known to us immediately after the incident."
The video footage, social media posts and conservation with the customer and employees may have sealed her fate.
Now with the allegations of Ali scamming the restaurant out of food and getting a worker fired, the company has possibly thought about rehiring her.
"We now have additional information which needs to be investigated further. We want to do the right thing, so after further investigation we will retrain and rehire if the facts warrant it."
Ali did not respond to messages left for him on Saturday or Sunday.
The situation with Chipotle. Do you believe it was fair to fire the manager out the cannon after this incident went viral? (Expect the dumbest answers picked by trolls)
She messed up. She should not have accused the customer of theft. She should not have embarrassed the customer. Even though the customer has a history of theft, the manager should have shown restraint and not boldly state that he "never paid before."
The manager did thank the nation for supporting her.
Condi might join the Dawg Pound as their head coach.
Former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice could be the first African American woman to coach a NFL team.
There is talk that Rice could be the coach of the struggling Cleveland Browns.
After five games, the Browns severed ties with Hue Jackson. Jackson who served as head coach of the Browns had only two wins and one tie under his belt. He finished the 2017-18 season with 0-17.
Jackson joined the Cincinnati Bengals as special assistant coach a few days ago.
The Browns have the worst record as a NFL team.
If the Browns follow through on it, Rice would become the first woman to interview for an NFL head-coaching job.
After word of the Browns' possible interest in Rice got back to the team, Dorsey issued a statement.
"Our coaching search will be thorough and deliberate, but we are still in the process of composing the list of candidates and Secretary Rice has not been discussed," he said.
Rice also posted Sunday on Facebook that while she's "not ready to coach," she "would like to call a play or two next season if the Browns need ideas."
Rice, 64, is a lifelong Browns fan, a love she developed from watching Cleveland's games with her father at their home in Birmingham, Alabama. She attends some of their games and was spotted on the field with owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam before Cleveland's game in Oakland on Sept. 30.
Cleveland's interest in interviewing Rice comes at a time when women recently have moved into decision-making roles in men's professional sports. The San Antonio Spurs hired Becky Hammon as an assistant coach, the Buffalo Bills hired Kathryn Smith as a quality control assistant, the Oakland Raiders hired Kelsey Martinez to their strength staff and the San Francisco 49ers hired Katie Sowers as an offensive assistant.
A potential interview hardly means the Browns will hire Rice, but they are interested in talking to her about the job and seeing what she could bring to the position and the organization, a source said.
Cleveland Browns is Condi's favorite team. She could be their next coach.
"She's an amazing person," one Browns source told ESPN.
The interview process could even lead to Rice becoming more involved in the organization in an official capacity or as a consultant.
Rice has been featured in a Browns jersey in NFL ads, and there has been speculation that she even could become commissioner of the NFL.
Rice has become more involved in sports, specifically on the collegiate level, since serving as secretary of state under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009. She was one of the inaugural members of the College Football Playoff selection committee, where she worked from 2013 to 2016.
Rice also recently chaired a commission on college basketball that recommended major changes to the sport this year, including an end to the one-and-done rule.
The graphic photos of the victims of the Jonestown massacre.
Today, marks 40 years.
The Jonestown mass killing. Mostly people of color were killed when a religious sect leader who founded the People's Temple of the Disciples of Christ casted them false hope and slavery. A religious cult leader named Jim Jones managed to manipulate over 900 people to drink Flavor Aid laced with cyanide in a Guyana settlement.
Jones started the Peoples Temple in Indiana during the 1950s. He was officially ordained in 1956 by the Independent Assemblies of God and in 1964 by the Disciples of Christ. He moved the Temple to California in 1965 and gained notoriety with its activities in San Francisco in the early 1970s. He then relocated to Guyana.
Jim Jones was an activist and civil rights leader. He was also a cult leader and mass murderer.
Everyone in that settlement were killed. The American government was concerned that Jones was holding innocent people against their will. In 1978, media reports surfaced that human rights abuses were taking place in the Peoples Temple in Jonestown.
Jones was a well-armed and well maintained religious leader. He was considered a grifter and a scam artist. When a Democratic lawmaker and staff were boarding an airplane, they were ambushed by the armed security.
The late Leo Ryan was killed by Jones' security after he and his group tried to flee Guyana with People's Temple defectors.
U.S. Representative Leo Ryan led a delegation into the commune to investigate what was going on; Ryan and others were murdered by gunfire while boarding a return flight with defectors. Jones subsequently committed a mass murder-suicide of 918 of his followers, 304 of whom were children, almost all by cyanide poisoning via Flavor Aid.
Jones saw Jonestown as both a "socialist paradise" and a "sanctuary" from media scrutiny that had started with the Kinsolving articles. Former Temple member Tim Carter said the Temple moved to Jonestown because "in '74, what we saw in the United States was creeping fascism."
Carter explained, "It was apparent that corporations, or the multinationals, were getting much larger, their influence was growing within the government, and the United States is a racist place."
Jim Jones, Jr. the adopted son of the religious cultist Jim Jones condemns his father's actions.
Carter said the Temple concluded that Guyana was "a place in a black country where our black members could live in peace", "it was a socialist government" and it was "the only English-speaking country in South America."
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) was a survivor of a mass shooting. Speier was a congressional aide to then lawmaker Ryan.
Speier was one of two members of the mission who made wills before traveling to Jonestown.
While trying to shield herself from rifle and shotgun fire behind small airplane wheels with other team members, Speier was shot five times and waited 22 hours before help arrived.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) is a survivor of the Jonestown massacre.
While some refer to the events in Jonestown as mass suicide, many others, including Jonestown survivors, regard them as mass murder. As many as 70 people may have been injected with poison, and a third of the victims (304) were minors.It was the largest such event in modern history and resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until September 11, 2001.
Black people made up approximately 70% of Jonestown's population. 45% of Jonestown residents were black women.
Black female = 460 (45%)
Black male = 231 (23%)
White female = 138 (13%)
White male = 108 (11%)
Mixed female = 27 (3%)
Mixed male = 12 (1%)
Other female = 13 (1%)
Other male = 10 (1%)
Republicans picks up a Senate seat and retain the governor mansion. Bill Nelson and Andrew Gillum concede. They said that Republicans will destroy democracy.
The end of the road.
After a grueling recount and mishandling of ballots, the Democrats have conceded to the Republicans. The governor and senate race are over. The recount is over and its declared that Republicans won the election.
Andrew Gillum and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) have conceded to their races.
Gov. Rick Soctt now Sen-Elect and Gov-Elect Ron DeSantis won playing dirty politics. They managed to dog-whistle and fear monger throughout the entire campaign.
Florida a prize for both Democrats and Republicans. Like Ohio, many presidential candidates need the state of Florida to win the White House. Republicans managed to make it more harder for Democrats to win Florida and Ohio with their wacky gerrymandering and dirty gutter politics.
Gillum who managed to outraise and outspend DeSantis would have been one of the first African American governors in the South. He and Stacey Abrams were defeated by Republican tactics where they purge voters, destroy ballots and use racism as tool to win.
59% of white women voted for Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott in this election.
94% of Black women voted for Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson in this election.
The racists win. Rick Scott leaves the governor's mansion for the Senate. Ron DeSantis leaves the House of Representatives for the governor's mansion. Florida's dirtiest politicians won on racism.
Democratic turnout was high. Even in the wake of numerous mass shootings, that stupid "stand your ground law" and the "hurricane", Republicans managed to win the Sunshine state.
Even former Republican lawmaker and MSNBC contributor David Jolly said that DeSantis and Scott played dirty politics. He left the party because of Donald J. Trump and Republicans acting like a bunch of morons.
Gillum who will return to Tallahassee will have to listen to this asshole who claimed his city is crime-infested. Yeah, the dog whistle. Tallahassee is a majority-minority city and DeSantis will have to reside in the governor's mansion.
On his concession speech, Gillum said that he will work for all Floridians.
"R. Jai and I wanted to take a moment to congratulate Mr. DeSantis on becoming the next governor of the great state of Florida. This has been the journey of our lives."
DeSantis on his part thanked Gillum and promise to work with him. He wants "unity."
Yeah, fucking right. He will continue his partisan bullshit.
"This was a hard-fought campaign. Now it's time to bring Florida together."
I am fed up with Republicans. I am sick and tired of Republicans doing what they do best. We need to get to work. We need to motivate Democrats out to the polls. We need to remind ourselves that progress is work. We will work hard to repress Republican policies. We will reject conservatism/racism/libertarianism and stupidity.
Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams' loss hurts. But it's best to dust ourselves off and try harder.
Republicans can't win on rural white voters for much longer. They can't win on just the White vote.
Turkey neck lawmaker Cindy Hyde-Smith. The Mississippi senator is facing a backlash because of her racially charged remarks.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) is hoping to finish the term. Her runoff election in November 27, and Republicans are scrambling down to Mississippi to help her get over the finish line.
Hyde-Smith, the first female to serve the Magnolia state is struggling. After a handful of remarks on the campaign trail, Democrats see an opening.
The moron said she would attend a "public hanging" if invited by a supporter.
"If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."
That comment was seen as offensive and racist. Rather than apologize, the senator remarked that the junk food media is taking her words out of context.
She said that it was a joke.
Well many didn't take that as a joke. The NAACP and Black lawmakers are not laughing about those remarks.
Then on tape again, she said it would be a good idea if liberal folks don't vote.
Cindy Hyde-Smith on voter suppression: "And then they remind me, that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea." Nov 2nd in Columbus, MS. pic.twitter.com/OxNY77XCft
Allegedly, she took a donation from a white extremist. Peter Sieve is a Washington state businessman who has ties to white extremism. He donated $2,700 to the Hyde-Smith campaign.
It was supposed to be an easy race.
Trump, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and others will stomp for the turkey neck Cindy Hyde-Smith.
It became a little more difficult. Hyde-Smith, the former Mississippi Agricultural and Commerce Secretary was selected to fill-in for Thad Cochran.
Cochran abruptly resigned citing health issues. He left early leaving an opening for Democrats. Now they are hoping to win again in the Deep South.
Mike Espy, a former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under the Bill Clinton administration is running for the seat as well. He hopes that Hyde-Smith's remarks will help turnout the Black vote.
Espy is Black and has a slim chance of winning. The odds say that the Republican has an 87% chance of winning.
Black vote is fairly strong in Mississippi. However, it often seems like Republicans overwhelmingly win the state. Donald J. Trump carried that state by 20 points. He will be campaigning for the Republicans in the coming days.
See in Mississippi, a whole lot of Black people were lynched by white extremists during the 19th and into the 20th Century. It still exist in the 21st Century.
In the history books, the Deep South was dangerous for Black people. If you look a white person in the wrong way, you could be lynched. There were at least 45,000 known lynchings. Public hangings are still allowed in the United States. Lynchings were more lethal. In a public square, a white gathering of residents would watch a black person's body get mutilated, shot, burned and then publicly hung.
The federal government wouldn't be able to convict those involved because the lawmakers looked a blind eye in the South.
What happened in Alabama could happen in Mississippi.
Mike Espy has a slim chance of winning. But the latest antics from his opponent could help him pull an upset. He is with Cory Booker, the senator from New Jersey.
Doug Jones won the U.S. Senate special election in 2017. He beat Roy Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who was accused of molesting nine women. He pulled an upset. Jones won 51% to Moore's 49%.
Jones counted on the Black vote. Black men voted for Jones at 89%. Black women gave vote 98% to Jones. Only 47% of white women for Jones.
Moore would have won the election despite the allegations. Trump campaigned for Moore but never in person.
Sen. Corey Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) will campaign for Espy.
Trump, Mike Pence, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will be doing last minute rallies for Hyde-Smith. Maybe a special guest like Sean "Softball" Hannity might appear. He certainly gets involved whenever a Republican is accused of being a white extremist.
The softball loves to make Republicans at least tolerable.
Stacey Abrams admits defeat. She slams Brian Kemp and Republicans for their shady tactics.
Georgia Democratic nominee for governor Stacey Abrams slams Republicans and governor-elect Brian Kemp for dirty politics. The former Georgia lawmaker believes many voters were disenfranchised by Kemp and Republicans.
Watching the wait times Georgians faced in urban and poor rural communities, alarms a lot of people.
How the election was ran and how Kemp played should rile up many.
He practically stole the election.
Abrams and Andrew Gillum were the two African American candidates who outraised their Republican opponents. They had statewide and nationwide support from lawmakers and celebrities.
Yet, they failed to win. Many cite the fact that Kemp and Florida's governor-elect Ron DeSantis played upon the most ugliest elements of racism.
Donald J. Trump also threw his racist dog whistle and snarky remarks at the Democrats. Trump had played the race card upon Abrams and Gillum.
Here's the snark of Trump congratulating Kemp.
Congratulations to Brian Kemp on becoming the new Governor of Georgia. Stacey Abrams fought brilliantly and hard - she will have a terrific political future! Brian was unrelenting and will become a great Governor for the truly Wonderful People of Georgia!
On Friday, Abrams acknowledged that Georgia will certify Kemp as the next governor of Georgia. In her concession speech, she said that she is not letting this loss go. She vows to hold Kemp and Republicans accountable.
She will likely file a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Secretary of State, a position Kemp held during the campaign. He resigned two days after being declared the winner.
Abrams said that "democracy has failed" under Republicans.
"So let's be clear -- this is not a speech of concession, because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper," she said. "As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede that. But, my assessment is the law currently allows no further viable remedy. Now, I can certainly bring a new case to keep this one contest alive, but I don't want to hold public office if I need to scheme my way into the post. Because the title of governor isn't nearly as important as our shared title -- voters. And that is why we fight on."
Abrams had previously described Kemp as an "architect of voter suppression" and in her remarks said he had purposefully made the process a "gut-wrenching hardship" for many in Georgia.
This cuck will be governor. He managed to purge millions of voters.
"Under the watch of the now former secretary of state, democracy failed Georgia," Abrams said of Kemp, who served as the state's chief elections officer for nearly a decade before resigning after overseeing his own contest.
"Make no mistake, the former secretary of state was deliberate and intentional in his actions,"
Abrams said. "I know that eight years of systemic disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence had its desired affect on the electoral process in Georgia."
Abrams also announced she will launch a new voting rights group called "Fair Fight Georgia."
Earlier in the day, Abrams' campaign rolled out a digital ad -- with nearly $100,000 behind it, according to a spokeswoman -- that asks voters to share their stories of trouble at the polls.
In a statement, Kemp said, "Moments ago, Stacey Abrams conceded the race and officially ended her campaign for governor. I appreciate her passion, hard work, and commitment to public service."
He continued, "The election is over and hardworking Georgians are ready to move forward. We can no longer dwell on the divisive politics of the past but must focus on Georgia's bright and promising future."
The Georgia race has stoked a fierce new front in the national battle over voting rights and access to the polls. Kemp, who has promoted and enforced some of the nation's most restrictive voting laws, was accused repeatedly before and during the campaign of seeking to suppress the minority vote.
His victory will keep the Georgia governor's mansion in GOP hands for a fifth consecutive term and demoralize Democrats who hoped to put the state on the presidential map in 2020. Abrams would have been Georgia's and the country's first female African American governor and the first Democrat to win a statewide race there since 2000.
Victory for her pioneering campaign would have instantly transformed Georgia into a 2020 presidential swing state and signaled the beginnings of a potential political realignment in region, which has been growing more diverse and educated as its economy expanded. Instead, Republicans will point to that same economic success as a sustaining force and question -- along with some Democrats -- the wisdom of Abrams' embrace of so many national liberal political stars.
Kemp's win will also please President Donald Trump, who disparaged Abrams, a former state House minority leader, as "not qualified" before the election and campaigned for the two-term secretary of state.
Polling in the days leading up the race showed a dead-heat between Abrams and Kemp, with libertarian candidate Ted Metz notching just enough support to deny the either of the favorites the majority required by Georgia law to win outright and avoid a December run-off. But Kemp ended up clearing 50%.
This disgusting turd named Mike DeWine won the Ohio governor's race. He and Republicans rigged the districts to favor Republicans. So it doesn't matter whether they failed at winning popular vote. They have control of the districts. They win.
Ohio governor-elect is Mike DeWine. He is the current inept Attorney General of the state. For eight years, DeWine sided with the cops when it came to the deaths of people of color. He was a prime enabler of the opioid crisis in the state. He takes dark money from corporations. He is a millionaire. He owns a minor league baseball team in North Carolina. DeWine is a tiny guy with a huge presence in the Dayton region. He lives in Columbus but owns a farm in Cedarville.
Clearly, a seasoned politician, Ohio elected this turd as the governor despite Republicans losing the popular vote.
Even in my own community, Theresa Gasper, outraised and tied with Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) in the Midterms but lost the election.
Turner is a worthless lawmaker who was not popular in the Dayton region. However, he managed to win the votes despite the fact he barely visits the region.
Matter of fact, of all the 16 U.S. Congressional districts, 12 remained Republican and 4 remained Democratic.
The only Democrat to win a national race here was Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), one of the few progressive lawmakers who wears it like a badge of honor. He said that most of the elections in states like Ohio, Florida and Georgia were stolen by Republicans because of shady tactics.
Richard Cordray outraised and outspent DeWine. He either was tied or trailed DeWine by a few points. Yet, the state continued to stay in Republican control in the statehouse.
Just recently, Ohio passed "Stand Your Ground" and "Heartbeat" laws. Instead of working on infrastructure and the trying to save closing hospitals, they want to give reckless Americans more chances to kill people of color. They want to meddle in the business of women by limiting choice clinics and defunding Planned Parenthood.
Then I saw on Twitter a story from Rich Exner of Cleveland.com. He found that the Democrats matched the Republicans on polling, voter registration and popularity.
The Democrats ran much more competitive in total votes for the 116 Ohio House and Senate elections across the state, cleveland.com found in tabulating the unofficial returns.
But the Republicans scored their wins for 63 percent of the seats while collecting just over 50 percent of the total vote.
This is a lot like what happened in Ohio's 16 congressional districts, where Republicans won 75 percent of the seats with just 52 percent of the overall vote.
These are two fresh examples of how skillfully gerrymandered legislative districts can sway the balance of power - especially when one party is in full control of drawing the maps as was the case for the current districts.
He said that the gerrymandering of the districts made it possible. Ohio has one of the worst Congressional District maps in the country. It was deliberately used to help Republicans win elections in Ohio.
Richard Cordray managed to win the popular vote but lose the state. He blames Republicans for rigging the map and making harder for Democrats to win.
Ohioans in 2015 voted to reform the way Statehouse districts will be drawn, beginning in 2021. Then, earlier this year, Ohio voters did the same for congressional districts going forward. The votes for change were not close, passing each time with more than 70 percent support.
The separate reforms carry their own set of rules, but the gist is the same - a new set of 10-year maps cannot be approved without buy-in from both major political parties.
"The problem with gerrymandering is so straight forward and clear cut if you just look at the numbers" from the election returns, said Catherine Turcer, one of the advocates for change as the executive director of Common Cause Ohio.
"I'm so pleased that the voters of Ohio have taken the step to rein in the problem. We deserve to be in control of the elections."
Exner added, the GOP's statewide domination is undisputed. The governor, auditor, secretary of state, treasurer and attorney general will all again be Republicans.
The lone Democratic win statewide was by Sen. Sherrod Brown, a veteran elected to a third term. The Democrats also did win two seats on the Ohio Supreme Court, but the ballot does not identify party affiliation in the Supreme Court races.
Despite the strong showing by the Ohio GOP, the Democrats actually did make significant gains over 2016, argues Richard Gunther, who worked on gerrymandering reform and is a professor emeritus of political science at Ohio State University.
He found the vote margin between Democrats and Republicans in Ohio's congressional races shifted the Democrats' way by an average of 10 percentage points. That was in line, he said, with national trends.
"Ohio did not miss out on the wave at all," Gunther said. "The difference is that gerrymandering was so effective that the Democrats picked up no additional seats."
Jim Acosta and CNN sued Donald J. Trump for press ban. The federal judge ruled in CNN's favor. Trump won't follow the court order.
A federal judge appointed by Donald J. Trump ordered him to reinstate the press pass to CNN and its chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta. Betcha money, Trump won't abide by the order.
U.S. District Court judge Timothy J. Kelly immediately sided with the cable network in its lawsuit against Trump. A few weeks ago, Sarah Huckabee Sanders pulled Acosta's press credentials after a heated confrontation with Trump post election.
While Acosta was preparing for his evening report for Anderson Cooper 360, the U.S. Secret Service stopped him at the second gate and ordered him to relinquish his press passes and security clearance.
Acosta was clearly shocked and angered by the decision. CNN president Jeff Zucker said that the network will hold Trump accountable regardless of his criticism. He said that Trump violated the terms of being......uh I hate saying it.
Zucker said that Trump isn't taking the role of President of the United States seriously. Uh, I hate calling Trump that.
Trump said that CNN was wrong to have him as their reporter.
Infowars released a doctored video with the claims that Acosta manhandled a female staffer after she tried to take the microphone. Turns out that was the reason for Acosta being booted. However, the federal judge said that kookspiracy and a hard question aren't reasons for a press pass removal.
The suit alleges that CNN and Acosta's First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated by last week's suspension of his press pass.
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Kelly did not rule on the underlying case on Friday. But he granted CNN's request for a temporary restraining order on Fifth Amendment grounds. And he said he believes that CNN and Acosta are likely to prevail in the case overall.
"Let's go back to work," Acosta said in brief comments outside the courthouse.
The White House said it would follow the court order and "temporarily reinstate the reporter's hard pass."
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, one of the six defendants in the case, did not specify whether the administration would continue to fight the lawsuit in court. But she said "we will also further develop rules and processes to ensure fair and orderly press conferences in the future. There must be decorum at the White House."
If the White House does not move to settle the case, a legal battle may continue for months.
Kelly read his written opinion from the bench for nearly 20 minutes Friday morning. He sided with CNN on the basis of the suit's Fifth Amendment claims, saying the White House did not provide Acosta with the due process required to legally revoke his press pass.
He left open the possibility that the White House could seek to revoke Acosta's pass again if it provided due process.
The judge went to great lengths to explain what his decision meant — and what it didn't mean — to the attentive audience. Everyone was well-aware of the potentially far-reaching implications of the case, though he emphasized the "very limited" nature of his ruling on Friday.
As Kelly began to offer his view on the components of CNN's request, he said that while he may not agree with the underlying case law that CNN's argument was based on, he had to follow it. "I've read the case closely," he said. "Whether it's what I agree with, that's a different story. But I must apply precedent as I see it."
Only a few weeks ago, we were talking about this white terrorist mailing pipe bombs to CNN and prominent critics of Trump.
Kelly criticized last week's blacklisting of Acosta as "shrouded in mystery," noting that the Justice Department lawyer in the case couldn't even say who ordered the decision.
But he also said that he was not making a judgment on the First Amendment claims that CNN and Acosta have made.
Despite that, Sanders said in her statement, "Today, the court made clear that there is no absolute First Amendment right to access the White House."
The judge did not make that clear.
But he did note that Sanders' initial claim that Acosta had inappropriately touched a White House intern was "likely untrue" and "partly based on evidence of questionable accuracy." Acosta held onto a microphone when an intern tried to take it away during a presidential news conference last week. Later that day, the correspondent's access to the White House was suspended.
Kelly noted that Trump may never call on Acosta again. But that's not relevant to this decision, he said. There needs to be due process regarding the pass.
Kelly was appointed to the bench by Trump last year, and confirmed with bipartisan support in the Senate. CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said the ruling "strikes me as an extremely savvy and wise resolution of this case."
In a statement, CNN said, "We are gratified with this result and we look forward to a full resolution in the coming days. Our sincere thanks to all who have supported not just CNN, but a free, strong and independent American press."
Numerous press freedom advocacy groups also cheered the ruling.
"Today, a major precedent was set for the future of a free press. It is a win for one reporter, but most importantly a win for the Constitution and the enduring freedoms it grants us all," the Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection said.
The terrorist faces LIFE in federal time out for mailing bombs to CNN, prominent Democrats and progressive activists.
And the ACLU said "the White House surely hoped that expelling a reporter would deter forceful questioning, but the court's ruling will have the opposite effect."
Most of the country's major news organizations have supported CNN's lawsuit, recognizing that the White House may try to ban other reporters in the future.
CNN has asked the court for "permanent relief," meaning a declaration from the judge that Trump's revocation of Acosta's press pass was unconstitutional. This legal conclusion could protect other reporters from retaliation by the administration.
But the judge will rule on all of that later. Further hearings are likely to take place in the next few weeks, according to CNN's lawyers.
The White House took the unprecedented step of suspending Acosta's access after he had a combative exchange with Trump at last week's post-midterms press conference. CNN privately sought a resolution for several days before filing suit on Tuesday.
The defendants include Trump, Sanders, and chief of staff John Kelly.
Judge Kelly heard oral arguments from both sides on Wednesday afternoon. Kelly asked tough questions of both sides, drilling particularly deep into some of CNN's arguments.
Then he said he would issue a ruling Thursday afternoon. He later postponed it until Friday morning, leaving both sides wondering about the reason for the delay.
In public, the White House continued to argue that Acosta deserves to be blacklisted because he was too aggressive at the press conference.
Speaking with Robert Costa at a Washington Post Live event on Thursday, White House communications official Mercedes Schlapp said press conferences have a "certain decorum," and suggested that Acosta violated that. "In that particular incident, we weren't going to tolerate the bad behavior of this one reporter," she said. Schlapp repeated the "bad behavior" claim several times.
When Costa asked if the White House is considering yanking other press passes. Schlapp said "I'm not going to get into any internal deliberations that are happening."
In court on Wednesday, Justice Department lawyer James Burnham argued that the Trump White House has the legal right to kick out any reporter at any time for any reason — a position that is a dramatic break from decades of tradition.
While responding to a hypothetical from Kelly, Burnham said that it would be perfectly legal for the White House to revoke a journalist's press pass if it didn't agree with their reporting. "As a matter of law... yes," he said.
The White House Correspondents' Association — which represents reporters from scores of different outlets — said the government's stance is "wrong" and "dangerous."
"Simply stated," the association's lawyers wrote in a brief on Thursday, "if the President were to have the absolute discretion to strip a correspondent of a hard pass, the chilling effect would be severe and the First Amendment protections afforded journalists to gather and report news on the activities on the President would be largely eviscerated."
This video went viral over the past few days. A white woman decided to call the law on a Black woman because of a.............parking spot.
This happened apparently in Los Angeles. Two Black women who were in a spot possibly reserved for pick up or delivery were confronted by a white woman. The white woman was angry that they used the spot.
So obviously a verbal exchange happened.
Then the white woman calls 911 on the two women.
Then the two Black women whipped up the camera and recorded the woman. They called her racist for calling the law on them for a minor dispute. They called her "Peppermint Patty" for this.
Then the woman n-tapped them.
A black woman accidentally exited the wrong parking lane while visiting store & was verbally harassed by this white woman. The woman proceeded to call the cops on her for her driving & when called a racist, she responded by saying “cut the “N” card out.” Twitter, do your thing. pic.twitter.com/RfoNgYUNqi
The woman in the video boldly said to two Black women, "Cut the NIGGER Card."
Then the video ends with the woman claiming she was being attacked by the two Black women.
Hey, this what you voted for!
Republicans are enablers. They advocate white people calling the law on people of color. I mean in our society, we have to understand that misuse of 911 could cost people their lives.
Here's a bonus feature. Only two weeks ago, a white woman from Portland, OR called the law on a Black man and woman over a parking spot.
