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  • Maine’s public schools purchased taxpayer-subsidized electric buses but say they are defective

    02/23/2024 9:05:34 AM PST · by george76 · 39 replies
    Just the News ^ | February 23, 2024 | Kevin Killough
    Maine’s Department of Education is reportedly urging school districts to stop using taxpayer-subsidized electric school buses that were purchased within the last year. The districts reported problems with the new buses, which were supplied by Canada-based Lion Electric Co., last fall ... The windshields on the buses would leak whenever it rained, as the glass didn’t appear to be securely in place. concerns about mixing electricity and water from the leaking windshields led them to stop driving some of the buses. The buses, which cost about $345,000 each, were also sold with misaligned or incorrect lettering on the sides, and...
  • Joe Biden’s Classified Docs Provide More Evidence Hunter’s Pay-To-Play Was A Family Affair

    02/13/2024 12:13:17 PM PST · by bitt · 13 replies
    thefederalist.com ^ | 2/12/2024 | margot cleveland
    The nearly 400-page special counsel report confirms an overlap in the timing and topics of Joe Biden’s vice presidency and Hunter Biden’s ‘business’ enterprises. The special counsel report on Joe Biden’s unauthorized removal and disclosure of classified documents exposed much more than our president’s mental deficits and the breadth of his irresponsible handling of top-secret and classified information. The report revealed a close nexus between Hunter Biden’s influence peddling and his father’s responsibilities and access to intel during the elder’s term as vice president. On Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Hur released the results of his investigation into the president stemming...
  • The War on ‘Woke Capital’ Is Backfiring

    02/03/2024 12:55:57 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 40 replies
    The Atlantic ^ | 1/31/24 | James Surowiecki
    One of the stranger political crusades of the past few years has been the Republican war on so-called woke capital, which has led GOP politicians across the country to adopt a kind of anti-corporate, pro-regulatory rhetoric that one normally associates with the left wing of the Democratic Party. And among the GOP’s favorite targets in this war has been ESG investing—investment funds that take “environmental, social, and governance” considerations into account. For Republicans, ESG funds are a Trojan horse, designed to smuggle progressive attitudes toward climate change, and diversity and inclusion, into executive suites and corporate boardrooms, all under the...
  • Ron DeSantis' PAC donates thousands to Iowa legislators who endorsed him

    01/04/2024 5:54:18 PM PST · by backpacker_c · 8 replies
    Yahoo ^ | Jan 4, 2024 | Alex Tabet, Alec Hernandez
    Great American Comeback, the leadership PAC aligned with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, has donated nearly $100,000 to a slate of Iowa legislators who have endorsed the governor’s White House bid, according to Iowa campaign finance records. At least 14 of the 42 Iowa state legislators who have endorsed DeSantis received donations from the leadership PAC, ranging in individual sums from $2,500 to $15,000. The first donations were made in early October, followed by several more in November and another three in December, the campaign finance records show. Earlier this summer, DeSantis’ allies linked Great American Comeback to Team...
  • REVEALED: How DeSantis & Reynolds Skirted Pay-To-Play Laws & Made a Top GOP Group Fund His Primary Campaign

    11/13/2023 2:28:46 PM PST · by SoConPubbie · 23 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | 11/13/2023 | WILLIAM UPTON
    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s early 2024 presidential campaign appears to have been underwritten by the Republican Governors Association (RGA), with almost $21 million contributed to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC being transferred to his Never Back Down PAC. In fact, by mid-2022, one-in-every-four dollars the RGA took in was redirected to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC under the guise of supporting the Florida Governor’s re-election bid.These sums could make sense in a scenario where the Republican incumbent was in a serious fight with a strong Democrat challenger, or if the RGA was looking to knock out a sitting...
  • Reporter Calls Secret Hunter Biden’s Cell Phone – Guess Who Answered…

    06/29/2023 10:55:52 AM PDT · by libstripper · 21 replies
    The Republic Brief ^ | June 28, 2023 | Alishan Rodriguez
    During an appearance on Fox News with anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, Peter Schweizer made a shocking revelation. Joe Biden was using a covert cell phone, according to Schweizer, author of “Secret Empires,” and Hunter Biden’s company had purchased it. “What is the line of communications between Hunter Biden and his business partners and Joe Biden when he’s Vice President of the United States?” Schweizer said. “It’s not the government phone. It’s not Joe Biden’s personal phone. We know from the laptop that Hunter Biden’s business paid for a private phone line that Joe Biden used while he was Vice...
  • Biden Bribery Investigation: Comer Demands Burisma Suspicious Activity Reports from Treasury Dept

    06/29/2023 7:32:38 AM PDT · by AnthonySoprano · 24 replies
    GP ^ | 06/29/2023 | Kristinn Taylor
    House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) SENT A LETTER to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday demanding Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on the Ukraine energy firm Burisma and several individuals involved with the firm from August 2014 to the present. Comer gave a July 12 deadline. In addition to stating the committee is investigation bribery allegations against Joe Biden, Comer stated the committee has several legislative purposes to its investigation involving whether new laws need to be enacted to require disclosures by relatives of presidents and vice presidents.
  • Ron DeSantis to attend fundraiser with Wall Street execs, including former Soros firm partner

    06/12/2023 3:08:37 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 76 replies
    CNBC ^ | JUN 12 20232:33 PM EDTUPDATED AN HOUR AGO | Brian Schwartz
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is coming to New York for a private presidential campaign fundraiser that’s set to be hosted by at least four Wall Street executives, including one with past ties to a firm backed by liberal billionaire George Soros, a frequent target of DeSantis and other Republicans. The event is scheduled to take place June 29 at the swanky Yale Club, according to a copy of an invitation seen by CNBC. It will be one of DeSantis’ first fundraisers in the Big Apple since he officially launched his campaign for president last month. It also comes soon after...
  • Smoking Gun Evidence of Joe and Hunter Biden Pay-to-Play Operation

    05/26/2023 9:32:57 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    Independent Sentinel ^ | May 25, 2023 | By M Dowling
    Smoking gun emails have emerged that show Hunter Biden received a lucrative contract days before his father then vice president Biden, traveled to Ukraine and withheld U.S. aid from the government in 2015. Joe Biden demanded that Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor investigating Burisma, be fired if Ukraine wanted its billion-dollar aid package. That was in December. Shokin was fired in April. In the first clip, Joe brags about getting the prosecutor fired. No one would ever accuse Joe of being intelligent. However, no one ever calls him on it. VIDEO OF JOE ADMITTING HIS MALFEASANCE .......... Smoking gun emails now...
  • FBI has document alleging pay-to-play scheme involving Joe Biden, lawmakers allege

    05/03/2023 12:20:30 PM PDT · by Jayster · 28 replies
    Just The News ^ | May 3,2023 | John Solomon
    House and Senate GOP investigators said Wednesday they have learned the FBI possesses a document alleging a pay-to-play bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and have subpoenaed it in an explosive new twist in their long running corruption probe of the first family. Senate Budget Committee ranking member and long-time whistleblower advocate Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said they learned of the document, known as FD-1023, from a whistleblower. "We believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the...
  • 'We are tired of political corruption,' juror says after convicting four in ComEd bribery case

    05/03/2023 5:08:49 AM PDT · by CFW · 6 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 5/2/23 | Brett Rowland
    A jury found four former Commonwealth Edison executives and lobbyists guilty of bribery-related charges Tuesday as part of an eight-year conspiracy scheme centered around former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. In the highest-profile corruption case in Illinois in more than a decade, the jury convicted the defendants on all counts. "We're tired of political corruption," juror Amanda Schnitker Sayers said after the verdict. "We're hoping this is a first step." The Chicago veterinarian put the blame on Madigan. "He really did cause this all to happen," she said. Although Madigan wasn't on trial, the longest-serving state legislative leader in...
  • With His First Veto, Biden Puts Woke Capitalism Before American Workers And Retirees

    03/27/2023 9:03:04 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 03/27/2023 | Helen Raleigh
    The Biden administration forced a new ESG rule down Americans’ throats even as a backlash against ESG investments grows.President Joe Biden issued his first veto against a bipartisan bill that sought to protect millions of Americans’ retirement plans from woke investments. His action shows he prioritizes politics over Americans’ financial security.Early this month, the U.S. House and Senate passed a bipartisan resolution to prevent fiduciaries of retirement plans from subordinating financial returns to woke causes. Biden chose to ignore all the concerns and warnings, including those from his own party. Instead, he used his first veto to preserve a so-called...
  • A Chinese Influence Operation Promoted an Anti-Trump PAC for the Midterms: A Bay Area post office box and a shadowy online war. Trump's Niece, Mary Endorses This Operation

    11/03/2022 10:05:22 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Frontpage Mag ^ | 11/03/2022 | Daniel Greenfield
    In May 2022, Mary Trump tweeted, “Hundreds of voter subversion laws are only a governor’s signature away from going into effect. Please join the Democracy Defense Fund in supporting these gubernatorial candidates who are committed to protecting our #VotingRights.”Mary Trump, the former president’s niece, has become an anti-Trump figure specializing in deranged rhetoric like calling him “mass murderer criminal Donald Trump”. DDF is a PAC that is intervening in races across the country, including in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Ohio.The Democracy Defense Fund, a nationwide PAC, was supposedly created by Mary Trump, who has no apparent background or ability to create...
  • Hochul secretly huddles with billionaire megadonor who had hospitals bailed out by state

    10/01/2022 7:25:57 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 14 replies
    nypost.com ^ | September 30, 2022 | Carl Campanile and Zach Williams
    Gov. Kathy Hochul attended a secret meeting this week at the Upper East Side townhouse of Alexander Rovt — a billionaire mega-donor to her campaign whose hospital network was bailed out by the state in April. A source provided The Post a video of Hochul — who is already under fire over accusations of pay to play campaign donations involving an overpriced, no-bid $637 million COVID test contract — entering Rovt’s mansion on East 68th Street Thursday morning. Rovt, 70, is chairman of the board of One Brooklyn Health Systems Inc., which runs a network of medical facilities where the...
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom Reaped $10.6 Million In Campaign Cash From 979 State Vendors Who Pocketed $6.2 Billion

    09/03/2022 3:29:31 PM PDT · by george76 · 16 replies
    Open The Books ^ | Aug 31, 2022 | Adam Andrzejewski
    Pay to play is legal in California as there are no statewide prohibitions. California Governor Gavin Newsom has quietly solicited millions of dollars in campaign donations from state vendors, key people, employees, or their affiliated corporate political action committees. While progressives decry corporate money in politics, Governor Gavin Newsom has embraced the highly unethical practice of soliciting campaign cash from state contractors. ... Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found 979 state vendors who gave $10,561,828 in political donations to Newsom during his 2010, 2018, recall election, and 2022 election cycles. Meanwhile, these companies reaped $6,201,978,173 in state payments. ... These donations...
  • Report: Biden to Name Russia Hoaxer, CNN Analyst Tony Blinken Secretary of State

    11/22/2020 6:39:11 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 33 replies
    Breitbart ^ | November 22, 2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    Former Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly set to announce this week that Tony Blinken, who supported the idea of “Russia collusion,” would be his Secretary of State. Bloomberg News reported Sunday evening: President-elect Joe Biden intends to name his longtime adviser Antony Blinken as secretary of State, according to three people familiar with the matter, setting out to assemble his cabinet even before Donald Trump concedes defeat. In addition, Jake Sullivan, formerly one of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides, is likely to be named Biden’s national security adviser, according to two people familiar with the matter. An announcement is expected...
  • Pentagon inspector general raises questions about former D.C. Guard commander’s Jan. 6 account

    11/17/2021 5:12:05 PM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 14 replies
    Washington Post ^ | Nov 17, 2021 | Dan Lamothe
    The D.C. National Guard’s commanding general was directed twice by Pentagon leadership to send in troops as violence engulfed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a newly released investigation that appears to undercut the now-retired general’s claim that he would have responded to the riot more quickly if Trump administration officials had allowed. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy first notified Maj. Gen. William Walker by phone at 4:35 p.m. that Walker was authorized to send troops to Capitol Hill, and then called the general again “to reissue the deployment order” about 30 minutes after McCarthy “originally conveyed it,” an...
  • 'It reeks of pay-to-play': Joe Biden and his staff met with Hunter's top business partner at the White House throughout his vice presidency, visitor logs reveal

    04/24/2022 10:16:27 AM PDT · by Libloather · 5 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 4/23/22 | Ronny Reyes
    Hunter Biden's top business partner had met with then-vice resident Joe Biden in one of 19 visits he made to the White House between 2009 and 2015, according to visitor logs from the Obama administration. Eric Schwerin, former president of Hunter's now-dissolved firm Rosemont Seneca, met with Biden on November 17, 2010, just as Hunter was striking multi-million dollar deals abroad, the New York Post reported. The logs revealed that Schwerin made a total of 19 visits to the White House during Biden's vice presidency, with nine of those visits including meetings with Biden, members of his staff and members...
  • 'Tech Exec-1' says he pleaded the Fifth to John Durham’s grand jury

    03/07/2022 8:04:05 AM PST · by Red Badger · 35 replies
    https://gazette.com ^ | Mar 2, 2022 | Jerry Dunleavy
    The "Tech Executive-1" in John Durham's indictment of a Democratic cybersecurity lawyer testified in a lawsuit that he had invoked his Fifth Amendment rights when asked to testify by the special counsel. Rodney Joffe, former senior vice president at Neustar, coordinated in 2016 with Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who was indicted last year for allegedly concealing his clients, including Hillary Clinton's campaign and Joffe, from the FBI in September 2016 when he pushed debunked claims of a secret back channel between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank. Alfa Bank filed a "John Doe" lawsuit and deposed Joffe in...
  • OPINION - Media and Biden administration cover up these three scandals in 'scandal-free' year

    01/04/2022 9:15:08 PM PST · by blueplum · 4 replies
    Fox ^ | 04 January 2022 | Jonathan Turley
    With the conclusion of the first year of the Biden administration, White House chief of staff Ron Klain sought to end on a high, or at least higher, note by retweeting a column saying that 2021 was not "all bad." It was like bragging that a bad first date told you that the evening could have been worse. However, what really stood out in the column by Albert Hunt was the key rationale: the first year was "scandal free." ... ...Consider just three of the Voldemort scandals of 2020, or those scandals which must not be named by the media: