Kellyanne saying the quiet part out loud again: “When you’re on TV you’re not under oath.” Sounds like the motto for the crest of this administration.
So only a partial poll tax? The damage is done. They think they will have to pay and jot check to see if they are in the 90%
First tweet had me very angry. Second and third tweets make sense. If you haven’t completed your sentence, you haven’t completed your sentence. Bloomberg and Steyer should still fund a non-profit to pay those fines and get people registered.
I've been told that we don't want their money going to good things like voter enfranchisement because of them not being left enough.
I think that that argument was about them doing that while running for president. It makes the organization appear to be aligned with the effort to get them elected rather than just getting people registered. After they end their campaigns, their donations would be welcomed.
That's a somewhat misleading headline, as the TIG is looking into the implementation of the program and not the tax break itself. Booker sponsored the tax break; so it's not like he was unaware that the wealthy would be using it and benefitting from it, which still achieves its policy goal of channeling private funds towards economically distressed and underserved areas. The issue the TIG is looking into is whether political supporters of Trump pressured Mnuchin into designating areas as qualified opportunity zones that, absent Mnuchin's influence, would not have otherwise qualified. That said, there are many areas designated as qualified opportunity zones that raise an eyebrow regarding whether they should be designated as such. For example, the most rapidly gentrifying part of NOLA--the CBD--is a qualified opportunity zone. It was gentrifying before the program, so diverting funds to it doesn't achieve the program's policy goals since those funds would have flowed there regardless. Booker's letter is here: https://www.booker.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1005 It was written mainly as a result of this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/business/tax-opportunity-zones.html
I swear this dude is doing this just for the photos. "So Lev what do you want for your appearance or anything you need? Bottled water? Snacks?" "Just get me a selfie with Anderson and I'm good"
Martha McSally fundraises off 'liberal hack' remark to CNN reporter A fundraising email for Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) capitalized on her exchange with a CNN reporter in the halls of the Senate on Thursday, urging her supporters to fight back against "liberal hacks." The message was sent after McSally was caught on-camera calling CNN's Manu Raju a "liberal hack" and declining to comment on the upcoming Senate impeachment trial following the delivery of articles of impeachment by the House this week. "I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not in the Senate to play politics, especially with liberal hacks who profit off of spin," McSally says in the email. "I'm in the Senate to fight for all Arizonans, not play games with the left-wing media," she added. Spoiler McSally appeared to stand by her insulting remark to Raju in a tweet as well, retweeting Raju's video of the exchange with the comment "you are," and adding her own staffer's video of the exchange to the mix. McSally was appointed to the Senate in late 2018 to serve the remainder of the term started by late Sen. John McCain (R). She previously lost a race for the Senate seat currently held by Arizona's other senator, Kyrsten Sinema (D).
This is why it's not overly dramatic to say America has the dumbest electorate in the developed world
i can almost hear the John Cougar Melancamp song Glory Days playing softly in the bacground of this photo
That was Bruce Springsteen. If you want to go with Mellencamp, Little Pink Houses would have been appropriate, though.