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(57,080 posts)malaise
(268,967 posts)<snip>
Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district.
And then, scandal.
Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.
The spending had not been illegal at the time. But it stunned voters and undermined Pences strategy to portray the incumbent, Rep. Philip R. Sharp, as tainted by donations from special-interest political action committees.
It was a brazen act of hypocrisy, said Billy Linville, who was Sharps campaign manager. It was a bombshell, for sure. .?.?. Without question, he may well have won the election if it had not been for that.
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That's mother's boy
keithbvadu2
(36,787 posts)Palin used donation money to buy clothing and personal things for her family.
FM123
(10,053 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)This needs to be its own OP!
DENVERPOPS
(8,817 posts)totally corrupt grifting, they knew he had the perfect qualifications to serve their party and Trump's V.P.
malaise
(268,967 posts)The Meadows one lied about a college degree
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)Wow...just wow.
malaise
(268,967 posts)Speaks volumes
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)VWolf
(3,944 posts)Different rules apply (I wish I was being sarcastic, but apparently not, according to the media)
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)By Betsy Morais and Alexandria Neason, CJR
AUGUST 10, 2020
... He does not wear a mask, though the world is fighting a deadly disease that spreads through respiratory droplets. He walks with his attorney general, his chief of staff, his secretary of defense, his press team, his daughter, and his son-in-law. They are not wearing masks either ... He stops in front of the churchs sign, whose black and white lettering reads Sunday Services Online. The services are online because covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has by this point killed more than a hundred thousand Americans ... It is the first day in June, and the sun shines in Washington ... His eyes are narrow the look of a man who wants to look determined; the look of a man with sun in his eyes, so perhaps he cannot see.
Moments before he arrived at this spot, officers cleared the square of a crowd that had been protesting peacefully as part of an uprising against systemic racism, in particular police brutality targeting Black people ... But that day, the Congressional Budget Office projected that, over the next decade, without serious help from Washington to confront the losses caused by the pandemic, the US economy could become $15.7 trillion smaller ... The federal park police descended, in riot gear, firing off rubber pellets and spraying the area with tear gas. Puffs of smoke filled the air; legs went spiraling in all directions, arms waving. Fear, shouts, coughing ... The cameras rolled.
This is a snapshot of a presidential campaign season that has been unlike any other. The coronavirus has disrupted the usual election cycle routines the bus rides, the stump speeches, the canvassing, and all the accompanying coverage ... He has since waged a campaign that is not so much against his political opponent as it is against the American people ... But in truth, the uprising tells the campaign story.
While officers in Washington met demonstrators with tear gas a chemical agent so harmful that it was banned from warfare by signatories of the Geneva Conventions the same was going on in Portland, Oregon ... Officers also beat up protesters and shot projectiles their way ... We can be forgiven for believing the president is more interested in power than in principle, more interested in serving the passions of his base than the needs of the people in his care ...
... at the beginning of June, the Portland police were stocking up on military gear. KATU, an ABC affiliate in Portland, obtained records showing that the citys police bureau spent nearly $50,000 on tear gas, pepper spray, and related items ... Then officers started spraying demonstrators with chemicals every night. By June 5 .. protesters filed a class action lawsuit against the city of Portland for indiscriminate use of tear gas. Were out screaming for justice for Black people and asking the state to stop its violence against us, and the City responds by using tear gas when were in the middle of a pandemic of respiratory disease ...
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/election_trump_protests.php
mcar
(42,307 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Javaman
(62,521 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)..plants even makes you happy! With insentient Pence there are no feelings; no compassion--there's nothing but an empty blank stare. I've used housplant moniker to describe Pence many times bc he has no purpose but to collect dust. After some research found study [well bc there are always studies on everything] was surprised to find the many benefits of having houseplants..here are some:
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*Boost mood, productivity, concentration and creativity
*Reduce stress, fatigue, sore throats and colds
*Clean indoor air by absorbing toxins, increasing humidity
and producing oxygen
*Add life to a sterile office, give privacy and reduce noise l
Levels
*Are therapeutic and cheaper than a therapist. And,
*Its true when we say plants make people happy.
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demigoddess
(6,640 posts)DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)the debate stage?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Perhaps I should call it Gilgamesh's Ark. The flood myths told in the Mediterranean region are likely tied to a major event caused by sea level rise when a glacial lake in North America burst through its ice dam and dumped into the North Atlantic. This of course was related to the melting of the glaciers as the Younger Dryas ended.
roscoeroscoe
(1,370 posts)Well covered. End of the last ice age?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The ice age was ending, then suddenly went extremely cold again for 1,500 years. Speculation about the cause includes shutdown of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation due to a freshwater dump from North American glacial melt, or maybe an impactor.
roscoeroscoe
(1,370 posts)Graham Hancock, if I spelled that correctly, theorized an impact in the Canadian glacier sheets that would have led to the Columbia River gorge being carved out the way it is. Seemingly very solid theory.
I love digging into these theories! Thanks!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The more I dig on this one, the more genuine controversy I find; new data all the time. I enjoy that!
One really chilling piece of evidence for the glacier impactor is the "Carolina Bays." Something splattered most of North America with elliptical craters, around that time. Look at the lidar images of just one example. And by the way, if you allow for the Coriolis effect, and trace back where all these fragments came from ("fragment" is a relative term; many of the Bays are kilometers across) - you get Saginaw Bay, which was under ice at the time. He's not claiming Saginaw Bay was created by the impact - the ice would have protected it, and it is much older.
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HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)on his bandwagon.
He wasn't picked for us (or America at large), he was picked for a small sliver of the populace - and it worked.
RainCaster
(10,869 posts)The Truly Bad Choice is the Cheeto Tweeter.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)You know what Im thinking about the V.P. choice.
She will debate the hell out of Pence.
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calimary
(81,222 posts)Thought hed be sending a message to his racist and klan fans. For the rest of us, its just another sight gag.
Or, to look at Mike Pence is to engage ones gagging reflex.
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)n/t
czarjak
(11,269 posts)Don't ever forget, he's beckoning him back. True story. Otherwise, "I heard he's a really nice guy"!
DinahMoeHum
(21,784 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Toss him out with the rest of the garbage.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)sandensea
(21,627 posts)His inaction - based mostly on homophobia - led directly to an HIV outbreak in Indiana.
So for Cheeto, he was the natural choice to head a Covid taskforce.