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"This is what democracy looks like!"
"Bernie?"A special House race in Georgia is officially the most expensive in US history
Source: Business Insider (but, of course!), by Sonam Sheth
A total of over $29.7 million worth of TV ads have been reserved or aired during the campaign, which breaks a 5-year-old record, the report said. The previous record was $29.6 million, which went towards a 2012 House race in Palm Beach, Florida.
"If Democrats are able to raise small dollars from donors in a big way like they’ve done so far, then this is probably going to be the most expensive midterm we’ve seen thus far," one Republican national strategist told Politico. "It’s the clearest signal yet for every single Republican member of the House running for reelection that if you are not raising money and if you are not running a professional campaign, you are vulnerable to defeat."
Maybe we DO live in his world now?
"Meetings!"
What Trump did on Day 2 in Bedminster (hint: he golfed)https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/860986891377815553
Where are the media while Trump is at his Bedminster golf club?
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/860987464114110465
Trump: "Working out of my home."
You can't make this shit up.
The tweet:
“Rather than causing a big disruption in N.Y.C., I will be working out of my home in Bedminster, N.J. this weekend. Also saves country money!” Trump tweeted Friday.
President Donald Trump’s schedule for Saturday and Sunday, May 6-7, 2017
• 4:00 PM Speak with President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru by telephone
Sunday
• TBD Return to the White House
Fareed: The Trump Effect - Allies Embarrassed, Foes Gloating
WaPo Opinion Page: Trump is turning other countries against the United States
Look at Mexico. For generations, this was a country defined by fiery anti-Americanism. Founded by a radical revolutionary movement, fueled by anger against U.S. imperialism and high-handedness, Mexico would rarely cooperate with Washington. Since the 1990s, the landscape has shifted, indeed almost reversed. Thanks to intelligent leadership in Mexico City and consistent bipartisan engagement by Washington, the United States and Mexico have become friendly neighbors, active trading partners and allies in national security.
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All of this could change easily. Over the past year, as Trump has attacked and demeaned Mexico and its people, the political landscape there has shifted. President Enrique Peña Nieto’s already declining approval ratings plummeted after he was seen as too conciliatory toward Trump. It is now quite possible — in fact, likely — that the next president of Mexico will be an anti-American socialist-populist similar to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. Andrés Manuel López Obrador was polling at about 10 percent at the start of 2015. He is now at about 30 percent, the front-runner among the potential candidates in next year’s election.
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Now consider South Korea. Trump’s demand that Seoul pay for the THAAD missile defense system, threatening to overturn the existing agreement with Washington, has fueled the forces in South Korea that oppose that system in the first place, along with any aggressive military measures against North Korea. Trump has casually delivered a number of slights to one of the United States’ closest allies, accepting wholesale China’s claim that Korea once belonged to it and threatening to tear up the U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement. South Korea is facing a snap election for its presidency, and the candidate who is benefiting most from Trump’s antics is the left-wing Moon Jae-in. Anti-Americanism has returned to South Korea in force, though not quite as strongly as in Mexico, where Trump’s favorability has been recorded at 3 percent.
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In foreign policy, great statesmen always keep in mind one crucial reality: Every country has its own domestic politics. Crude rhetoric, outlandish demands, poorly thought-through policies and cheap shots all place foreign leaders in a box. They can’t be perceived as surrendering to the United States, and certainly not to a nation led by someone who is determined to show that for the United States to win, others must lose. That’s one big difference, among many, between doing a real estate deal and managing foreign policy.
Trump: I'm staying at NJ golf club to avoid disrupting NYC, save money
In tweet - did he mention this is his golf course and resort? No. "Working out of my home."Pathological liar.
Source: The Hill, by Elliot Smilowitz
“Rather than causing a big disruption in N.Y.C., I will be working out of my home in Bedminster, N.J. this weekend. Also saves country money!” Trump tweeted.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/860479885566980096
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/332060-trump-im-staying-at-nj-golf-club-to-avoid-disrupting-nyc-save-money
How will the GOP health care plan affect Alabamians?
4.86 million residents; 62% of voters supported the man who promised "better and cheaper."Source: al.com, by Amy Yurkanin
Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives approved an alternative to Obamacare that could bring big changes to more than 150,000 people in Alabama who buy insurance on the federally-run exchange.
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While it is too early to speculate about what Alabama might do, the state has a history of opposing Obamacare regulations and a high number of people with preexisting conditions.
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A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation study found nearly 1 million people in Alabama with preexisting health conditions. The state has one of the highest rates of preexisting conditions in the country, according to the analysis.
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Alabama's high-risk pool covered only 389 people in 2012, according to an article in the Mobile Press-Register. Many of the programs struggled with high costs and low enrollment and folded when Obamacare required insurance companies to cover all customers regardless of health status.
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Read it all at: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/how_will_the_gop_health_care_p.html#incart_std
Women's Group To Troll Trump During Bedminster Visit This Weekend
UltraViolet, a women's advocacy group, will use a digital truck billboard and Snapchat to show “Abortion Access is More Popular than Trump.”Source: Bernardsville Patch, by Alexis Terrazi
Read it all at: https://patch.com/new-jersey/bernardsville-bedminster/womens-group-troll-trump-during-bedminster-visit-weekend
Tracey Grissom says her lawyers didn't claim she had PTSD, loses appeal
Justice in Alabama - "It's a man's world."Tracey's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/liberatetracey/posts/
Beyond a reasonable doubt: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tracey-grissom-battered-woman-or-cold-blooded-killer-2/
Source: al.com, by Ivana Hrynkiw
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Grissom is currently serving a sentence of 25 years in prison.
Grissom, of Northport, was found guilty of murder in August 2014, after investigators said she fatally shot her ex-husband Hunter Grissom to cash in his $103,000 life insurance policy.
Defense attorney Warren Freeman said after the couple divorced in 2010, Hunter Grissom became abusive. At the time of his death, Hunter Grissom was facing charges of the rape, sodomy and wrongful imprisonment of Tracey Grissom. Freeman said when she shot Hunter Grissom in 2012, it was a matter of self-defense from further abuse.
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At a hearing in March, Grissom said she had ineffective counsel at her trial and during her appeal. She claimed her trial lawyers did not present her PTSD or battered spouse syndrome, did not request the lesser-charge of manslaughter, did not request a change of venue, and did not strike a certain juror. She also said her appellate counsel did not argue against a sheriff's deputy's testimony and did not question why trial attorneys failed to ask jurors if they were victims of domestic violence or sexual assault.
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Tuscaloosa County Circuit Judge John H. England Jr. said in his order Thursday that Freeman's decision not to pursue the PTSD defense was based on a "well-reasoned legal strategy." England said Grissom did not raise viable issues that Freeman was ineffective during trial or her direct appeal.
Read it all at: http://www.al.com/news/tuscaloosa/index.ssf/2017/05/tracey_grissom_says_her_lawyer.html#incart_river_home
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