Kari Lake's lawsuit shows she's desperate ... and delusional

Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Mon, December 12, 2022 at 8:26 AM



Kari Lake, candidate for Arizona Governor, speaks with media after casting her vote on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in downtown Phoenix.

Kari Lake’s long-awaited lawsuit challenging the 2022 election is in and, well, goodness.

I haven’t seen this level of delusion since mom told me I’d be homecoming queen.

Lake’s lawsuit, filed late Friday, asks a judge to declare her Arizona’s new governor or, in the alternative, to order a redo of the Nov. 8 election won by Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs.

She also wants a forensic audit. (Cue the groans from across Arizona.)

Lawsuit is long on claims, short on evidence


In a nutshell, her lawsuit is 70 pages of grievance and disbelief, sprinkled with frequent flights of fancy.

A lot of woulda couldas about the many ways in which Hobbs and Maricopa County election officials stole Lake’s victory.



The only thing missing is any actual evidence that they did.


My favorite part of the lawsuit is the first paragraph, citing a Republican pollster’s public opinion poll – one that asked likely voters across the U.S. if they agreed with Lake that “many voters were, sadly, deprived” of their right to vote.

“The eyes of the Country are on Arizona ....,” the lawsuit begins. “The results of that poll are stunning. Seventy-two percent (72%) of likely voters said they agree with Lake’s statement, including 45% who strongly agree.”

Is that a warning to the judge? Because it certainly isn’t evidence of anything other than Lake’s impressive grasp of public relations.

A 'secret censorship campaign' is to blame?

It’s worth noting that none of the usual Republican election law attorneys – the lawyers who usually bring vote challenges in Arizona – signed onto Lake’s lawsuit.

Instead, she worked with the guy who represented the Cyber Ninjas during the Senate’s 2020 election audit and a Washington, D.C.-based attorney whose challenge of the 2020 election was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.

It’s easy to spot their handiwork.

According to the lawsuit, Hobbs and Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer were part of a “secret censorship operation” coordinated by the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

This, because Hobbs’ office flagged a pair of tweets containing “election related misinformation” on Jan. 7, 2021 – five months before she announced she was running for governor. One of the tweets falsely claimed that Arizona’s voter registration system is run by a foreign corporation.

As for Richer, he participated in a March CISA forum for election officials about how to counter misinformation and disinformation in the coming election.

“Hobbs and Richer are serving to secretly stifle facts and manipulate voters’ opinions about elections,” the lawsuit claims.

Or put another way, they were trying to prevent outright lies from being used to try to undermine democracy. Again, that is.

No proof of mismatched signatures


Speaking of trying to undermine democracy, Lake’s lawsuit claims that “hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected the election in Maricopa County” and that “thousands of Republican voters” were disenfranchised due to long lines on Election Day.

Equipment was “hacked” and printer failures were “intentional misconduct” intended to deny Kari Lake her crown. (Never does her lawsuit acknowledge that voters affected could simply drop their untabulated ballots into a secure box, to be counted later.)

Meanwhile, the lawsuit claims “tens of thousands” of early ballots with mismatched signatures were counted – a “fact” that Lake and her lawyers know despite not having a single one to offer as evidence of the county’s diabolical plot.

As proof, they offer up long-debunked claims made during the 2020 election.

The rest of their allegations are based on observations by “roving attorneys,” poll observers and workers, partisan experts and one unnamed “whistleblower” who claims to have seen third-party workers slipping their family members’ ballots into the pile after the election was over.

Seems like this lawsuit is destined to fail
Lake, who lost by 17,117 votes, contends that anywhere from 15,603 to 29,257 of her supporters were unable to vote. She knows this because a Republican pollster who calls himself “The People’s Pundit" did an exit poll of 813 Maricopa County voters and from that extrapolated that Lake was robbed.

“This poll provides a scientific basis to determine a predictable turnout for the election as a whole, based on accepted metrics,” the lawsuit says.

Curiously, though, Lake and her lawyers didn’t produce those 15,603 to 29,257 voters. Just one – a 68-year-old northwest Valley woman who says she couldn’t physically stand in a long line and thus wasn’t able to cast a ballot on Election Day.

It’s a shame she couldn't find a place to vote among the county’s 223 vote centers – or that she didn’t vote by early ballot, given her infirmity.

But then, according to Lake’s lawsuit, Arizona’s early ballots don’t meet federal and state ballot-secrecy requirements, anyway, and should be summarily thrown out.

“All absentee ballots cast in the 2022 general election are illegal votes,” her lawsuit says – a claim the Arizona Republican Party made in an lawsuit earlier this year.

One that failed.

Sort of like this lawsuit seems destined to do.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kari-lakes-lawsuit-shows-shes-152600108.html

 

Failed Far-Right Arizona Candidate’s Election Lawsuit Dismissed

Stop-the-steal failed candidate for Arizona’s secretary of state Mark Finchem’s lawsuit attempting to redo the election was thrown out by a judge Friday. Finchem had accused Katie Hobbs, Democratic governor-elect and current secretary of state, of running an illegitimate election because she didn’t recuse herself from her duties. The lawsuit asked the judge to strip certification of victory from Adrian Fontes, the Democrat who won the election, as well as vocal House Democrat Ruben Gallego. He also called for a do-over statewide election where ballots are entirely counted by hand, calling into question the voting machines used in the election. Fellow far-right Republican Kari Lake, who lost the governor’s race, also filed a suit claiming she’s the legitimate winner of the election. The judge dismissed Finchem’s case with prejudice, meaning it can’t be refiled. “The law in Arizona does not permit an election challenge to proceed based solely upon a vague sense of unease,” Judge Melissa Iyer Julian wrote in her decision. She also gave Hobbs and Fontes 10 days to file sanctions, if they choose.

Read it at ABC15 Arizona


https://www.thedailybeast.com/faile...k-finchem-election-lawsuit-dismissed?ref=home

 

No smoking gun in Kari Lake's lawsuit (not even a pea shooter)

Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Thu, December 22, 2022 at 6:11 AM MST



Kari Lake leaves Maricopa Superior Court in Mesa on Dec. 21, 2022.
Wednesday was Kari Lake’s big day, her chance to at long last prove that the election was rigged and she was robbed of her right to be Arizona’s next governor.

This was her moment.

Yet Lake and her attorneys offered no smoking gun. Not even a lightly used pea shooter.

Instead, the day was filled with testimony about “pandemonium” at the polls, questionable handling of early ballots and even a conspiracy theory that ballot images were printed an inch too small and thus they couldn’t be counted.

A theory that was blown to bits in just minutes, by the way.

No evidence of an election scheme
Here’s what we didn’t hear – what Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, in ordering the two-day trial, said he must hear for Lake to prevail:

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• That a county elections official intentionally caused ballot-on-demand printers to malfunction on Election Day, and that enough “identifiable” votes were lost to cost her the election.
  
  
• That employees at Runbeck Election Services, the county’s ballot contractor, illegally added ballots and that the county’s failure to maintain chain of custody “was both intentional and did in fact result in a changed outcome.”
  

In other words, somebody had to scheme up a plan to steal the election from Kari Lake. And there has to be evidence that the plan worked.

Of that, we heard crickets.

Key facts:Behind the claims in Kari Lake's election challenge

Well, mostly crickets. We did hear from Heather Honey, a Lake investigator who also worked on the Cyber Ninjas audit of the 2020 election. Honey testified that she was told by a Runbeck worker that employees were allowed to bring their early ballots to work and add them to the vote count. She described it as a perk of the job.

“Employees were permitted to bring their ballots from home and add them to the in-bound scan,” said Honey, who also worked on the Cyber Ninjas audit of the 2020 election.

According to Honey, the whistleblowing employee saw 50 such ballots added to the vote count.

Lake lost to Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs by 17,117 votes.

The ballot tabulator 'bombshell' that wasn't
Honey also claimed that the county – contrary to Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s testimony – didn’t maintain proper chain of custody of early ballots dropped off on the Election Day, allowing all manner of potential funny business to ensue. She bases this upon the Runbeck whistleblower’s say-so and the fact that the county hasn’t yet turned over any Election Day chain-of-custody records to the Lake campaign.

The most bizarre claim of the day came from Clay Parikh, Lake’s Alabama-based cyber security expert. Parikh spoke in August at Mike Lindell's “Moment of Truth” summit in Springfield, Mo., a weekend conference dedicated to conspiracy theories. Lindell flew him in for the event and paid for his lodging.

He also was flown in to testify at Lake’s trial.

Parikh dropped what was supposed to be a bombshell – his assessment that the county’s printers were spitting out 19-inch ballot images onto 20-inch paper, causing the ballots to be rejected by the tabulators. Such a thing could only happen, he said, if the system was set up to allow it.

“It could not be by accident,” he testified.

It all sounded very conspiratorial, until Deputy Maricopa County Attorney Tom Liddy asked Parikh whether a rejected ballot would then be duplicated and run back through the tabulation machines to ensure the vote was counted.

“The duplicated ballot would be tabulated," Parikh replied. “Yes, it should be.”

It's a high bar, and Lake's not even close
Lake was evidently impressed with his testimony.

“That’s what we call a smoking gun,” her Kari Lake War Room tweeted.

That’s what I call a swing and a miss.

Lake’s attorneys spent four and a half hours presenting their case on Wednesday. They have one more hour on Thursday and one more witness: pollster Rich Baris, the self-proclaimed “People’s Pundit” whose polls aren’t included in FiveThirtyEight polling averages due either to bad methodology or poor results.

It seems Baris did an exit poll of 813 Maricopa County voters and from that concluded that anywhere from 15,603 to 29,257 of Lake’s supporters were unable to vote.

I’m guessing Judge Thompson will give that vital, scientific conclusion all of the credibility it’s due.

I’m also guessing Lake is in trouble here.

The judge has set a high bar here. Based on what has thus far been presented in court, Lake won’t reach it while standing on Mike Lindell’s shoulders.

Wearing stilts. With a pile pillows under the warrior's feet.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-smoking-gun-kari-lakes-012906798.html

 

As I have said before if you are a treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican you can scream voter fraud lies all you want out in public. But you try to take them into court with no evidence judges are not amused.



'Enough really is enough': Kari Lake's attorneys hit with sanctions filing day after Christmas

David Edwards
December 26, 2022



Kari Lake (Photo via AFP/JIJI)


Attorneys for former Arizona candidate Kari Lake are facing possible sanctions from a Maricopa judge after losing an election fraud contest.

Prior to Judge Peter Thompson's ruling against Lake's effort to overturn the 2022 election for governor, Maricopa County Attorney Tom Liddy informed the court that the defendants would be asking to sanction opposing counsel.

Thompson ordered defendants to file sanctions documents with the court by 8 a.m. on Dec. 26. The Maricopa County Superior Court website confirmed on Monday that the motion for sanctions had been filed.

The document was described as "GOVERNOR-ELECT KATIE HOBBS’S MOTION FOR SANCTIONS AND JOINDER IN MARICOPA COUNTY DEFENDANTS’ MEMORANDUM AND POINTS OF AUTHORITY."

"There is no question that Plaintiff's claims here were both 'groundless' and 'not made in good faith,'" the motion said. "As noted above. Plaintiff had decided well before the election that if the results did not favor her, she would deny that they were legitimate."

"Enough really is enough," the document concluded. "It is past time to end unfounded attacks on elections and unwarranted accusations against elections officials. This matter was brought without any legitimate justification, let alone a substantial one. The Maricopa County Defendants therefore ask this Court to impose sanctions against Plaintiff Kari Lake and her attorneys, Brian Blehm and Kurt Olsen."

Attorneys for Lake have until 5 p.m. on Monday to respond to the request for sanctions. The defendants have also asked Lake to pay attorney fees.



https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-sanctions/

 

Lauren Boebert blasted by constituent in brutal Christmas Day letter: She once again embarrassed the entire country

Eric Dolan
December 25, 2022



Congresswoman Lauren Boebert speaking with attendees at the 2021 Young Women's Leadership Summit. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert narrowly won her reelection bid against Democrat Adam Frisch this year in an unexpectedly tight race in a Colorado district that was believed to be solidly Republican.

Now, one of her constituents has penned a letter to the editor, published December 25 in the Durango Herald, in which the controversial congresswoman is harshly criticized for her behavior surrounding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the United States.

Boebert, along with fellow GOP congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida, refused to stand or applaud during Zelensky’s address to Congress, according to multiple reports.

The Colorado congresswoman has also been critical of U.S. aid to Ukraine as it battles against a Russian invasion.

IN OTHER NEWS: 'Muster some grace and concede': AZ columnist piles on Kari Lake after judge boots her lawsuit

“Mitch McConnell said that sending funds to Ukraine ‘is the number one priority for the United States right now.’ Funny, I thought he was a Senator from the great state of Kentucky. Last I checked, Kentucky was in America,” Boebert wrote on Twitter.

According to her constituent, Boebert’s behavior has “once again embarrassed her 3rd Congressional District constituents and the entire country.“

“They are among a small group of far-right house members opposed to any future aid to Ukraine and are demanding a ‘full investigation’ into the aid already sent to help the war-torn country survive,” the constituent, Carol, continued.

“It’s clear that Boebert does not understand the importance of defending democracy in our world and does not care about the wishes of her constituents. She is clearly on the wrong side of history. Will she never learn?”



https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boe...he-once-again-embarrassed-the-entire-country/

 

This is sweet irony for a flagrant racist like Boebert but not really surprising. When I was working down in Rifle Colorado I was a little surprised by the size of the Hispanic population. So it only makes sense they are up and coming .

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s gun-themed eatery will be replaced by a Mexican restaurant

Daniel Villarreal, New Civil Rights Movement
December 28, 2022



Lauren Boebert for Congress on Facebook.


Shooters Grill, the gun-themed restaurant owned by far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), has closed down and will soon be replaced by Tapatios Family Mexican Restaurant.

The situation is especially delicious considering Boebert's past comments against Mexican immigrants.

Boebert's restaurant closed in July after the landlord refused to renew its lease, The New York Times reported. At the time, the landlord also refused to renew the lease for Boebert's political office which was located next door to the restaurant.

In a statement about the restaurant's closing, Boebert said the landlord's decision "was purely a business decision with no political motivation."

The restaurant sold dishes with gun-themed names and required its servers wore guns on their holsters. The restaurant also matched her ardent views on guns. She's anti-gun control and has repeatedly claimed that firearm regulations are both unconstitutional and don't stop violent gun-related crimes. She also allows her own son and his friends to play unsupervised around loaded weapons in her home.

Boebert has referred to Mexican immigrants at the southern border as "illegals... rapists, drug dealers, and criminals on the terrorist watch list."

No matter her feelings about Mexicans, a Mexican family restaurant has placed a sign on her old place of business announcing that it will soon open where her eatery once stood.



https://www.rawstory.com/gop-rep-la...ery-will-be-replaced-by-a-mexican-restaurant/

 

Once upon a time Arizona really was a "red state." Until Trump and his Big Lie came along.

Democrat Kris Mayes defeats GOP's Abe Hamadeh in Arizona attorney general race after recount

Caitlin Sievers, Arizona Mirror
December 29, 2022



Kris Mayes speaking with attendees at an Attorney General candidate forum. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


Democrat Kris Mayes was confirmed as Arizona’s next attorney general after the results of a recount in the race were announced Thursday morning, though her margin of victory over Republican opponent Abe Hamadeh was cut nearly in half.

When initial election results were released, Mayes had a narrow 511-vote lead over Hamadeh, but after the recount, that lead shrunk to a razor-thin margin of 280 votes out of some 2.6 million ballots that were cast in November.

In the recount, which was triggered by a new law that requires a recount when the margin between the two candidates is 0.5% or less, Hamadeh gained 427 votes and Mayes gained 196.

“I will say once again that I’m thankful to everyone who took their time to vote, and democracy truly is a team sport,” Mayes said in a written statement.

Hamadeh filed a lawsuit challenging the results of the election, but it was dismissed last week by a Maricopa County judge.

Hamadeh continued to question the results of the election Thursday after the results of the recount were announced.

“We MUST get to the bottom of this election,” Hamadeh wrote in a tweet. “Transparent elections are fundamental to a democracy. A discrepancy this big in the recount calls for an inspection of ALL the ballots.”

The results of two more recounts were also announced Thursday morning, but none of the recounts impacted the outcome of the races.

Incoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Republican Tom Horne came out of the recount with a 9,188-vote lead — gaining 221 votes in the recount — over incumbent Democrat Kathy Hoffman.

In the race for a seat in House District 13, Republican Liz Harris won by 275 votes over fellow Republican Julie Willoughby, with Harris gaining five votes in the recount.

“While discrepancies between the original tally and recount results occurred, the variance in this recount did not change the outcome,” Secretary of State Katie Hobbs wrote in a tweet. “The recount process provided an opportunity to ensure that all ballots cast are counted accurately and that the correct winner won.”


Arizona Mirror is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Arizona Mirror maintains editorial independence.

https://www.rawstory.com/democrat-k...-arizona-attorney-general-race-after-recount/

 

'You've got to deliver': Democrats take charge in Michigan

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  FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is interviewed by The Associated Press in her office, Nov. 17, 2022, in Lansing, Mich. Democrats will be in charge of Michigan's state government for the first time in nearly 40 years come January, raising progressive hopes of undoing decades of Republican-backed measures and advancing an agenda that includes restrictions on guns and help for the working poor. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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  FILE - House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., asks a question during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on "Worldwide Threats to the Homeland", at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022. Democrats will be in charge of Michigan's state government for the first time in nearly 40 years come January, raising progressive hopes of undoing decades of Republican-backed measures and advancing an agenda that includes restrictions on guns and help for the working poor. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
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  FILE - Reina St. Juliana, a junior at Oxford High School, advocates for safe gun storage legislation, during a news conference Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Reina's sister, Hana, was killed in a mass shooting at the school. Reina thanked Sen. Rosemary Bayer, front right, D-Beverly Hills, for sponsoring the bill. (AP Photo/David Eggert, File)
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JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT
Fri, December 30, 2022 at 5:54 AM MST


LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats will be in charge of Michigan's state government for the first time in nearly 40 years come January, raising progressive hopes of undoing decades of Republican-backed measures and advancing an agenda that includes restrictions on guns and help for the working poor.

With control of the state House and Senate and the governor's office, Democrats also will face a test of whether their party can deliver on years of promises in a swing state where they must appeal to more than just their base. Their performance could have wider consequences in 2024 for the presidential battleground state: The way voters feel about two years of Democratic control may be a factor in which party’s candidate they want in the White House.

“The most important thing is actually delivering,” said Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who won reelection to her central Michigan district in one of the country’s most competitive U.S. House races. “You can say what you want all day long. You can have an agenda on a piece of paper. But in Michigan, you’ve got to deliver something.”

Full Democratic control will begin a new challenge for the party and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a close ally of President Joe Biden who has been mentioned as a future White House candidate.


Whitmer, who resoundingly won reelection last month, must now balance the enthusiasm of a newly powerful Democratic caucus with the need to maintain support from moderate and independent voters when the Legislature is up for grabs again in two years.

“We’re mindful that people are watching. What happened here in Michigan’s only happened four times in 130 years,” Whitmer said during a recent meeting with reporters. “There are a lot of eyes on us. It’s our job to make sure that we stay focused on what matters to Michiganders, not what national pundits are interested in.”

Pressure from lobbyists and special interest groups already is immense, and Democratic caucus members are having internal debates about how to proceed, said Rosemary Bayer, a Democratic state senator first elected in 2018. She and others already have tried to lower some expectations and focus on passing legislation that has widespread appeal across the state.

“We can’t do everything at once,” she said. “We don’t want to scare everybody.”

Bayer’s district includes Oxford, the community outside Detroit where a 15-year-old gunman killed four people and injured others at the local high school in 2021. Bayer is now leading the charge for increased gun restrictions, but said she expects to begin by asking lawmakers to approve measures that voters have been asking for and can accept, based on polling reviewed by the party.

That likely means legislation to require background checks for nearly all gun purchases, gun storage laws and a red flag law that bars people deemed to be a danger to themselves and others from having a firearm.

“That’s what people are comfortable with. That’s what they’ve been asking for,” Bayer said. “We have to help everybody understand that if we don’t do this correctly and we end up scaring the crap out of everybody, we get nothing done.”

Republicans have warned that the Democrats' agenda will be bad for the state's economy. One of the biggest battles is expected to be over a right-to-work law approved by Republicans about a decade ago that allowed workers covered by union contracts to not pay dues.

The law is seen as weakening organized labor financially and politically. Labor unions, among Democrats' biggest supporters, have been pushing to repeal it. Business groups and the GOP say doing so would hurt the state's recovery from the pandemic.

John Sellek, a Republican consultant who advised GOP state House speakers and was state director for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, cautioned Democrats that the last time the party controlled both chambers of the Legislature and the governor’s office, in 1983, it was short-lived. After a tax increase was passed, two Democratic senators were recalled, and the GOP returned to power.

Like that time, Democrats now will have a slim majority. They will hold 56 of 100 seats in the House, all of which are up for reelection in two years, and 20 of 38 in the Senate.

“There’s going to be a ton of pressure on the governor in how she handles this,” Sellek said. “It is not a science, it’s an art.”

Whitmer and other Democrats have said they expect to pursue tax credits, education changes and action on climate change.

The Legislature also will work to put in place two ballot measures that voters overwhelmingly approved in November. One expands voting access, allowing nine days of early in-person voting for the first time in the state. The other enshrines the right to an abortion in the state constitution and eliminates a ban on the procedure that was approved in 1931. Whitmer sued to stop the ban from taking effect after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling from 1973 that legalized abortion nationwide.

Democrats also control the statewide offices of attorney general and secretary of state. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson plans to ask the Legislature to impose stricter penalties for harassing election workers and spreading misinformation about voting.

Michigan could be the focus of even more attention than usual in the next election cycle. The Democratic National Committee’s rule-making arm voted to move Michigan up in the party's presidential primary calendar for 2024. If the full DNC approves the plan, as expected, Michigan would be the fifth state to vote in the primary process and the first contest in the Midwest.

That may not matter much if Biden runs again, as he has indicated he will. If he opts out, it could raise the stakes for Whitmer, who has insisted she will not forgo serving a second term to run for president. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who ran for president in 2020 and is considered a likely future White House contender as well, moved to northern Michigan this year to be closer to his husband’s family.

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, who received national attention after a viral speech on the state Senate floor in April, said what Michigan Democrats are able to accomplish could stand in contrast with Washington, which will have divided government with the GOP holding a slim House majority.

“It feels like Michigan is going to be a real opportunity to signal to the rest of the country what it looks like when Democrats are in charge,” McMorrow said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/youve-got-deliver-democrats-charge-125408203.html

 

I am still laughing about not just the giddiness we saw here every day but threats as well. You just wait until the red tsunami hits and then all you progressive /liberal/Democrats will be sorry for what you did to our Chosen One.

GOP's 'giddiness about a big red wave' ended up blowing up in their face

Tom Boggioni
December 31, 2022



Kevin McCarthy on Twitter.


According to a report from the New York Times, Republicans have only themselves to blame for the midterm election disaster that saw them take over the House by a far slimmer margin than they expected and actually lost a seat in a Senate that seemed ripe for a similar takeover.

At issue, the report notes was an over-reliance on sketchy Republican-leaning polls that fed into a popular narrative among conservatives that a "red wave" was coming which, in turn, led candidates to make critical mistakes in the waning days before voters headed to the polls.

While much attention has been paid to the influence of Donald Trump in the selection of GOP candidates, a substantial number of whom went down to defeat, Republicans bought into their own invincibility and failed to listen to warnings from naysayers who pointed out that few races were slamdunks.

As the Times reports, "Surveys showing strength for Republicans, often from the same partisan pollsters, set Democratic klaxons blaring in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Colorado. Coupled with the political factors already favoring Republicans — including inflation and President Biden’s unpopularity — the skewed polls helped feed what quickly became an inescapable political narrative: A Republican wave election was about to hit the country with hurricane force."

ALSO IN THE NEWS: 'Final nail in his coffin': Trump's taxes contain 'powerful evidence of criminal tax evasion'

Pointing out, "The skewed red-wave surveys polluted polling averages, which are relied upon by campaigns, donors, voters and the news media. It fed the home-team boosterism of an expanding array of right-wing media outlets," the NYT report added, "The virtual 'bazaar of polls,' as a top Republican strategist called it, was largely kept humming by right-leaning pollsters using opaque methodology, in some cases relying on financial support from hyperpartisan groups and benefiting from vociferous cheerleading by Mr. Trump."

According to Steven J. Law, the chief executive of the Republicans’ Senate Leadership Fund, he saw the warning signs early.

“These frothy polls had a substantial, distorting impact on how people spent money — on campaign strategy, and on people’s expectations going into the election,” he explained.

Law added that his own internal polling showed candidates were in tighter races than were believed but candidates failed to adjust their messages -- which left him in distress.

“All of these effervescent polls and giddiness about a big red wave led some Republican candidates to believe all they had to do was play to late-night cable and the hard-core base, instead of reaching out to independent voters who decided the election,” he lamented.

Another contributing factor, the Times is reporting, was rightwing outlets cheering on a potential red wave which helped boost ratings while at the same time, in the case of Fox News, "The network’s own polling unit, respected throughout the news industry for its nonpartisanship and transparency, was not detecting a Republican wave."

That didn't stop popular host Sean Hannity from promoting polls from Trafalgar and InsiderAdvantage -- which ended up being wildly wrong -- with the Times reporting both "had long been viewed with suspicion in the polling industry for their opaque surveying methods."

According to Jason Damata, the founder and chief executive of Fabric Media, Fox News hyped the questionable pollsters for a reason.

“The culture of programming does not take kindly to narratives of ‘we’re behind’ or ‘we’re losing,’” Damata explained. “Fox has a profound understanding of what’s going to keep audiences coming back and being engaged.”

You can read more here.



https://www.rawstory.com/republican-red-wave/

 

Trump's meddling in GOP primaries may have cost McCarthy his shot at being Speaker: Maggie Haberman

Matthew Chapman
January 03, 2023



Donald Trump speaking with attendees at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" hosted by Turning Point Action. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


On Tuesday, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman noted that former President Donald Trump may be a key factor in why House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is facing the prospect of failing, for the second time in his career, of securing the votes to be Speaker of the House.

"Trump made whip calls on McCarthy's behalf with the holdouts. Now, he declines to say if he's standing by his endorsement," wrote Haberman on Twitter. "Had Trump not forced out the members who voted to impeach him, McCarthy likely would have had the votes."

This comes after reporting that Trump, after both publicly and privately going to bat for McCarthy to secure the votes, is now noncommittal about helping him, simply telling NBC News' Garrett Haake, "We'll see what happens."

Ten House Republican lawmakers voted to impeach Trump after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. All but two of them — Rep. David Valadao (R-CA) and Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) — subsequently either resigned or were defeated in primaries with Trump's encouragement. Two of those who lost — Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) and Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) — were ultimately succeeded by Democrats after Trump's chosen candidate lost the 2022 elections.

RELATED: Passage from John Boehner's memoir comes back to haunt Kevin McCarthy

This is not the first time McCarthy has fumbled his quest for Speaker; in 2015, he was passed over in favor of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) after the resignation of Speaker John Boehner.

This time, a majority of the caucus supports him, but a far-right cohort denied him the necessary votes to get to 218 — the first time a party leader has lost the first Speaker ballot since 1923.



https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-2659063445/

 

Lake declared herself the rightful governor of Arizona yesterday so this is especially laughable.

'No good cause': AZ Supreme Court denies Kari Lake petition to transfer case from appeals court

David Edwards
January 05, 2023



Kari Lake speaks during CPAC Texas 2022 conference. (Shutterstock.com)


The Supreme Court of Arizona has denied a petition to immediately hear former candidate Kari Lake's case that claims that the 2022 election for governor was fraudulent.

In its order, the Arizona Supreme Court noted that the Division I of the Arizona Court of Appeals had set aside time to hear possible oral arguments in the case.

"No good cause appears to transfer the matter to this Court," the Supreme Court noted.

Last week, Maricopa Judge Peter Thompson ruled that Katie Hobbs (D) was found to be the legal winner of the 2022 election for governor.



https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-arizona-supreme-court/

 

Democratic victory in Virginia special election likely dooms proposed abortion ban
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has pushed for stricter abortion laws.


Christopher Wilson
·Senior Writer
Wed, January 11, 2023 at 11:08 AM MST



Virginia Beach Councilman Aaron Rouse and Jennifer Rouse attend the Mighty Dream Forum on Nov. 2, 2022, in Norfolk, Va. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Democrats flipped a state senate seat in a Virginia special election Tuesday night, likely scuttling Republican plans for a stricter abortion law in the state.

While the race has not officially been called, Virginia Beach Councilman Aaron Rouse declared victory over Navy veteran Kevin Adams, filling a seat vacated after Republican Jen Kiggans won her bid for the U.S. House in November. The win gives Democrats a 22-18 edge in the chamber, decreasing the chances Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin will be able to pass his proposed 15-week abortion ban this year.

Rouse, who previously played in the NFL after earning all-conference honors at Virginia Tech, ran on abortion rights while Adams tried to frame him as soft on crime, a common juxtaposition in many of last year’s key midterm races.


Aaron Rouse at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., in 2005. (Randy Litzinger/Icon SMI/ZUMA Press)
“I want to protect women’s reproductive health care. I want to make sure we build a thriving economy that works for everyone and our public education system. We have to support our teachers, our staff and our students,” Rouse said Tuesday night, adding, “It means a lot to me to know the community I grew up with has my back, and I have theirs, and I’m looking forward to serving them in Richmond.”

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Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last summer, Youngkin announced his plan to ban most abortions after 15 weeks, with that legislation being formally filed in the state legislature Wednesday morning. Virginia currently allows abortion through the second trimester, or about 26 weeks, with access after that only if three doctors certify that the mother’s health is at risk.

Groups on both sides of the abortion policy fight invested in the race, which Kiggans had won narrowly in 2019. Adams did not campaign on new abortion restrictions but supported the governor’s plan. “We need to pass laws that respect the rights of the mom and baby, limit late-term abortion by passing Glenn Youngkin’s 15-week legislation, while providing reasonable exceptions to protect the life of the mother or in the instance of rape or incest,” Adams said on the platform section of his website.


Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin at a campaign rally in October 2022 in Westchester, N.Y. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP)
In an interview with Politico last month, Rouse said he supported “the current law of Virginia as it is and will fiercely defend against any legislation that will ban abortion in our state, our commonwealth.”

“This seat is critical to ensure that we can protect the rights of women’s reproductive health care,” he added.

Democrats were concerned that an Adams victory would have potentially allowed the legislation to pass, as one Democratic state senator has expressed openness to new restrictions on abortion and Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, a Republican, would have the ability to break any ties.

All 40 state Senate seats are up for election this fall, in addition to the entire House of Delegates. With Youngkin’s term running through the end of 2025, abortion access is likely to remain a key issue in future races.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrat...ly-dooms-proposed-abortion-ban-180802550.html

 

Let's see who the losers are? If you are the majority you have to govern.

Kevin McCarthy gets snippy with reporters' George Santos questions: 'You don't get to determine whether I answer!'

Brad Reed
January 24, 2023



Kevin McCarthy on Facebook.


House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday stood by Rep. George Santos (R-NY) even as reporters pelted him with questions about the scandal-plagued Republican's endless stream of falsehoods.

During a press conference, a reporter asked McCarthy how he could justify booting Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and Ilhan Omar (D-CA) off committees while giving Santos two committee assignments.

McCarthy shot back that he wasn't appointing Santos to the House Intelligence Committee and that he was allowing both Schiff and Swalwell to serve on committees apart from that committee.

At another point in the press conference, a reporter argued to McCarthy that he had not answered the question they had posed, with caused the House Speaker to get snippy.

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"Let me be very clear clear and respectful to you: You ask me a question. When I answer it, it's the answer to your question," he said. "You don't get to determine whether I answer your question or not!"

McCarthy also got irritated when defending his decision to keep Swalwell off the Intelligence Committee.

"If you want to talk about Swalwell, let's talk about Swalwell, because you have not had the briefing that I had," he said. "The FBI never came before this Congress to tell the leadership of this Congress that Eric Swalwell had a problem with a Chinese spy!"

Although a Chinese spy did allegedly try to get into a relationship with Swalwell, the California Democrat cut off all contact with her after being informed of her status by the FBI, and the FBI has never accused Swalwell of any wrongdoing.

Watch the video below or at this link.



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More proof the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican extremism is a real loser.

Democrats win special elections and control of Pennsylvania House
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/99a12bfb-e5b1-348e-a482-6913bb559a59/democrats-win-special.html

 

McClellan becomes ‘ancestors’ wildest dreams’ with historic Virginia win
by Cheyanne M. Daniels and Julia Manchester - 02/27/23 2:05 PM ET

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Virginia Rep.-elect Jennifer McClellan (D) is poised to make history when she is sworn into Congress, becoming the first Black woman to represent the commonwealth on Capitol Hill.

The nature of her historic win wasn’t lost on her. McClellan told The Hill that during her campaigning, she was “very aware” of what a win would mean not just for her, but also for Black women across the nation.


“It still blows my mind that there are firsts in 2023 but it is a tremendous honor and a tremendous responsibility,” McClellan, 50, said. “It’s an honor knowing that I am my ancestors’ wildest dreams and I stand on their shoulders. To be the first Black woman from Virginia, the birthplace of both American democracy and American slavery and massive resistance, is poetic justice.”

McClellan’s political rise has been a gradual one, serving in Virginia’s House of Delegates and state Senate. In 2021, she came in a distant third place in the state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, losing to former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D).

But nearly two years later, McClellan is looking to hit the ground running in Congress with an eye on expanding voting rights and improving education.

“She’s going to be one of the younger people in the delegation and she’s in a relatively safe seat,” said veteran Virginia political analyst Bob Holsworth. “I expect her to move up in Congress because people are going to love her work ethic and they’re going to love working with her.”

Throughout her time in the state legislature, McClellan has focused on progressive policies, from expanding abortion access to ensuring that Virginia became the first state in the south to pass a comprehensive voting rights act.

Now, she wants the federal government to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


In 2013, the landmark Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court ruling gutted protections from discrimination guaranteed by the law. As a result, strict voter enforcement laws arose, including voter ID laws, which had previously been barred and which disproportionately impact Black Americans.

Voting rights, McClellan told The Hill, are “sacred” in her family.

Both her parents grew up during the civil rights movement, and voting wasn’t easy to do.


“My dad paid poll taxes to vote, and his dad paid poll taxes. My great grandfather had to take a literacy test and find three white men to vouch for him to be able to vote,” McClellan said.

The right to vote, she added, is how Americans are able to participate in the government — and how the government upholds its promise to be by and for the people.

“I learned very early as a delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates, everybody’s political views are shaped by their life and what they know,” McClellan said. “As more people who lived during Jim Crow are dying, we’re losing those stories and we’re in a battle right now over whether they’ll be taught in our schools. So being a voice to bring those stories and those perspectives to the halls of Congress is really important to me.”


McClellan has also homed in on energy and environment related issues, notably brokering a compromise between environmentalists and Dominion Energy.

“While she’s clearly what I would consider a center-left Democrat, she also has the capacity to work across the aisle at times because of her personality,” Holsworth said.

While Virginia’s 4th Congressional District is considered a safe seat for Democrats, McClellan shattered expectations in her campaign to replace the late Rep. Donald McEachin (D), defeating her opponent by 50 points.


“That was a statement of how fired up people are no matter what the stakes are,” said Gianni Snidle, communications director for the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus. “Truly it seems they want to make their voices on Democratic values.”

But McClellan also said her win is helping close an “imagination gap” that doesn’t see Black women in political seats.

“I think recognizing what I faced in that race put an imagination gap because people had never seen — and I think [Georgia gubernatorial candidate] Stacey Abrams saw this — people have never seen a Black woman in the role,” she said. “They couldn’t imagine that and yet, all across the country, there are Black women who are doing amazing things and are just as qualified or just as capable as other candidates who have succeeded. And I think we just need to stretch our imagination a little bit and support them.”


Democratic strategist Atima Omara said that some of this perception is starting to change as a result of the 2016 election and voters’ desire to see a more reflective democracy.

“I feel like the attitude of the culture has shifted, certainly in the last six years, as I think people really started thinking about what does representation look like with the 2016 election and how can we make our democracy more reflective of that,” said Omara, who ran for a seat in the Virginia General Assembly in 2014.

But the imagination gap still persists, Omara said, in part because of a “deep bias” about what Black women should be doing. Omara points to the praise Abrams received for her organizing, but the admonishment that followed her when she expressed interest in potentially being part of President Biden’s cabinet.


“People admire a Black woman when she does the labor, when she does the work in service,” explained Omara. “But when she dares to step out and say, I am qualified to lead this organization, this company, to represent you in Congress … folks start to question your ability because how dare you put yourself forward, you are supposed to be in service, not leading.”

Now, Omara said she expects to see McClellan use her time in Congress to further the legacy of McEachin, who was an advocate for environmental justice, among other things.

But McClellan has also led on advocating for abortion access during her time in the legislature and on the campaign trail.

Earlier this month, Republicans in the House of Delegates defeated an effort led by McClellan to allow Virginia voters to decide whether abortion access should be enshrined in the commonwealth’s constitution. While the effort was rejected, it will likely leave a mark going into November’s elections.

“It is something the Democrats are going to run on in all of the suburban competitive districts this year,” Holsworth said.

McClellan told The Hill that she plans to continue this effort in Congress.

“I was very instrumental in expanding access to health care and reproductive health care here in Virginia,” McClellan said. “Passing the first bill in the south to remove barriers to access to abortion, and that’s something that we need to do at the federal level now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe.”

McClellan said even with her historical win, there remains a responsibility to ensure she is not the last Black woman to make history — in her state, or across the country.

“I think the first step is to support the Black women that are leading at the state level, at the local level, in the party, who are building a bench and are building the experience needed to run at higher levels. And then when they step forward to run, pay homage to that experience and work.”



https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...rs-wildest-dreams-with-historic-virginia-win/

 

And we see how, at least with local elections, the despicables can win so many elections, eh?
They say they want immigration reform, but their actions scream open borders.​

Washington DC City Council says bill for allowing noncitizens to vote is now law: report (msn.com)

Washington DC City Council says bill for allowing noncitizens to vote is now law: report
Story by Louis Casiano • Yesterday 7:42 PM

Washington D.C. effort to allow non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants and foreign diplomats according to the Wall Street journal, to vote in local elections is now law.

he City Council passed the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act amid criticism from Republicans. Congress had a 30-day review period, during which lawmakers could have pushed to block the legislation.

The review period ended last week, the council said Monday, WAMU reported. The House pushed to block the D.C. law from taking effect but the Senate ran out of time before the review period ended.

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The bill, introduced by council member Charles Allen, says that if a noncitizen is otherwise qualified to vote, they can do so in local elections so long as they have resided in Washington, D.C., for at least 30 days.


"This bill is in line with our D.C. values and this council’s history of expanding the right to vote and welcoming new voices into our political process and government," Allen said before the Oct. 6, 2022 vote. "Our immigrant neighbors of all statuses participate, contribute and care about our community in our city.

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Republicans quickly tried quashing the law. Under the terms, voters would have to be 18 years of age by the time of the general election and must live in D.C. for at least 30 days before the election and not claim voting residence in any U.S. state or U.S. territory.

In January, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-K.Y., introduced a resolution to disprove of the legislation.

"Voting is a pillar of American democracy and a constitutional right that undeniably needs to be protected and preserved for citizens of this country," Comer said in a statement. "The D.C. Council’s reckless decision to allow non-U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants the right to vote in local elections is an attack on the foundation of this republic."

Congress can find other ways to block the law, WAMU reported, such as prohibiting D.C. from spending money to implement it.

The council urged Senate Democrats this month to reject efforts to overturn the law.

"Today ALL 13 Councilmembers sent a letter to Senate leadership opposing the efforts to disapprove properly adopted DC laws," D.C. council chairman Phil Mendelson wrote Friday on Twitter.

 

I have lived and worked in Colorado and cannot believe anyone would vote for such stupid ignorance (two different things.) It is beyond me how anyone in Colorado could endure such humiliation. Colorado Srings was already bad enough. Why on earth would they add Boebert?


'How confident your stupidity is': Lauren Boebert lampooned for posting crudely-cropped US map

Brandon Gage, Alternet
March 01, 2023



Congresswoman Lauren Boebert speaking with attendees at the 2021 Young Women's Leadership Summit. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)


United States Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) attempted to be clever on Twitter early Wednesday evening but instead was met with derision and ridicule.

Boebert, an outspoken right-wing conservative, posted a picture of Earth containing only a crudely-cropped image of the lower forty-eight states surrounded by water along with a caption that reads: "map showing the only place my taxes should go."

Boebert added her own text as well, stating that "sometimes a meme says it best."

READ MORE: 'Karen wants to speak to the NFL manager': Lauren Boebert trolled for opposing the Black National Anthem

Social media observers wasted no time pointing out the follies in Boebert's tweet.

Keith Olbermann: "Or, a GIF, when a US Congresswoman forgets Alaska and Hawaii are states and there are places like Puerto Rico:" [Chef Gordon Ramsey calling a cook "a stupid sandwich"]

MNay: "Sorry Hawaii & Alaska…bobo doesn’t want to help you."

Stephanie Liebergen: "Alaska? Hawaii? Guam? Puerto Rico? US Virgin Islands?"

READ MORE: Colorado Democrat who almost defeated Lauren Boebert announces 2024 campaign

MaggieMay: "Umm … you forgot a couple of things. Hawaii and Alaska entered the chat …"

Tony Posnanski: "I know you failed your GED four times before having someone else take it for you, but in 1959, Alaska and Hawaii became US States. I don't want to get into Puerto Rico or other territories of the US as it might be a touch advanced for you."

Khary Penebaker: "What amazes me is how confident your stupidity is."

Bill Brady: "Xenophobic at best. Isolationist dictatorial at worst. Also not Christ-like. Look the words up, dear. I'll wait."

dave_shebroe The Clubhouse: "So she's saying FU to Alaska and Hawaii?"

READ MORE: House GOP committee chair in 'a tightwire act' managing Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert



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Betcha she knows how many US states and territories there are.

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Well, to the embarrassment of deplorables, and in particular Shooter, the predicted "red wave tsunami" of mid terms did not happen. Deplorables, instead of owning both the senate and House, were lucky to hold a razor thin margin in the house and lost a seat in the senate.

The despicables of course took full advantage of the embarrassment deplorables so richly earned, and lorded their new majority over the humiliated deplorables.
But, Karma.

It turns out that the despicables, even with a majority, manage to shoot themselves in the foot. Both Fetterman and Feinstein went missing last week, along with two other despicable senators who abdicated their responsibilities for personal/medical reasons. One deplorable senator also took a powder, but still left the Senate evenly split, leaving it to Harris to settle any ties.

But the news of note is that Feinstein took her leave to "attend to personal medical issues" which has been used in the past by politicians to justify their minions absence or malfeasance. In the case of Feinstein we can't help but wonder if the despicables have explained to the old woman that her services will no longer be needed, you know, after that Kavanaugh debacle, and she perhaps wants to take her leave early.

 

I actually went through this when my own kids were in school and I was publishing my newspaper. A loved and respected teacher who had been at the school for more than 25 finally convinced the school board sex education was essential. Because as she pointed out STD's and teenage pregnancies were just running rampant due to ignorance. So the board allowed her to create a sex ed curriculum.

And of course the religious fanatics just went ballistic and started protesting and demanding special meetings. So the board added an opt out option to the classes. If a parent didn't want their child to be exposed to it that was fine they didn't have to attend the classes.

But on no that wasn't good enough for them and they demanded more special meeting protesting what the called pornography and wanted the entire curriculum cancelled.

So I attended the special meeting they had called to demand they eliminate the sex ed classes and they were screaming about their "presentably rights." So at one point I stood up and asked "but what about my parental rights? We live in a tiny community were STD's and pregnancy are rampant. I want my kids to learn about sex ed. And none or your kids have to even attend the classes. You can opt them out. So why are you trying to take away my rights as a parent?

The first thing I was told was I had no right to speak up at the meeting because I ran the newspaper and was supposed to be neutral. I basically told them to get fucked because I was a parent first and a reporter second and had every right to be involved in my own kids education. Then they said they would boycott my newspaper and bury me in letters to the editor. And I told them to go right ahead that was their right under the Constitution.

But a funny thing happened. The meeting was packed and after I spoke many other parents started to weigh in supporting the sex ed program. So they threatened to run for the school board and take it over and kill the program. Which was the greatest thing they could have done. Because at the next election all the incumbents were re-elected except one. The one lone religious fanatic that was on the board voting against the sex ed program. And I took his place on the school board.

Just in time for the AIDS epidemic to hit.



Watch: Lauren Boebert wants 'comprehensive sex ed' banned from public schools

Brandon Gage, Alternet
March 08, 2023



Congresswoman Lauren Boebert speaks during CPAC Texas 2022 conference. (Shutterstock.com)


United States Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) called for totally abolishing sex education during an interview at this weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

"But we have to get aggressive and say, you know, there is going to be money spent in the Department of Education that is going to be funded. What do we want that funding to go towards? What do we not want it to go towards? Because there are schools that are worse than that are teaching worse than just gender ideology," Boebert, a right-wing conservative, said.

"Yeah, I mean, they have comprehensive sex ed. They're teaching kids how to have and enjoy sex, and even same-sex sex, how to pleasure themselves. This is not something elementary students should learn, nor any student in a public school," she continued. "Um, so, you know, these are the things that we need to go after and, um, and cut their funding."

READ MORE: 'God forbid that ever come up': Fox News hosts shocked that sex education exists

Watch below or at this link.


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