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crickets's JournalHow was Loeffler ever considered eligible to be appointed in the first place?
ICE = Intercontinental Exchange
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/while-kelly-loeffler-opposed-new-covid-aid-her-husbands-firm-sought-to-profit-off-the-pandemic/
While her husband was taking advantage of the pandemics effect on the housing market to advance ICEs grand plan to gain control of the digital mortgage service sector, Loeffler has done little to address the housing and economic crises triggered by the coronavirus. In the spring, she unveiled a proposal to restart our economy safely. It was a hodgepodge of mostly conservative ideas, such as eliminating payroll taxes for the rest of 2020 and cutting regulations for new businesses, and reform measures related to the first wave of pandemic relief already passed. One section did note, Families are having difficulty affording their mortgage or rent. But Loefflers plan included no provisions regarding mortgage or rent relief or eviction moratoria. [snip]
In July, Loeffler noted her opposition to extending assistance to Americans hit hard by the coronavirus recession: I am not seeing a big need to extend the federal unemployment insurance.
More recently, Loeffler, like her fellow Senate Republicans, has not said much (or anything) about the looming eviction and foreclosure crises. In September, the Centers for Disease Control imposed a moratorium on residential evictions for people making less than $99,000 a year (or $198,000 for a couple). It ends on December 31. Other economic assistance benefits from the CARES Act that was passed in March also expire at the end of the month, including certain unemployment benefits that could affect millions of people and their ability to pay rent or mortgage bills. Also, mortgage forbearance provisions in the CARES Act are scheduled to end in March 2021. All this and moreincluding the accelerating spread of COVID-19are likely to lead to a spike in mortgage foreclosures and evictions. But the new wave of foreclosures, Millionacres, a Motley Fool service, pointed out, will likely lead to a real estate buying spree. That could be good news for Sprecher and ICE, given the companys acquisition of Ellie Mae. And ICE will continue to benefit, if the pandemic real estate market remains as strong as it has been.
Loeffler and Sprechers financial actions have generated controversy on another front. In January, after she attended a private Senate briefing on the coronavirus threat, she and her husband made a series of stock sales. This included buying stock in firms that develop teleworking software. They subsequently sold off $18.7 million shares in ICE and also dumped shares in retail outlets. Once news of these trades emerged, Loeffler denied exploiting confidential information she had obtained as a senator. The Senate Ethics Committee stated it found no evidence she had violated the law or Senate rules. By the way, Loeffler sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates ICE. (Sen. David Perdue, a Republican campaigning alongside Loeffler in Georgias other run-off election on January 5, was also snared in a stock-selling scandal. At least one case of his personal wheeling-and-dealing was investigated by the feds, but no charges were filed.)
Conflicts of interest everywhere, insider trading... Loeffler and her husband are unprincipled vultures. The entire article is well worth the read.
The two elections are not comparable and Raffensperger knows it.
It's a shame he felt the need to write an opinion piece that didn't stick to the current election . His performance and his public behavior were both so impressively professional -- until now. If he'd just kept his mouth shut we'd still be able to sing his praises. We needn't have bothered, because in this piece he manages to toot his own horn just fine.
So, he starts with a rebuke against trump, unfairly comparing trump and Stacey Abrams, then throws himself a bothsiderist pity party, closing by dancing as close to the line as he can in campaigning for the remaining Repub runoff candidates...
In times like these, we need leaders of integrity to guide us through.
Yep, he's a garden variety hypocritical Republican jerk after all. Ugh.
👆👆 The Hill can pretend to 'review' as much as they like. Further downthread:
https://twitter.com/MamurphyMaureen/status/1297461996246499329Aug 23
Replying to @emptywheel
In her sworn testimony, Dr. Fiona Hill curtly dismissed both The Hill and Politico (John Solomon base) for being willing disseminators of, e.g., Giuliani Russia conspiracy theory.
Both publications should be read with a pile of salt at the ready, when/if read at all. I remember when the Solomon thing kicked up a year ago, it became obvious The Hill knew who he was from the beginning.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212540221
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212622807
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212694698
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142396914
It's telling that Solomon has since set up his own news agency - I wonder how lucrative that actually is. Does he even get a straight gig anywhere now?
I don't care if trump tries to pardon himself, or gets Pence to do it.
Yes. Strike down any attempt at a pardon. Not only should it be made clear that no president is allowed to self-pardon, no president should get a pardon. That should be one of the many things a president gives but never receives. No president should ever, ever again feel that he can away with anything as long as he has his get out of jail free card.
Oh, we could go on all day about what that sentence really means, but there should be a proper investigation into collusion. The Mueller Investigation ended up being less than comprehensive in some ways, to put it kindly, and we have yet to see the entire report. Do over on that one, big time.
Go after him for federal crimes. I'm pretty sure trump's on the hook for international crimes. Throw the book at him again and again, every single book we can find. We will never again know true peace as a country if we don't.
I highly doubt her independence. Murphy had a WH minder installed right before the election.
White House attorney dispatched to agency blocking Biden transition - November 10, 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-attorney-dispatched-to-agency-blocking-biden-transition-173301811.html
GSA put out a press release, which said that as the new general counsel of the GSA, as well as its top ethics official, Benishek would advise in the formulation and promulgation of GSA policies and regulations, oversee the agencys litigation, and provide overall direction. [snip]
But one top official who was involved in the Obama transition in 2008 speculated that the young attorney was put there to keep tabs on Murphy. The former transition member, who would discuss the matter only on the condition of anonymity, went further, speculating that Benishek was installed there so the [White House] could fire the administrator and chief of staff, then have [Benishek] take over the agency to stop the ascertainment, a reference to the process the GSA undertakes during a presidential transition.
Though Murphy is a Republican, she is not a White House insider, meaning that she may not be fully trusted to do the presidents bidding.
Emily Murphy's letter is defensive as hell.
In true trumpian fashion, she spends most of her time in the letter talking about herself and how hard the experience has been for her, as well as finding excuses to push away blame. Her protests that she received no pressure from the Executive Branch were unnecessary, letting all of us know that it's very likely that's exactly what happened. She has the nerve to close the letter with comments regarding Biden's requirements in receiving services and funds from GSA.
Good riddance when she's gone, and I hope she is never given a position of any authority or significance again. Wow.
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Republicans also blocked the SAFE Act. Because of course they did.
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1329933294155141121Propagandists omit or distort pertinent facts or simply lie, & try to divert...attention...from everything but their own propaganda.
This is why Rs single out Dominion system vulnerabilities & political ties, but ignores ES&S system vulnerabilities & political ties 1/
6:43 PM · Nov 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1329934382157598720
3/ Its also why Rs never mention that Democrats championed election-security legislation (the #SAFEAct) that would have required robust manual audits to confirm electronic results, but Republicans mercilessly blocked it.
6:47 PM · Nov 20, 2020
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1146121709998632960
Here is the final text of the House election-security bill called the #SAFEAct. https://congress.gov/116/bills/hr2722/BILLS-116hr2722eh.pdf
The first paragraph requires that all voters have the option to mark their ballots by hand and bans barcode voting systems (albeit without using the word "barcode" ): 1/ [image]
2:21 PM · Jul 2, 2019
Bill summary here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2722
Loeffler is not representing GA's interests but her own. She needs to GO.
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1327700401932488704
The DOJ dropped their investigation into Kelly Loeffler's insider trading shortly after her husband Jeffrey Sprecher, who owns the New York Stock Exchange, donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC. Corrupt! #LootingLoeffler
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It's a projector set up across the street from the hotel.
There was a really interesting article a while back about how they do it.
https://apnews.com/article/4cddfcad7dd34265bb09d1fc3f309739
We know were allowed to do it. The police kind of know were allowed to do it. But it all kind of depends on the officer and their mood, he said.
The Metropolitan Police Department said in an email that it will not engage in any enforcement actions regarding light projections unless there is an indication that a crime has been committed. [snip]
The ones that work best are the ones that give people some sort of relief from all this political stress, Bell said. Its a way of grieving and venting publicly.
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