https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/george-soros-joe-arpaio-arizona-230724
>https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/george-soros-joe-arpaio-arizona-230724
Soros spends $2 million to defeat Arpaio
2016
George Soros has contributed $2 million to a group working to defeat Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona, the latest target of Soros’ big spending in local law enforcement campaigns over the past year.
The Soros-funded PAC, Maricopa Strong, will file campaign finance documents Friday showing Soros’ multimillion dollar investment against Arpaio, along with $500,000 from Texas energy billionaires Laura and John Arnold and $250,000 from Laurene Powell Jobs (widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs). The group had previously reported a $300,000 donation from Soros, one of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors.
Soros has spent millions in 2015 and 2016 funding campaigns to defeat local prosecutors around the country and elect new ones who back criminal justice reform measures. Soros-backed groups are currently spending big in three big-city district attorney races: Houston’s Harris County, where Soros has contributed over $1 million, according to local campaign finance filings; Gilpin and Jefferson counties outside Denver, where Soros has given about $1.5 million to unseat an incumbent; and Phoenix’s Maricopa County, where a Soros-funded PAC has also spent over $1 million against the Republican district attorney, Bill Montgomery.
But Soros’ spending against Arpaio, a high-profile liberal boogeyman, is his single biggest investment in a local race this year, as well as the billionaire’s first effort against a sheriff. It folds in immigration reform, another policy passion of Soros’, alongside criminal justice reform.
Arpaio made his name in Arizona and nationally as an opponent of illegal immigration. He was charged by federal prosecutors last month with contempt of court for violating an order to halt discriminatory policing practices.
Maricopa Strong has spent $2.9 million in the sheriff’s race, with the donations from Soros and others funding a flurry of mailers and TV ads boosting Democratic candidate Paul Penzone and hammering Arpaio. Soros has typically been the sole funder of his local outside-spending campaigns around the country, though Jobs and the Arnolds joined him in funding Maricopa Strong.
“Rapes, assaults, even child molestation remained uninvestigated while Arpaio focuses on his personal agenda,” the narrator says in one of the group’s TV ads. “Arpaio talks tough, but he doesn’t keep us safe.”
Arpaio’s campaign has attacked Soros’ efforts, calling him a “far-left globalist,” saying he is trying to buy a local race, and alleging that his group has broken disclosure rules, per The Arizona Republic.
“We made a major investment in the effort to defeat Joe Arpaio for two reasons,” said Michael Vachon, a Soros spokesperson. “First, Joe Arpaio has been a stain on the justice system in Arizona for more than two decades, violating civil rights and abusing his office. Second, his influence on the national conversation about immigration has been poisonous. This election is an opportunity to send a message: When matched on an even playing field, the values of justice and inclusion will defeat the politics of fear-mongering and intolerance."
Arpaio has aired about $2.8 million of his own TV ads, according to a media-tracking source, and has leaned on his national name recognition to raise millions more for his campaign, while Penzone’s campaign has been less well-funded. But several polls this fall have shown Penzone leading Arpaio in his second attempt to unseat the sheriff.
"The persuasion campaign that Maricopa Strong is running is critical to the effort to defeat Joe Arpaio,” said Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, who in 2012 co-founded a PAC to take on Arpaio and boost Penzone in the last sheriff’s race.
But that group, Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement, was able to raise only a quarter-million dollars, and Arpaio won reelection by 6 percentage points.
>Maricopa Strong has spent $2.9 million in the sheriff’s race, with the donations from Soros and others funding a flurry of mailers and TV ads boosting Democratic candidate Paul Penzone and hammering Arpaio. Soros has typically been the sole funder of his local outside-spending campaigns around the country, though Jobs and the Arnolds joined him in funding Maricopa Strong.
>Arpaio has aired about $2.8 million of his own TV ads, according to a media-tracking source, and has leaned on his national name recognition to raise millions more for his campaign, while Penzone’s campaign has been less well-funded. But several polls this fall have shown Penzone leading Arpaio in his second attempt to unseat the sheriff.
>"The persuasion campaign that Maricopa Strong is running is critical to the effort to defeat Joe Arpaio,” said Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, who in 2012 co-founded a PAC to take on Arpaio and boost Penzone in the last sheriff’s race.
https://www.csis.org/programs/technology-policy-program/survey-chinese-linked-espionage-united-states-2000
>fuck you Joe
>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/joe-bidens-imperiled-economy
Joe Biden's imperiled economy
Joe Biden, having already presided on the worst economic recovery since World War II as Barack Obama’s vice president, could oversee one even worse. But unlike the fundamentally crippled economy Obama inherited, Biden came into office with every economic feature in his favor.
Thanks to Operation Warp Speed, his White House inherited the most remarkable vaccine production process in history. Because the coronavirus recession was created by preventive lockdowns and demand shocks, not underlying failures of the economy, the country seemed keen to roar back to our pre-pandemic prosperity of unusually tight labor markets and steady natural wage growth of early 2020. Love Donald Trump or hate him, there is no denying that he oversaw the obliteration of our former conception of what constituted full employment.
And yet, Biden seems to be blowing the lead. After nearly a year of the economy regaining more than half of the job losses accrued during the April 2020 apex of the coronavirus recession, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported just a quarter-million new jobs created in contrast to the 1 million jobs anticipated by experts, rendering it the single worst jobs report in the nation’s history. The unemployment rate actually increased for the first time since last year, from 6% in March to 6.1%. Even worse, inflation seems on the rise in a way it hasn’t been in decades at the same time plateauing labor force participation might kill our economic output. But this is a feature, not a bug, of Biden’s first 100 days.
For starters, an unprecedented amount of cash has been injected into an economy already shouldering nearly $30 trillion in national debt. For this, Biden hardly bears all the blame. Although Trump’s initial coronavirus spending package was necessitated by the lockdowns, Trump inexplicably demanded an extra $2.3 trillion in his last days. Then, Biden passed another $1.9 trillion grab bag of left-wing goodies under the guise of pandemic relief, and now he’s pushing for a further $4 trillion financed solely by the Federal Reserve, risking it all on a full-year commitment to keep interest rates near zero.
Biden, even before the election, elevated proponents of Modern Monetary Theory like Stephanie Kelton to plum positions on his economic policy task force. When sound voices in the room like Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warn about the Fed’s dangerous dovishness, she has been quickly browbeaten into publicly reversing course.
So we have an explosion of cash into circulation, nonexistent interest rates disincentivizing spending, and closures of schools and businesses shrinking the labor force. On top of that, we have Biden’s signature policy failure: the federal government’s expanded unemployment benefits incentivizing people from returning to work.
Despite the White House and its media agents insisting that businesses are to blame for the employment shortage, even Biden has admitted that a change has to be made.
"We're going to make it clear that anyone collecting unemployment, who was offered a suitable job, must take the job or lose their unemployment benefits,” Biden said of his hopes to fix the extended Unemployment Insurance benefits during Monday remarks.
But Congress has already authorized the extra unemployment spending through September, and despite a lifesaving vaccination campaign rendering a return to normalcy safe, the damage is already done. Workers may refuse to return behind the bar or to the driver's seats of Ubers because they’ll make more in UI, but the demand for service won’t dissipate until autumn. Instead, big businesses such as McDonald’s and Amazon will continue to automate future jobs out of existence and small businesses will be crushed.
Twelve years ago, Obama could rightly claim he inherited a mess. Biden needs to admit he's made one.
Eric Coomer looks like Hunter Biden
>Sardinenpackung
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/books/himmler-s-willing-executioners.html