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Anonymous ID: 6c995a Oct. 7, 2022, 10:14 p.m. No.17673748   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3905

Report: ‘Record Number’ of LGBTQ Candidates Running for Congress this Year

God, I pray fervently, please stop this evil!

 

 

A “record number” of LGBTQ candidates are running for Congress, “motivated in part” by laws in GOP states shoring up parental rights and protecting women and girls’ sports, Axios Congressional reporter Sophia Cai reported Tuesday.

 

Approximately 104 LGBTQ candidates are running for House or Senate seats in the 2022 midterm elections — a nearly 20 percent increase compared to 2020, when 87 LGBTQ candidates campaigned, Cai wrote.

 

“Some of those campaigns have already ended, but as of last week, 57 candidates are still actively running, according to data,” the report reads.

 

Cai wrote that candidates at the state level “say discriminatory laws have motivated them to seek a seat in their legislatures.” These supposed “discriminatory laws,” however, are put forth by Republicans to keep radical gender ideology from infiltrating schools and creating a divide between parents and their children.

 

A prime example is Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, which expands parents’ oversight of their children’s education and prohibits the teaching of gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade. Democrats and corporate media allies quickly dubbed it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and claim it targets vulnerable gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex children. In reality, the legislation does not mention any particular sexuality.

 

The Biden administration, Democrats, and pro-transgender clinical organizations have also been pushing sex change surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones — labeled “gender-affirming care” — for minors who believe they are a different sex. Additionally, Democrats have pushed to allow males identifying as females to play women and girls’ sports and share female spaces, despite well-documented biological advantages and overall safety concerns.

 

Democrats have gone so far as to promote letting children attend drag shows ( see here, here, here, here, and here). In response, Republicans in several states have already begun crafting laws to criminalize exposing children to drag shows. GOP lawmakers have also created and passed laws in many states criminalizing “gender- affirming care” for minors and banning males from female sports.

 

This is what a “family-friendly drag show” in a bar looks like pic.twitter.com/oTnLmdEkaZ

 

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 16, 2022

 

According to the Axios report, LGBTQ voters “are among the fastest-growing parts of the electorate” and have high election turnout, though there are only 11 “out” LGTBQ Congress members.

 

Indeed, recent Gallup polling suggests the number of people who self-identify” as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), or “something other than heterosexual,” has increased to 7.1 percent of the 329 million population in the United States. A Pew Research Center Survey published in June found that five percent of Americans from 18 to 30-years-old identify as “transgender” or “nonbinary.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/21/report-record-number-of-lgbtq-candidates-running-for-congress-this-year/

Anonymous ID: 6c995a Oct. 7, 2022, 10:16 p.m. No.17673980   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>17673746

Doug Mastriano willing to talk to Jan. 6 committee, spoke to FBI

 

June 2, 2022 / 1:32 PM / CBS Pittsburgh

 

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, has offered to sit for an interview with the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and was interviewed by FBI agents last year about it, his lawyer said Thursday.

 

Mastriano, a state senator and retired U.S. Army colonel who won the GOP nomination for governor last month, was seen outside the Capitol on the day of the insurrection, and he was in regular communication with Donald Trump as the then-president sought to reverse his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

 

Mastriano's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said Mastriano told the FBI that he did not know about a planned insurrection or any coordination behind the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

 

"He previously was approached and sat for a voluntary interview with the FBI and told them the truth about everything that happened that day," Parlatore said. "The FBI cleared him."

 

Parlatore said he also provided documents earlier this week to the Jan. 6 committee in response to a Feb. 15 subpoena to Mastriano. Parlatore made the offer of an interview months ago, he said. The committee has yet to schedule an interview with Mastriano, and he has nothing to hide, Parlatore said

 

The submission of documents from Mastriano comes as lawmakers are looking to gather as much testimony and evidence as they can before beginning a series of public hearings next week. The committee has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and collected tens of thousands of pages of documents as it looks to give the American public the most comprehensive look at the events that led to the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries.

 

A Senate Judiciary report released late last year alleged that Mastriano and his wife "took part in the January 6 insurrection," citing footage of them passing through breached barricades and police lines at the Capitol. Mastriano has told reporters that he left when things turned violent.

 

Mastriano previously denied breaking any laws that day, and he has not been charged with any crime in connection to the Capitol attack.

 

There is no evidence that Mastriano entered the Capitol building or that he participated in the violence. He has declined repeated efforts by The Associated Press over the past year to interview him about what he did and saw that day. He has called the violence "unacceptable."

 

Mastriano was among Trump's most dedicated supporters during the 2020 campaign and has been a prominent peddler of unsubstantiated claims that the election was stolen from Trump. He floated a plan in the Republican-controlled state Legislature to undo Biden's victory in Pennsylvania and empower lawmakers to instead award the state's electoral votes to Trump.

 

Mastriano later organized bus trips to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and advertised himself ahead of time as a scheduled speaker on the Capitol steps during the afternoon. He has described getting prime seats to Trump's speech before the riot. Trump also endorsed Mastriano for governor.

 

In its subpoena, the Jan. 6 committee also noted Mastriano's presence outside the Capitol the day of the insurrection, saying his public statements indicated "you witnessed 'agitators … getting in the face of the police' and 'agitators … start pushing the police up the Capitol steps.'"

 

Parlatore on Thursday dismissed the committee's work as "not a real investigation" and politically motivated, designed to boost Democrats' prospects in November's midterm elections. The panel is made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans.

 

Congressional investigators are hoping to learn more about Mastriano's role in a plan to arrange for an "alternate" slate of electors from Pennsylvania for Trump after the 2020 election. Those individuals went on to declare themselves the rightful electors and submitted false Electoral College certificates declaring Trump the winner of the presidential election in the state.

 

Those certificates from the "alternate electors" were then sent to Congress, where several of Trump's Republican allies in the House and the Senate used them to justify delaying or blocking the certification of the election during the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress. The committee will dedicate a portion of its public hearings to the fake electors scheme and the individuals who helped it come to life.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/doug-mastriano-willing-to-talk-to-jan-6-committee-spoke-to-fbi/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

 

last time we had to chose between wolf and a certifiable psychopath (wagner). now we got to chose between a DS jew and a lying two-faced, arrogant powerdrunk RINO? someone better FIX this shit, or shapiro wins the gov mansion.