Anonymous ID: aaafec March 9, 2023, 11:53 a.m. No.18475281   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5301 >>5732

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is being treated for a concussion after a fall

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/senate-minority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-falling-rcna74097

 

Multiple senators on Thursday said that they haven’t yet heard from McConnell and do not have information about his condition. “No, I haven’t spoken to him directly,” Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters.

 

“As you can tell, it’s not like we’re breaking a sweat around here on the floor. As far as the committee work, it’s moving along and he doesn’t have a lot of impact on that anyway,” he said. “As far as the floor action — we’re missing a lot of people, let’s put it that way.”

Anonymous ID: aaafec March 9, 2023, 12:12 p.m. No.18475370   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5821

What's going on in Fresno Kevin?

https://gvwire.com/2022/12/05/da-drops-attempted-extortion-charges-against-fresno-council-president-esparza/

 

CRIME DA Drops Attempted Extortion Charges Against Fresno Council President Esparza Published 3 months ago on December 5, 2022By David Taub, Senior Reporter Nelson Esparza (middle) speaks after his attempted extortion case is dismissed. Attorneys Margarita Martinez-Baly and Mark Coleman flank him. The Fresno County District Attorney’s office dropped charges against Fresno City Council President Nelson Esparza during a pre-trial hearing on Monday morning. The unexpected move clears Esparza of two misdemeanor counts that he attempted to extort then-city attorney Douglas Sloan last April. Esparza was accused of threatening Sloan’s job during an April 22 meeting. Esparza allegedly said that if Sloan did not “work for the council majority” he would lose his job. Sloan had since moved on to the city attorney position in Santa Monica. During preliminary hearing testimony, Sloan said his negative interaction with Esparza prompted his move. The District Attorney’s Office initially charged Esparza with a felony account of attempted extortion and a misdemeanor count of violating the city charter. If convicted, he could have faced up to a year in jail, and possible dismissal from the city council.

 

Esparza read a statement in the record at the start of Monday’s hearing in front of Judge Geoffrey Wilson. He said he and Sloan had a “candid conversation with him regarding his job” and a recent resolution not to “weaponize” the City Attorney’s Office on April 22.

 

“We spoke specifically about the new resolution and about my perception and anger with the fact that the City Attorney’s Office was being used to circumvent the will of the council majority after the majority had voted. I did, in fact, imply to Mr. Sloan that if this happens and that the new resolution was not followed, that I would vote to terminate him. I never directed him not to comply with his legal and ethical obligations. I wish that he would have come to me to clarify before these allegations became public. This entire situation could have been avoided.

 

District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp, speaking on KMJ radio, said Esparza’s statement helped inform the decision to drop the charges. After the hearing, Esparza offered a more conciliatory tone toward the District Attorney’s office. He has publicly said before that his prosecution was politically motivated.

 

Esparza thanked his friends and family, and attorneys. The public is funding Esparza’s legal defense. Coleman did not have an estimate on how much time he has spent on the case or what his final bill will be. The city will pay Coleman $350 an hour; other attorneys working on Esparza’s behalf will receive $250 an hour.

 

“I know this issue has weighed heavily on Council President Esparza and his family,” Dyer said in a statement. “Now that charges have been dismissed, it is my hope that we will be able to move forward as we continue to serve our community.”

 

Speaking Monday morning on KMJ radio, Smittcamp criticized Esparza for not coming forth sooner. “Who are we electing? Are we electing mature, professional people or are we electing people who are self-centered and self-serving who then only participate in the process, you know, when the heat comes down? And I think that’s really what we have here today,” Smittcamp said.

 

Additionally, she clapped back at criticism that her office prosecutes based on political party or race.

 

“We make decisions in the District Attorney’s Office based on two things — facts and law. That’s it. And the only facts we can use are the facts that we know. And despite what many people specifically in the Fresno City Council have said about me publicly, which are complete lies, that we do things because of race or political party or affiliation. … I mean, it’s just complete hogwash,” Smittcamp said.

 

She also praised the hiring of Andrew Janz as city attorney. Janz worked under Smittcamp as a criminal prosecutor.

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathonburrows

 

Andrew Janz is mentoring Jonathan Burrows, Dem challenging Kevin McCarthy in 2024. GOP is about to lose the biggest GOP stronghold in CA - Fresno. Kevin better wake up. A Dem crook tried to extort a GOP Mayor and beat the charges.

Anonymous ID: aaafec March 9, 2023, 1:17 p.m. No.18475683   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Never forget - Starlink was used by the US Military in 'certification testing' of enemy targeting technology for missile, artillery and air strikes, as well as ground attacks.

The Cartel is putting on just as big of a movie as the alliance. Starlink was designed and funded as a military targeting / intel asset, not an internet supplier.

Anonymous ID: aaafec March 9, 2023, 1:24 p.m. No.18475725   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Exoneration of accused witches a Westport family affair

 

https://westportjournal.com/government/exoneration-of-accused-witches-a-westport-family-affair/

 

A brood of witches trying to remove the shame of being a witch. This is funny as hell.