Loving this tremendous POTUS speech from the beautiful Rose Garden. Classic, timeless setting.
I'm a Fittonfan.
Inspired me to improve my health and get more done every day.
It's obvious he pushes himself. I've started doing it, too.
I wonder how many FOIAs Judicial Watch has submitted since it began.
https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/05/15/which-two-florida-counties-were-hacked-in-2016-we-asked-all-67/
Elections offices in Gadsden and Hardee counties either declined to comment or failed to respond to requests for information, although there’s no information to suggest that either of those two counties were hacked. Sumter County Supervisor Bill Keen said in an interview Wednesday morning that he has no reason to believe his office was hacked, but an elections coordinator in his office later responded to an email seeking comment by saying information about hacking was exempt from disclosure because “our answers could either directly or indirectly allow yourself or others, including nation states trying to do harm to our elections process, to ascertain details harmful to national security …”
At least 11 elections offices received malware-laced emails from hackers. But officials in Florida’s largest counties say they have no reason to believe they were hacked.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/16/lawmakers-demand-fbi-reveal-florida-election-hack/
Democrats and Republicans said Thursday that the FBI must reveal the names of the two Florida counties that were penetrated by hackers ahead of the 2016 election, saying voters were the victims and deserve to know.
House lawmakers from Florida were briefed by the FBI and told the two counties, but were prohibited from naming them publicly. The lawmakers said there were still other counties that said they were targets but weren’t hacked — and the FBI wouldn’t reveal those names even in a classified setting with the members of Congress.
“This is unsustainable,” said Rep. Michael Waltz, Florida Republican.
The lawmakers said the FBI and Homeland Security, which conducted the briefing, are confident that no election results were changed based on the hacks.
They also said they have no evidence of changes to the information in the voter rolls, though Mr. Waltz said “hypothetically” they could have done that.
The hacks were revealed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into the 2016 election.
The Miami Herald attempted to pin down which Florida jurisdictions were targeted or hacked by reaching out to elections supervisors in each county. The newspaper said some admitted to having received “malware-laced emails from hackers,” but of the ones that replied, none acknowledged being hacked.
I'm sticking with my theory that at the very least, a PARTIAL reason for the motivation of the Cabal/Deep State is that they're the ugly misfits.
They were the kids in class who were really smart, but shunned because of their looks or unusual personalities.
Of course some are just sociopaths, but a bunch of the mid-level bureaucrats are just social misfits who just can't be "normal".
They want revenge.
Washington: Hollywood for Ugly People
Pic related.
Followup from a notable yesterday:
https://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/insurance-commissioner-beck-suspends-himself-from-office-following-indictment/IWwhYCfL21b80e1QltFvUI/
Georgia insurance chief Beck declares his innocence, is suspended from office following indictment
Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck on Thursday declared his innocence but asked the governor to suspend him from office two days after federal prosecutors released a 38-count indictment accusing him of an elaborate scheme to steal $2 million from his former employer before winning the November election.
Beck, a Republican, on Thursday sent a letter to Gov. Brian Kemp - who had called for his resignation - asking to be suspended pending the outcome of the case. Kemp then signed an order suspending Beck, and the governor is expected to name a temporary replacement.
While he is suspended, Beck will continue to draw a $120,000 commissioner’s salary.
Beck, 57, who turned himself in to the FBI on Wednesday, was expected to face a growing chorus of calls for his resignation in coming days. Top Democrats had already said he should quit. Kemp joined in Wednesday, saying the indictment "severely undermines your ability to fulfill your official obligations." And his case is likely to be the source of much discussion at this weekend’s Republican Party convention in Savannah.
The suspension didn’t go far enough for some lawmakers.
House Minority Leader Robert Trammell, D-Luthersville, tweeted, “From insurance fraud to now cheating the taxpayers of Georgia out of their tax dollars. Completely selfish and wildly inadequate action. Resign, resign, resign.”
In his letter to Kemp, Beck wrote, “As you know, under our federal and state constitutions, I am presumed to be innocent until and unless convicted by a court of law. I am, in fact, innocent of these charges. In the circumstances, it would be inappropriate for me to resign as commissioner of insurance.
“Nonetheless, I recognize the importance of having a commissioner of insurance who is able fully to devote all of his time carrying out the duties of managing the Department of Insurance and serving the citizens of Georgia.
“In the coming months, it will unfortunately be necessary for me to spend a significant amount of my time defending myself against these false charges. Preparing for that trial will be a significant distraction from my public duties.”
Judge Russell Vineyard on Wednesday imposed restrictions on Beck an ex-insurance lobbyist and former leader of the Georgia Christian Coalition, while granting him $25,000 cash bond. The judge said the commissioner can't travel out of state without permission and must recuse himself from any dealings with his former employer, the Georgia Underwriters Association. As insurance commissioner, Beck had regulatory authority over the association, a fact that troubled Kemp.
Through attorneys, Beck had denied all allegations and had said he intended to keep his job. Kemp couldn’t immediately remove Beck from office, but state law says the governor had two weeks to appoint a panel to consider whether he should be suspended.
U.S. Attorney Byung J. "BJay" Pak said Beck used the stolen cash to pay personal credit card bills and taxes, as well as pumping money into his 2018 campaign for insurance commissioner.
The evidence shows Beck lied to close friends he's known for 25 years and a family member to get them to create companies to send invoices to the Georgia Underwriters Association, Pak said. The invoices were often for work that wasn't actually done, and Beck funneled the money back to himself, according to the indictment.
Beck could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, Pak said.
More news from Atlanta.
Background dirt on the old and ongoing state of "news" in Atlanta:
The #1 TV station, WSB, an ABC affiliate, and the only newspaper in Atlanta are BOTH owned by Cox Media Group
CMG is a family-owned private corporation
Anne Cox Chambers (age about 125) is perennially on the Forbes 400 list
Her father James M. Cox was a staunch Democrat who was the Governor of Ohio and ran for President with Franklin D. Roosevelt as his vice president running mate
All that adds up to consistent hard liberal bias in Atlanta news
We get hammered daily by some quasi-worshipful story about Big Fat Stacey.
Stacey Abrams settles IRS debt as she preps for another run for office
Stacey Abrams has repaid the tax debt she owed to the Internal Revenue Service, closing off a potential weakness as she considers a run for the White House or a rematch against Gov. Brian Kemp.
The Democrat said through a spokesman Thursday that she retired the roughly $54,000 she owed to the IRS, as well as other credit card and student loan debt she reported during last year’s election run.
“Leader Abrams has been able to resolve her debt,” Abrams spokesman Seth Bringman said, “and she will continue to speak openly about the challenges she faced – challenges that are all too common for Americans and their families.”
Bringman was responding to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution query about Abrams’ financial status as she travels across the nation to sell her book and lines up speaking engagements through a prominent agency.
Retiring the debt could choke off one of the most forceful criticisms she faced last year as she prepares for another electoral bid. Abrams ruled out a U.S. Senate bid this month but hasn’t decided yet whether she will run for president or governor.
Abrams revealed her debt to the IRS, as well as about $170,000 in credit card and student loan debt, in financial documents in March. She said she deferred the tax payments in 2015 and 2016 to help pay her family’s medical expenses and that she was on a payment plan to settle the debts.
Rather than downplaying the topic on the campaign trail, Abrams took the unusual step of speaking openly about her financial struggles to try to connect with voters.
She penned a column embracing the debt that gained national attention, and she invoked it in attacks against her wealthier political rivals. She also repeatedly cited her money problems to show voters that she faces the same troubles they do.
“Sometimes we stumble and we have to have a leader who understands those struggles,” she said at one meeting. “Because falling down does not mean you have to stay there — and stay silent.”
Her debt became a favorite GOP target once Abrams secured her party’s nomination, as Republicans questioned whether she could effectively manage the state’s $26 billion budget if she struggled to meet her personal financial responsibilities.
“Stacey Abrams wants to raise your taxes,” one TV attack asserted, “but didn’t pay hers.”
Shortly after he won the GOP nomination, Kemp highlighted records that showed Abrams, a tax attorney, donated $50,000 of her own money to help launch her campaign while she carried a tax debt.
“If that’s not criminal,” he said, “it should be.”
Abrams did not violate any law and dismissed the notion that she crossed ethical boundaries. But she said last year that while delaying past IRS payments to help her parents wasn’t the “smartest move,” it gave her flexibility to support them.
On the campaign trail, she often opened up about her financial struggles by recounting her painful discovery at Spelman College that missed credit card payments could turn modest charges into major debts.
And she tried to draw a contrast between her more limited financial means and Kemp and the other millionaires who ran for statewide office in Georgia last year.
“For the folks that I want to represent, they know these challenges intimately,” she said at one stop. “And they are excited to know that there’s someone running for office who understands their real lives and has real plans to address them.”