Bloomberg Philanthropies
Mini Mike's Foundation (1 of 2)
Approach
https://www.bloomberg.org/about/our-approach/
Partners
https://www.bloomberg.org/about/our-partners/
Patricia E. Harris Bio
https://www.bloomberg.org/about/patricia-e-harris/
Thinking of Potus's tweet this morning..regarding Mini Mike and the illegal donations, perhaps this is one of the vehicles.
Not sure if we had this information previously, my apologies for the repeat if we do.
'Bloomberg Philanthropies'
Mini Mike's Foundation (2 of 2)
Mike Bloomberg Bio
https://www.bloomberg.org/about/mike-bloomberg/
Board of Directors
https://www.bloomberg.org/about/board-of-directors/
Florida can’t bar felons from voting over fines and fees, court rules
A federal appeals court ruled that Florida cannot ban felons from registering to vote if they have failed to pay fines and fees related to their cases if they have already served their time. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction that a Florida law allowing most felons to vote constituted an unfair poll tax that would disenfranchise many of them, according to the Associated Press.
The law, Amendment 4, was overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2018. Still, the Republican-led legislature passed a law requiring felons to first pay any fines or fees associated with their cases for their sentences to be considered complete. The court said Wednesday that the requirement “punishes those who cannot pay more harshly than those who can — and does so by continuing to deny them access to the ballot box.” It also ruled that the requirement violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
“We disagree with the ruling,” said Helen Ferre, a spokeswoman for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. More than 1.5 million felons who have completed their sentences could regain their voting rights under Amendment 4. A University of Florida study found about 80% of released felons have not paid off their fines.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/florida-cant-bar-felons-from-voting-over-fines-and-fees-court-rules
Ex-senator appointed to Obama seat says Rod Blagojevich ‘absolutely’ deserved to have sentence commuted
The man whom Rod Blagojevich appointed to Barack Obama’s Senate seat supports President Trump’s commutation of the former Illinois governor’s prison sentence. “Absolutely. The governor had served his time for the crime he was accused of and convicted of,” former Democratic Sen. Roland Burris told the Washington Examiner when asked about the matter on Wednesday.
Blagojevich, 63, returned home to Chicago on Tuesday after Trump commuted his 14-year prison sentence. The former Democratic governor, who spent eight years in prison, said he would be “forever grateful” for Trump’s action. “Fourteen years was just too excessive,” Burris said. '“He should have been pardoned rather than sentence commuted.”'
Blagojevich was arrested in December 2008 on charges of corruption, including trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by Obama when he won the presidential election. Blagojevich, a former Chicago-area congressman, was then impeached and removed from the governor's office.
Burris, 82, said he has not spoken to Blagojevich but had a long conversation with his wife, Patricia Blagojevich, a few months ago. Burris, a former state attorney general, testified that he made no deals with Rod Blagojevich for the Senate seat. He did not run for reelection, telling the Washington Examiner that the controversy tainted his ability to run. “Absolutely not,” he said on whether he regrets accepting the appointment. “As a matter of fact, I wish I was still there.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ex-senator-appointed-to-obama-seat-says-rod-blagojevich-absolutely-deserved-to-have-sentence-commuted
Indeed.. the money grubber.