Georgia Dem Sets Up Coronavirus Townhall Using Her Tennessee Phone Number

Lucy McBath previously accused of carpetbagging during 2018 campaign

A Georgia Democrat, who has been accused of carpetbagging, used a Tennessee phone number to alert constituents of a coronavirus tele-townhall, according to a voicemail shared with the Washington Free Beacon. Rep. Lucy McBath (D., Ga.) left a voicemail to constituents of her suburban Atlanta district announcing the townhall Thursday, though she used a phone number with an eastern Tennessee area code. McBath voted in Tennessee as recently as 2016, and her husband was a permanent resident of the state during her 2018 bid to oust former Republican congresswoman Karen Handel.

Despite her husband's residence, McBath for nearly two decades claimed a homestead exemption in suburban Atlanta, which allows permanent residents to decrease their property tax liabilities. McBath was ordered to pay back-taxes after a 2019 audit found she did not qualify for the exemption from 2015 through 2018, meaning she was not a resident of Georgia when she was elected to Congress. McBath's 2018 candidate financial disclosure listed two vehicles registered in Blount County, Tenn., where her husband lived at the time. Though the area code used in McBath's voicemail to constituents—area code 423—does not fall in Blount County, it did until 1999, when state officials decided to split the county from the code's section. Property records indicate McBath's husband lived in the county at the time of the change.

In addition, McBath's husband owned a home in Chattanooga, Tenn., which does use area code 423, as recently as 2017. A relative of McBath currently lives in the home, according to property records. McBath's office did not respond to a request for comment on why she left the voicemail from the Tennessee phone number. It is unclear if McBath will be holding the tele-townhall from the Volunteer State. "Hi, this is congresswoman Lucy McBath," the representative said in a voicemail obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. "I'm calling you to invite you to participate in our coronavirus telephone townhall tomorrow." The voicemail did not once mention the state of Georgia.

McBath's residency was often disputed during her 2018 campaign, though she called the charges "baseless." Even after McBath was determined not to be a resident of Georgia in April, she dismissed questions about her residency in a statement to the Free Beacon. "Lucy has lived in her home in Marietta in the Sixth District since 2008," her campaign said. "During the 2016 presidential cycle … she briefly changed her residency to Tennessee."

The statement did not address tax documents showing vehicle registrations, voter registrations, and driver's license applications in other states. After the 2019 audit determined McBath was not a resident of Georgia when she was elected to represent the state, the National Republican Congressional Committee sent the Democrat a Tennessee-themed gift bag to her home in the Volunteer State. McBath signed for the gift on the morning of April 5, 2019. The House of Representatives was in session the previous day. McBath defeated Handel in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District by just 1 point in 2018. The pair will face off again in November.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/georgia-dem-sets-up-coronavirus-townhall-using-her-tennessee-phone-number/

>>8498174

Did it ever really stop, kek..MSM would never let us know.

Texas’s Largest County Settles Lawsuit Over Noncitizens on Voter Rolls

County officials had refused watchdog inspection of voter registrations

The largest county in Texas settled a lawsuit with a watchdog group after refusing to release records dealing with noncitizens on its voter rolls. A federal district court in Houston entered a settlement agreement this week between the Harris County voter registrar and the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). The settlement calls for the county to turn over records on its cancellations of ineligible voters, copies of registration applications that have blank or negative responses to citizenship questions, and all registrar communications with law enforcement regarding ineligible registrants, among other records. Officials from Harris County, the most populous county in Texas, previously testified that "thousands" of noncitizens were discovered on its voter rolls every year.

The settlement comes as the election watchdog group seeks to clean voter rolls in major cities ahead of the November elections. Democrats have pushed back against attempts to clean voter rolls, often calling them "purges." Individuals removed for ineligibility tend to belong to demographic groups that lean Democrat. Texas has in recent years become a target of national Democrats, who have poured millions into the Lone Star State in attempts to gain power. PILF initially sought access to Harris County's voter information in December 2017 under Section 8 of the National Voters Registration Act of 1993. The act allows individuals to look at records "concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters."

PILF wanted information on registrants who were removed for being noncitizens but was refused access to the documents. The group sent a final notice in January 2018 warning the county it would face litigation if it continued to block PILF's inspection. County officials did not budge. PILF filed its lawsuit in March 2018. "For more than a decade, Harris County officials lobbied for or against state and federal election reforms citing the fact that noncitizens were becoming registered there," Logan Churchwell, communications director for PILF, told the Washington Free Beacon. "We know this is a problem around the country. Harris County records can provide the largest sampling of the reported problems in Texas and identify system flaws in need of attention." "Our elections cannot afford weaknesses," Churchwell said. "We must plug gaps that are impacting citizens and immigrants alike." The county defendants did not respond to a request for comment on the settlement.

PILF has filed a number of lawsuits in cities across the country in recent months. The group filed a suit against Detroit officials after discovering 2,500 dead registrants on the city's voter rolls. Nearly 5,000 voters appeared more than once on the rolls, and there were more registered voters than there were eligible voters in the city. PILF also filed suit against Pittsburgh officials after finding dead voters, duplicate registrants, and 1,500 registrants aged 100 or above (49 marked as being born in the 1800s) on county voter rolls.

https://freebeacon.com/courts/texass-largest-county-settles-lawsuit-over-noncitizens-on-voter-rolls/

https://publicinterestlegal.org/hctx-2015-noncitizen-testimony-transcript-video/

Case 4:18-cv-00981 Document 76 Filed on 03/17/20 in TXSD

https://publicinterestlegal.org/files/Doc.-76-AGREED-ORDER.pdf

United States Calls for Humanitarian Release of Wrongfully Detained Americans in Venezuela

U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo called on Venezuela in a statement on March 19 to release five U.S. citizens and one U.S. resident from Citgo that have been wrongfully detained by the Venezuelan regime for over two years ago and are currently imprisoned in the infamous Helicoide prison in Caracas. During their detention there was no “evidence being brought against them” and “eighteen hearings have been cancelled,” says the statement. The six detained men “have weakened immune systems due to cumulative health problems and face a grave health risk if they become infected,” says the statement, and should be released now “on humanitarian grounds.”

Helicoide prison was originally built in the 1950s as the first drive-thru shopping mall in the world, but the project was abandoned. The government moved its intelligence services, known as SEBIN, to the building in the 1980s and established a prison there where criminals and political prisoners were detained, reported BBC. According to this report, maltreatment, torture, and human rights abuses are common in Helicoide.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/united-states-calls-for-humanitarian-release-of-wrongfully-detained-americans-in-venezuela_3278550.html

>>8498611

What is up with her whenever she stands behind POTUS she looks like she is posing, for her big modeling shoot.