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Texas Senate Gives Gov. Greg Abbott The Authority To Overturn Elections

The Texas Senate has given the power to overturn elections in the state to one man, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

The bill which passed is aimed specifically at Harris County, which is home to the state’s most populous city, Houston, which is majority Hispanic and black.

HuffPost reports the move is unprecedented, even in state like Texas.

The legislation penalizes county officials for running out of ballot paper at some voting sites in the 2022 election, the Houston Chronicle reported. Still, more importantly, it gives Republican Gov. Greg Abbott “precedent-setting” power to undo election results.

The measure would give Abbott’s appointed secretary of state the authority to hold a new election in the county if it runs out of paper at 2% or more of its polling sites for more than an hour, the newspaper noted.

Harris County, it should be noted, votes largely Democratic, and voted 56% for Joe Biden in 2020. Both Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz (R) also lost Harris County when they ran for reelection.

Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) noted, “You want to vest in a political appointee the ability to make a decision as to whether or not an election should be overturned and reheld?”

And Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee said the bill was “about targeting the largest county in the state, which is led by people of color.”

The bill now goes to the Texas House, where it’s likely to pass, meaning that one man would have the right to tell voters in the state’s largest county that their ballots are not going to be counted.

 

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WATCH Jim Jordan Have A Meltdown When A Democrat Calls Him Out For Trashing The FBI

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who may well be one of the most compromised members of the current U.S. Congress, proved again today that while he loves dishing out attacks on others, he cannot handle being criticized by anyone else.

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the POLICE Act, which proposes to crack down on crimes by immigrants, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) noted that committee should also take a long look at mass shootings.

“House Republicans have set their sights on defunding and abolishing federal law enforcement agencies,” Dean began. “This is a hypocrisy. It’s an oxymoron, what we’re participating here.”

She added, “Remember, Chairman Jordan has said he wants to use the power of the majority to cut funding for the DOJ and the FBI. Matt Gaetz, Mr. Gaetz, the gentleman from Florida, wants to abolish the ATF.”

The led Jordan to say that the FBI had targeted Catholics: “I do think we should evaluate how the American tax dollar going to that organization is being spent. That to me seems common sense.”

“So heck yes, this committee should look at that,” he added. “We have primary jurisdiction over the Justice Department. And we are doing that.”

Dean: “So it seems to me that it is very clear you support defunding the FBI.”

That’s when Jordan had a hysterical hissy fit.

“I didn’t say that!” he thundered. “I said we’ve got to look at, one of the things we do in this business, in this Congress, is you look at how you appropriate funds.”

“If you don’t want to, if you just wanna keep sending money to the FBI that’s spying on people in church, go right ahead and take that position,” Jordan added.

Gym is still angry with the FBI for carrying out a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago that led to the retrieval of dozens of classified documents taken illegally from the White House by convicted sex offender and former president Donald Trump.

 

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Mississippi Governor Posts Reelection Video Online That Features Him Shooting Minorities

If you thought that you’d seen all of the incredibly disgusting things that Republicans can possibly post online, consider the case of Mississippi GOP Gov. Tate Reeves.

Reeves recently decided to announce that he’s running for reelection in 2024 with a video depicting him as Clint Eastwood starring in one of his old spaghetti westerns

Granted, that’s bad enough, especially since Mississippi has the highest mortality rate from firearms in the country.

But the video also shows Reeves shooting minorities, according to The New Civil Rights Project., which referenced an item from Talking Points Memo.

“Reeves’ face is superimposed on Eastwood’s in clips from the classic Dollars trilogy movies. He’s seen cosplaying the white anti-hero, the Man with No Name, shooting at Mexican bandits with a Colt revolver and puffing on a cigarillo,” TPM’s Emine Yücel writes.

What policy is Reeves trying to make a point about? Immigration? Crime?

Actually, no policy is even mentioned, just Reeves shooting people like some sort of deranged vigilante trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which is pretty damn low in a state as backwards as Mississippi.

Perhaps the real reason Reeves is trying to change the subject is because his state is a disaster…… when it comes to the issue of health care.

Under (his) leadership, Mississippi has suffered a huge health crisis. In September of 2020, the Mississippi Clarion Ledger revealed a “new report ranks Mississippi’s overall health care system dead last. ‘It’s an embarrassment,’ said one health expert.”

Reeves is also suggesting in speeches that he’s up against what he calls the “national liberal machine,” which he portrays as a cadre of bloodthirsty killers.

Governor Reeves told supporters, “this is a different governor’s campaign than we have ever seen before in our state because we are not up against a local-yokel Mississippi Democrat, we are up against a national liberal machine.”

“They are extreme. They are radical and vicious,” he said of Democrats and the “national liberal machine.”

“They believe welfare is success. They believe that taxes are good and businesses are bad. They think boys can be girls, that babies have no life, and that our state and our nation are racist.”

Well, you know what they say, Tate: If the Klan robe fits, you might as well wear it.

 

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Grassley Walks Back GOP Accusations That Joe Biden Is Part Of A ‘Criminal Scheme’

48 hours after he suggested that President Joe Biden was part of a “criminal scheme” when he served as vice president in the Obama administration, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is now walking back those allegations, admitting that he doesn’t know if what he said is true or not.

Speaking with Newsmax host Greta Van Susteren on Friday, Newsweek reports that Grassley said he has absolutely no evidence of what he alleged earlier in the week.

Van Susteren asked Grassley, “The letter is electrifying because it talks about exchange of money for policy decisions. It’s a very serious allegation against the then-vice president.”

Grassley responded, “It is a very serious allegation. I wish I could say that I knew it was true or untrue.”

On Monday, Grassley, along with Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, made news by announcing they had sent a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray demanding the agency turn over any information regarding “a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.”

After Grassley made his comments on Newsmax, a spokesperson for his office would only say that the senator still wants to see the documents he alleges the FBI has:

“Given the precise nature of the information provided by department whistleblowers with a high degree of credibility, we’re confident that the FBI has had these significant allegations for some time now.

“The question is what did the FBI do with that information. That’s what Senator Grassley would like to illuminate.”

Grassley and Comer are on a fishing expedition, looking for dirt on the Biden family so they can try and damage the president’s chances of reelection. If only they’d been this diligent when Donald Trump was in the White House.

 

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Jamie Raskin: GOP’s Bogus Claims Of A Biden Bribery Scandal Can Be Traced To Giuliani And Russia

On Wednesday, Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee made an announcement that they had been made aware of information being held by the FBI that allegedly proves President Joe Biden has been involved in a bribery scandal that supposedly took place while he was serving as vice president in the Obama administration.

CBS News reports that the allegation came from House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (KY) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

In their letter to (FBI Director Chris) Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Grassley and Comer said that it had come to their attention that “the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) possess an unclassified FD-1023 form that describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.”

“It has been alleged that the document includes a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose,” their letter said. 

The White House immediately responded to announcement from Grassley and Comer, with Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, noting:

“For going on five years now, Republicans in Congress have been lobbing unfounded, unproven, politically-motivated attacks against the President and his family without offering evidence for their claims or evidence of decisions influenced by anything other than U.S. interests.”

“When it comes to President Biden’s personal finances, anybody can take a look: he has offered an unprecedented level of transparency, releasing a total of 25 years of tax returns to the American public.”

And now Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, is suggesting that the latest attempt by Republicans to create a scandal is actually part of a Russian campaign to discredit President Biden, explaining in a statement:

“Committee Republicans are recycling unsubstantiated claims floated by Senate Republicans by issuing a subpoena to the FBI to require the release of a June 2020 tip from an unknown informant.  During this same time period, Rudy Giuliani and Russian agents, sanctioned by Trump’s Treasury Department, were peddling disinformation aimed at interfering in the 2020 presidential election.  Given Chair Comer’s commitment to ‘dismantle’ the FBI, it’s no surprise that he would rely on these unverified tips to attack President Biden in one more baseless partisan stunt.”

In the weeks ahead, you can expect to hear more from Comer and other Republicans about this nonexistent scandal they’ve created out of thin air. They have nothing, but it won’t keep them from peddling lies to their constituents for the purpose of slagging Biden and trying to raise money off it.