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2 hours ago, ixcuincle said:

And the one against Josh Cole is bad too. "HE VOTED TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR CHILDREN TO ACCESS PORNOGRAPHY. JOSH COLE IS A PORNOGRAPHY ENABLING DEFUND THE POLICE DEMAGOGUE. HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED."

 

I was living in Virginia when a bill was introduced, to change the existing law so that having consensual sex with a minor wasn't felony rape any wasif:

 

1) The female was age 9-12, and the male was within 1 year of her age. 

2) Or the female is 13-17, and the male is within 2 years. 

 

The sex was still illegal. It just changed it so that if a 16 year old has sex with a 14 year old, he's not looking at being charged as an adult forfelony rape. 

 

Needless to say, next election cycle featured TV ads announcing that "My opponent voted to repeal the law that makes it illegal to rape 9 year old girls."

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22 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

You can judge a political ad however you want.  So sure, if Juan Segura's ads are like "RuSsETt PeRrY wAntS rApisTs to raPe yOU!" your takeaway can certainly be that Juan Segura is a dumb piece of ****, and not anything about Russett Perry. 

But do you see my point about how segura is allowed to lie on air and rubes are going to fall for it? make attack ads iI legal. I dont need to watch 20 of them while eating dinner. 

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On 6/2/2023 at 6:40 PM, China said:

West Virginia governor's lawyers say his coal businesses are unable to pay millions in bills

 

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, long described as the only billionaire in his state and the owner of a huge network of coal businesses, is facing multiple lawsuits over his companies' unpaid bills and fines — but his lawyers say his business empire is out of money and unable to pay the millions of dollars being sought, reported POLITICO on Thursday.

 

"A flurry of court filings in cases against Justice and his family indicates that his sprawling enterprises are short on cash, with his own lawyers calling them 'disorganized,'" reported Scott Waldman. "The court documents show that Justice is facing a series of extraordinary actions for a sitting governor — including the potential garnishment of part of his $150,000 state salary to repay loans for coal equipment, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported earlier this year. Another plaintiff has asked U.S. marshals to seize millions of dollars from his accounts."

 

"The latest legal challenge came Wednesday when the Justice Department sued Justice’s business enterprise and his son, James C. Justice III, over $7.6 million in unpaid penalties and fees for federal mine and safety violations as well as mine land reclamation costs," said the report. "'Our environmental laws serve to protect communities against adverse effects of industrial activities including surface coal mining operations,' Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim said in a statement. 'Through this suit, the Justice Department seeks to deliver accountability for defendants’ repeated violations of the law and to recover the penalties they owe as a result of those violations.'"

 

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US Marshals ordered to take helicopter owned by Gov. Justice’s family-owned business over unpaid debts

 

U.S. Marshals have been given permission to take a helicopter owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s family-owned business Bluestone Resources over unpaid debts, court documents show.

 

The writ of execution was filed in the United States District Court of the Western District of Virginia on Thursday.

 

It says this is in reference to a decision made by the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in 2021 that favored Caroleng Investments Limited over Bluestone Resources, Inc., which is owned by Gov. Justice’s family.

 

A total of $10,132,520.20 was awarded, plus a 9% yearly interest rate from May 13, 2020, until payment, according to court documents.

 

Now, the U.S. Marshals are being ordered to take the Bell helicopter which is located at or in the area of the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport in Virginia. 

 

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Politicians say this Florida news site lets them buy coverage. Is your state next?

 

Political strategist Eunic Epstein-Ortiz arrived in Florida from New York in 2017 to help a major labor union turn out voters for the following year. She recalls being pleasantly surprised by the positive coverage the campaign received from Florida Politics.

 

The website is Florida's answer to Politico: It illuminates developments on politics and policy for insiders and news buffs, and it influences what other outlets report about the state. And it reflects the drive of its founder, Peter Schorsch.

 

"He will determine whether or not something is news in the state of Florida," Epstein-Ortiz says.

 

By her telling, her pleasure soon curdled. Schorsch emailed to ask the union to buy advertising on the site. She declined, as the union was not seeking to reach the website's core audience of state lobbyists and political professionals. And then the site abruptly stopped covering the union's campaign. (Another former union official confirms her account.)

 

"He's only covering the story if you've written a check," Epstein-Ortiz says.

 

When Epstein-Ortiz ran as a candidate for the Florida Senate last year, she says, consultants told her to pay Schorsch for advertising so she could be sure of coverage in Florida Politics. She needed the credibility with potential donors who track politics closely, they said. And so she paid $2,750 to her consultants, who placed ads with Florida Politics the day after reaching an agreement with Schorsch on an advertising package, records show. (A person with direct contemporaneous knowledge confirms her version of events.)

 

"Everything changed almost overnight," Epstein-Ortiz says, saying the coverage ramped up from zero to 60. Among the ensuing headlines: "Eunic Ortiz vows to 'stand up to corporations'" and "Eunic Ortiz garners endorsements from 11 state lawmakers."

 

Epstein-Ortiz labeled what he does "pay-to-play" on X, previously called Twitter, much to Schorsch's anger, though she did not name him or his site. Schorsch rejects Epstein-Ortiz's version of events. He says neither her campaign's payments nor the lack of payment by the union influenced his coverage.

 

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Remember when being indicted meant you retired from politics in disgrace?  50 years ago today:

 

Vice President Agnew resigns

 

Less than a year before Richard M. Nixon’s resignation as president of the United States, Spiro Agnew becomes one of the first U.S. vice presidents to resign in disgrace. The same day, he pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion in exchange for the dropping of charges of political corruption. He was subsequently fined $10,000, sentenced to three years probation, and disbarred by the Maryland court of appeals.

 

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Taliban holding three British men in detention in Afghanistan

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Three British men including a charity medic and a self-styled “danger tourist” are being held in custody by the Taliban in Afghanistan, it has been reported. 

 

The Mail on Sunday said Kevin Cornwell, a 53-year-old charity medic, and another British national who manages a hotel for aid workers in Kabul, who has not been named, were detained by the Taliban’s secret police in January.

 

The other Briton being held is Miles Routledge, 23, who returned to the country after being evacuated by British armed forces less than two years ago during the Kabul airlift, after he travelled there for a “holiday” and was caught up in the chaos of the Taliban takeover.

 

The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) confirmed it was attempting to secure consular contact with the British nationals detained and was supporting their families.

 

 

 

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16 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

Does it say what the penalties are or are expected to be?

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Charles Littlejohn, 38, admitted Thursday in a Washington federal court that he stole data about Trump and wealthy Americans and gave that information to media outlets between August 2019 and November 2020. He pleaded guilty to a single charge that carries a prison term as long as five years, but likely faces an estimated range of eight to 14 months, according to his plea deal

 

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7 hours ago, PokerPacker said:

Is this for revealing tax information that Trump promised to release and then renegged on because he's a colossal piece of **** liar that couldn't be left in a room with a child with a lollipop because he'd steal the candy from the child and then molest them?

 

Yes. 

 

And the fact that Candidate Trump made a campaign promise that he had no intention of keeping is not a justification. 

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Federal court blocks Montana drag ban

 

Drag artists in Montana can perform without worry for now. 

 

A federal judge ordered Montana’s drag ban bill be temporarily enjoined on Friday, according to court filings.

 

Judge Brian Morris said in his conclusion House Bill 359, which banned drag performances on public property in view of minors, targeted protected speech and expression.

 

“No evidence before the court indicates that minors face any harm from drag-related events or other speech and expression critical of gender norms,” Morris said. “H.B. 359’s terms prove vague and overbroad, chilling protected speech and creating a risk of disproportionate enforcement against trans, Two-Spirit, and gender nonconforming people.”

 

Plaintiffs from around the state challenged, in part, the constitutionality of HB 359, sponsored by Rep. Braxton Mitchell, R-Columbia Falls, and signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte in May.

 

In court, the state argued that the ban on drag in public spaces falls within its obligation to protect minors, while the attorney for plaintiffs said that the state already has definitions and mechanisms in place to protect minors from obscene materials and the law is unconstitutional.

 

Morris cited false claims about drag performances and story hours made by legislators as the bill made its way through both chambers, as well as the amendments made to the bill throughout as part of his opinion on the merits of plaintiff’s request for an injunction.

 

“Rep. Mitchell, Sen. Glimm, Rep. Regier, and Sen. Molnar repeated arguments that ‘there’s no such thing as a family-friendly drag show,’ that drag performers are ‘hyper-sexualized,’ that opponents to the bill were pushing ‘a sick agenda,’ that ‘[d]rag shows are damaging to a child’s psychology and general welfare,’ and that drag shows constitute ‘sickening examples’ of the hyper-sexualization of children,” the opinion read.

 

Morris noted the amendment process the bill went through, including the “Friedel amendment” brought by Sen. Chris Friedel, R-Billings, which would have replaced references to drag with “adult-oriented performance,” and removed the requirement that it be “obscene.”

 

But when state Sen. Carl Glimm, R-Kila, who carried the bill in the Senate, objected to the amendment, saying “completely guts the bill,” the motion was doomed and it failed to pass.

“H.B. 359’s amendment process reflects a continuing focus on restricting the speech and expression of drag performers and gender non-conforming people,” Morris wrote.

 

Morris noted the legislature omitted the Miller test in the bill, the U.S. Supreme Court’s legal test for obscenity. And, though lawmakers edited out the legal test, the federal judge noted they explicitly stated their intentions of targeted and restricting a certain type of speech.

 

“The legislature removed references to drag in response to concerns about constitutionality. The legislature later restored the references in a subsequent version of the bill after Rep. Mitchell and other supporters expressed concerns that the amendment would preclude H.B. 359’s application to drag performances and drag story hours and thereby had ‘completely derailed’ the bill’s purpose,” the opinion read. “Sponsor Rep. Mitchell uniformly described the purpose of the law as restricting drag story hours and performances.”

 

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