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Protestors block access to Trump rally in Arizona, ahead of big primary in border state? ReallY Were Have We Seen This Before? Black Lives Matter Protesters Block Highway, SamR Shit Just Other Left Wing Gruop Doing It
Traffic was shut down at two different locations on the I-93 highway
shortly after 7:30 am. Protesters on the south side of the highway were
removed by police after about a half hour. Protesters on the north side
of the highway blocked traffic for more than two hours.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/15/black-lives-matter-protesters-block-highway-anger-commuters/
Protestors in Arizona on Saturday are trying to shut down the only road leading to GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump rally in the Arizona, ahead of a full day of campaign events in the border state, which holds key primaries Tuesday.
The town hall-style meeting in Fountain Hills, Ariz., near Scottsdale, and will be followed by a bigger rally in Phoenix Convention Center.
Trump, who early in his campaign visited the border, leads the GOP field in Arizona with 34 percent of the vote, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 21 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 13 percent.
The rallies and protest follow a local border patrol union of Friday supporting Trump.
Local 2544 said Trump asked for the endorsement and that officials responded by saying he is the only 2016 White House candidate to “publicly expressed his support” of the Border Patrol’s mission and it agents and that he has been “an outspoken candidate on the need for a secure border.
However, Art Del Cueto, president of the Tucson-based union, made clear that he would adhere to the larger National Border Patrol Council’s practice of not endorse presidential candidates.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/15/black-lives-matter-protesters-block-highway-anger-commuters/
Protestors in Arizona on Saturday are trying to shut down the only road leading to GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump rally in the Arizona, ahead of a full day of campaign events in the border state, which holds key primaries Tuesday.
The town hall-style meeting in Fountain Hills, Ariz., near Scottsdale, and will be followed by a bigger rally in Phoenix Convention Center.
Trump, who early in his campaign visited the border, leads the GOP field in Arizona with 34 percent of the vote, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 21 percent and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 13 percent.
The rallies and protest follow a local border patrol union of Friday supporting Trump.
Local 2544 said Trump asked for the endorsement and that officials responded by saying he is the only 2016 White House candidate to “publicly expressed his support” of the Border Patrol’s mission and it agents and that he has been “an outspoken candidate on the need for a secure border.
However, Art Del Cueto, president of the Tucson-based union, made clear that he would adhere to the larger National Border Patrol Council’s practice of not endorse presidential candidates.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Clinton Commits Benghazi Gaffe, Saying US 'Didn't Lose a Single Person' in Libya
Hillary Clinton committed her second gaffe in as many days on the campaign trail Monday night, claiming that the U.S. "didn't lose a single person" in Libya during her time as secretary of state.
Clinton made the comment defending her push for regime change in the war-torn North African nation at an Illinois town hall hosted by MSNBC.
"Now, is Libya perfect? It isn't," Clinton said. After contrasting her approach toward Libya with the ongoing bloodshed in Syria's civil war, Clinton said "Libya was a different kind of calculation and we didn't lose a single person ... We didn’t have a problem in supporting our European and Arab allies in working with NATO."
Clinton made no mention of the Sept. 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans: U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/03/15/clinton-commits-benghazi-gaffe-saying-us-didnt-lose-single-person-libya
Bernie's billionaires: Some wealthy donors have backed Sanders for years
While Bernie Sanders has pitched himself as the presidential candidate for the little guy -- tapping into the wallets of voters angry over Wall Street’s influence in politics -- a deeper dive shows Sanders has enlisted an arsenal of millionaire and billionaire backers who have backed his political career since his early Senate runs a decade ago.
That big-money support stands in sharp contrast to Sanders' calls for corporate fat-cats and the uber-wealthy to pay their “fair share” in taxes by closing loopholes and removing breaks that benefit the mega-rich.
At a rally last Sunday at The Ohio State University, Sanders told a cheering crowd,” You can tell a lot about a candidate based on how he or she raises money for his or her campaign.”
The comment goes hand-in-hand with the theme Sanders has been hammering for months.
“I am not raising money from millionaires and billionaires,” Sanders said during the CNN Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 13. “In fact, tonight, in terms of what a political revolution is about, there are 4,000 house parties – 100,000 people in this country – watching this debate tonight who want real change in this country.”
Sanders war chest has been driven by smaller donations – he raised $26 million in small increments in the third fund-raising quarter.
Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, insists the fancy fundraisers and big-name donors are few and far between and that there is no contradiction in what the Vermont Democrat and self-described socialist practices and what he preaches.
“We don’t have a super PAC,” Weaver told FoxNews.com. “We rely on small contributions. Average contribution is $27. Are there some, a few people in there who have more money, personal money who give larger contributions? Yeah, of course they do, but within the federal $2700 limit. No, you know, no 50, 100, 2 million contributions.”
But for years Sanders has enjoyed donations from a handful of wealthy donors including media moguls Leo J. Hindery and Steven C. Markoff.
Markoff, who donated to Sanders’ 2012 Senate campaign, began trading rare coins when he was 11. By 2004, his company A-Mark Entertainment was listed as the 65th largest privately held company in the U.S., and the second largest in Los Angeles.
Hindrey, managing partner of the private equity fund InterMedia Partners and former chief executive of AT & T Broadband and of the YES Network, also maxed out on contributions to Sanders. Hindrey, while advocating for fewer tax breaks for the wealthy, is among the biggest Democratic fundraisers in the country.
Another big money donor to Sanders’ campaign is David Geffen, co-founder of DreamWorks Animation and worth a cool $6.9 billion. According to campaign finance records, Geffen donated the max at the time -- $2,500 -- to Sanders Senate campaign on Jan. 27, 2012.
But Lara Brown, director of George Washington University’s political management program, told FoxNews.com that she doesn’t see a big push-back from Sanders supporters.
“By and large, Democrats tend to believe these individuals are giving because they have a strong progressive/liberal orientation in their politics and they are doing this because it equates to them giving to a cause,” she said, adding that the same would be true for big-money donors in Silicon Valley and the tech industry.
Viveca Novak, editorial and communications director at Center for Responsive Politics, agrees.
“The vast majority of his contributions in this election have come from smaller donors,” Novak told FoxNews.com. “Even some wealthy Democratic donors believe in changing the campaign finance system, and Sanders’ message has been pretty consistent on that issue.”
However, if donations came in from Wall Street moneymakers, Brown believes the reaction might be different.
“The question is not whether he has taken donations from wealthy individuals, but instead whether he has received support from the very people he has attacked as being at the core of the corrupt campaign finance that funds Washington,” she said. “Hence, as with most scandals, the transgression is judged most harshly when it involves hypocrisy.”
Sanders, born in 1941, started out his political career as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont in the early 1980s. He entered the national political arena in 1991 when he ran as an independent and won a seat in the House of Representatives. In 2007, he was elected to the Senate and then re-elected in 2012.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/15/bernies-billionaires-some-wealthy-donors-have-backed-sanders-for-years.html?intcmp=hpbt1
Monday, March 14, 2016
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Clinton and Sanders dig deep for fresh angles of attack at Democratic debate
Bernie Sanders was linked to an unlikely array of Republicans by Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, as the latest Democratic debate saw both candidates digging deep into each other’s records to find fresh angles of attack in an increasingly sterile format.
With immigration policy dominating the ninth such clash between the two candidates, held in Miami, the former secretary of state claimed that by opposing a 2007 immigration bill, Sanders had aligned himself with far-right groups.
“Sanders stood with Minuteman vigilantes in their ridiculous efforts to hunt down immigrants,” claimed Clinton.
Sanders rejected the accusation, shaking his head vigorously and arguing that his opposition was based on a concern about exploiting immigrants with a guest worker programme that was also opposed by Latino groups at the time.
But Clinton persisted in a similar line of attack over the Vermont senator’s opposition to the export-import bank, a government loan guarantee system for US exporters that he has dubbed “the bank of Boeing”.
Funding for the bank is also opposed by some libertarian-minded Republicans and Clinton criticised Sanders because the billionaire Koch brothers had run an advert thanking him for his stance.
Similarly, the self-declared “democratic socialist” was accused of favouring Republican presidents over Democratic ones because he had questioned presidents Obama and Clinton.
“Senator Sanders is always criticising the last two Democratic presidents. But I wish he would join me in criticising President Bush,” said Clinton.
“I gather Secretary Clinton hasn’t listen to too many of my speeches because very few of my colleagues stood up as much to President George W Bush,” responded a surprised-looking Sanders.
The pattern of finding ways to question her opponent’s progressive credentials is a departure for Clinton, who is mainly on the receiving end of attacks on her Wall Street ties, but it follows a similar gambit at the debate on Sunday in which she accused Sanders of seeking to prevent government assistance to the automobile industry.
Sanders has argued the tactics amount to an attempt to smear his record and confuse voters over what he claims was a vote against the Wall Street bailout.
But the war of words shows both candidates struggling to find fresh avenues of attack against each other and resorting to inconsistencies within two political track records stretching back over nearly a century combined.
Sanders similarly criticised Clinton’s approach to deporting child immigrants from Honduras, something she argues was based on concerns about child welfare and a need to stay within existing laws.
The debate over immigration saw the most substantive and new exchanges between the two, although their underlying policies on the subject appear to differ little.
Clinton pledged to make a path to citizenship “a priority for my first 100 days” in office. Pressed on perceived flip-flopping, or “Hispandering” as moderator Maria Elena Salinas put it, Clinton pointed to her “consistent and committed approach to comprehensive immigration reform”, having sponsored the 2003 Dreamer Act and supported Senator Ted Kennedy’s 2007 immigration bill.
“I voted for that bill and Senator Sanders voted against,” she said. “Imagine how much more secure families would be in our country no longer fearing deportation, no longer fearing they’d be found out.”
Sanders responded by accusing Clinton of demanding the then New York governor Elliot Spitzer deny driving licences to undocumented immigrants.
He cited his own credentials in support of immigrants, specifically a barely publicised visit to farm workers in Immokalee, Florida, whom he said lived in conditions “akin to slavery”.
“We not only need comprehensive immigration reform but if Congress won’t do its job I will use executive powers to do what needs to be done,” he said.
Both candidates promised that they would not deport children nor undocumented immigrants with no criminal record.
Sanders said he would never resort to the “racism, xenophobia or bigotry” of mass deportations. “Rounding up 11 million people … is a vulgar, absurd idea that I hope very few people in this country would ever support.”
Clinton went on to blast Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s plans for a giant wall across the US southern border when the conversation turned to Mexico.
“He’s talking about a very tall wall, a beautiful tall wall, the most beautiful tall wall, better than the Great Wall of China that he would somehow get the Mexican government to pay for,” she said, mocking Trump’s style of delivery. “It’s just fantasy.”
Clinton adopted a defiant tone when questions moved to Benghazi, and whether as secretary of state she had lied about the deadly 2012 attack on the US embassy in Libya.
“I feel a great deal of sympathy for families of four brave Americans we lost at Benghazi and I certainly can’t imagine the grief she has from losing her son,” she said after a clip played of a victim’s mother insisting she was denied the truth. “But she’s wrong, she’s absolutely wrong.”
“I testified for 11 hours. Anyone who watched that or listened to it knows I answered any questions that were asked.”
She went on to question why other terrorist actions that cost American lives, such as September 11 and an attack on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, did not receive similar scrutiny.
“At no other times of those tragedies were they politicised. Instead, people said ‘let’s learn lessons’.”
A question with resonance in Miami, home to a large population of Cuban American exiles, came when the candidates were quizzed on whether they would meet with former Cuban president Fidel Castro, or if they thought his brother Raúl Castro, the current president, was a dictator. Barack Obama is set to make a historic visit to Cuba later this month.
Sanders did not appear to be embarrassed when a clip from a 1985 interview was shown in which he said people forgot Fidel gave the country healthcare and transformed its economy.
“Cuba is an authoritarian, undemocratic country. I hope it soon becomes democratic, but it would be wrong not to state in Cuba they’ve made good advances in healthcare and are sending doctors all over the world,” he said.
Clinton did not round on Sanders’ position, expressing her desire to expand Obama’s pulling down of barriers with Cuba after a half-decade of hostility.
But the two did spar after moderators bowed to a request made on Tuesday by a coalition of concerned Florida mayors to ask more questions in the debates about climate change and rising sea levels.
The issue is of particular concern to Miami-Dade county, where more residents live less than four feet above sea level than anywhere else in the US but Louisiana.
“A clean power plan is something Senator Sanders says he would delay implementing,” Clinton said.
“You can see already what’s happening in Miami with tides rising. Most of the property in Florida will be at risk in the next 50 years.”
It put Sanders on the defensive. “You’re looking at the senator who introduced the most comprehensive climate change legislation in the history of the US,” he said, bating Clinton to join him “in ending fracking in the US”.
“The fossil fuel industry is destroying the planet,” he added. “When you have Republican candidates telling you that climate change is a hoax what they are really saying is we don’t have the guts to take on the fossil fuel industry.”
Other issues raised during the two-hour debate at Miami-Dade College, in the same hall where Jeb Bush launched his ill-fated presidential campaign last year, were familiar and often mundane, such as their positions on healthcare, education and Clinton using a private server for official emails.
“I’m not concerned about it, I’m not worried by it and no American should be either,” she said about the emails. Would she drop out of the race if she was found to have done wrong? “Oh for goodness [sake],” she snapped. “That is not going to happen. I’m not even answering that question.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/10/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-democratic-debate-attack?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Version+CB+header&utm_term=161129&subid=13454200&CMP=ema_565
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
Kris Anne Hall , Former Democrat Turned Constitutionalist
KrisAnne is a disabled Army veteran, a Russian linguist, a mother, a pastor’s wife and a patriot. Born and raised in St. Louis, MO, she received her undergraduate degree in Bio-Chemistry from Blackburn College in 1991 and her J.D. from the University of Florida, Levin College of Law and is a former Russian Linguist for the US Army. KrisAnne worked as a state prosecutor and with a prominent law firm defending religious liberty and First Amendment rights. KrisAnne lives in North Florida with her husband JC, a pastor and former Russian instructor for the US Navy, and their adopted son Colton.
Here she is in her own words:
“Right up front there are some things that I need to tell you about myself. I want you to know where I came from and how I got to where I am today. I don’t want to ever be accused of deception or dishonesty. So, in full disclosure:
I was not born a Constitutionalist. I did not live my life with an inherent understanding of Liberty and what is necessary to defend it. I was not raised a Christian. For some, these things will be a stumbling block, so you need to know from me.
I was raised a Democrat. The only thing more evil than Satan was a Republican in my home. There were no choices to be made in voting…straight Democrat party line was the only choice.
I was an environmentalist. An ardent environmentalist. Some of my best friends were members of Green Peace and I supported the WWF and PETA. I was a vegetarian by ideology, not for health reasons, for almost 15 years.
I believed in the “good” of scientific manipulations of food and the necessity of vaccines. Not only believed this, but helped create them when I was a biochemist for Monsanto.
I believed in Global Warming and defended it vigorously. I believed in the Big Bang and openly criticized those who believed in creationism as ignorant and misled.
I believed Government’s duty and purpose was to be a provider for the people. I supported programs that would give the government more control over the people. I even believed a One World Government was the best way to go to ensure “global peace.” I supported the principles of socialism, although I cannot claim to have known at the time it was socialism, per se, that I supported.
I supported abortion and often openly condemned others for being pro-life. I have argued with abortion protesters on street corners and called them names that I am not proud of.
I was not only not a Christian, but I practiced many other religions, including many occult versions. I was bitter against God and felt that only ignorant, weak people needed faith. I was too intelligent and too educated for such a feeble crutch.
I was not born with the knowledge that I have now. I did not wake up one morning with a divine epiphany. I traveled a long road. I learned some hard and painful lessons. My beliefs were challenged and I came to know the Truth.
I am able to stand firm on what I believe because I have discovered the difference between truth and lies. I am able to defend the truth because I walked the path. I can show you my path of discovery, and to be guaranteed it is not tied to any political motivation or personal gain…unless you call the liberation that comes from knowing the truth in the face of lies, a personal gain.
So when someone says to you…”Did you know that person used to be associated with this or that group or used to believe this… How can you possibly believe him now?” Remember this story.
It is good to question someone’s “transformation”. You SHOULD do that. If they cannot show you that path, step by step, you should question their motivations.
But do not discount someone’s current position just because of who they USED to be or who they USED to associate with or what they USED to believe. Sometimes it is NOT a selfish or deceptive motivation, but a path to enlightenment. We all had to wake up somehow.
Just so you know where I stand.” -KrisAnne Hall
Author of Not a Living Breathing Document: Reclaiming Our Constitution, and the DVD series The Roots of Liberty: The Historic Foundations of The Bill of Rights and Bedtime Stories for Budding Patriots and Essential Stories for Junior Patriots. Two books that inspired KrisAnne’s love for our history were Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis and 1776 by David McCollough.
Awarded the Freedom Fighter award by Americans for Prosperity, the Certificate of Achievement from the Sons of the Revolution for her defense of Liberty, and Congressman James Blair Award for Defending the Constitution.
KrisAnne is an incredibly passionate speaker – a true Patrick Henry of our time. She speaks to audiences all across the country on Constitutional History, American Exceptionalism, and the Fight for Liberty. Her passion and enthusiasm is contagious and she is able to inspire any group. A steadfast warrior in the Tea Party battle.
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