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UPDATE: Rand Paul has yielded the floor after a 10.5 hour marathon speech
Looks like the Iowa straw poll just got more competitive. I think a lot of the campaigns will flex their muscles for this one, its going to be harder and more expensive to win this year.
The Republican Party of Iowa, in an effort to lure presidential candidates to its August straw poll, will provide free tent space and utilities for the campaigns at the Boone venue, party leaders said Thursday.
That's a savings of potentially tens of thousands of dollars for candidates, who have would bid between $10,000 and $35,000 in past years for prime real estate at the party's fundraiser. This year, campaign spaces will be assigned at random for the Aug. 8 event at the Central Iowa Expo.
Republican state chairman Jeff Kaufmann said the changes were
This morning we were at the HQ of Entrepreneur Magazine in Irvine, CA where Rand appeared early in the morning to meet supporters and then there was a fundraiser where we all called for contributions. Everyone was very pumped, we're off to a great start. Rand will be back in June to fundraise some more.
Tidbit that wasn't announced, Ted Gaines, a California state senator has endorsed Rand told me he is going to be rallying California Republican elected officials to join the Randwagon, or at least he'll attempt to. I think Congressman Tom McClintock is a possibility, California elected Republicans are pretty establishment from my experience, a lot of spineless do littles waiting to see what leadership is doing so they can be a team player.
John Menard Jr. is widely known as the richest man in Wisconsin. A tough-minded, staunchly conservative 75-year-old billionaire, he owns a highly profitable chain of hardware stores throughout the Midwest. He’s also famously publicity-shy — rarely speaking in public or giving interviews.
So a little more than three years ago, when Menard wanted to back Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker — and help advance his pro-business agenda — he found the perfect way to do so without attracting any attention: He wrote more than $1.5 million in checks to a pro-Walker political advocacy group that pledged to keep its donors secret, three sources directly familiar with the transactions told Yahoo
January 20, 2015 A good political campaign is a lot like Megazord, the giant super-robot from the popular '90s TV series Power Rangers.
If you grew up watching TV in the '90s, you will recall that the Megazord was constructed from the five individual robots operated by the Power Rangers. With their forces combined, the Rangers could conquer pretty much any foe the evil Rita Repulsa threw at them.
Political campaigns benefit from a similar diversification of talent. If you have a great media team but your ground game is terrible, that's no good. Similarly, if you have a stellar volunteer base but your senior staff is a bunch of incompetent legacy hires, that
Should Rand Paul join the crowded 2016 Republican field later this spring, as widely expected, Kelley Paul will join the ranks of prospective first ladies who help define their husband's political brands. It's a high-profile role that is challenging at best, yet those who know the family suggest that she would adapt well to the next step in her husband's career.
Reserved but politically savvy, Kelley Paul worked for a Republican consulting firm whose clients included another potential presidential candidate, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, before resigning
Tesla has a special history with the state of New Jersey, having delivered the 500th Roadster there in 2009. Fast forward to 2014, though, and the electric vehicle company is having a decidedly less-positive experience in the Garden State. In short, Tesla's ongoing dealer fight has turned sour, and thing are potentially going from bad to worse today.
Tesla says it has been working "constructively" with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJMVC) and Governor Chris Christie's administration "to defend against the New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers' (NJ CAR) attacks on Tesla's business model and the rights of New Jersey consumers." In other words, the right for Tesla to open its own stores and not use the traditional dealer model. The legislative process on the fate of Proposal PRN 2013-138 (PDF) has been continuing and Tesla says it thought everyone was acting in good faith, but now it's not so sure.
I'm involved in energy policy as part of my day job. My job is to stay abreast of policy proposals and industry movements.
That means I attend lots of lobbyist calls. I'm on one right now... So, what do they think of the upcoming administration???
I imagine this is happening with all kinds of special interest groups right now. No discussion of where the money is coming from - just...
Video project Libertarian Minute is preparing its 4th episode on topic "practical benefits of being a libertarian in an unfree world." We need some of the best examples of how has libertarianism benefited you or helped you avoid/lessen the damaging impact of the State on your life. Ideas, please!
Update with tentative introduction:
In an unfree world, libertarian worldview is a life vest...
Just booked my ticket. Haven't gone to a political conference since CPAC 2011. It's going to be in South Dakota this year. Would love to link up with some of y'all if you come. https://www.freedomfest.com/
the link for the current episode, GOTO the end of the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D5AFxinrNk
At 37:30 he talks about giving his staff Monday
off but Tuesday's guest is DOCTOR RON PAUL!!!
...gun confiscations begin?
Been thinking this over quite a bit in light of current events, and am curious what the general mood is around here. No tricks, no traps, no surreptitious data mining going on, I think we are all way past that point.
I'm reckoning that the powers that be are waiting on a mass shooting event to get the ball rolling, one with, for them, fantastic optics. An old...
https://buchanan.org/blog/the-lynch-mob-comes-for-citizen-trump-142722
January 15, 2021 by Patrick J. Buchanan
Trump not only defeated the establishment in 2016. He got 74 million votes for a second term. Then, he defiantly refused to recognize that his defeat was fairly accomplished. Trump is hated because he will not play the role the left has assigned to him in its historic morality ...
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When our Supreme Court refused to give the Texas BILL OF COMPLAINT an evidentiary hearing ___ a complaint which listed and detailed illegal election activities in four States ___ it effectively rejected that State’s right, and the people of the United States right, to a redress of grievances guaranteed by our Constitution.
Keep in mind the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in this...
https://ussanews.com/News1/2021/01/15/germany-to-put-covid-rulebreakers-in-detention-camp/
I dont even need to repeat the last line of the quote. But, yes, really.
Capitol Unrest : Who had the Motive , Means and Opportunity
1- whenever a crime is committed one must ask : who had the (a) MOTIVE (b) MEANS and (c) OPPORTUNITY to do so;
2- The Deep State and the Democrats have been using the MSM , ie, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, et al, as its spokesperson since , at least, the summer of 2016. The MSM has been claiming that Trump’s allegations about election...
U.S. House Adopts Gender-Neutral Language for Rules Document
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/biden-to-deploy-fema-national-guard-to-set-up-covid-vaccine-clinics-across-the-us.html
Trudy Ring (06 January 2021)
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved gender-neutral language in the official House rules and established a permanent Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
These measures...
How many of you really believe that everything is gonna go back to normal as soon as this election is over?
How many of you really believe we can "fix this" by "voting harder next election"?
How many of you really think that "this is only a little bad"?
How many of you really think "there will be No Internment Camps" for "Extremists"?
How many of you really think you are gonna survive...
https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/01/15/2112237/amazon-warehouse-workers-to-decide-whether-to-form-companys-first-us-union
NOTE: NPR so you KNOW it is Propaganda...
I dont think this will happen. Everything else that is going on we will NEVER see another Union. EVER.
The Ministry of Truth is a consortium of colluding “private” corporations. Freedom of speech is dead in America. This is not about Trump or protests. This is about shutting down all speech that is not approved by the leftist establishment.
There is one and only one thing that will make a difference. It’s the bottom line. Boycott and divest. Stop buying on Amazon. Don't use Google. Don't use...
Wyden lays out Senate tax priorities
“millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share”
As if any tax has ever stayed limited to the ultra-wealthy. And a “millionaire” in many places is simply a person who owns a home. With the massive money printing that is only going to increase, it won't be long until Starbuck’s baristas are earning a million dollars a year on minimum wage...
Seems like my last couple posts are on starting Polls. It wont last long...
There is a lot of conflicting information out there about COVID-19 and most specifically, the TESTS, as to whether or not they are accurate, or inaccurate. If they are inaccurate, why then are they being pushed so hard?
My poll question is also rather vague. So there might something specific you dont believe...
This fall the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief Oyarde if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, Oyarde told his tribe that the...
I have been making pizza's weekly for over a decade. It all started when I was in Southern France and had the best pizza ever. We returned there a few years in a row so I have had a good sample of them... They were really good. I've been trying to make the same pizza's but I always lacked one thing, a wood fired oven. I can make pretty nice pizza's using a pizza stone in an electric oven but it...
After I found out, in December 2016, that the elite have been drinking the blood of the young (vampirism) for centuries, I continued my investigation.
The trail of these bloodsuckers leads to a group that’s known by a variety of names: Dragon Court, Order of the Dragon and Dragon society.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles are descendents of the “real” Count Dracula, Vlad Tepes (which means...
h/t Anti Federalist for the thread title ;)
It was suggested by Okie RP fan that this topic get it's own thread.
h/t to Occam's Banana for raising the issue.
Humbly submitted:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
Bold emphasis mine.
Newly anointed Representative Cori Bush has submitted language to find out.
The challenge of the wording:
https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20445930-rep-bush_resolution-condemning-republican-efforts-to-overturn-election
This OP space might see paragraphs added over time!!!
It's taken me ten years, but this could be a really neat
E*book if things get more politically polarized & bordering
on the landscape and environment of 1868. I can opine.
Radical Republicans existed 150 years ago. Less R so now.
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