“The applause for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from a ballroom full of Republican activists was loud and long — and it happened before the Florida governor even took the stage. … “With more than 40 months before November 2024, in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, the race for[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
Hostile takeover: Trumper in running to run Georgia’s universities
Sonny Perdue, ex-agriculture secretary under Trump (bio here), reportedly is a leading contender for chancellor of Georgia’s public university system, and students and faculty are mobilizing against him, Mother Jones reports. (Read story here.) Perdue has zero experience managing a university.[...]
May 16th, 2021 - 2:39 pm § in Law and Courts
This police misconduct cost taxpayers $86.3 million
Not counting 64 years’ of incarceration costs.[1] Two black half-brothers, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, 19 and 15 at the time (photo, left), were railroaded to North Carolina’s death row for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl named Sabrina Buie (photo, right) by sheriff’[...]
May 16th, 2021 - 1:21 pm § in Law and Courts
Ex-deputy accused of planting drugs during traffic stops
He was a bad cop, but a Florida sheriff hired him anyway, after another sheriff fired him, and it didn’t go well for that sheriff, either. Zachary Wester, 28, began his police career in Liberty County, pop. 8,354, in 2015. He lasted less than a year, and his boss warned the sheriff of neighbor[...]
May 10th, 2021 - 3:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Here kitty, kitty
People on walks in a Houston neighborhood Sunday evening were startled to see a Bengal tiger sphinxing on a front lawn (photo). It wasn’t a lawn ornament. Or a stuffed tiger. Or someone’s idea of a prank. A local TV station reported, “A [sheriff’s] deputy who lives in the nei[...]
Cruise line quits Florida over vaccination gag order
Florida’s GOP governor has prohibited businesses from asking patrons if they’ve been vaccinated. Norwegian Cruise Lines says it won’t do business there. The CDC, a federal agency in the forefront of the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic, won’t allow cruise lines to opera[...]
May 4th, 2021 - 5:13 pm § in Politics
How Idaho GOPers treated a rape victim
“The harassment began soon after a report by a 19-year-old intern, who alleged an Idaho lawmaker raped her, became public, the Associated Press reported here on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. “One state representative sought a copy of the police report and made inquiries into how the young woman [...]
States’ rights … to be reckless
The phrase “states’ rights” used to refer to southern-Democrat segregation policies. Now it refers to Republicans-everywhere fecklessness. Conceptually, states’ rights is a subset of federalism, which has to do with the allocation of power between federal and state government[...]
“Greater Idaho” movement wants to redraw state lines
Idaho legislators are “intrigued but skeptical” about a scheme “to lop off about three-fourths of Oregon,” plus some northern California counties, and add those areas to Idaho to create “the nation’s third-largest state” by moving existing state boundaries, a Lo[...]
April 24th, 2021 - 4:16 pm § in Law and Courts
Woman has Oklahoma felony record for unreturned VHS tape
A Texas woman recently discovered she has a felony record — one she didn’t know about — from when she lived in Oklahoma. For a rented VHS tape that wasn’t returned. That state’s criminal records say she “feloniously embezzled” the VHS tape, the NBC affiliat[...]