Squatch’s Open Thread 12 June 2017

 Posted by at 8:01 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Jun 122017
 

Well the Cat is back!  Although he posted two pieces today, he has to remember to pace himself lest he end up in trouble again.  As he said, he is still in some pain and no doubt a little tired from lying around in a hospital bed.  TC has medical appointments and eye surgery coming up, so while I will back off a little now, I will be back.  Today was a relaxing day for me, such is not the case for the rest of the week.  I ate all that good cheese/herb and garlic fococcia so now I don't have any for supper . . . but oh it was sooooooooo good!  I have to go out tomorrow so I'll be at Cob's Bakery to get some more.  I may not keep my friends but I'll have a happy tummy!

Short Takes

The Hill — Legislation introduced in the House on Monday would prevent President Trump from receiving federally subsidized flood insurance amid warnings that the effects of climate change could cause parts of his Mar-a-Lago resort and other south Florida properties to be underwater in coming years.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer’s (D-Ore.) bill – titled the Prohibiting Aid for Recipients Ignoring Science (PARIS) Act – would ensure properties owned by a president or family members can’t have access to subsidized insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program.

An analysis by Coastal Risk Consulting found that the Mar-a-Lago grounds in Palm Beach, Fla., could be under at least a foot of water for 210 days a year because of tidal flooding.

To quote Jackie Gleason, "How sweet it is!"  Love the acronym —PARIS!  Oregon leads the way?!  While I applaud this, it will go nowhere with a Republican Congress.

CBC — Canada's longest-serving chief justice of the Supreme Court will retire from the bench on Dec. 15, 2017.

In a statement sent to reporters Monday, Beverley McLachlin said she would leave the court after serving for 28 years, including 17 years as the presiding judge.

The 73-year-old jurist was appointed by former prime minister Brian Mulroney in 1989. She became the first woman to hold the top job on the country's highest court after she was elevated to chief justice by former prime minister Jean Chrétien in 2000.

"It has been a great privilege to serve as a justice of the court, and later its chief justice, for so many years. I have had the good fortune of working with several generations of Canada's finest judges and best lawyers. I have enjoyed the work and the people I have worked with enormously," McLachlin said.  …

Moreover, McLachlin, the daughter of prairie farmers, encouraged the court's nine justices to come to a consensus, which resulted in a rate of unanimity substantially higher than that of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mulroney said Monday his appointee has "performed so well under difficult circumstances," and dismissed criticism from some Conservatives that she has been too activistic in her approach. "She was just doing what the constitutional amendment of 1982 told her to do," he said, speaking of the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

"I think her greatest achievement probably wasn't a particular case, rather it was that she provided such strong leadership, in a collegial and widely admired fashion across Canada by lawyers, judges and many politicians," he said in an interview Monday on CBC News Network's Power & Politics, adding McLachlin has played a strong leadership role in the "evolution of Canada."

A sad day for the country, but I am sure a good day for McLachlin.   I mention this because the Supreme Court of Canada performs quite well, especially when contrasted to SCOTUS.  McLachlin was appointed by a Conservative Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, and elevated to Chief Justice by a Liberal Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien.

The Hill — Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) unveiled a proposed article of impeachment Monday against President Trump for allegedly obstructing justice in a federal investigation.

The legislative text argues that Trump’s alleged attempts to pressure since-fired FBI Director James Comey to drop the agency’s investigation into former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn amounts to obstruction of justice.

“In all of this, Donald John Trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States,” the proposed article of impeachment states.  …

“As the investigations move forward, additional evidence supporting additional Articles of Impeachment may emerge. However, as to Obstruction of Justice … the evidence we have is sufficient to move forward now. And the national interest requires that we do so,” Sherman wrote. 

It should be noted that the Democratic leadership thinks it is premature.  In a related article, The Hill notes

"We’re still very early in the investigative process.”

Rep. Linda Sánchez (Calif.), vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said Schiff’s view reflects the “overwhelming sentiment” among the Democrats.

“A majority of the Caucus is of the belief that we ought to allow the investigation to continue to its logical conclusion before making any determination,” she told reporters in the Capitol.

From a Reuters piece concerning Preet Bhahara, the fired US Attorney for the Southern District of New York,  

Bharara stopped short of saying whether he thought Trump had obstructed justice in his conversations and subsequent firing of Comey.

However, he said he thought there was "absolutely evidence to begin a case" into the matter.

Some caution is warranted.  The ducks need to be properly lined up so as not to interfere with any investigation.  One thing though, the Democrats have to be united in their actions or suffer the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" as Shakespeare would say.

YouTube — Comey's Testimony – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

I have removed the original video and replaced it with this shorter version.  This part is contained in the original.  John Oliver offers his take on Comey's testimony with his usual humour.

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What Is Beauregard Hiding?

 Posted by at 1:08 pm  Politics
Jun 122017
 

Attorney General Jefferson Davis Sessions, aka KKK Beauregard, appears to be bending over backwards to evade public testimony about the many crimes he and his Republican colleagues committed before, during, and since the installation of Donald Trump, aka Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten, as Resident.  Keeping his testimony secret before the Gang of Eight guarantees that the Republicans who knew of his crimes when they confirmed him can help him cover them up.  What is Beauregard hiding?

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Back in early March, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions first recused himself from the Russia investigation, I noted that it was an example of something that is peculiar to big political scandals. Certainly at the start, it is all but impossible to judge their full scope and detail. We don’t know enough. But often we can infer the depth and scope of big scandals by the intensity of the gravitation that surrounds them.

That was my first thought when Sessions meetings and recusal hit the news in early March. I have a very low view of Jeff Sessions. But it never occurred to me he was tied up, even in the sense of possibly inconsequential meetings, with the Russia story.

Now we have more. Possibly a lot more. Let’s take a moment to go through it.

Yesterday afternoon the Justice Department sent out a statement from Sessions announcing that he would be meeting Tuesday with the Senate intelligence committee to discuss issues raised by James Comey last Thursday. Sessions had been scheduled to testify before the House and Senate judiciary committees about next year’s budget – a mundane and routine part of regular congressional oversight. But Senators had alerted Sessions that they would use the opportunity to ask about issues raised in Comey’s testimony. The Committee at some point between Thursday and Saturday asked for Sessions to return to speak to them. Sessions announced that he would send Rod Rosenstein to discuss the budget in his stead and testify – it now turns out in closed session – before the intelligence committee.

Congress has a fair degree of latitude in arranging its hearing schedule in such high profile cases. I see little to no reason why Sessions had to choose between the two hearings. Though I do not believe the intel committee hearing was his idea or (in a broad sense) voluntary, Sessions appears to have used the intel committee hearing to avoid public testimony… [emphasis added]

From <TPM>

Click through to read the entire article.  What is Beauregard hiding?  It may be more appropriate to ask, "What ISN’T Beauregard hiding?"

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Open Thread – 6/12/2017

 Posted by at 1:07 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jun 122017
 

I’m trying to get back into the swing of things, and today is my first full day since before I was hospitalized.  It feels good to be back in the saddle, but I bet a buck that I’ll be pooped before my work is done.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s dawg (tomorrow’s lunch?) took me 3:27 (average 4:51).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): The Ballad Of The Kitty Litter Meth Case

 

Dang!! I’m taking my bag of kitty litter and going into hiding. RESIST!!

From DCReport: Donald Trump told voters he would double economic growth from about 2% annually under Obama to more than 4%.

But Trump’s own planners at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) don’t think that will happen. Using current tax rates, they project that federal tax revenues will grow at a slower pace than under President Obama through 2022, just the opposite of what you’d expect to see if the overall economy was suddenly growing at double the pace of the Obama years. The OMB numbers are presented in a new federal document, not mentioned in other major news organizations’ reporting, and analyzed by DCReport.

A doubling of economic growth to 4% annually would produce a much bigger increase in individual income tax revenues. That’s because as incomes rise so do the rates at which they are taxed. At 4% annual increases in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) incomes would soar, pushing many people into higher tax brackets on their increased incomes.

Click through for more. As a result, the Trump/Ryan tax cuts to provide welfare for billionaires will cause huge deficits, and Republicans will demand cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: Here’s some schadenfreude for you: Breitbart is a hot mess. Their problems go beyond the recent firing of editor Kate McHugh or Milo Yiannopoulos’ resignation in February: the number of companies willing to advertise on Breitbart.com is down to just 26, according to the Washington Post.

The number of advertisers on the alt-right site Breitbart.com has dropped 90 percent in recent months, from 242 in March to 26 in May, according to data from MediaRadar, a New York firm that tracks online advertising. Among those that continue to advertise on the site include a gentleman’s club in Northern Virginia, a golf resort near the coast of Spain and the conservative foundation Judicial Watch.

This means that Breitbart has lost over 2,200 advertisers total.

It couldn’t happen to nastier Nazis. Another Alt-Right Nazi site says that Jew advertisers are strangling Breitfart of revenues, I tried to find a list of the last 26, but could not. RESIST!!

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Personal Update – 6/11/2017

 Posted by at 7:46 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jun 112017
 

I have a major load of tasks to complete today, so today’s update has one short take and little info.  I have quite s bit of pain, and am doing my best to keep off the Oxycodone.  Head for the hills.  I just Reduplicated!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:28 (average 4:58).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Take:

From YouTube (Real Time Channel): New Rule: Save the Rich Fcks

 

Amen! RESIST!!

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Trump vs. Comey

 Posted by at 1:38 am  Politics
Jun 112017
 

The lonliest man in the world in a room full of people.

I don't know what people were waiting for most, James Comey's testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, or Trump's reaction to it.  Of course, to get the second, you must have the first.  They are part and parcel.

While James Comey was giving testimony under oath to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Thursday 08 June 2017, Trump was speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, DC.  According to the Washington Post, 

"… just as Comey was wrapping up his public hearing, Trump recited Isaiah 1:17, which states: “Learn to do right, seek justice, defend the oppressed. Take up the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.”

Then the president added in his own words: “The entrenched interests and failed bitter voices in Washington will do everything in their power to try and stop us from this righteous cause, to try to stop all of you. They will lie, they will obstruct, they will spread their hatred and their prejudice, but we will not back down from doing what is right.”

“Because as the Bible tells us, we know the truth will prevail,” he added. “Nothing worth doing ever came easy. . . . We know how to fight better than anybody, and we never give up. We are winners, and we are going to fight.”

I am sorry, but when did Drumpf or a pseudo Christian ever heed the true meaning of scripture?  Righteous cause?  Drumpf was playing the audience like a maestro plays the violin, and they bought itlock, stock and barrel.

From The NY Times, these highlights from The Senate hearing:

‘Lies, plain and simple’

Mr. Comey said Mr. Trump lied to the American public when he said that the F.B.I. was in disarray and that agents had lost confidence in Mr. Comey.

“Those were lies, plain and simple,” Mr. Comey said in brief opening remarks.

Mr. Trump made that claim when he fired Mr. Comey last month. Mr. Comey said he was confused and concerned by Mr. Trump’s changing explanation for why he fired him.

‘We know how to fight,’ Trump says

Mr. Trump, appearing at a meeting of faith leaders and politicians in Washington as Mr. Comey testified across town, railed against the media and his political opponents.

“We know how to fight better than anybody and we never, ever give up — we are winners and we are going to fight,” he told hundreds of supporters at the annual Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.

Mr. Trump recited Isaiah 1:17, then continued by saying that “entrenched interests” in Washington “will lie, they will obstruct, they will spread their hatred and their prejudice, but we will not back down from doing what is right.”

“We know the truth will prevail,” he added. “Nothing worth doing ever came easy.”

A short time later, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc E. Kasowitz, issued a statement denying Mr. Comey’s testimony that the president pressured him to drop his investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia. He also said Mr. Trump never demanded “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty” as Mr. Comey testified on Thursday.

“Contrary to numerous false press accounts leading up to today’s hearing, Mr. Comey has now finally confirmed publicly what he repeatedly told the president privately: The president was not under investigation as part of any probe into Russian interference,” Mr. Kasowitz’s statement said. “He also admitted that there is no evidence that a single vote changed as a result of any Russian interference.

Mr. Trump watched part of the hearings with the lawyer, and Mr. Kasowitz’s statements tracked closely with emails and talking points issued by the Republican National Committee, who think the former director hurt himself by acknowledging he leaked a memo detailing his private interactions with the president.

Click through for more highlights.  You can also read a transcript of the hearing at  NY Times.  It is decidedly faster than listening to the three plus hours of testimony, although the nuance of tone and body language is lost. 

Rachel Maddow provides some analysis of the day's proceedings.

So, who were the winners and losers after Comey's testimony?

The Hill — I have provided the first "winner" and the first "loser".  Click through for the remaining winners and losers.  So Trump, who has the big L on the forehead now?  You do!

WINNERS
 
Former FBI Director James Comey
 
Comey rode into the Thursday hearing on a wave of positive press. He figures to go back to civilian life on the same high.
 
Comey’s seven-page opening statement was praised for its prose and will be remembered for its portrayal of excruciating personal interactions involving a president at war with his FBI director.
 

Comey’s reputation for being “politically savvy” will grow after he revealed that he engineered the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russia by sharing his notes about conversations with Trump through an intermediary to The New York Times — for the express purpose of getting the counsel picked.
 
There will definitely be some blowback for Comey, who had criticized leaks while serving as FBI director. His admission of sharing the notes underlines his image as a Washington player — and perhaps not in a completely complimentary way.
 
Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz ripped Comey at a presser after the hearing, criticizing the leak as improper and insisting that Trump never asked for his loyalty.
 
Yet the bipartisan praise he won from senators on the Intelligence panel will make it more difficult for critics to tar him.
 
And Comey’s reputation as someone who looked out for an independent FBI is unlikely to be shaken.
 
LOSERS
 
President Trump
 
There was much to be relieved about after Thursday’s hearing if you were Trump or his staff.
 
The legal case against Trump didn’t grow from Comey’s testimony, which included no new bombshells.
 
There is still no evidence that Trump campaign officials colluded with Russia, and Comey would not say that the president sought to obstruct justice by asking him to “lift the cloud” over his administration and the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
 
Comey also said Trump was not under investigation while he was at the FBI, validating public remarks by the president.
 
Still, it’s never a good day when an FBI director accuses you of being a liar and defaming the federal law enforcement power.
 
Overall, it was another bad day in politics for Trump, who has had many of those in recent weeks.
 
The Comey drama and the Russian probe are badly hampering Trump’s ability to govern. The president’s job approval rating hit a new low this week and his agenda has stalled in Congress. 
 
Comey’s testimony will only thicken the “cloud” of controversy that Trump, according to the former FBI director, really wanted to see lifted.
 
Trump's reaction to Comey's testimony the following day as reported by Reuters:

President Donald Trump called James Comey a "leaker" on Friday, the day after his former FBI director accused him in a U.S. Senate hearing of lying and trying to quash an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. 

"Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication … and WOW, Comey is a leaker!" Trump tweeted in his first comments since Comey appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

If I had to sum up the activities in Washington in ten words or less, I think I'd use a headline from CNN:
James Comey just went nuclear on Donald Trump.
 
I am sure that when TomCat is up to it, he will provide more analysis of Comey's testimony and where he sees this circus going.
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Squatch’s Open Thread 10 June 2017

 Posted by at 1:38 am  Open Thread, Politics
Jun 112017
 

Well, the nurses at Providence Portland Medical Centre are sick and tired of having a mangy, grumpy old TomCat lying about so they are shipping him home Saturday afternoon.  He still needs more recovery time, after all, one does not donate their gallbladder to science without feeling a bit tired.  Your continued healing thoughts and prayers are very much appreciated.

Jigsaw Puzzle

Today’s took me 3:22 (average 5:26).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes

Alternet — This week Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel faced off in their first Special Election Debate for Georgia’s District 06 seat. Handel has been running scared for some time—since running as a Republican these days is like wearing a gasoline body spray at a factory that only produces sparks. At one point, the candidates were allowed to ask one another a question. Handel, having virtually nothing worthwhile to stand on as a candidate herself, decided to try to push the Republican narrative that Jon Ossoff is some carpet-bagging elitist who is going to turn your kids into musical theatre dancers with newfangled iPhones and solar energy lust.

As the subheading to the article says, "Karen Handel stepped on a land mine during Georgia's special election debate Wednesday" and it went KABOOM!!!.  That Georgia Peach is sour  . . . as sour as can be!  For those that don't remember her, Handel was involved with the Susan G Komen Foundation and the controversy from a few years back.  On special election day 20 June 2017, let's make that Georgia Peach fall right off the tree!

Think Progress — For most politically active, progressive 16-year-olds, participating in the democratic process might involve volunteering for a campaign or joining a high school young Democrats club. Tahseen Chowdhury has a different idea.

Though he isn’t old enough to vote, the junior at Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School launched his campaign last month for New York state senate. Chowdhury will be challenging Sen. Jose Peralta (D) in Queens’ District 13 in September 2018.

Chowdhury is unconcerned that he’s not a known politician. He said he’s counting on two phenomena emerging in 2017 to bolster his campaign: The growing number of first-time politicians deciding to take a stab at politics and voters’ anger toward President Trump, which is also being directed toward local lawmakers.

“If people don’t trust their representatives on the federal level, they have to make sure they’re represented adequately in the state and local level,” he told ThinkProgress by phone from his high school office. “And they’re not being represented well.”

Click through to see what motivates this teen.  I predict good things from this young man in the coming years.  With the Labour gains in the recent UK election, the rejection of Marine LePen in France, and the protests against Drumpf and Republicans in the US, young voters are saying enough to false promises and austerity.

Daily Kos — On Thursday, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) praised the recent Islamic State attack in Tehran as a “good thing” and suggested that maybe the United States should work with the militant organization.  …

"We have recently seen an attack on Iran, and the Iranian government, the mullahs, believe that Sunni forces have attacked them. This may signal a ratcheting up of certain commitments by the United States of America. As far as I’m concerned, I just want to make this point and see what you think, isn’t it a good thing for us to have the United States finally backing up Sunnis who will attack Hezbollah and the Shiite threat to us? Isn’t that a good thing? And if so, maybe this is a Trump — maybe it’s a Trump strategy of actually supporting one group against another, considering that you have two terrorist organizations.”

How do these idiots like Rohrabacher get elected?  Of course he is a Republican!  Saints preserve us!!!

 

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Everyday Erinyes #78

 Posted by at 11:34 am  Politics
Jun 102017
 

Experts in autocracies have pointed out that it is, unfortunately, easy to slip into normalizing the tyrant, hence it is important to hang on to outrage.  These incidents which seem to call for the efforts of the Greek Furies (Erinyes) to come and deal with them will, I hope, help with that.  Even though there are many more which I can't include.  As a reminder, though no one really knows how many there were supposed to be, the three names we have are Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. These roughly translate as "unceasing," "grudging," and "vengeful destruction."

A rather disgusting practice in Longmont, Colorado, is over now (for now), but not everyone who was involved in it or aware of it has been held accountable.  From Denver's Channel 9 (NBC) News:

Some powerful people in Longmont appear to have forgotten that the Constitution still exists.

The Longmont Housing Authority says it was using the homes of low-income residents to train police drug dogs. There weren’t warrants, but simply a notice that the landlord was coming, and a police officer and drug dog would be there, too.

The director of operations of the Housing Authority is Krystal Winship Erazo.  She says,

“Two months ago, there were some rumors and some concerns about drug activity on the property and one way we found to address it was to invite a partnership with the Longmont Police Department – to invite the canines over on their training day.  Usually it helps the residents feel really secure in that we're following up, we're holding residents accountable, it's an opportunity for the dogs to train."

Yes, the head of a public housing agency in Colorado said they use the homes of low-income people to train police dogs.  (emphasis Chennel 9's)

Channel 9 interviewed the heads of other housing authorities in the area, who confirmed their gut feeling that this is unconstitutional.  (One laughed out loud because the concept is so ridiculous.)  Of course, like a good Republican, Erazo had a ready response:

If there is concern, it kind of sparks some curiosity for me. You know, what are they concerned about if (the officers’) only job is to ensure there aren't drugs in the unit?

In other words, if you aren't using, you have nothing to fear.  Where have I heard that before?

Anyone who follows statistics on drug use knows that, if police want to find actual drugs, they should be training K9's at the homes of the wealthy in gated communities.  The obvious deduction is that the police have no interest in actual drug use.  Their interest is in persecuting the poor, and particularly, the poor of color.

At least city officials in Longmont grasp this.  They, and the station, are still looking for whoever in the police department knew about this.  Perhaps, Megaera, you can help ferret this out.

Staying on the topic of drugs, we now move to Worth County, GA, where, on April 14, the day students at Worth County High School returned from spring break, they found a police state in possession of their school.  Worth County High has 900 students.  Every one of those 900 was patted down for drugs.  From the complaint:

Defendants’ searches of students were intrusive, performed in an aggressive manner, and done in full view of other students. For example: a) Deputies ordered students to stand facing the wall with their hands and legs spread wide apart; b) Deputies touched and manipulated students’ breasts and genitals; c) Deputies inserted fingers inside girls’ bras, and pulled up girls’ bras, touching and partially exposing their bare breasts. d) Deputies touched girls’ underwear by placing hands inside the waistbands of their pants or reaching up their dresses; e) Deputies touched girls’ vaginal areas through their underwear; f) Deputies cupped or groped boys’ genitals and touched their buttocks through their pants. 8. Defendants had no warrant or other authority to perform a mass search on hundreds of public school children.

Now, that complaint is the complaint in a class-action civil lawsuit.  There are currently no criminal charges, although, according to mark Begnaud, the attorney for the students, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation.

I see that the Worth County Sheriff's Office website has a sex offender map.  It's handy for the Sheriff that he already has the addresses of all of his deputies.  Not that I actually expect to see any such result, you understand.

Like a good Republican (for whom the only part of the Constitution actually in effect is the Second Amendment), Sheriff Hobby stands by his actions, "noting that as long as a school administrator was present, the search of the children was legal."  I don't know where he came up with that.  Not from the School Handbook, that's for sure.

Tisiphone, following up the civil suit to make sure immense damages are awarded appears to be just the tip of the iceberg here.

Moving now to Iowa, where Steve King, Representative from the Fourth District, is working hard to achieve the title of, if not the stupidest member of Congress, still the meanest member of Congress.  Perhaps his most memorable quote is wht one about "calves the size of canteloupes,"  but "not a safety net, it's a hammock" and "let's not get bogged down in Americans dying" also made the news. 

One might argue that he appropriately represents his district in view of this:

Kim Weaver, who had announced in March that she would challenge one of the most repugnant members of Congress, Steve King, for the 4th District seat in Iowa, has withdrawn from the race,. Weaver cited death threats that she has received and political retaliation against the state agency where she is employed.

She said in a post on Facebook:

Beginning during my 2016 campaign, I have received very alarming acts of intimidation, including death threats.  While some may say enduring threats are just a part of running for office, my personal safety has increasingly become a concern.

Enduring threats just a part of running for office?  Dear God, I hope not!  I don't think I even want to know who says that!  Alecto, can you work on that before it becomes "unceasing" – if it isn't already too late?

The Furies and I will be back.

Cross posted to Care2 at http://www.care2.com/news/member/101612212/4057275

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