{"id":32580,"date":"2018-05-29T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32580"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:35:37","slug":"open-thread-5-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/29\/open-thread-5-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/29\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a lazy day, because, after the holiday weekend, news is scarce, but I filled the time with chores.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:22 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-29-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EuBHHciCJQI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Democrats Work To Level Election Field, Undo GOP Gerrymandering<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EuBHHciCJQI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Anytime Scott Walker, Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan, takes it in the sphincter, TC does a one-legged happy dance. If we doing it across the country, so much the better. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/5\/22\/1766182\/-It-s-time-for-another-special-election-and-time-to-flip-another-GOP-House-seat-blue\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>On Aug. 7, progressives have another chance to flip a key GOP-held House seat from red to blue in Ohio\u2019s vacant 12th Congressional District, and Daily Kos is pleased to endorse Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/dannyoconnorforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danny O\u2019Connor<\/a> in this special election.O\u2019Connor has deep roots in Ohio and has served as Franklin County Recorder since 2016, where he swiftly instituted reforms to make the office more responsive to veterans (for whom his office provides ID cards) and the homeless, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20170914\/franklin-county-recorder-to-store-birth-certificates-for-homeless\" target=\"_blank\">implementing a plan to store birth certificates<\/a> so that they can more easily apply for housing. And he practiced the progressive values he believes in by instituting the Recorder\u2019s Office\u2019s first paid family leave program.<\/p>\n<p>His opponent, on the other hand, is an arch-conservative. Republican state Sen. Troy Balderson opposed expanding Medicaid in Ohio, even though it was backed by his own Republican governor and his GOP colleagues in the legislature. But of course, that\u2019s not enough: He also supports repealing the Affordable Care Act altogether. And naturally, he\u2019s voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/OH\/rollcall\/SB214\/id\/480330\" target=\"_blank\">defund Planned Parenthood<\/a> and has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20180321\/troy-balderson-airs-first-ad-of-campaign-to-replace-pat-tiberi\" target=\"_blank\">pledged to \u201cbuild Trump\u2019s wall.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Danny O&#8217;Connor for Congress! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/breitbart-recruited-black-bernie-sanders-supporter-convince-african-americans-vote-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>A reporter for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2018-05-29\/inside-the-pro-trump-effort-to-keep-black-voters-from-the-polls\" target=\"_blank\">Breitbart News courted a black Bernie Sanders campaigner to switch allegiances to Donald Trump<\/a> in 2016 \u2014 and then convinced him to work for the right-wing website and encourage his fellow African American voters to sit out the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that Bruce Carter, the founder of Black Men for Bernie, revealed his story to the website <strong>after falling out with his former employers when they ceased paying him in the weeks following the 2016 election<\/strong>.&#160; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I wonder how many voters were fooled by this paid race-traitor. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0529Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Down with Fitzwalkerstan!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a lazy day, because, after the holiday weekend, news is scarce, but I filled the time with chores. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:22 (average 5:10).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Democrats Work To Level Election Field, Undo GOP Gerrymandering &#160; Anytime Scott <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/29\/open-thread-5-29-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}