August 3, 2016

Roger Marshall unseats Rep. Tim Huelskamp in bitter Republican primary

Source: The Topeka Capital-Journal

Roger Marshall unseats Rep. Tim Huelskamp in bitter Republican primary
Marshall: 'I'm just happy for Kansas...I think Kansas won tonight.'

Posted: August 2, 2016 - 10:26pm

By Justin Wingerter
justin.wingerter@cjonline.com

For the first time in 70 years, a congressman representing the state’s 1st District was defeated in a primary as political novice Roger Marshall edged past U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp on Tuesday, ending a divisive contest between two Republicans that hinged on personality rather than policy.

“I truly am speechless,” Marshall said in an interview. “I’m just happy for Kansas...I think Kansas won tonight.”

Marshall said he and his wife were gearing up for a late night Tuesday after polling showed the race between himself and Huelskamp to be close. Instead, the margin of victory was more than a dozen percentage points.

“I’m shocked,” Marshall said. “All of our internal polling had us up one or two percent.”

Well-funded by his own pocketbook and those of donors, Marshall battled Huelskamp for more than a year across the 63-county district that covers most of the state, including its entire western half. The Great Bend obstetrician and hospital executive seized on Huelskamp’s removal from the House Agriculture Committee and opposition to the 2014 farm bill as emblematic of the congressman’s uncompromising conservatism harming constituents.



Read more: http://cjonline.com/news/2016-08-02/roger-marshall-unseats-rep-tim-huelskamp-bitter-republican-primary

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Tea Party Congressman Loses Primary
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, chairman of the Tea Party Caucus, was beaten by a GOP moderate.
08/02/2016 11:46 pm ET | Updated 3 minutes ago

Matt Fuller
Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Pos

WASHINGTON ― One of the biggest winners from the departure of ex-Speaker John Boehner is now one of the few losers in the 2016 primary season.

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) became just the third Republican this year to lose a primary, falling Tuesday night to Roger Marshall, an obstetrician who argued he’d be a more reasonable and effective lawmaker for Kansans. Marshall’s win all but guarantees he’ll represent the safely Republican district next year.

Huelskamp, during his three terms in Congress, developed a prickly reputation for regular dissent on GOP bills, and for two votes to oust Boehner. Huelskamp was an original member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, a rambunctious group of roughly 40 conservatives who are often at odds with Republican leadership.

While Huelskamp’s loss is a blow to the Freedom Caucus, his primary race was more than just a generic GOP conservative-vs.-establishment contest.

August 2, 2016

Trump refuses to support Paul Ryan, John McCain in upcoming Republican primaries

Source: The Washington Post

Trump refuses to support Paul Ryan, John McCain in upcoming Republican primaries


By Philip Rucker August 2 at 4:29 PM

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is refusing to back House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in his upcoming primary election, saying in an interview Tuesday that he is “not quite there yet” in endorsing his party’s top-ranking elected official.

Trump also said he was not supporting Sen. John McCain in his primary in Arizona, and he singled out Sen. Kelly Ayotte as a weak and disloyal leader in New Hampshire, a state whose presidential primary Trump won handily.

With Ryan’s Wisconsin primary scheduled for next Tuesday, Trump praised the House speaker’s underdog opponent, Paul Nehlen, for running “a very good campaign.” Trump said that Ryan has sought his endorsement, but that as of now he is only “giving it very serious consideration.”

“I like Paul, but these are horrible times for our country,” Trump said. “We need very strong leadership. We need very, very strong leadership. And I’m just not quite there yet. I’m not quite there yet.”

Trump’s refusal to back Ryan represents an extraordinary breach of political decorum and signals that the Republican Party remains divided two weeks after a national convention in Cleveland staged to showcase party unity.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-refuses-to-endorse-paul-ryan-in-gop-primary-im-just-not-quite-there-yet/2016/08/02/1449f028-58e9-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews

July 24, 2016

*BREAKING* DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigns

Source: The Washington Post

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigns

By Washington Post Staff July 24 at 3:57 PM

The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee faced growing pressure to resign in the aftermath of the release of thousands of embarrassing internal email exchanges among Democratic officials. Her resignation takes effect at the end of the Democratic National Convention, which begins Monday.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/24/dnc-chair-debbie-wasserman-schultz-resigns/

July 18, 2016

Murdochs Have Decided to Remove Roger Ailes — the Only Question Now Is When

Source: New York Magazine/Daily Intelligencer

Roger Ailes's tenure as the head of Fox News may be coming to an end. Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James — co-chairmen and CEO, respectively, of parent company 21st Century Fox — have settled on removing the 76-year-old executive, say two sources briefed on a sexual-harassment investigation of Ailes being conducted by New York law firm Paul, Weiss. After reviewing the initial findings of the probe, James Murdoch is said to be arguing that Ailes should be presented with a choice this week to resign or face being fired. Lachlan is more aligned with their father, who thinks that no action should be taken until after the GOP convention this week. Another source confirms that all three are in agreement that Ailes needs to go.

Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/murdochs-have-decided-to-remove-roger-ailes.html

June 8, 2016

Clinton wins California

Source: CNN

BREAKING NEWS/NO COMMENTARY

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May 31, 2015

Fatal police shootings in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide

Source: The Washington Post

By Kimberly Kindy, and reported by Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins, Steven Rich, Keith L. Alexander and Wesley Lowery
May 30 at 9:00 PM

In an alley in Denver, police gunned down a 17-year-old girl joyriding in a stolen car. In the backwoods of North Carolina, police opened fire on a gun-wielding moonshiner. And in a high-rise apartment in Birmingham, Ala., police shot an elderly man after his son asked them to make sure he was okay. Douglas Harris, 77, answered the door with a gun.

The three are among at least 385 people shot and killed by police nationwide during the first five months of this year, more than two a day, according to a Washington Post analysis. That is more than twice the rate of fatal police shootings tallied by the federal government over the past decade, a count that officials concede is incomplete.

“These shootings are grossly under­reported,” said Jim Bueermann, a former police chief and president of the Washington-based Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving law enforcement. “We are never going to reduce the number of police shootings if we don’t begin to accurately track this information.”

A national debate is raging about police use of deadly force, especially against minorities. To understand why and how often these shootings occur, The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting by police in 2015, as well as of every officer killed by gunfire in the line of duty. The Post looked exclusively at shootings, not killings by other means, such as stun guns and deaths in police custody.


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shootings-in-2015-approaching-400-nationwide/2015/05/30/d322256a-058e-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html?hpid=z1

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They so often bark orders and demand respect, but they don't seem to respect the rights of the people. They're so trigger happy and seeming fearful for their lives. Being a cop isn't easy, but they sign up knowing that the job will be tough, stressful, and dangerous.

Are the police scared of the public or should the public be scared of the police?