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Georgia Dems Make Grand Healthcare Promises In Quest For Senate Votes

No Democrat has ever won a statewide runoff race in Georgia. That means that even with a strong health care message, it’ll be tough for Ossoff and Warnock to break that trend and unseat the Republicans.

Key Trump Aide Hails Florida As A “Free State”

December 16, 2020 Florida Politics – Kayleigh McEnany, on Wednesday morning’s “Fox and Friends,” lauded Ron DeSantis as one of the greatest Governors in the country, contrasting his making Florida a “free state” with the “Orwellian” solutions of Democrats leading other states. The messaging from McEnany muddles conclusions from the White House Coronavirus Task Force that Florida must impose restrictions amid an uptick in infections in recent weeks. McEnany enthused about DeSantis in what she called her...

“There Goes The Neighborhood” – Mar-a-Lago Neighbors Don’t Want Trump

The Guardian – Neighbors of Donald Trump’s infamous Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach, Florida are warning the president that he cannot live at the club after he leaves the White House, following an agreement he made with the town in 1993. In a letter to the town of Palm Beach and the US Secret Service sent this week, a lawyer representing a family that lives next to Mar-a-Lago reiterated that “Mar-a-Lago is a social club, and...

Judge Okays Strippers Taking It All Off – All But The Mask

Judge says strip club ruling also protects restaurants SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California judge said Thursday that all restaurants in San Diego County can resume on-site dining with safety protocols, marking a major setback to the governor's stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. San Diego Superior Court Judge Joel Wohlfeil said the ruling he issued Wednesday that protected two strip clubs from being forced to stop indoor activity also extended to the...

Mayor Gets Out Of Dodge After Death Threats Over Mask Rules

"I do not feel safe in this position anymore." – Mayor Joyce Warshaw, Dodge City, Kansas, Dec 15, 2020 Kansas mayor cites "anger, accusations, and abuse," resigns over mask mandate threats | PLUS: Vice President Mike Pence says he will receive the vaccine "without hesitation." Associated Press | Dec 15, 2020 KANSAS — A western Kansas mayor announced Tuesday that she is resigning, effective immediately, because of threats she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate. Dodge City...

The Real Reason Biden Can’t Move Into The White House

"The West Wing under President Donald Trump has been the locus of at least two significant outbreaks of COVID... " Biden's challenge: The White House is a Covid hotspot WASHINGTON (AP) — Three blocks from the White House, office space for more than 500 Biden transition staffers sits mostly idle. The government is shipping out laptops so staffers can work from home. President-elect Joe Biden, surrounded by just a handful of aides in Delaware, is using...

Cuomo Gets Ted Kennedy Award After Disastrous Handling of COVID

Dec 11, 2020 | Headline USA – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week was given the Edward M. Kennedy Institute Award for Inspired Leadership for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Cuomo, whose state has seen more coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths than any other state, claimed his policies — including his disastrous nursing home policy, which forced nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients — were not “popular,” but were necessary. Cuomo said while accepting the leadership...

Giuliani “100% Better” After Receiving Same Drug Cocktail As Trump

‘The minute I took the cocktail I felt 100% better’ 10 Dec 2020 The Guardian – Rudy Giuliani, the public leader of a quixotic effort by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election, was released from hospital on Wednesday evening after being treated for Covid-19. Giuliani received “exactly the same” treatment that Trump received during his own hospitalization in October, the former New York mayor said, apparently including a drug cocktail of monoclonal antibodies that...

In Becerra Pick, Harris-Biden Put Politics First

"That Becerra’s deepest experience is political makes some observers wary." In Becerra, an HHS nominee with political chops but no real health experience December 8, 2020 Kaiser Health News – Xavier Becerra is set to be a pandemic-era secretary with no public health experience. Whether that matters depends on whom you ask. Becerra built his career in the U.S. House of Representatives before becoming California’s attorney general, and some wonder whether his political and legal skills would...

PA Gov. Tests Positive For Covid

Dec 9, 2020 POLITICO – Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, though he said he does not have symptoms and will continue to work. Wolf announced his diagnosis in a tweet Wednesday, in which he said he had tested positive during a routine Covid test. Wolf is isolating at home according to guidelines by the Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His wife, Frances, was also tested for the disease...

GOP Rep. Elected Speaker, Dies Of COVID A Week Later

Concord, NH (CBS) – Longtime New Hampshire State Rep. Richard “Dick” Hinch died suddenly Wednesday, just a week after being elected Speaker of the House. UPDATE: AP – An autopsy determined that the cause of Hinch's death was COVID-19. Seventy-one-year-old Hinch, a Republican from Merrimack, was elected to his seventh term as a state representative in November. He had previously served as House Republican Leader (2018-2020), and House Majority Leader (2015-2018). New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said he...

Xavier Becerra: ‘Health Care Is a Right’

"Xavier Becerra "has sued the Trump administration dozens of times on health care, birth control, immigration, climate change, and more" Dec 7, 2020 Kaiser Health News – Joe Biden has tapped California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Becerra, who would be the nation’s first Latino HHS secretary, has taken some ground-breaking positions on health care, especially since he became attorney general in 2017. He has sued the Trump...

Kamala’s Radical Plan For Your Health Care

Kamala is no moderate on health care | First published October 7 ... worth a fresh look as January 20 draws near | OPINION, Fox Business – On the same day last month both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris suffered the same revealing slip of the tongue. They each referred to the coming "Harris-Biden administration." There’s no mistaking that Harris has openly assumed the role of heir-apparent to Biden. The 78-years-old former vice president is bound to be...

Courthouse Error Could Make Bill Cosby A Free Man

CNN – Judges on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court questioned and expressed skepticism about the use of five "prior bad acts" witnesses in Bill Cosby's criminal trial during an appeal hearing on Tuesday. Cosby, 83, is more than two years into a 3-to-10-year sentence at a prison outside Philadelphia for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, at Cosby's home in 2004. The three assault charges in the case centered on Constand's testimony....

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