Texas held its primary elections yesterday, and Politico analyzes the results. For me, the biggest takeaway was that several candidates who topped their fields in fund-raising did not win their Democratic primaries. Second-biggest: Women ruled.
Stormy Daniels’ 15 minutes aren’t up yet. Her lawyer filed to have her non-disclosure agreement with Trump voided because Trump never signed it. The bigger more interesting part of the story is that it appears there are, um, photos.
Why do governments keep throwing gobs of money at corporations? For the headlines. These deals suck for taxpayers, but they pay off well for the politicians who want voters to believe that they’re doing it all for the common good, because the front-page headlines are immediate but the lack of results trickle in on the back pages.
The Daily Beast demonstrated that someone from the House Intelligence Committee leaked witness testimony to Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. I wonder who could have done such a thing.
A longtime state rep from rural Pennsylvania was appointed to a post in the Trump HHS Philadelphia office, but the media paid attention mainly because Matt Baker once sponsored a bill that would have established a stripper registry. Go national with that and sell calendars and you’ll put the biggest dent in the national debt since Mike Castle put Caesar Rodney on the back of the quarter.
Trouble on the alt-right, as punchable-faced Richard Spencer’s college tour flounders amid legal obstacles and poor attendance. Seems they just don’t make Nazis like they used to.