DL Open Thread: Thurs., June 27, 2019
Welcome to a debate-post-mortem-free edition of Open Thread. While you’re more than welcome to comment on the debate, I had had enough after hearing Chris Matthews’ bloviations last night. Tim Ryan, my bleeping ass.
Boeing Had History Of Failing To Fix Safety Problems. Of course, the problems were known to regulators, who didn’t do enough.
How A ‘Nonprofit’ Hospital Relentlessly Sues Poor Patients. One word: Unconscionable.
Illinois Legalizes Recreational Pot Use. 11 states and counting. Don’t worry, Carney is monitoring. All is well.
How Activists Transformed Stonewall Into A Movement. I’m so glad that that this history is being written while many of the heroes and heroines are still with us.
What do you want to talk about?
I’m all in for Warren after that.
Not buying the “Electability” arguments. 1, a woman already won more votes than the GOP pile of shit. 2, Warren is FAR more electable than Clinton was. She can also speak to mid-westerners. She WILL get Bernies support when that collapses and I think Bideners will be able to stomach the compromise they always demand out of everyone else.
When Fox News actually allows her to be seen, rather than just mocked, she gets through to those people. I think that scares the magats. same with Buttigieg, but hes not presidential material. he needs to smile and nod and appease centrists while haveing little to no actual influence. Lizzy and The Butt 2020.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/lawmaker-failed-to-report-tens-of-thousands-in-back-taxes/2019/06/26/4f8dcf50-9839-11e9-9a16-dc551ea5a43b_story.html?nid=menu_nav_accessibilityforscreenreader&outputType=accessibility&utm_term=.353462ea2b2e
Nt a new story but a national source.
Give the gist for non-subscribers
Darius Brown is a very shady character. Repeated criminality. Lied on recent financial filings. Etc.
Despite a federal tax lien of more than $50,000 filed in April 2018 and a state tax lien of almost $10,000 filed two weeks later, Sen. Darius Brown wrote “none” on a section of the form instructing him to list each creditor to whom he had been indebted for 90 or more consecutive days during 2018 in an aggregate amount in excess of $1,000.
The Wilmington Democrat also reported no income exceeding $1,000 from a single source, despite his Senate salary.
Brown submitted an amended form last week after The Associated Press questioned his initial filing. The amended form describes his debts only as “federal” and “state.” Brown also separately disclosed a federal student loan debt.
The irony is, that in a four-way primary against a conservative ex-police chief, a former state legislator who had been convicted of an ‘infamous’ crime, and a lawyer/grifter who had had his license to practice law suspended, Brown was the least-bad choice.
Same article, but no paywall…from the Delaware State News
https://delawarestatenews.net/nation/delaware-senator-failed-to-report-tens-of-thousands-in-back-taxes/
Anyone who doubts the ineffectiveness of the Public Integrity Commission, this should disabuse you of that notion:
““The PIC has no access to filer’s banking or tax records which would most likely be the only way a suspected violation could be revealed, other than personal knowledge such as that you imparted,” Moreau noted.”
Now that the knowledge has been imparted, what next?
We just saw something for the first time in history: Joe Biden, flummoxed by Kamala Harris, said he had to stop talking because ‘my time is up’.