The River Wanders...

Every time Donald Trump opens his mouth to spew political nonsense, he gets free publicity for his numerous business endeavors.  It’s time his hateful foolishness becomes unprofitable.  Ask Macy’s to sever their ties with him - he certainly does NOT reflect the values they claim to have.

Here’s a link directly to the correct customer service contact form for public & community relations, as well.

The SignOn petition was started by @goangelo - premier defender against hate, vitriol, and foolishness of all flavors.

http://www.macysinc.com/contact-us/default.aspx

sarahlee310:

Another loss for Karl Rove’s American Crossroads GPS.

The race in California’s 36th congressional district shouldn’t have been close. Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack hung onto the seat for six terms (after gaining it in a special election when her husband Sonny Bono, who had previously held the seat, died). Her Democratic opponent, emergency room physician Raul Ruiz, is a political neophyte; plus he was recently confronted with a politically unsavory bit of his past: a tape of him reading a letter of support of Leonard Peltier, a Native American convicted of murdering two FBI agents in 1977.

But Ruiz won, by three percentage points, after counting went into overtime last night and today.

[…]

Ruiz supports the Affordable Care Act, and Obama’s plan to cut Medicare costs, not by voucherizing, but by allowing the program to negotiate for lower drug prices and cutting fraud. He wants federal dollars to help underwater homeowners, and to promote new industries like health care research and green energy. Like Obama, Ruiz calls for a 30 percent tax on millionaires.

Ruiz’s campaign withstood some brutal attacks by Bono Mack. Her campaign leaked information to The Desert Sun on Ruiz’s arrest during in his med school days—on a disorderly conduct charges during a “Day of Mourning” protest of Thanksgiving (the charges were dropped). Then came that tape in support of Peltier.

But the attacks didn’t work. Neither did the money. Mack had about a quarter more cash than Ruiz, not factoring in outside spending from groups like Karl Rove’s American Crossroads GPS. Ruiz received more than twice as much as Bono Mack from small contributors.

As the son of farmers from Coachella Valley, Ruiz’s personal story jibes with that of many of his constituents. “I’m not a politician,” he told the Press-Enterprise in October. “I’m a citizen candidate who really listens and respects this district. The momentum is definitely on our side.”

shiracoffee:

The Last Filibuster?

from Taegan Goddard’s Wonk Wire by Pacificus

Ezra Klein makes an impassioned case that now is the time to eliminate the filibuster and return to a functioning legislative branch.

“Today, the filibuster isn’t used to defend minority rights or…

tikistitch:

noiselesspatientspider:

lord-kitschener:

• Where the fuck is my polling place?

• What the fuck does my asshole state want me to bring with me to prove I’m not a zombie voter or some shit? Calm your tits and just choose your asshole state from this fucking list,…

(via blackfireuponus)

other-stuff:

While signature problems impact a relatively small number of votes, they illustrate the perils of casting absentee ballots, said Charles Stewart III, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In a report published last year, he estimated as many as 21 percent of absentee ballots requested nationwide never are counted. In the 2008 presidential election, 3.9 million of the 35.5 million ballots requested never reached voters. About 2.9 million that were received by voters never made it back to election offices. Another 800,000 were rejected for other reasons, such as signature problems and not being mailed in time.

Possibly an argument for a traceable voting number.

When I heard the Washington officials interviewed they indicated an amazing number of ballots are not counted because they don’t have a legible cancellation date.

theyoungturks:

I can’t believe that the Scott Brown-Elizabeth Warren race is still uncomfortably close. Do the people of Massachusetts realize that Scott Brown took $20 billion of taxpayer money and handed it straight to the banks? How could anybody vote for the guy who basically asks the big banks, “What can Brown do for you?”

(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)