Miscellaneous political stuff - Part 13

So... how are the women in Florida feeling about their choices now?

More about Casey DeSantis...

"She is both his biggest asset and his biggest liability, and I say biggest asset in that I think she does make him warmer, softer,” said Dan Eberhart, a DeSantis donor and supporter. “But he needs to be surrounded with professional people, not just her."
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"I’ve heard from staffers frustrated that they think the governor’s made a decision, he talks to her, comes back, the decision is the opposite or different,” Eberhart added. “The sad part is I think she’s very smart. I think she’s very talented. But she also needs to realize if they want to play on this stage, they need serious help. I worry that winning the gubernatorial race, winning the re-elect, has made her overconfident in her ability to de facto run a presidential campaign.”
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“He’s a leader who makes political decisions with the assistance of his wife, who was elected by nobody, who’s blindly ambitious,” said one former DeSantis administration staffer, "and she sees ghosts in every corner.”

A second former staffer agreed.

Astounding, the many ways that the ignorant can cause danger and misery for everybody (because, "climate change is a myth," TFG's followers believe). How many will THIS problem kill? 

My 'poor' neighbor was called home from work Thursday night as well as the two apartments above her because they were totally flooded from a broken sprinkler pipe. They were told take what you can carry and go. They were allowed to come back Saturday with escorts to remove more items. It was the 6th of the month. All had paid their rent for July. Could well have been me but for a 8 foot outside breezeway between us. She works her butt off, has raised a very well mannered DD who goes to community college.. So sad for the three families. Good neighbors.

BTW: the building is only five years old.  So the pipes break in extreme heat, after one blew in another building last Christmas from the freezing weather.  Hummmm....

I have never defended any kind of deliberate genital exposure in public.

The GOP is a different story, it seems.

Seems Thomas and wife have accepted very generous donations or such,including the paying for their wedding reception!

More revelations about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' ties to a right-wing club that connected him to the billionaires and power players that he needed.
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Justice Thomas’s acceptance of such hospitality apparently predates his time on the court," the report said. "A former girlfriend said in an interview that 'a buddy' of Justice Thomas had paid for their vacation in the Bahamas in the mid-1980s, when he was chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A longtime friend said he had paid for the justice’s 1987 wedding reception" when he wed his latest wife, Ginni Thomas.

The report reveals that the Thomas' omissions on their disclosure forms may come from a decades-long life of taking gifts from people in the "club" and considering it nothing more than "hospitality" that didn't need to be reported.

www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-wedding-paid-for/

www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

we have had naked older men spending time on a street corner right in our city. we all know they are there, you can avoid that corner if you wish, and no kids seemed to have been scarred for life by their presence. they even made it into a movie (last black man in san francisco).. don't want to see that? don't go there.