Left-Wing Activists Caught Bribing Voters in Wisc. Supreme Court Race

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Left-Wing Activists Caught Bribing Voters in Wisc. Supreme Court Race

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Left-wing activists in Wisconsin have been caught openly bribing voters to turn the state’s Supreme Court blue, WISN reported.

“The willingness of these groups to win by any means necessary should disgust Republicans, Democrats, independents, and all voters of Wisconsin,” said state Rep. Janel Brandtjen in a press release.

The group Wisconsin Take Action sent out a mass text encouraging people to campaign for far-left Supreme Court candidates and bribing them with money to tell their friends and family members.

“Hi! It’s Wisconsin Takes Action,” they wrote. “We are helping to elect a progressive majority to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. We are offering an opportunity for you to earn $250-plus by talking to your friends and family about voting.”

According to the state’s legal code, the action constitutes election bribery, a felony in the state of Wisconsin, punishable by a sentence of more than three years in prison.

WINA noted that the text likely went out to thousands of Wisconsin citizens. Those who expressed interest in the cash offer were directed to a live Zoom session wherein the cash-for-campaigning deal was described.

A video recording revealed that those who signed up would add their names and contact information to the activist group’s database, ensuring their continued campaign support for leftist state Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz.

“The primary was just last night for the Supreme Court so we know who will be on the ballot in the general election,” one organizer said.

“We have Dan Kelly, the conservative former Supreme Court justice and then Janet Protasiewicz—the progressive circuit court judge currently—and she is the progressive candidate who just won the primary.”

He also noted that the activist group will eagerly continue to support Protasiewicz in the upcoming election.

“Of course, Wisconsin Takes Action is focused on putting forth progressive ideas and implementing progressive laws, so, you know, we really are looking forward to her as the candidate for this upcoming election.”

Democrats Vote to ‘Rein In’ Biden’s Executive Orders

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Democrats Vote to ‘Rein In’ Biden’s Executive Orders

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Nearly 60 House Democrats voted with Republicans in the U.S. House Wednesday to put a check President Joe Biden’s executive orders.

The House voted on the REIN IN Inflation Act, which would require the Biden administration to publish the “inflationary impact” of each executive order before issuing it. The bill passed 272-148 with 59 Democrats in support.

“Pushing one big-spending policy after another, President Biden has continued to throw fuel on the inflationary fire,” House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said on the House floor. “That fire is rapidly consuming the wages of our constituents. They have had to pay higher and higher prices for everything from eggs to electricity – all while inflation pushes their real wages farther and farther behind.”

The bill would apply to executive orders with an estimate impact over $1 billion. Under the legislation, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and Office of Management and Budget would prepare the estimates. The Biden administration would also have to prepare a report for Congress each year.

According to the bill’s official summary, “the requirement does not apply to executive orders that (1) provide for emergency assistance or relief at the request of any state or local government or an official of the government, or (2) are necessary for national security or the ratification or implementation of international treaty obligations.”

Dozens of Democrats supporting the bill suggests it could have a chance in the U.S. Senate.

Critics pointed to the spike in federal spending since Biden took office. The national debt is on its way to $32 trillion this year.

“Biden’s reckless executive spending agenda has cost hardworking families more than 1 trillion in taxpayer dollars and exacerbated inflation,” U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, said.

Federal data show consumer prices have soared since Biden took office, particularly food and energy prices.

“House Republicans are holding the Biden Administration accountable for fueling the worst spike in prices in a generation,” Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., said. “Under this bill, President Biden will have to reveal the inflationary cost of his reckless agenda, which he has tried to dismiss or downplay for the last two years. Since the start of his administration, President Biden has spent more than $1 trillion on executive actions that are continuing to fuel his inflation crisis – including a $500 billion student loan giveaway to the wealthy.”

Rep. Gaetz: Navy Leader’s Testimony on Military Vax Mandates Contradicts IG Report

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Rep. Gaetz: Navy Leader’s Testimony on Military Vax Mandates Contradicts IG Report

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Undersecretary of the Navy “misrepresented material facts” in his testimony given at a congressional hearing, lawyers representing Navy and Marine service members disciplined for not getting the COVID-19 vaccines over religious objections told The Center Square.

His testimony under oath contradicted a Department of Defense Inspector General report that said the Navy was violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, said. A federal judge last year chastised the DOD and Marine Corps for refusing to grant religious accommodation requests, adding it was the court’s responsibility to uphold the law when generals won’t.

At a hearing before the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, Gaetz asked Erik Raven, undersecretary and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Management Officer of the Navy, “Did the Navy send out form letters in response to people’s requests for religious exemptions” from the DOD vaccine mandate.

Raven replied, “I’d have to get back to you on that.”

“This is really important,” Gaetz said. “The law requires an individual assessment of people’s request for a religious exemption, right?”

Raven answered, “The process we followed there was individualized review at multiple levels.”

“You believe there was individualized review?” Gaetz asked.

“Yes sir,” Raven said.

“Well the Inspector General disagrees with you,” he said, referring to a report that RARs weren’t individually reviewed and the average amount of time each was considered was 12 minutes.

“Does 12 minutes seem like a sufficient amount of time to make an individualized on someone’s deeply held religious basis for an exemption?” Gaetz asked.

Raven said the Navy went through multiple reviews going up to Marine Corps headquarters that “resulted in 10 hours of review” in many cases.

However, the DOD-IG report found “a trend of generalized assessments rather than the individualized assessment that is required by federal law and DoD and Military Service policies.”

Blanket denial memorandums were given to service members from the Air Force and the Navy, the report found, which didn’t “reflect an individualized analysis demonstrating that the Senior Military Official considered the full range of facts and circumstances relevant to the particular religious accommodation request.” Instead, they included “similar, if not identical, wording.”

Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, who’s representing Navy and Marine service members who faced repercussions for not getting vaccines, told The Center Square, “The total lack of candor and the misrepresentation of material facts is disturbing. The testimony presented to the committee is contradicted by the Inspector General’s report and the documents and sworn testimony presented in our ongoing litigation.”

Last September, Judge Steven Merryday of the U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida Tampa Division granted a classwide preliminary injunction for active and reserve duty Marines whose RARs were denied. Merryday said, “the record reveals the substantial likelihood of a systemic failure by the Marine Corps to discharge the obligations established by RFRA.”

In an earlier ruling, Merryday addressed the fact that Marines had been charged additional monthly rent for noncompliance and given two days’ notice to be discharged and ordered to leave their military housing, which he said “suggests retribution and retaliation.”

He also maintains that military leaders must comply with RFRA, saying it applies to “everyone from the President to a park ranger … from the Chief Justice of the United States to a probation officer … from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to a military recruiter – even if they don’t like it and even if they don’t agree with it. The Free Exercise Clause and RFRA are the law of the land.”

Gaetz also asked DOD Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert Cisneros more than once if there was a plan “to reinstate the roughly 8,600 service members across active duty, reserves and the guard back to their point of service?”

Cisneros replied, “The policy is the same that it’s always been. Service members are discharged and they want to come back into the service they can apply.”

“So the DOD has no active plan to do proactive outreach to these individuals and get them back into the military?” Gaetz asked. Cisneros replied, “Our plan is the same as it’s always been,” which Gaetz said meant “no plan.”

Staver told The Center Square, “The Department of Defense and high-ranking military brass act as though they are above the law. They appear to have little to no concern for the truth, the law, and for the dedicated service members. The arrogant, lawless, and abusive actions are the reason retention and recruitment has dropped to an alarming rate. There needs to be a complete transformation of the system beginning with the Secretary of Defense and the top Pentagon brass.”

Because the National Defense Authorization Act only required the DOD to rescind the vaccine mandate, lawsuits are ongoing over alleged RFRA violations.

RFK Killer Sirhan Sirhan Denied Parole by Calif. Board

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RFK Killer Sirhan Sirhan Denied Parole by Calif. Board

(Headline USA) A California panel on Wednesday denied parole for Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, saying the 78-year-old prisoner still lacks insight into what caused him to shoot the senator and presidential candidate in 1968, Sirhan’s lawyer said.

That contradicted the decision by a different parole board two years ago when its members found Sirhan to be suitable for release. Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the decision in 2022, keeping him in state prison.

Sirhan’s lawyer Angela Berry disputed he lacks insight and argued at Wednesday’s hearing that his psychiatrists have said for decades that he is unlikely to reoffend or be a danger to society.

Berry said she believes the new board members were influenced by Newsom and by the lawyers representing Kennedy’s widow and some of his children — several relatives of the slain politician are opposed to Sirhan’s release, though not all are.

In rejecting Sirhan’s freedom last year, the governor said the prisoner remains a threat to the public and hasn’t taken responsibility for a crime that changed American history.

“I do feel the board bent to the political whim of the governor,” Berry said after the hearing at a state prison in San Diego County.

Berry said the aging prisoner also “wasn’t as articulate” when he spoke to the board this time. The board recommended Sirhan do more work to better understand what makes a person a political assassin, she said.

The parole board hearing comes nearly six months after Berry asked a Los Angeles County judge to reverse Newsom’s denial. The case is ongoing, and Berry said it was unclear how Wednesday’s denial by the board will affect it.

“They found him suitable for release last time and nothing has changed,” Berry said. “He’s continued to show great behavior.”

In a 3 1/2-minute message played during a news conference held by Berry in September, Sirhan said he feels remorse every day for his actions. It was the first time Sirhan’s voice had been heard publicly since a televised parole hearing in 2011, before California barred audio or visual recordings of such proceedings.

“To transform this weight into something positive, I have dedicated my life to self-improvement, the mentoring of others in prison on how to live a peaceful life that revolves around nonviolence,” he said. “By doing this, I ensure that no other person is victimized by my actions again and hopefully make an impact on others to follow.”

Sirhan shot Kennedy moments after the U.S. senator from New York claimed victory in California’s pivotal Democratic presidential primary in 1968. He wounded five others during the shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

A Christian Palestinian from Jordan who suffered childhood trauma from the bombings in the Middle East, Sirhan has acknowledged he was angry at Kennedy for his support of Israel, but he has insisted he doesn’t remember the shooting and had been drinking alcohol just beforehand.

Sirhan, who was convicted of first-degree murder, originally was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life when the California Supreme Court briefly outlawed capital punishment in 1972.

He was denied parole 15 times until 2021, when the board recommended his release.

Sirhan’s younger brother, Munir Sirhan, has said his brother can live with him in Pasadena, California, if he is paroled. Sirhan Sirhan has waived his right to fight deportation to his native Jordan.

Berry filed a 53-page writ of habeas corpus asking the judge to rule that Newsom violated state law, which holds that inmates should be paroled unless they pose a current unreasonable public safety risk. Recent California laws also required the parole panel to consider that Sirhan committed the offense at a young age — 24 — and that he is now an older prisoner.

She is challenging the governor’s reversal as an “abuse of discretion,” a denial of Sirhan’s constitutional right to due process and as a violation of California law. She also alleges that Newsom misstated the facts in his decision.

Newsom’s office declined to comment.

Newsom overruled two parole commissioners who had found that Sirhan no longer was a risk. Among other factors, Newsom said Sirhan has failed to disclaim violence committed in his name, adding to the risk that he could incite political unrest.

The ruling split the Kennedy family, with RFK’s widow, Ethel Kennedy, and several of Kennedy’s nine surviving children opposing his parole.

Wednesday’s board denied Sirhan parole for three years, but he can file a petition to request that his 17th parole hearing be held before then.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Interest Payments on National Debt to Top Defense Spending This Decade: CBO

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Interest Payments on National Debt to Top Defense Spending This Decade: CBO

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The cost of interest payments on the national debt will continue to grow as a financial burden for the U.S. over the next decade, even surpassing what the nation spends on national defense within a few years, a newly released budget analysis shows.

The national debt hit $31 trillion last fall and is well on its way to $32 trillion this year. As that debt grows, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government will shell out over $10 trillion in the next decade on interest payments alone.

“To put this $10.5 trillion total in perspective, this means that spending on net interest will exceed all defense spending over the next decade,” the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said in its analysis of CBO’s data. “In addition, we estimate the net interest spending will surpass all federal spending on children this year, meaning that we will be paying more to service our debts of the past than to invest in future generations.

“For every dollar that the U.S. government will borrow over the next decade, 50 cents will be just to pay interest on our national debt,” the group added.

CBO also projects that the debt as a percentage of GDP will hit record levels in that time and average $2 trillion deficits.

The latest debt projections are based on current spending obligations. That means new spending from Congress without offsetting tax increases or spending cuts will accelerate that growth of the debt beyond those projections.

“After jumping from $352 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 to $475 billion in 2022, annual net interest outlays will triple, reaching $1.4 trillion by 2033,” the CRFB said. “As a share of the economy, net interest will rise from 1.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in FY 2022 to exceed its record as a share of GDP – 3.2 percent set in 1991 – by 2030 before reaching a high of 3.6 percent of GDP by 2033.”

CRFB said the cost of interest on the national debt will soon surpass entitlement spending if nothing changes.

“Unfortunately, the decades to follow 2033 are projected to be in even worse fiscal shape. With deficits continuing to grow unsustainably over time, interest on debt will eventually become the largest part of the federal budget,” the group said. “Net interest will surpass defense spending by 2028, Medicare spending by 2044, and Social Security spending by 2050, becoming the largest single line item in the budget. By 2053, net interest will consume approximately 7.2 percent of GDP – nearly 40 percent of federal revenues.”

Schumer, Jeffries Attempt to Coerce Fox News’s Election Coverage

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Schumer, Jeffries Attempt to Coerce Fox News’s Election Coverage

(Headline USA) The two top Democrats in Congress are trying to coerce Fox News executives not to spread “grave propaganda” about the 2020 election and are even demanding that commentators who suggested that the election was stolen acknowledge on the air that they were wrong.

The letter from from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., comes despite ample evidence of malfeasance in the 2020 election.

The leaders are basing their dubious attack on cherry-picked depositions in a defamation lawsuit that showed both Fox’s on-air personalities and its top-floor executives were performing due diligence by questioning all facets of the election outcome.

Fox was widely criticized after the election for its premature declaration that Arizona had gone to Democrat Joe Biden, even before any other networks had done so, ignoring rampant allegations about irregularities in Maricopa County that ultimately led to a state-run election audit.

The Democrats’ letter to Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch followed a day after an unsealed deposition revealed that Murdoch had acknowledged that some network commentators endorsed former President Donald Trump’s concerns over the election in several battleground states.

An earlier filing had detailed doubts about Trump’s claims raised by some of Fox’s star personalities behind the scenes.

Referencing the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising at the U.S. Capitol, Schumer and Jeffries said “spreading this false propaganda could not only embolden supporters of the Big Lie to engage in further acts of political violence, but also deeply and broadly weakens faith in our democracy and hurts our country in countless other ways.”

Ironically, Democrats themselves, who have been flagrantly violating the First Amendment by trying to exert pressure on media and social media outlets to filter messages for their political advantage, sought earlier in the week to fault Trump for the same thing.

Leftist media pushed a spurious claim—never acted on—that Trump had asked ABC-owned Disney to take late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air, according to Rolling Stone, which has found itself on the losing end of high-profile libel suits in the past for its false reporting.

Fox has been embroiled in a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. The company, which sells electronic voting hardware and software, contends that some Fox News employees deliberately amplified false claims by Trump supporters that Dominion machines had changed votes in the 2020 election, and argues that Fox provided a platform for guests to make false and defamatory statements about the company.

Attorneys for Fox Corp. have argued that Dominion has produced “zero evidentiary support” for the claim that high-level executives at Fox Corp. had any role in creating or publishing the statements at issue. And they have noted that when voting-technology companies denied the allegations being made by Trump and his surrogates, Fox News aired those denials.

Schumer said in an interview Wednesday that the letter is a “first step” and that Democrats might consider other ways to try and demand the company publicly acknowledge the false information. If they do not, “then we have to decide where to go,” Schumer said.

He would not say whether the Democratic-led Senate would try to call Murdoch to testify.

Schumer said many people believe the election was stolen based on the reporting from Fox News and other conservative outlets that have demonstrated a consistent track-record for truth-telling in a time of overwhelming disinformation.

“The number one pernicious force in reducing our democracy has been the lies that have been spread by these commentators day in, day out for years,” Schumer said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Kari Lake Takes Elections Integrity Case to Ariz. Supreme Court

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Kari Lake Takes Elections Integrity Case to Ariz. Supreme Court

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Arizona Republican Kari Lake appealed her election integrity case to the state’s Supreme Court, following through on a promise to keep fighting for the rights of voters who were disenfranchised by a horribly flawed midterm election.

Lake allegedly lost the Arizona governor’s race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, who lagged in polls during the campaign and consistently dodged debating Lake. Since being installed into office, Hobbs has pushed an aggressively leftist agenda that embraces abortion, champions illegal immigration and targets gun rights.

“We filed our Historic Election Integrity case with the Arizona Supreme Court,” Lake tweeted Wednesday. “Pray for our Attorneys. Pray for the Judges. Pray for Justice. Pray for America.”

Lake’s appeal to the state’s highest court to overturn the results of the election comes after her case was rejected by superior and appellate courts. Lake has consistently said that purposeful disruptions to the elections process were significant enough to change the results of a razor-thin race.

The lower courts bought the argument that Lake didn’t present adequate evidence that large numbers of Republican voters were disenfranchised by a botched election that left tens of thousands of voters unable to cast their ballots.

Lake’s appeal vigorously disputed that notion, noting that on Election Day vote-machine “printers at nearly two-thirds of Maricopa’s 223 vote centers printed misconfigured and defective ballots, causing tabulators to reject those ballots. As more than 200 witnesses testified, chaos ensued with hours-long wait lines causing voters to give up waiting or to simply not vote at nearly two-thirds of Maricopa’s 223 vote centers.”

The appeal reiterated accounts of the chaos, which caused thousands of voters to be sidelined. The issues with ballot printers focused on Maricopa County, which includes more than 60% of the state’s voters.

“A Republican attorney observer—part of a group of Republican attorneys covering 115 of 223 vote centers on Election Day—testified there was ‘pandemonium out there everywhere’ with ‘lines out the door, which did not—you did not see during the Primary…. [and] angry and frustrated voters.’”

Lake’s appeal also argued that chain of custody for ballots on Election Day was broken at an off-site facility, and that the state’s appeals court used the wrong standard of proof in rejecting Lake’s case.

Lake’s appeal again argued that facts and numbers were on their side, showing “more than 7,000 ballots being rejected by vote center tabulators every 30 minutes from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm— totaling over 217,000 rejected ballot insertions on a day with approximately 248,000 votes cast.”

By ignoring the arguments and evidence Lake presented, the filing claimed that the state’s appellate court had essentially “ruled that Arizona election laws don’t matter,” and “If allowed to stand, the Opinion will make commonplace the type of official arrogance exemplified by Maricopa’s blaming of Republicans for voting on Election Day.”

“Public trust in elections is at an all-time low. Decisions such as the Opinion only serve to further erode that trust,” the filing to the Supreme Court stated. “The undisputed facts, and the violations of law, show that Maricopa’s 2022 election must be set aside. Trust must be restored. This Court should grant review to correct this manifest error.”

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Drafted Report Forewarning Jan. 6 after Receiving Tip from Informant

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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Drafted Report Forewarning Jan. 6 after Receiving Tip from Informant

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Chris Wray has frequently blamed the bureau’s intelligence failures ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill protests on the fact that his analysts had difficulty separating online bluster from actual threats of violence.

According to Wray, his analysts saw a tremendous amount of online chatter about violence ahead of Jan. 6, but he called such data “raw, unverified, uncorroborated information.”

However, the Government Accountability Office disclosed Tuesday that the FBI received information ahead of Jan. 6 from a confidential informant. And far from passively receiving this information, the FBI responded by generating an intelligence report based on what the informant said—raising yet more questions about why there was lax security on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.

The GAO’s disclosure came in a Feb. 28 audit examining U.S. federal agencies’ intelligence failures ahead of Jan. 6. The GAO released a similar audit last May, but that one focused on the “open-source” intelligence—a fancy way of saying information found on the internet, which Wray has criticized as difficult to parse.

The GAO audit contains few details about the contents of the newly disclosed FBI intelligence report. The GAO simply says on page 102 of its audit that the FBI’s report was generated by its New Orleans field office on Jan. 5, 2021, and that it was “related to January 6 events.”

The revelation that the FBI drafted a report forewarning Jan. 6 based on human intelligence follows an NBC News article last December, which quoted an unnamed FBI informant who said he made similar warnings.

The FBI confidential source told NBC News that they had “put together hundreds of pages of reports over the two weeks proceeding Jan. 6” for the bureau leading up to the attack.

“This didn’t go down the black hole of a web form or a tip line, this went to an agent directly,” the source reportedly said, adding that they were confident the information was passed onto FBI officials in D.C.

“To me, there’s no excuse to say, ‘We didn’t see this coming.’”

It’s not clear whether this informant’s warnings were responsible for the newly disclosed FBI intelligence report. The FBI has not commented on the matter.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Fla. Republicans Aim to ‘Cancel’ State Democrat Party for Slavery Ties

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Fla. Republicans Aim to ‘Cancel’ State Democrat Party for Slavery Ties

(Adrienne Ferguson, Headline USA) A Republican state legislator from Florida has introduced a measure that, if passed, would dismantle the Florida Democratic Party. 

The state’s Division of Elections would have to “immediately cancel” the filings of any political party whose platform had “previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude,” according to “The Ultimate Cancel Act,” which state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia introduced on Tuesday.

The S.B. 1248 measure would mandate that state representatives inform all registered voters who are members of any canceled parties that their party no longer exists. Additionally, it would “provide procedures” for those voters to update their membership to “an active political party” and change their voter registration to “no party affiliation.” 

The proposed legislation would permit any political parties that had been disbanded to re-register with the Florida Department of State, but only if they changed their names to ones that were “substantially different from any other party previously registered” with the organization.

The Democratic Party is not specifically mentioned in the proposed law. However, the party backed slavery for the majority of the early and middle 1800s. Following the Civil War, Southern Democrats in particular opposed civil rights reforms and supported maintaining slavery in the United States. The party underwent realignment in the 19th century, and for many years, support for such policies was absent from its platform or general discourse. 

“For years now, leftist activists have been trying to ‘cancel’ people and companies for things they have said or done in the past,” Ingoglia said. “This includes the removal of statues and memorials, and the renaming of buildings. Using this standard, it would be hypocritical not to cancel the Democratic Party itself for the same reason.”

Democrats in Florida claimed that the bill’s intention was obvious and targeted. 

“Presenting a bill that would disenfranchise 5 million voters is both unconstitutional and unserious. Under Ron DeSantis, Senator Ingoglia is using his office to push bills that are nothing more than publicity stunts instead of focusing on the issues that matter most to Floridians,” the Florida Democratic Party shared in a statement.

The state Legislature possesses a supermajority among Republicans in Florida. The start of its legislative proceedings is March 7.

Biden Labor Secretary Nominee Failed to Protect Children from Pedophiles

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Biden Labor Secretary Nominee Failed to Protect Children from Pedophiles

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) President Joe Biden this week nominated Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su to become the next Secretary of Labor.

Before her stint in the Biden administration, Su served as labor secretary in California, where massive COVID-relief fraud took place under her watch. She failed to enforce California law aimed at preventing pedophilia in Hollywood, the Daily Caller reported.

During her time as California labor commissioner from 2011 to 2018, Su led an agency that was supposed to enforce labor laws in the state, including the Hollywood Child Protection Act that was signed into law by then-Gov. Jerry Brown in 2012 when it was revealed that leftist Hollywood is full of pedophiles, according to the Post Millennial.

This act mandated everyone who worked with child actors to obtain a Child Performer Services Permit from the Labor Department. To receive the permit, applicants had to be approved by the labor commissioner’s office after submitting fingerprints and passing a federal background check. If a person who worked with child actors failed to obtain a permit, it could result in one year in jail and a $10,000 fine.

While people from Hollywood were not bothered to obtain the permit, Su’s department also wasn’t bothered to refer any violations of the legislation to a prosecuting agency.

Not one Hollywood publicist representing child actors had obtained a permit, as well as dozens of managers, coaches and photographers, under Su’s command, according to a 2018 Deadline report.

BizParent co-founder Anne Henry, the lead sponsor of AB 1660, said that the law was designed to protect child actors from convicted pedophiles like Robert Villard — a sexual deviant who worked with child actors and was arrested for possessing child pornography and sexual acts with an underage boy multiple times.

“Before this, there was nothing to stop him from returning to the industry and starting the abuse cycle all over again,” she said. “We wanted something to prevent that from happening.”

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