Libs Losing Faith in Biden’s Ongoing Cover-Up of Rape Records

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‘Biden’s intransigence on the question of his Senate records is becoming increasingly untenable…’

(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared on a highly favorable MSNBC talk show on Friday to answer questions about his alleged sexual assault of former Senate staffer Tara Reade.

It was the first time Biden addressed the issue, and under direct questioning from Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, a virulently anti-Trump pundit, Biden fumbled, spun and framed the issue so poorly that many liberals ripped the former vice president.

“Did you sexually assault Tara Reade?” Brzezinski asked.

“No, it is not true,” Biden replied. “I’m saying unequivocally it never, never happened and it didn’t. It never happened.”

So far four people have come forward to corroborate Reade’s accusations.

Moreover, at least eight women have claimed Biden made them feel uncomfortable with inappropriate displays of affection, according to a recent investigative story by the New York Times—although it later removed references to the other women’s complaints at the insistence of the Biden campaign.

Dems’ Double-Standard Dilemma

Glenn Greenwald, a left-leaning reporter at The Intercept, zeroed-in on the atrocious hypocrisy of the media’s handling of the alleged Biden sexual assault in comparison to the allegations levied at Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Greenwald—best known for having first reported on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden—had a new scoop last week after archival footage surfaced that further corroborated the rape claim. It appeared to show Reade’s now-deceased mother calling into CNN’s Larry King Live in 1993 to detail an assault that closely resembled Reade’s account.

Greenwald tweeted after Biden’s interview Friday to raise another question for Biden that Brzezinski failed to ask—regarding the left-wing double-standard on rape accountability and victim-shaming.

Previously, Biden said that when a woman comes forward to make sexual assault allegations “in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real.”

Perhaps the Democratic Party’s likely candidate for president thought he would get a free pass from the media. But his brazen shift angered even some ultra-progressive reporters, such as Brittany Shepherd of Yahoo News.

The validity of the accusations might easily be resolved by searching Biden’s U.S. Senate records at the University of Delaware. Biden represented Delaware in the upper chamber of Congress from 1973-2009, a 36-year period overlapping the alleged assault.

But Biden weasel-worded his way to saying he would not allow a public record search of the University of Delaware documents.

“He didn’t have an answer for why they can’t do the same kind of search at the University of Delaware,” said CNN’s Dana Bash.

“He was relying on the age-old—understandable—rule, without a controversy, that people don’t have any of their papers public until they’re after they’re gone from public life,” Bash continued. “But, this is not that. This is an exception.”

A DNC Coup in the Works?

Karen Tumulty, a feminist anti-Trump columnist for the Washington Post, defended Biden with a Kavanaugh double-standard, but said the former vice president will likely fold under the pressure as more of his own party members and media allies begin to turn on him.

“Biden’s intransigence on the question of his Senate records is becoming increasingly untenable,” Tumulty wrote. “He deserves the presumption of innocence. His archive may indeed include nothing that is relevant. But the best way to remove a shadow of doubt is to open a window and let the light in.”

But failing to review Biden’s public senate records would send the message that Democrats are exempt from answering for their time in government when running for higher office. Even by Buzzfeed News reporter Henry Gomez noted the problem.

And the New York Times after adamantly laying cover for Biden in its newsroom, turned on him with a repudiation of the campaign’s talking-point claim that the paper’s friendly investigation had exonerated him in the case.

The paper’s editorial board piled on a further attack, in which it echoed Brzezinski by calling on the Democratic National Committee to investigate the allegations.

That, of course, was lambasted by the non-leftist press which pointed out the obvious conflict of interest, reminiscent of the sham domestic-abuse probe of former DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison in 2018.

However, some tossed out an alternative theory that, perhaps, the point of the blatantly lopsided probe would not be to clear Biden of the allegations, but rather to implicate the candidate, whose deteriorating cognitive capabilities already had raised red-flags about his prospects of going toe-to-toe with President Donald Trump.

Throwing Biden under the bus would, in turn, open the door to a defection of delegates that would allow the party to select a fresh challenge in the 2020 election.

Growing speculation points to an array of alternatives, among them: former First Lady Michelle Obama, 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Biden’s strongest primary rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Liberty Headlines’ Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Cities Likely to Use COVID Crisis to Ramp Up Abusive Fines and Fees

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‘Whether municipalities engage in taxation by citation is ultimately a matter of local policy, but state policymakers should take a hard look…’

Cities Likely to Use COVID-19 Crisis to Ramp Up Abusive Fines and Fees
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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) As cities and towns face mounting financial woes due to the Wuhan coronavirus economic shutdown, they’re likely to ramp up predatory revenue streams without risking political blow-back from new tax proposals.

But according to the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, ordinary Americans—many of whom are already struggling with illness or unemployment—are going to pay the price of these “taxation by citation” schemes.

“Regardless of what municipalities need or what state laws allow, cities should use code enforcement only to protect the public, not to shore up their finances,” said Bill Maurer, a senior IJ lawyer.

Maurer is the lead attorney on several lawsuits pushing back on citation schemes. He says state lawmakers have a crucial role to play in shutting down “municipal fines and fees abuse” because state legislatures can preempt local ordinances.

Cities and towns across the country habitually use traffic tickets, property code fines and other self-serving ordinances to raise revenue under the guise of public safety. But the Wuhan virus offers an unprecedented opportunity to scale-up.

Such schemes exploded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Now, the Wuhan pandemic has created an economic downturn coupled with a once-in-a-lifetime public-health crisis where all levels of government have assumed previously unthinkable expansions of power.

Accordingly, cash-hungry local politicians are poised to push citation abuse to new levels.

It’s already happening in some places. Earlier this month, the Marshall Project reported jurisdictions nationwide are aggressively pursuing court debts and even issuing new fines while courts and other public offices are closed.

In response, the Institute for Justice has released a report, “Municipal Fines and Fees: A 50-State Survey of State Laws,” that identifies a wide range of laws enabling citation abuses. The report is a comprehensive accounting that uses 52 legal factors to rank all 50 states.

Georgia is the worst-ranking state in the country. Georgia’s state legal framework gives broad authority for cities to enact codes and enforce them in their own courts while denying common-sense protections against unjust convictions.

North Carolina, on the other hand, ranks highest. North Carolina’s legal environment is the least conducive to municipal fines and fees abuse because it does not allow cities and towns to operate their own courts. It also prohibits jailing people or suspending their driver’s licenses when they cannot pay fines and fees—unless they’re willfully noncompliant.

The ACLU disagrees, however. The progressive legal organization asserts that North Carolina engages in debtors’ prisons, where “thousands of low-income people are in jail, trapped in a cycle of debt, or both, because they cannot afford the unconstitutional fines and fees that courts order them to pay when convicted of any crime, even as minor as a speeding ticket.”

Whatever the case, more than 840 cities and towns across the country generate more than 10 percent of their annual revenues from tickets, fines and fees, according to the nonpartisan Governing magazine.

“Whether municipalities engage in taxation by citation is ultimately a matter of local policy, but state policymakers should take a hard look at how state laws may be contributing to the problem,” said Dick Carpenter, director of strategic research at IJ and co-author of the report.

LEGAL FILING: Va. Has Over 11K DEAD PEOPLE on Voter Rolls

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Election-integrity advocates already were on high alert over a series of proposals by Virginia‘s newly-empowered Democrat legislature to rejigger elections in their favor.

Now, a recently filed court brief by the Public Interest Legal Foundation and other watchdogs is calling attention to the more than 11,000 dead people on the commonwealth’s active-voter rolls.

PILF filed the amicus curiae brief as part of a lawsuit by the Virginia League of Women Voters against the Virginia State Board of Elections.

The feminist plaintiffs, backed by the far-left American Civil Liberties Union, sought to challenge a state requirement that absentee ballots be certified by a witness signature reaffirming the identity of the person voting.

The LWV claims that the longstanding precautionary measure should be scrapped due to current social-distancing guidelines related to the coronavirus panic.

Ironically, it comes amid a broader leftist push to move to an all-mail-in election, which critics note would pave the way for unprecedented voter fraud and mismanagement that would undermine confidence in the election and likely sway the outcome.

“Our election systems will be taxed enough under this pandemic—the plaintiffs are simply using the crisis to further weaken election security standards,” PILF said in a press release.

PILF cross-referenced the state voter rolls with the Social Security Death Index and published obituaries to determine the staggering number of non-valid voters.

In addition to finding 11,600 dead registrants, it found 1,772 registrations that went to commercial establishments instead of residences, as well as 592 voters who also appeared to be registered in another state.

Although states are required under the National Voter Registration Act to maintain updated rolls, several blue state officials and activist groups have prominently revolted.

That, in turn, has forced expensive and protracted legal challenges—including notable recent cases in California and Wisconsin—to ensure the integrity of elections while claiming their opponents want to “purge” and disfranchise valid voters.

Once a closely watched swing state, Virginia’s bid to entrench Democrat electoral advantages has been particularly egregious.

Within the span of a decade, while under the stewardship of corrupt Democrat governors Terry McAuliffe and Ralph Northam, the once-red majority has undergone a dramatic conversion. As a result, some of its more rural counties bordering West Virginia have even mulled the possibility of secession.

Among their controversial pushes to tilt the balance in favor of Democratic majorities, both of the left-wing governors made massive efforts to pardon felons in the state and restore their voting rights. That has led, on several occasions, to allowing sex-offenders—including convicted pedophiles—to become eligible to hold political office.

The state’s current attorney general, Mark Herring, won his 2013 election by a margin of less than 1,000 votes amid much discussion about voter fraud. Prominent Democrat attorneys were able to reverse the Republican candidate’s election-night lead by furnishing—after the fact —bags of mysteriously uncounted ballots from left-leaning Fairfax County.

With Herring’s support, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder‘s National Democratic Redistricting Committee used the courts to force a redraw of Virginia’s legislative maps that was more favorable to Democrats, prior to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ultimately rejected court interference in “partisan” gerrymandering cases.

Since then, Virginia Democrats have continued their efforts to flip the state, often through questionable practices, and with help from considerable outside investments by leftist mega-donors, they were able to reclaim the state legislature last November for the first time in two decades.

The legislature now has wasted little time in proceeding to enact other vote-grabbing measures, including a push to join the radical national-popular-vote referendum. That effort would eliminate the more conservative-friendly Electoral College and give states that turn a blind eye to voter fraud and illegal immigration a disproportionate amount of sway in the presidential election.

Hypocritically, a separate push aimed to change Virginia law from one that elects the state’s top three executive spots based on popular vote to one that would base it on the majority of voting districts (which the Democrat legislature and activist judges would then gerrymander to their satisfaction).

State Republicans succeeded in winning a small victory, however, after enough Democrats sided with them on a constitutional amendment that will establish a bipartisan panel to oversee future redistricting measures and give final approval to the courts.

Undeterred, leftists continued to work every possible angle to undermine the established electoral process.

PILF previously warned the state elections board that the ACLU activists’ demands for it to use its “emergency” powers to waive the witness requirement during the upcoming primary election violated the existing statute since there was ample time for them to supply absentee ballots.

“The primary is far enough off that this statute cannot be triggered,” it wrote in a letter last month. “Moreover, any utilization of this statute to change existing absentee ballot laws would be an abuse of emergency powers.”

Megan Rapinoe Offers To Be Joe Biden’s VP

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Women’s World Cup star ‘would have to take a pay cut to become vice president…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Outspoken women’s soccer athlete Megan Rapinoe jokingly offered to be presidential candidate Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate during an Instagram Live video with Biden and his wife, Jill.

Rapinoe was the latest left-wing celebrity activist to circle the wagons around the presumptive Democratic nominee, despite a credible allegation of rape against him that Biden continues to deny.

“I don’t want to put you on the spot—I think I could still play soccer and do this—but if you need a vice president, I’m just saying I’m available for an interview,” Rapinoe said.

“We can talk logistics and the details,” she added. “Put it on your list. No pressure.”

The Bidens said they would “love” to see Rapinoe come on board.

“Every young girl is saying, ‘Yes, choose her, choose Megan!” Jill Biden added.

Joe Biden then warned Rapinoe she “would have to take a pay cut to become vice president,” referencing her ongoing feud with U.S. Soccer Federation over how much she and the other female players are paid.

“You know I’m not into that,” Rapinoe returned.

The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team sued the federation earlier this year alleging gender discrimination since the female players are paid less than the men. The trial was supposed to begin this week, but it has been delayed until June 16 due to the coronavirus, according to USA Today.

Rapinoe had previously endorsed Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., but endorsed Biden after Warren dropped out. She said that at the end of it all the only thing she wants is to see President Donald Trump ousted.

“I hope people are inspired and motivated to get involved in this election moving forward,” Rapinoe told the Bidens.

“I think that there is a candidate in you that is looking to bring people together,” she said, “and there’s a candidate whose sole purpose is to divide us so he can stand on top of us both.”

Susan Rice Attacks Kushner: ‘Ridiculous’ to Call COVID Response a ‘Success’

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‘This is not the time for victory laps…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Former White House national security adviser Susan Rice claimed that it was “ridiculous” to say the U.S.’s response to the coronavirus outbreak has succeeded.

The controversial Obama-era figure was recently named as chair of the ReOpen DC initiative—which likely means that the nation’s capital will remain in shutdown mode as long as it is politically practical for the Left.

Rice signaled as much when responding to comments from senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, in which he called the U.S. response a “success story.”

Kushner predicted that “a lot of the country should be back to normal” by June, and “the hope is that by July the country’s really rocking again.”

But Rice admonished the White House for its premature declaration and claimed it was politically motivated.

“This is not the time for victory laps,” she told CNN on Thursday.

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“It’s ridiculous. And it would be laughable if it weren’t so deadly serious,” she said. “I don’t know how anybody with a straight face can call this a great success and declare this a ‘Mission Accomplished’ moment.”

Compared with global statistics, the U.S.’s response to COVID-19 was, in fact, a success on many levels.

The White House banned travel to and from China in January and began a national lockdown just six weeks later.

In contrast, the Untied Kingdom, which has seen double the mortality rate of the U.S., didn’t instruct its citizens to remain home until a week after President Donald Trump issued recommended federal guidelines.

Yet, Rice claimed that as long as there are “losses on the battlefield,” we shouldn’t praise our efforts or begin reopening the country.

“We’re either going to continue to take the steps that are necessary to keep Americans safe or we’re going to prematurely declare victory, open everything before circumstances warrant, and we’re going to be right back in the barrel in a worse situation in the months to come,” she claimed.

Critics have argued the opposite: that a total shutdown of commerce has, in fact, extended and exacerbated the suffering of economically vulnerable Americans, who already bore the brunt of the health risk.

REPORT: Biden Campaign Rifled Through Senate Records He Refuses to Release

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‘I believe it will have my complaint form, as well as my separation letter and other documents…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Joe Biden‘s campaign reportedly scoured his private Senate records at the University of Delaware library for damaging revelations about his current rape scandal, even though Biden publicly insisted there were no personnel files in them.

He dispatched campaign operatives to comb through the 40 years of files after a former congressional staffer who has long accused him of a 1993 sexual assault began appearing in the national spotlight, according to Business Insider.

Those records may contain information regarding the complaint that Biden’s former staffer, Tara Reade, says she filed against him while he was a senator.

But Biden has refused to unseal those records, telling MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday that doing so could disclose confidential information about past policy deliberations that would damage his campaign.

The records include 1,875 boxes of “photographs, documents, videotapes, and files,” and 415 gigabytes of electronic records, which Biden gave to the University of Delaware in 2012.

These records were supposed to be made public “two yeas after Biden’s last day in elected public office.” But right before Biden announced his candidacy in April 2019, the university changed its mind and said the records would remain sealed until two years after Biden “retires from public life.”

Biden insisted that his Senate records do not contain information about Reade’s allegation, and that any complaint made against him would have been filed with what was then known as the Office of Fair Employment Practices.

That office’s information is stored in the National Archives, Biden said, adding that he is asking the Senate to open the archives.

But a National Archives spokesperson told Business Insider on Friday that “they do not hold records” from the Office of Fair Employment Practices.

Reade called on Biden to unseal his Senate records in the interest of transparency.

“I’m calling for the release of the documents being held by the University of Delaware that contain Biden’s staff personnel records because I believe it will have my complaint form, as well as my separation letter and other documents,” Reade told Fox News on Tuesday.

“Maybe if other staffers that have tried to file complaints would come to light—why are they under seal?” she continued. “And why won’t they be released to the public?”

‘She Would Be Horrible’: Donors Urge Biden Not to Pick Warren as VP

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‘I think a lot of the donor base, on board and coming, would prefer almost anyone but Elizabeth…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Presidential candidate Joe Biden is facing pressure from big donors not to choose Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., as his running mate.

Warren, who is ideologically far to the left of Biden, reportedly was among the many women on Biden’s shortlist of potential vice-president picks.

But facing backlash from concerned donors and establishment operatives, Biden may have begun to reconsider, CNBC reported.

“I think a lot of the donor base, on board and coming, would prefer almost anyone but Elizabeth,” one longtime Biden fundraiser told CNBC on Thursday. “I don’t see him choosing her for veep.”

Many of Biden’s donors worry that Warren would lead Biden to lose the election, given her extreme, anti-corporate agenda.

Instead, they’ve pushed the campaign away from Warren and toward alternatives perceived to be slightly less radical, such as Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., as well as Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

During the course of her primary campaign, Warren became too radical for many of the Democrats who used to support her, said John Morgan, a Florida businessman and Biden supporter.

At one point, it seemed like she was trying “to out-Bernie Bernie,” said Morgan, referencing maverick socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

“There are two Elizabeth Warrens,” Morgan explained.

“The one I had in my home when she was a U.S. senator and consumer champion—she was awesome,” he said. “Then  came Warren the socialist. That is her dilemma.”

However, fearing that alienated “Bernie Bros” may opt to sit out the November election, Biden is still seeking to appease far-left progressives.

He’s already adopted a few of Warren’s policies, and his campaign hired two of her fundraising advisors last week.

While his backers have not been shy about expressing the need for big-money donors to step up and fill the void during the ongoing health crisis, rhetorically at least, Biden has tried to find solidarity with Warren’s crowd by keeping Wall Street at arm’s length.

“Look, you know Wall Street is—they’re good folks,” Biden said during a virtual donor event last week. “But guess what: They didn’t build America. Ordinary Americans, middle class built America.”

Biden’s campaign announced on Thursday that it had put together a VP vetting committee, which includes former U.S. senator-turned-lobbyist Christopher Dodd and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Republican Outrage Over FBI Framing of Gen. Flynn: ‘People Ought to Go to Jail’

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HALEY: ‘Letting Gen. Flynn off is not enough. People need to pay for this…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called recently unsealed FBI documents related to the concocted investigation of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn “shameful,” and said “people need to pay” for what happened.

New FBI records reveal that officials discussed the possibility of framing Flynn and roping him into a perjury trap.

“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” read one of the notes, believed to have been written by former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Bill Priestap.

Priestap also wrote that the FBI was “playing games” with Flynn during his January 2017 investigation.

Haley said that the “most unsettling” thing about the notes is “how calculated” the FBI’s actions were.

Many of Trump’s allies have called on the president to pardon Flynn, who pled guilty shortly after being interrogated by the FBI, because he was running out of funds and the agency threatened to prosecute his son.

There has also been a rising demand from those within the GOP to hold the FBI and many of its former corrupt officials, like disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, accountable for what happened.

“I want the Attorney General to look into this and, frankly, people ought to go to jail,” said House Minority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., agreed and said it’s clear the FBI unjustly “railroaded” Flynn.

Dems Want Florida Election Law THEY Created to Be Ruled Unconstitutional

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‘Florida’s ballot order statute ensures one party’s candidates receive that advantage in every race…’

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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) Florida Democrats are furious that an election law they created is giving the GOP an election advantage in the nation’s largest swing state—and they want the law struck down now that it no longer benefits them.

Thanks to an Obama-appointed federal judge, they almost succeeded.

Until the election of Gov. Jeb Bush 20 years ago, there had only been two Republican governors of Florida since Reconstruction.

To ensure political dominance, Democrats passed favorable election laws, including a measure in 1951 that guaranteed the governor’s political party would receive top billing on all statewide election ballots.

Democrats benefited for half a century, but lawyers from the notorious left-wing law firm Perkins Coie are crying foul now that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is in office.

Appearing first on Florida ballots could provide a 5-point election advantage in November 2020, an expert witness testified during a federal lawsuit last year.

The firm’s attorneys, including prominent “election-stealing” lawyer Marc Elias, have been active in an array of legal challenges to help secure Democratic majorities.

Elias, who represented former Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson‘s recount battle in his razor-thin 2018 loss in Florida to current GOP Sen. Rick Scott, also has a long history of finding mysterious bags of uncounted ballots to help overturn Republicans’ election victories.

At first, it appeared Elias might have an opportunity to vindicate the rare defeat with his latest Florida case.

Chief Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida, an Obama-appointed judge, reacted strongly to the GOP’s so-called “primacy effect” advantage and ruled the law unconstitutional.

“The implication is obvious,” wrote Walker. “Florida’s ballot order statute ensures one party’s candidates receive that advantage in every race, all down the ballot, in every election.”

But that ruling was overturned this week by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, where a panel of judges said the array of Democratic political organizations suing the state never proved they were harmed by the law. In other words, they wanted it struck down simply because it helped Republicans.

The panel further embarrassed the plaintiffs for suing the wrong parties. Instead of filing lawsuits against Florida’s independent local supervisors of elections, they sued the DeSantis-appointed secretary of state, who has no direct authority over local election supervisors in Florida’s decentralized election system.

The ruling is one of the most significant decisions to come from a series of election-related lawsuits filed over the last two years by Democrats.

Among the many other activist causes that Elias has pursued through courts are the “sue-till-blue” gerrymandering campaigns in several states, efforts to conceal left-wing dark-money donors and the recent push for an all-mail-in general election that would lend itself to widespread ballot fraud.

Cuomo Rails on Rep. Stefanik After She Asks if NY Summer Camps Will Open

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‘You know how much they gave New York state to do any of the things we’re talking about? Zero. Zilch, nada…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should practice what he preaches and stop lecturing others about being political, said Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.

Stefanik, a rising GOP star, hit back at the Democratic governor after he attacked her during a press conference on Thursday.

“For someone who lectures every day about not being political, Governor Cuomo needs to take his own advice,” she said in a statement. “… [I]nstead of politically attacking me during his press conference, he should issue public health guidance for summer camps.”

The freshman congresswoman had sent his office a letter asking for guidance on how and when the state’s summer camps could reopen since New York is now transitioning towards its reopening process.

Cuomo never responded to the letter, Stefanik said. But he did go on a public rant against her when asked about it.

“What you can say to Elise Stefanik and all of our great Washington representatives,”  Cuomo replied.

“… [W]e could provide rental assistance for people who can’t pay rent,” he continued. “We could provide child care for essential workers now. You know what it takes? Money. Funding. Money.”

He then proceeded to complain that recent economic stimulus bills from Congress had not provided any extra funding directly to the state for covering its liberal social programs and other left-wing priorities.

“They passed a bill,” Cuomo said. “You know how much they gave New York state to do any of the things we’re talking about? Zero. Zilch, nada.”

President Donald Trump has said that any states wishing to receive bailout funds must first reconsider things like their “sanctuary” policies, which reroute tax dollars to supporting illegal immigration.

Cuomo continued to rail that if Stefanik wants the summer camps to reopen, she should be asked, “Oh, are you providing any funding to do that?”

Stefanik responded by pointing out that Congress has already provided New York with more than $7.5 billion in aid, “and we’re working to advocate for more—not only for state-related COVID-19 costs, but also for counties and localities,” she said, according to WRGB.

Stefanik had requested information about when summer camps can reopen because they “are an important part of the visitors experience and the regional economy,” according to state Assemblyman Dan Stec.

Camps, just like any other business, are struggling and need to know how to proceed moving forward, Stefanik explained in her letter to Cuomo.

“This letter was signed not just by me, but by state, county and local elected officials who are working closely with our county public health offices and North Country hospitals to address the path forward for summer camps,” she said in her follow-up statement.

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