Minneapolis voters reject measure to replace
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 11/2/2021 10:21:25 PM
Voters in Minnesota's largest city have rejected what would have been an unprecedented move to dismantle the police department at the ballot box Tuesday following calls for reform following the death of George Floyd. The measure asked voters if they favored amending the city's charter to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a Department of Public Safety. The initiative would have removed language from the charter related to the agency, including minimum funding requirements, and would have divided control of public safety between the mayor and City Council. It would have essentially removed power from the mayor and police chief in an effort to re-imagine policing.
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Senator Mike Braun from Indiana has secured the support of forty other Republican senators to formally challenge President Bidenâs COVID-19 vaccine rules on employers with 100 or more employees. Braun is the ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety. Bidenâs mandate, to be written by the Department of Labor and enforced through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is expected to be completed and distributed any day now. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over OSHA.
There are some notable exemptions to Bidenâs vaccine mandate, besides religious objections and medical exemptions.
Weâve been writing about the amazing red wave during the elections last night.
But itâs not just Republicans getting into office and booting Democrats out, thereâs a another underlying take on this wave â the outsiders who arenât lifetime politicians winning. People who came in because theyâve just had enough of the professional politicians dictating to all of us as they have over the past year in regard to COVID and the Democratic narrative. Real people who believe their obligation is to listen to the people and serve. Imagine. What a concept!
Weâve spoken about business man Glenn Youngkin at length and wrote earlier about Vickie Paladino, a community activist
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a case involving an overly restrictive New York law concerning gun permits this week. Itâs being called the most important Second Amendment case in a decade and would expand the definition of the âright to keep and bear arms.â
The law requires a citizen wanting a concealed carry permit to show âproper causeâ before obtaining such a license in locations typically open to the general public, even in rural areas.
Why would any citizen be required to âshow causeâ to exercise any right in the Constitution? âThe idea that you would need a license
Texas voters took to the polls Tuesday to decide on eight proposed amendments to the state Constitution. These were passed as bills during this yearâs legislative sessions but require voter approval. Unofficial results show that Texans are poised to approve all eight amendments, including one proposal barring the state from limiting religious services, even during disasters like the coronavirus pandemic, and another changing eligibility requirements for judges. Turnout this year was lower than the last constitutional amendment election in 2019, with only about 9% of registered Texas voters casting a ballot. Turnout in odd-numbered years has always been low.
As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, these unofficial results
Middle Peninsula voters overwhelmingly want to keep their Confederate monuments, according to results of advisory referendums in Mathews and Middlesex counties.
Mathews voters rejected a proposal to relocate the countyâs Soldierâs & Sailorâs Monument on its court green at the corner of Court and Church streets by 3,778, or 80% of ballots cast, to 939, or 20%.
In Middlesex, the vote against moving its Civil War Monument from the courthouse grounds in Saluda was 3,229, or 75% of ballots cast, to 1,076.
A CNN statewide exit poll of voters asked about who they backed in the lieutenant governorâs race found stark partisan differences on the issue: 85% of those who said they supported
Miami â Miami Mayor Francis Suarez won reelection Tuesday night with more than 79% of the votes tallied. Max Martinez, his main opponent and a sports podcast producer, had about 11%.
Suarez, 44, will be serving his second four-year term as the cityâs 43rd mayor. The son of former Mayor Xavier Suarez tweeted a video of his Election Day celebration. In both English and Spanish, the Cuban American touted his efforts to turn Miami into the cyber currency capital of the country and promised to find a solution to homelessness and the lack of affordable housing.
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A special election was held in Austin on Tuesday. On the ballot was Proposition A, a referendum that would require the city to hire more police. Proposition A failed. Voters in Austin rejected it by a margin of 68.4% to 31.6%, with 91% of the votes counted on Tuesday night.
A group called Save Austin Now successfully got the referendum on the ballot in response to the Austin City Councilâs cut to the police budget. The city council cut the police budget by about one-third, the largest cut of any major city in America. The city council embraced the defund the police movement that began during the Summer of Love.
GOP Adds 13 Democratic House Seats to
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Night Successes 5 replies
2022 Midterm Target List after Election
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Richmond, Va. â Democrat Terry McAuliffe has formally conceded to Glenn Youngkin in a statement Wednesday morning.
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First Lady Jill Biden is kicking off the holiday season with a new special that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the First Family's Thanksgiving traditions, including her grandmother's savory stuffing recipe.
The 70-year-old has teamed up with country music star Trisha Yearwood for 'A White House Thanksgiving,' which is slated to air on Food Network and Discovery Plus on November 20, Variety reports.
Republican Glenn Youngkin was declared the winner of the Virginia gubernatorial race by a number of outlets and election analysts on Tuesday night after a hard-fought campaign that he entered as a significant underdog.
Despite trailing former governor Terry McAulife by as much as six and a half points in the RealClearPolitics polling average as late as the last week of August, Youngkin ultimately triumphed thanks to a hyper-focus on local issues and a commitment to walking the line between Trump supporters in rural, southern Virginia and wealthier suburbanites who were alienated by the MAGA wing of the party.
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Royal Marines commandos 'dominated' US troops and forced them into a humiliating surrender just days into a mass training exercise in the Mojave desert, it has been revealed today. British forces took part in a five-day mock battle at the US Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms base in southern California, one of the largest military training areas in the world, and achieved a decisive victory against their American counterparts. The Royal Marines, along with allied forces from Canada, the Netherlands and the UAE, destroyed or rendered inoperable nearly every US asset and finished the exercise holding more than 65 per cent of the training area, after beginning with
The New Jersey gubernatorial race was officially called for Democrat Phil Murphy Wednesday evening after the contest was deemed too close to call nearly 24 hours after polls closed. The Associated Press called the election for the incumbent governor at 6:26 p.m. in a narrow victory in a state expected to be a landslide for President Joe Biden's party.With the victory, Murphy is the first Democrat to win a gubernatorial reelection in New Jersey in more than 40 years. Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli protested the call
Sunny Hostin Says White Women Voted For
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Didnât Happen 29 replies
Youngkin So They Could Pretend Slavery
Didnât Happen 29 replies
Sunny Hostin claimed Wednesday that white women had voted for Republican Virginia Governor-elect so they could pretend slavery didnât happen.
Cohost Joy Behar began the segment on ABCâs âThe Viewâ by saying that Democrats had lost in Virginia and other places because they had failed to deliver on President Joe Bidenâs Build Back Better agenda â a failure she said was due to holdouts on both the far left and moderate sides of the party â but Hostin placed the blame squarely on white women. Behar argued that the Build Back Better agenda would benefit a lot of the suburban women who voted for Republicans,
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis Says
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The philosophical underpinnings of the Democrat party or the falsehoods its elected members regurgitate are immaterial to their voters, as long as this dire threat, as personified by Donald Trump in 2020, is vanquished
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Then things changed. Minutes later, with 87% of the vote counted, the results in Bergen County changed and suddenly Murphy was reported ahead in the county with 51% of the vote. Ciattarelliâs 42,000 vote in the state also dwindled to a 1,600 vote lead at this time.
A hospital in Connecticut began administering Covid-19 vaccines to children, aged between five to 11, just minutes after the CDC officially signed off on approval. Hartford Hospital vaccinated six children with a low dose of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday evening and dozens more will get the shot today. The decision has caused a storm of controversy with opponents pointing to the fact there is little evidence to suggest vaccinating children is necessary. Data shows Covid poses a low risk to the age group, with children accounting for less than 0.1 percent of Covid deaths in America.(Snip)In Britain, scientists have warned against officials 'blindly' recommending
On Tuesday night, MSNBCâs Nicolle Wallace melted down after the Pro-Trump Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia Governor race. During her meltdown, Wallace falsely claimed that Critical Race Theory is ânot realâ and that âinsurrection-supporting votersâ vaulted Youngkin to victory. Yes, really.âI watched Glenn Youngkinâs interviews on Fox News and he worshipped at the alter of Donald Trump on Fox News.He flew an insurrection flag at one of his rallies. He played dumb about a zoom rally.
A voting error was just fixed in New Jersey and GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli is back up in the race after briefly trailing to incumbent Democratic Governor Phil Murphy. (See update below.) (Tweet) âThe early vote was double-counted in Hudson County,â National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC Steve Kornacki reported. âIt has now been fixed, bringing Murphyâs total down by 10,732 and Ciattarelliâs by 2,842. Ciattarelli goes back up in the statewide tally: Ciattarelli (R): 1,177,803 (49.6%) Murphy (D) 1,177,108 (49.6%).âAs reported at Becker News earlier, there have been other anomalies
A stoney faced Joe Biden arrived back at the White House in the early hours of Wednesday morning following his COP26 climate change trip to Europe to find a party in disarray and a thundering win for the Republicans.In the hotly anticipated Virginia gubernatorial race, pulled off a stunning upset to beat out Democrat Terry McAuliffe, the Associated Press projected around 1am on Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, New Jersey has gone down to the wire as Republican Jack Ciattarelli takes the lead over Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy with 30% of votes counted. And the president is facing deep division in his own party over his $1.75trillion Build Back Better bill