Evidence That US Representative, Ilhan Omar, a ‘Justice Democrat’, Married Her Brother


Mainstream media outlets, especially in Minnesota, are ignoring evidence that Ilhan Omar, a refugee from Somalia, married her own brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Journalist, David Steinberg, says that Omar’s motives for marrying Mr. Elmi may have been to commit student-loan fraud and immigration fraud while she was still Islamically married to Ahmed Hirsi, with whom she had two children. School records show that Mr. Elmi was raised by Ilhan’s father. Address records show that Ilhan Omar lived at the same address as the man she claimed to have divorced and the man to whom she was legally married — concurrently. Ilhan Omar is endorsed by the Justice Democrats. -GEG

From 2002 until 2009, Ilhan Omar lived in a series of apartments in Minneapolis with Ahmed Hirsi.

In 2009, Ilhan Omar married British citizen Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

In August
2009, records show that both Ilhan Omar and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi left
Minnesota, moving to 2608 Pacific Dr. South, Apt. 4, Fargo, North Dakota
58103. (The record we found for Elmi did not include the apartment
number.)

However, records show that Ahmed Hirsi moved there, too.

In August 2009, Ahmed Hirsi is recorded at 2608 Pacific Dr. South, Apt. 4, Fargo, North Dakota 58103.

Ilhan, her Islamically
divorced first husband, and her second husband are all recorded to live
at the same apartment at the same time.

In
February 2010, both Ilhan Omar and Ahmed Hirsi are recorded as having
moved to 2438 18th St. South, Fargo, North Dakota 58103.

Records show that Ahmed Elmi, her legal husband, appears at this new address in November 2010, nine months later.

To summarize:

Address records show that Ilhan Omar lived at the
same address with the man she claimed to have divorced and the man she
was legally married to —
concurrently. And that she did this twice.

Ilhan Omar
stated that her relationship with Ahmed Elmi only lasted from 2009
until 2011. But address records show she spent more of that time living
with Ahmed Hirsi.

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Additional sources:

https://pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg/new-photos-corroborate-perjury-claims-against-rep-ilhan-omar-as-she-deletes-social-media-evidence/

https://cis.org/North/SomaliaBorn-Candidate-Congress-Accused-ImmigrationMarriage-Fraud




How ‘Justice Democrats’ Plan to Infiltrate Republican Party to Control Congress


YouTube personality, Mr. Reagan, uncovered how the ‘Justice Democrats’ group plans to take over Congress with collectivists and become “benevolent dictators.” Zack Exley, a former Bernie Sanders campaign strategist, appears to be the leader of this group. He co-wrote a book, Rules for Revolutionaries, in which he says: “Fighting racism must be at the core of the message to everyone.” His group devised a method to replace Republican incumbents with collectivists during midterm elections when only 5% of voters go to the polls. This will enable them to be elected under the pretense of being conservative Republicans in the subsequent general elections. The goals and strategies of the Justice Democrats and Real Justice are similar to George Soros’ missions. -GEG

Summary by JW WIlliams

Mr.
Reagan says the justice Democrats are neo-Marxists who claim to believe that
all white people are racist, all men are misogynistic, and all Christians
are homophobic.

Originally,
the Justice Democrats planned to infiltrate
the Republican party and register their leftist candidates as members of
the GOP in midterm primary elections and be elected as
conservative Republicans in the general
election. This bait-and-switch strategy is expected to
go operational in 2020. Reagan says the eventual plan is to replace all government offices, on every
level, with collectivists.

Becky
Bond, Zack Exley’s co-author, formed an organization called ‘Real
Justice’ that aims to replace local District Attorneys with Marxists
who seek to upend the American justice system. Shaun King is the face of Real Justice. He
is a black supremacist who inspires hate against whites. King claims to
be a black man, but a family member says he is white.

There
are over 2,400 district attorneys nationwide, and most run during
midterm elections. George Soros is reported to have spent over $11
million on getting radical justice-reform candidates in DA races since
2015, which uses the same strategy and has the same goals as Real
Justice. Shaun King previously was affiliated with Black Lives Matter,
which also was
funded by Soros.

Sources:

ebeacon.com/issues/facebook-cofounders-wife-bankrolls-blm-activist-shaun-kings-pac/




Public University Suspends Professor for Advising Foreign Student to Learn English


Gary Minden, a professor at the University of Kansas who teaches electrical engineering and computer science, told a foreign student who was using an online translation system on a cell phone that the student should “learn English.” The foreign student was not bothered by the suggestion, but other students in the class were offended and Minden has been suspended pending the school’s review of the incident. Political correctness has run amok.

In a bothersome case of political correctness gone amok, a professor
at a highly ranked public university in the United States has been
suspended for suggesting a foreign student “learn English.” The
egregious incident occurred this month at the University of Kansas (UK),
a taxpayer-funded institution with an enrollment of 28,500 that ranks
among the nation’s top public universities. Situated in the northeast
Kansas town of Lawrence, the school is the state’s flagship university
and a premier research institution.

The “offending” professor, Gary Minden,
teaches electrical engineering and computer science in the highly
regarded school of engineering. Minden, an acclaimed academic, is a UK
alum who received undergraduate and doctorate degrees in electrical
engineering at the school. In the 1990s he served as information
technology program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), a Pentagon agency with a $3 billion budget dedicated to
developing technologies for the military. “DARPA goes to great lengths
to identify, recruit and support excellent program
managers—extraordinary individuals who are at the top of their fields
and are hungry for the opportunity to push the limits of their
disciplines,” according to the agency’s website. “These leaders, who are
at the very heart of DARPA’s history of success, come from academia,
industry and government agencies for limited stints, generally three to
five years.”

During a recent class, Minden told a foreign student who was using an
online translation system on a cell phone that the student should
“learn English,” according to a local newspaper report.
The unidentified student evidently was not bothered over the
suggestion, but others in the class were offended and an “hourlong
discussion” ensued in the engineering class which focuses on embedded
systems. During the discussion things apparently got heated and many
students in the class became very upset. The professor told the local
newspaper that he’s “frustrated” over the incident but refused to
comment further for obvious reasons. In the article a university
spokeswoman said “a number of students have raised concerns about events
that occurred in their engineering class. In response to these
concerns, the university has assigned a different instructor to teach
the course while the matter is reviewed.”

This is hardly an isolated case of political correctness at
taxpayer-funded schools in the United States. Public elementary, middle
and high schools as well as colleges have taken an extreme leftist turn
on several issues over the years and Judicial Watch has reported or
taken legal action in several of the cases. This includes exposing a Mexican separatist school that pushes Marxism and Anti-Americanism in Los Angeles, pervasive corruption in Chicago public schools and an after school Satan club in
Washington State that received speedy tax-exempt approval from the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Judicial Watch is currently embroiled in
legal battle with
the Berkeley Unified School District in California to obtain the
records of a middle school teacher who is a national organizer for a
radical leftist group. The teacher, Yvette Felarca, works at Martin
Luther King Jr. Middle School and is a prominent figure in By Any Means Necessary (BAMN),
an organized militant group founded by the Marxist Revolutionary
Workers League that uses raucous militant tactics to protest
conservative speaking engagements. Felarca has been charged with several
crimes, including felony assault, for inciting a riot in Sacramento.

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UK: Catholic Journalist Criminally Investigated for Using the Wrong Pronoun in a Tweet



Caroline Farrow, a British Catholic journalist, is being investigated by the police for “misgendering” someone in a tweet. She was contacted by authorities after making an appearance on “Good Morning Britain,” in which she engaged in a debate with a transgender activist who has a trans child. Following this appearance, which took place last September, Farrow allegedly referred to the trans child by the wrong pronoun.

British police are now dedicated entirely to fighting perceived and imagined microaggressions on social media.

From Faithwire:

A British Catholic journalist is being investigated by the
police for allegedly “misgendering” someone in a tweet. Caroline Farrow
was contacted by authorities after making an appearance on “Good Morning
Britain,” in which she engaged in a debate with a transgender activist,
Susie Green, who has a trans child. Following this appearance, which
took place last September, Farrow allegedly referred to Green’s
daughter, Jackie, by the wrong pronoun.

In a series of tweets, Farrow noted that the police had told her she
would “need to be interviewed under caution for misgendering Susie
Green’s child.”

Farrow pointed out that, since the police announce that they would be
taking action against her, online trolls have been sending the mother of
five horrific, expletive-laden and sexually violent messages. However,
while the police are highly concerned about Farrow’s alleged
misgendering, they appear unbothered by this onslaught of cyber abuse.

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The SPLC Hate Group Unravels as President and Legal Director Resign Amid Sexual Misconduct Scandal


Following accusations of racism, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment in the workplace, the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center Richard Cohen and its legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, resigned on Friday. Morris Dees, the co-founder and chief fundraiser of the SPLC, was fired by Cohen the prior week. Writer, Bob Moser, who was employed by the SPLC, published an article in the New Yorker exposing the SPLC as a fundraising scam. Moser says the SPLC’s business model centers around keeping its donors in constant fear using gimmicks such as “hate maps” and “hate lists.” -GEG

The Southern Poverty Law Center – the “vicious left-wing attack dog” used by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon to identify “hate groups” – is unraveling. 

A week after co-founder Morris Dees was ousted over sexual misconduct claims – with two dozen employees signing a letter of concern over “allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism,” the head of the SPLC, Richard Cohen, as well as the organization’s legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, resigned on Friday. Morris Dees, Richard Cohen, Rhonda Brownstein

Cohen had been with the organization 33 years and was one of its most prominent figures. 

At 5:03 p.m. Friday, Cohen sent a message to staff, with the subject
line “Stepping Down,” announcing that he, too, would be leaving the
organization that he and Dees had turned into a research and fundraising
juggernaut.

“Whatever problems exist at the SPLC happened on my watch, so I take
responsibility for them,” Cohen wrote, while asking the staff to avoid
jumping to conclusions before the board completes an internal review of
the Montgomery, Ala., organization’s work culture. –LA Times

Earlier this week, the SPLC board of directors appointed Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff, Tina Tchen – who, in an unrelated matter, unsuccessfully tried to pull strings and have the Jussie Smollett case transferred from the Chicago PD to the FBI. Tchen is heading up the inquiry into the sexual misconduct claims.Tina Tchen

Also out on Friday was Rhonda Brownstein – who had worked with the organization for nearly three decades, according to the Montgomery Advertiser‘s Melissa Brown. 

Inside the SPLC “Scam”

As the Washington Examiner‘s Beckett
Adams writes, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a “scam,” which has
taken ” no care whatsoever for the reputational and personal harm it
causes by lumping Christians and anti-extremist activists with actual neo-Nazis.”

As it turns out, the SPLC is a cynical money-making scheme, according
to a former staffer’s blistering tell-all, published this week in the New Yorker. The center’s chief goal is to bilk naive and wealthy donors who believe it’s an earnest effort to combat bigotry.

The only thing worse than a snarling partisan activist is a slimy conman who merely pretends to be one. –Washington Examiner

““Outside of work,” recalls Bob Moser of his days working for the
organization, “we spent a lot of time drinking and dishing in Montgomery
bars and restaurants about … the hyperbolic fund-raising appeals, and
the fact that, though the center claimed to be effective in fighting
extremism, ‘hate’ always continued to be on the rise, more dangerous
than ever, with each year’s report on hate groups. ‘The S.P.L.C.—making
hate pay,’ we’d say.”

“[I]t was hard, for many of us, not to feel like we’d become pawns in
what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam,” added Moser. 

The way Moser tells it, the center’s chief founder, Morris Dees, who
was dismissed unceremoniously last week for unspecified reasons,
discovered early on that he could rake in boatloads of cash by
convincing “gullible Northern liberals that his group is doing the hard work of fighting “hate.”

But the center’s supposed mission of combating bigotry doesn’t actually matter to its top brass, Moser says. It’s just a business choice and one that has been extremely lucrative throughout the years.
Moser’s article reminds readers of the time Dees actually said of the
SPLC in an interview with then-Progressive magazine reporter John
Egerton, “We just run our business like a business. Whether you’re
selling cakes or causes, it’s all the same.” –Washington Examiner

Read full article here…

Additional sources:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-southern-poverty-law-center-is-a-scam

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center




Trump To Declare US Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty over the Golan Heights


Israel’s foreign minister says that President Trump is expected to sign an Executive Order to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is a strategic military area and also provides one-third of Israel’s fresh water. It also is rich in oil. Genie Energy, which is dominated by US neocons and globalists, including Dick Cheney and Nathaniel Rothschild, has acquired the oil rights for this region. Global backlash against Trumps decision is expected. -GEG

Summary by JW Williams

Last week,
President Trump tweeted that it was time for the US to “fully recognize
Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is
of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and
regional stability.”

Israel seized the Golan Heights region from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967, in spite of calls by the international community to withdraw, and UN resolution recognizing Syria’s sovereignty over the area. Israel expelled 130,000 Syrians from the Golan Heights in 1967. 
.
The Golan provides over a third of Israel’s fresh water.
.
Afek Oil and Gas, a division of Genie Oil, has obtained oil rights for the oil fields in the Golan Heights. Genie Oil board members include banking family scion Nathaniel Rothschild, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Congresswoman Mary Landrieu, former CIA chief James Woolsey, former Treasury Secretary and financial advisor to Obama, Larry Summers, billionaire hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt, and co-chairman of Fox Corporation Keith Rupert Murdoch. Mr Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has family investments in Genie.

According to Redress Online, Genie’s Israeli
subsidiary cannot sell any oil it extracts from the Golan on the
international oil market because that would violate UN resolutions.
However, if Washington declares the Golan to be part of Israel, then oil
could be legally traded with the US and those with a financial stake in Golan oil will greatly prosper. 

Sources:

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/trump-to-sign-order-to-recognize-israels-sovereignty-over-the-golan-heights/

RedressOnline: Trump Koshers Israel’s Theft of Syria’s Golan Heights

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/trump-s-stance-on-the-golan-heights-will-allow-israel-to-operate-with-impunity-elsewhere-1.840887




Two of Mueller’s Prosecutors Who Left His Team Had Contact with Top DOJ Official Connected to Fusion GPS



US Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) said the dismissal of two key investigators, Andrew Weissmann and Zainab Ahmad, at the start of March may be due to bias as they knew Christopher Steele, the author of the discredited dossier, was “desperate to stop Trump.” The two high-level prosecutors had undisclosed contact, prior to the opening of the Mueller investigation and obtaining the FISA warrant to spy on Trump, with Bruce Ohr, the then-Associate Deputy Attorney General. Ohr acted as an intermediary between the FBI and political lobbying firm Fusion GPS, helping to launch an investigation into Trump that ultimately paved the way for Mueller’s probe.

In late February, CNN broke the story that the investigation being led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia might wrap up any day.

But as the probe drags on, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, suggested another possibility in a recent interview with Fox News.

Jordan said the dismissal of two key investigators at the start of March—taken as a sign of closure—may have been due to their bias, the Washington Examiner reported.

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller Delivers Final Report, Yet Investigation Fails to Charge Any American Citizen with Collusion with Russia


Special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation and will not file any more indictments in connection with his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, indicating that the investigation was a ruse used for political gain, based on the lies in the discredited Steele dossier.  Mueller failed to find any evidence to indict any American citizens on charges of colluding with Russia, but the investigation did ruin the lives of many of the people who were investigated, including General Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, George Papodopolous, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and Donald Trump. Mueller submitted his confidential report to Attorney General Bill Barr, who has the option to summarize it for Congress or to release as much as he sees fit. However, this is not the end of Trump’s problems as federal and state prosecutors are pursuing other investigations that grew out of Mueller’s probe. The new investigations focus on Trump, his family business, his advisors and associates, and will not be limited to “Russian collusion”.

Even as the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, submitted his confidential report to the Justice Department
on Friday, federal and state prosecutors are pursuing about a dozen
other investigations that largely grew out of his work, all but ensuring
that a legal threat will continue to loom over the Trump presidency.

Most
of the investigations focus on President Trump or his family business
or a cadre of his advisers and associates, according to court records
and interviews with people briefed on the investigations. They are being
conducted by officials from Los Angeles to Brooklyn, with about half of
them being run by the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan.

Unlike
Mr. Mueller, whose mandate was largely focused on any links between the
Trump campaign and the Russian government’s interference in the 2016
presidential election, the federal prosecutors in Manhattan take an
expansive view of their jurisdiction. That authority has enabled them,
along with F.B.I. agents, to scrutinize a broader orbit around the
president, including his family business.

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Is America a ‘Source of White Supremacy?’ Heather MacDonald Debunks the False Narrative with Hate Crime Statistics

su_note note_color=”#efe1a7″ text_color=”#00000″ radius=”5”]Heather MacDonald, author of ‘The Diversity Delusion,’ sets the record straight about the hysteria over “white supremacy” in America that she says is a fabrication by leftists and is disproven by the statistics. She says there are the same number of reported “hate” crimes today as there were 10 years ago when there were 25 million fewer people in the US and 20 years ago, there were 3,000 MORE reported hate crimes.

MacDonald blames
mainstream institutions beginning with campus victimhood ideology that
beats into students’ heads that white people are evil. She said that
hate is going in one direction, and that hatred in the United States
today was illustrated by Democratic politicians, leftists, and media
when they piled on the white Covington High School boys, using a false
narrative to demonize them. -GEG[/su_note]

Conservative writer and researcher Heather Mac Donald used cold, hard statistics to dispute what she claims is the “ridiculous” notion that America is a “source of white supremacy.”

Appearing on Monday night’s episode of “The Story With Martha MacCallum,” the The Diversity Delusion author responded to Fox News host Martha MacCallum’s question about the common assertion from the political left that white supremacy is “on the rise.”

Pointing to recent footage of Chelsea Clinton being confronted,
Mac Donald said: “The left is so determined to try to paint America as a
source of white supremacy when, in fact, there is virtually no
institutional support for these handful of kooks that are insane. They
are violating the very premises of Western Civilization.”

After stating that we “are all on campus now” because of the increasing inability to speak about such issues, Mac Donald cited the real hate crime statistics:

The
number of reported hate crimes—and we don’t know how many of those are
Jussie Smollett hoaxes—last year was identical to what it was 10 years
ago when there were 25 million fewer people in the United States and
many fewer reporting agencies. And if you go 10 years before that, you
have 3,000 more hate crimes reported. The idea that there has been some
surge in hate, much less white supremacist hate, is completely
ridiculous.

“It looks like there is no single group
that is sort of dominating this issue and also the numbers are
relatively low,” MacCallum observed after showing a graphic from The
Washington Post. (RELATED: Reason
Editor Explains How Hate Crime Statistics Are Misrepresented, Gives
Shocking Guess On How Many Are Actually Real)

“This
is about .0005 percent of all violent crimes in the United States,” said
Mac Donald before questioning evening the Post’s “methodology.”

“[T]here
are known categories, they don’t know what the motivation is,” she
said. “Why they get to count those as extremist terror incidents,
domestic terrorism when they may be your average guy going postal, I
don’t know. But their numbers do not show a surge in white supremacist
violence. It is preposterous.”

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President Trump Signs Broad Executive Order to Promote Free Speech on College Campuses

su_note note_color=”#efe1a7″ text_color=”#00000″ radius=”5”]Trump signed an executive order advising colleges to respect students’ First Amendment right to free expression under the threat of losing $35 billion in federal funding. The order was issued in response to colleges and universities that have banned presentations by conservative speakers using the excuse of protecting student safety. In addition, some campuses have imposed speech codes and free speech ‘zones’. It is unclear how the new grant restrictions will be enforced, prompting concern from critics that research grants could be stripped from schools that oppose the views and goals of the federal government and the grant-giving agncies, and that research will be micromanaged.[/su_note]

President delivers on promise to punish colleges that don’t show they guarantee free speech on campus, and includes language on outcomes data and risk sharing. But it’s unclear what force it will carry.

President Trump on Thursday delivered on his promise of an executive
order that would hold colleges that receive federal research funding
accountable for protecting free speech.

However, his bombastic rhetoric in a White House East Room ceremony wasn’t matched by the modest language of the order.

“If a college or university does not allow you to speak, we will not give them money. It’s that simple,” he said Thursday.

But the executive order
essentially directs federal agencies to ensure colleges are following
requirements already in place. And it doesn’t spell out how enforcement
of the order would work.

It directs 12 federal grant-making agencies to coordinate with the
Office of Management and Budget to certify that colleges receiving
federal research funds comply with existing federal law and regulations
involving free academic inquiry. While the administration expects public
institutions to uphold the First Amendment, the order says, private
colleges are expected to comply with their “stated institutional
policies” on freedom of speech. The free-speech directive doesn’t apply
to federal student aid programs.

The document also directs the Education Department to publish
program-level data in the College Scorecard on measures of student
outcomes, including earnings, student debt, default rates and loan
repayment rates.

And it requires the department to submit policy recommendations to
the White House by January 2020 on risk-sharing proposals for colleges
that participate in the federal student loan program.

The executive order puts extra force behind several policies the White House has backed
previously. For example, earlier this week the administration released a
report on priorities for reauthorization of the Higher Education Act
that included program-level data and a new accountability system for
colleges.

President Trump has weighed in repeatedly on alleged suppression of
free speech on campuses, especially speech by conservative students.
Most recently, he announced plans
for an executive order addressing the issue at the Conservative
Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of activists and
elected officials.

“Free inquiry is an essential feature of this nation’s democracy, and
it promotes learning, scientific discovery and economic prosperity,”
the order reads. “We must encourage institutions to appropriately
account for this bedrock principle in their administration of student
life and to avoid creating environments that stifle competing
perspectives, thereby potentially impeding beneficial research and
undermining learning.”

The executive order had been in the works long before the president’s comments at the conservative event.

But it’s not clear what kind of teeth the order has beyond new
certification requirements for institutions. A senior administration
official told reporters on Thursday that federal agencies will enforce
it the same way they enforce existing federal grant conditions, which
colleges already are required to follow. The official didn’t address
details about how the order would be implemented.

Agencies covered by the order include the Departments of Education,
Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human
Services, Transportation, and Energy, as well as the Environmental
Protection Agency, National Science Foundation and NASA.

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Andrew Gillum Plans to Turn Florida Blue by Registering 1M Voters Who Are Likely to Vote Democrat


su_note note_color=”#efe1a7″ text_color=”#00000″ radius=”5”]Democrat Andrew Gillum, the Tallahassee mayor who lost the governor’s race by less than half a percentage point, seeks to turn Florida blue by registering new voters, and is targeting 1.4 million former felons in line to have their voting rights restored under a constitutional amendment approved by voters last year. He is also trying to enroll tens of thousands of Puerto Rican refugees who flocked to Florida following Hurricane Maria. Gillum’s PAC, Forward Florida, has assets of almost $4 million. Florida is the biggest swing state in the nation, with 29 of the 270 electoral college votes needed to win.[/su_note]

Andrew Gillum announced a plan Wednesday to register and turn-out 1
million new and low-propensity Florida voters in an effort to crush
President Donald Trump’s reelection chances in the nation’s largest
swing state.

“Voter registration is red flag No. 1,” the former Tallahassee mayor
told POLITICO, calling increased voter registration crucial to the
Democratic Party’s ability to survive and thrive in Florida.

“We’re looking at a target of 1 million,” he said. “We’ve got over 3
million people eligible to vote, and that’s to say nothing of the 1.4
million returning citizens” — former felons in line to have their voting
rights restored under a constitutional amendment approved by voters
last year.

Gillum’s staff wouldn’t give specifics about the targeted number of
new voters he hoped to register or the number of voters they hope to
reengage after they decided not to vote in the past two general
elections.

At the same time, the Florida Democratic Party said it will spend $2
million in the next year to register 200,000 voters ahead of the 2020
presidential primary.

Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Terrie Rizzo said the party
hasn’t dedicated enough resources to registering voters in recent years.

There are currently 4.96 million registered Democrats in the state,
compared to 4.7 million Republicans and nearly 3.6 million voters with
no party affiliation.

Progressive activists who supported Gillum in last year’s
gubernatorial race have speculated that he might mount a bid for
president. In an interview with POLITICO before a speech today at the
historically black Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens, Gillum
said it’s more important for him to grow the state’s voter rolls to help
the Democratic nominee.

He noted a decline in the party’s voter edge since President Barack Obama’s first campaign.

“In 2008, Democrats had an advantage of almost 700,000 more Democrats
than Republicans when Obama ran,” Gillum said. “In my last race, that
advantage had shrunk to the 260,000 range. It was a very precipitous
decline.”

Gillum supporters registered a voter outreach group — Bring it Home
Florida, named after his signature campaign phrase — with the state last
week.

Trump’s campaign is heavily focused on Florida, the biggest swing
state in the nation, with 29 of the 270 electoral college votes needed
to win. Without the Sunshine State, the president’s path to re-election
narrows significantly.

If a Democrat can carry Florida in 2020, he or she could win the
White House by capturing just one other swing state—Wisconsin, Michigan,
Ohio, or Pennsylvania—if the remaining states vote the way they did in
2016.

Trump won Florida and some other swing states by razor-thin margins,
raising hope among Democrats that their 2016 turnout woes can be
remedied by growing voter rolls and persuading swing and first-time
voters to cast ballots against the incumbent.

Read full article here…

Additional source:

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/21/18275705/andrew-gillum-beto-orourke-president-florida




“I’ll Carry Out a Massacre”: Bus Full of Kidnapped Italian Children Set on Fire by Senegalese-Born Driver

su_note note_color=”#efe1a7″ text_color=”#00000″ radius=”5”]Milan, Italy: A bus filled with 51 children from a middle school was set on fire by its driver, Ousseynou Sy, a man originally from Senegal but with Italian citizenship. This was done to seek revenge for the migrants who have drowned due to Italy’s blocking migrant boats. Sy rammed cars on a highway before he was stopped by a police blockade from killing the children. Officers broke the glass in the back door of the bus and rescued the children before the flames destroyed the vehicle.

Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini drew criticism from
pro-migrant groups last year when he closed the country’s ports to NGO
migrant vessels ferrying mostly North African refugees across the
Mediterranean. -GEG[/su_note]

Milan, Italy: A bus filled with 51 children from a middle school was set on fire by its driver, Ousseynou Sy, a man originally from Sensegal but with Italian citizenship.This was done to seek revenge for the migrants who have drowned due to Italy’s blocking migrant boats. Sy rammed cars on a highway before he was stopped by a police blockade from killing the children. Officers broke the glass in the back door of the bus and rescued the children before the flames destroyed the vehicle.

Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini drew criticism from
pro-migrant groups last year when he closed the country’s ports to NGO
migrant vessels ferrying mostly North African refugees across the
Mediterranean. -GEG

Update: The driver, a 47-year-old father of two whose ex-wife is Italian, has been charged with carnage and kidnapping of 51 students, according to the Daily Mail. According to the a police commander, the the driver, Ousseynou Sy, threatened the passengers – “telling them that ‘no one would survive today.” as he commandeered the bus carrying two middle-school classes in Cremona province around 25 miles from Milan.” 

Ousseynou Sy, originally Senegalese but with Italian citizenship,
stopped the bus he was driving, with two classes of high school students
on board. 

He was said to have ordered the children’s hands to be bound and threatened to kill them and himself during the drive, before setting the vehicle on fire when he was stopped by a police blockade today.

Officers broke the glass in the back door of the bus and got all the
passengers to safety without serious injury before the flames destroyed
the vehicle, authorities said. 

As he was apprehended, the driver said he was protesting migrant
deaths in the Mediterranean, Commander Luca De Marchis told Sky TG24. –Daily Mail

An adult was able to make an emergency call, while one of the students called a parent who alerted authorities. 

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