Bernie, this doesn't help...

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Tuesday August 13, 2019 · 9:33 AM PDT

2019/08/13 · 09:33

Washington Post editor Marty Baron is responding to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ insinuation that he receives negative coverage from The Post because of comments about owner Jeff Bezos’ Amazon tax burden (or lack thereof).

Baron’s response:

"Sen. Sanders is a member of a large club of politicians -- of every ideology -- who complain about their coverage. Contrary to the conspiracy theory the senator seems to favor, Jeff Bezos allows our newsroom to operate with full independence, as our reporters and editors can attest."

Good for Marty Baron, and shame on Sen. Sanders for contributing to the erosion of faith in the press. With the Idiot in Chief droning on about “fake news” every day, journalists have their hands full defending themselves from attacks on the right. We don’t need progressive politicians joining in the assault.

The next time the Washington Post runs a well-reported story that is critical of the Trump administration (which it does on pretty much a daily basis), I can see Donald Trump tweeting that “even Bernie Sanders knows WaPo is dirty.” Bernie, please don’t do his propaganda work for him.

Edited to add: A comment from Nate Silver:

You get these hints of a sense of entitlement from Sanders, i.e. he feels as though that by virtue of having been the runner-up last time, he's entitled to the nomination this time, and if he doesn't win it, it's only because "the media"/"the establishment" took it away from him.
Ã¢ÂÂ Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 13, 2019

Former SCOTUS justice, Republican John Paul Stevens, says Kavanaugh should not be confirmed

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Thursday October 04, 2018 · 2:05 PM PDT

2018/10/04 · 14:05

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 04: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (L) joins Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, including (L-R) Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for a news conference to discuss this weekâ€™s FBI investigation into Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol October 04, 2018 in Washington, DC. Calling Dr. Christine Blasey Fordâ€™s allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh â€œoutrageous,â€ GOP senators hope to move forward with a confirmation vote this weekend. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

From The Palm Beach Post:

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday said that high court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, who Stevens once lauded in one of his books, does not belong on the Supreme Court.

Speaking to a crowd of retirees in Boca Raton, Stevens, 98, said Kavanaugh’s performance during a recent Senate confirmation hearing suggested that he lacks the temperament for the job.

www.mypalmbeachpost.com/…

While Stevens initially supported Kavanaugh, he changed his opinion based on the nominee’s temperament during the Senate hearings:

“I’ve changed my views for reasons that have no relationship to his intellectual ability … I feel his performance in the hearings ultimately changed my mind.”

Guam predicts the winner!

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Tuesday November 08, 2016 · 11:58 AM PST

2016/11/08 · 11:58

Since 1984, the straw poll taken in Guam has correctly predicted the winner of every presidential race.

The votes don’t count toward the candidates’ tallies, of course, but who cares?

Especially when Hillary Clinton won 72-24!

HuffPo: What's Wrong with 538?

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Monday November 07, 2016 · 7:36 AM PST

2016/11/07 · 07:36

I recommend today’s Huffington Post column on Nate Silver’s unusually pessimistic (and reactionary) electoral model.

Author Evan Cohen makes this observation:

In my more than 20 years of building and managing financial and statistical models first as an investment banker and for the past 15 years as an economic consultant, the mantra for model building has always been “garbage in, garbage out.” You can have the most intricate set of assumptions, but if your model is spitting out unrealistic results, there’s something wrong with your model.

He pays particular attention to 538’s high probabilities for exceedingly unlikely scenarios:

...a deeper examination of this distribution makes you wonder what’s in their model. The histogram above shows more than a 7 percent chance that Clinton gets fewer than 200 EVs. There is not a remotely plausible map that has Clinton with less than 200 EVs, let alone less than 150 EVs, which occur in at least one percent of 538’s model runs!

I’ll stop quoting and encourage you to check out the article yourself. It’s a nice read for those of looking for a little reassurance as we count down the hours to Election Day!

For the record, my own prediction is 323 EVs for Hillary (just missing in Ohio and Iowa, but adding North Carolina to Obama’s 2012 map).

New poll: Hillary +11 nationally, +12 in FL

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Friday October 28, 2016 · 8:13 AM PDT

2016/10/28 · 08:13

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton waves on her 69th birthday as she boards her plane at Miami International Airport for a day of campaigning in Florida, October 26, 2016. / AFP / Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)

A new poll from the Saint Leo University Polling Institute shows Hillary leading Trump by double digits in Florida, 52% — 39.4% with leaners. Without leaners, she’s at 49.7% — 36.7%

This is an online poll with a mediocre score on 538, but it’s a nice contrast to the Trump +2 number the media was panting over the other day.

In previous polls, Saint Leo had Clinton +14 (August) and up +6 (September), so the trend line is good.

They also released a national poll showing Hillary +11 both with and without leaners.

On the negative side, the same Florida poll found Marco Rubio with a 5-point lead over Patrick Murphy. That’s a whole lot of ticket-splitting, accounted for by Trump’s -30 performance among Hispanics, a group that Rubio wins by 20 points.

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Tuesday October 25, 2016 · 4:52 PM PDT

2016/10/25 · 16:52

Another case of a Trump business screwing whoever it can to turn a profit, in this case the Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County.

This story broke tonight on The Palm Beach Post:

A charity golf tournament scheduled for the day before Election Day at Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach course has turned sour, with the charity, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County, saying the Trump people are charging unexpected fees that will cut into proceeds.

…

[Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa] McKinlay added, “If I were the Boys & Girls Club, I would pull out. How are smaller charities supposed to be able to afford this? This has placed me and the charity in a very bad position and I am quite upset by it.”

Casale had said in his original email to the county that a supplier donated beer and wine but that Trump International, which initially said there would be no problem, now would not sign a one-day waiver of its exclusivity rights and the clubs would have to buy the liquor from the course. Casale also said the course is charging golf fees of $6,000 to $7,000. He said catering fees “were recently lowered from almost $20,000 to $13,000 only because we removed many of the items on the menu.”

Drip, drip... WaPo reports on another Trump victim

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Friday October 14, 2016 · 10:14 AM PDT

2016/10/14 · 10:14

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And the hits just keep on coming…

The Washington Post just posted a story detailing the experience of aspiring model Kristin Anderson in the early 90s.

Trump allegedly reached up her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear at a New York nightclub. Sounds a lot like something he bragged about doing…

Anderson shoved the hand away, fled the couch and turned to take her first good look at the man who had touched her, she said.

She recognized him as Donald Trump: “He was so distinctive looking — with the hair and the eyebrows. I mean, nobody else has those eyebrows.”

My guess is this one is really going to land, for a couple of reasons.

For one, Anderson is not a Hillary Clinton supporter. She says she plans not to vote for either of the candidates.

And more important, she has told this story to many people over the past two decades, and The Washington Post tracked down those people as well.

Yet ANOTHER Trump victim comes forward

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Wednesday October 12, 2016 · 4:56 PM PDT

2016/10/12 · 16:56

The Palm Beach Post just posted an account by a woman who was grabbed by Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2003.

No surprise… she looks kind of like Ivanka.

McGillivray, 36, said she was groped by Trump at Mar-a-Lago 13 years ago. She said she never reported it to authorities.

But her companion that day, photographer Ken Davidoff, vividly remembers when McGillivray pulled him aside moments after the alleged incident and told him, ‘’Donald just grabbed my ass!’’

Here’s the full article.

Trump: Military suicides happen to servicemembers who 'can't handle it'

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Monday October 03, 2016 · 3:41 PM PDT

2016/10/03 · 15:41

This hits just keep on coming.

According to CNN:

Donald Trump suggested Monday that American soldiers and veterans who commit suicide do so because they can't handle the post-traumatic stress of war.

"When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it but a lot of people can't handle it. They see horror stories, they see events you couldn't see in a movie, nobody would believe it," Trump said Monday, during a panel interview at the Retired American Warriors PAC, in Herndon, Virginia.

Here’s the video.

How many times can Trump insult the nation’s veterans before he loses their votes?

Add this to his comments about John McCain not being a hero because he was captured, his treatment of the Khan Gold Star Family and his callous comments about the Purple Heart.

Surely I’m missing others.

These comments have been met with understandably strong reactions from veterans:

I guess my buddy who I deployed with, who suffered from PTSD, and who took his own life wasn't as strong as a roomful of Trump's supporters. https://t.co/iLb5V4PYs8
— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) October 3, 2016

@iava As a veteran of the USAF I cannot take the way this man speaks about any group of people including veterans. https://t.co/JTuxy9axyH
— Kevin Cracknell (@kevin_cracknell) October 3, 2016

Also, recall when Trump couldn’t help but correct a questioner (with wrong information) when she asked about veteran suicides during the Commander in Chief forum:

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Pam Bondi has a pay-to-play history, including the encouragement of Medicaid fraud in Florida

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Wednesday September 07, 2016 · 6:38 AM PDT

2016/09/07 · 06:38

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - AUGUST 03: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks before the arrival of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during his campaign event at the Ocean Center Convention Center on August 3, 2016 in Daytona, Florida. Trump continued to campaign for his run for president of the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Florida attorney general Pam Bondi’s corruption doesn’t stop at her dropping the Trump University investigation in exchange for campaign donations.

In 2014, she wrote a letter to the head of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services supporting the corrupt Millennium Laboratories, a company making millions off of unneeded drug tests.

As reported earlier this year in The Palm Beach Post:

The letter directly benefited Millennium, a firm that once salvaged a key anti-drug initiative championed by Bondi and, through its high-powered lobbying firm, had deep ties to Bondi and Gov. Rick Scott’s legal team.

In October, Millennium, while not acknowledging wrongdoing, agreed to pay $256 million to resolve federal kickback and civil fraud charges. The company has been forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy by its lenders, even as founder James Slattery and other insiders walked away with nearly $1 billion.

Why would Bondi encourage doctors to perform these unnecessary drug tests, even as Millennium was under federal investigation? One guess…

[Even while under investigation’] Millennium was establishing influence, courting goodwill and spreading cash in Tallahassee.

It poured $67,500 into the Republican Party of Florida, which donated thousands to Bondi’s campaign and paid thousands more for her consultants, polling, travel, phones and staff.

...

It hired the powerhouse law firm of GrayRobinson to lobby on its behalf and GrayRobinson staffers directly poured more than $10,000 into Bondi’s campaign beginning in 2010, the year Millennium hired the firm. Bondi’s first chief of staff was a GrayRobinson lawyer.

No wonder Donald Trump knew he’d get his money’s worth from Bondi.

Omar Mateen was gay, former classmate says

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Monday June 13, 2016 · 6:36 PM PDT

2016/06/13 · 18:36

Now this makes sense. So often homophobia is rooted in insecurity about one’s own sexuality.

www.palmbeachpost.com/…

A former classmate of Omar Mateen’s 2006 police academy class said he believed Mateen was gay, saying Mateen once asked him out.

Additionally, the LA Times is also reporting that Mateen had visited the Pulse nightclub before and used a gay dating app.

www.latimes.com/…

At least four regular customers of Pulse, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender nightclub where the massacre took place, told the Orlando Sentinel on Monday that they believed they had seen Mateen there before.

His father appears to be in denial:

Mateen’s father emphatically told The Post Monday that his son was not gay.

“If he was gay, why would he do something like this?” Seddique Mateen asked.

Allen West not going down easy

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Wednesday November 07, 2012 · 8:33 AM PST

2012/11/07 · 08:33

The disgraceful Florida Tea Party congressman lost in a tight race to Democrat Patrick Murphy last night (the race has been called by at least NBC News, not sure about others).

But this morning he released the following statement:

"This race is far from decided and there is no rush to declare an outcome. Ensuring a fair and accurate counting of all ballots is of the utmost importance. There are still tens of thousands of absentee ballots to be counted in Palm Beach County and potential provisional ballots across the district.
Late last night Congressman West maintained a district-wide lead of nearly 2000 votes until the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections "recounted" thousands of early ballots. Following that "recount" Congressman West trailed by 2,400 votes. In addition, there were numerous other disturbing irregularities reported at polls across St. Lucie County including the doors to polling places being locked when the polls closed, in direct violation of Florida law, thereby preventing the public from witnessing the procedures used to tabulate results. The St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections office clearly ignored proper rules and procedures, and the scene at the Supervisor's office last night could only be described as complete chaos. Given the hostility and demonstrated incompetence of the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections, we believe it is critical that a full hand recount of the ballots take place in St. Lucie County. We will continue to fight to ensure every vote is counted properly and fairly, and accordingly will pursue all legal means necessary."

We could be in for a delay of a week or more on this one, folks.

Please just take you ball and go home, Col. West! You have a Palin-esque career spewing offensive idiocy on FoxNews ahead of you. Why delay it?

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