Black gay actor Jussie Smollett goes on trial for staging `racist', `homophobic' attack against himself
Wokeism and transgenderism, “gay rights” in the older version of the same ideological dimension, are extremely empowering tools for those arrogant enough to abuse the idiotic self-inflicted vulnerability of the American public with respect to “sensitivity”, “offense”, “hurt feelings” and other manip ...
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Wil they or won't they go free?
Jury selection starts today for three white men accused in the killing of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in southeastern Georgia. Arbury’s killing was one of several deaths last year that triggered racial justice protests nationwide.
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NY Cops Searching for Woman Behind Arson Attack on Brooklyn Jewish School
NYPD Arrest Woman in Anti-Semitic Arson Attack at Yeshiva of Flatbush HS
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Salena was one of the few to predict Trump's victory because she is an old time investigative reporter who moves among the people and interviews one on one.
Does Erie County race offer preview of coming elections?
By Salena Zito
ERIE, Pa. — Corey Cook is walking past the façades of several buildings under construction that line the perimeter of Perry Square, an urban park framed by City Hall, an old library, a federal courthouse, the Erie Insurance building and the reconstruction of several older structures long in need of either repair or occupancy that he is overseeing.
Mr. Cook, 36, is a logistics man, which made him perfect for his new job for the local downtown economic development group; his task is to figure out how to get affordable fresh groceries to the people who need them the most here in one of the USDA’s designated food deserts.
The father of five who spent 16 years at UPS doing everything from working on the truck to scheduling, dispatch and overseeing the union drivers could have taken his talents anywhere in the country, but Mr. Cook said he stayed because of his rootedness to his hometown and his belief that to keep or bring young people here starts by investing in the city.
In a little more than two weeks, Mr. Cook — and everyone else in this northwestern Pennsylvania county — will cast their votes for county executive, an election Mr. Cook argues is more important than the presidential elections that prompt national candidates and the media to parachute in to use this largely blue-collar county as a backdrop.
Erie County famously, narrowly flipped for Donald Trump in 2016, marking the first time a Republican had won the county in a presidential election in decades; four years later, Joe Biden narrowly won it back. The voters here swung their votes back and forth for two specific reasons: In 2016 they went for Mr. Trump because they believed no one in Washington had listened to their concerns for a long time; in 2020 they went for Mr. Biden because the pandemic had turned their lives upside down and they wanted the calmness he promised.
While most people outside of Erie County won’t be paying attention to its county executive race, the contest has the potential to offer a peek into the mood of electorally significant places in the country at the moment. And the two candidates here have delineated two very different approaches to the issues that matter in this local race.
Democrat Tyler Titus, the Erie City school board president, did initially attract a considerable amount of national attention in May, becoming the first openly transgender candidate to win a primary for countywide executive office.
Mr. Titus has run on a platform important to progressives, such as equity in the workplace, creating jobs in renewable energy, making it easier for workers to unionize and undoing systemic racism in the criminal justice system.
Republican Brenton Davis, a Navy veteran, retired reservist and a small-business owner, is running on rethinking how to attract economic growth in the county, no new taxes, having the local schools develop trades union career paths for their students and meaningfully addressing the roots of Erie’s poverty problem.
Erie County is many things to many people, but one thing it never is: the post-industrial wasteland the national press has too often portrayed during coverage of the past two presidential elections.
For generations it has been the working-class families’ beach — families from Pittsburgh, Ohio’s Mahoning Valley and the panhandle of West Virginia descend upon Presque Isle and the county’s 13 beaches every summer to bask, bike or hike the trails, or to swim and fish and boat in the bay.
The county is also filled with rich rolling farmlands, a booming wine industry, top-notch health care and insurance industries, several sprawling universities and a number of small precision manufacturing companies, all of which helped transform and supplement the losses the county felt when the heavy-manufacturing base that had built this Great Lakes port city collapsed.
Mr. Cook said as each company left and nothing took its place, he saw how it broke up communities: “When I go into the voting booth, I will be looking for which candidate wants to bring the kinds of development that don’t just attract people here, but keep people here as well.”
He watched members of his own family leave, “so I vowed to stick around and be part of making it better. I love Erie. My children are the fourth generation here, and I want to make sure that we do all that we can to make them want to stay. Whoever wins the county executive race will have a direct impact on our daily lives, beginning with economic development. If we aren’t creating new jobs and new reasons to draw people to come to Erie or to stay here, all we will be doing here is managing the decline.”
County executive races rarely gain national attention. The job is quintessentially local: to be a good manager, run government efficiently and attract new business development.
Erie County has 177,000 voters; 96,000 (54%) of them are Democrats and 69,000 (39%) are Republicans, according to the latest Pennsylvania State Department records, which means in registration, every Democratic candidate here starts with a significant numerical advantage.
Since 1978, there have been six county executives; two were Republicans.
Take away asking someone what party they’re in — or which candidate they like — and instead ask, “What’s the most important thing you want from the person in government who has the most direct impact in your life?” and the answers may give you a hint as to what really matters in an election — and who may win.
Erie County, like the rest of the state, votes Nov. 2.
Listening to voters here may also give you a hint — in arguably one of the most important counties in the state — what is important to voters looking ahead to Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial, congressional and U.S. Senate races next year.
Micah Chernicky emerges from the construction trailer on the corner of State and Fifth streets to talk to some of the workers at one of three projects he is overseeing in downtown Erie. “I’m a superintendent for all the projects down here,” he said.
Shouting over the noise of the digger, Mr. Chernicky said he employs over 200 people at the job sites, most from the Erie area. He grew up in nearby Edinboro, is a father of five, and he and his family now live in Waterford, just south of the city in Erie County.
“When I walk in to vote in November, I won’t be thinking about any political party,” he said. “What I will be thinking about is my job and my career, that no one is raising taxes and who has run on making sure my kids are going to have a good future here if they choose to stay. It’s not about just right now, but knowing that the community is going to be OK for the next generation and the generation after that.” He, too, is a member of a family that has been here for several generations.
Linda Atkinson, 69, is walking around the city square, people-watching mostly, she said, and enjoying the activities.
“I am not an Erie native, but my husband is,” she said; “we live at the High Point Towers high rise,” an apartment building several blocks away.
She said she enjoys watching all of the young people who are here when all of the colleges are in session. “It is just so great to have all of that energy and youth in the city park and in the coffee shops,” she said.
But when it comes to elections and government, there are limits.
On this day, behind Mrs. Atkinson in the park, are several older men and the distinct odor of marijuana. “A lot of those problems,” she said, “start in the home, and I don’t think that is something you can govern your way out of.”
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When we can no longer rely upon election results then the death knell of this nation is a fait accompli:
What the press is leaving out about the Arizona election audit
By Michael Kimmitt
The ethical corruption of our national news media has extended to a degree that once would have seemed unimaginable. We were exposed to yet another remarkable example with the reporting on the long-awaited audit of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona.
Widespread election fraud had been suspected in Maricopa County, the largest in the state, and the state Legislature authorized a thorough forensic investigation. A draft of the election report was leaked to the press last week, and every news outlet quickly released selectively chosen details. The message was straightforward. The audit proved that Joe Biden had actually won the state's presidential election by even more than originally reported and thoroughly discredited charges of election fraud.
While the audit did find that a hand-recount of all of the original ballots did widen Joe Biden's margin by several hundred votes, the press deliberately and steadfastly ignored and left unreported the most critical results of the draft audit. Included among those original ballots, the most comprehensive election audit ever conducted established the following:
More than 23,000 mail-in votes were cast under voter IDs from people who should not have received their ballots by mail because they had moved.
More than 10,000 voters cast ballots in more than one county.
More than 9,000 mail-in ballots were returned and counted than had been mailed out of registered voters.
Thousands of official results did not match those who voted, and thousands more were cast in person in the name of those who had moved out of state.
Logs and data files related to the election had been deliberately erased from the Election Management System (EMS) server, in violation of the law.
Thousands of original ballots were duplicated more than once.
Auditors were never provided required chain-of-custody documentation for the ballots, causing increased ambiguity regarding the accuracy of the election results.
None of the various systems related to the election had numbers that would balance and agree with one another.
Maricopa County officials actively interfered with the audit, withheld subpoena items, and refused to answer questions that are normally standard in such audits.
These and innumerable other irregularities were clearly identified and discussed in detail throughout the 114-page draft audit, but the mainstream press focused on a single paragraph that reported a slight difference in hand recount of the original ballots that included a large number of apparently fraudulently cast votes.
Details of the audit will be sent to the Arizona attorney general for possible criminal prosecution, and a number of recommendations are on the way to the state Legislature seeking laws to eliminate widespread election fraud. The purpose of the forensic audit was not to overturn the 2020 election, but to prevent future election corruption that was rampant in Maricopa County and elsewhere last year. The news media reported none of this.
In 2000, the presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore was extended for weeks by seven Democrat appointees on the rogue Florida Supreme Court. And the media, which had done all they could to manipulate the reporting on Election Day by falsely declaring the swing state's outcome, desperately stayed on in hopes of finding proof their candidate should have won.
A consortium of a dozen major news outlets spent more than a million dollars and a year of effort only to reluctantly concede that Bush had won after all. But twenty years later, the same companies had not the slightest interest to investigate innumerable reports of election fraud nationwide, while ridiculing all those who wanted to find out what really happened.
The performance of the press was shameful twenty years ago. It is repugnant now.
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