I came across this is little story today, it's not breaking news. I suspect that a member of the housekeeping staff knows something about the bomb threat that required the sweep for weapons.
According to police in Secaucus, the bomb threat — which later was determined to be bogus — was called in to Hudson Regional Hospital on July 18. During a search, bomb detection dogs led investigators to an unlocked office closet containing dozens of firearms.
Among the weapons were 11 handguns and 27 rifles or shotguns, according to police. The closet also contained a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine that was determined to be an assault rifle, and a 14-round high-capacity handgun magazine.
The arrested the guy the next day.
What the heck do you think this guy was doing? It sounds very ominous that he was keeping those weapons there.
I don't think so either. Clearly the people arrested misunderstood and did not set out to commit fraud and being lead off in handcuffs is a bit much. I would bet that due to the confusion talked about on the article some voters will be intimidated not to vote.
I would agree confusion, lack of intent, and yes handcuffs a bit much.
At least some of those people were encourage by others to register. Including one guy by a dmv employee when he even told the guy he wasn't eligible.
I would agree confusion, lack of intent, and yes handcuffs a bit much.
At least some of those people were encourage by others to register. Including one guy by a dmv employee when he even told the guy he wasn't eligible.
To me the question is how unqualified people were allowed to register to vote in the first place?
I think for most of the 20 arrested they registered to vote thinking it was legal for them to do so, and they were registered and made it through the system. Even DeSantis agrees that part of the problem was that they were allowed to register to vote.
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State law clearly spells out that it’s the state’s job to verify voter eligibility for all Floridians, including felons. Florida statute 98.075 says the Florida Department of State “shall protect the integrity of the electoral process by ensuring the maintenance of accurate and current voter registration records.”
Igor Danchenko, the primary source for the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, was acquitted Tuesday of four counts of lying to the FBI in an embarrassing defeat for special counsel John Durham.
Durham has taken two cases to trial, and both have ended in acquittals. After more than three years looking for misconduct in the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, Durham has only secured one conviction: the guilty plea of a low-level FBI lawyer, who got probation.
To be honest, I didn't even know this was going on.
Yep. It was the definition of a witch hunt. Durham set out to find evidence of Trump's claims. That makes him a foolish man, in my view. It hasn't gone well for him on the win side, but I bet the pay and benefits are good.
Making voting difficult or a crime is a tactic authoritarians as they try to take over democracies. How are you unaware of this basic reality? They also create a sense of division and animosity between citizen groups and undermine confidence in government institutions. Does any of that sound familiar to you?
The UK isn't interested in more conservative "trickle down" ideology.
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Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain said on Thursday that she would resign, just days after her new finance minister reversed virtually all of her planned tax cuts, sweeping away a free-market fiscal agenda that promised a radical policy shift for Britain but instead plunged the country into weeks of economic and political turmoil.
Her departure after only six weeks in office — the shortest tenure ever for a British prime minister — was a rapid fall from power that throws her Conservative Party into further disarray, following the messy departure of Boris Johnson over the Summer. She said she would remain party leader and prime minister until a successor is chosen within a week.
But did the party wasn't her as leader after that spectacle of failure to listen or follow sound advice?
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Ms. Truss’s political viability became tenuous after her proposals for broad unfunded tax cuts roiled markets and sent the pound’s value plunging. She suffered a grave blow on Monday, when her newly appointed chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, said that the government was undoing the last vestiges of Ms. Truss’s tax proposals. That announcement constituted one of the most dramatic reversals in modern British political history, and a humiliating repudiation of Ms. Truss’s leadership.
Do political conservatives feel humiliation in the UK because they don't seem to feel that here in the USA, even when caught in bold lies.
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I would agree confusion, lack of intent, and yes handcuffs a bit much.
At least some of those people were encourage by others to register. Including one guy by a dmv employee when he even told the guy he wasn't eligible.
Let us know when this actually happens.