NOTHING IS FAIR
OR UNFAIR, NOR SIMPLE, WHEN STAKES ARE HIGH
COMPILATION AND
COMMENTARY
BY LUCY WARNER
JUNE 13, 2020
A CORONATION IT
WILL BE, I SEE. IT’S THE WAY IT HAS TO HAPPEN, I SUPPOSE, BUT IT IS DISAPPOINTING.
ONE GOOD THING ABOUT IDEALISTIC THINKING IS THAT IT IS MORE THAN CHILDLIKE FANTASY.
IT IS THE GUIDE THAT MUST BE FOLLOWED TOWARD ANYTHING GOOD, AND SINCE CHANGE IS
ALWAYS OCCURRING, IT NEEDS TO BE GOOD CHANGE. I WILL FOLLOW ON.
IF BIDEN DID
ATTACK TARA READE IN THE WAY SHE DESCRIBES, HE WILL NEVER BE FULLY TRUSTED BY
ANYONE AGAIN. HE WILL WIN NOW, BUT NEVER BE SECURE, AND A WOMAN WILL HAVE BEEN
SACRIFICED TO THE GOAL OF ACHIEVING POWER. DARK TIMES.
Washington
journalist: 'I want a coronation' of Biden, not an investigation of
allegations
BY JOE CONCHA -
05/05/20 04:38 PM EDT
Washington journalist
Martin Tolchin in a letter to the editor published Tuesday in The New
York Times argued that he wants a "coronation" for former Vice
President Joe Biden and not an investigation of a sexual assault allegation
against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
“I don’t want
an investigation. I want a coronation of Joe Biden," Tolchin, a founder of
Politico who is also a former top editor of The Hill, wrote in the piece.
"Would he
make a great president? Unlikely. Would he make a good president? Good enough.
Would he make a better president than the present occupant? Absolutely,” Tolchin
wrote in a letter headlined "Joe Biden and Tara Reade: Whom to
Believe?"
Reade is a
former Senate staffer who has accused Biden of sexual assault in an incident
that allegedly took place in 1993. Biden has denied the allegation.
The Times in an
editorial last week called on the Democratic National Committee to investigate
Reade's allegations.
“His campaign,
and his party, have a duty to assure the public that the accusations are being
taken seriously,” the board wrote.
Tolchin,
however, said he was prioritizing ending Trump's presidency.
Some Democrats
say charges against Biden merit independent...
Warren calls
Biden's denial of sexual assault claim 'credible' and '...
“I don’t want
justice, whatever that may be. I want a win, the removal of Donald Trump from
office, and Mr. Biden is our best chance,” he wrote.
“Suppose an
investigation reveals damaging information concerning his relationship with
Tara Reade or something else, and Mr. Biden loses the nomination to Senator
Bernie Sanders or someone else with a minimal chance of defeating Mr. Trump.
Should we really risk the possibility?”
Tolchin was
also a former member of the New York Times’s Washington bureau.
SOMETIMES
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE A GOOD LAWSUIT. SPEAKING ELOQUENTLY ON THE PRINCIPLES JUST
GOES OUT THE WINDOW WHEN NOBODY’S PLAYING BY THE RULES.
Judge orders
Sanders, others to be reinstated to New York primary ballot
BY TAL AXELROD
- 05/05/20 07:31 PM EDT 2
PHOTOGRAPH –
Bernie Sanders holding a microphone ©
Greg Nash
A federal judge
issued a ruling Tuesday requiring New York to hold its presidential primary in
June and restore Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other former presidential
contenders to the ballot.
The ruling from
Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York, an Obama appointee,
said that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) decision to scrap his state’s primary
violated the First and 14th Amendment rights of White House contenders who have
since ended their campaigns.
“The Court
concludes that Plaintiffs and Plaintiff-Intervenors have shown a clear and
substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the
Democratic Commissioners’ April 27 Resolution removing Yang, Sanders, and eight
other Democratic presidential candidates from the ballot deprived them of
associational rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the
Constitution,” Torres ruled, referring to entrepreneur Andrew Yang, another
former presidential candidate who filed the lawsuit against New York.
Cuomo first
announced in April that he was cancelling New York’s presidential primary after
Sanders dropped out of the race and essentially locked up Biden’s claim to
the Democratic nomination. Still, Sanders had declared that he planned on
remaining on upcoming primary ballots to win more delegates, who can work to
influence the party’s platform at this summer’s Democratic National Convention.
“We shouldn’t
have nonessential primaries. There is only one candidate who is
running,” New York Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs said at the
time.
Cuomo’s
decision was met with an outcry from progressives who said the move would
block progressives from promoting their candidate and hinder efforts to bridge
divides between centrists and liberals within the party that continue to
play out from 2016.
“Senator
Sanders wishes to remain on the ballot, and is concerned that his removal
from the ballot would undermine efforts to unify the Democratic Party in
advance of the general election,” Malcolm Seymour, an attorney representing the
Sanders campaign, wrote at the time to Andrew Spano, the commissioner for the
New York State Board of Elections.
Torres wrote
Tuesday that she agreed with progressives’ concerns, arguing that the
cancellation could disenfranchise New York voters.
“[T]he removal
of presidential contenders from the primary ballot not only deprived those
candidates of the chance to garner votes for the Democratic Party’s nomination,
but also deprived their pledged delegates of the opportunity to run for a
position where they could influence the party platform, vote on party
governance issues, pressure the eventual nominee on matters of personnel or
policy, and react to unexpected developments at the Convention,” she
wrote.
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“And it
deprived Democratic voters of the opportunity to elect delegates who could push
their point of view in that forum.”
Despite New
York’s ruling and his position as the presumptive nominee, Biden appeared to
be aware of concerns that depriving Sanders of the chance to rack up more
delegates could spark a progressive backlash. Biden and Sanders last week
announced a deal that would allow the Vermont lawmaker to keep hundreds of
delegates he’d won during the primary race.
“While Senator
Sanders is no longer actively seeking the nomination, the Biden campaign feels
strongly that it is in the best interest of the party and the effort to defeat
Donald Trump in November to come to an agreement regarding these issues that
will ensure representation of Sanders supporters and delegate candidates, both
on the floor and in committees,” both the Biden and Sanders campaigns said in a
memo.
TAGS BERNIE
SANDERS ANDREW CUOMO DONALD TRUMP ANDREW YANG 2020 DEMOCRATIC
RACE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES JOE BIDEN
FLORIDA, MY
SECOND HOME, HAS GORGEOUS WATER AND BIRDS, BUT THE POLITICS IS BILGEWATER. SOME
YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS AT AN OUTDOOR DEMOCRATIC RALLY, A BIPLANE CAME FLYING
OVER LOW, PULLING A BANNER SAYING, “FLORIDA IS BUSH COUNTRY.” JEB BUSH WAS THE
OPPOSITION. SO MUCH FOR WEALTH BREEDING GENTLEMEN.
Democratic
super PAC sues Florida officials over mail-in voting limits
BY KAELAN DEESE
- 05/05/20 03:19 PM EDT
PHOTOGRAPH –
Boxes of mail-in ballots
Florida
officials were sued by a Democratic Super PAC Monday over laws that could
limit mail-in voting for the presidential election in a pivotal swing state
in the 2020 White House race.
The suit was
filed in a joint legal challenge with Priorities USA, Florida Alliance for
Retired Americans, and some individuals to counter terms they say could limit
voter turnout from mail or absentee ballots in November due to the coronavirus,
according to Politico.
The lawsuit reportedly
named several Republican officials as defendants, such as Gov. Ron DeSantis,
Secretary of State Laurel Lee, Attorney General Ashley Moody, along with some
Florida election officials.
The state is an
important one in the November presidential election. President Trump
narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton there in 2016 by just 1.2 percent of the vote.
Some recent polling has shown presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with
a narrow lead over Trump in the Sunshine State.
The lawsuit
complains that due to the coronavirus, mail-in, and absentee voting is an
essential avenue for many voters to consider when deciding how to cast their
ballots, adding that currents laws create blockades that could violate voters'
rights in the state, Politico reported.
The complaint
questions the constitutionality of Florida's Election Day receipt deadline for
ballots received by mail, claiming that any ballot postmarked by November 3
should be accepted.
The case also
mentions that postage needed for mailed ballots would be considered a poll tax, along with
concerns that a current voter assistance ban restricts the right of
association and free speech, according to the report.
Priorities USA Chairman
Guy Cecil said in a written statement to Politico, "No Floridian
should ever be forced to choose between their health and exercising their right
to vote." He added that "Our country faces a once in a lifetime
health crisis, local and state leaders need to make sure that every Florida
voter has full, equal, and safe access to the ballot box in November."
The state has
already received one other federal complaint requesting a change to voting
rules during the March presidential preference primary, but that was pushed
back by a federal judge, the report said.
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Georgia, along
with 15 other state primary elections have been postponed or changed to vote-by-mail
as a result of the deadly virus.
Johns Hopkins
University data confirmed Florida has reported a culmination of 36,897
coronavirus cases and 1,423 deaths amid the virus outbreak.
The Hill
reached out to DeSantis's communications office but has not immediately heard
back.
TAGS -- RON
DESANTIS DONALD TRUMP HILLARY CLINTON JOE BIDEN FLORIDA MAIL-IN VOTING LAWSUIT
2020 ELECTIONS POSTAL VOTING ABSENTEE BALLOT
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