11 Republican Congressmen Demand Probe of Hillary, Comey
On Wednesday, 11 members of Congress signed a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Chris Wray, and U.S. attorney John Huber asking them to conduct a criminal investigation into multiple members of the Obama administration. The congressmen involved are: Ron DeSantis, Andy Biggs, Dave Brat, Jeff Duncan, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Andy Harris, Jody Hice, Todd Rokita, Claudia Tenney, and Ted Yoho.
The 11 congressmen are calling for the criminal prosecution against Trump’s political enemies. They want prosecutions of not just Hillary Clinton, but also:
- Former FBI Director James Comey (for what the congressmen allege to be a politically motivated failure to prosecute Clinton, as well as for the allegedly illegal act of leaking his own notes to a friend)
- Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe (for the same “lack of candor” that was already the pretext for taking away his pension)
- Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch (for not prosecuting the Uranium One deal)
- FBI agent Peter Strzok and DOJ lawyer Lisa Page (for allegedly interfering with the Clinton email investigation)
- Separately, the prosecution calls for “all DOJ and FBI personnel responsible for signing the Carter Page warrant application,” which is Comey and McCabe plus former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates plus former US attorney (and current FBI general counsel) Dana Boente for allegedly violating Page’s civil liberties.
Tourist Industry pleads for San Francisco to clean up their streets
As president of S.F. Travel, the city’s visitor’s bureau, Joe D’Alessandro’s job is to promote San Francisco. You’d think he’d be hyping the city’s gorgeous vistas, top-notch restaurants and glorious museums, however, people are injecting themselves with drugs in broad daylight, throwing their dirty needles and other garbage on the sidewalks. Tent camps. Human feces. The threatening behavior of some people who appear either mentally ill or high. Petty theft.
“The streets are filthy. There’s trash everywhere. It’s disgusting,” D’Alessandro said, adding he’s traveled the world, and San Francisco stands out for the wrong reasons. “I’ve never seen any other city like this — the homelessness, dirty streets, drug use on the streets, smash-and-grabs. “How can it be?” he continued. “How can it have gotten to this point?”
Remember, this is the man whose job is to glorify San Francisco, which tells you something about how far the city has sunk. “We can’t be quiet anymore,” D’Alessandro said. “We’ve got such a glorious history, such a beautiful setting, and the fact is, we’re letting it all slip away into this quality of life now that is not good for anybody. We’ve become complacent, and I think we’ve taken this as a kind of new normal, and it’s not. It’s wrong, and we have to do something about it.” He said so many visitors are sending complaints to him about their experiences in San Francisco, that he’s got to speak up.
Business Insider estimated that there are 7,500 homeless people living in San Francisco in March of 2018. Over the past three years, San Francisco has spent close to $1 Billion dollars on the Homeless. The city struggles to track exactly how all that money is being spent and whether it’s producing results.
Tourism in San Francisco:
S.F. Travel projects that tourism in 2018 will see a 3 percent increase from 2017 with 26.3 million tourists visiting San Francisco. In 2017, 25.6 million people visited San Francisco and spent $9.10 billion. In 2016, 25.2 million people visited San Francisco and spent $8.98 billion. Of the money brought into the city from tourism, $725 million comes in the form of local taxes going straight to City Hall. That’s the money helping to fund San Francisco’s police officers, parks, libraries and, yes, homeless services.
California, Trump Administration Reach Deal on National Guard
The state of California said on Wednesday that it had reached a deal with the Trump administration to provide 400 National Guard troops to combat criminal gangs, human traffickers and illegal firearm and drug smugglers within the state and at the U.S. and Mexico border.
The deal comes after a U.S. Defense Department official last week said the Democratic-run state had declined a request to commit troops to Republican President Trump’s effort to send up to 4,000 National Guard troops to help the Department of Homeland Security secure the border with Mexico in four southwestern U.S. states.
California reached Wednesday's agreement after securing the federal government's commitment this week to fund the mission, Governor Jerry Brown's office said. The 400 agreed upon troops will be at the U.S.-Mexico border as well as throughout the states border.
The governor sent military personnel on the condition that “the California National Guard will not enforce immigration laws or participate in the construction of any new border barrier.”
On Tuesday, Jerry Brown told reporters in Washington that his plan was consistent with a safer border. “That sounds to me like fighting crime,” the governor said. “Trying to catch some desperate mothers and children, or unaccompanied minors coming from Central America, that sounds like something else.”
Parkland Survivors David Hogg and Lauren Hogg to Publish Book #Neveragain
On Wednesday, information came out that a new book, “#NEVERAGAIN: A New Generation Draws the Line” would be released on June 5th. The book is being written by siblings David Hogg, 17, and Lauren Hogg, 14, two of the students who survived the deadly mass shooting this year in Parkland, Florida.
The book will allegedly be focused on the Parkland shooting massacre and the gun-control movement that followed. The 128-page novel will also serve as a guide to the student-led movement and detail the “voices of a new generation that are speaking truth to power, and are determined to succeed where their elders have failed,” according to Penguin Random House, which is publishing the book.
Random House is calling the book “a moving portrait” of a new political movement. The publisher will make a donation to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization founded in 2014.
The Hoggs are allegedly donating their proceeds to charity and community organizations.
Mail Time:
- If they say Trump’s attorney is not acting like an attorney and seize his records, can journalists’ records be seized if they don't follow the journalist ethics/not acting in the capacity of a journalist? Maybe Sessions will go after leakers this way...
- Given the apparent success in communication so far on a scheduled meeting with Kim Jong‐un, do you think that if President Trump makes considerable progress on this front, could this have a large effect on the mid‐terms? How might Trump promote this factor as a reason to keep Republicans as a majority in congress?
- Bill,
I was always surprised when Obama would tote the unemployment rate being so low during his time in office and then Fox News and other conservative outlets reporting yes, but the labor participation rate was way high. Now that Trump is at 4.1 unemployment why don't I hear anything about the labor participation rate now. I would like to know that just to be fair and balanced. I don't hear that fact from anybody these days.
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