MY LATEST HEROES—RESIST; RESIST; RESIST:--10-04-18:
www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/a-former-obama-operative-built-a-new-anti-republican-attack-machine One evening in September, Tanya, a consultant at a big New York firm, was on her laptop scrutinizing public records and reading posts on VKontakte, the Russian social network, involving Representative Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican congressman from California.
She was looking for dirt. On the other side of the country, Genevieve, a science teacher in San Diego, was doing the same. So was Vadim, an insurance representative in Phoenix. And they weren’t alone.
Tanya, Genevieve, and Vadim have never met and probably never will. But they have two things in common: They’re members of the so-called Resistance, working to oust Republicans.
And they’re being directed by a former J.P. Morgan banker named John Burton, who’s become a field general of sorts in the liberal opposition—and soon, he hopes, the cause of consternation and, ultimately, unemployment for dozens of Republican lawmakers in races from Maine to California.
Before he was a banker, Burton, 38, was a practitioner of the dark art of opposition research, or “oppo”—digging up and surreptitiously deploying damaging information about politicians. As it did for so many people, Donald Trump’s election turned Burton’s life upside down. He quit his job, joined a Resistance group, and devoted himself to returning his country to the path he’d believed it was on when he worked for Barack Obama’s campaign a decade ago.
Some Resisters march or knock on doors; others raise money or run for office. Burton felt his gifts lay elsewhere: namely, in tearing down political opponents. Over the past year, backed by mysterious donors, he’s organized what may be the most audacious grass-roots project in the age of Trump.
Burton has amassed an army of 16,000 amateur sleuths who, with professional guidance, have spent months ferreting out damaging material on scores of vulnerable Republicans in Congress and state legislatures.
Now he’s ready to unleash it just in time for the midterms. As he told me, “We’re going to do with real information and real Americans what the Russians tried to do with fake information and fake Americans.”
Then, in April, as the group approached 300,000 members, Moser announced she was moving to Texas to run for Congress. “It’s just one of those things that was happening right after Trump,” he says. “People were quitting their jobs to start Resistance groups, and then quitting their Resistance groups to run for Congress.”
Citizen Strong’s volunteer army has come together at a propitious moment. Not only has the Trump-fueled tumult of the past two years made hundreds of Republican incumbents vulnerable, but the past decade has seen an explosion of information sources that anybody can mine.
“There’s so much just sitting out there that’s been made available through sunshine laws, through states posting personal financial disclosures and putting lobbyist disclosures online, and through social media,” Burton says. “There’s just a ton of content, far more than there was when I was starting out 10 years ago.”
Burton laughs as he shares more highlights of what his researchers turned up, tidbits he’s not yet willing to put on the record. Sometimes, it’s best to spring the trap at the last moment. “This is what gets found when you have an army who can read every line of every document,” he says.
After Nov. 6, we’ll know if that’s enough to hand political power back to the Democrats. READ MORE…
--10-04-18: BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO:
us.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/virginia-liberal-women-weir/index.html Midlothian, Virginia (CNN) — There is a lesbian lawyer, a dentist from Pakistan and a white Christian married to a Muslim. There are first-time Democrats in designer blouses and grandmothers in hand-knit blue wave hats (pussy ears are so 2017) and a soccer mom in chemotherapy at the helm.
Together, this improvised persisterhood is known as The Liberal Women of Chesterfield County and Beyond.
They are another sign of this year of the political woman, when record numbers of female candidates are standing for election. They are a sign of the need to be heard and to achieve results for women on the left, who took to the streets in protest after Donald Trump's inauguration.
Their anger is being stoked by the rancorous Supreme Court nomination hearings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as accusations from decades ago mount against him.
But instead of the feelings of helplessness and confusion that reigned two years ago after Trump beat Hillary Clinton, they know now what to do.
From 1 to 4,000
The Liberal Women of Chesterfield County and Beyond are what concentrated, motivated female anger looks like in person.
They are almost 4,000 strong, enough to flip a red county blue.
And they started with one woman, a lot of wine and Facebook.
Rallying around a first-timer
JFK was in the White House the last time Chesterfield County voted Democrat for governor, but last year when a doctor named Ralph Northam won the county by hundreds of votes, the women saw it as validation.
They are now rallied around Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA operative and one of the many female first-timers on the midterm ballots around America.
She would have to unseat Rep. Dave Brat, a man who rode a wave of male, Republican anger into power in 2014, upsetting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the process. READ MORE…
ANGRY WHITE MALES TALKING OUT OF THEIR ASSES & SPEWING THEIR DISGUSTING DARK AGE BELIEFS & HATE TOWARDS WOMEN & OTHERS…10-05-18:
www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/trump-supporter-53-is-charged-after-making-threats-to-kill-democrat-senators-and-weak-republicans-if-they-vote-against-brett-kavanaugh/ar-BBNXYog?li=BBnb7Kz A man in Florida has been arrested after he threatened to shoot senators who don't support Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, authorities said.
James Royal Patrick Jr. was arrested at 4pm on Wednesday and charged with making written threats to kill or injure, Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
Investigators say they received an email tip at 11am that day about threatening posts Patrick, 53, made on this public Facebook page last month.
Authorities said that Patrick threatened to shoot members of Congress and their families depending on which way the confirmation vote went.
He also made threats against any local and federal law enforcement officers that might respond to his home.
Besides threatening Democrats and 'weak Republicans' who might oppose Kavanaugh, Patrick also encouraged conservatives to break into liberals' homes and kill them in their sleep.
'Getting ready if Kav is not confirmed….whoever I think is to blame may God have mercy on their soul,' he said in one post on September 22.
'I expect to be confronted and I will be ready to kill and ready to die.'
'I can tell it seems I will be sacrificing my life for my country,' he said in another post on September 27.
'But I am ready and will know who needs to be killed after the vote to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.
'I believe democrats need to be afraid to do what they are doing right now and weak republicans that do not vote for him need to pay with their lives.'
In another, he said: 'I can't do this by myself! Need more conservatives going into liberals' homes at night killing them in their sleep!'
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us.cnn.com/2018/10/03/us/brooklyn-college-professor-kavanaugh-comments-protests/index.html Brooklyn College students are calling for administrators to fire a professor who seemed to dismiss sexual assault by teenage boys in a blog post the teacher now says was an attempt at satire.
Last week, Mitchell Langbert, a business professor for 20 years, wrote: "
If someone did not commit sexual assault in high school, then he is not a member of the male sex."The Democrats have discovered that 15-year-olds play spin-the-bottle, and they have jumped on a series of supposed spin-the-bottle crimes during (Supreme Court nominee Brett) Kavanaugh's minority, which they characterize as rape, although no one complained or reported any crime for 40 years."
FBI investigation expands but Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford have not yet been interviewed
The blog post was reposted in a private group for some 5,000 students and alumni.
Some students were outraged. Corrinne Greene said her campus group, Young Progressives of America, wants Langbert fired.
"To have someone in a position of power espousing sexual assault is not a joke. It's something that needs to be taken seriously," she said.
She has organized a protest for 12:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Langbert, a 64-year-old associate professor who teaches on weekends, said the post was parody, and he apologized to anyone who was offended.
"I was trying to be satirical, but I guess I'm no Jonathan Swift," he said, referring to the Irish author from the 1700s. "I appreciated that it may have been in bad taste and I have apologized for that and I will again. I'm sorry people got offended.
I didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings or cause them to not feel respected. I honestly didn't expect them to read it."
He said he has turned over threats of violence toward him to authorities.
Kavanaugh, a US appeals court judge, has been accused by Christine Blasey Ford of sexual assault while the two were high schoolers in the early 1980s. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied the allegations.
Langbert wrote in his blog that the Senate committee hearing last week at which Ford and Kavanaugh testified was a travesty and that the Democratic Party has become "a party of tutu-wearing pansies, totalitarian sissies who lack virility, a sense of decency, or the masculine judgment that has characterized the greatest civilizations."Brooklyn College Provost Anne Lopes called the comments in the post abhorrent and counter to the values of the school community.
"However, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects even speech that many experience as offensive, such as the faculty member's post," she said. Lopes added that officials will plan a forum to discuss the issue.
In his original post Langbert also wrote:
"In the future, having committed sexual assault in high school ought to be a prerequisite for all appointments, judicial and political. Those who did not play spin-the-bottle when they were 15 should not be in public life."--10-04-18:
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/okla-professor-leaves-admin-post-over-comments-about-women/ar-BBNV0Sh?li=BBnbcA1 NORMAN, Okla. — A University of Oklahoma law professor has resigned from his administrative position following criticism of passages in his 2014 book in which he said women should not wear pants because they
"must veil their form ... out of charity toward men."Brian McCall resigned Tuesday as associate dean for academic affairs at the university's College of Law after the OU Daily student newspaper earlier published passages from his book "To Build the City of God: Living as Catholics in a Secular Age." He will continue as a professor at the college.
McCall also wrote
that women leaving the home to work is "another false promise of the devil come to pass."
