Tag Archives: GOP

Trump-Backed House Candidate Wanted For Murder

Las Vegas’s Fox affiliate reports: A former Congressional candidate and professional wrestler is wanted for murder in Las Vegas, according to court records. Records show Daniel Stephen Rodimer has a warrant issued for an open murder charge in Las Vegas Justice Court. A request for the warrant was issued March 5, records show. Jail records do not show Rodimer in …

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GOP AGs To YouTube: Drop Abortion Pill Fact-Check

The Christian Post reports: A coalition of 16 attorneys general has demanded that YouTube remove information labels attached to videos discussing chemical abortions that they argue are “misleading” to viewers. In a letter sent to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on Monday, the attorneys general argued that the information panels the company included below videos on the popular video-sharing platform “misleads …

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Robinson: Women Shouldn’t Have The Right To Vote

The Huffington Post reports: On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters. “I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by …

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Kansas AG Sues TikTok For “Promoting Filth To Kids”

Topeka’s ABC affiliate reports: The Kansas Attorney General’s Office announced his office has filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, March 6 in Shawnee County District Court against social media company TikTok for misrepresenting its age-appropriateness in app stores, deceiving parents about the effectiveness of its parental tools and creating and aggressively promoting an addictive app that erodes the mental health of …

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New Ad Roasts “Extreme” NC Gov Nominee [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: The Democratic Governor’s Association dropped a new ad attacking the GOP candidate for governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, just as the results were coming in that he would win his primary on Tuesday night. The Democrat’s pouncing so quickly on Robinson is a signal they see him as a particularly weak candidate in a crucial swing state …

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House Approves Spending Bill To Avert Govt Shutdown

Reuters reports: The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation funding a broad swath of the federal government through the fiscal year that began in October, as yet another threat of a partial shutdown looms. The House voted 339-85 for the bill with 83 Republicans in opposition. It now goes to the Senate for passage by Friday, before …

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CA City’s Voters Ban Pride Flags On Public Property

Yahoo News reports: The rainbow Pride flag and other nongovernmental banners will no longer fly on city property in Huntington Beach, California, an oceanside side community that has become a hotbed for broader culture wars.  More than 58% of voters cast ballots in favor of Measure B. Measure B prohibits the display of Pride, breast cancer awareness and religious flags, …

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Man Charged With Trying To Scam Infamous Scammer

NBC News reports: Federal prosecutors have charged a Texas man they say tried to scam former Rep. George Santos as well as an actor, a musician and a professional athlete by falsely suggesting he could help get criminal charges dropped. Hector Medina, Jr., was arrested in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, and faces charges in the Eastern …

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Florida Approves Kindergarten Classes On Communism

Florida Politics reports: The mistakes made by the Soviets, the Chinese and other communist regimes are one step closer to being part of Florida K-12 classrooms. The House passed by a 106-7 vote SB 1264, a “History of Communism” product previously passed by a 25-7 vote in the Senate, putting the bill on a path for a Gov. Ron DeSantis …

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Cultist Rep Defeats Cultist Rep In US House Race

Roll Call reports: Rep. Barry Moore defeated fellow GOP Rep. Jerry Carl [photo] in the primary in Alabama’s 1st District Tuesday, bringing to a close a contentious member-vs.-member election. A Republican in his second term, Moore campaigned as a loyal supporter of Trump, touting his votes against supplemental funding for Ukraine and his support for a border wall. Moore and …

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Court: Vaseline Woman Must Face Defamation Lawsuit

Law & Crime reports: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake failed to keep Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s (R) defamation lawsuit on hold Tuesday, meaning the case move towards discovery and trial. In an orders list, the Arizona Supreme Court, having denied Lake’s petition for review, rejected the attorneys’ fees request and ordered the stay lifted. The allegedly defamatory Lake …

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Prosecutors: No Charges For Mr. Moms For Threeways

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports: The State Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday it will not charge former Florida Republican Party chairman Christian Ziegler with video voyeurism in connection with an alleged rape that authorities also declined to prosecute. Three assistants in State Attorney Ed Brodsky’s office explained the decision in a memo released Wednesday morning. The memo capped a protected investigation launched …

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Johnson Moves To Defund Federal Law Enforcement

Mediaite reports: Republicans often campaign on their commitment to supporting law enforcement, but during a press conference on Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) declared that he will push for cuts to several federal law enforcement agencies. He lamented crime rates — even though crime rates are down — seconds before announcing that he’d push for cuts to agencies that exist …

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SC GOP Bill Bans All Future “Emergency Use” Vaccines

The Charleston City Paper reports: A state Senate committee will soon consider legislation that would dramatically curtail the authority of state health officials during future public health emergencies, such as pandemics or biological terror attacks. Dubbed the Medical Freedom Act by supporters, the bill would prohibit the state’s health department from securing and distributing vaccines or other drugs during a …

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McConnell Finally Bends The Knee To Glorious Leader

The Washington Post reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) endorsed Donald Trump for president on Wednesday after years of acrimony between the two men, cementing Trump’s continued hold on the Republican Party. “It is abundantly clear that former President Trump has earned the requisite support of Republican voters to be our nominee for President of the United States,” McConnell …

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LIVE VIDEO: Nikki Haley Announces End Of Campaign

The Greenville News reports: Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will drop out of the 2024 presidential race in a Wednesday address. Haley will make the announcement in a 10 am speech from Charleston, S.C. where her campaign has been based for the last year. She will not immediately endorse former President Donald Trump, who has been losing a not …

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MTG To British Reporter: “Why Don’t You Fuck Off?”

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at a British reporter on Tuesday night who asked her about Jewish space lasers, telling the broadcaster to “fuck off.” MTG was approached by former BBC journalist Emily Maitlis at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Super Tuesday. What started out as a fairly amicable exchange rapidly went …

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DeSantis Gets Bill Requiring Permit To Sleep In Public

Florida Politics reports: The Senate has passed a House bill creating a new financial obligation on localities by banning homeless people from sleeping in public, setting the stage for a Gov. Ron DeSantis priority becoming law. The measure from Rep. Sam Garrison (HB 1365), passed by a 27-12 vote after being substituted for the Senate version, would ban counties and …

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RNC Rejects Vote To Ban Paying Trump’s Legal Bills

The Hill reports: The Republican National Committee (RNC) failed to earn enough support from states to bring a resolution to ban paying former President Trump’s legal bills to a vote. Henry Barbour, who serves as Mississippi’s national committeeman, confirmed to several news outlets that the resolutions he drafted that would have prohibited the committee from covering the former president’s growing …

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Holocaust Denier Wins NC GOP Gubernatorial Primary

The Guardian reports: Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor who has a history of making inflammatory comments and has said he would abolish abortion rights, has won the state’s Republican nomination for governor.  He has described Covid-19 as a “globalist” conspiracy to destroy Donald Trump. In 2021, he criticized efforts to teach LGBTQ+ issues in sex education, referring to transgender …

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