Top Facts Revealed By Hillary Clinton’s Financial Disclosure

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January 23, 2014 by

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya Gregory Hicks pushes back on the latest shameful attempt to shield Hillary Clinton’s State Department from blame for the security situation in Benghazi the night of the deadly attacks, namely that slain Ambassador Stevens unilaterally refused offers for more security from the military. As Hicks writes, it was actually a senior official in Washington, DC who refused Ambassador Stevens’ request for more security, and the Ambassador following protocol in declining the offers:

Some have been suggesting that the blame for this tragedy lies at least partly with Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the attack. This is untrue: The blame lies entirely with Washington. … [Read more…]

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January 22, 2014 by

On the Statue of Liberty, New York’s historic gateway to America, a plaque reads “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…just don’t give me your conservatives.” Or at least that’s what it would say if New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) had written it given his recent remarks that conservatives are not welcome in New York.

Cuomo - Conservatives Have No Place In New York

In a recent radio appearance Gov. Cuomo discussed the divisions within the Republican Party and asked:

“Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that’s who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”

 

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January 22, 2014 by

Yesterday, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the US Attorney’s Office had filed a complaint accusing two men of funneling illegal campaign donations into San Diego area election. One of those candidates, “Candidate 2,” benefited from a $30,000 donation to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee:

A representative for Candidate 2, who was running for federal office in November 2012, declined an offer for contributions because Azano didn’t have a green card and couldn’t legally contribute. Encinas then helped Azano contribute in the name of a straw donor instead. That donor received $380,000 from Azano in October 2012 and gave $30,000 to Candidate 2’s political party.

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The straw donor is described in the complaint as contributing $120,000 to a pro-Filner political-action committee and $30,000 to a political party committee — all money he received from the foreign national — in or around October 2012.

A review of campaign records seems to show that the only contributor fitting that description is Marc Chase, co-owner of Symbolic Motor Car Company in La Jolla.

He gave those exact donations in late September 2012 to a pro-Filner PAC and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The source close to the investigation also identified Chase as a subject of the federal probe.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the DCCC spent over $2 million to elect Peters and he was the only San Diego area candidate they spent money helping.

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January 22, 2014 by

In 2010, Montana Lt. Gov. John Walsh was formally reprimanded by the Army Vice Chief of Staff in a memo, following an Army Inspector General investigation, which found Walsh had broken federal government ethics regulations during his time as Adjutant General of the Montana National Guard. General Peter W. Chiarelli, who signed the memo, said Walsh’s “failure to adhere to Army Values causes me to question your ability to lead.” The memo went on to state, “Your actions were unacceptable, inconsistent with the conduct expected of our senior leaders.”

As reporting over the weekend showed, Walsh, who was appointed as Adjutant General in 2008, was a federally-recognized Colonel when he left the Guard in 2012 to run with Steve Bullock in the gubernatorial race – that’s the same rank he held when he was appointed to head the Guard. He was never promoted to the federally-recognized rank of general. That’s something that usually happens. In fact, Walsh is the only Adjutant General of the Montana National Guard since the late 1980s not to be promoted to general.

Walsh has said he doesn’t think he did anything wrong. Apparently his seniors in the Department of Defense disagreed.

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January 21, 2014 by

In a scene that has probably played out countless times throughout her political career, Alison Lundergan Grimes had to get cash from her politically connected father, Jerry Lundergan, to contribute to a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally. It probably won’t be the last time that Grimes has to ask her dad for a favor.

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January 21, 2014 by

One of the biggest supporters of ObamaCare recently doubled-down on her defense of the law, saying that the fundamentals of it are good, despite admitting that the website still has a lot of problems.

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January 21, 2014 by

According to SaintPetersBlog, it looks like Alex Sink forced a local group to reschedule a debate so that she could raise money from national Democrats and lobbyists in Washington, DC: [Read more…]

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January 18, 2014 by

New details from a report about U.S. Senate candidate Lt. Gov. John Walsh’s (D-MT) reveal that the U.S. Army formally reprimanded Walsh for improperly using government resources for personal gain.

Montana’s lieutenant governor John Walsh, the former commander of the Montana National Guard, was formally reprimanded by the U.S. Army in 2010 over his advocacy of an organization that promoted National Guard interests.

The report on Walsh was turned over to the Army JAG, which resulted in a “memorandum of reprimand.” The memo concluded that Walsh violated federal codes of ethics by using official resources to advance his own interests.

The Inspector General report referred the matter to the Army JAG, or Judge Advocate General. That in turn resulted in a “memorandum of reprimand” obtained Friday by MTN News under the Freedom of Information Act.

That memo says Walsh, now a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, violated federal codes of ethics when he used government resources in the effort.

Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, the vice chief of staff of the Army, signed the memo and noted that Walsh’s actions created doubt about Walsh’s “ability to lead.”

The memo, signed by Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, vice chief of staff of the Army, notes that it does not constitute “punishment” under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but it also says that Walsh’s “failure to adhere to Army Values causes me to question your ability to lead.”

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January 17, 2014 by

Today, the National Review reported that Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) has avoided taking a clear position on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) bill “which would ban abortions after 20 weeks except in cases of rape, ‘incest against a minor,’ or the endangerment of the mother’s life.”

So on Monday evening, I skittered across the Ohio Clock room to ask the senator if he’d had any more thoughts on the bill. He looked at me, sort of smiled, said nothing, and kept walking. I walked after him for a bit, giving him time to answer. He didn’t acknowledge me at all beyond his smirk-ish facial expression, and certainly didn’t provide any insight into his views on late-term abortion. He did say ‘Hi guys’ to a few men standing in the hall between the Senate chamber and the rotunda. Then, munching peanut-butter M&Ms, he disappeared toward the House side of the building. A request for comment sent to his office was unanswered at press time.

While Pryor has been silent about his current position on abortion, during Pryor’s 1998 campaign for Arkansas’s Attorney General he told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: “I am pro-choice.”

Pryor has made it clear that he is pro-choice. His silence on the issue now seems to be more motivated by political calculation than conviction.

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January 16, 2014 by

Georgia Democrat Michelle Nunn recently promised that if she is elected to the U.S. Senate, she would introduce a bill to ban members of Congress from becoming lobbyists. While she’s decrying lobbyists and special interests, Nunn left out the whole part about taking money from the very same people she says she wants to ban.

In addition to take thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from lobbyists, here are four former members of Congress-turned-lobbyists (Vic Fazio, Buddy Darden, Michael Allen Andrews, James Symington) that are padding Nunn’s campaign coffers with money earned from the special interests she claims to abhor. Either Nunn thinks Georgians are oblivious to the facts, or she’s already become a D.C. insider because she has the duplicity and hypocrisy part down just fine.

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