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BREAKING: Vice Chair of the Bladen County Election Board abruptly resigns

Why?

No one knows for sure but I think I have a pretty good idea and it's a wild story.

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2. The Bladen County Election Board is interfacing w/state investigators probing allegations of fraud in North Carolina's 9th District

At the center is convicted felon Leslie McCrae Dowless

Also under investigation: A PAC called Patriots for Progress

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3. Patriots for Progress was founded by Jeff Smith, an associate of McCrae Dowless in 2014. By 2015, McCrae Dowless was acting as president.

One of the earliest and biggest donors to Patriots for Progress was Politico Management Services LLC

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4. Politico Management Services LLC had two members.

One of Jens Lutz, the Vice Chairman of the Bladen County Executive Board who just resigned.

The other? Leslie McCrae Dowless.

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5. The Bladen County Election Board is supposed to be assisting the state in their investigation of McCrae Dowless and Patriots for Progress.

But Lutz, the Vice Chair, was BUSINESS PARTNERS with McCrae Dowless and a DONOR to Patriots for Progress.

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6. So now the Chair of the Bladen County Election Board will have to press on without a deputy.

Who is the Chair of the Bladen County Election Board?

Bobby Ludlum, MCCRAE DOWLESS' COUSIN.

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1. Can we talk about @redlobster?

Dozens of corporations stopped advertising on Tucker Carlson after he said immigrants made America "dirtier"

Now Carlson is arguing there's a moral responsibility to pay women less than men.

@redlobster is one of the few corps sticking w/him
@redlobster 2. The president of @redlobster is Salli Setta. She's on the board of the Women's Foodservice Forum (@WFFHQ).

@WFFHQ is dedicated to "galvanizing the Food Industry" to become "one of the first industries to close the gender gap"

Why is @redlobster sticking with Tucker Carlson?
3. Corporations like @redlobster want to develop a reputation for being socially conscious. Its president is devoted to gender equality. Kudos.

But the power of corporations comes from how they use their resources.

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1. Trump appears edging toward declaring a "national emergency" and attempting to unilaterally build the wall.

This could backfire spectacularly.

Let's review.

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2. Under the National Emergencies Act of 1976, if Trump declares a national emergency to build the wall, the House could immediately pass a resolution to rescind it.

The Senate would then need to vote on the House's resolution within 18 days.

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3. So it would require 50 Republican Senators to vote to undermine and subvert their own legislative authority.

This seems unlikely.

On the other hand, Republicans in the Senate have been generally unwilling to stand up to Trump

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Trump, according to Schumer, threatened to keep the gov't closed for years unless he gets his wall.

Hundreds of thousands of government employees are not getting paid.

Trump, who has never had to live paycheck-to-paycheck, is oblivious to the cruelty
RELATED: "While federal workers go without pay, senior Trump administration officials are poised to get $10,000 raises" goo.gl/Vv3fV2
"The Government Shutdown Is “Life And Death” For Low-Wage Subcontractors Who Likely Won’t Be Repaid For Lost Time" goo.gl/WJJdhQ
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If Horowitz's #SpyGate report hasn't dropped by Dec. 18, look for Mueller's Special Counsel team to request the sentencing of @GenFlynn be delayed yet again.

Tick-Strzok Tick-Strzok Tick-Strzok.....
When the agent sitting right at the center of the beating heart of BOTH the Crossfire Hurricane scandal AND the scandal of the @GenFlynn investigation gets his ass fired for blatant bias & violating FBI protocol, your forced to tread carefully.
Mueller literally can't consummate the Flynn sentencing *until* he sees what Horowitz's team and Huber's team dug up about Peter Strzok and his co-plotters.
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#Breaking
Turkish security services have arrested two perpetrators of 🇺🇸 Embassy in Ankara attack. One of them is Osman Gündaş. I checked his FB&some interesting findings:
1.He appears to be #Gulenist till the end of 2014(Posted only two pro-#FETÖ).
1/2
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2.After 2015 he starts posting Muslim Brotherhood related posts and mostly from HAYALHANEM which is an Islamo-Fascist organisation based in Turkey. This organisation campaigned for Erdogan for his mandate for Turkish constitutional referendum in 2017. 2/2
hayalhanem.com.tr/duyurular
Here is his facebook page:
facebook.com/osman.gundas.3
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#BREAKING:Still looking for a reason NOT TO VOTE FOR.@GovAbbott?Here's one-DO IT TO END RACE-BASED #SURVEILLANCE. Folks there's a reason THIS HAPPENED IN TX. VOTE FOR.@LupeValdez TO END RACE-BASED SURVEILLANCE
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#BREAKING:Congress MUST INVESTIGATE why the #FBI has ganged up with #Texas law enforcement and Gov #GregAbbott's regime to PUT MINORITIES UNDER #SURVEILLANCE simply for what they post on.@Twitter & #Facebook
#TheResistance #Racism #CNN #MSNBC cc.@OfficialCBC.@TheDemocrats.@ACLU
#BREAKING:Congress MUST ALSO INVESTIGATE WHETHER #Twitter and #Facebook ARE WILLING PARTICIPANTS in this seemingly ILLEGAL RACE-BASED #SURVEILLANCE SCHEME cc .@RandPaul.@JacksonLeeTX18 .@RepJeffries
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HUGE! Federal Records reveal that Obama, Clapper and Brennan Paid Stefan Halper $282,295 to SPY ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN!
Stefan Halper was the same person who invited George Papadopolous to London, where he just so happened to sit down next to that infamous Australian "Diplomat" (who also worked with the Clinton Foundation)
Halper also lured Carter Page into compromising situations involving "Russians"
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#BREAKING
Feb 18 - #Iran
A passenger plane with 60 passengers & six crew left Tehran for Yasuj. 20 minutes into the flight the plane went off radar & crashed near Isfahan in the Padena mountains.
(Map shows Tehran-Isfahan-Yasuj)
(2nd map shows sight of plane crash)
#BREAKING
Feb 18 - Yasuj airport, #Iran
Families of passengers aboard the Tehran-Yasuj plane awaiting news about their loved ones.
Some of the passengers' names are seen here.
#BREAKING
Feb 18 - Yasuj airport, #Iran
More footage of grieving families of passengers aboard the Tehran-Yasuj plane awaiting news about their loved ones.
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Almost all of the Road Runner cartoons are available via the @BoomerangToons app.

I subscribed for $5 & decided I'm gonna watch & tweet about 'em all in chronological order, even the later, terrible ones, for which I have an irrational affection.

Here we go.
#BeepBeep
#MeepMeep
Boomerang lists them alphabetically not chronologically so Chuck Jones masterpieces sit side-by-side with 1960s atrocities (& later 'revival' attempts.)

I am going to start at the beginning. I will also be including Wile E. Coyote/Bugs Bunny & Ralph Wolf/Sam Sheepdog shorts, FYI
September 17, 1949: "Fast And Furry-ous"

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