After being introduced by the host, Naresh Vissa, Vissa asked Cindy about what she had done for Hindu Americans, and Cindy responded that she had hired Umesh Sanjanwala as her chief aide when she became MS agriculture commissioner.
Incidentally, Sanjanwala donated $57,077 to Cindy to support her 2011 race for agriculture commissioner. See here: followthemoney.org/entity-details…
Little is known about why Sanjanwala spent so much money on Cindy's election or where the money came from. 4/
While Cindy was Mississippi's agriculture commissioner and Sanjanwala ran her office as a state gov't employee, the two separately went into business together operating teh website Journey2Heaven.com. 5/
After Phil Bryant appointed Cindy to the US senate, Cindy took Sanjanwala with her, making Sanjanwala her state director. Sanjanwala appears to remain Cindy's closest advisor. 6/ apnews.com/article/7760f9…
Sanjanwala has a minimal social media presence except for a youtube page he created in 2010, linked here: youtube.com/playlist?list=… 7/
The only two videos uploaded to Sanjanwala's page are old ads from Cindy's 2015 campaign for reelection as Mississippi commissioner of agriculture. 8/
Sanjanwala's youtube also contains a playlist, which consists mainly of:
☑️ Elementary explainers about what Congress is and how it works
Cindy is correct that Mike is outraising her (though to win, Mike needs enough funds for a GOTV operation to reach MS Democratic voters who became inactive voters since 2008 and to improve his margin of white voters by a hair). 2/
THREAD—Three GOP 5th Circuit judges revived a TX lawsuit for an order requiring voters to wear masks.
The 5th Circuit has jurisdiction over MS as well as TX, and its implicit holding that states can require voters to wear masks rebukes @MississippiSOS. 1/ foxnews.com/politics/coron…
The TX lawsuit sought many items of relief, all of which the district court and 5th Circuit rejected EXCEPT for the plaintiffs' claim under the Voting Rights Act for a mask mandate at polling places.
The VRA claim is that failure to mandate masks unduly burdens Texans' of color right to vote because it unduly exposes voters to COVID-19, a disease that disproportionately affects people of color. 3/