Here's a messaging doc circulated to Senate GOP by Senate Rules comm Repubs about the topline talking points they're to use during the S.1-For The People Voting Rights mark-up hearing this wk
They're fighting hard today
Off the rails: politico.com/f/?id=00000179…
Senate GOP are planning to brand For The People Voting Rights bill “politically motivated federal takeover of the election system that would make elections more chaotic and less secure"
They. Are. Desperate. to stop this bill
The only way they win (ever again) is by stopping this
Senate GOP are planning to focus on the bill's req that states allow voters to fill out a sworn affidavit if they don’t have an ID
GOP argue that “would render state voter ID laws meaningless” and cite polling that shows a majority of Americans support those laws (a lie)
They're also going to accuse Dems of using S.1 to politicize the FEC
And to argue that the bill’s donor disclosures will have a chilling effect on free speech
-what those disclosures do is shut down the corrupt way the GOP are funded in elections aka Billionaires buying them
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"The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election
2/"In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Post reporters Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, and former Post reporter Adam Entous,
Have you ever had a job SO BAD that you formed a support group with other fmr staffers after you left
just to deal with the trauma?
Chatter:
there's a group of fmr DeSantis staffers meeting regularly
-he fires people suddenly & treats them like garbage
Anyone surprised?
Also per Playbook this am:
"At the beginning of his admin, DeSantis directed the Florida Republican Party leader to fire a party official who had cancer-on that person’s first week back from surgery"
NICE guy..
"DeSantis often blames his staff for his own blunders, we’re told. After DeSantis went on Fox News in 2018 and implored Florida voters not to “monkey this up” by supporting his African American Democratic opponent for governor,
Remember Eric Swalwell suing Mo Brooks, Trump, Junior & Rudy for inciting the insurrection on 1/6?
Guess what?
Per Swalwell's atty, Brooks is doing everything he can to duck being served
-for more than a month
NB: Brooks is now running for Richard Shelby's Sen seat #Coward
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2/ Per Punchbowl:
“We have been attempting to serve our complaint on Mo Brooks for more than a month,” Andonian [Swalwell's lawyer] said in a statement to Punchbowl News. “I talked to staffers in his D.C. office who promised a response from someone, which never came.
3/ "'I sent the complaint and a waiver of service form in a detailed email to his chief of staff and counsel, which to date remains unanswered.'"
2/ From the release:
"The big break came when Gaetz's personal madam came forward to discuss her dealings with Gaetz & other prominent figures including Rudy Giuliani. .. Gaetz's madam will offer irrefutable proof that Gaetz paid for companionship escort services ..
3/ "Among other evidence that will be shown at the press conference are a massive trove of undercover photos & videos, many showing 76 yo Rudy Giuliani on a date with and furnishing alcohol to a 16 yo girl. Congressman Gaetz's COS is also shown in several photos with Giuliani..."
Hmmm...
ICYMI:
Seems the FBI WAS taking Christopher Steele seriously..
Per Telegraph:
Steele produced a second dossier after Trump was in the WH
-it was from 'new' sources
-it contained more info @ Manafort/Russia & Trump/Russia connections news.yahoo.com/mi6-spy-christ…
2-"The FBI interviewed Mr Steele at the Grosvenor Hotel in central London, close to his offices, in September 2017 as part of then ongoing inquiries into Russian meddling. .. Mr Steele told the FBI that Orbis had "four discrete, ‘hermetically-sealed’ main agent networks".
3-"His primary "sub-source" for the dossier was no longer "active" at the time of the interview with FBI agents, but that another "main agent network is up and running and is now starting to get good information".
Senate Dems prepping to 'kick off a sensitive internal debate' @ voting rights reform this month
It is unconscionable that Manchin hasn't signed on yet & 'at least half dozen Dems have issues with it'
Get. It. Done. @SenSchumer
NOT optional! politico.com/news/2021/05/0…
2-"Senate Democrats made a major commitment to muscle through Speaker NANCY PELOSI’S ethics and voting reform bill. Yet many say they have no idea how to pass it and wonder what exactly the end game is for a signature Democratic priority.
3-"Democrats are preparing to kick off a sensitive internal debate over the issue this month as the Senate Rules Committee takes up the sprawling House package. But no Republicans support it, Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) hasn’t signed on