The Saudis tightly regulate water in the desert nation. So the kingdom’s largest dairy company is using water without restrictions in the American Southwest instead.

Now @katiehobbs staff want her to end part of the deal

w/@partlowj @yvonnewingett wapo.st/3XPR7vD Arizona passed on an early chance to find out how much water the Saudi company was pumping on state-owned land. For nearly a decade, it was in the dark. Only after the state threatened to cancel Fondomonte's leases last month did the company disclose washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

Nikki Haley's campaign touted $11 million raised since she launched in Feb. Saturday's filings show she double-counted across various committees making transfers to one another and only brought in about $5 million into her main campaign committee

https://twitter.com/CATargetBot/status/1647391930890981377

Haley got a lot of headlines from this purported haul foxnews.com/politics/nikki…

nytimes.com/2023/04/05/us/…

reuters.com/world/us/repub…

nbcnews.com/meet-the-press…

NEW- George Santos was alerted that his investment firm was using a fake Deutsche Bank document and continued working there for months

That and many other new details on Santos’ tenure at alleged Ponzi scheme in deep dive w/@jocwapo @emmersbrown washingtonpost.com/investigations… We now know how Santos came to work at Harbor City, at least in his telling. This unusual 4 a.m. email exchange —>

Cochise County certifies after court order as attorneys for Lake and Finchem are sanctioned over lawsuit seeking to force hand count.

Among their lawyers: Alan Dershowitz. w/@yvonnewingett washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

How Kelly's campaign pulled it off—

Hit Masters hard in August, when he was strapped for cash, in a strategy that came to be known internally as the "surge."

Masters' unfavorability ratings jumped from 35 percent to 48 percent in Kelly campaign internals. w/@KnowlesHannah

https://twitter.com/isaacstanbecker/status/1591271987636498432

Masters summed up the Dem strategy, saying in an Aug. 19 radio interview: “They’re trying to nuke me, you know, they’re trying to kill the baby in the crib here." washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

Our story on the Claremont Institute, home to John Eastman. Once marginal, Claremont became Trump’s version of Heritage or AEI for past Republican presidents washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07… Claremont was founded by students of the conservative political philosopher Harry Jaffa. The think tank’s current leaders still invoke Jaffa a lot

But Jaffa’s son told me his father had harsh words for Claremont, which he said had become “neo-confederate” washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07…

NEW- Stanley McChrystal built a corporate empire in the years after he was dismissed as the top general in Afghanistan, making millions from businesses, governments and universities

I wrote about how washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/… The eight generals who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan btwn 2008 and 2018 have served on more than 20 corporate boards.

But McChrystal is the runaway leader, serving on at least 10, earning $1.3m from JetBlue and even more from a vehicle co that sold equipment for the war

NEW- Private consultants took over the vax effort, cost taxpayers millions and demonstrated few results washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08… Footprint of these firms is stunning. Deloitte worked w 10 states. BCG at least 11 + the feds. BCG and McKinsey also advising global covax effort.

It was BCG, not the feds, that convened states to discuss vax strategy. A BCG consultant called it “therapy.”

Expensive therapy