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Hookers for Hillary line up to caucus and block an old Jewish guy’s hopes.
These are some of my opponents today as I my wife and I head to Nevada. I’m there to be a legal observer; she’s there to check out the beautiful desert bloom in Death Valley — and to protect me from my antagonists, some of whom are pictured above. (I’m a legal observer for the Sanders campaig at what I expect will be a large — maybe even huuuuge — caucus.)
Now prostitutes are only a small part of Hillary’s army of supporters here, just as attorneys from OC are an even small portion of Bernie’s. But if you look at the homepage of their group, HookersForHillary, you’ll notice two things (aside from the photos): (1) they actually have a pretty decent social critique and agenda and (2) their interests will be equally well-represented by Bernie. In fact, probably better represented, because Bernie will still believe a month, six months, and a year from now what he says now — and has, for the most part, believed for 30 or more years.
So as “political whores” go, I have to admit that these are some of the better ones. Let’s just say that in recent years in my home county, I’ve seen a lot worse. (Also a lot less literal.)
Now these particular women are from up in Carson City. I’m going to a place tody that’s equally famous for its prostitutes — which is why I suppose they weren’t going to send anyone without their better half — and I have to be ready for them to come out and try to influence votes at the Caucus. So someone has to block that — and I’ll do my best.
More dispatches from Nevada — possibly as emails to Vern, which he can use to update this — as the day goes on! Also expect some photos of what I hope is already a “superbloom” in Death Valley.
I’ll check in with you soon! To the ramparts!
Sounds good Juice Brother, I’ll keep an eye on my e-mail.
I’m not so sure if it’s a good thing for political prostitutes to . . . wait for it . . . feel the BERN!
Slow CLAP.
Oh come on, Vern. Don’t get . . . crabby.
That does it Ryan. You are discharged.
If Greg promises to stay out of internet range for the rest of the election, Sanders gets my vote.
Don’t worry, anonymous stranger. I’m coming back, so you can align yourself with the lovely ladies in the photo. Seems like more your speed anyway!
I have more respect for the Nevada hookers than I do for most politicians. At least what you see is what you get. In their defense perhaps prostitutes feel they have more in common with Hillary Clinton than with Bernie Sanders. Birds of a feather generally flock together. Or they could be double-agents working on behalf of Bernie. Many voters might be offended to support the same candidate as a bunch of hookers. Politics is a contact sport and courts many strange bedfellows. Good luck to Bernie in both South Carolina & Nevada!
I just don’t understand the Democrat voters. Hillary has dirt all over her. Bernie is squeaky clean. Yet Hillary takes Nevada by 6 percentage points. The union vote went to Hillary. Why? Bernie is not anti-union, is he? I don’t believe anything could stop Clinton now, short of an indictment. She’d probably even survive that. My guess is the only thing that will stop Hillary now is Trump.
Sorry folks — work at the caucus drained my phone and my time too much for me to check in. But if you were following the Wall Street Journal’s blog of the caucus, you’ll get a good sense of what I was doing today. Search the story for my name in case you haven’t followed it.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/02/20/south-carolina-republican-primary-and-nevada-democratic-caucuses-latest-updates/
I was out of contact for most of the day because after the caucus my wife and I went out of our cellular service area to check out the big bloom in Death Valley. It was wonderful — pictures will be forthcoming — both from Death Valley and the caucus in north Pahrump.
My take on at least the four precincts where I was located is that the turnout for the caucus was disproportionately quite old. Yes, Clinton apparently did very well with the Black vote, but Sanders was up by eight points with Latinos, which bodes well for Texas and Florida. Older voters went heavily for Hillary in Pahrump and elsewhere, something that Bernie can fix with a greater focus on Hillary’s willingness to consider a “Grand Bargain.” But the lesson seems to be that while younger voters will come out to vote for Bernie, they won’t necessarily come out to caucus — especially in a largely transient area like Nevada. In other caucus states with more stable populations and more college students — like Minnesota and Colorado — Sanders might get luckier.
I have a long long drive home, so that may be it for me here tonight.
As you didn’t send any updates, I followed the caucus through the Let’s Talk Nevada blog. They reported that : ” As expected, her campaign team are spinning this in the most favorable light possible. Let’s keep in mind Bernie came much closer than some had expected just eight weeks ago”
Our local award winning blog is going to break the news blaming you for Bernie’s defeat, for not taking extra batteries for your phone, and for not letting Dolores Huerta do a translation …Have a safe drive home!
I literally drove for 15+ hours out of 22 between 5:30 a.m. Saturday and 3:30 a.m. this morning — preceded by one hour of sleep and with one more hour of sleep at a rest stop just after we left Nevada. But we did have a safe drive home and a great day in Pahrump, Mojave, and Death Valley (which is GORGEOUS!)
Extra batteries don’t matter when you’re (1) involved in a caucus and then (2) in a remote area without cell phone reception. So let him do his normal boobery.
Spent a long time searching for your name in that story, gave up. Can you copy/paste? That’s kinda cool if my associate editor was featured in the WSJ!
“they actually have a pretty decent social critique and agenda”….
No, with the exception of their vague praise for the DHHS and FDA, it is hard to distinguish their narrow self-interest from that of the Construction Union parade packing the Anaheim Council chambers for ANY large construction project. Strictly a “Santa Claus, please fill MY wallet (or purse)” appeal.
I hope another Bernie – (Madoff) is HilLIARy’s next “celebrity endorsement”.
BTW I have filled the last few evening’s TV time with a few YouTube suggestions revisiting the Maddoff case, the first two captivating (to me, anyway) interviews with Harry Markopolous, the whistleblower who filed multiple SEC complaints over a decade, all IGNORED (Fun Fact- OC’s own Chis Cox led(?) the SEC during that period !) and 3 or 4, 15 minute slices (of a series of 9) a sickeningly frustrating look at the Congressional Hearings on the SEC that ensued, where I figured out (yet) another thing wrong with Congress – The outraged Congressional Committee members (including OC local Ed Royce !) have (rules ?) get this, TIME LIMITS, on their questions, ( some of which shattered some of my negative stereotypes of Congress ) so the Cheshire Cat SEC Staff just vomits circles of syllables and RUNS OUT THE CLOCK ! Wonder why Congress BARELY even FUNCTIONS ?
Anyway, FWIW-
Markoupolis Interview Part 1 https://youtu.be/cfwJ06hc0_8 31 min
Markoupolis Interview Part 2 https://youtu.be/8ITxDjOiSm0 47 min
https://youtu.be/89oSOXN-xrU Part 1 Mostly intros 15 min
https://youtu.be/pLAtdatzqA4 Part 2 Start of testimony 15 min
https://youtu.be/tI4B-9W6g7w Part 3 Testimony /Q&A 15 min
https://youtu.be/la3mJz1xAQk Part 4 More Q&A ( 8 parts in all – 15 min ea)
https://youtu.be/ZGsTG-MaJjY House Hearings (Part 2 of 3) 2.5 hr Q/A w/ SEC Staff
https://youtu.be/RX6hJAtsK5o House Hearings (Part 3 of 3) 1 hr
Full disclosure- After 1 through 4, I lasted (so far) about an hour of the 2.5 hour HH Part 2, and haven’t tried Part 3 ( 1 hour ) yet. There is another 4.5 hour complete run posted (for insomniacs) I’ll pass on that one.
Tonight Jeb Bush is a broken man. He threw in the towel. His campaign spent over $100,000,000 and didn’t even come close to winning a single state. Even his master of disaster bro couldn’t pull him out of the fire in So. Carolina. This restores some of my confidence in the American people. Big money and establishment politics suffered a major blow tonight. By God, maybe a comeback is possible yet. Had the election come down to a choice between Hillary and Jeb we’d be toast. Let’s all breathe a sigh of relief and be thankful.
Good job with the sign in the caucus room, Greg. Sometimes there’s no substitute for boots on the ground.
Here’s the relevant part, for anyone who missed it:
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Mr. Fisher, a 78-year-old retired engineer who is as much a veteran of Nevada’s Democratic caucuses as anyone, having participated in two of them, considered the issue for a moment. “I agree it’s misleading,” he said.
Mr. Fisher took the Clinton sign came down from the door. A Clinton volunteer moved it to a place where Mr. Diamond didn’t object – on a whiteboard inside the classroom where the arrow inside the H points out into the hallway.
by Reid J. Epstein
11:29 am
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BAD ARROW? The Hillary Clinton-Bernie Sanders battle for Nevada is being fought all the way down to what signs are allowed outside caucus precincts.
Inside an elementary school on the outskirts of the desert town of Pahrump, Sanders campaign lawyer Greg Diamond, in from Brea, Calif., spotted a Clinton sign taped to the top of the door to the classroom housing Nye County’s Precinct 27. The blue sign read “Women for H,” with the ubiquitous arrow pointing to inside the room.
“Taping it down like that makes it look like only women for H are allowed in,” Mr. Diamond told Lawrence Fisher, the temporary precinct chairman in charge of the four precincts caucusing at Pahrump’s Morse Elementary. “The arrow becomes a problem for us.”
by Reid J. Epstein
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Thanks. There were four precincts in the school — including the “Ace over Six cut of the cards,” about which I had clued in the reporter — and I got called into more than half a dozen squabbles. It was a total coincidence that the WSJ reporter was there. I had presumed that he was a reporter while I waited for him to finish talking to Larry (as I now call him), but had no idea that he wasn’t from some local paper until after the conversation above had ended. Fun times!
That looks like a nice facility. Undoubtedly paid for and constructed during those God awful Clinton years. What assholes they were bringing the Internet to millions and overseeing an economic boon.
“bringing it” ??? Oh, that’s right, I keep forgetting that Al Gore invented it.
He never claimed that he invented it. (You’re a great researcher — go try to find anything substantiating that.) He WAS, however, instrumental in sponsoring and supporting the governmental policies that helped it to thrive. You can research that as well, if you dare!
The only thing needing research concerning Al Gore is Man-Bear-Pig.
“overseeing an economic boom”… and sowing the seeds of its destruction.
From Google-
Clinton Grants China MFN, Reversing Campaign Pledge …
tech.mit.edu › Volume 114 › Issue 27 : Friday, May 27, 1994
The Tech May 27, 1994 – Clinton Grants China MFN, Reversing Campaign Pledge … announcing his decision to extend China’s most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status…..
Glass-Steagall Act – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_Legislation
Jump to Decline and repeal – In 1999 Congress passed the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act to repeal them, with nearly all Republicans and a majority of Democrats in favor. Eight days later, President Bill Clinton signed it into law.
they were indeed.
No one (well, at least not me) considers them assholes for the great achievement of his Presidency: the 1993 tax increase that ultimately balanced the budget and helped to supercharge the economy.
If you want to know the assholish things that they did during the Clinton Administration, by far most of which came later, just let me know.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc?
Just think ! “Citizens United” done ONE BETTER ! Not only are Corporations now ‘people’, but we can elect one (with its human veneer) to the White House !
http://freebeacon.com/politics/hillary-paid-herself-250000-from-campaign-funds/