Radical on the Rise-A close look at Stacey Abrams and her pernicious agenda
Posted on Stacey Abrams is a 47-year-old attorney who launched her political career as a Democrat in 2006 when she was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, where she held a seat until August 2017. Since losing a 2018 gubernatorial bid in Georgia, she has emerged as a leading promoter of fellow Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who seek to win the upcoming Georgia runoff elections that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. On Monday, Abrams boasted to
CBS This Morning that 1.2 million Georgians – including 85,000 who did not vote in the November elections six weeks ago have already requested absentee ballots for the runoffs. Added Abrams: “They are disproportionately voters between the ages of 18 and 29 and disproportionately people of color,” demographics that tend to heavily favor Democrats.
Biden’s Cabinet picks rankle progressive Democrats
17 Dec 2020 Joe Biden announces Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for secretary of transportation during a news conference at Delaware on Wednesday. Reuters
Andrew Feinberg,
The Independent
As president-elect Joe Biden begins to roll out the balance of his cabinet, some top Democrats are losing patience with the left flank of the party.
The former vice president rode his reputation as an avatar of the center-left to a resounding primary victory over more explicitly left-wing rivals such as Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. But since he became the Democratic Party’s de facto leader this past spring, the soon-to-be 46th president has made a concerted effort to reassure progressives that they will have a voice in an administration that will “look like America”.
Vice President Mike Pence will get the vaccine on Friday, the White House said.
Both men will receive the shot publicly in an effort to boost confidence in the safety of the vaccine, which will become widely available to the public next year.
“I don’t want to get ahead of the line but I want to make sure that we demonstrate to the American people that it is safe to take,” Biden said at an event earlier on Wednesday. Biden, 78, is in a high-risk category for the coronavirus because of his age.
Biden has vowed to make the fight against the virus his top priority when he takes office on January 20. President Donald Trump, who lost the November 3 election to Biden, has frequently downplayed the severity of the pandemic, which has killed 304,187 Americans so far, and feuded with his top public health officials.
South Bend Tribune, from almost a year before getting the pizza money, “Potholes around South Bend might be worst in recent memory.” The roads were apparently so terrible under Buttigieg’s watch that repair shops saw a massive increase in damaged cars and suspension problems:
“It’s the worst I’ve ever seen,” said Rich Ferrara Jr., service manager at Rick’s Auten Road 66 in South Bend, adding that one recent day the station had 25 calls for tow truck assistance for 8 a.m.
Zolman said the pothole problem resulted in six figures of additional business back for Zolman Tire & Auto Repair during the last bad outbreak. He’s likely to have even more business this year as the prices for tires, rims and labor have only gone up.