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Two Political Conspiracies in Our Midst

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Airing Dirty Politics and Laundry

–Updated Below–

 

Skippy Massey
Humboldt Sentinel

 

Trumping it Up

 
Let’s get the Donald out of the way first.

What is he up to now?

The political puppet show continued unabated as Mr. T paid a telephone visit to the biasedly unfair and unbalanced Fox and Friends network this morning.

Mr. Trump, ever the spoiler and foiler for promoting his conservative and capitalistic agenda, said that he will reveal “very big” news about President Obama “at noon on Wednesday” and suggested it could ”possibly impact” the election.

He declined to give so much as the slightest hint of his plan.

Now, the Donster blows a lot of hot air.  He likes a dramatic production.  He likes what’s good for his interests and his monied political supporters.  He loves a conspiracy, especially if it’s his conspiracy.  And he expects a payback on his investitures.

“Something very, very big concerning the President of the United States,” he said. “It’s going to be very big.  I know one thing — you will cover it in a very big fashion.”

Trump said he will announce the news on Twitter at noon tomorrow and declined to say whether he had talked to the Obama or Romney campaigns about what he intended to disclose.

The conservative businessman who considered a run for the White House but instead endorsed former Gov. Mitt Romney has long been a high-profile Obama birther conspiracy theorist.  As we know, Trump’s investigation on the matter went nowhere except to give his private detectives an extended vacation in Hawaii.

“It’s a big fact,” Trump said. “I can’t talk about it ‘till Wednesday…We’ll see what happens.”

We suspect it’s much ado– or a Don– about nothing.  Other than scaring, confusing, and swaying undecideds come November 6, we believe Trump and Fox and ’friends’ will undoubtedly play it up as much as they can– even if it’s patently untrue.

UPDATE Wednesday October 24:

Donald Trump just tweeted out his major announcement: he demanded that President Obama release his college and passport applications.

In return, Trump vowed to donate $5 million to a charity of Obama’s choice.

Mr. Trump gave his YouTube video announcement moments ago.  It lists Trump’s charitable extortion demands with one or two caveats in typical Don Vito “Make Him an Offer He Can’t Refuse” fashion:

The records must be complete and to Mr. Trump’s satisfaction, and they must be handed over by 5 p.m. on Halloween day.

You can see the congenially charming yet forceful announcement here.

Spoiler alert:  Mr. Trump’s YouTube video has 4,738 ‘Likes’ and 9,508 “Dislikes’, comments are conveniently disabled, and the Fox folks are working overtime parroting the message through their squawk box echo chamber.

 

 

Presidential Debates Are a Major-Party Snow Job, Libertarian Nominee Says

 

Ryan Abbott
Courthouse News

 
WASHINGTON (CN) – The Commission on Presidential Debates shuts the door on minor party candidates – and the public – by barring third-party candidates even if they qualify for the debates, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson claims in Federal Court.

Johnson and his Libertarian Party campaign committee – Gary Johnson 2012 – sued the Commission in Federal Court for unlawful discrimination and breach of contract.  Johnson claims the Commission kowtows to the two major parties and discriminates on the basis of party affiliation.

Johnson claims the Commission began its “hoodwinking of the American people” in 1988, when The League of Women Voters withdrew its sponsorship of that year’s presidential debate.

The League of Women Voters withdrew its sponsorship to protest an agreement between the George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis campaigns that allowed the major party nominees to decide who would be invited to the debates, and who the panelists – i.e., questioners – would be.  The League said at the time that going along with the major parties’ demands “would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter.”

Johnson says in his complaint: “The two major parties, acting through their national committees, organized the defendant Commission on Presidential Debates for the purpose of hosting debates at the exclusion of all other political parties.”

Johnson claims that Republicans and Democrats are in cahoots to exclude third parties and their view from the 60 million Americans who watch the presidential debates.  He says the Commission and the two major parties pulled off a “closed-door masterpiece” in establishing qualifications to participate in the debates.

To qualify for the debates, a candidate must be 35 years-old, a natural born citizen of the U.S. and resident for 14 years, and otherwise eligible to be hold the office under the Constitution.

Johnson says the Commission also requires that candidates be on enough state ballots to have a mathematical chance at winning, and have the support of at least 15 percent of the national electorate, as determined by five selected national public opinion polling organizations, using the average of those organizations’ most recent publicly reported results.

Johnson says he met all the qualifications, but was locked out of the debates anyway.

Johnson claims he’s on the ballot in 48 states and the District of Columbia as the Libertarian Party nominee, and that he has “developed a level of support of at least 15 percent of the national electorate,” a process he claims “took thousands of man hours and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

He claims that five recent national polls showed at least 15 percent of the vote when matched head-to-head with President Obama.  One poll, conducted by Gravis Marketing, had him at 34.1 percent up against the president, Johnson says.

“In addition, an Internet-based nationwide public survey of more than 4 million Americans, run by a nonpartisan company shows Johnson with a support of more than 40 percent, second only to Democratic candidate President Obama, and well above the support levels for Republican candidate
Governor Romney,” according to the complaint.

Johnson, 59, was governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 and ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, but dropped out of the race and joined the Libertarian Party, receiving its nomination for president in May.

Though he’s considered a fiscal conservative, his views on marijuana legalization and abortion have earned him the attention of young people and liberals.

“Plaintiffs believe and aver that the Commission’s failure to include Governor Johnson is attributable to Governor Johnson’s Libertarian Party affiliation,” the complaint states.

The complaint also said:

The Commission has repeatedly refused and excluded Governor Johnson from the debates, to his personal detriment, the detriment of his campaign, the detriment of his supporters and the detriment of the public generally.

The debates create television exposure to more than 60 million American viewers for each debate, and countless follow up television, print and radio exposure, all of which results in increased visibility for the candidate’s campaign and millions of dollars in fundraising for the featured candidates.

Johnson – too late for this year – asks that the Commission perform on its contract with presidential nominees, plus damages for breach of contract, bad faith and unlawful discrimination.

He is represented by attorney Jason Garber of the Reger Rizzo firm, of Towson, Maryland.

Presidential Debates Are a Major-Party Snow Job, Libertarian Nominee Says” courtesy of the Courthouse News Service

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Now Gary. 

We know that you know that you were known for conservatively vetoing hundreds of spending bills, competing in the Ironman Triathlons, and hiking Mount Everest with a broken leg. 

And yes, you were a Republican state governor and made the 2012 Libertarian Party nomination fair and square before turning your back on us.  So how’s that party debate-y thing working out for you now?

I mean, have you ever seen a musk ox running full gallop across the tundra?

 

 

 

 

 


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