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He is not the only one being charged. From the Raleigh News and Observer:

Four other people — Caitlyn E. Croom, Matthew Monroe Mathis, Tonia Gordon and Rebecca Thompson — also face charges related to absentee ballot collection in Bladen County over the past two elections, Freeman said.

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  5. 5.

    Jeffro

    I have this one posted all over social media, sending emails to RWNJ friends/relatives, etc. “Oh look…REAL, ACTUAL ELECTION FRAUD…” So very happy!

  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    Wish our media would correctly label this as election fraud and not voter fraud. Voters were defrauded, if anything.

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    am Stein @ samstein
    NEW — Matt Gaetz is under investigation by the Florida State Bar over his Michael Cohen threat.

  9. 9.

    Kent

    So these are state charges?

    Is there also potential for Federal charges as well? Something related to voting rights and discrimination? Just curious. I don’t really know.

  10. 10.

    Brachiator

    @catclub:

    news rich day when potential war between India and Pakistan gets third level coverage.

    Maybe if either country had nukes …..

  12. 12.

    West of the Rockies

    I would be ashamed to be Republican. If, hypothetically, all of this shit involved Democratic players (the NC stuff and the Trump stuff), I would change parties. I would become a vocal damn critic of my former party.

    Stalwart Republicans have no honor.

  16. 16.

    Brachiator

    OT Wild day for legal actions.

    An arbitrator has ordered Fox to pay $179 million to profit participants in the long-running drama series “Bones,” finding that top executives lowballed revenue from the show and gave false testimony.

    In his ruling, arbitrator Peter Lichtman blasted several Fox executives by name, including Dana Walden, Gary Newman and Peter Rice, saying they gave “false testimony in an attempt to conceal their wrongful acts.” Lichtman held that Fox engaged “intentional acts of fraud and malice,” and showed a “cavalier attitude” toward the company’s wrongdoing.

    The case is the latest in a long line of self-dealing lawsuits in which profit participants assert that the network did not pay market rates to license the show because it was produced by a corporate sibling, 20th Century Fox Television.

    Lichtman awarded a whopping $128 million in punitive damages, finding the high amount “necessary to punish Fox for its reprehensible conduct and deter it from future wrongful conduct.”

    In a statement, 21st Century Fox strongly denied the allegations leveled against its executives by Lichtman and said it would appeal the decision.

    Hollywood can’t help itself. The studios are always trying to steal money from actors and others.

  19. 19.

    chris

    He seems nice. Thread on Rep. Clay Higgins (R of course-LA)

    Also married four times, was once sued for $140,000 in unpaid child support, and resigned from two police agencies after brutality, breach of ethics allegations. t.co/aNubWBHq9s— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) 27 February 2019

  20. 20.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @Brachiator:
    I’ve read and observed that actors and athletes, though often rich and privelidged, are closer to lower-class people than billionaires since they still often work for a salary

  22. 22.

    ET

    I don’t care why because he needed to not run, but I do wonder who it was who convinced Harris not run again since I suspect that this “pastor” would have run regardless of his health issues.

  24. 24.

    Brachiator

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:

    I’ve read and observed that actors and athletes, though often rich and privelidged, are closer to lower-class people than billionaires since they still often work for a salary

    Studio heads are not necessarily upper class, but they are snakes. You can have an ironclad contract and studio weasels will still try to steal from you. It’s part of the system.

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    @Ohio Mom: Yea! Crocuses are always welcome.

    Can we have a fresh thread when the hearings resume?

    My favorite quote, from my new spirit animal, Rep. Stacey Plaskett of the US Virgin Islands:

    “Thank God the Democratic majority can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

  28. 28.

    MomSense

    Of all the days to miss all the news. GAH

    Can we ask Mueller to give us notice before his report and indictments drop? I may need to take some time off of work.

  29. 29.

    Cacti

    Today the GOP has clarified that when they said they were the family values party, they meant the Gambino family.

  30. 30.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    @Brachiator:

    Studio heads are not necessarily upper class, but they are snakes. You can have an ironclad contract and studio weasels will still try to steal from you. It’s part of the system.

    Snakes is the operative word. I suspect this was the case, perhaps especially, in the so-called “Golden Age” of Hollywood, but I’m just spit balling.

  32. 32.

    Shana

    @trollhattan: I heard E.J. Dionne on NPR Friday night’s All Things Considered say “voter fraud” about NC-09 and almost drove off the road I was so mad. Election Fraud not Voter Fraud!

  34. 34.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    some gleanings from twitter

    George Conway @ gtconway3d
    Yes yes yes ?
    @ ABCPolitics
    Chris Christie on Michael Cohen testimony: “The words that he said today that would send a chill up my spine at the White House would be, ‘I am in constant constant with the southern district.'”

    Ken Dilanian @ KenDilanianNBC
    Three people with direct knowledge tell NBC News that Alan Weisselberg is not cooperating, has never been a cooperating witness, and provided limited details in the course of his testimony last summer. There is a lot of misunderstanding on this.

    I wonder if anything Cohen said today could make Weisselberg call his lawyers

  35. 35.

    trollhattan

    A hearty “stay dry” to my fellow Californians. Holy crap are we getting hammered by the weather. And if you’re anywhere near Guerneville, get the hell away. (16 feet above flood stage?!?)

  38. 38.

    C Stars

    @trollhattan: Yep, looks like the Safeway parking lot is (was?) the last non-inundated spot downtown. And the river won’t crest until this evening.

    These two winters have been like whiplash after the previous five years of drought.

  40. 40.

    Elizabelle

    Hmmm. Soon, I guess. Hearings broke about 2:33, but WaPost website says they’re due back shortly.

  41. 41.

    Aleta

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    (twitter) “Alan Weisselberg is not cooperating, has never been a cooperating witness, and provided limited details in the course of his testimony”

    But he reportedly received immunity last year, no?

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    @C Stars:
    Yikes! Be safe.

    It’s hard during a year like this to convince folks we’re in a decade-long drought with two or generously, three breaks.

  44. 44.

    Aleta

    MSNBC
    ‏@MSNBC

    NEW: Florida Bar spokesperson: “I can confirm we have opened an investigation” involving Florida Rep. Gaetz’s now-deleted tweet about Michael Cohen.

  47. 47.

    trollhattan

    @germy:
    Oooh goodie! No idea whether Bibi leaving office would help things, but at least they’d be rid of his comically evil leadership and public face.

  48. 48.

    Yarrow

    I heard on the radio that Fordham University (I think) confirmed that Cohen sent them a letter re: releasing Trump’s records.

  49. 49.

    Yarrow

    Re: the actual subject of the thread, it’s wonderful news that people are being charged in this election fraud case. Great to hear!

  50. 50.

    Elizabelle

    @Aleta: That’s really important. There have got to be some consequences for threatening people. I am glad to see pushback against ugliness like Gaetz.

  57. 57.

    germy

    If @AOC conducted herself in the flailing, shouting way Jim Jordan did today, we'd be drowning in hot takes about whether women have the temperament to serve in Congress.— Max Burns (@themaxburns) February 27, 2019

  60. 60.

    geg6

    @germy:

    This one of those news days where all the news makes me happy. Well, except that whole India/Pakistan thing. I’ve decided to pretend that isn’t happening.

  68. 68.

    Barbara

    @trollhattan: They should wait. We went to Mammoth in late March of 2017, after Mammoth was on track to receive 600 inches of snow. The great thing about the resorts in California is that the snow won’t go anywhere for a while.

  72. 72.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: The movie Stan and Ollie (which is wonderful, I recommend) does not paint a flattering picture of Hal Roach. It looks like he basically ended their career as a duo when Hardy was still under contract but Laurel wanted to negotiate for better terms. And IIRC one of those terms was rights to collect some of their own profits, or rather some of the mega $$ that Roach was collecting off their backs.

  73. 73.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @ET: I suspect he would not only have run, but hired Dowless again.

    It was pretty obvious that he decided to stop fighting and call for new elections to try to make the investigation go away. It ticked me off mightily that the tactic seemed to work. I hope he does face some criminal consequences.

  74. 74.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Yarrow: McConnell is not in her direct chain of command, but I’m hoping and expecting the moment will come when he has to bow down to her as well, when his power is utterly broken and his spirit shattered and in pieces around his feet.

    NANCY SMASH!!!

  75. 75.

    Gin & Tonic

    @trollhattan: Few years back I went there, flew into SMF, it was pouring rain there, by the time I was halfway up to Tahoe it was snowing heavily. I’d rented a 4WD vehicle, which was fortunate, because it was chains or 4WD the rest of the way. Pretty gnarly drive, actually.

  76. 76.

    C Stars

    @trollhattan: Thank you. Fortunately, we don’t live there, though we have some friends and acquaintances who are flooded out. Staying merely moist in the east bay.

  80. 80.

    sm*t cl*de

    @Brachiator:

    Lichtman awarded a whopping $128 million in punitive damages, finding the high amount “necessary to punish Fox for its reprehensible conduct and deter it from future wrongful conduct.”
    In a statement, 21st Century Fox strongly denied the allegations leveled against its executives by Lichtman and said it would appeal the decision.

    Am I right in recollecting that Lichtman was arbitrating the claims because Fox makes employees sign away their right to sue, in favor of compulsory arbitration?

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