BREAKING: Sandusky, Ohio will stop observing Columbus Day — switching the holiday to Election Day instead.
This needs to happen nationally. https://t.co/asabJwMB2D
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) February 7, 2019
Hill headline is — not for the first time — confusing. Sandusky voters will not be going to the polls in mid-October, but the city is changing one of its paid-leave holidays from the second Monday of October to the first Tuesday in November. Far from a perfect solution (for one thing, I’m sure people will complain about non-volunteer poll workers getting overtime comp), but it’s a start.
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Elsewhere in debatable election decisions…
"Never heard of him," Trump first says about Adam Schiff, a Democratic congressman he has repeatedly attacked. Then a few minutes later he says Schiff is "just a political hack trying to build a name for himself."
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 6, 2019
Trump just referred to House Intelligence Chairman @RepAdamSchiff as a "political hack who's trying to build a name for himself," per WH pooler, in a move that Trump said amounts to "presidential harassment.” Trump is speaking from a ceremony for the new head of the World Bank.
— Nancy Cook (@nancook) February 6, 2019
"What the President sees as presidential harassment is really the end of presidential immunity…we want to make sure the President of the United States is not financially compromised."@RepSwalwell on the investigation into Trump's finances, foreign ties.https://t.co/f2OX8JyOJh pic.twitter.com/FQCFsbyNUO
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) February 7, 2019