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John Mannion Defeats Brandon Williams in New York's 22nd Congressional District

State Senator John Mannion Triumphs Over Representative Brandon Williams In a significant political shift, State Senator John Mannion has emerged victorious against Representative Brandon Williams in New York, marking the first flipped House seat in the nation for the Democrats, as reported by The Associated Press. This outcome is particularly noteworthy following recent redistricting that…

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Mark Green

Physique: Average Build Height: 5' 10"

Mark Edward Green (born November 8, 1964) is an American politician, physician, and retired U.S. Army officer who has served as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 7th congressional district since 2019. As a member of the Republican Party, Green has chaired the Committee on Homeland Security since 2023. Before his election to Congress, he served in the Tennessee Senate from 2013 to 2018, representing the 22nd district.

Handsome, looks like he works out and was a powerful House Republican who chaired the Committee on Homeland Security. Who won't want to fuck him. I'll that later.

In 1986, Green graduated from the United States Military Academy, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in quantitative business management. In 1987 he earned a master's degree in systems management from the University of Southern California. After graduating from West Point, Green was an infantry officer. He then graduated from Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University and became a flight surgeon, serving tours of duty in the War in Afghanistan and Iraq War. After retiring from the military in 2006, Green became the CEO of a hospital emergency department staffing company.

Green and his wife, Camie, have two children. In August 2024, Green filed for a divorce from his wife of nearly 36 years citing irreconcilable differences. His wife said he filed for divorce after having an affair with a younger woman. What? Another politician going though a divorce after being caught cheating. Nooooo. Green's wife also issued a harsh warning to the wives of fellow lawmakers to look out for readily available women “predators” that out for our husbands. Don't forget the men “predators” too.

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As of October 13th, 2024, the race for control of the US House is a dead heat (52% chance for Republicans).

Simulated poll averages, a pivotal part of my model in 2022, are here. And they're pretty good for Republicans on net, pushing the race to a true coin toss in conjunction with a drop for Democrats in the generic ballot. Let's look at some interesting reactions to all this new data.

Democrats are not successfully playing offense in California and Arizona, two states that are pivotal to gaining the five seats they need. The biggest offenders are in California's 22nd, which seems to be hedging towards a narrow 2022-like outcome, and 47th, where a weak nominee is barely hanging on in a seat that should be fairly safe for Democrats. There's worse news for Republicans in Nevada, where coattails are coming in for the incumbents from Vice President Harris, and New Mexico, which has had surprisingly lopsided polling at the Congressional level.

In a bright spot for Democrats, the model now believes there's reason for a bounceback from 2022, where a weak Republican incumbent in Pinellas County is failing to impress and a district in the Miami suburbs is now considered a tossup.

Thanks to stronger-than-expected polling for Mr. Trump, Michigan is now looking like an unexpected House battleground, with surprisingly Republican seats around Flint and Lansing. The Detroit suburbs, however, have moved a bit towards Democrats.

Most Mid-Atlantic Democrats don't seem to be doing their jobs. Two districts have flipped to Rs from last week in the Hudson Valley (in a MAJOR surprise given base partisanship) and Central Jersey, and serveral others have moved substantially towards Republicans. A bright spot for Dems is Susan Wilde putting up the fight of her life in Allentown.

The two competitive districts around the Virginia-North Carolina border are looking... less competitive. Both have moved in opposite directions towards their respective favorites.

A quick warning here - my simulated polling averages are still courtesy of 538, but that outlet has a brand-new set of models after Nate Silver's departure. There's a higher risk of GIGO, but we'll be able to test that possibility very comfortably post-election. I'm not opposed to creating my own district correlation model in the future, pivotal to House polling averages, but I'm only one woman and my resources are limited.

Overall, Democrats' path to the majority rests in California and New York, but those states have been much tougher than they seem on paper. Meanwhile, Republicans need to play offense in Michigan and Pennsylvania to adjust for an otherwise bluer environment, which is going just a bit better for them.

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Bill Thomas Born: December 6, 1941, Wallace, ID Physique: Average Build

William Marshall Thomas is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2007, finishing his tenure representing California's 22nd congressional district and as the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Thomas is married with two grown children. Apparently, he had an affair in 2001 with a lobbyist and was involed in the Rubbergate banking scandal, involving House members writing checks when the funds were not available. So he like fucking around and bouncing checks. Wait politician doesn't?

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Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, a Republican from California's 22nd congressional district, has proposed a so-called "Fair Tax" plan, which would eliminate the IRS and replace it with a massive sales tax.

McCarthy claims he's doing this to simplify American taxes...and on this, I agree. A 30% universal sales tax would be simpler than income tax. But those complexities exist for a reason. They ensure that low-income people aren't paying more than they can afford, make the wealthy pay (closer to) their fair share, incentivize certain financial activities, track weird edge cases, and prevent loophole abuse of all the other rules, among other functions.

Replacing graduated income tax, complete with all the credits and deductions and other nuances that an annual tax return enables, with a flat sales tax would be catastrophic. For starters, it would jack up total taxes paid the impoverished and marginalized, while reducing taxation of the rich and powerful. Aside from very directly increasing (disposable) income inequality, eliminating the IRS implicitly means eliminating everything from the Earned Income Tax Credit to medical expense deductions—things which add complexity to the tax code, but which also provide major benefits for people who need help.

I won't defend every line of the tax code. I feel many parts should be rewritten, and some outright removed. (Giving preferential tax treatment to shit like qualified dividends and long-term investments, for instance.) But just deleting the IRS and making everyone pay more for everything instead is a "cure" worse than the disease.

For full disclosure: McCarthy's "'Fair' Tax Plan" would also be bad for me personally, because preparing income tax returns is the most stable job I've got at the moment. But I do honestly think it would be bad for 99% of Americans.

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This is a vile bill proposed for vile reasons, and the vile people supporting it have names and phone numbers. OP, thank you for posting this and making us all aware of it.

The bill has been introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) (of course) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas). (Please note that link goes directly to Ted Cruz's website. Apologies, but that is the only source I've found so far listing all the cosponsors). It has been cosponsored by the following so far:

Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Katie Britt (R- Ala.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Steve Daines (R- Mont.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Roger Marshall (R- Kan.), James Risch (R-ldaho), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Scott (R- S.C.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)

If you live in any of those states, call your Senators and tell them to act right. More specifically, tell them to vote no on and loudly denounce the "No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act" (even the name is propagandizing, though that's not uncommon for bills in the US legislature).

If you live in the USA but don't live in any of those states, call your Senators anyway and tell them to vote no on and loudly denounce the act. I can't yet find a web page for the bill itself on the US Senate website, likely because it's been introduced so recently.

According to the above website and some other articles, Congressman Brandon Williams (R-NY 22) is trying to drum up support for a similar bill in the House of Representatives. If you live in New York's 22nd congressional district, call him and tell him to stop it.

Making a phone call or two or two thousand won't solve the problem of fascist jackasses in government trying to outlaw protest. It may, however, solve the problem of these twenty-one specific jackasses running their mouths.

Oh my god???????

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The contest between Democrats and Republicans to control Congress heads into Election Day much like the presidential race – very close with the outcomes boiling down to just a few states and congressional districts.

Democrats going into Tuesday control the 100-seat Senate with a 51-49 majority, of 47 Democratic senators and four independent senators – Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Angus King of Maine, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, all of whom typically vote with the majority party. 

If GOP presidential nominee former President Donald Trump wins, Republicans need to flip just one seat to gain control of the Senate because the vice president serves as the tie-breaking vote in the chamber. If Vice President Kamala Harris wins, Democrats can afford to lose one Senate seat.

The GOP's best chance of flipping a Senate seat is in deep-red West Virginia, where outgoing Republican Gov. Jim Justice leads his Democratic challenger by 34 points, according to one of the most recent polls. The seat is held by Manchin, who was a Democrat until becoming an independent earlier this year. 

Republicans' next likely pickup could come in Montana, where incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is trailing GOP challenger Tim Sheehy by about 6 percentage points, according to the latest polling average from RealClearPolling. Tester has served in the Senate since 2006.

Other possible pickups for Republicans include Ohio, where Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is statistically tied with GOP challenger Bernie Moreno; Wisconsin, where Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin is fighting off a tough challenge from Republican Eric Hovde; and Pennsylvania, where Democratic Sen. Bob Casey's early lead has dwindled to a near deadlock against Republican David McCormick.

One other GOP target is the open Michigan Senate race, but Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin is leading former Rep. Mike Rogers by 2.4 percentage points, according to RealClearPolling's latest average.

A wildcard in the battle to control the chamber is the race in Nebraska, in which Republican incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer is facing a tough challenge in independent candidate Dan Osborn. 

Republican control the 435-seat House, but also by a narrow margin – 220 seats to Democrats' 212, with three vacancies. All 435 seats are up for grabs Tuesday, and the party holding the gavel in January will likely be decided by less than 20 competitive races.

There are seven swing districts in New York that could determine control of the chamber. Five of those districts are currently held by first-term Republicans, including Long Island districts one and four, Hudson Valley districts 17, and 19 as well as the 22nd congressional district in Syracuse. Districts three and 18 are represented by Democrats.

There are six competitive races in California that will influence which party wins the majority, in districts 13, 22, 27, 41, 45 and 47.

Other races to watch include the contest between Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who is running for reelection against state Senator Tony Vargas as well as Alabama’s second district race between Democrat Shomari Figures and Republican Caroleene Dobson, both lawyers.

Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., who represents the first congressional district in the state, is fighting to hold his seat against Republican Laurie Buckhout, in a closely-watched tight race. 

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..."Today, New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) voted to pass a new congressional map after the state’s highest court ordered the IRC to draw a new congressional map for 2024. It will now go to the Legislature for approval

The map — which is deemed a “consensus plan” by the IRC — is not expected to significantly shift control of New York’s congressional delegation and passed by a 9-1 vote. Currently, the New York House delegation consists of 15 Democrats and 10 Republicans. This number is down from 11 as of Dec. 1, after former Rep. George Santos was expelled. However, with the recent election of Democrat Tom Suozzi to fill Santos’ seat, the delegation will soon consist of 16 Democrats and 10 Republicans once Suozzi is sworn in.

New York will have a new congressional map as a result of a lawsuit filed in June 2022 alleging that the IRC did not complete its mandatory duty and requesting that the state have a new congressional map for 2024. Thanks to a 2014 voter-approved amendment creating the IRC, the commission — made up of four Democrats, four Republicans and two unaffiliated members — is required under the state constitution to submit a second set of maps if the Legislature rejects the first set. In 2021, after the Legislature rejected the first set of plans presented by the commission, the Republican IRC members stalled and refused to meet, failing to perform their constitutional duty, according to the plaintiffs.

The lawsuit made its way through the court system for over a year and in December 2023, New York’s highest court ruled 4-3 that the IRC must redraw the state’s congressional map before the 2024 elections. In that ruling, the court set a deadline for the IRC to convene and pass a new map by Feb. 28, 2024. 

December’s opinion, authored by Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, ordered the IRC to reconvene and perform its mandatory duty. 

“[T]he IRC failed to discharge its constitutional duty. That dereliction is undisputed. The Appellate Division concluded that the IRC can be compelled to reconvene to fulfill that duty; we agree. There is no reason the Constitution should be disregarded,” the opinion reads. 

Jeffrey Wice, a redistricting expert, adjunct professor of law and Senior Fellow at the N.Y. Census & Redistricting Institute at New York Law School also gave an exclusive comment to Democracy Docket:  “New York’s commission was finally able to agree on a bipartisan congressional map that changed very little from the map drawn by the state court in 2022.” 

Senior Editor and Elections Analyst at the Cook Political Report, Dave Wasserman, reacted to the new map in a quote to Democracy Docket: 

“It appears to enhance Democrats’ prospects of gaining Brandon Williams’s 22nd District in Syracuse and keeping Pat Ryan’s 18th District in the Hudson Valley, but it also diminishes their prospects of gaining Marc Molinaro’s 19th District in Ithaca and the Upper Hudson Valley. If passed, the net effect would be to diminish the competitiveness of New York’s map, with a very slight benefit to Democrats.” 

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Allen West More Words of Wisdom #motivate #history #quotes #freedom #lo...

Allen West is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and a Republican politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district from 2011 to 2013. He is known for his outspoken and conservative views on a wide range of issues, including fiscal policy, national security, and social issues. West is a Tea Party movement supporter and has been a prominent figure within the conservative movement.

During his time in Congress, Allen West was known for his passionate speeches and active involvement in conservative causes. He has also run for political office in Florida in subsequent years, including an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for governor in 2018.

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Jimmie Bugg Middleton (February 10, 1890 - February 17, 1967) was one of the astounding founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She receive her BA from Howard University and her BA in 1936. She helped lobby Delta Sigma Theta to participate in the March for Women's Suffrage. Through much effort, she established the Raleigh Alumnae Chapter, Alpha Zeta Sigma, on May 7, 1938. In 1944, she was appointed to the Scholarship Board of New York's 22nd Congressional District. Her other accomplishments included: being president and national treasurer of the National Association of College Women and serving as the Dean of a girls' high school in Raleigh. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta https://www.instagram.com/p/Coe4sa_Lw2K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Republican Says Smoking of Cigars Inside the Capitol Is 'About Freedom'#Republican #Smoking #Cigars #Capitol #Freedom

Republican Says Smoking of Cigars Inside the Capitol Is ‘About Freedom’#Republican #Smoking #Cigars #Capitol #Freedom

Republican Representative Troy Nehls has said that smoking cigars in the U.S. Capitol is “about freedom” following a number of reports of an apparent uptick in smoking among GOP members of the House of Representatives. Nehls, who represents Texas’ 22nd congressional district, spoke to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Friday with three cigars visible in his left breast pocket and criticized the focus…

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"An officer of the Revolution": The story of Mountjoy Bayly [Part 5]

Continued from part 4

Gravestone of Mountjoy in the Congressional Cemetery, photographed by Michael Dover on 6 Mar 2011. Courtesy of his Find A Grave entry.

Like the 1820 census, the 1830 census is full of information. Still living in the Fourth Ward, the household of "Genl M Bayly" as the census shows it, indicates that he is living with his family,, including his son Richard, his daughter Eleanor, his daughter Elizabeth, and his wife Elizabeth, along with two enslaved Blacks, one which is a female under age 10, another which is a female aged 36-54. [48] The same year a "Mary Bailey" was living in Georgetown, just like in 1820 when two "free" Black persons were living with her). Likely, this was his mother. [49] If it was, then this would add an interesting familial dynamic to the story. However, more research would be needed to see if this is the case. After all, many people with the last name of "Bailey" are listed as living in this ward in 1820 and 1830 but it is not known if they are related to Mountjoy. [50]

Reprinted from my History Hermann WordPress blog.

This same census showed 341 household, a "Benjamin Bayly" as the marshal in the city, and many colonels and military officers living within the ward. Furthermore, using all of the pages within the census of this Washington city region, it is clear that there are 1,860 inhabitants in the ward. Of these inhabitants, 535 are White males, 591 are White females, 117 are enslaved Black men, 134 are enslaved Black women, 212 are free Black men, and 271 are free Black women.This means this means there has been an increase in the number of households by about 23%. since there were 277 households in 1820.

In terms of the number of inhabitants, there were 200 more in 1830 that were not there in 1820, an increase of more than 12%. In terms of the distribution of those living in the ward, about 28.5% are White men, about 31.7% are White women, about 6.3% are enslaved Black men, about 7.2% are enslaved Black women, about 14.5% are free Black women, leaving 11.8% to be free Black men. That means that 60.2% of the town was White, with the rest as Black inhabitants, only 26.3% of which were "free," and 13.5% enslaved.

Coming back to Bayly, in 1832, Elizabeth would die from a form of cancer, if I remember his federal veterans pension application correctly, which misstates who she is, no surprise in terms of pensions. [51] After her death, he would marry another woman. While her last name is not currently known, thanks to Edward Papenfuse, we know her first name was Rebecca. [52] The same year (and the year following) he would, from Washington City, attest to the fact that Benjamin Murdoch and Theodore Middleton were part of the Extra Regiment.

In the final years of his life, little is known. However, there are indications that he was "praying to be compensated for extra services" as noted in the journal of the U.S. Senate for Jun 27, 1834. Also, in the Federal Pension Roll of 1835 it noted that he lived within Washington County, a county within DC, not Maryland, still receiving a Federal pension of $4,320 since the pension started in July 1828, and an annual allowance of $480.00.

On March 22, 1836, within his 82 years of age, Mountjoy died and was buried in Washington D.C.'s Congressional Cemetery. As he still owned hundreds of acres in Frederick County [53], one newspaper would write a short death notice:

On the 22nd instant, GENERAL Mountjoy Bayly, an officer of the Revolution, in the 82nd year of his age. His friends are requested to attend his funeral from his late dwelling on Capitol Hill this evening at 4 o'clock.

This funeral's location is not known. It likely was not at the Bayly House, but rather was at lot 13, square 637 within the District, a property sold to Benjamin S. Bayly in 1831. It could also be at lot 10, within square 637, also owned by Mr. Bayly sometime before 1832. Using the information on an 1835 map of DC shows that that square 637 is south of the Capitol, and near a canal, which means that he stayed in the Capitol Hill region, only slightly moving around. This is undoubtedly the current location of The Spirit of Justice Park, and he could have been living in what was later called George Washington Inn, which was demolished to make way for a parking garage for the House of Representatives.

The only way to find this out would be to, perhaps, would be to contact the DC Archives. I don't feel it is my place to do this since I would be intruding on genealogy research by the family itself, but it is open for any other researchers.

The years after Mountjoy and reflection

As noted in the Heritage Gazette, a publication of the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery.

Since the last name of Mountjoy's second wife, Rebecca is not currently known to this researcher, further family linkages cannot be determined. However, a number of aspects are clear. In 1838, Theodore Middleton, previously mentioned, would petition the US House of Representatives, saying that he served as a lieutenant in the Extra Regiment, wanting five years pay, citing Mountjoy as support. He would receive it, possibly indicating Mountjoy's staying power.

Years later, in 1934, one ancestor of Mountjoy, McKendrec Bayly, would write the Washington Post a correction, showing that his spirit remained strong [54]:

In one New York Times obit from 1910 it cites a person named Richard Mountjoy Bailey Phillips as dying. It is not known if he is related to Mountjoy. However, one Baltimore Sun article about Mrs. Sumner A. Parker has this line, which concerns an estate they owned, "the Cloisters" which was the Green Spring Valley estate of Mr. and Mrs. Sumner A. Parker. [55] The relevant part is as follows:

...Mrs. Parker asserted in her will that she and her late husband...built the Cloisters...[which had within it] furniture handed down by her great-great-great grandfather, Gen, Monjoy Bailey, from his home in Frederick. The testator said that her ancestor had been sent to Frederick by Gen. George Washington and place in charge of the troops housed on the outskirts of the city.

This is partially right as noted earlier in this article. However, it is wrong to say that George Washington sent Mountjoy to Frederick. Instead, he was sent on Governor Lee's orders and was in charge of troops within Frederick County, not anywhere else, like this implies. Other stories I found noted how Mountjoy was a better and gambler and how Sterling silver knives, which were made in England in 1790, owned by Mountjoy, were stolen in 1972. [56]

In later years, in July 2012, the 1st Vice President J. Patrick Warner of the Maryland Society of the Sons of the American Revolution would represent the Maryland Society in a "ceremony commemorating Mountjoy Bayly." That means that to this day, people commemorate him.

There are many resources I could have used here. [57] Some sources said that the pension file of George Heeter is related to Mountjoy, but no evidence seems to indicate this at all. A related book and page by Fairfax SAR chapter, give helpful hints, the latter used for some of the sources in this article, but they do not provide all of the information. Possible other sources are out there, like the entries in "U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858" for Mountjoy (called Mountjoy Bailey in the record), or "New Orleans, Louisiana, Slave Manifests, 1807-1860" of about 1831 which involves Mountjoy shipping a enslaved Black man southward (if I read that right), all of which are records of Mr. Bayly all on Ancestry which can't be currently accessed by this researcher. Other than that, there are probably online resources that I have not found. More likely the records I don't have here are paper records within certain archives and databases across the East Coast.

I hope that this article contributed not only to an understanding of the story of Mountjoy, but also how the story of slavery is tied into US history deeply, along with Washington, D.C. from 1820 to 1836, at least. If this article did anything to improve people's historical knowledge and encouraged further research, then then this research did right. As always, I look forward to your comments as I continue to write on the stories of certain members of the Extra Regiment after the Revolutionary War.

© 2016-2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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Tom DeLay Born: April 8, 1947, Laredo, TX Physique: Average Build Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Thomas Dale DeLay is an American author and retired politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1985 until 2006. He served as Republican majority whip (1995–2003) and majority leader (2003–06) but resigned from the House in June 2006 in the face of corruption charges. In the House, DeLay rose swiftly through the ranks of the Republican leadership, earning the nickname “The Hammer” for his persistence and for his ability to bring fellow Republicans into line through the use of threats. After leaving Congress, DeLay co-authored, with Stephen Mansfield, a political memoir, No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight. He founded the lobbying firm First Principles, LLC.

I noticed DeLay during the 90s, but it wasn't till he appeared on Dancing with the Stars that wanted to do him. He has been married since 1967 with one child. Apparently, DeLay is a born-again Christian who gave up hard liquor and adultery. Wait, he had a reputation as a playboy, earning the nickname "Hot Tub Tom". Lol. I seem always find the whores. Now I really want to see him dancing on a pole. And the pole I'm talking about is my penis.

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An Open Letter Denouncing the [RACIST] Attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/13/an_open_letter_denouncing_the_attacks_on_justice_clarence_thomas_147879.html?mc_cid=e37b2b8113

An Open Letter Denouncing the Attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas

By Glenn Loury & Robert Woodson Sr.

July 13, 2022

White progressives do not have the moral authority to excommunicate a black man from his race because they disagree with him.

And those – regardless of background – who join in the charade or remain silent are guilty of enabling this abuse.

We, the undersigned, condemn the barrage of racist, vicious, and ugly personal attacks that we are witnessing on Clarence Thomas – a sitting Supreme Court justice. Whether it is calling him a racist slur, an “Uncle Tom” or questioning his “blackness” over his jurisprudence, the disparagement of this man, of his faith and of his character, is abominable.

Regardless of where one stands on Justice Thomas’ personal or legal opinions, he is among the pantheon of black trailblazers throughout American history and is a model of integrity, scholarship, steadfastness, resilience, and commitment to the Constitution of the United States of America. For three decades Justice Thomas has served as a model for our children. He has long been honored and celebrated by black people in this country and his attackers do not speak for the majority of blacks.

He is entirely undeserving of the vitriol directed at him. Character assassination has become too convenient a tool for eviscerating those who dare dissent from the prevailing agenda, especially when it is a black man who is dissenting.

This is not about the content of the court’s decisions or Justice Thomas’ personal views; some of the undersigned agree with his judicial decisions and some do not. We speak out – as black people and Americans – to condemn these attacks and support Justice Thomas, because to remain silent would be to implicitly endorse these poisonous schemes as well as his destruction.

Sincerely,

Glenn Loury

Professor of Economics

Brown University

Providence, RI

Robert Woodson Sr.

Founder and President

The Woodson Center

Washington, DC

Charles Love, Executive Director, Seeking Educational Excellence, New York, NY

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA

W. Barclay Allen, Havre de Grace, MD

Christopher Arps, Co-founder, Move-On-Up.org, St. Louis, MO

Dr. Lisa Babbage, Babbage America, Suwanee, GA

Leon Benjamin, Pastor, Life Harvest Church, Richmond, VA

Claston Bernard , Olympian, Author, Former Congressional Candidate, Gonzales, LA

Shamike Bethea, Fredrick Douglass Foundation of NC, Fayetteville, NC

Harold A. Black, Emeritus Professor University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Kenneth Blackwell, Chairman, Conservative Action Project, OH

Tony Blount, Member / Coalition of Concerned Freedmen, New York, NY

Jordan R. Bolds ,New York, NY

Robert Bracy, President/Pinnacle Business Management, New York, NY

David Brooks, Former Rich Township IL Republican Committeeman, Indianapolis, IN

Janice Rogers Brown, Gardnerville, NV

John Sibley Butler, Austin, TX

Don Carey, City Councilman, Chesapeake, VA

Tess Chakkalakal, Associate Professor, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

Jeff Charles, Podcaster, Writer, Political Commentator, Jacksonville, FL

Gabrielle Clark, Houston, TX

Adam B. Coleman, Founder of Wrong Speak Publishing, Piscataway, NJ

Melanie Collette, Host, Money Talk with Melanie Cape May Court House, NJ

Ward Connerly, President of the American Civil Rights Institute, Coeur d'Alene, ID

D. Daniels, GA

Kira A. Davis, Deputy Managing Editor, RedState, Ladera Ranch, CA

Rod Dorilás, GOP Candidate, Florida 22nd Congressional District, West Palm Beach, FL

Patricia Rae Easley, Black Excellence Media, Chicago, IL

Larry Elder, President of Elder for America PAC, Los Angeles, CA

Rev. Joe Ellison Jr., City Chaplain Ministries, Richmond, VA

Melvin Everson, Former State Rep, Snellville, GA

Nique Fajors, St. Louis, MO

Yaya J. Fanusie, Chief Strategist, Cryptocurrency AML Strategies, Columbia, MD

George Farrell, Chair of BlakPac,Washington, DC

Chavis Jennings, Highland, IN

Casey Felin, ThatGirlCasey Media, Philadelphia, PA

LaTasha H. Fields, Team Illinois, Chicago, IL

Marie Fischer, JEXIT, Baltimore, MD

Kali Fontanilla, Founder of Exodus Institute, Sarasota, FL

Roland Fryer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Edwin A. Fynn, Merrillville, IN

Verlon Galloway, Gary, IN

Dr. Derryck Green, Sacramento, CA

Kermit E. Hairston, Stone Mountain, GA

Christopher Harris, Executive Director of Unhyphenated America, Fairfax County, VA

Clarence Henderson, President Frederick Douglass Foundation of N. Carolina, High Point, NC

Ismael Hernandez, Founder/President/Freedom & Virtue Institute, Fort Myers, FL

Curtis Hill, Former Indiana Attorney General, Elkhart, IN

Deidre Hulett, Gary, IN

Daniel Idfresne, 18-Year-Old Political Commentator, New York City, NY

Niger Innis, Chairman, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Las Vegas, NV

Kevin Jackson, Founder/The Kevin Jackson Network, Gilbert, AZ

Nikki Johnson, MD, Cleveland, OH

Leonydus Johnson, Host of Informed Dissent, Oak Hill, OH

Diante Johnson, President, Black Conservative Federation, Arlington, VA

Christopher Jones, Pastor, Atlanta, GA

Seneca Jones, Dallas, TX

Khansa Jones-Muhammad, Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Alveda King, Concerned Citizen, Atlanta, GA

Lisa Kinnemore, Stone Mountain, GA

Garry Kinnemore, Stone Mountain, GA

Matthew P. Kreutz, Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York, Medina, NY

Chaplain Ayesha Kreutz, Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York, Medina, NY 

Princess Kuevor, Columbus, OH

Michael Lancaster, Frederick Douglass Foundation, Stone Mountain, GA

Mitchell Lomax, Ellicott City, MD

Pamela Denise Long, Nat'l Coordinator, Coalition of Concerned Freedmen, St. Louis, MO

Barrington D. Martin II, Atlanta, GA

Linda Matthews, Frederick Douglass Foundation Ohio, Cincinnati, OH

Kevin McGary, Co-Founder Every Black Life Matters (EBLM), Dallas, TX

John McWhorter, New York, NY

Shemeka Michelle, Author, Durham, NC

Cashmere Miller, Atlanta, GA

Montrail Miller, FDF, GA

Lucas E. Morel, Professor of Politics, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

Brian Mullins, Black Community Collaborative, Chicago, IL

Scherie Murray, Director, Unite the Fight PAC, Laurelton, NY

Dr. Lorenzo Neal, New Bethel AME Church, Jackson, MS

Dean Nelson, Frederick Douglass Foundation, Washington, DC

Morris W. O'Kelly, On-air personality, KFI AM640/iHeartRadio, Los Angeles, CA

Tim Parrish, Founder, Right Appeal PAC, Woodbridge, VA

Lonnie Poindexter, LionChasersNetwork.org, Washington, DC

Jon Ponder, Chief Executive Officer, Hope For Prisoners, Las Vegas, NV

Wilfred Reilly, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY

Deon Richmond, Studio City, CA

Donique Rolle, Educator, Orlando, FL

Ian V. Rowe, Senior Visiting Fellow, The Woodson Center, New York, NY

Sheryl R. Sellaway, Founder, Righteous PR Agency, Johns Creek, GA

Erec Smith, Assoc. Professor of Rhetoric/Co-founder Free Black Thought, York, PA

Dr. Felicity Joy Solomon, Shorewood, IL

Delano Squires, Contributor, Blaze Media, Washington, DC

Rebekah Star, New York, NY

Dr. Carol M. Swain, Be the People News, Nashville, TN

David Sypher Jr., Political Strategist, Rahway, NJ

Dr. Linda Lee Tarver, President, Tarver Consulting, Lansing, MI

Greg Thomas, Stratford, CT

Roderick Threats, Black Patriot Media Group, Palm Beach, FL

Jimmy Lee Tillman II, Founder/President, Martin Luther King Republicans, Chicago, IL

Stephanie W. Trussell, Republican Candidate for LTG Illinois, Lisle, IL

Jesse C. Turner, Senior Pastor, The Historic Elm Grove Baptist Church, Pine Bluff, AR

Bettye H. Tyler, Marvellous Works, Inc., Jackson, MS

Helen Tyner, Parents for a Better Englewood, Chicago, IL

Dr. Eric M. Wallace, Freedom's Journal Institute, Flossmoor, IL

Marcus Watkins, Michigan Republican Assembly, Romulus, MI

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Cindy Werner, State Ambassador, Frederick Douglass Foundation-WI, Milwaukee, WI

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Aryca Woodson, Communications Consultant, IN

John Wood Jr., Opinion Columnist, USA Today, Los Angeles, CA

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Craig Shirley: Donations To Reagan Library Will Trickle Down After Liz Cheney Speech, "The Debates Are Over"

Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is usually correct) would say that Cheney saw the GOP departing from everything she represents and did her best to poison every Republican Institution she can touch before she's driven out into the wilderness.

FNC's Peter Doocy To White House: Does The President Think It Is Appropriate To Protest Outside A Supreme Court Justice's Home?

So the Biden Administration thinks it's OK to shadow these Justices, or any other public figure, from location to location to disrupt their lives and possibly expose them to threats. You have a right to peacefully protest but their are restrictions on time, place, and manner...and one of those is a restriction (a law against!) on protesting outside the homes of Justices. So, the Administration is approving and tacitly encouraging illegal behavior. The only reason to protest outside the homes of these Justices is to intimidate them; it certainly isn't aimed at persuading fellow Americans on the issue.

Zelensky: "The End Of The World Has Arrived" I'm Embarrassed This Is Happening In The 21st Century

Some may remember the Cuban Missile Crisis in the early 60s. Castro was in power in Cuba and the Russians began bringing nuclear missiles into Cuba. JFK was President of the USA at the time. A nuclear was was barely averted and Russia took their missiles home, but exacted some concessions from Kennedy, one of which was pulling our missile capability out of Turkey. At the end of the Cold War promises were made to Russia that NATO would not expand into the Russian sphere of influence. That promise has been broken many times. Havana Cuba is a bit further from Washington, D.C., than Kiev is from Moscow. Biden signed a paper in Nov 2021 that invited Ukraine to join NATO. See " The Two Blunders That Caused the Ukraine War" in the March 4th WSJ. One might ask why Biden opened the door for Ukraine to join NATO? Did he think that Russia would do nothing with the prospect of being squeezed by another NATO country? Or did Biden want Russia to attack the Ukraine to take the heat off the dismal prospects of the mid-term elections?

Recall, Remove & Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor | RealClearPolitic

Recall is not feasible particularly since many states do not have recall. But voters should pay more attention to these DA, AG, and prosecutor races. Republicans adopted a from the ground up strategy to win state legislator races and it was a spectacular success. Democrats, with Soros money are trying to do the same thing with DA races. Republicans should engage them and voters should pay more attention or we will end up with more non prosecution of crimes and release without bail.

Tucker Carlson: Arrest Of Bannon And Navarro Is A Huge Escalation In Democratic Party's Weaponization Of DOJ

The whole premise of the J6 witch hunt is that an insurrection to over-throw the US gov't was planned. Mind you, this was planned without a single weapon to be used, and relied on the police abandoning post, and the Capitol doors to somehow be opened from the inside. Once inside these "insurrectionists" took selfies. This narrative is so dead.