#Bill Pascrell

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Paul V. Fontelo at Roll Call:

Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a New Jersey Democrat first elected to the House in 1996, died on Wednesday, his office announced on X. He was 87 and would have been the oldest member of the House if reelected in November.  “Bill fought to his last breath to return to the job he cherished and the people he loved,” the post said. “Bill lived his entire life in Paterson and had an unwavering love for the city he grew up in and served. He is now at peace after a life time devoted to our great nation America.” A veteran of New Jersey’s brand of politics who dominated his home Passaic County, Pascrell was known for his pugnacious demeanor in promoting tax enforcement and ensuring “tax fairness” for all income levels. To achieve that, “everybody’s got to pull on the rope the same,” he said.

An Army veteran and one-time semi-professional baseball player, Pascrell was a teenager when his uncle took him to his first ward meeting in the city of Paterson, then a factory town with a thriving textile business. The rough-and-tumble political arena left an impression on Pascrell. “There’s a lot of fist fights … I’m gonna like this,” he recalled in an interview. “I did. I stayed with it since I was 16 years old.” While he saw far fewer physical melees between parties in Congress, Pascrell said he stuck by the lessons he learned from his first exposure to politics. “See it through or else don’t start it,” he said. And when you are in a fight, “never yield.” In the 118th Congress, Pascrell was the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, having previously spent more than two years as the panel’s chairman. He and fellow Ways and Means Democrats scored several victories in the final months of the previous Congress, including enacting a major tax and social spending budget reconciliation law and, after years of legal battles, acquiring six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns in the lame duck session after the 2022.

Pascrell waged a long campaign to tax “carried interest,” a form of compensation for investment fund managers that is not taxed like ordinary income, a situation he called a loophole that allows rich individuals to avoid fair taxation. He repeatedly introduced legislation to change inheritance rules as well. His bill on the so-called stepped-up basis would have changed existing tax law so that when someone dies and passes on property, the inheritor would pay capital gains taxes based on the fair market rate of the inherited assets, with a few exceptions. Pascrell’s position on the Ways and Means Committee also gave him a platform to fight to restore deductions for state and local tax payments, which Republicans capped in their 2017 tax law. The cap on the SALT deduction hit people in the top income brackets hardest, but in states with high local property and income taxes such as New Jersey, it was also felt by less wealthy families. As a result, Pascrell framed his tax proposals as benefiting the middle class.

Representing a manufacturing-heavy district, he was a close ally of labor unions and focused on ensuring that countries trading with the U.S. complied with international labor standards.  One recurring bipartisan cause for Pascrell was research on and treatment of brain injuries. Inspired by the plight of a constituent, he co-founded the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force in 2001. The issue took on added importance after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks because of a spike in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with wounds from improvised explosive devices.  Pascrell was born in Paterson, N.J., where his Italian immigrant grandparents settled. His father worked for the railroad. The first member of his family to go to high school, Pascrell was an all-state third baseman, played semi-professional baseball for a team in Clifton and tried out for the Philadelphia Phillies after finishing his schooling in the early 1960s. 

New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) died today at the age of 87.

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Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Bill Pascrell (9th May, 2023)

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Israel's Hypocritical Objections to Abu Akleh Investigation

Israel’s Hypocritical Objections to Abu Akleh Investigation

In a surprise announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice said the FBI was launching an investigation into Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. What was not a surprise was Isarel’s reaction. Outgoing Defense Minister Benny Gantz and outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid both blasted the American decision, as did Ted Cruz, who said, that “everyone involved in this…

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GUESS WHAT WOULD “FIX” AND OR “SOLVE” A LOT OF AMERICA’S PROBLEMS? ACCOUNTABILITY!. SO MANY WANTING TO “BE IN CHARGE” AND THE MINUTE SHIT GOES SOUTH UNDER THEIR WATCH THEY WANT TO START BALMING EVERYONE BUT THEMSELVES!

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Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), age 87, is running for re-election

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), age 85, is also running for re-election

The gerontocracy continues to run itself into its own grave…

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While people do differ in their capabilities as they age, I do think there should be a general rule that someone over 75 or so should not be running for office. That doesn’t mean older people can’t be involved in politics. Absolutely not, there’s a zillion things to do, from serving as senior advisors to doing the day to day work that politics require. But in terms of running for office, what possible reason is there for someone in their 80s to be doing this, outside of some very specific circumstance? I can think of one. Jon Tester is 68 years old. It’s unlikely another Democrat is going to win in Montana for a very long time. So if he wins in November, he should keep running until he loses or dies because that’s a case where there really isn’t any good option. But that’s a very different electoral issue than president or some solidly blue district or state.

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He was one of the good ones, to be sure...

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The Informed Voter

I heard New Jersey’s Representative Bill Pascrell say on Washington Journal this morning that in these times politics is more “Celebrity” than politics. Isn't that sad? Isn't it sad that elections are won and lost because of one candidate’s looks and ability to be “entertaining” as opposed to his ability to govern, his knowledge, his world view, his character, and (also, very important) his work ethic–a character trait missing in so many? Yet, isn't that how so very many of us determine for whom we vote? My granddaddy was a Whig, my daddy’s a Whig, and by gum and by golly, I’m a Whig. No one is going to change my mind.

In his book, The Myth of the Rational Voter–Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, the author, Bryan Caplan tell us that “In theory, democracy is a bulwark against socially harmful policies, but in practice it gives them a safe harbor”. He goes on to ask the question, “How can this Paradox of Democracy be solved? One answer is that the people’s ‘representatives’ have turned the tables on them…. A second answer, which complements the first, is that voters are deeply ignorant about politics. They do not know who their representatives are, much less what they do. This tempts politicians to pursue personal agendas and sell themselves to donors”.

Think about this. Isn't it true as I said yesterday, “With freedom comes responsibility”? Where do you see responsibility when, in the course of our elections, voter (a citizens’) opinions vary from one day to another in the polls, swinging back and forth (not unlike the sword of Damocles) with the political commercials? How can political propaganda find a place in the mind of a truly informed citizen?

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as I said in this post

No one is really asking or bringing these questions up with senators like Dick Shelby, or Jim Inhofe, or Pat Leahy, or Bernie Sanders, or Chuck Grassley - all of whom are around the same age as Feinstein (and that’s just in the Senate - there’s Hal Rogers, Steny Hoyer, Bill Pascrell, etc. in the House) and decline or perceived weaknesses and health issues get brought up more easily and quickly and negatively with women in public office than with men, and there’s almost this shock or offense when you try to discuss men being weak or flawed or ill.

The perpetual candidate to which you refer had a fucking heart attack that his supporters and commenters just brush(ed) off and god forbid you ever mention it.

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Mike Luckovich

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

August 10, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

“Good Lord, Who Among Us Hasn’t Paid For A Clarence Thomas Vacation?” David Kurtz of Talking Points Memo asked this morning. Kurtz was reacting to a new piece by Brett Murphy and Alex Mierjeski in ProPublica detailing Justice Thomas’s leisure activities and the benefactors who underwrote them. 

Those activities include “[a]t least 38 destination vacations, including a previously unreported voyage on a yacht around the Bahamas; 26 private jet flights, plus an additional eight by helicopter; a dozen VIP passes to professional and college sporting events, typically perched in the skybox; two stays at luxury resorts in Florida and Jamaica; and one standing invitation to an uber-exclusive golf club overlooking the Atlantic coast.” The authors add that this “is almost certainly an undercount.”

Thomas did not disclose these gifts, as ethics specialists say he should have done. House Democrats Ted Lieu (D-CA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), and Hank Johnson (D-GA) have said Thomas must resign. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who has led the effort to extricate the Supreme Court from very wealthy interests for years, commented: “I said it would get worse; it will keep getting worse.”

Thomas’s benefactors, Murphy and Mierjeski noted, “share the ideology that drives his jurisprudence.” That ideology made Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who has been in the news for the release of his December 6, 2020, memo outlining how to steal the 2020 presidential election, speculate that Thomas was the Supreme Court justice the plotters could count on to back their coup. “Realistically,” Chesebro wrote to lawyer John Eastman, “our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan. 6, which might hold up the Georgia count in Congress, is from Thomas—do you agree, Prof. Eastman?” 

Last Saturday, Republican leaders in Alabama illustrated that their ideology means they reject democracy. After the Supreme Court agreed that the congressional districting map lawmakers put in place after the 2020 census probably violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a lower court ruling that required a new map went into effect. But Alabama Republican lawmakers simply refused. 

Alexander Willis of the Alabama Daily News reported that at a meeting of the Alabama state Republican Party on Saturday, the party’s legal counsel David Bowsher applauded the lawmakers, saying, “House Speaker [Kevin] McCarthy doesn’t have that big a margin, that costs him one seat right there. I can’t tell you we’re going to win in this fight; we’ve got a Supreme Court that surprised the living daylights out of me when they handed down this decision, but I can guarantee you, if the Legislature hadn’t done that, we lose.”

Paul Reynolds, the national committeeman of the party, went on: “Let me scare you a little bit more; Texas has between five and ten congressmen that are Republicans that could shift the other way,” he continued. “How could we win the House back ever again if we’re talking about losing two in Louisiana, and losing five to ten in Texas? The answer’s simple: It’s never.”

Alabama attorney general Steve Marshall added: “Let’s make it clear, we elect a Legislature to reflect the values of the people that they represent, and I don’t think anybody in this room wanted this Legislature to adopt two districts that were going to guarantee that two Democrats would be elected…. What we believe fully is that we just live in a red state with conservative people, and that’s who the candidates of Alabama want to be able to elect going forward.”

The determination of Republican officials to hold onto power even though they appear to know they are in a minority is part of what drove even Republican voters in Ohio to reject their proposal to require 60% of voters, rather than a simple majority, to approve changes in the state constitution. 

Meanwhile, today’s July consumer price index report showed that annual inflation has fallen by about two thirds since last summer, a better-than-expected number suggesting that measures to cool the economy are working without hurting the economy. Real wages have outpaced inflation for the last five months, and unemployment is at a low the U.S. hasn’t seen since 1969. 

At the same time, the country is ending one of the last pieces of the social safety net put in place during Covid: the rule that people on Medicaid could remain covered without renewing their coverage each year. That rule ended in April, and states are purging their Medicaid rolls of those who they say no longer qualify. In the last three months, 4 million people have lost their Medicaid coverage, mostly because of paperwork problems. (Texas dropped an eye-popping 52% of beneficiaries due for renewal in May.) 

Biden officials have tried to pressure states quietly to fix the errors—including long waits to get phone calls answered and slow processing of applications, as well as paperwork errors—but yesterday released letters it had sent to individual states to warn them they might be violating federal law. Thirty-six states did not meet federal requirements.

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HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Stanford University published a working paper earlier this year that revealed a glaring racial disparity in audits of Black taxpayers. The study prompted some lawmakers to urge the agency to conduct an internal investigation into how it determines which taxpayers to audit.

On Monday (May 15), the IRS confirmed the suspicion that it has a racially biased audit selection system.

“While there is a need for further research, our initial findings support the conclusion that Black taxpayers may be audited at higher rates than would be expected given their share of the population,” IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel wrote to the U.S. Senate.

Rep. Bill Pascrell, a New Jersey Democrat on the House Way and Means Committee, said he and his colleagues raised concerns in March about the over-audits of Black taxpayers. The committee oversees the federal tax system.

“IRS is making strides but extra audits of Black Americans is disgraceful and must end,” Pascrell tweeted.

The Stanford study estimated that the IRS audits Black taxpayers at three to five times the rate of non-Black taxpayers. Since the agency doesn’t collect data about taxpayer race, it appears the disparity stems from the agency targeting people who claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a benefit for low-wage workers that has a high rate of mistakes.

“We are deeply concerned by these findings and committed to doing the work to understand and address any disparate impact of the actions we take,” Werfel wrote, adding that the agency is “dedicating resources” to figure out why its automated audit selection produces a disparity.

CBS News reports that the agency intends to use some of the $80 billion it received through the Inflation Reduction Act to understand the problem, which the Stanford study suggested that it stemmed from the agency’s flawed artificial intelligence algorithm.

Werfel said his office will update the lawmakers on a regular basis on its progress toward fixing the problem.

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Supreme Court, U.S FILED In The OCT 2 2022 Supreme Court ofthe United States  RALAND J BRUNSON, Petitioner,

Named persons in their capacities as United States House Representatives: ALMA S. ADAMS; PETE AGUILAR; COLIN Z. ALLRED; MARK E. AMODEI; KELLY ARMSTRONG; JAKE AUCHINCLOSS; CYNTHIA AXNE; DON BACON; TROY BALDERSON; ANDY BARR; NANETTE DIAZ BARRAGAN; KAREN BASS; JOYCE BEATTY; AMI BERA; DONALD S. BEYER JR.; GUS M. ILIRAKIS; SANFORD D. BISHOP JR.; EARL BLUMENAUER; LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER; SUZANNE BONAMICI; CAROLYN BOURDEAUX; JAMAAL BOWMAN; BRENDAN F. BOYLE; KEVIN BRADY; ANTHONY G. BROWN; JULIA BROWNLEY; VERN BUCHANAN; KEN BUCK; LARRY BUCSHON; CORI BUSH; CHERI BUSTOS; G. K. BUTTERFIELD; SALUD 0. CARBAJAL; TONY CARDENAS; ANDRE CARSON; MATT CARTWRIGHT; ED CASE; SEAN CASTEN; KATHY CASTOR; JOAQUIN CASTRO; LIZ CHENEY; JUDY CHU; DAVID N. CICILLINE; KATHERINE M. CLARK; YVETTE D. CLARKE; EMANUEL CLEAVER; JAMES E. CLYBURN; STEVE COHEN; JAMES COMER; GERALD E. CONNOLLY; JIM COOPER; J. LUIS CORREA; JIM COSTA; JOE COURTNEY; ANGIE CRAIG; DAN CRENSHAW; CHARLIE CRIST; JASON CROW; HENRY CUELLAR; JOHN R. CURTIS; SHARICE DAVIDS; DANNY K. DAVIS; RODNEY DAVIS; MADELEINE DEAN; PETER A. DEFAZIO; DIANA DEGETTE; ROSAL DELAURO; SUZAN K. DELBENE; Ill ANTONIO DELGADO; VAL BUTLER DEMINGS; MARK DESAULNIER; THEODORE E. DEUTCH; DEBBIE DINGELL; LLOYD DOGGETT; MICHAEL F. DOYLE; TOM EMMER; VERONICA ESCOBAR; ANNA G. ESHOO; ADRIANO ESPAILLAT; DWIGHT EVANS; RANDY FEENSTRA; A. DREW FERGUSON IV; BRIAN K. FITZPATRICK; LIZZIE LETCHER; JEFF FORTENBERRY; BILL FOSTER; LOIS FRANKEL; MARCIA L. FUDGE; MIKE GALLAGHER; RUBEN GALLEGO; JOHN GARAMENDI; ANDREW R. GARBARINO; SYLVIA R. GARCIA; JESUS G. GARCIA; JARED F. GOLDEN; JIMMY GOMEZ; TONY GONZALES; ANTHONY GONZALEZ; VICENTE GONZALEZ; JOSH GOTTHEIMER; KAY GRANGER; AL GREEN; RAUL M. GRIJALVA; GLENN GROTHMAN; BRETT GUTHRIE; DEBRA A. HAALAND; JOSH HARDER; ALCEE L. HASTINGS; JAHANA HAYES; JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER; BRIAN HIGGINS; J. FRENCH HILL; JAMES A. HIMES; ASHLEY HINSON; TREY HOLLINGSWORTH; STEVEN HORSFORD; CHRISSY HOULAHAN; STENY H. HOYER; JARED HUFFMAN; BILL HUIZENGA; SHEILA JACKSON LEE; SARA JACOBS; PRAMILA JAYAPAL; HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES; DUSTY JOHNSON; EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON; HENRY C. JOHNSON JR.; MONDAIRE JONES; DAVID P. JOYCE; KAIALPI KAHELE; MARCY KAPTUR; JOHN KATKO; WILLIAM R. KEATING; RO KHANNA; DANIEL T. KILDEE; DEREK KILMER; ANDY KIM; YOUNG KIM; RON KIND; ADAM KINZINGER; ANN KIRKPATRICK; RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI; ANN M. KUSTER; DARIN LAHOOD; CONOR LAMB; JAMES R. LANGEVIN; RICK LARSEN; JOHN B. LARSON; ROBERT E. LATTA; JAKE LATURNER; BRENDA L. LAWRENCE; AL LAWSON JR.; BARBARA LEE; SUSIE LEE; TERESA LEGER FERNANDEZ; ANDY LEVIN; MIKE LEVIN; TED LIEU; IV ZOE LOFGREN; ALAN S.LOWENTHAL; ELAINE G. LURIA; STEPHEN F. LYNCH; NANCY MACE; TOM MALINOWSKI; CAROLYN B. MALONEY; SEAN PATRICK MALONEY; KATHY E. MANNING; THOMAS MASSIE; DORIS 0. MATSUI; LUCY MCBATH; MICHAEL T. MCCAUL; TOM MCCLINTOCK; BETTY MCCOLLUM; A. ADONALD MCEACHIN; JAMES P. MCGOVERN; PATRICK T. MCHENRY; DAVID B. MCKINLEY; JERRY MCNERNEY; GREGORY W. MEEKS; PETER MEIJER; GRACE MENG; KWEISI MFUME; MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS; JOHN R. MOOLENAAR; BLAKE D. MOORE; GWEN MOORE; JOSEPH D. MORELLE; SETH MOULTON; FRANK J. MRVAN; STEPHANIE N. MURPHY; JERROLD NADLER; GRACE F. NAPOLITANO; RICHARD E. NEAL; JOE NEGUSE; DAN NEWHOUSE; MARIE NEWMAN; DONALD NORCROSS; ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ; TOM O'HALLERAN; ILHAN OMAR; FRANK PALLONE JR.; JIMMY PANETTA; CHRIS PAPPAS; BILL PASCRELL JR.; DONALD M. PAYNE JR.; NANCY PELOSI; ED PERLMUTTER; SCOTT H. PETERS; DEAN PHILLIPS; CHELLIE PINGREE; MARK POCAN; KATIE PORTER; AYANNA PRESSLEY; DAVID E. PRICE; MIKE QUIGLEY; JAMIE RASKIN; TOM REED; KATHLEEN M. RICE; CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS; DEBORAH K. ROSS; CHIP ROY; LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD; RAUL RUIZ; C. A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER; BOBBY L. RUSH; TIM RYAN; LINDA T. SANCHEZ; JOHN P. SARBANES; MARY GAY SCANLON; JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY; ADAM B. SCHIFF; BRADLEY SCOTT SCHNEIDER; KURT SCHRADER; KIM SCHRIER; AUSTIN SCOTT; DAVID SCOTT; ROBERT C. SCOTT; TERRI A. 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BENNET; MARSHA BLACKBURN; RICHARD BLUMENTHAL; ROY BLUNT; CORY A. BOOKER; JOHN BOOZMAN; MIKE BRAUN; SHERROD BROWN; RICHARD BURR; MARIA CANTWELL; SHELLEY CAPITO; BENJAMIN L. CARDIN; THOMAS R. CARPER; ROBERT P. CASEY JR.; BILL CASSIDY; SUSAN M. COLLINS; CHRISTOPHER A. COONS; JOHN CORNYN; CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO; TOM COTTON; KEVIN CRAMER; MIKE CRAPO; STEVE DAINES; TAMMY DUCKWORTH; RICHARD J. DURBIN; JONI ERNST; DIANNE FEINSTEIN; DEB FISCHER; KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND; LINDSEY GRAHAM; CHUCK GRASSLEY; BILL HAGERTY; MAGGIE HASSAN; MARTIN HEINRICH; JOHN HICKENLOOPER; MAZIE HIRONO; JOHN HOEVEN; JAMES INHOFE; RON VI JOHNSON; TIM KAINE; MARK KELLY; ANGUS S. KING, JR.; AMY KLOBUCHAR; JAMES LANKFORD; PATRICK LEAHY; MIKE LEE; BEN LUJAN; CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS; JOE MANCHIN III; EDWARD J. MARKEY; MITCH MCCONNELL; ROBERT MENENDEZ; JEFF MERKLEY; JERRY MORAN; LISA MURKOWSKI; CHRISTOPHER MURPHY; PATTY MURRAY; JON OSSOFF; ALEX PADILLA; RAND PAUL; GARY C. PETERS; ROB PORTMAN; JACK REED; JAMES E. RISCH; MITT ROMNEY; JACKY ROSEN; MIKE ROUNDS; MARCO RUBIO; BERNARD SANDERS; BEN SASSE; BRIAN SCHATZ; CHARLES E. SCHUMER; RICK SCOTT; TIM SCOTT; JEANNE SHAHEEN; RICHARD C. SHELBY; KYRSTEN SINEMA; TINA SMITH; DEBBIE STABENOW; DAN SULLIVAN; JON TESTER; JOHN THUNE; THOM TILLIS; PATRICK J. TOOMEY; HOLLEN VAN; MARK R. WARNER; RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK; ELIZABETH WARREN; SHELDON WHITEHOUSE; ROGER F. WICKER; RON WYDEN; TODD YOUNG; JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN JR in his capacity of President of the United States; MICHAEL RICHARD PENCE in his capacity as former Vice President of the United States, and KAMALA HARRIS in her capacity as Vice President of the United States and JOHN and JANE DOES 1-100.  

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Nellie Pou's Unexpected Rise: Democracy in Action or Party Politics?

The swift succession of Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) by State Sen. Nellie Pou has stirred an interesting debate. The process was a whirlwind — spurred by state law — but it saw party bosses essentially coronate Pou as the Democratic nominee for the 9th Congressional District. On one hand, Pou's extensive record and her role in empowering New Jersey's Hispanic communities seem to make her a worthy successor. Yet, critics argue this expedited process sidelined democratic choice in favor of party control. Do you think this selection process reflects the best of political pragmatism, or does it underline the need for more democratic methods in candidate selection? Share your thoughts!

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https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240829_MorningMonarchy.mp3 Download MP3 Badger culls, fatally struck and the protection of children + this day in history w/super snakes and our song of the day by Neal Fox on your #MorningMonarchy for August 29, 2024. Notes/Links: Scientists tied to chemical industry plan to derail PFAS rule on drinking water; Michael Dourson receives funds from chemical makers and plans to develop and publish studies that benefit firms https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/27/scientists-chemical-industry-derail-pfas-regulation-drinking-water Baby’s first junk food: How companies prey on new parents https://archive.is/tMC0G Alain Delon’s family overrule wish to kill dog late French actor wanted to be buried with; The French actor, who died on Sunday aged 88, wanted his 10-year-old Belgian malinois, Loubo, to be buried with him. https://news.sky.com/story/alain-delons-family-overrule-wish-to-kill-dog-late-french-actor-wanted-to-be-buried-with-13200382 🗣️ “As predicted, the BBC’s badger cull documentary contained little more than the opinion of its presenter – Brian May.” https://x.com/FarmersWeekly/status/1828399504363594128 Video: Brian May badger documentary furore – Fieldsports News, 21 August 2024 (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyE_Z_hxzsE Serge Gainsbourg – “Aux Armes Et Cætera” (w/Sly & Robbie // Vinyl // Audio) https://www.discogs.com/release/26978558-Gainsbourg-Best-Of-Gainsbourg-Comme-Un-Boomerang // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aux_armes_et_c%C3%A6tera_(album) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPJWZILeLzU Footballer dies aged 27 after collapsing on pitch https://news.sky.com/story/juan-izquierdo-uruguayan-footballer-dies-aged-27-after-collapsing-on-pitch-13204583 Retired Marine general died of embolism at California base he once commanded By all accounts Mullen was very fit. Died of ‘natural causes’, a pulmonary embolism, at the age of 59. Also suddenly and unexpectedly. https://archive.ph/l01AK WWE icon Sid ‘Vicious’ Eudy dies aged 63 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxle0vxkyxo Family shares additional information on Sid Eudy’s passing https://www.postwrestling.com/2024/08/27/family-shares-additional-information-on-sid-eudys-passing/ Video: WWE remembers Sid Eudy (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zWhsifV34 Scott Thorson, Liberace’s Lover and Key Witness in Wonderland Murders Trial, Dies at 65 https://archive.ph/95dhd Roger Cook, ‘This Old House’ Star, Dies at 70 https://people.com/roger-cook-dead-this-old-house-star-age-70-8700450 Sven-Goran Eriksson, first foreign manager to lead England, dies at age of 76 https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clyw3lze152o Mariah Carey’s mother 87 and sister 63 die on the same day https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2yd454nzvo Totally not corrupt NJ politician Bill Pascrell cacks out in office at 87 https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/politics/new-jersey-rep-bill-pascrell-dies/index.html Mum who wrote a book for grieving children goes on trial for husband’s murder; Kouri Richins denies lacing her husband’s cocktail with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. https://news.sky.com/story/mum-who-wrote-book-for-grieving-children-after-her-husbands-death-will-stand-trial-for-his-murder-13204528 Phil Lewis: Drag queen who inspired It’s A Sin TV series dies https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg58gege81no Death of woman on 1st day of Burning Man festival under investigation https://apnews.com/article/death-burning-man-festival-nevada-3d9f9883cfef4036c506c38b6cad87a0 Someone is *cleaning*house* this week… Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in US fraud trial ‘fatally struck’ by car while jogging https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/19/mike-lynchs-co-defendant-in-us-trial-fatally-struck-by-car-while-jogging Video: Yacht tragedy: Co-accused in Mike Lynch fraud trial died just days earlier (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWbilSEXAuA The Last Shadow Puppets – “Separate And Ever Deadly” (Vinyl // Audio) https:/...