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favourite bits of dazed characters lore, according to the character profiles from the criterion booklet:

- don was the first to start (and stop) wearing a bicentennial sweatband to school

- kaye wants to be a subversive romance author

- pink's dad was in the army, which lead pink to support the Vietnam War. they both changed their minds at the same time (his dad left the army, he grew his hair out long)

- also pink likes owl memorabilia?

- mike and Tony both have some kind of thing for kristy mcnichol

- mike and Cynthia have known each other since elementary school (I don't think this was said in the movie)

- o'bannion streaked through the schools parking lot one day, no one noticed because slater crashed into a telephone poke at the same time

- Darla calls shavonne sparkle

- sabrina is a horse girl

- mitch has/had a secret crush on shavonne

- wooderson graduated in 1974, making him 3 years older than the seniors in the movie

- cynthia has a movie column in the school newspaper, and wants to be a film critic one

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S.V. Dáte at HuffPost:

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s coup attempt that ended with the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol may be on the cusp of making new headlines, just weeks ahead of the November election. Or not. That decision is now in the hands of U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will determine when and how much to make public of a detailed accounting of special counsel Jack Smith’s evidence backing up the four felony charges against Trump. That could include material never before seen, such as grand jury testimony from then-Vice President Mike Pence and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. Whether and how much any of those details will matter to voters in the campaign’s final weeks, though, is an open question. “Very, very unlikely,” said Republican pollster Neil Newhouse. “Jan. 6 is already baked into this election cake.” Fellow Republican David Kochel, a consultant and veteran of numerous campaigns, said he also doubts that any new information or details about testimony will change many minds. “If you care about Jan. 6, you’re already for Harris,” he said about Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee. “I guess anything helps. And when Trump is covered wall to wall, it’s usually unhelpful to him.”

The fact that Donald Trump’s coup attempt on January 6th, 2021 could be back in the news right before election day is a bad omen for Trump’s chances.

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∿ 𝅄 ˚ #𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒅.   a  dependent  mumu  for  a  private  group .  dni  if  you're  not  part  of  the  group . you will be blocked . offering eclectic studies in ; carrying  the  weight  of  the  world  on  one's  shoulders  ,  memories  lost  &  memories  found  ,  nightmares with  the  obscure  feeling  of  them  being  more  like  memories  plaguing  one's  mind  ,  the  corruption  of  innocence  &  the  tantalizing  allure  of  darkness  .

thread tracker . muse count ; #102. roster beneath read more * denotes an original character .

roster  ;  aiden williams* , alec lowe* , alex  dupre  ,  alexandra  "alex"  fielding  ,  amelia  larson*  ,  anita  radcliffe  ,  aubrey  ford*  ,  austin  ames  ,  barney  stinson ,   brandon  botwin*  ,  brooke  davis  ,  brooke  maddox  ,  camila  estrada*  ,  carly  shay  ,  cassandra  morales*  , chantelle byers* ,  chrissy  cunningham  ,  cici  cooper  ,  clover  ewing  ,  curtis  ellis*  ,  dallas  "dally"  winston  ,  declan  manning*  , elena gilbert ,  elena  navarro*  ,  emma  swan*  ,  eric  messer  , ethan richards* ,  evelyn  howland*  , faith paetz* ,  felix  graves*  ,  gabriella  montez  ,  garfield  logan  ,  ginny  crane*  ,  giselle  philip  ,  hanna  marin  , iris kinston* ,  jackie  burkhart  ,  jade  west  ,  jake  jagielski  ,  jane  nichols  ,  jangmi  shin*  , jasper cruz* ,  jenna  rink  ,  jess  day  ,  jj  maybank  ,  john  bender  , katherine "katie" palmer  , laurie  wilde*  ,  leah  torres*  ,  leia  organa  , london  tipton  ,  lucas  sinclair  ,  lucy  field  ,  lydia  martin  ,  margot  "maggie"  newhouse*  ,  melanie  smooter  ,  mike  wheeler  ,  molly  bishop*  ,  monica  geller  ,  nathan  scott  , noah rivers* ,  phoebe  davies*  ,  piper  halliwell  ,  prudence  "prue"  barton*  ,  riven  ,  ron  stoppable  ,  sally  "thorn"  mcknight  ,  sam  manson  ,  sandy  olsson  ,  sarah  cameron  ,  scott  hynes*  ,  scott  mccall  ,  shane  gray  ,  shelly  hall  ,  snow  white  ,  sophie  kellerman*  ,  spencer  reid  ,  stella  solaria  ,  suzie  bingham  ,  tara  carpenter  ,  tatum  riley  ,  tina  simmons  ,  temperance  brennan  ,  thackery  binx  , tree  gelbman  , trent farrow* ,  trish  jarvis  ,  wendy  darling &  ziggy  berman.

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At the Races: Don’t forget the Motor City (counts votes slowly) - Notice Today Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/?feed_id=159918&_unique_id=66b5f3376ae74 #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here.Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — but not to the campaign committees and their outside supporters.The NRSC’s independent expenditure arm launched its first ad of the cycle targeting Rep. Elissa Slotkin just hours after she won the nomination to succeed Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and as our friend Bridget Bowman reports for NBC News, it’s part of a $10 million campaign. On top of that, OneNation, which is the policy affiliate of the Senate GOP leadership-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, launched the first salvo in a $9.4 million campaign also targeting Slotkin.The Democrats, likewise, were quick to unveil ads in Michigan and other states this week. The DSCC’s independent expenditure arm has a new ad as part of a previously announced buy going after the GOP nominee, former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, for his post-congressional career.Slotkin and Rogers were declared winners of their primaries early on Tuesday night, but don’t expect that to happen when they face each other in a November race rated Tilt Democratic, or when Harris and Walz go up against the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance in a state rated Toss-up.The heavily Democratic 13th District based around Detroit provides a reminder of why. At midnight, The Associated Press estimated that only about 2 percent of ballots had been counted, and the call that incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar won renomination didn’t come until 2:12 a.m. on Wednesday. He ultimately prevailed in the primary by about 20 points.Google News Starting gateBad news for Good: A recount of the June 18 Republican primary in Virginia’s 5th District confirmed Rep. Bob Good, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, lost to state Sen. John McGuire.And for Bush: Missouri Rep. Cori Bush became the fourth House incumbent, and second progressive Democrat, to lose a primary this year after pro-Israel groups and others supporting Tuesday’s winner, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, spent more than $12 million. Groups backing Bush or opposing Bell spent $3.3 million. Other Missouri primaries picked nominees for the deep-red 3rd District and a Democratic challenger for Sen. Josh Hawley.Is Newhouse next? Washington state’s all-party primaries send the top two vote-getters to the November ballot, so the 25 percent that GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse got Tuesday means he’s not toast yet. But another Republican finished with 31 percent and a third got 19 percent. If that sentiment holds in November, Newhouse starts out with 50 percent of Republicans against him. Washington’s primaries also set a rematch for Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez against Republican Joe Kent and picked nominees for open seats in the 5th and 6th districts, where the races are rated Solid Republican and Solid Democratic, respectively.But wait, there’s more: Nominees were picked Tuesday for huge battles ahead for Senate and the open 7th District, among other seats, in Michigan. Voters in Kansas picked a challenger for Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids and tapped a former House member to run for an open seat.And we’re still not done: Tennessee held its primaries on Thursday, and Rep. Andy Ogles held off a challenge from Courtney Johnston, a member of the Nashville Metro Council, winning with 57 percent of the vote. But his troubles didn’t end with the victory. Ogles this week confirmed that the FBI seized his cellphone and said it was

his understanding that the probe was “investigating the same well-known facts” surrounding mistakes his campaign made on financial reports. RIP: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was eulogized by Harris in Houston last week. The vice president remembered the Texas Democrat as “unrelenting,” Justin Papp reports.Google News ICYMITim who?: He’s not Republican Rep. Michael Waltz or singer Tom Waits, but most people had little idea who Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz actually is despite his career in Congress and election to two terms as Minnesota governor. So like a lot of people in the profession, our newsroom has been trying to fill the gaps since he was chosen on Tuesday, starting with how people and groups reacting to the choice described him, how the Harris campaign introduced him and how the Trump campaign responded, and what members of the House elected in the same year as he was said. We also had detailed looks at his role on agriculture and health care, and how the pick affects potential contributors on Wall Street.Gambling on elections: A group of House and Senate Democrats wants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to move forward with a ban on political betting markets backed by Wall Street. “Election gambling fundamentally cheapens the sanctity of our democratic process. Political bets change the motivations behind each vote, replacing political convictions with financial calculations,” the lawmakers wrote in a Monday letter to CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam. Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, the lead Senate signatory, previously expressed his concerns in an MSNBC opinion piece.Shah faces Schweikert: Amish Shah, a medical doctor and former state legislator, won the July 30 Democratic primary to face incumbent Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., in the 1st District. The race is rated Tilt Republican by Inside Elections, and there was a crowded primary to get the chance to challenge the incumbent on November’s ballot. Another Arizona Democratic primary, for the open 3rd District seat, is heading for a recount with 42 votes separating Yassamin Ansari and Raquel Terán.Ad watch: House Majority Forward released ads in several House races this week, including a television ad supporting Maine Rep. Jared Golden, a radio ad supporting North Carolina Rep. Don Davis and a digital ad targeting California Rep. Mike Garcia. Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced a statewide ad buy focusing on Harris. And the DSCC released its first ad against Tim Sheehy in Montana, accusing the Republican of advocating to privatize public lands.Security funding: The top senators on the panel that provides funding for the Department of Homeland Security questioned whether the Secret Service needs more money after the attempted assassination of Trump, CQ Roll Call’s Chris Johnson reports. That appears to have led to a delay of the department’s fiscal 2025 funding bill. Picking a successor: Jackson Lee’s children endorsed Sylvester Turner, the former Houston mayor, to succeed her in the House. Turner is among several Democrats who have been in touch with the county party officials who will pick a new candidate to be on the November ballot on the same day that there’s a special election to serve the rest of Jackson Lee’s current term. Another candidate vying for the seat is Amanda Edwards, a former intern for Jackson Lee who lost the Democratic primary to her in March.From Congress to the forest? Former House member Jaime Herrera Beutler is leading the field of contenders in the primary for Washington state lands commissioner. Herrera Beutler, a Republican who lost her bid for a seventh term in Congress two years ago, got about 23 percent of the vote on Tuesday in a seven-candidate field, according to the Washington State Standard.Google News What we’re reading Lame duck alert: Not to look past Election Day, but the folks at the Congressional Research Service are already getting ready for the lame-duck

session, updating their handy chart and report on what actually gets done during the post-election sessions with plenty of references to our CQ Vote Studies. Minnesota markets: While he’s not from a true swing state himself, Walz may be more familiar to voters in parts of Wisconsin that share media markets with Minnesota, Torey Van Oot writes for Axios in the Twin Cities.Wellstone’s imprint: After Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash in 2002, the family of the liberal Democratic senator from Minnesota established a training program for up-and-coming progressives. One of the first attendees, according to The Nation? A high school teacher named Tim Walz. Meddling: A group tied to House Democratic leaders is spending nearly $1 million on ads that boost an underfunded perennial candidate for the state’s at-large congressional district in an effort to help Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. “The group appears to be attempting to game Alaska’s complicated electoral system to ensure Peltola has the best odds of prevailing in November,” Politico reports.Otherwise occupied: Punchbowl News reached out to vulnerable Democrats in Congress and found that many of them are skipping the convention in Chicago later this month. That’s not unlike some swing-district Republicans, who were similarly busy the week their party gathered in Milwaukee.Google News The count: 193That’s the number of times, out of 1,327 chances, that the embattled Newhouse, whom Trump branded a “weak and pathetic RINO” on Saturday, voted against a majority of House Republicans since January 2021, according to a CQ Vote Studies analysis by our colleague Ryan Kelly. The analysis includes votes for which majorities of the two parties were on opposite sides, and it assigns a “party unity” score based on how often a lawmaker votes with or without his side. The data shows 13 House Republicans who were in Congress at the same time had lower party unity scores than Newhouse’s, but he is the only one who committed the mortal sin of voting in 2021 to impeach Trump after his supporters rioted at the Capitol. The 13 include many members whom the GOP will be spending millions of dollars this fall to keep from losing their seats, including Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick (552 votes against his majority), Nebraska’s Don Bacon (268 votes), California’s Young Kim (257 votes), New York’s Andrew Garbarino (251 votes) and California’s Ken Calvert (195 votes). Garbarino, for example, has Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement.”Google News Nathan’s notesAs a high school teacher taking on a Republican in a rural Minnesota district nearly 19 years ago, Democrat Tim Walz didn’t exactly strike political handicappers as a guy who was going places, but Nathan writes that he had good timing.Google News Key race: #IA01Candidates: Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is an ophthalmologist, a former state senator and a veteran who is seeking her third term in the House. She faces Democrat Christina Bohannan, a former state representative who teaches constitutional law at the University of Iowa. It’s a rematch of their 2022 contest, which Miller-Meeks won by almost 7 percentage points.Why it matters: The 1st District is one of two competitive seats in Iowa that could determine which party controls the House, and it’s on the DCCC’s list of districts that Democrats are seeking to flip this year. The race is rated Lean Republican by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. Cash dash: Miller-Meeks raised $3.5 million since the 2022 election, while Bohannan, who entered the race in August 2023, has raised $3.4 million. Bohannan had $2.4 million on hand as of June 30 to Miller-Meeks’ $2.3 million.Backers: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird are supporting Miller-Meeks, as are House GOP leaders. Bohannan was endorsed by EMILY’s List and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Fight Like Hell PAC. She is also part of the DCCC’s “Red to Blue” program, which provides Democratic challengers in competitive, Republican-held districts with organizational and fundraising support.

What they’re saying: Democrats have centered the campaign on abortion access. A new state law that took effect in July bans abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which usually occurs around six weeks into pregnancy, before many people even know they’re pregnant. Bohannan’s first ad, released this week, accuses Miller-Meeks of helping to pass that measure, even though she was not in the state legislature at the time. Miller-Meeks received an A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and was a co-sponsor of the bill during the last Congress that would have prohibited all abortions nationwide without exception; however, she didn’t sign on as a co-sponsor of the measure during the current Congress. Miller-Meeks accused Democrats of embracing an “extreme” position on abortion and focusing on it as a way to avoid discussing economic issues and border security.Terrain: The district is in the southeastern portion of the state, reaching from the Illinois border to the Missouri border and to the fringes of the Des Moines metropolitan area. It includes the cities of Davenport and Burlington as well as Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa. Along with the 3rd District, it is the least Republican of the state’s congressional districts: Biden lost the 1st by less than 2.4 percentage points, according to Inside Elections.Wild card: In 2020, Miller-Meeks won the seat by a scant six-vote margin. In June, she beat an underfunded and largely unknown right-wing GOP primary foe by 12 percentage points, a race that some observers deemed surprisingly close.Google News Coming upThe primaries just keep coming. Up next week are Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin.Google News Photo finishAfter being chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz fires up a crowd at his debut rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday as presidential nominee Harris applauds. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Subscribe now using this link so you don’t miss out on the best news and analysis from our team.“Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe…”Source Link: https://rollcall.com/2024/08/08/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gae2f533467bbea064cd597666c3ea8cb1d0a4324b5809bc426da36e4854a613d7041fae51c5478de86fb95801add1a9e_64.png Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic … Read More

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At the Races: Don’t forget the Motor City (counts votes slowly) - Notice Today Internet - #GLOBAL https://www.merchant-business.com/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/?feed_id=159917&_unique_id=66b5f3367b4ee Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here.Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — but not to the campaign committees and their outside supporters.The NRSC’s independent expenditure arm launched its first ad of the cycle targeting Rep. Elissa Slotkin just hours after she won the nomination to succeed Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and as our friend Bridget Bowman reports for NBC News, it’s part of a $10 million campaign. On top of that, OneNation, which is the policy affiliate of the Senate GOP leadership-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, launched the first salvo in a $9.4 million campaign also targeting Slotkin.The Democrats, likewise, were quick to unveil ads in Michigan and other states this week. The DSCC’s independent expenditure arm has a new ad as part of a previously announced buy going after the GOP nominee, former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, for his post-congressional career.Slotkin and Rogers were declared winners of their primaries early on Tuesday night, but don’t expect that to happen when they face each other in a November race rated Tilt Democratic, or when Harris and Walz go up against the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance in a state rated Toss-up.The heavily Democratic 13th District based around Detroit provides a reminder of why. At midnight, The Associated Press estimated that only about 2 percent of ballots had been counted, and the call that incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar won renomination didn’t come until 2:12 a.m. on Wednesday. He ultimately prevailed in the primary by about 20 points.Google News Starting gateBad news for Good: A recount of the June 18 Republican primary in Virginia’s 5th District confirmed Rep. Bob Good, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, lost to state Sen. John McGuire.And for Bush: Missouri Rep. Cori Bush became the fourth House incumbent, and second progressive Democrat, to lose a primary this year after pro-Israel groups and others supporting Tuesday’s winner, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, spent more than $12 million. Groups backing Bush or opposing Bell spent $3.3 million. Other Missouri primaries picked nominees for the deep-red 3rd District and a Democratic challenger for Sen. Josh Hawley.Is Newhouse next? Washington state’s all-party primaries send the top two vote-getters to the November ballot, so the 25 percent that GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse got Tuesday means he’s not toast yet. But another Republican finished with 31 percent and a third got 19 percent. If that sentiment holds in November, Newhouse starts out with 50 percent of Republicans against him. Washington’s primaries also set a rematch for Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez against Republican Joe Kent and picked nominees for open seats in the 5th and 6th districts, where the races are rated Solid Republican and Solid Democratic, respectively.But wait, there’s more: Nominees were picked Tuesday for huge battles ahead for Senate and the open 7th District, among other seats, in Michigan. Voters in Kansas picked a challenger for Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids and tapped a former House member to run for an open seat.And we’re still not done: Tennessee held its primaries on Thursday, and Rep. Andy Ogles held off a challenge from Courtney Johnston, a member of the Nashville Metro Council, winning with 57 percent of the vote. But his troubles didn’t end with the victory. Ogles this week confirmed that the FBI seized his cellphone and said it was his understanding

that the probe was “investigating the same well-known facts” surrounding mistakes his campaign made on financial reports. RIP: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was eulogized by Harris in Houston last week. The vice president remembered the Texas Democrat as “unrelenting,” Justin Papp reports.Google News ICYMITim who?: He’s not Republican Rep. Michael Waltz or singer Tom Waits, but most people had little idea who Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz actually is despite his career in Congress and election to two terms as Minnesota governor. So like a lot of people in the profession, our newsroom has been trying to fill the gaps since he was chosen on Tuesday, starting with how people and groups reacting to the choice described him, how the Harris campaign introduced him and how the Trump campaign responded, and what members of the House elected in the same year as he was said. We also had detailed looks at his role on agriculture and health care, and how the pick affects potential contributors on Wall Street.Gambling on elections: A group of House and Senate Democrats wants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to move forward with a ban on political betting markets backed by Wall Street. “Election gambling fundamentally cheapens the sanctity of our democratic process. Political bets change the motivations behind each vote, replacing political convictions with financial calculations,” the lawmakers wrote in a Monday letter to CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam. Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, the lead Senate signatory, previously expressed his concerns in an MSNBC opinion piece.Shah faces Schweikert: Amish Shah, a medical doctor and former state legislator, won the July 30 Democratic primary to face incumbent Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., in the 1st District. The race is rated Tilt Republican by Inside Elections, and there was a crowded primary to get the chance to challenge the incumbent on November’s ballot. Another Arizona Democratic primary, for the open 3rd District seat, is heading for a recount with 42 votes separating Yassamin Ansari and Raquel Terán.Ad watch: House Majority Forward released ads in several House races this week, including a television ad supporting Maine Rep. Jared Golden, a radio ad supporting North Carolina Rep. Don Davis and a digital ad targeting California Rep. Mike Garcia. Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced a statewide ad buy focusing on Harris. And the DSCC released its first ad against Tim Sheehy in Montana, accusing the Republican of advocating to privatize public lands.Security funding: The top senators on the panel that provides funding for the Department of Homeland Security questioned whether the Secret Service needs more money after the attempted assassination of Trump, CQ Roll Call’s Chris Johnson reports. That appears to have led to a delay of the department’s fiscal 2025 funding bill. Picking a successor: Jackson Lee’s children endorsed Sylvester Turner, the former Houston mayor, to succeed her in the House. Turner is among several Democrats who have been in touch with the county party officials who will pick a new candidate to be on the November ballot on the same day that there’s a special election to serve the rest of Jackson Lee’s current term. Another candidate vying for the seat is Amanda Edwards, a former intern for Jackson Lee who lost the Democratic primary to her in March.From Congress to the forest? Former House member Jaime Herrera Beutler is leading the field of contenders in the primary for Washington state lands commissioner. Herrera Beutler, a Republican who lost her bid for a seventh term in Congress two years ago, got about 23 percent of the vote on Tuesday in a seven-candidate field, according to the Washington State Standard.Google News What we’re reading Lame duck alert: Not to look past Election Day, but the folks at the Congressional Research Service are already getting ready for the lame-duck session, updating

their handy chart and report on what actually gets done during the post-election sessions with plenty of references to our CQ Vote Studies. Minnesota markets: While he’s not from a true swing state himself, Walz may be more familiar to voters in parts of Wisconsin that share media markets with Minnesota, Torey Van Oot writes for Axios in the Twin Cities.Wellstone’s imprint: After Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash in 2002, the family of the liberal Democratic senator from Minnesota established a training program for up-and-coming progressives. One of the first attendees, according to The Nation? A high school teacher named Tim Walz. Meddling: A group tied to House Democratic leaders is spending nearly $1 million on ads that boost an underfunded perennial candidate for the state’s at-large congressional district in an effort to help Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. “The group appears to be attempting to game Alaska’s complicated electoral system to ensure Peltola has the best odds of prevailing in November,” Politico reports.Otherwise occupied: Punchbowl News reached out to vulnerable Democrats in Congress and found that many of them are skipping the convention in Chicago later this month. That’s not unlike some swing-district Republicans, who were similarly busy the week their party gathered in Milwaukee.Google News The count: 193That’s the number of times, out of 1,327 chances, that the embattled Newhouse, whom Trump branded a “weak and pathetic RINO” on Saturday, voted against a majority of House Republicans since January 2021, according to a CQ Vote Studies analysis by our colleague Ryan Kelly. The analysis includes votes for which majorities of the two parties were on opposite sides, and it assigns a “party unity” score based on how often a lawmaker votes with or without his side. The data shows 13 House Republicans who were in Congress at the same time had lower party unity scores than Newhouse’s, but he is the only one who committed the mortal sin of voting in 2021 to impeach Trump after his supporters rioted at the Capitol. The 13 include many members whom the GOP will be spending millions of dollars this fall to keep from losing their seats, including Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick (552 votes against his majority), Nebraska’s Don Bacon (268 votes), California’s Young Kim (257 votes), New York’s Andrew Garbarino (251 votes) and California’s Ken Calvert (195 votes). Garbarino, for example, has Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement.”Google News Nathan’s notesAs a high school teacher taking on a Republican in a rural Minnesota district nearly 19 years ago, Democrat Tim Walz didn’t exactly strike political handicappers as a guy who was going places, but Nathan writes that he had good timing.Google News Key race: #IA01Candidates: Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is an ophthalmologist, a former state senator and a veteran who is seeking her third term in the House. She faces Democrat Christina Bohannan, a former state representative who teaches constitutional law at the University of Iowa. It’s a rematch of their 2022 contest, which Miller-Meeks won by almost 7 percentage points.Why it matters: The 1st District is one of two competitive seats in Iowa that could determine which party controls the House, and it’s on the DCCC’s list of districts that Democrats are seeking to flip this year. The race is rated Lean Republican by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. Cash dash: Miller-Meeks raised $3.5 million since the 2022 election, while Bohannan, who entered the race in August 2023, has raised $3.4 million. Bohannan had $2.4 million on hand as of June 30 to Miller-Meeks’ $2.3 million.Backers: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird are supporting Miller-Meeks, as are House GOP leaders. Bohannan was endorsed by EMILY’s List and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Fight Like Hell PAC. She is also part of the DCCC’s “Red to Blue” program, which provides Democratic challengers in competitive, Republican-held districts with organizational and fundraising support.

What they’re saying: Democrats have centered the campaign on abortion access. A new state law that took effect in July bans abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which usually occurs around six weeks into pregnancy, before many people even know they’re pregnant. Bohannan’s first ad, released this week, accuses Miller-Meeks of helping to pass that measure, even though she was not in the state legislature at the time. Miller-Meeks received an A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and was a co-sponsor of the bill during the last Congress that would have prohibited all abortions nationwide without exception; however, she didn’t sign on as a co-sponsor of the measure during the current Congress. Miller-Meeks accused Democrats of embracing an “extreme” position on abortion and focusing on it as a way to avoid discussing economic issues and border security.Terrain: The district is in the southeastern portion of the state, reaching from the Illinois border to the Missouri border and to the fringes of the Des Moines metropolitan area. It includes the cities of Davenport and Burlington as well as Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa. Along with the 3rd District, it is the least Republican of the state’s congressional districts: Biden lost the 1st by less than 2.4 percentage points, according to Inside Elections.Wild card: In 2020, Miller-Meeks won the seat by a scant six-vote margin. In June, she beat an underfunded and largely unknown right-wing GOP primary foe by 12 percentage points, a race that some observers deemed surprisingly close.Google News Coming upThe primaries just keep coming. Up next week are Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin.Google News Photo finishAfter being chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz fires up a crowd at his debut rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday as presidential nominee Harris applauds. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Subscribe now using this link so you don’t miss out on the best news and analysis from our team.“Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe…”Source Link: https://rollcall.com/2024/08/08/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gae2f533467bbea064cd597666c3ea8cb1d0a4324b5809bc426da36e4854a613d7041fae51c5478de86fb95801add1a9e_64.png BLOGGER - #GLOBAL

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At the Races: Don’t forget the Motor City (counts votes slowly) - Notice Today Internet - BLOGGER https://www.merchant-business.com/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/?feed_id=159916&_unique_id=66b5f33531d7f Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here.Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — but not to the campaign committees and their outside supporters.The NRSC’s independent expenditure arm launched its first ad of the cycle targeting Rep. Elissa Slotkin just hours after she won the nomination to succeed Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and as our friend Bridget Bowman reports for NBC News, it’s part of a $10 million campaign. On top of that, OneNation, which is the policy affiliate of the Senate GOP leadership-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, launched the first salvo in a $9.4 million campaign also targeting Slotkin.The Democrats, likewise, were quick to unveil ads in Michigan and other states this week. The DSCC’s independent expenditure arm has a new ad as part of a previously announced buy going after the GOP nominee, former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, for his post-congressional career.Slotkin and Rogers were declared winners of their primaries early on Tuesday night, but don’t expect that to happen when they face each other in a November race rated Tilt Democratic, or when Harris and Walz go up against the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance in a state rated Toss-up.The heavily Democratic 13th District based around Detroit provides a reminder of why. At midnight, The Associated Press estimated that only about 2 percent of ballots had been counted, and the call that incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar won renomination didn’t come until 2:12 a.m. on Wednesday. He ultimately prevailed in the primary by about 20 points.Google News Starting gateBad news for Good: A recount of the June 18 Republican primary in Virginia’s 5th District confirmed Rep. Bob Good, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, lost to state Sen. John McGuire.And for Bush: Missouri Rep. Cori Bush became the fourth House incumbent, and second progressive Democrat, to lose a primary this year after pro-Israel groups and others supporting Tuesday’s winner, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, spent more than $12 million. Groups backing Bush or opposing Bell spent $3.3 million. Other Missouri primaries picked nominees for the deep-red 3rd District and a Democratic challenger for Sen. Josh Hawley.Is Newhouse next? Washington state’s all-party primaries send the top two vote-getters to the November ballot, so the 25 percent that GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse got Tuesday means he’s not toast yet. But another Republican finished with 31 percent and a third got 19 percent. If that sentiment holds in November, Newhouse starts out with 50 percent of Republicans against him. Washington’s primaries also set a rematch for Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez against Republican Joe Kent and picked nominees for open seats in the 5th and 6th districts, where the races are rated Solid Republican and Solid Democratic, respectively.But wait, there’s more: Nominees were picked Tuesday for huge battles ahead for Senate and the open 7th District, among other seats, in Michigan. Voters in Kansas picked a challenger for Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids and tapped a former House member to run for an open seat.And we’re still not done: Tennessee held its primaries on Thursday, and Rep. Andy Ogles held off a challenge from Courtney Johnston, a member of the Nashville Metro Council, winning with 57 percent of the vote. But his troubles didn’t end with the victory. Ogles this week confirmed that the FBI seized his cellphone and said it was his understanding

that the probe was “investigating the same well-known facts” surrounding mistakes his campaign made on financial reports. RIP: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was eulogized by Harris in Houston last week. The vice president remembered the Texas Democrat as “unrelenting,” Justin Papp reports.Google News ICYMITim who?: He’s not Republican Rep. Michael Waltz or singer Tom Waits, but most people had little idea who Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz actually is despite his career in Congress and election to two terms as Minnesota governor. So like a lot of people in the profession, our newsroom has been trying to fill the gaps since he was chosen on Tuesday, starting with how people and groups reacting to the choice described him, how the Harris campaign introduced him and how the Trump campaign responded, and what members of the House elected in the same year as he was said. We also had detailed looks at his role on agriculture and health care, and how the pick affects potential contributors on Wall Street.Gambling on elections: A group of House and Senate Democrats wants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to move forward with a ban on political betting markets backed by Wall Street. “Election gambling fundamentally cheapens the sanctity of our democratic process. Political bets change the motivations behind each vote, replacing political convictions with financial calculations,” the lawmakers wrote in a Monday letter to CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam. Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, the lead Senate signatory, previously expressed his concerns in an MSNBC opinion piece.Shah faces Schweikert: Amish Shah, a medical doctor and former state legislator, won the July 30 Democratic primary to face incumbent Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., in the 1st District. The race is rated Tilt Republican by Inside Elections, and there was a crowded primary to get the chance to challenge the incumbent on November’s ballot. Another Arizona Democratic primary, for the open 3rd District seat, is heading for a recount with 42 votes separating Yassamin Ansari and Raquel Terán.Ad watch: House Majority Forward released ads in several House races this week, including a television ad supporting Maine Rep. Jared Golden, a radio ad supporting North Carolina Rep. Don Davis and a digital ad targeting California Rep. Mike Garcia. Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced a statewide ad buy focusing on Harris. And the DSCC released its first ad against Tim Sheehy in Montana, accusing the Republican of advocating to privatize public lands.Security funding: The top senators on the panel that provides funding for the Department of Homeland Security questioned whether the Secret Service needs more money after the attempted assassination of Trump, CQ Roll Call’s Chris Johnson reports. That appears to have led to a delay of the department’s fiscal 2025 funding bill. Picking a successor: Jackson Lee’s children endorsed Sylvester Turner, the former Houston mayor, to succeed her in the House. Turner is among several Democrats who have been in touch with the county party officials who will pick a new candidate to be on the November ballot on the same day that there’s a special election to serve the rest of Jackson Lee’s current term. Another candidate vying for the seat is Amanda Edwards, a former intern for Jackson Lee who lost the Democratic primary to her in March.From Congress to the forest? Former House member Jaime Herrera Beutler is leading the field of contenders in the primary for Washington state lands commissioner. Herrera Beutler, a Republican who lost her bid for a seventh term in Congress two years ago, got about 23 percent of the vote on Tuesday in a seven-candidate field, according to the Washington State Standard.Google News What we’re reading Lame duck alert: Not to look past Election Day, but the folks at the Congressional Research Service are already getting ready for the lame-duck session, updating

their handy chart and report on what actually gets done during the post-election sessions with plenty of references to our CQ Vote Studies. Minnesota markets: While he’s not from a true swing state himself, Walz may be more familiar to voters in parts of Wisconsin that share media markets with Minnesota, Torey Van Oot writes for Axios in the Twin Cities.Wellstone’s imprint: After Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash in 2002, the family of the liberal Democratic senator from Minnesota established a training program for up-and-coming progressives. One of the first attendees, according to The Nation? A high school teacher named Tim Walz. Meddling: A group tied to House Democratic leaders is spending nearly $1 million on ads that boost an underfunded perennial candidate for the state’s at-large congressional district in an effort to help Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. “The group appears to be attempting to game Alaska’s complicated electoral system to ensure Peltola has the best odds of prevailing in November,” Politico reports.Otherwise occupied: Punchbowl News reached out to vulnerable Democrats in Congress and found that many of them are skipping the convention in Chicago later this month. That’s not unlike some swing-district Republicans, who were similarly busy the week their party gathered in Milwaukee.Google News The count: 193That’s the number of times, out of 1,327 chances, that the embattled Newhouse, whom Trump branded a “weak and pathetic RINO” on Saturday, voted against a majority of House Republicans since January 2021, according to a CQ Vote Studies analysis by our colleague Ryan Kelly. The analysis includes votes for which majorities of the two parties were on opposite sides, and it assigns a “party unity” score based on how often a lawmaker votes with or without his side. The data shows 13 House Republicans who were in Congress at the same time had lower party unity scores than Newhouse’s, but he is the only one who committed the mortal sin of voting in 2021 to impeach Trump after his supporters rioted at the Capitol. The 13 include many members whom the GOP will be spending millions of dollars this fall to keep from losing their seats, including Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick (552 votes against his majority), Nebraska’s Don Bacon (268 votes), California’s Young Kim (257 votes), New York’s Andrew Garbarino (251 votes) and California’s Ken Calvert (195 votes). Garbarino, for example, has Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement.”Google News Nathan’s notesAs a high school teacher taking on a Republican in a rural Minnesota district nearly 19 years ago, Democrat Tim Walz didn’t exactly strike political handicappers as a guy who was going places, but Nathan writes that he had good timing.Google News Key race: #IA01Candidates: Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is an ophthalmologist, a former state senator and a veteran who is seeking her third term in the House. She faces Democrat Christina Bohannan, a former state representative who teaches constitutional law at the University of Iowa. It’s a rematch of their 2022 contest, which Miller-Meeks won by almost 7 percentage points.Why it matters: The 1st District is one of two competitive seats in Iowa that could determine which party controls the House, and it’s on the DCCC’s list of districts that Democrats are seeking to flip this year. The race is rated Lean Republican by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. Cash dash: Miller-Meeks raised $3.5 million since the 2022 election, while Bohannan, who entered the race in August 2023, has raised $3.4 million. Bohannan had $2.4 million on hand as of June 30 to Miller-Meeks’ $2.3 million.Backers: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird are supporting Miller-Meeks, as are House GOP leaders. Bohannan was endorsed by EMILY’s List and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Fight Like Hell PAC. She is also part of the DCCC’s “Red to Blue” program, which provides Democratic challengers in competitive, Republican-held districts with organizational and fundraising support.

What they’re saying: Democrats have centered the campaign on abortion access. A new state law that took effect in July bans abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which usually occurs around six weeks into pregnancy, before many people even know they’re pregnant. Bohannan’s first ad, released this week, accuses Miller-Meeks of helping to pass that measure, even though she was not in the state legislature at the time. Miller-Meeks received an A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and was a co-sponsor of the bill during the last Congress that would have prohibited all abortions nationwide without exception; however, she didn’t sign on as a co-sponsor of the measure during the current Congress. Miller-Meeks accused Democrats of embracing an “extreme” position on abortion and focusing on it as a way to avoid discussing economic issues and border security.Terrain: The district is in the southeastern portion of the state, reaching from the Illinois border to the Missouri border and to the fringes of the Des Moines metropolitan area. It includes the cities of Davenport and Burlington as well as Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa. Along with the 3rd District, it is the least Republican of the state’s congressional districts: Biden lost the 1st by less than 2.4 percentage points, according to Inside Elections.Wild card: In 2020, Miller-Meeks won the seat by a scant six-vote margin. In June, she beat an underfunded and largely unknown right-wing GOP primary foe by 12 percentage points, a race that some observers deemed surprisingly close.Google News Coming upThe primaries just keep coming. Up next week are Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin.Google News Photo finishAfter being chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz fires up a crowd at his debut rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday as presidential nominee Harris applauds. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Subscribe now using this link so you don’t miss out on the best news and analysis from our team.“Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe…”Source Link: https://rollcall.com/2024/08/08/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gae2f533467bbea064cd597666c3ea8cb1d0a4324b5809bc426da36e4854a613d7041fae51c5478de86fb95801add1a9e_64.png #GLOBAL - BLOGGER Welcome to At the R... BLOGGER - #GLOBAL

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At the Races: Don’t forget the Motor City (counts votes slowly) - Notice Today Internet - BLOGGER https://www.merchant-business.com/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/?feed_id=159915&_unique_id=66b5f3333f0e8 Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here.Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — but not to the campaign committees and their outside supporters.The NRSC’s independent expenditure arm launched its first ad of the cycle targeting Rep. Elissa Slotkin just hours after she won the nomination to succeed Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and as our friend Bridget Bowman reports for NBC News, it’s part of a $10 million campaign. On top of that, OneNation, which is the policy affiliate of the Senate GOP leadership-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund, launched the first salvo in a $9.4 million campaign also targeting Slotkin.The Democrats, likewise, were quick to unveil ads in Michigan and other states this week. The DSCC’s independent expenditure arm has a new ad as part of a previously announced buy going after the GOP nominee, former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, for his post-congressional career.Slotkin and Rogers were declared winners of their primaries early on Tuesday night, but don’t expect that to happen when they face each other in a November race rated Tilt Democratic, or when Harris and Walz go up against the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance in a state rated Toss-up.The heavily Democratic 13th District based around Detroit provides a reminder of why. At midnight, The Associated Press estimated that only about 2 percent of ballots had been counted, and the call that incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar won renomination didn’t come until 2:12 a.m. on Wednesday. He ultimately prevailed in the primary by about 20 points.Google News Starting gateBad news for Good: A recount of the June 18 Republican primary in Virginia’s 5th District confirmed Rep. Bob Good, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, lost to state Sen. John McGuire.And for Bush: Missouri Rep. Cori Bush became the fourth House incumbent, and second progressive Democrat, to lose a primary this year after pro-Israel groups and others supporting Tuesday’s winner, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, spent more than $12 million. Groups backing Bush or opposing Bell spent $3.3 million. Other Missouri primaries picked nominees for the deep-red 3rd District and a Democratic challenger for Sen. Josh Hawley.Is Newhouse next? Washington state’s all-party primaries send the top two vote-getters to the November ballot, so the 25 percent that GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse got Tuesday means he’s not toast yet. But another Republican finished with 31 percent and a third got 19 percent. If that sentiment holds in November, Newhouse starts out with 50 percent of Republicans against him. Washington’s primaries also set a rematch for Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez against Republican Joe Kent and picked nominees for open seats in the 5th and 6th districts, where the races are rated Solid Republican and Solid Democratic, respectively.But wait, there’s more: Nominees were picked Tuesday for huge battles ahead for Senate and the open 7th District, among other seats, in Michigan. Voters in Kansas picked a challenger for Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids and tapped a former House member to run for an open seat.And we’re still not done: Tennessee held its primaries on Thursday, and Rep. Andy Ogles held off a challenge from Courtney Johnston, a member of the Nashville Metro Council, winning with 57 percent of the vote. But his troubles didn’t end with the victory. Ogles this week confirmed that the FBI seized his cellphone and said it was his understanding

that the probe was “investigating the same well-known facts” surrounding mistakes his campaign made on financial reports. RIP: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was eulogized by Harris in Houston last week. The vice president remembered the Texas Democrat as “unrelenting,” Justin Papp reports.Google News ICYMITim who?: He’s not Republican Rep. Michael Waltz or singer Tom Waits, but most people had little idea who Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz actually is despite his career in Congress and election to two terms as Minnesota governor. So like a lot of people in the profession, our newsroom has been trying to fill the gaps since he was chosen on Tuesday, starting with how people and groups reacting to the choice described him, how the Harris campaign introduced him and how the Trump campaign responded, and what members of the House elected in the same year as he was said. We also had detailed looks at his role on agriculture and health care, and how the pick affects potential contributors on Wall Street.Gambling on elections: A group of House and Senate Democrats wants the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to move forward with a ban on political betting markets backed by Wall Street. “Election gambling fundamentally cheapens the sanctity of our democratic process. Political bets change the motivations behind each vote, replacing political convictions with financial calculations,” the lawmakers wrote in a Monday letter to CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam. Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, the lead Senate signatory, previously expressed his concerns in an MSNBC opinion piece.Shah faces Schweikert: Amish Shah, a medical doctor and former state legislator, won the July 30 Democratic primary to face incumbent Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., in the 1st District. The race is rated Tilt Republican by Inside Elections, and there was a crowded primary to get the chance to challenge the incumbent on November’s ballot. Another Arizona Democratic primary, for the open 3rd District seat, is heading for a recount with 42 votes separating Yassamin Ansari and Raquel Terán.Ad watch: House Majority Forward released ads in several House races this week, including a television ad supporting Maine Rep. Jared Golden, a radio ad supporting North Carolina Rep. Don Davis and a digital ad targeting California Rep. Mike Garcia. Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced a statewide ad buy focusing on Harris. And the DSCC released its first ad against Tim Sheehy in Montana, accusing the Republican of advocating to privatize public lands.Security funding: The top senators on the panel that provides funding for the Department of Homeland Security questioned whether the Secret Service needs more money after the attempted assassination of Trump, CQ Roll Call’s Chris Johnson reports. That appears to have led to a delay of the department’s fiscal 2025 funding bill. Picking a successor: Jackson Lee’s children endorsed Sylvester Turner, the former Houston mayor, to succeed her in the House. Turner is among several Democrats who have been in touch with the county party officials who will pick a new candidate to be on the November ballot on the same day that there’s a special election to serve the rest of Jackson Lee’s current term. Another candidate vying for the seat is Amanda Edwards, a former intern for Jackson Lee who lost the Democratic primary to her in March.From Congress to the forest? Former House member Jaime Herrera Beutler is leading the field of contenders in the primary for Washington state lands commissioner. Herrera Beutler, a Republican who lost her bid for a seventh term in Congress two years ago, got about 23 percent of the vote on Tuesday in a seven-candidate field, according to the Washington State Standard.Google News What we’re reading Lame duck alert: Not to look past Election Day, but the folks at the Congressional Research Service are already getting ready for the lame-duck session, updating

their handy chart and report on what actually gets done during the post-election sessions with plenty of references to our CQ Vote Studies. Minnesota markets: While he’s not from a true swing state himself, Walz may be more familiar to voters in parts of Wisconsin that share media markets with Minnesota, Torey Van Oot writes for Axios in the Twin Cities.Wellstone’s imprint: After Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash in 2002, the family of the liberal Democratic senator from Minnesota established a training program for up-and-coming progressives. One of the first attendees, according to The Nation? A high school teacher named Tim Walz. Meddling: A group tied to House Democratic leaders is spending nearly $1 million on ads that boost an underfunded perennial candidate for the state’s at-large congressional district in an effort to help Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. “The group appears to be attempting to game Alaska’s complicated electoral system to ensure Peltola has the best odds of prevailing in November,” Politico reports.Otherwise occupied: Punchbowl News reached out to vulnerable Democrats in Congress and found that many of them are skipping the convention in Chicago later this month. That’s not unlike some swing-district Republicans, who were similarly busy the week their party gathered in Milwaukee.Google News The count: 193That’s the number of times, out of 1,327 chances, that the embattled Newhouse, whom Trump branded a “weak and pathetic RINO” on Saturday, voted against a majority of House Republicans since January 2021, according to a CQ Vote Studies analysis by our colleague Ryan Kelly. The analysis includes votes for which majorities of the two parties were on opposite sides, and it assigns a “party unity” score based on how often a lawmaker votes with or without his side. The data shows 13 House Republicans who were in Congress at the same time had lower party unity scores than Newhouse’s, but he is the only one who committed the mortal sin of voting in 2021 to impeach Trump after his supporters rioted at the Capitol. The 13 include many members whom the GOP will be spending millions of dollars this fall to keep from losing their seats, including Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick (552 votes against his majority), Nebraska’s Don Bacon (268 votes), California’s Young Kim (257 votes), New York’s Andrew Garbarino (251 votes) and California’s Ken Calvert (195 votes). Garbarino, for example, has Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement.”Google News Nathan’s notesAs a high school teacher taking on a Republican in a rural Minnesota district nearly 19 years ago, Democrat Tim Walz didn’t exactly strike political handicappers as a guy who was going places, but Nathan writes that he had good timing.Google News Key race: #IA01Candidates: Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is an ophthalmologist, a former state senator and a veteran who is seeking her third term in the House. She faces Democrat Christina Bohannan, a former state representative who teaches constitutional law at the University of Iowa. It’s a rematch of their 2022 contest, which Miller-Meeks won by almost 7 percentage points.Why it matters: The 1st District is one of two competitive seats in Iowa that could determine which party controls the House, and it’s on the DCCC’s list of districts that Democrats are seeking to flip this year. The race is rated Lean Republican by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. Cash dash: Miller-Meeks raised $3.5 million since the 2022 election, while Bohannan, who entered the race in August 2023, has raised $3.4 million. Bohannan had $2.4 million on hand as of June 30 to Miller-Meeks’ $2.3 million.Backers: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird are supporting Miller-Meeks, as are House GOP leaders. Bohannan was endorsed by EMILY’s List and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Fight Like Hell PAC. She is also part of the DCCC’s “Red to Blue” program, which provides Democratic challengers in competitive, Republican-held districts with organizational and fundraising support.

What they’re saying: Democrats have centered the campaign on abortion access. A new state law that took effect in July bans abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which usually occurs around six weeks into pregnancy, before many people even know they’re pregnant. Bohannan’s first ad, released this week, accuses Miller-Meeks of helping to pass that measure, even though she was not in the state legislature at the time. Miller-Meeks received an A+ rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and was a co-sponsor of the bill during the last Congress that would have prohibited all abortions nationwide without exception; however, she didn’t sign on as a co-sponsor of the measure during the current Congress. Miller-Meeks accused Democrats of embracing an “extreme” position on abortion and focusing on it as a way to avoid discussing economic issues and border security.Terrain: The district is in the southeastern portion of the state, reaching from the Illinois border to the Missouri border and to the fringes of the Des Moines metropolitan area. It includes the cities of Davenport and Burlington as well as Iowa City, home to the University of Iowa. Along with the 3rd District, it is the least Republican of the state’s congressional districts: Biden lost the 1st by less than 2.4 percentage points, according to Inside Elections.Wild card: In 2020, Miller-Meeks won the seat by a scant six-vote margin. In June, she beat an underfunded and largely unknown right-wing GOP primary foe by 12 percentage points, a race that some observers deemed surprisingly close.Google News Coming upThe primaries just keep coming. Up next week are Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin.Google News Photo finishAfter being chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz fires up a crowd at his debut rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday as presidential nominee Harris applauds. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Subscribe now using this link so you don’t miss out on the best news and analysis from our team.“Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe…”Source Link: https://rollcall.com/2024/08/08/at-the-races-dont-forget-the-motor-city-counts-votes-slowly/ http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/gae2f533467bbea064cd597666c3ea8cb1d0a4324b5809bc426da36e4854a613d7041fae51c5478de86fb95801add1a9e_64.png BLOGGER - #GLOBAL Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. Michigan’s congressional primaries were overshadowed nationally by the debut of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the running mate of current Vice President and Democratic … Read More

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When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it’s hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Ray Peterson: Tom Hanks Lt. Mark Rumsfield: Bruce Dern Carol Peterson: Carrie Fisher Art Weingartner: Rick Ducommun Bonnie Rumsfield: Wendy Schaal Ricky Butler: Corey Feldman Hans Klopek: Courtney Gains Dr. Werner Klopek: Henry Gibson Walter Seznick: Gale Gordon Vic, Garbageman #1: Dick Miller Joe, Garbageman #2: Robert Picardo Uncle Reuben Klopek: Theodore Gottlieb Detective #1: Franklyn Ajaye Dave Peterson: Cory Danziger Detective #2: Rance Howard Ricky’s Girlfriend: Heather Haase Steve Kuntz: Nicky Katt Ricky’s Friend: Bill Stevenson Ricky’s Friend: Gary Hays Cop: Kevin Gage Cop: Dana Olsen Walter’s Daughter: Brenda Benner Suzanne Weingartner: Patrika Darbo Voiceover Actor: Sonny Carl Davis Voiceover Actor: Moosie Drier Voiceover Actor: Leigh French Voiceover Actor: Archie Hahn Voiceover Actor: Billy Jayne Voiceover Actor: Phyllis Katz Voiceover Actor: Jeffrey Kramer Voiceover Actor: Lynne Marie Stewart Voiceover Actor: Arnold F. Turner Voiceover Actor: Gigi Vorgan Ricky’s friend (uncredited): Carey Scott Kid on Bike (Uncredited): Tony Westbrook Ray’s Boss (uncredited): Kevin McCarthy Film Crew: Sound Effects: Mark A. Mangini Casting: Mike Fenton Casting: Judy Taylor Costume Design: Rosanna Norton Original Music Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Director: Joe Dante Executive Producer: Ron Howard Production Sound Mixer: Ken King Hairstylist: Christine Lee Production Design: James H. Spencer Set Designer: James E. Tocci Producer: Larry Brezner Producer: Michael Finnell Additional Photography: John Hora Music Editor: Kenneth Hall Set Decoration: John H. Anderson Foley Editor: Ron Bartlett Makeup Artist: Daniel C. Striepeke Co-Producer: Dana Olsen Special Effects Supervisor: Ken Pepiot Editor: Marshall Harvey Camera Operator: Michael D. O’Shea Director of Photography: Robert M. Stevens Stunts: George P. Wilbur Associate Producer: Pat Kehoe Dolly Grip: Kirk Bales Key Grip: Charles Saldaña Stunts: John-Clay Scott Supervising Sound Editor: George Simpson Stunts: Eddie Hice Stunts: Gary Epper Stunts: Wally Rose Stunt Double: Brian J. Williams Stunts: Jeff Ramsey Stunts: John Hateley Stunts: Ray Saniger Art Direction: Charles L. Hughes ADR Editor: Stephen Purvis Stunts: Gary Morgan Stunts: Frank Orsatti Second Assistant Director: David D’Ovidio Sound Editor: Warren Hamilton Jr. Costume Supervisor: Cheryl Beasley Blackwell Makeup Artist: Michael Germain Foley Artist: Dan O’Connell Transportation Coordinator: Randy White Boom Operator: Randall L. Johnson Foley Artist: Kevin Bartnof Visual Effects Supervisor: Michael Owens Still Photographer: Ralph Nelson Jr. Script Supervisor: Roz Harris Leadman: Nigel A. Boucher Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Minkler Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary C. Bourgeois Foley Editor: Aaron Glascock Sound Editor: Michael J. Benavente Chief Lighting Technician: Leslie J. Kovacs Costume Supervisor: Eric H. Sandberg Greensman: Dave Newhouse Construction Coordinator: Michael Muscarella Stunts: Roydon Clark Stunts: Sandra Lee Gimpel Set Designer: Judy Cammer Assistant Editor: Uri Katoni Lighting Technician: Brent Poe Grip: T. Daniel Scaringi Production Coordinator: Karen Shaw Lighting Technician: Ken W. Ballantine Special Effects: Michael Arbogast Studio Teacher: Adria Later Stunt Coordinator: Jeff Smolek Construction Foreman: Ciro Vuoso Production Accountant: Julianna Arenson Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Benny McNulty Set Designer: Erin M. Cummins Property Master: Gregg H. Bilson Lighting Technician: E. Christopher Reed Stunts: Rick Sawaya Unit Publicist: Reid Rosefelt Special Effects: Jeff Pepiot Grip: Danny Falkengren Best Boy Grip: Hal Nelson Grip: Paul E. Sutton Special Effects: Thomas R....

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Newhouse Towing

Address- 1015 SE Woodward St, Portland, OR, USA 97202

Phone- +1 (503) 236-4134

Email- admin@newhousetowing.com

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Newhouse Towing has provided our customers with quality towing services since we opened our doors in 1937. We pride ourselves on the strong partnerships we’ve built within our community and look forward to those we will continue to make.

Business Hours- 24/7.

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Owner Name - Mike Porter

Year Est.- 1937

[the-eternal-quest-for-balance]

Dozens of local residents in northern Washington recently voiced their strong opposition to a Biden administration plan to release grizzly bears, an apex predator, in a federally-managed forest area near their communities.

More than 200 local residents attended a public comment session in northern Washington hosted by the Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Parks Service (NPS), with roughly 50 speaking in opposition of the federal grizzly bear proposal and just six voicing their support. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., who represents local communities, was among the speakers voicing concerns about the plan’s potential consequences.

“As a farmer, I worry not only about the bears destroying my crops, but for the safety and well-being of myself, my family, and my on-farm hands,” Newhouse remarked during the session. “It is clear you all know that grizzlies can and probably will move out of the zone in which you drop them in, yet rather than letting common sense prevail, are continuing to push forward with this dangerous plan.”

“So tell me, what is the agency’s plan for dealing with crop loss and livestock depredation that is inevitable from the introduction of these predators? What is the timeline for issuing lethal permits? And how much will citizens have to lose before they can defend themselves from this predator in their backyard?” he continued.

[lakeconews]

Thompson, Newhouse, Padilla, Murray introduce legislation for smoke-exposed winegrape crop loss coverage

On Thursday, Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-04) and Dan Newhouse (WA-04) and Sens. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation for winegrape crop loss coverage.

[youcool42man0]

No I did not forget this account lol and I’d never thought I would be graduating it feels really weird but anyways thank you all for sticking with me and maybe I post a bit here and there during college anyways me and my loser friends ya know we go get Aerosmith tickets top priority this summer ☀️ ☮️ 

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[Image Description: Cynthia Dunn driving a car with Tony Olsen in the front passenger seat and Mike Newhouse in the back. Tony is turned to Mike to ask “So you’re not gonna go to law school? What do you wanna do then?”

Mike replies, an exasperated look on his face, “(exhales) I wanna dance!”]

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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. SEWELL; BRAD SHERMAN; MIKIE SHERRILL; MICHAEL K. SIMPSON; ALBIO SIRES; ELISSA SLOTKIN; ADAM SMITH; CHRISTOPHER H. V SMITH; DARREN SOTO; ABIGAIL DAVIS SPANBERGER; VICTORIA SPARTZ; JACKIE SPEIER; GREG STANTON; PETE STAUBER; MICHELLE STEEL; BRYAN STEIL; HALEY M. STEVENS; STEVE STIVERS; MARILYN STRICKLAND; THOMAS R. SUOZZI; ERIC SWALWELL; MARK TAKANO; VAN TAYLOR; BENNIE G. THOMPSON; MIKE THOMPSON; DINA TITUS; RASHIDA TLAIB; PAUL TONKO; NORMA J. TORRES; RITCHIE TORRES; LORI TRAHAN; DAVID J. TRONE; MICHAEL R. TURNER; LAUREN UNDERWOOD; FRED UPTON; JUAN VARGAS; MARC A. VEASEY; FILEMON VELA; NYDIA M. VELAZQUEZ; ANN WAGNER; MICHAEL WALTZ; DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ; MAXINE WATERS; BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN; PETER WELCH; BRAD R. WENSTRUP; BRUCE WESTERMAN; JENNIFER WEXTON; SUSAN WILD; NIKEMA WILLIAMS; FREDERICA S. WILSON; STEVE WOMACK; JOHN A. YARMUTH; DON YOUNG; the following persons named are for their capacities as U.S. Senators; TAMMY BALDWIN; JOHN BARRASSO; MICHAEL F. 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.  

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-380/243739/20221027152243533_20221027-152110-95757954-00007015.pdf

[boomboxfic]

Assurance (Mike Logan/Ben Stone); drabble

I have two WIPs in mind regarding OG L&O Season 3x21 "Manhood" about the cops who left hung one of their own out to dry because he was gay.

One's an AU where Ben is a detective that hops on with Mike after Phil gets shot; the other is this comfort drabble. It will be expanded into a longer one-shot.

It was unforgivably early when Ben felt himself coming awake. He’d gone to sleep alone; he had called Mike’s apartment to check on him before he went to sleep, and it went straight to voicemail. Mike sometimes stayed at Lennie’s if they were working overtime on a case, and Ben went to sleep off that assumption. Cracking one eye open, Ben saw that it was 3 in the morning, and grunted. At least it wasn’t time to get ready for work yet. 

“Hey, sorry for waking you,” Mike apologized, exhaustion hanging on every word, “I know it’s late.” 

“It’s okay,” Ben replied, voice rough with sleep. He rolled over to face Mike, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, pulling off his undershirt. Ben sat up and shifted closer, and Mike felt his presence as Ben pressed a kiss to his shoulder and held him from behind. Words didn’t need to be said; Ben understood the burden on Mike’s shoulders, how the cop shooting affected him. 

Ben thought about Max Greevey, gunned down outside his own home. It was roughly a year into Mike and Ben’s then off-and-on relationship, and Mike’s reckless actions nearly tore them apart again; two men trying their best to bring a cop-killer to justice. They’d weathered that storm.

Then Phil Ceretta, being shot during an UC bust. Ben remembered Mike’s rage; he couldn’t believe that Ben was willing to deal with a guy who nearly killed Phil. Phil gave his blessing, but that case ended with horrible implications. Ben and Mike weathered that storm as well. 

Max and Phil were cops shot by criminals, but this Newhouse case consisted of implications beyond that of typical criminal activity. 

The Officer Newhouse shooting was beginning to show shades of the unthinkable. Yes, Newhouse was killed by a drug dealer, and had taken that dealer’s life in trade before succumbing to his injuries. What was now coming out of Mike and Lennie’s investigation revealed the ultimate betrayal; cops hanging another cop out to dry. 

Because he was different. 

Because that cop was gay. 

Like Mike. 

Ben shook the thought out of his head, forcing himself to focus on the real, breathing human being in front of him. “I’m glad you’re here, Mike. I was worried about you.” 

That got a half-hearted chuckle out of Mike, but he understood. He held Ben’s hands in his and squeezed, a silent gesture of assurance. He shifted again, and Ben released him sliding back to his side of the bed as Mike moved to lay beside him. Neither man said a word as they lay on their sides facing one another, eyes locked on one another, convincing themselves that this nightmare of a case had not defeated them, not yet. 

Mike watched Ben's expressions, knowing that his partner was thinking. He watched as Ben’s hand cautiously caressed his shoulder and slid over to rest over Mike’s heart, feeling his heartbeat. Mike knew that he could have been Newhouse. That, by some inconceivable chance, Briscoe could have been dispatched elsewhere, and Mike would be in his worst nightmare, pinned down from both sides.

Then Ben’s worst nightmare - having to prosecute Mike’s killer. 

Mike reacted as Ben’s eyes squeezed shut, those blue eyes trying to shut out his darkest nightmare. Mike held Ben in his arms, protecting him, his low voice telling Ben that he was not Newhouse, comforting him with his words, his presence. 

“Ben. I’m right here,” Mike squeezed Ben’s hand, still pressed over his heart. In truth, he had the same fear. He kissed Ben’s temple, and held him closer, assuring himself with the same words he was using to comfort Ben, “I’m still here.” 

[reading-writing-revolution]

The full list of the 126, all Republicans:

Alabama

Robert B. Aderholt

Mo Brooks

Bradley Byrne

Gary Palmer

Mike D. Rogers

Arizona

Andy Biggs

Debbie Lesko

Arkansas

Rick Crawford

California

Ken Calvert

Doug LaMalfa

Kevin McCarthy

Tom McClintock

Colorado

Ken Buck

Doug Lamborn

Florida

Gus Bilirakis

Mario Diaz-Balart

Neal Dunn

Matt Gaetz

Bill Posey

John Rutherford

Ross Spano

Greg Steube

Michael Waltz

Daniel Webster

Ted Yoho

Georgia

Rick Allen

Buddy Carter

Doug Collins

A. Drew Ferguson

Jody Hice

Barry Loudermilk

Austin Scott

Idaho

Russ Fulcher

Mike Simpson

Illinois

Mike Bost

Darin M. LaHood

Indiana

James Baird

Jim Banks

Trey Hollingsworth

Greg Pence

Jackie Walorski

Iowa

Steve King

Kansas

Ron Estes

Roger Marshall

Louisiana

Ralph Abraham

Clay Higgins

Mike Johnson

Steve Scalise

Maryland

Andy Harris

Michigan

Jack Bergman

Bill Huizenga

John Moolenaar

Tim Walberg

Minnesota

Tom Emmer

Jim Hagedorn

Pete Stauber

Mississippi

Michael Guest

Trent Kelly

Steven Palazzo

Missouri

Sam Graves

Vicky Hartzler

Billy Long

Blaine Luetkemeyer

Jason Smith

Ann Wagner

Montana

Greg Gianforte

Nebraska

Jeff Fortenberry

Adrian Smith

New Jersey

Jefferson Van Drew

New York

Elise Stefanik

Lee Zeldin

North Carolina

Dan Bishop

Ted Budd

Virginia Foxx

Richard Hudson

Greg Murphy

David Rouzer

Mark Walker

Ohio

Bob Gibbs

Bill Johnson

Jim Jordan

Robert E. Latta

Brad Wenstrup

Oklahoma

Kevin Hern

Markwayne Mullin

Pennsylvania

John Joyce

Fred Keller

Mike Kelly

Daniel Meuser

Scott Perry

Guy Reschenthaler

Glenn Thompson

South Carolina

Jeffrey Duncan

Ralph Norman

Tom Rice

William Timmons

Joe Wilson

Tennessee

Tim Burchett

Scott DesJarlais

Chuck Fleischmann

Mike Green

David Kustoff

John Rose

Texas

Jodey Arrington

Brian Babin

Kevin Brady

Michael C. Burgess

Michael Cloud

K. Michael Conaway

Dan Crenshaw

Bill Flores

Louie Gohmert

Lance Gooden

Kenny Marchant

Randy Weber

Roger Williams

Ron Wright

Virginia

Ben Cline

Morgan Griffith

Robert J. Wittman

Washington

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Dan Newhouse

West Virginia

Carol Miller

Alex Mooney

Wisconsin

Tom Tiffany