Preet Bharara for FBI Director

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Friday May 12, 2017 · 6:40 PM PDT

2017/05/12 · 18:40

Bill Clinton, in order to reach across the aisle, appointed Republican Louis Freeh to be the Director of the FBI. Freeh made life difficult for Bill Clinton in the lead up to the the fake impeachment crisis of 1998.

Barack Obama, in the same attempt to reach across the partisan divide, as was even more typical of his actions than Bill Clinton’s, chose a Republican to be head of the FBI. That Republican was Bill Comey, known for his loyalty to his country over his party, because of his actions stopping the overreach of the FISA warrants that Alberto Gonzalez tried to get a hospitalized John Ashcroft to sign while he was groggy from surgical drugs.

The Washington Post is reporting that starting tomorrow there are 4 people being interviewed for FBI Director.

Asst Director Andrew McCabe….the one who already contradicted Trump in public. HArd to imagine Trump taking kindly to that.

The other 3 are Republicans,

Sen. John Cornyn...who thinks it’s a bad rumor that Trump fired Comey over that phony Russia investigation. A rumor Donald Trump turned into the truth.

Michael Garcia, a Republican on the NY State Court of Appeals

Alice Fisher, formerly of the DOJ Criminal Unit who had some “issues” around Guantanamo.

I am baffled why, given the ridiculous obeisance Republicans have to their party and their leaders, over adherence for concerns to small d democratic norms that our side doesn’t push for Democrats.

We know of one Democrat that many, Republicans and Democrats, have universally recognized , to adhere to respect for the law above loyalty to a man or a party, is former US Attorney, Preet Bharara. He has prosecuted people without regard to party or position of authority.

We should be putting him forward for that position ...and even as the right person to be Special Prosecutor. ...if we get there.

Bit at the moment I can not imagine that someone of Bharara’s energy, rectitude and legal acumen would not be a great choice politically as well as be most welcome by FBI agents to be their leader.

Bernie Sanders files without challenge for NH Presidential Primary

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Thursday November 05, 2015 · 4:10 PM PST

2015/11/05 · 16:10

And the Democratic Establishment of New Hampshire escorted him to the office of the Secretary of State.

I am very glad. As a Democrat I am glad. As a Hillary Clinton supporter I am glad. This is the right thing for the progressive movement and the right thing for the Democratic party.

Bernie Sanders has brought a lot of substance to many very important issues. And i hope he continues in that vein. Because that's what we need, an argument about what really matters. That's how he began his campaign, and I hope that is how he continues.

Here is the link

http://www.msnbc.com/...

From the Article in NH

Bernie Sanders files for New Hampshire state ballot
11/05/15 05:23 PM

By Alex Seitz-Wald and Kailani Koenig

Sen. Bernie Sanders filed his paperwork without issue in New Hampshire Thursday to appear on the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary ballot.
The longtime Vermont independent senator faced no challenges at Secretary of State Bill Gardner’s office, despite earlier concerns about whether he legally qualified as a Democrat. Sanders declared himself a Democrat Thursday, and he said he will run as a Democrat in future elections. That was good enough for Garnder.

“I’m a Democrat and should be on the ballot, I don’t think I need to say too much more,” Sanders said.

The chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Ray Buckley, accompanied Sanders and vowed to fight any challenges. Sanders brought a lawyer and a statement from the Vermont Democratic Party chair vouching for him as well, just in case. The precautions were unnecessary, however, as the senator signed the proper paperwork and delivered his fee to applause, joking that he felt like the president signing a bill.

Afterward, Sanders rallied with about 750 supporters in Concord.

Someone could still file a challenge before the New Hampshire ballot law commission, which Buckley said he would fight. Sanders has run as an independent in every previous election he’s won, and he almost never attended a Democratic Party event until launching his presidential run. He caucuses with Democrats in the Senate, but is technically an independent. He did not, however, have to change his voter registration, since Vermont has no party registration.

Kathy Nickoluas: Waukesha County Clerk: Computer Houdini?

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Wednesday April 13, 2011 · 4:18 AM PDT

2011/04/13 · 04:18

How to fiddle with votes. Enter them, Disappear them and make them reappear

Just tonight, Prosser has called upon Joan Kloppenberg to forego her legal right to a recount. Below is one theory as to why she shouldn't throw in the towel before there is a recount. the people of Wisconsin need to know the real story whichgoing without a recount would not be possible

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...TPM: Prosser urges Kloppenberg to avoid the "drama" of a recount

I am not a conspiracy theorist. But this county clerk, as Rachel Maddow has shown, has a very extensive histoty of human errors that only go in one direction. Secondly, this is just so convenient. Thirdly all that has to be done to verify this is to recount all the ballots. And now Prosser is trying to pressure the Kloppenburg campaign not to go to a recount. Below I have put forward one way the vote totals could have been manipulated. It is a thought experiment or a math experiment. It merely shows that that manipulating the REPORTING of the Vote totals is possible by manipualting what was reported to the AP and then what was done in the canvas and perhaps in the time in between. I am not saying Ms. Nickolaus did any such thing. I am saying that it is possible to do them.

Part 1

David Dayen just linked to this technical explanation of why, at least on its face, Nickolaus's explanation that when she exported the Brookfield votesthey failed to import. She claims she hadn't she hadn't realized it. He is saying this scenario could not happen with the Microsoft Access program she was using. In essence it says the program she used would have sent up an ERROR message if the data didn't import properly.

It's saying her explanation seems quite improbable. She would have gotten an error message and would have known there was a failure to import. It would not have let her proceed. She couldn't have avoided t.

http://www.pruningshears.us/...

On election night, all the people that were to bring in spreadsheets, they were given a spreadsheet template. They were asked not to change that template. When the city of Brookfield results came in on election night, extra columns were put into that spreadsheet, which would have been a problem if I had tried to import that in. I saved them, but when I imported them into the Access database, I thought that they were saved at that time, and didn’t have any real reason to believe they weren’t.

I have checked with many people who use Access regularly. They say very clearly that Access auto saves. No matter what you import it saves. You actually CAN NOT turn off the auto save feature. You do not have to remember to have to hit SAVE as you do other programs like Word to save. As soon as it's entered it saves. IF THERE IS A PROBLEM YOU GET A BIG ERROR MESSAGE. If there is problem with saving then it keeps popping up error messages and you can not continue.

So how could Kathy Nickolaus say she didn't notice that the Brookfield data was not saved. It save automatically. And if it didn't save it tells you over and over there is a problem. And yo can not continue. So how did it happen that she made this mistake?

Well, maybe it didn't happen.

Of course the best way to test this is and to to verify Waukesha County votes is just to recount it all. If they are all paper ballots they can and should be recounted.

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Monday September 13, 2010 · 4:10 PM PDT

2010/09/13 · 16:10

Eric Schneiderman is a progressive, an activist and a feminist.

Eric Schneiderman is the real deal. He is and always has been a real progressive and a true feminist his entire life.

I have known Eric Schneiderman a long time.

Eric started out as my State Senator. When he was elected in 1998, Dr Slepian, who worked at the Buffalo Women's Clinic, was murdered in his own kitchen in front of his children by an anti-choice fanatic. The NY State Clinic Access bill had already been in legislative limbo for nearly 5 years. Governor George Pataki kept saying if the Clinic Access bill got to his desk he would sign it, knowing full well that the Republican State Senate would keep it 1000 miles from his desk.

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Monday December 21, 2009 · 12:29 PM PST

2009/12/21 · 12:29

Abortion is the most common medical procedure. Abortion is health care. One third of all women in their lifetime will have an abortion. These are longstanding statistics from the highly regarded (even by its adversaaries) Guttmacher Institute which has done studies and statistics on reproductive care issues.

This is worth repeating. Abortion is THE most common medical procedure. Abortion is healthcare. One third 1/3rd of ALL women will an abortion at some point in their lifetime. When women don't talk about it anymore. While abortion is legal it has still been stigmatized.

Before I go on let me say that I have been involved in abortion rights for a couple of decades in leadership roles. This analysis is not just mine from reading the language and knowing the issue but concurs with the other choice groups.

It is enough to make the right to an abortion into a right in name only for most women. Just as in the pre Voting Rights/Civil rights era, blacks had the legal right to vote but they were totally unable to access that right. Effectively meaning they had no rights at all.

So let’s see how much harm the Nelson amendment does. Let's see how deep the knife goes.

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Friday October 23, 2009 · 7:48 PM PDT

2009/10/23 · 19:48

As noted by Greg Sargent, Harry Reid, after the rebuff, intended or mistaken, from some at the White House about his plan to put a national public option with the opt out compromise into the melded Senate bill...has decided to poll Senators about a bill with Snowe's trigger.

Unhappy news:

Counting Votes On "Trigger," And It’s Closest To 60 Votes

Here’s my contribution: I’m told that the trigger is much more in the mix in the Senate than people think — at least in vote-counting terms.

According to a plugged in Senate Democratic aide, Senate leadership aides are also counting Senate votes for the trigger, because they want to know which version of the public option can get through the Senate.

And in a development that may upset progressives, this aide says, the trigger is actually closer to getting 60 votes in the Senate right now — it’s two or three votes away — than the opt-out option is

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/...

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Tuesday September 29, 2009 · 11:14 PM PDT

2009/09/29 · 23:14

I just watched David Shuster, subbing for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, begin to do this work for us.

He asked Wyden if Wyden could vote for a bill WITHOUT a public option. Wyden said he would find it pretty hard to do. Other Senaotrs could be asked by friendly newspeople like Shuster, Maddow and others. We just start keeping track of who and how many. Random statements become organized into a Bloc(k). It's not that many people to keep track of. Organizing a Say NO campaign is a lot trouble than a pulling lots of yes votes together.

Senate Democratic moderates exert pressure because the Senate leadership fears they won't vote for cloture. The leadership feels that pressure and they make decisions based on that pressure.

We need a countervailing pressure in the Senate.

We have gotten this far because of a combination of inside and outside pressure from the House. We need the same pressure from the Senate progressives on Harry Reid, Rahm Emanuel and even Barack Obama.

TURN THE TABLES. SENATE PROGRESSIVES SHOULD SAY THAT THEY WILL NOT VOTE FOR CLOTURE ON A BILL WITHOUT A PUBLIC OPTION.

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Sunday April 27, 2008 · 8:21 AM PDT

2008/04/27 · 08:21

This was originally a comment on David Sirota's diary at Open Left. It was so long I decided to make it a diary......I am hoping that this will be treated with the some consideration. I did have some trepidatio posting this...but we'll see

Also I think it is important to transform the negative energy about anger that whites aren't voting for him into a positive understanding that women are just as proud and energized by the first serious women candidate for president. And no matter which one wins the nomination...it is important not to turn those who voted for their candidate but not the other candidate into bigots....however hard it is to resist.

That's not a good general election strategy. People (except for guilty white liberals) okay most people, who will vote in the general election, but have not voted in the primary, will not respond positively to being characterized as bigots if they have concerns about a candidate. Categorizing an undecided white voter...male or female....as a racist if they have hesitatancy about Barack Obama is not a way to get their vote... only their resentment.

Women voted for Clinton, not against Obama

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Saturday January 19, 2008 · 12:09 AM PST

2008/01/19 · 00:09

Joan Walsh, editor of Salon, interviewed the CWA member who was intimidated by her CWA union rep. In that interview she makes it very clear that she was intimidated. The reporter, Michael Mishik, kept pushing her. "He twisted my words", said the victim. It was very clear to her that she was threatened by the union.

The reporter's idea of acceptable union tactics would make Sam Giancana proud, but I don't think most people, even Obama partisans , would think telling folks that they can't get the time off to caucus unless they pledge to caucus for Obama, or get their shift changed if they don't endorse Obama or in some other way have the union intercede with the casino to make things more difficult for the worker, constitutes persuasion and not coercion.

Here's the relevant portion of a lengthier piece she did on the Nevada caucuses after the fold.

The piece in Salon
http://www.salon.com/...

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Tuesday June 26, 2007 · 12:54 PM PDT

2007/06/26 · 12:54

I'm an immigrant. I am a refugee. The immigration bill died, or so I thought, just a few days after my mother died. I was relieved that I did not have to write this post. Because I wanted the bill to die with my whole heart.

My mother and father were survivors of the Holocuast.

The personal history tells you why I care about this bill and why it's taken so long to do.

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Tuesday March 13, 2007 · 2:52 PM PDT

2007/03/13 · 14:52

Congressman Marty Meehan is resigning his congressional seat this July to become the new chancellor of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. His desire to succeed John Kerry as Senator has now been thwarted by Kerry not running for president in 2008 and running for reelection instead in 2008. Meehan is the most assiduous fundraiser in Congress ...a talent that commended him to the UMASS-Lowell board.

Indeed Meehan leaves ...at the moment anyway...5.2 million or so in his campaign account. Money that we all asked him to donate in 2006 so we could get more Democrats elected.

We should all remember his name from the "Use it or Lose It" campaign. To update people this was a campaign begun by Chris Bowers of MyDD in the fall of 2006 to get Democrats with large warchests in very safe seats to donate to party committees when it became apparent that we could not only win but win big.

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Monday November 06, 2006 · 11:21 AM PST

2006/11/06 · 11:21

I just got off the phone with the New York State head of the DNC's official lawyers committee.

She has local and national reporters who are EAGER to speak to voters who have been harassed by repetitive robocalls. We need to put some meat on the bones of this story.

If you have been called repeatedly please contact me. If you have recorded these calls even better because then it might be covered by the TV media, not just the print media. They want to speak to New York State voters only for this story.

I am the conduit for this. My email is d7eb at aol.com

thanks
Sorry this diary is so short but time is of the essence.

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The Nelson Amendment: Bad as Stupak..

NO TRIGGER: Urge Senators to tell Reid

Senate Progressives: filibuster bill without public option

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So who's the hack now?

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Meehan 5.2M campaign acct:Do the right thing

Robocalled?Reporters waiting.Email me