Trump claims mail-in voting will lead to 'most corrupt election' in US history
Republicans have warned about voter fraud connected to mail-in voting for months
Trump 2020 Campaign
Published July 21
By Brooke Singman | Fox News
President Trump doubled down on his criticism of mail-in voting on Tuesday, warning that it would lead to the “most corrupt election” in U.S. history.
“Mail-In Voting, unless changed by the courts, will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation’s History! #RIGGEDELECTION,” Trump tweeted Tuesday.
The president’s comments come after he warned during his sit-down interview with "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that mail-in voting would “rig the election.”
TRUMP SAYS MAIL-IN VOTING WILL LEAD TO RIGGED ELECTION
Wallace asked whether the president would accept the results of the presidential election in November, and asked whether the president was a “good loser.”
“I’m not a good loser. I don’t like to lose. I don’t lose too often. I don’t like to lose,” Trump said. “You don’t know until you see. It depends. I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election, I really do.”
The president and Republicans have been warning about
possible voter fraud connected to mail-in voting for months, while Democrats
and the media have often pointed to a lack of evidence that mail-in
voting, and absentee voting, lead to voter fraud.
Earlier this year, up to 800 ballots were disqualified in
Paterson, N.J., after hundreds of ballots were found in the mail bundled
together, despite a state law forbidding anyone from handling or sending more
than three mail-in ballots together. Several individuals – including a
councilman-elect – are now facing criminal charges for alleged election
fraud.
But Twitter in the past has flagged tweets from Trump about mail-in voter fraud, and said that "Trump claimed that mail-in ballots would lead to 'a Rigged Election.' However, fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud.”
The president and the GOP have railed against recent attempts by Democrats to increase voting by mail; the RNC and the Trump reelection campaign have doubled their legal budget this year to hit back at efforts by Democrats to overhaul voting laws in response to the pandemic.
Democrats, pushing back against the claims by Trump and the GOP, say that cases of actual voter fraud are limited and claim that Republicans are trying to suppress voter turnout to improve their chances of winning elections.
Meanwhile, Trump campaign national press secretary Hogan Gidley said Monday that the president has a right to be skeptical of election results, claiming Democrats have a “history of cheating.”
"The Democrats are pushing for universal mail-in voting, that is just fraught with all the types of possibility of cheating and the Democrats know it," Gidley told "The Story." "So they are bragging about a policy that could completely compromise the election, and then they are asking us to abide by those results. That’s ridiculous.”
Hogan said the Trump campaign "won't say right now that whatever happens, we are just going to say that's the way that it is, because we know now that Democrats have a history of cheating in elections and we will not let them cheat on this one."
"If this election is free and this election is fair," he concluded, "Donald Trump will get four more years in the White House."
Fox News' Paul Steinhauser, Tyler Olson and Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.
Selling off the Post Office: Berkeley calls out Richard Blum (PAST RESEARCH ON THE THIRD WAY, U.S. POSTAL SERVICE & THE CLINTON FOUNDATION)
Thursday, June 9, 2016
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/06/selling-off-post-office-berkeley-calls.html
By blue denim
Saturday Dec 01, 2012 · 6:27 AM PDT
Angered by the proposed sale of their historic Downtown
Post Office, citizens of Berkeley, California are going to San Francisco on Tuesday, December 4th.
They have two demands. The first is that investment bankers stop
profiteering from the sale of public property assigned to the Postal Service.
And the second demand is that Congress stop bleeding the Postal Service dry.
Led by Citizens to Save the Berkeley Post Office, community members will assemble at 11:30 a.m. for a rally at 909 Montgomery in front of the offices of Blum Capital Partners. Blum Capital is a private equity firm founded in 1976 by Richard Blum, a current regent of the University of California. Commercial real estate giant Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis (CBRE) is among the many investments of Blum Capital. In fact the Chairman of CBRE is Richard Blum.
The Postal Service is eager to sell properties in their
control to raise quick cash. CBRE advises the USPS on what properties to
sell. The properties are advertised on a joint CBRE/ USPS website and as a general
rule CBRE profits again as the listing agent.
After the rally in front of Blum Capital, the marchers
intend to proceed down Montgomery Street to One Post Street, the office of
California Senator Dianne Feinstein. Senator Feinstein's husband is
Richard Blum.
Newspaper headlines read "The Post Office is Going Broke". Truth: The Postal Service is being bled dry by a law passed in the 2006 lame duck session of Congress.
Senator Feinstein must take a lead in changing the 2006 law.
The USPS is managed by an independent Board of Governors of 11 members. Nine are appointed by the President, no more than five from one political party. There are three vacancies on the Board. Of the six presidential appointments, only one was appointed by President Barack Obama. The term of office of Dennis Toner, Obama's sole appointee, expires December 8, 2012.
Elections must have consequences. Surely the President should be able to make appointments to the USPS Board of Governors and just as surely Senator Dianne Feinstein must reconsider her qualms on filibuster reform. We are entitled in this democracy to have judges, agency administrators and Postal Service governors appointed by the President that we elected in 2008 and re-elected this November.
Rally and March from Blum Capital to the Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein,
11:30 a.m. Tuesday, December 4, 2012.
Rally starts at Blum Capital, 909 Montgomery St (at Pacific), San Francisco,
and then marches to Senator Feinstein’s office at One Post Street near
Montgomery and Market Street.
"We will confront Richard Blum about his selling of our public
property!"
"We well ask Senator Feinstein to act to save our post offices!"
More below the orange squiggle.
For background on the USPS read the excellent diary by Laura Clawson back in April, "Republicans manufacture a crisis for the Postal Service, and too many Democrats go along."
Stay current on the status of the Downtown Berkeley Post Office by sending your email address to savetheberkeleypostoffice@gmail.com
The Save the Post Office website has a wealth of current and background information.
HISTORIC POST OFFICES On June 6, 2012, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named America’s historic post offices to their “11 Most Endangered Places” list.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has indicated they will follow closely three post office transactions: Northfield MN, La Jolla and Berkeley CA.
When the postal service sells a public building that contains New Deal era art or when the building itself is on the National Register of Historic Places, a covenant is placed on the deed. Postal Service policy is to transfer the responsibility to enforce the covenant to the state but the Postal Service keeps all the proceeds from the sale. State Historical Preservation offices have resisted assuming this unfunded responsibility.
Sixteen historic post offices
in California have either been sold or are being considered for sale. That's
more than any other state.
o Berkeley
o Burlingame
o Fullerton
o Huntington Beach
o La Jolla
o Modesto
o Orange Plaza
o Palo Alto
o Redlands
o Sacramento
o San Rafael
o Santa Barbara
o Santa Monica
o Southgate (Firestone)
o Ukiah
o Venice Beach
2006: CONGRESS, USPS & THE SHOCK DOCTRINE
"Thus it was that a new fund was established in 2006 — for the prepayment of health benefits for future retirees, with the Postal Service agreeing to pay between $5.5 billion and $5.8 billion annually. The money simply goes into an escrow account, where it is invested in special issue Treasury securities. Thus does it somehow magically help with the deficit." Joe Nocera, New York Times, July 30, 2012
The 2006 lame duck session of Congress put the USPS in an impossible situation by requiring the USPS to move between 2007 and 2016 a total of $55.8 billion additional dollars of USPS operating revenue to US Treasury securities.
While referred to as pre-funding of future retiree medical costs, the law is more accurately seen as a simple cash transfer from the Postal Service to the Treasury. It's like, well, the opposite of what the Treasury did for the banks. The clever labeling also suggests extravagant public employee benefits as likely culprits for the Postal Service crisis.
The media reports that the USPS has defaulted on two $5.6 billion annual payments. But no one reports that as of September 2012, despite the $11 billion default, the Treasury still holds $45.3 billion in the Postal Service Retiree Health Fund, a one-year increase of $1.5 billion, for total reserves of approximately $45,000 for every current USPS career employee, retiree or annuitant survivor.
The USPS makes additional annual payments of about $2.5 billion that fund all current retiree and survivor health benefits.
The financial crisis that Congress has created for the Postal Service (with some help from the recession and declining first class mail volume) has created an opportunity for an old fashioned land grab.
"How much is USPS property worth? Nobody really knows. The USPS, like every government entity, doesn't regularly appraise its properties. But there is an estimate nosed about by the Right (that) the owned USPS property portfolio is worth about $105 billion.
"Most of that owned real estate is prime, downtown real estate in every town and city in America.
"A deal like (privatizing the buildings and land owned by the USPS) is too big to be done all at once; it would flood the market and undercut itself. It would have to be done slowly, quietly, and under the radar -- hopefully so no one notices."
Andrew Reinbach, August 2, 2012
The Postal Service crisis creates opportunity for CBRE and Richard Blum, an opportunity to profit from the dismantling of the Post Office and from the conversion of our public buildings to private ownership.
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES The U.S. Postal Service is the core of the trillion dollar mailing industry that employs more than 8 million people.
The transportation of mail and small packages is a major consumer of petroleum products. The USPS should be a leader in our inevitable and necessary transition to a less petroleum dependent society.
Instead the USPS is pretending there are no environmental consequences to facility consolidation.
In February 2012, USPS issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on the Mail Processing Network Rationalization Initiative. The proposal under consideration includes possible closure or consolidation of mail processing for approximately 250 processing facilities and adjusting the mail processing workforce size by as many as 35,000 positions. USPS is required under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to perform environmental assessments. The FONSI indicates USPS is gaming regulations to skirt their green responsibility.
Berkeley (Connecting the dots with the U.S. Postal Service, the Third way & the Clinton Foundation)
Haas
School of Business is a business school at the University of California, Berkeley.
Note: Laura D'Andrea Tyson is a professor at the Haas School of Business, a special adviser for the Berkeley Research Group, a director at the CBRE Group, Inc., was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a director at the New America Foundation.
Richard C. Blum is a board member for the Haas School of Business, married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chairman & president for Blum Capital Partners, LP, a director & former chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc., a regent at the University of California, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Jonathan Soros’s father, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the New for the America Foundation.
David H. Romer was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Haas School of Business is a business school at the University of California, Berkeley.
Howard H. Leach was a board member for the Haas School of Business, and a regent at the University of California.
Terry Tamminen was a senior fellow & climate policy director for the New America Foundation, a secretary for the California Environmental Protection Agency, and a special assistant for energy and environmental technologies, cabinet secretary for Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Jonathan Soros is a director at the New America Foundation, and George Soros’s son.
California Environmental Protection Agency is an agency for the California state government.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was the California state government governor, and Terry Tamminen was his cabinet secretary, special assistant for energy and environmental technologies.
Jerry Brown is the California state government governor, and Kathleen L. Brown’s brother.
Kathleen L. Brown was a California state government treasurer, is Jerry Brown’s sister, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/commercial-club-of-chicago-members.html
R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
David H. Romer was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Haas School of Business is a business school at the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard C. Blum is a board member for the Haas School of Business, married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chairman & president for Blum Capital Partners, LP, a director & former chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc., a regent at the University of California, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), an Economic Advisory Council member for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Laura D'Andrea Tyson is a professor at the Haas School of Business, a special adviser for the Berkeley Research Group, a director at the CBRE Group, Inc., was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a director at the New America Foundation.
Bernard L. Schwartz was a funder & director for the New America Foundation, a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is a co-founder for the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation, and the chairman emeritus for the Third Way.
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Third Way.
Thurgood Marshall Jr. is a trustee at the Third Way, and was a board of governor’s member for the U.S. Postal Service.
William M. Daley is a trustee at the Third Way, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/commercial-club-of-chicago-members.html
Kathleen L. Brown was a California state government treasurer, is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Jerry Brown’s sister, and was a California state government treasurer.
Jerry Brown is Kathleen L. Brown’s brother, and the California state government governor.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was the California state government governor, and Terry Tamminen was his cabinet secretary, special assistant for energy and environmental technologies.
Terry Tamminen was a special assistant for energy and environmental technologies, cabinet secretary for Arnold Schwarzenegger, a secretary for the California Environmental Protection Agency, and a senior fellow & climate policy director for the New America Foundation.
California Environmental Protection Agency is an agency for the California state government.
Jonathan Soros is a director at the New America Foundation, and George Soros’s son.
Bernard L. Schwartz was a funder & director for the New America Foundation, a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is a co-founder for the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation, and the chairman emeritus for the Third Way.
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Third Way.
Thurgood Marshall Jr. is a trustee at the Third Way, and was a board of governor’s member for the U.S. Postal Service.
Dianne Feinstein is married to Richard C. Blum, a U.S. Senate senator, a California congressional delegation senator, and was a San Francisco (CA) mayor.
CA congressional delegation is a delegation for the State of California.
California state government is the government for the State of California.
Nancy Pelosi is the speaker for the California congressional delegation, the minority leader for the U.S. House of Representatives, and an investor in the Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
James C. Miller III is a director at the Clean Energy Fuels Corp, and was a board of governor’s member for the U.S. Postal Service.
Richard C. Blum is married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, a board member for the Haas School of Business, the chairman & president for Blum Capital Partners, LP, a director & former chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc., a regent at the University of California, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), an Economic Advisory Council member for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Douglas W. Shorenstein was the chair for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and is a trustee at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Janet L. Yellen was the president & CEO for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Haas School of Business is a business school at the University of California, Berkeley.
Laura D'Andrea Tyson is a professor at the Haas School of Business, a special adviser for the Berkeley Research Group, a director at the CBRE Group, Inc., was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a director at the New America Foundation.
Richard C. Blum is a board member for the Haas School of Business, married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chairman & president for Blum Capital Partners, LP, a director & former chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc., a regent at the University of California, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), an Economic Advisory Council member for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Third Way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way
The Third Way is a political philosophy and political position akin to centrism that attempts to reconcile right-wing and left-wing politics by advocating a varying synthesis of centre-right and centrist economic platforms with some centre-left social policies.[1][2] The Third Way was created as a re-evaluation of political policies within various centre-left progressive movements in response to doubt regarding the economic viability of the state and the overuse of economic interventionist policies that had previously been popularised by Keynesianism, but which at that time contrasted with the rise of popularity for neoliberalism and the New Right starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.[3] The Third Way has been promoted by social liberal[4] and social-democratic parties.[5] In the United States, a lead proponent of the Third Way was former President Bill Clinton.[6]
Major Third Way social-democratic proponent Tony Blair claimed that the socialism he advocated was different from traditional conceptions of socialism and said: "My kind of socialism is a set of values based around notions of social justice. [...] Socialism as a rigid form of economic determinism has ended, and rightly".[7] Blair referred to it as a "social-ism" involving politics that recognised individuals as socially interdependent and advocated social justice, social cohesion, equal worth of each citizen and equal opportunity.[8] Third Way social-democratic theorist Anthony Giddens has said that the Third Way rejects the state socialist conception of socialism and instead accepts the conception of socialism as conceived of by Anthony Crosland as an ethical doctrine that views social-democratic governments as having achieved a viable ethical socialism by removing the unjust elements of capitalism by providing social welfare and other policies and that contemporary socialism has outgrown the Marxist claim for the need of the abolition of capitalism as a mode of production.[9] In 2009, Blair publicly declared support for a "new capitalism".[10]
The Third Way supports the pursuit of greater egalitarianism
in society through action to increase the distribution of skills, capacities
and productive endowments while rejecting income redistribution as the means to achieve
this.[11]
It emphasises commitment to balanced budgets,
providing equal opportunity which is combined with an
emphasis on personal responsibility, the decentralisation
of government power to the lowest level possible, encouragement and promotion
of public–private partnerships, improving labour supply,
investment in human development, preserving of social capital
and protection of the environment.[12]
However, specific definitions of Third Way policies may differ between Europe
and the United States. The Third Way has been criticised by certain conservatives, liberals and libertarians who advocate laissez-faire
capitalism.[13][14]
It has also been heavily criticised by other social democrats as well as anarchists,
communists
and in particular democratic socialists as a betrayal of
left-wing values,[15][16][17]
with some analysts characterising the Third Way as an effectively neoliberal
movement.
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