DC backs ABC
MASERU-THE Democratic Congress (DC) yesterday threw its weight behind Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro whose All Basotho Convention (ABC) is in chaos.
The ABC was thrown into turmoil last week after Deputy Leader Nqosa Mahao broke away to form the Basotho Action Party (BAP) with at least a dozen MPs. The move triggered fears that the defections could collapse the government.
The ABC however says the government is intact and there is no reason to panic.
Majoro told a press conference yesterday that the split will not affect the government.
The ABC held the conference with the DC, in what appears to have been a show of unity and to calm jingling nerves.
Joe Biden as popular as top Republican officeholders in Texas, UT/TT Poll finds
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President-elect Joe Biden during a briefing where he delivered remarks on the nation s response to the COVID-19 outbreak on Dec. 29, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Texas Democrats think Joe Biden is doing a good job as president, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Texas Republicans don’t.
Overall, the president gets good grades from 44% of Texas voters and bad grades from 46% numbers that are better or roughly the same as the state’s most popular Republican leaders. Underneath Biden’s overall numbers, as with other officeholders in Texas, are starker partisan grades: 88% of Democrats said Biden is doing a good job, and 86% of Republicans disapprove of the work he’s doing.
Antonio Delgado, Maloney’s Democratic counterpart from the adjacent 19th district, which is much bigger than his 18th, however, did not disclose any expenses related to vehicles in 2020. Under America’s campaign finance law, candidates are not allowed to use donor funds to pay for personal transportation.
Ethics experts suspected Maloney’s expenditures. According to the Free Beacon report, Kendra Arnold, executive director of Portland-based Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust said Maloney has to give an explanation on the payments which according to her raised “red flags”.
“Without having any in-person campaigning, you wouldn’t expect there to be a lot of expenses,” she told Free Beacon. “Candidates don’t have to link [disbursements] to a specific corresponding event, so of course anything could be made up. We generally look for spending that isn’t in the realm of a candidate in the same state or in a similar-sized district.”
Updated: 5:11 PM CDT May 4, 2021 Vice President Kamala Harris visited Milwaukee for a roundtable discussion on the Biden administration s $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan and a tour of a UW-Milwaukee research facility.Harris left Joint Base Andrews about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.She was about 30 minutes ahead of schedule.The vice president began her day by delivering remarks to the Washington Conference on the Americas at the White House.Harris landed in Milwaukee about 11:30 a.m. and was met by Gov. Tony Evers, Democratic Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin and U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee).She toured the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee s clean energy laboratories and hosted a roundtable on the American Jobs Plan.The vice president emphasized its impact on local communities. The infrastructure plan would invest billions of dollars into projects like those underway at UWM. It s not going to be easy, she said. People out there are going to say that s too much. People ar