Steve Schmidt,
John Weaver. (Screen captures via CSPAN)
The Lincoln Project’s leaders, amid the unfolding scandal of co-founder John Weaver soliciting sexual favors from young men, have asserted they were unaware of his indiscretions until last month, but electronic communications obtained by the Washington Blade call that claim into question and suggest some Lincoln Project executives knew about the texts as early as last summer, but took no substantive action in response.
The communications with Lincoln Project officials undermine the assertion that “there was no awareness or insinuations of any type of inappropriate behavior when we became aware of the chatter at the time,” as co-founder Steve Schmidt told The New York Times last month. These electronic messages, which date back to August 2020 and include Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid, showed that leadership was made aware of allegations about Weaver from reporters who were investigating it, and had begun discus
Jim Cole
The Lincoln Project’s one female co-founder, former NH Republican Party Chair Jennifer Horn, resigned Friday. Unlike her fellow co-founders Mike Madrid and Ron Steslow, who claim to have resigned from the group in mid-December, Horn issued a statement to multiple news outlets announcing her resignation on the day it occurred.
“Upon careful consideration, I have terminated my relationship with the Lincoln Project, effective immediately. John Weaver’s grotesque and inappropriate behavior, coupled with his longstanding deceptions concerning that behavior, are sickening. It is clear at this point that my views about how the Lincoln Project’s efforts are managed, and the best way to move the Lincoln Project forward into the future in the wake of these awful events, have diverged.
Rosa Parks honored with free transit rides on Thursday February 04 2021
TriMet has declared Feb. 4 to be Rosa Parks Equity Day and all regional bus, train and streetcar rides are free.
All rides on TriMet are free Thursday, Feb. 4, in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
Fares will not be collected on buses, MAX, WES or LIFT during the first annual Rosa Parks Equity Day. Transit partners Portland Streetcar and C-TRAN are joining the regional transit agency and not collecting fares.
Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is best known for refusing to give up a seat on a bus reserved for white people on Dec. 1, 1955, in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. That led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and resulted in a United States Supreme Court decision that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Just over a year after Parks act of defiance, city officials were ordered to desegregate Montgomery s buses and Rosa Parks sealed her place in U.S. history.
TriMet offers free rides Feb. 4 in honor of Rosa Parks’ birthday
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
TriMet will not collect fares on Feb. 4, 2021 in honor of Rosa Parks birthday. Oregonian file photo. Beth Nakamura/staff.LC-
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TriMet will hold its first Rosa Parks Transit Equity Day on Thursday, Feb. 4, when fares will not be collected for rides on buses, MAX, WES or LIFT.
Transit partners Portland Streetcar and C-TRAN will join TriMet in not collecting fares on that day in honor of the late civil rights pioneer’s birthday.
Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1955, she refused to give up her seat in the Black section of the bus after the driver asked her to move because the whites-only section was full. Parks’ refusal led to the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1956, a United States Supreme Court decision found that found bus segregation was unconstitutional.
More snow expected this weekend
By Mike Berry
The Star Courier
With more snow forecast for this weekend, the City Council Wednesday took up a timely topic: Snow removal.
Councilman Steve Faber said he felt city crews had done a good job of plowing after the latest snowfall last weekend. But Faber said the snowplows had to cope with a problem: Vehicles parked on streets that were to be plowed.
“It’s a hassle going around these cars that are everywhere,” Faber said.
Mayor Gary Moore said there is an ordinance on the books that says vehicles have to be moved off the streets whenever there’s a snowfall of three inches or more.