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As corporate America’s embrace of social liberalism has complicated its relationship with the Republican Party, small-business owners are hunkering down and readying for war as President Joe Biden and a Democratic Congress get ready to enact their agenda.
“Unfortunately, the Biden administration and the Democratic Party have effectively declared war on small business as far we re concerned,” said Alfredo Ortiz, president of the small-business advocacy group the Job Creators Network.
Climbing out of a hole dug during the pandemic, they argue small businesses cannot afford the costs of new taxes, regulations, mandates, and a minimum wage increase. They say restaurants and other companies with thin profit margins, often disproportionately affected by measures undertaken to slow the spread of the coronavirus, are especially vulnerable.
Massive boost for DC
‘Marafaele Mohloboli
TWO opposition Alliance of Democrats (AD) legislators, Mothepu Mahapa and Mokherane Tsatsanyane, have ditched the Monyane Moleleki-led party to join Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu’s Democratic Congress (DC).
Their defections were announced yesterday in parliament by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Sephiri Motanyane.
The announcement was greeted with loud cheers by some DC backbenchers. Thereafter, Messrs Mahapa and Tsatsanyane visited the DC party offices where they were given membership forms and party cards.
The defections also enabled the DC to finally get revenge on the AD, a party which was formed in December 2016 by former DC deputy leader Monyane Moleleki and a faction which had supported his failed bid to succeed then DC leader and Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili.
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vows not to stand for re-election in Machache in 2022 but groom successor to take over the seat.
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FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Monyane Moleleki says he is done with politics.
Mr Moleleki, who leads the opposition Alliance of Democrats (AD), said he will not seek re-election in his Machache constituency in next year’s elections but would seek to return to parliament as a non-constituency legislator. That would be his last tenure in parliament and thereafter he will pass the baton to younger politicians, he told the
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A jury on Tuesday convicted Chauvin of second-degree murder and lesser charges for cutting off Floyd’s air supply last May 25 as he lay handcuffed and begging for mercy. The conviction, which stood out against decades of impunity for most police excessive-force cases, could mean decades in prison for the 45-year-old. Chauvin will face sentencing in eight weeks.