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Nina Turnerâs Dark Money Pledge Sparks Accusation Of Hypocrisy
The former Ohio state senator previously ran a progressive group that technically raised âdark money.â
Nina Turner, the former Ohio state senator turned progressive icon, is calling on her rivals in the Democratic special election primary for Ohioâs 11th Congressional District to join her in swearing off âcorporate special interest dollars funneled through super PACs and Dark Money groups.â
But Turnerâs top rival, Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Shontel Brown, is accusing her of hypocrisy, noting that Turner previously led Our Revolution, a left-leaning group whose fundraising structure does not require it to disclose its donors.
Four members of President Biden's Cabinet took to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, pushing back on Republican criticisms that the plan was too large and wide-ranging.In a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia.
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Biden and Harris speak on Derek Chauvin verdict
Vice President Kamala Harris said, We have a long way to go” with the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020.Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
The scenes from the aftermath were of celebration, emotion, relief a sudden and decisive end to a searing chapter that lasted just shy of a year, though one that truly has spanned many decades.
But for the guilty findings in connection with the killing of George Floyd to mark a true turning point will take much more than verdicts in Minneapolis. It falls now to a president elected on the promise of unity to both heal and advance policy in tense and still-uncertain times.
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MUSICAL CHAIRS: Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) announced Monday he will resign next month to take a position as the head of Ohio’s Chamber of Commerce, which, like unbuttoning the jeans after a big meal, makes Democrats’ already slim majority in the House a little bit more comfortable.
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Time magazine continued its sad history of pushing the inconsistent climate nuttiness it’s been peddling for decades.
The magazine released a new cover story with a headline that once again reeked of climate Armageddon agitprop: “Climate Is Everything: How the pandemic can lead us to a better, greener world.” Climate doom-monger and
Time senior correspondent Justin Worland laced the story with absurd propaganda: “[S]purred by alarming science, growing public fury and a deadly pandemic, government officials, corporate bosses and civil-society leaders are finally waking up to a simple idea whose time has come:
climate is everything.”