A Wednesday Senate hearing on election security got heated when US Senator Ron Johnson and Michigan Senator Gary Peters traded jabs on the floor of the Homeland Security committee hearing which Johnson chairs. .@SenRonJohnson: You lied repeatedly in the press that I was spreading Russian disinformation…I told you to stop… @SenGaryPeters: This is not about airing […]
“This is real. This happened. We have to address it,” said Binnall, who failed two persuade the Nevada judiciary that any of his dozens of election-fraud claims had merit.
Starr propelled Binnall’s myth further, recasting the lie as a thought experiment.
“How did dead people vote, accepting that allegation from Nevada?” Starr asked rhetorically in a lawyerly evasion. “It is because of inadequate safeguards. The dead person did not go into the voting booth and vote. Somebody voted for him.”
Such airy speculation underlined the point made by recently re-elected Michigan Senator
Gary Peters, the Homeland Security Committee’s top Democrat: “Whether intended or not, this hearing is a platform for conspiracy theories and lies.”
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December 10, 2020
A bill passed by the senate on Thursday and spearheaded by Michigan Senator Gary Peters is aimed at helping communities who have been hit hard by lakeshore erosion caused by record high water levels.
Sen. Peters says climate change is playing a huge part in these trends. “With climate change, we’re seeing the frequency of storms is increasing–the severity of storms is increasing,” he said. “You have high water so flooding–precipitation events are all going to increase.”
The STORM Act will allow communities affected by shoreline erosion and flooding to take out loans to help fix and strengthen the damaged areas. “Local communities can then draw on that money to put a project in place and then they’ll pay it back over a long period of time, but it’ll be at a very low interest rate,” said Sen. Peters “These are investments that pay big time, because it’s a whole lot cheaper to fix infrastructure and harden infrastructure than