13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is not th
its members encouraging them to participate in a special halloween contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you can make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy, they even showed you how to burn your effigy once you wrote it. it was from aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all-expense paid trip to d.c. just burn the effigy. is this was a fringe group in 2009 takinging dangerous political rhetoric about reid and pelosi to a dangerous new extreme. the worry is not that violent rhetoric and mainstream politics is going to cause level-headed mainstreamer to do something insane and awful. the worry is that violent rhetoric encourages the least stable amongst us to do. a democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, a month before the halloween contest in 2009. how concerned are you about the tone of the political de
Operations to Small Business loans. This is a problem with maga extremism. Its not serious about governing chaos is the only word in their playbook. Conflict seems to be the natural state of being and some of them seem to exalt in shutting down the government. And if maga republicans get their way, the danger for this country will be great. Extremism will be dominant. The ultra rich will be empowered. Working families here on cspan2 we are going to break away now for live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Deg to shut down the federal government. The fringe element of extremist House Republicans has pushed congress to the brink of another costly, wasteful shutdown. The Government Shutdown of any duration would harm hardworking americans and our economy. Shutdowns cost taxpayers billions of dollars per week. They cause businesses money. They could even cause a downgrade to the nations credit rating. And they force an unnecessary disruption of many vital services. Federal workers in all 50 st
Visit bayareafastrak. Org ase so go pay your unpaid tolls y and keep your wheels on the you are live in the cnn newsroom, im jim acosta in washington. Good evening, prosecutors in the 2020 Election Meddling case against former President Donald Trump want the judge to place new restrictions on what trump can say publicly about the matter. The Special Counsel has asked u. S. District judge Tanya Chutkan not for a gag order specifically they say but for what they call a narrow welldefined restriction arguing that trump continues to make, quote, disparaging and inflammatory attacks against people involved in the case including the judge herself, which could lead Trump Supporters to threaten or intimidate witnesses. During a Campaign Speech last night here in washington, d. C. , trump lashed out at the Special Counsel jack smith accusing him of infringing on his rights. Hes a deranged individual, and he wants to take away my First Amendment rights. They went to court to get an order that i
Surrounding the temporary terminal. Not to add to the agenda i think this should be an item on the agenda with the cac and where they see a lot of issues. I know i get emails from residents and increasing over the last couple of months about congestion issues in this part of south market. Its not just the transbay terminal. There is construction at every corner of that neighborhood but i think it would be great for the residents to give feedback in terms how to better deploy the resources. I am sure its done well now but i would love the residents to give future feedback. We will add that. Yeah. Okay. Item 7 now is an opportunity for members of the public to address the authority on matters not on the agenda. I dont have any other members of the public. Mr. Patrick. Good morning board directors. Two issues. One i mentioned this at the meeting a couple nights ago. Bolts bus i think thats the name of it. They take lots of people to los angeles for a very cheap price and i happen to stop