“READERS FORUM” NOVEMBER 1, 2018

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  1. Same type flyers without disclosure of sender were recently mailed in Indiana supporting the Libertarian candidate against Mike Braun. Will Libertarian Lucy Brenton have the same courage to withdraw to defeat the corrupt leftists supporting Pelosi Joe Donnelly??
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    “Montana’s U.S. Senate race took a dramatic turn on Wednesday: A libertarian candidate endorsed his Republican opponent after an illegal campaign mailer tried to siphon votes from the GOP candidate and pave victory for the incumbent Democrat.

    Republican Matt Rosendale is in a dead-heat race against Democrat Jon Tester, with polls showing the GOP candidate trailing within the margin of error. Fox News deems the race “leaning Democrat.”

    But Libertarian Rick Breckenridge, who has no chance of winning the race, took an unprecedented step in Montana politics and endorsed Rosendale, saying he’s taking a stand against “dark money” in politics.

    The move came after an anonymous campaign mailer from an unknown group, which is a violation of state and federal election laws, went out to people in a bid to garner support for the Libertarian candidate and thus undermine Rosendale’s election chances.

    “Matt Rosendale wants to use drones and patrols to spy on our private lives,” the mailer read. “Rick Breckenridge is a true conservative and opposes government intrusion into Montanans’ private lives.”

    It remains unclear who’s responsible for the mailer, but the tactic resembles the efforts by Democratic groups that supported Tester’s 2012 bid, where a mailer was sent out to promote another libertarian candidate.

    Tester won that race by 4 percentage points thanks to the Libertarian candidate who received over 6 percent of the vote – just enough votes to swing the election if the votes had gone to the Republican candidate at the time.

    Breckenridge deemed the mailer an attempt to influence the election, prompting his endorsement of the Republican, even though he disagrees with some of his views.

    “The reality is I’m only going to get 3 or 4 percent of the vote, and [Rosendale] has the character to combat this issue,” Breckenridge told the Associated Press. “I’m standing in unity and solidarity with Matt to combat dark money in politics.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-testers-campaign-takes-a-hit-after-shady-mailer-prompts-libertarian-to-drop-out-back-gop-candidate

  2. Libertarian candidate backs Rosendale in Montana’s U.S. Senate race

    BILLINGS — The Libertarian candidate in Montana’s U.S. Senate race threw his support behind his Republican opponent Wednesday in a surprise move that came in response to an election mailer from an unknown group that appeared aimed at undermining Rosendale’s support among conservatives….

    Breckenridge said in an interview that he doesn’t know the source of the mailer, which promoted him as a “true conservative” and claimed that Rosendale supports using drones to spy on private citizens.

    He said it appeared to be an attempt by so-called dark money groups to influence Montana’s election and that he’s decided Rosendale is the best candidate to stop such efforts. Federal election laws require campaign materials to disclose their funding source.

    https://helenair.com/news/government-and-politics/libertarian-candidate-backs-rosendale-in-montana-s-u-s-senate/article_e7525245-9365-5d54-92d9-8e02b5216ce3.html

    • OK Joe, “Dark Money”

      Since the 5 Republican Supreme Court Justices jerked Citizens United out of their corrupt asses and made it the law of the land, dark money groups have spent $800 million. Three quarters of that have been spent by 15 groups with 11, and the top 6 being right wing, and 4 being left wing. The right wing have spent $563 million, the left wing $74 million.

      Kavanaugh not only likes beer, he loves corporate dark money so you will see in the near future even more restrictions on the nail in our coffin being s__t canned.

      With Tester voting against Kavanaugh, and therefore against more dark money in our politics, and no doubt Rosendale would have voted for him, the brilliant Libertarian in the middle of this situation just showed why Libertarians cannot get elected.

      I’ll let you chew on why that is Joe while you’re looking up your next spam filled link….

      • Reg, that’s nice and all, but it’s the left wing dark money that’s cheating! BTW, what is wrong with beer?

        • Not much. But a wise man once told me, “Every man needs to know his limitations”.

          And I’m not much on supposed choir boys Jumping the Shark.

          But water under the bridge nutterclub. Time to move on to falling in love with dictators and believing serial killers.

          Evidently, it’s a new fad the uneducated are fascinated about.

          Peace bro….

  3. Over $1 million raised by an Iranian immigrant for the Jewish victims in Pittsburgh and $200,000 for the victims by Muslims who live under JoeBiden’s bed.

    Sleeping with the enemy may not be such a bad idea after all Joe.

    Congrats!….

  4. Wondered why the NASW, Social Workers and others in the mental health professions stood silently by while democrats placed an obviously mentally ill professor on a national platform to be ridiculed? I guess it’s OK for the mentally ill to be put on display for the national media as long as it furthers their socialist agenda. It’s interesting how close the goals of the NASW and the 45 goals of the communist party for America resemble each other.

  5. Hey Regulator, you see this one?

    “Why the awful Trump ad? Racism is one helluva drug”

    President Donald Trump is at it again, tweeting a thinly veiled racist attack ad designed to turn out his white base for the midterm elections.

    The ad shows some frightening video of an undocumented immigrant from Mexico talking about killing police in the past and hopefully (he says, as he is led away by authorities) in the future. He smiles as he does this, his lawyer has said he is mentally ill.

    The ad is is based on fear, not reality. The reality is those same white voters have MORE to fear from each other when it comes to crime than they do undocumented immigrants.

    Recent Department of Justice statistics show that when whites are the victims of violent crimes, in 57% of the cases, the perpetrator is white. In other words, those 57% of Trump supporters should be looking at each other with more suspicion than they do at other racial or ethnic groups, including undocumented immigrants.

    The research is clear. Undocumented and legal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born American citizens. The Cato Institute published a study based on Texas data that showed native-born citizens are more likely to be convicted of committing violent crimes, such as homicide, than either undocumented or legal immigrants.

    Nationwide research also showed that states with larger shares of undocumented immigrants tended to have LOWER crime rates than those with smaller shares of undocumented immigrants. That research held up even when the authors controlled for age, urban areas, labor markets and incarceration rates.

    After exhaustive research, they concluded that illegal immigration DOES NOT increase crime.

    What Trump knows is that talking about Mexican immigrants as criminals will pander to his base, which apparently buys into the Latino-as-criminal stereotype, even though evidence shows this to be false.

    Facts don’t matter now, Trump has a midterm to win. As Democrats and Republicans vie for the Latino vote in tight races across the country, Trump’s ad might prove to be his biggest political blunder yet.

    Perhaps the midterms will show that Trump should have been more worried about tweeting an ad that instead energized Latino voters

    https://cnn.it/2SwHOi5

    • The left is cheating in Montana and Indiana. The “undocumented senders” for the anti-Braun and pro-Libertarian candidate are all mailed from Milwaukee, WI, Permit No. 1885:
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      Glossy postcards targeting Montana Senate hopeful Matt Rosendale are the latest mystery mail pieces that don’t include information about who is paying for them.

      That mail piece, and another one hitting Rosendale on trade policy, contain no “paid for by” disclaimers as required of any political committee sending such mailers. But they do list one key piece of information: the U.S. Postal Service code WC MLG 08899. The numbers are simply a ZIP Code—this one an area in Edison, New Jersey—but the preceding letters correspond to a specific sender.

      That doesn’t necessarily tell us who paid for the mailers, but it does suggest at the very least a common vendor with other recent mail pieces that have used the same code….

      The toothlessness of rules governing the disclosure of direct-mail ads that fall just short of an explicit call to vote for or against a candidate make it difficult to determine the full scale of this opaque mailing campaign. Neither does relying on postal codes necessarily tell the full story, as the same group can use multiple vendors to mount a direct-mail campaign—or simply send the mail itself. A recent direct-mail piece attacking Republican Indiana Senate candidate Mike Braun, for instance, is largely identical to those going after Hawley and Rosendale, right down to its support for the Libertarian candidate.

      https://www.thedailybeast.com/unmarked-mailers-seek-to-secretly-kneecap-gop-turnout

      • WOW, an outright lie on this! The article mentions NOTHING about Senator Donnelly, who we have all seen you have an unhealthy obsession over

        Looks to everyone that YOU are the one cheating

        • More illegal mysterious mailers supporting Lucy Brenton surface in Indiana

          For the second time in a week mysterious mailers were sent out to Indiana residents urging them to support Libertarian candidate Lucy Brenton.

          Like the previous pro-Brenton mailers, the second examples are highly critical of Republican Mike Braun’s tax record, and do not even mention Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly.

          But unlike the mailers that appeared over the weekend, these mailers did not include a disclaimer stating who had paid for them.
          Mysterious mailers appear to violate federal law

          Federal law requires all campaign material, even when it is sent from nonconnected PACs, to contain a disclaimer clearly saying how it was paid for. In line with regulations, the mailers distributed in south Indiana over the weekend were clearly identified as having been paid for by the Indiana Democratic Party.

          The new mailers, believed to have been distributed in and around Indianapolis, contain no disclaimer at all.

          Violating federal campaign law is no laughing matter. It seems unlikely a well-respected organization like the Indiana Democratic Party would risk producing anonymous campaign literature. Likewise, it seems unlikely the Republicans would produce material attacking their own candidate.

          But it is also extremely unlikely the mailers came from either the Brenton campaign or the Libertarian Party of Indiana (LPIN).

          “I learned today that there was a second mailer supporting my campaign for U.S. Senate,” Brenton told News Growl in an email. “I was shocked as I had not authorized or participated in its release. This is indicative of the problems inherent with outside interests attempting to influence our elections.

          “I have only seen a picture of the mailer and was unable to find any disclaimer or indication of who paid for and created it. Although the content is accurate, I am suspicious of the intentions of the sender and believe it may violate election laws.”

          LPIN officials also disavowed any knowledge or participation in the mailers.

          The only evidence on the mailer itself is the mailing permit details. Above the address field it says, “STANDARD US POSTAGE PAID, Milwaukee, WI, Permit No. 1885.”

          Besides the lack of disclaimer, the recent mailers also differ from the first examples in tone. The first mailers compared Brenton and Braun head-to-head. The more recent mailers are much more a direct attack on Braun.

          Either way, the FEC violation remains. And the bafflement from all corners of Indiana politics grows.

          https://newsgrowl.com/mysterious-mailers-support-lucy-brenton/

          • “Newsgrowl” is another rightwing blog, just like the knuckleheads at free beacon. ZERO credibility

  6. Going North crossbow hunting tomorrow for a while.

    Don’t post a true link just because I’m not here to see it Biden!

    Promise?….

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