
Jenn Budenz lies on a blanket with her 2-month-old son, AJ, as they visit the grave of Maj. Andrew Budenz at Miramar National Cemetery on May 22, 2014, in San Diego. (Hayne Palmour IV/San Diego Union-Tribune)

Jenn Budenz lies on a blanket with her 2-month-old son, AJ, as they visit the grave of Maj. Andrew Budenz at Miramar National Cemetery on May 22, 2014, in San Diego. (Hayne Palmour IV/San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Obama/Biden lawn sign remains proudly planted in front of Melowese Richardson’s Cincinnati home, three months after the presidential election.
It seems that President Obama has an especially ardent supporter in the veteran Ohio poll worker.
Richardson told a local television station this month that she voted twice for Obama last November. She cast an absentee ballot and then voted at the polls as well.
“Yes, I voted twice,” Richardson told WCPO-TV. “I, after registering thousands of people, certainly wanted my vote to count, so I voted. I voted at the polls.”
Authorities also are investigating if she voted in the names of four other people, too, for a total of six votes in the 2012 presidential election.
“I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States,” Richardson vowed when asked about the voter fraud investigation that is now under way.
[I’m going to include the whole article, everyone who voted legally last November should read it. Remember, this doesn’t begin to cover or explain what happened to thousands of votes cast for Romney that then disappeared. But maybe it does, Richardson is a poll worker.]
Update: March 2014
She did about a month of a five year sentence. A (Democrat) Judge released her quietly. I imagine that he winced when he saw the celebration the Black community held to honor a lawbreaker.
End Update.
Here’s the other side of the story.
https://twitter.com/Travis_in_Flint/status/1659556015065399297/photo/1
Update: after a 12 hour shift, a nurse who was 6 months pregnant paid for a Citi bike to take home, but was immediately surrounded by 5 men who pushed her bike back on the rack. She was berated for minutes and even physically assaulted by them until finally giving up the bike. Civil rights attorneys and activist called for her to be punished and ridiculed her online. She was placed on leave by her employer. She provided receipts proving she was the victim. This all happened in Manhattan. DA Alvin Bragg will not be pursuing charges against any of the men

Yes, you read that right.
East Village, NYC.
Disney can’t approve, no drag queens!
Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too.
Follow the link, read the whole statement.
I concur completely.
Twitter posthttps://twitter.com/i/status/1659259284012638216
Translation: More Taxes
New or increased taxes include but are not limited to:
An annual head tax of $33 per worker for companies with 50+ employees
Quadruple the tax on jet fuel.
A 3.5% income tax on households making more than $100K
A 0.4% “wealth tax” for the top 10% of city earners.
$1-2 transaction tax for financial exchanges.
Needless to say, the taxes mostly hit one kind of Chicagoan with two particular (but related) skills: The ability to pay and the ability to get the hell out of Dodge and not pay.
Case in point: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange — founded in the city in 1898 and one of the largest trading floors in the world — on Monday threatened to relocate out of Chicago.