When Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) filed her 2022 financial disclosure in May, it was nearly indistinguishable from her 2021 report—and that could be a problem.
That’s because Boebert reported no royalties from the memoir she released last July, My American Life. Congressional guidelines and legal experts said her lack of reported income would violate House ethics rules.
A
Boebert spokesperson told The Daily Beast that the Colorado
conservative and 2020 election denier did not receive any money from her
book deal until January 2023.
“The
book royalties will appear in her 2023 disclosure,” the spokesperson
told The Daily Beast. “This is consistent with guidance from the House
Ethics Committee.”
But that does not actually appear consistent with ethics guidance.
The ethics instruction guide for
2022 congressional financial disclosures makes clear that members must
disclose not only royalties they received, but anticipated royalties as
well—“any royalties currently due from the publisher for completed
sales.”
When
The Daily Beast informed Boebert’s office about the rule, the
spokesperson replied that they had reached out to the Ethics Committee
ahead of filing, receiving a reply on May 11 that “no royalties needed
to be disclosed in the 2022 financial disclosure since there had been no
payment of royalties in 2022.”
The
spokesperson added that the office is consulting ethics experts again,
and would amend the report if needed. If the account of the committee’s
communication is accurate, it would seem unlikely that they’d throw the
book at Boebert.
Still, ethics experts told The Daily Beast that the rules were not complicated and are in place for a reason.
To
me, the most shocking news above is that Lauren wrote a book. Who even
knew she could read? Did she write it herself? In crayon?
Where there is Boe-Boe, there is MTG, the craziest of all the crazies. 1945 reports:
Back in the summer of 2021, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed that about Biden.
"It's
a communist regime. It's been a communist takeover of our country, and
it happened on January 21. And that is who Joe Biden is," Greene said on
Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show. When Bannon asked her what the evidence
was that the members of the administration were “Marxists and
communists,” Greene replied “The evidence? Study history. Simply study
history and you can see how they behave.”
Greene
also alleged in the 2021 interview that the January 6 Committee — which
was a project of Congress and had nothing to do with the Biden
Administration — would ultimately seek to jail herself, Trump, Kevin
McCarthy, and Rep. Mo Brooks. None of that happened, although Trump
could conceivably still face charges resulting from the Committee’s
criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
Now,
two years later, Greene still believes that there has been a “communist
takeover,” apparently a slow-moving one that has gone on for two
years.
Does she get what an idiot she comes off like? How
crazy she sounds? Probably not, she is the QAnon Congress member, after
all.
Thursday, June 15, 2023. Cornel West tries to change the narrative,
Robert Pether remains a prisoner in Iraq, Republican House members try
to stuff anti-LGBTQ+ bills into a military spending bill, and much more.
Later
today, professor, film bit player, out of touch old man and the best
damn rapper since Maya Angelou did BEEN FOUND (with Ashford &
Simpson) Cornel West may announce that he's seeking the GOP presidential
nomination. And Chris Hedges may go around telling everyone that
Cornel already has the nomination!
Make about as much sense has already happened, right?
THE
AIRHEADS were back yesterday, crowing that they were right. They told
us earlier this week that Cornel had the Green Party's presidential
nomination.
He didn't.
But if THE AIRHEADS could get it together, they wouldn't be the airheads, now would they?
Cornel
is one more person seeking the Green Party's primary nomination. As we
told you yesterday, he and Chrissy Lynn Hedges tried to secure the
nomination but were informed there are rules. He's welcome to run for
it but they're going to follow their rules -- like a real political
party.
It's amazing how stupid the YOUTUBERS
are. It truly is. This is where we parted with Jimmy Dore, you may
remember. He had a hard on for Jesse Ventura and, even after 2020, he
couldn't let it go that Jesse was not the Green Party's 2020
presidential nominee.
Now, in case you're like
THE AIRHEADS and you talk about the Green Party without ever doing the
actual work, let me note that Jesse didn't run for the party's
nomination. There were eight candidates in the primaries -- CRAPAPEDIA
will tell you nine -- and Jesse was not one of them. He did get 2% of
the vote at the convention. So he Jesse didn't run. Why was Jimmy Dore
angry?
Because Jimmy Dore -- a non-Green --
was furious that the Green Party didn't just give him the nomination.
Jesse had even said, he wouldn't campaign but he'd gladly take the gift.
Jimmy's
one of the ones who's appalled when the Democratic Party breaks the
rules or rigs their primary. But he doesn't see the hypocrisy in
holding that belief and still slamming the Green Party for not ignoring
their rules, ignoring their candidates and just handing their
presidential nomination to someone -- to someone to lazy to run for it.
They don't matter. They need to do what he says.
And
that attitude explains how the start of this week was one lie after
another about how Cornel was The Green Party's presidential nominee!
It
takes a lot of outsiders sneering at The Green Party for years without
ever doing the basic research to think that their big name is going to
get a party's nomination over a year before the political party's even
had their nominating convention.
The entitlement wafts off these people, reeks.
But,
hey, Chrissy Lynn Hedges told them so it must be true. Just like when
Chrissy Lynn Hedges showed up on the front page of THE NEW YORK TIMES in
October 2001 'reporting' Iraq had WMD and they trained pilots to crash
into buildings and . . .
You know all those lies that Dick Cheney and Bully Boy Bush cited to start the illegal war on Iraq.
So if Chrissy Lynn Hedges says it, they're on board.
If
you're late to the party, last week Cornel West announced he was the
presidential nominee of The People's Party leading many to wonder if
dementia had set in at the age of 70.
The People's Party is not a party. Not a fun one.
It
emerged from the tatters of the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign. It was
going to be the new party that was going to rescue us all. Yet they
fielded no candidates ever. They had no party convention. They just
Tweeted a lot and talked a lot publicly. At one point, they had their
push to get Jimmy Dore to be their nominee. That's when you should have
figured out that they weren't a real political party.
And
I don't mean that as an insult to Jimmy. I mean that real political
parties put nominees before their members and let their members pick the
nominee.
Donald Trump was a
celebrity and supposedly that was the worst thing in the world and we
should all learn from it and experience matters and blah blah blah.
Reality,
celebrity lets a lot of people make shortcuts and if you can't do the
work required to build a political party, hava an Insta-Political Party
-- step one, just add a celebrity!
While
flapping their gums, the party made racist statements. And held a small
'rally' in February attended by invited right-wing racists -- the push
back against the convicted pedophile they wanted to put on stage did
receive enough negative commentary that they were forced to remove
him.
Along with embracing racism, they also encountered one sexual harassment or assault allegation after another.
These
are not new developments and they were not unknown. We weren't the
only ones to note these things and the Green Party itself had to issue
an announcement back in February that they were not a part of the
People's Party or the 'rally' the People's Party was staging.
So last week, Cornel West proudly announces he is the People's Party's presidential nominee.
BLACK
POWER MEDIA interviewed him yesterday (later this morning, Renee
Johnston will offer her analysis on the exchange -- offer it at BLACK
POWER MEDIA).
What did we learn?
When any rock's kicked over expect to find Chrissy Lynn Hedges underneath.
So,
as Cornel tells it in the video above, Chrissy Lynn talked up the
People's Party to him and then he and Chrissy decided -- with Chrissy
touching base (and genitals?) with the People's Party -- that he and
Chrissy would be the presidential ticket for that party. Cornel the
top, Chrissy the bottom -- the power bottom, if you will. But then,
their two wives learned that the two men had been sneaking around and
put their feet down. Chrissy immediately pulled out leaving Conrel in a
spot -- the wet spot? -- but Cornel talked his wife into it and so he
became a solo ticket.
Cornel explains he's an innocent. No one ever told him about the People's Party and all its issues and problems.
No one ever told him?
If
someone walked up to yuo and said, "HI, I'm the People's Party. Will
you be our presidential nominee?" -- don't you think you'd ask, "What's
the People's Party?" Don't you think you'd do a little homework before
announcing to the world that you were running as their nominee?
Especially if you're so wise and scholarly.
But he's not. He's not wise and he's not in touch with the world.
That
clearly emerges in the interview when Cornel begins speaking to a young
child about how he's in California right now and then starts
(repeatedly) citing some Tony! Toni! Tone! song.
Because.
You know.
How those kids today are into Tony! Toni! Tone!
Repeatedly.
Cites them repeatedly.
As though encouraging the young kid to catch on and go, "Oh, yeah, Tony! Toni! Tne!"
They
release their last studio album in 1996. For those doing the math,
that's 27 years ago. But, sure, Tony! Toni! Tone! is what all the kids
must be talking about today. Forget Lola Brooke or Bad Bunny or anyone
else that kids are actually listening to this year, let's go back 27
years -- an eternity for them -- and talk that.
He's so deeply out of touch.
The other big news?
He can speechify.
He can't answer questions.
Repeatedly, they put questions to him involving what would you do. Repeatedly, he offers a critiue.
There's nothing wrong with being a critic. It's how you can identify problems.
But
Cornel can't offer any solutions. He repeatedly identifies a problem
and gives his take on it. If you're being generous (you shouldn't be,
he's trying to become president of the United States so he should be
able to speak for himself) , his 'plan' is stop spending on bad things.
That's the closest to any 'solution' or 'plan' he ever got.
Is
he running for fourth grade president or president of the United States
because, you understand, one requires that you actually do work.
So
Cornel, 'the intelectual,' refutes the People's Party and claims he
never knew what they stood for and it was all a mistake. Is that his
version of "I didn't inhale?" (Bill Clinton reference -- during his run
for president he admitted to smoking pot in college but insisted he
didn't inhale.) Or is he just saying, "The Chrissy Lynn made me do it!"
I have no idea.
He doesn't come off as a leader.
Jared
Ball presses him on his glorification of Ron DeSantis with that opinion
column for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and the issues regarding testing --
and how the company that Cornel's a part of is pushing for a more
restrictive scope. I haven't read the column. If I were to, my big
concern would be if he disclosed his ties to that company in the piece
he wrote or co-wrote?
They did
a strong segment, not a fluff segment. Cornel was an embarrassment. I
look forward to seeing Renee's take later today.
If you're late to the party, be sure to stream this video -- the best one on Conrel representing the People's Party.
An international tribunal has found Iraq’s
central bank was to blame for a contractual dispute with an engineering
firm that led to the jailing of Australian engineer Robert Pether,
prompting his family to make a renewed plea that he be freed from the
Baghdad prison cell where he has spent two years.
Pether and his colleague Khalid Radwan were arrested and jailed in 2021 over
a contractual dispute between their employer, Cardno ME (CME), and the
Central Bank of Iraq, which had hired the firm to help build its new
Baghdad headquarters.
[. . .]
A
recently published decision reveals the contractual dispute at the
heart of their arrest was taken to the International Chamber of Commerce
(ICC)’s International Court of Arbitration, which ruled in February in
favour of CME. The decision found the bank was in breach of its contract
with CME and ordered that it pay the engineering firm US$13m, which
covers the outstanding invoices, compensation, legal costs, and the
release of a performance bond provided by CME.
The decision has only just been made public.
Why are Robert and Khalid still being held?
In the US, Leeja Miller addresses the hate merchants in the US and they're attacks on the LGBTQ+ community.
Out Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) is sounding the alarm on how Republicans
added a plethora of anti-LGBTQ+ measures during a markup of the Fiscal
Year 2024 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill
on Tuesday.
He said that his GOP colleagues adopted an amendment “to
deny access to medically-necessary care to transgender veterans,
prohibit pride flags from being flown at VA facilities, and even allow
discrimination against LGBTQ+ people” as the bill was being discussed in
the House Appropriations Committee this week.
“Most of the other provisions in this amendment have very little to do
with a MilCon bill,” he said during the committee meeting, and are
instead “about abortion and gender-affirming care, diversity, equity,
and inclusion, and apparently the fear of some cloth, banning pride
flags at our veterans’ facilities across the country.”
