Screenshot from this morning - http://www.ginnithomas.org - raising the question should you be judged by the people you choose to give testimonials and what they said when they said it - or by how it rings, today
click the image to read, or go to the website She works outside the DC special interests to help action-oriented Americans leverage their involvement to have maximum impact.
Ginni's ability to make connections and communicate with folks on the ground as well as on Capitol Hill is most impressive.
Some folks on Jan 6 did leverage involvement for maximum impact after the incitement of the rally she attended that day. And connections and communication? Ask Mark Meadows, about the communication, while on the ground - at - Capitol Hill, that surely carries an unintended irony.
But - got cold, left early. So point fingers elsewhere. I'm the spouse of a great American. With an independent career. It is the quality of my passions that gain attention and respect, and financing behind my adventures.
In the past on the payroll of Daily Caller, before becoming Daily Texter.
Yes, a gratuitous sentence. Arguably a gratuitous post. Best to end instead of that last sentence, by linking to an interesting recent item about Thomas and "elites;" the item ending:
What does her embrace of the Republican base's most demotic superstitions tell us about the character of the contemporary right — and the character of contemporary American politics more generally?
It tells us, among other things, that the real political fault line today isn't between a progressive-liberal elite establishment and those over whom it rules, who are increasingly willing and eager to challenge and deny its legitimacy. The real political fault line is between competing establishments and elites — one on the left, the other on the right.
Tucker Carlson might spend his evenings leading what sounds like class warfare against an entrenched progressive establishment of left-wingers, but he's a television star watched by millions who makes a small fortune in his job. He's as much a member of America's cultural and political elite as anyone. The same goes for the Republican leadership in Congress and Supreme Court justices appointed by Republican presidents — and also for their spouses, especially when they take part in politics on the highest levels, as Ginni Thomas has chosen to do.
It might make political sense for Republican politicians to pretend they're engaging in class warfare on behalf of the downtrodden. But in reality, they're one set of elites waging a battle against another set of elites by LARPing as class warriors. It's a shtick.
That doesn't mean Thomas is faking her belief in QAnon-adjacent conspiracies about the 2020 election. But it does mean that affirming those beliefs does nothing to demonstrate she's doing battle against the establishment. She is the establishment. Or at least one of them.
By "elites" does that author mean self-appointed, money-reinforced, media-blessed bosses? Those who know best. Two party best if not popular best. Narrowing greatly the spectrum of the possible and the desirable?
Pelosi and Mitch. Overlapping Venn diagrams?
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Today is not the only time the nit-wit and the Supreme, as a couple, have attracted negative attention for who they are and more so for how they act. (People should date items they post, this one believed to be from 2011-2012, given links following the end of the item) -
Clarence and Virginia Thomas are now embroiled in a new controversy on top of revelations last year that the justice gave false sworn statements over many years that hid some $1.6 million in payments and gifts. Much of it was to his wife from wealthy backers who appreciated her advocacy as the founder and chief executive of Liberty Central, which is a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” group that the IRS permits to work in politics so long as that politics is not the primary focus.
Common Cause noted that its complaint comes amid a wide-ranging IRS review of the tax status of politically active non-profit groups. The tax agency has sent questionnaires to dozens of Tea Party groups, Common Cause noted, as well as Priorities USA Action, a committee run by former aides to President Obama, and Republican-aligned committees such as Crossroads GPS, founded by Karl Rove and his allies.
“As the Internal Revenue Service examines how some of these ‘social welfare’ groups continue to enjoy tax exemptions while getting directly involved in electoral politics, it should take a close look at Liberty Central,” said Common Cause President and CEO Bob Edgar, [...]
In a March 21 letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, Common Cause requested an investigation of Liberty Central’s tax status. If the agency finds that the group’s primary activity was influencing the 2010 elections, the letter urged that Liberty Central lose its tax-exemption, be reclassified as a political organization, and face taxes and penalties.
[...] Furthermore, a request last fall by 52 House Democrats for a House Judiciary Committee impeachment investigation of Thomas focused heavily on the $1.6 million that Thomas failed to report in his sworn annual judicial disclosure filings. Much of the money went to his wife, who has long been active as a conservative activist. She has resigned from Liberty Central after initially filing legal papers saying she expected to make $495,000 in salary from it following a start-up donation of $500,000 from real estate tycoon Harlan Crow, a longtime opponent of federal authority.
Thomas resubmitted his sworn statements with disclosures of the money, and has suggested to his supporters that the controversy is politically motivated. [...]
In highlighting the issues, Common Cause says:Ginni Thomas founded Liberty Central in November 2009 and filed a request for 501 (c)(4) status in January 2010. Within a few weeks, notes the letter by Common Cause counsel Elizabeth Kingsley, the organization had turned its attention to the 2010 elections and “the major focus of the group’s President, Ms. Thomas, appears to have been coordinating with Tea Party organizations and traveling around the country to districts where Liberty Central had ‘target races.’”
Meanwhile, Liberty Central’s website published A-F grades for Tea Party and incumbent candidates across the country and urged site visitors to get involved in those races, donate to Liberty Central’s favored candidates, and “ensure that certain elected officials get an early retirement.”
A major focus of Ms. Thomas’ and Liberty Central’s efforts appears to have been the defeat of Members of Congress who voted for the Affordable Care Act....At a September 2010 fundraiser for the First Coast Tea Party in Jacksonville, Fl., Ginni Thomas described that group as a satellite office of Liberty Central and base for Liberty Central staff, and called for the election of several Florida candidates. The First Coast Tea Party is one of many groups currently under investigation by the IRS; others being probed include Tea Party organizations in Virginia and Texas where Thomas addressed Tea Party rallies.
Common Cause says that "Ms. Thomas left Liberty Central after the November 2010 elections, and the group no longer appears to be active." But its letter asserts that there is “substantial evidence of large-scale political activities, certainly sufficient to prompt an inquiry from the (IRS), which is the only reliable way to establish whether Liberty Central was actually operated primarily for political purposes, as appears from external observation to be the case.”
Money does seem to make the world go round. Not reporting spousal income until goaded to do so? How does that fit your view of judgment expected of a Yale educated lawyer?
In addition to sadly questionable conduct ten years ago, the beat goes on:
[March 29, 2022] Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., are courting support for the Supreme Court Ethics Act, which would require the creation of a judicial ethics code. And senior lawmakers are publicly pushing Thomas to recuse himself from cases that involve the lobbying activities of his wife, Virginia Thomas, known as Ginni.
[...] Two dozen congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent a letter addressed to Thomas and Chief Justice John Roberts calling on Thomas to "promptly recuse himself from any future Supreme Court cases involving efforts to overturn the 2020 election or the January 6th attack on the Capitol."
The letter also calls on Roberts to "commit no later than April 28, 2022 to creating a binding Code of Conduct for the Supreme Court" that includes enforceable standards for recusal.
"Chief Justice Roberts has often spoken about the importance of the Supreme Court’s 'credibility and legitimacy as an institution.' That trust, already at all-time lows with the American public, must be earned," the lawmakers wrote in the letter.
And the House Jan. 6 select committee met Monday evening to discuss whether to call in Virginia Thomas for an interview about her role and knowledge of the attempt to steal the 2020 election on behalf of then-President Donald Trump, who lost.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chair of the select committee, said afterward that no decision had been made.
That wigged out woman as a witness would be like the circus coming to town.
Except, who did you say what to and when did you say it is the key line of questions of fact that she has put herself in place to have to address under oath. Also, what is the reach of spousal privilege, as to coordinated actions, and money, rather than privileged conversations which are another matter.
Do you imagine Ms. Thomas may have lent a voice to ginning up money for the Stop the Steal outdoor show Trump used to fire up his crowd of deplorables? That would be a tangible act aimed toward a conspiracy to impede the orderly transfer of Presidential powers. In addition to conversations about tactics and strategy, shaking the money tree to finance the adventure is more tangible. Despite some contrary doctrine, soliciting or spending money is not, itself, a form of speech. It is an action having a penumbral dimension quite near to speech. Near enough to have been given First Amendment protected status. Akin to a boycott.
That woman is a sad case. The pair deserve each other.
And with a personal benefactor having given Mr. Thomas a bible once having belonged to Frederick Douglass, such a gift is as appropriate as Mr. Thomas having been given a Supreme Court seat.