An interesting hearing excerpt posted by PBS. Whereby somebody at PBS will be fired. Maybe not. We'll see.
Link. Elon's federal contracts, through his various corporations. pay out $8 M per day.
I had not known that before the gentleman from Texas pointed it out.
Fired Inspector Generals had investigations pending against Musk's empire.
I had not known that before the gentleman from Texas pointed it out - in detail.
It is nice to have that man on a committee headed by Marjorie Taylor Greene, so that truth mixes with bullshit.
Waste - Fraud - Abuse
Chase it, chase it, chase it. But watch your step or you'll step in it, because the gentleman from Texas had only five minutes, and the dog/pony show lasted fairly longer. They have the SCOTUS, POTUS, and both houses of congress. Enjoy.
And supermarket pricing is going through the roof. Over five bucks for a dozen eggs, at ALDI, in Ramsey, MN, a discount outlet.
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Keep this guy on your radar. He is being fast-tracked.
He got handed that five minute presentation, Casar, show and tell against, not Trump, not JD, but against Elon. We see an advocate having a target, and from the same state that gives us Ted Cruz. And where Elon moved his stuff because California was too strict. With a Wiki page that begins:
Casar is chair of the Democratic Congressional Progressive Caucus.[7]
Early life and education
Gregorio Casar was born in Houston to two Mexican immigrants and is a Catholic. His father was a surgeon.[8][9][10] He grew up in the enclave of Bellaire and attended Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, where he ran track.[11][12] Casar then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and social thought from the University of Virginia in 2011.[13]
He began his activism in college, organizing with Students and Workers
United for a Living Wage, which called for the university to pay its
workers a higher living wage.[14]
Early career
Workers Defense Project
Before running for office, Casar worked as policy director for the Workers Defense Project (Proyecto Defensa Laboral), where he won victories such as rest and water breaks for construction workers, living wage requirements, and against wage theft.[15]
In 2011, he led the Workers Defense Project efforts to require
that construction workers be allowed to take rest and water breaks: ten
minutes for each four hours worked, and no more than 3.5 hours without a
break.[16] Casar also organized against major corporations, including White Lodging,[17]
and successfully led the fight to include living wage and other labor
protections in an incentives deal the Austin City Council planned to
give to Apple.[18]
If the Dems were to run him against JD, two beards, two Catholics, this one a Jesuit trainee, JD a later in life convert. Not all, but much of his Wiki entry:
As an Austin City Council member, Casar led policy efforts on issues ranging from affordable housing, paid sick leave, living wage increases, tenant organizing, immigrant rights, criminal justice reforms (such as "ban the box"),
and police accountability. He was the first person to represent
Austin's District 4, the city's most diverse district. It has the most
young children, and is 70% nonwhite, with approximately 30% non-citizen.[28]
Most of its constituents are Latino, and it has the second largest
African American population of Austin's ten council districts. It also
has the highest poverty rate.[29]
Casar served as the board chair of Local Progress, a project of the Center for Popular Democracy,
"the national network of progressive elected officials from cities,
counties, towns, school districts, villages and other local governments
across the country".[30]
Casar resigned his seat on November 4, 2021, when he announced
his run for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 35th district.[citation needed]
Casar won the Democratic primary on March 1, 2022, with approximately 60% of the vote.[34]
In his victory speech, he linked his victory to the overall progressive
movement, saying, "This election was about us, the power of the people
and the power of our movement. Let’s celebrate the progressive movement
in Texas".[33][32][35] Given the 35th district’s partisan lean of D+21, Casar’s primary victory was considered tantamount to election. TheTexas Tribune wrote that he is expected to be "among the most progressive members of Congress ever to serve from Texas".[34]
On November 8, 2022, Casar won the general election, defeating the Republican nominee, former Corpus Christi mayor Dan McQueen, with 73% of the vote.[36]
Tenure
Casar was among the 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.[37]
On July 25, 2023, Casar led a thirst strike advocating for better heat
protection after a law passed in Texas overrode local ordinances such as
water and rest breaks.[38] The strike lasted for nine hours and Casar took no breaks nor did he eat or drink.[38]
In 2016, Casar led efforts at City Hall to "ban the box" through a fair chance hiring ordinance.[41] The ordinance delays when employers can do a criminal background check until after a conditional job offer has been made, in order to help reintegrate former prisoners into the workplace and deter employment discrimination. Austin became the first city to ban the box in the Southern United States.[42]
Freedom City
Because of Texas Senate Bill 4's
limitations on sanctuary cities, and in an effort to reduce the impact
of low-level interactions with police, Casar initiated policy changes to
make Austin a "Freedom City",[43]
which discourages the police from making low-level discretionary
arrests and requires police officers to inform residents that they have
the right to refuse to answer questions about immigration status. During
the debate, the Austin Police Association attacked Casar for citing
data that Black residents are arrested twice as often as white residents
in discretionary arrests.[44] Casar wrote in a Texas Tribune
editorial that the Freedom Cities law's intention is to unite
immigration reformers and criminal justice reformers to reduce the
disparate impact of policing on communities of color.[45]
In the first quarter after the policy passed, arrests for ticket-worthy
offenses dropped by two-thirds. Racial disproportionality of arrests
also improved.[46]
Juvenile curfew
In
June 2017, Casar and Delia Garza pushed the council to eliminate
criminal penalties for a juvenile to "walk, run, idle, wander, stroll,
or aimlessly drive" during curfew hours, out of a belief that kids
should not be pushed into the criminal justice system for being young
and out in public.[47] Many of these laws, including Austin's, were passed during Clinton Administration's "tough on crime" phase in the 1990s.[48]
Ultimately, the council removed the juvenile curfew. Austin became the
nation's second-largest city to end its juvenile curfew policy.[49]
Police reform
When
the Austin police union contract was set to expire in early 2017,
criminal justice activists called for reform, citing examples in the
contract that made police oversight difficult.[50]
Casar, Jimmy Flannigan, and other Council members indicated their
intent to reject the contract and send the union back to the bargaining
table unless it was reformed.[51]
After the contract was rejected, the police union requested bonus pay
without a contract in place, but that was opposed by a divided council.[52]
After nearly ten months of negotiations, a new contract was approved,
along with the creation of an independent office of police oversight.
The new contract made it easier to file complaints, provided more
transparency around complaints of police misconduct, strengthened police
disciplinary procedures, and increased accountability.[53]
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It is not hard to see a pro-labor [walking the talk beyond writing a book] progressive, with a more direct and confrontational style than JD. And so far, Francis has not had to correct Casar over doctrine and humane love of one's neighbors and plain decency.
Don't expect it. Francis is as good as they've had atop that enterprise. And Casar appears to have a future within his party. He could likely unseat Cruz, if both parties put equal money into the contest, but, for now - a voice in the House that PBS put onto YouTube. As a bet, Crabgrass expects Casar has already met with Ken Martin.
You have to move from lukewarm to hotter if you're the party that failed so badly in 2024, and you have to do it with a credible person for the people, who would never share a stage with Liz Cheney or her dad.
If it means anything to the Catholic insiders, JD is close with the Dominicans, Casar, as Wikipedia noted, was schooled with the Jesuits. Francis, and other Jesuits. As an outsider, I post of it, without knowing enough to know if there's much of a difference.
Keep the name in mind: Greg Casar.
FURTHER: Hat tip to Wall Street on Parade, which linked to the Casar YouTube segment. If not for that post, I'd possibly have missed much having a gravitas within the Democratic Party. But perhaps not flaming high on MSM current fare.
The action seems to be against Elon, as a symbol of very much else, Trumpwise.
And the sacked IGs are suing. MSM cannot down peddle that. Not credibly.
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