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Tafoya, who is married to Mark Vandersall, a private wealth advisor, reported that she and her husband’s assets were valued at between about $17 million and a little more than $33 million.
The couple’s assets, which do not include the value of a personal residence, included mutual funds — many of them invested in aggressive growth stocks — exchange traded funds (ETFs), cryptocurrency and individual stocks that favored the tech sector, including Nvidia, Alphabet (Google), Apple and Tesla.
All that high tech. And has she been definitive in laying out a policy on AI. its dangers, its potential? From here:
Michele Tafoya’s policy on taxing ai and robots
These issues below are sorted in descending order based on how important the average American voter ranked them on the quiz.
Should the government tax companies that replace human workers with artificial intelligence or robots?
ChatGPT Party Research - No, taxing efficiency is economic suicide that will immediately offshore our AI innovation to China
Personal answer
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So, only someone's Chat GPT query to show anything, a generic likely GOP position; while invested up in AI/high tech. Crabgrass found no concrete online Tafoya position on crypto, the tariff war, or the Iran war. She is against boys in girls locker rooms. Talking at length, repeating herself. Short of that, fluff.
$9 billion baseless "fraud" assertions. Tariffs, not her issue. War, not her issue. AI? Not her issue. Back to MinnPost's report -
Tafoya’s financial disclosure report also shows that her husband invested between $5,000 and $50,000 in the U.S. Oil Fund, a mutual fund based on West Texas crude futures that has boomed since the start of the war in Iran and the subsequent disruption of global petroleum shipments.
A pecuniary stake in the Iran war dragging on. But not her issue?
MinnPost ending paragraph on Tafoya wealth -
Tafoya’s report only listed one liability: a 4% interest loan from RiverSource Life Insurance Company valued at between $250,000 and $500,000.
[...]Americans have soured on both GOP, Dems
A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released this week confirmed what many people already knew – Americans don’t like either political party.
In answers to open-ended questions, Americans offered wide-ranging complaints about the Democratic Party. The two most common criticized the party as too liberal in general or on a range of issues (12%) or said Democrats were weak and don’t stand up enough to President Donald Trump (10%).
Other respondents said the Democratic Party was corrupt and favored corporations or was too lax on immigration, among other complaints.
The GOP did not fare any better. Twelve percent of the respondents specifically cited Trump or loyalty to Trump when asked what they dislike most about the Republican Party, though 4% criticized the party for not supporting Trump enough.
Others cited “dishonesty, hypocrisy and immorality,” including a lack of transparency over information about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, for their dislike of the GOP. Lack of concern for ordinary people and “cruelty” was also at the top of the list.
“The scattered criticisms of both parties in the poll suggests there’s no silver bullet to rebuilding their popularity,” the pollsters concluded.
The poll was conducted online April 24-28 among 1,267 U.S. adults nationwide and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. The sample was weighed to match population demographics, 2024 turnout/vote choice and political partisanship.
A poll saying voters dislike both parties, is that news, given how both have acted?
BOTTOM LINE: A Machelle Tafoya dilettante candidate whose life's work was as a Sideline Susie. whatever that earned, while the husband ran or still runs a finance business, and the outcome, a multimillionaire family, liking Republicanism and Trump. Loyal to Turmp, who endorsed Tafoya over the candidate who won the local MN Republican convention endorsement. (Tafoya subsequently winning the Republican primary voting.) Does that seemingly effective Trump favoritism mean she owes Trump a rubbsestamp support performance, if elected? She's not said so. She's not said no. Not really. Crabgrass is fearful that rubberstamp will prove real and problematic. That she's basicly a ditz who'd go along to get along, and welcome the paycheck and benefits plan the Senate offers. Lightweight. Speaks cleanly. Good teeth.
A 2022 item suggested latent racism or cluelessness via her denial racism in our country still exists.
There's a feeling of repugnance, seeing Tafoya's recent comments contrasted with the fact that for years she was smiling in the faces of Black coaches and players to mine them for nuggets of information to make sure she looked good in her job, but we'll set that aside for now.
There's also a familiar feeling of disgust, as in some cases she is turning to lies – or at minimum a painfully thin understanding of American history – to prop up her statements. Saying Colin Kaepernick made "business decisions" in protesting the extrajudicial killings of Black citizens by agents of the state, as she told one radio show, is flat out untrue. Kaepernick didn't sit and then kneel with the aim of leaving his job.
The NFL made a business decision by excising him from its league, listening to a loud minority of people, including the former president of the United States, who called Kaepernick and others "sons of bitches" for daring to silently protest and completely ignoring the Black fans and others who understood his message and at minimum supported his method.
(And if we're talking about business decisions, let the record reflect that Kaepernick stood on his principles while he was still playing and had his career taken from him. Tafoya waited until she knew she was leaving NBC before she started spewing her venom, lest she face any backlash.)
"Business decision" wording? For Kapernick? How much to make of that? You decide.