From that link, you can narrow things based on home address. My sample ballot is for Ward 1 Precinct 1 of Ramsey, which is the precinct in which I live.
PARTISAN BALLOT SIDE: Voters can figure out how they prefer to vote on the partisan side of the ballot. My choice will be Dem primary column = Walz, Simon, Ellison. (The incumbents.) NOTE: You can only vote a single column, no crossover between columns.
(Were I voting the Republican ballot column my choices would be: Sen. Dist. 31 = blank, Guv = blank, SoS = van Michelen, AG = Schultz, (possibly Anderson). However, before I'd even consider the GOP choices I'd coin flip on the mj columns. The Dem incumbents are locks to win there; so going to the GOP column to vote against Wardlow, against Crockett, and against Jensen/Birk would be a tactic. One I pass up. Actually, the inexperienced endorsed GOP AG candidate, Schultz, is not absolutely egregious, i.e., an endorsement surprise. Jensen/Birk, Crockett and Wardlow are bad and sad clown shows.)
NON-PARTISN BALLOT SIDE: Ward 1 is the only Ramsey office having more than two candidates; while offices with two only go directly to the general election.
The two Ward 1 candidates having highest totals go to the general, the third candidate is dropped out. My choice = Grimmer.
(The other primary election on the non-partisan ballot side, County Sheriff. Good luck choosing there among the three candidates. At a guess, Lemnitzer and Wise will be the top two vote-getters; going on to the general election.)
Strib, per an NYT carry; Paul Pelosi had a car wreck, pulling out in front of an oncoming Jeep while driving drunk, and -
The speaker swung into crisis mode. By Sunday afternoon, Larry Kamer,
a crisis manager who has a home in Napa and has worked for high-profile
clients including Harvard University and Nike, was retained. The family
also consulted with John Keker, one of San Francisco’s most prominent
defense lawyers, and Lee Houskeeper, a longtime public relations
executive for San Francisco political types, including former Mayor
Willie Brown.
The newly assembled team had to deal with a few
unwelcome certainties: The accident would refocus attention on Paul
Pelosi’s troubled driving record, including a crash when he was a
teenager that killed his brother. It would also send reporters — from
TMZ to The Napa Valley Register — scrambling after every detail.
And
it would shine a spotlight on the Pelosis’ California life, where the
couple inhabit two homes, including a 16.55-acre gated estate and mingle
with other rich residents, at a time when economic hardship is
straining many people of lesser means.
Ultimately, a representative for Nancy Pelosi gave a terse statement emphasizing Nancy Pelosi’s distance from the accident.
“The speaker will not be commenting on this private matter, which occurred while she was on the East Coast,” it read.
‘Everybody in San Francisco now has a Napa place’
The
Pelosis have had a weekend home in Napa Valley since 1990, when they
spent $2.35 million for their property, which came with a
Palladian-style villa, guesthouse and pool.
“It’s not a palace,” Brown said. “If you go up there, you will notice
that some people have places with caves for the wine and all that kind
of stuff. That’s not what they have. They have a place you can actually
live in, without servants. You wouldn’t bring the Three Tenors to sing.”
But the Pelosis do have a vineyard, from which they sell grapes.
“Everybody in San Francisco now has a Napa place,” Brown continued. “Everybody who can afford it.”
All that damage control expenditure, lawyering up to the gills, in order for what? The advice to say, "No comment." How stupendously clever. Never would have thought of that, myself. There's more -
[...] Among the powerful political and social figures who inhabit the
Pelosis’ world, there was abundant sympathy and some protectiveness
after what happened over Memorial Day weekend.
A person who
witnessed the accident said both cars were totaled, and that Paul Pelosi
simply sat in the car, seemingly frozen, for several minutes, until the
sheriff and members of the Fire Department arrived moments later.
Neither Pelosi nor the driver of the Jeep was injured.
Some
friends felt that Pelosi’s full night in custody at the Napa County
Jail after the accident was excessive. Others were puzzled why their
friend hadn’t preempted the whole ordeal by simply taking a car service
home.
And some local residents suggested that, in an earlier era
in Napa, driving after drinking was met with understanding, rather than
criminal charges.
“I feel just awful about what’s happened because
there was a time when if a thing like this happened, the cops would
take you home,” said society doyenne Diane Wilsey, better known as Dede.
Privileged for so long that Dede wonders - why did the cops not simply drive Dad Pelosi home after the unfortunate meeting of two motor vehicles? Things were better back then.
First, the pre-Presidential smack-down video, Trump already WWE tested, having shown the needed bullshit spewing (there, on the campaign trail and in the White House).
MOREOVER, McMahon and Trump have more in common. Hush money.
And each with matching gag orders. McMahon paid more, but than Trump's always been a stingy shit. With Cohen the better negotiator; Cohen negotiated six figures twice, vs McMahon, seven figures, once.
Vince McMahon is stepping down as CEO and chairman of WWE
during an an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the
longtime leader and public face of the organization.
McMahon will continue to
oversee WWE's creative content during the investigation, World Wrestling
Entertainment said Friday, and named McMahon's daughter, Stephanie, as
interim CEO and chairwoman.
Vince McMahon appeared on "SmackDown" Friday.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that WWE was
investigating an alleged $3 million payment from McMahon to a departing
female employee following a consensual affair.
"I have pledged my complete
cooperation to the investigation by the special committee, and I will do
everything possible to support the investigation," McMahon said in a
prepared statement Friday. "I have also pledged to accept the findings
and outcome of the investigation, whatever they are."
The employee, hired as a
paralegal in 2019, has a separation agreement from January that prevents
her from discussing her relationship with McMahon or disparaging him,
the Journal reported.
The pair fits each other, capable of contesting for most outrageous, most egregious (Trump, as in the much-watched video, winning the title).
UPDATE: Another parallel, for each "the base" is the same. Counterpunch. The feature and the fans, each instance, parallel if not identical. One will never go broke underestimating the intelligence of a WWE fan.
Two can-you-top-this videos, at this 2016 Gawker link
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Latest Ad Is Just Him Shooting a Machine Gun for 20 Seconds" by Ashley
Feinberg - 08/03/16
They packed the Court and sniped down Roe v. Wade. The majority of our people, poll after poll, want the freedom of choice that Roe enunciated. Yet they used a Court majority to kill Roe.
They will be after contraception next. They are on record even now as wholly opposed to contraception. Opposed to it for anybody, not just within their followers, their "flock."
Shut down that patriarchal dark will of the allegedly celibate to interfere in the non-celibate lives of everybody, not just within their people, but against all others outside of the narrow-minded part of their total set of believers.
Shut it down in November, or wish you had. Vote in November. Encourage others to be sure to vote. Get Out The Vote. For Walz.
A vote for Walz will be a vote for freedom against an attempted patriarchal, constraining, and judgmental tyranny by a minority of the nation's people against a majority viewpoint and related practices.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen threatens retaliation against medical board
/ AP
MINNEAPOLIS — Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen has
threatened to retaliate against the Minnesota board that oversees
doctors, which is investigating him for the fifth time, vowing that
"this juggernaut will be dealt with" if he's elected.
Jensen is a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic who has called for civil disobedience over masks and promoted alternative treatments such as ivermectin. He has also said Minnesota's Democratic secretary of state, Steve Simon, should be jailed over
his running of the state's election system. Jensen won the GOP
endorsement last month to challenge incumbent Democratic Gov, Tim Walz,
whom he has sharply criticized for his response to the pandemic
Jensen,
a family practice physician from Chaska and former state senator,
criticized the board at a campaign event Monday and renewed his attack
with a video he posted to Twitter Thursday night. Jensen said all five
investigations were based on allegations from anonymous critics. Jensen
said he has provided information to the board, but has heard nothing
back in months.
"I should not have to practice medicine, or run
for governor, with this cloud of, if you will, uncertainty hanging over
my head," Jensen said in his video. "And yet that's what I'm doing. I'm
living with that."
Jensen noted in response to a question about
the board at Monday's event that if he's elected, he'll get to appoint
members to the medical board. "And I said this juggernaut will be dealt
with," he added in his video, describing the board as a "massive,
inexorable force" that's been turned against him for political reasons.
"I will not stand for the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice being weaponized," he said.
The
governor-appointed board comprises 16 people — including physicians,
members of the public and an osteopath — who can serve up to two
consecutive four-year terms. All were first appointed by Democratic
governors and nine seats are due for appointment or reappointment in the
next gubernatorial term. Members generally can be removed only for
cause or missing meetings.
"The Minnesota Board of Medical
Practice investigates complaints as required by and in accordance with
state laws and rules," its executive director, Ruth Martinez, said in an
email. "The Board does not have a response to Dr. Jensen's comments."
The
board does not comment on any complaint unless it decides corrective
action is necessary. According to Jensen, it dismissed the first four
complaints against him without action.
But the Minnesota Medical Association, which represents more than
12,000 physicians, residents and medical students, defended the Board of
Medical Practice.
"Its duty is to protect the public and is
required by law to investigate any complaint it receive, while ensuring
due process for physicians," the group's president, Dr Randy Rice, said
in a statement. "The MMA opposes any efforts to politicize the work or
the membership of the Board."
Democrats also blasted Jensen's comments.
"These
despicable remarks are disqualifying," Ken Martin, the state Democratic
Party chairman, said in a statement. "Anyone who repeatedly promises to
use the governor's office to jail or fire their personal enemies is
unfit for public service. The doctors who serve on the board
investigating Scott Jensen are not anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists,
which is what makes them different from him. Scott Jensen's extremism
and disturbing enthusiasm for political retaliation don't belong
anywhere near the governor's office."
Knowing better than prevailing medical practice, or an obstinate idiot, you decide. Tim Walz has done a good job. All things considered, Jensen likely is more valuable to our State's society by continuing his Chaska medical practice. Leaving Walz a second term to do as well as he's done in his first term.
Matt Birk, Jensen's running mate, is a Harvard finance graduate, who'd be better concentrating on managing his multimillion football-earned portfolio and having more children.
________UPDATE________
SF Gate carries a June 9, 2022 AP feed reporting Jensen's law and order agenda. Basically he proposes enhanced use of the State Patrol and National Guard in local areas; appointing judges who will give maximum sentences to violent offenders; bail measures making pretrial release less available; while opposing more money being budgeted for local policing and opposing gun regulation. If that seems to you to not hang together, it is what the AP reported.
If Jensen has sound details of more jailing pretrial and longer sentences and expanded use of troopers and the Guard not requiring more money, the report did not detail such thinking. Instead, the SF Gate - AP item ends:
"From opposing universal background checks to the budget deal on public
safety, Scott Jensen has shown that he’s unserious about stopping crime
and gun violence,” Ken Martin, the state democratic Party chairman, said
in a statement.
Dream the impossible dream? Whether "unserious" or "conflicted" or "unrealistic" is the best adjective, it is quaint to see Jensen, a Republican, wanting bigger government without paying for it. The more frequent Republican litany is shrink government and cut taxes, which at least hangs together until looking in detail at what they'd shrink out and whose taxes they'd cut.
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