New York | November 4, 2021
Law and order prevail as pro-crime Democrats lose big
New York | November 4, 2021
Anti-police progressives just got trounced across the nation, from Long Island to Seattle.
This follows the primary win of Hizzoner-elect Eric Adams: New York City’s second black mayor will take office having vowed from the start to stop crime, progressives be damned.
The trend continued on Long Island, where anger over the no-bail law sent Democrats to defeat in the Nassau and Suffolk county DA races.
- In Nassau, career local prosecutor Anne Donnelly overwhelmed Democratic state Sen. Todd Kaminsky, who voted for the 2019 law that eliminated most cash bail, 60 percent to 40 percent.
- In Suffolk, Republican Ray Tierney trounced Democratic incumbent District Attorney Tim Sini, 57 percent to 43 percent, with bail reform again a key issue.
- In Seattle, Republican candidates for city attorney and pro-police candidate for mayor held large leads on Wednesday — a clear repudiation of their rivals’ anti-policing plans. Ann Davison, who vowed more prosecutions for low-level crimes as city attorney, drew 58 percent against Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, who called for abolishing the current criminal-justice system. In the mayoral race, “Hire more cops” moderate Bruce Harrell was at 65 percent vs. #Defunder Lorena Gonzalez.
- In Minneapolis, where George Floyd died at police hands, voters rejected a proposal to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety and at least two pro-Defund City Council members went down in defeat.
- And in Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County, pro-police Nicole Ziccarelli beat Democrat John Peck to become the first Republican to hold the office in decades. … (Excerpts from the New York Times)
New York | October 30, 2021
NYC: 40 Percent of Inspected Businesses Noncompliant With Vaccine Pass Mandate
New York | October 30, 2021
Approximately two in five New York City restaurants, gyms, and entertainment venues weren’t fully abiding by the city’s COVID-19 vaccination pass mandate when first inspected.
The city managed to inspect nearly two-thirds of the estimated 31,000 businesses that are required to ask their employees and customers for proof of vaccination. Some 8,000 were issued a warning for noncompliance. Of those, more than 3,300 for infractions that would have led to violations which could be penalized with a fine of $1,000 for the first and going up to $5,000 for the third. Upon second inspection at least two weeks later, only 21 establishments were issued violations, according to Jeff Dupee, City Hall’s senior adviser managing the mandate.
Though the mandate allows fines for the first violation, the city has been issuing warnings first “as a matter of policy,” Dupee said, testifying to the City Council’s small business committee on Oct. 29…. (Excerpt from the Epoch Times)
New York, Virginia | October 22, 2021
The battle over school boards is a disaster for Democrats
New York, Virginia | October 22, 2021
The recent announcement by the Justice Department that the FBI would be looking for coordinated patterns of violence at local school board meetings is a broad overreach and an abuse of power that goes beyond the FBI’s jurisdiction.
If the Justice Department were serious about investigating coordinated violence in America, it would long ago have started examining the roles that antifa followers and other extremists played in the violent riots and demonstrations during the summer of 2020.
There is an aspect to the school board story which I believe has not been sufficiently reported, however. Local school boards could well be a significant force in the 2021 and 2022 elections.
New York | October 22, 2021
Hedge funds make millions as shares in Trump media Spac jump
New York | October 22, 2021
A group of 11 hedge funds including DE Shaw and Saba Capital earned millions of dollars in potential gains in a single day after a special purpose acquisition company that merged with Donald Trump’s new social media group rose as much as 421 per cent on Thursday. The former US president this week launched a social media outlet called Truth Social that aims to compete against the likes of Facebook and Twitter, creating a platform for his rightwing supporters ahead of a potential run for office in 2024. Shares in the Spac climbed from $9.96 to as much as $51.90. They eventually closed at $45.50, up by 357 per cent compared to the previous day…. (Excerpts from the Financial Times)
New York | October 19, 2021
Jan. 6 Committee Tests Congress’s Waning Power to Command Testimony
New York | October 19, 2021
Congress’s powers to conduct investigations in the face of defiant witnesses have eroded sharply in recent years—a trend once again on display as former President Donald Trump and his associates gear up for a legal battle fighting demands from investigators probing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The congressional committee investigating the attack has demanded a wide array of Mr. Trump’s presidential records from the National Archives and has subpoenaed the former president’s allies and aides for documents and testimony. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have responded by making untested claims of executive privilege that would bar people outside of government from discussing their conversations with the president. One of those people, Steve Bannon, who was briefly a top White House aide to Mr. Trump but hasn’t had a government job since 2017, has said he won’t comply with the congressional subpoena, citing guidance from Mr. Trump’s lawyers…. (Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal)