Chicago Goes Full Marxist With Election of Mayor Johnson

 

More heart warming news today.  If anyone thought Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot was too far left, try this fine fellow out. Be careful what you wish for. Chicago was a nice place not so long ago. The end of it coming soon. Wisconsin adds to the joy with the leftist Janet Protasiewicz winning the Supreme court seat giving the Dems the majority for the first time in 15 years.

WINNER 

Brandon Johnson wins the Chicago mayoral race in Illinois.

Race called by The Associated Press.

Latest results from 12:25 AM ET

91% OF VOTES IN 

 

race called.

Candidate	Votes	PercentPct.
Brandon Johnson	286,647	+51.4%51.4%
Paul Vallas	270,775	+48.6%48.6
Total reported	557,422

 

 

All you need to know.

 

 

Brandon Johnson has won the Chicago mayoral election against moderate Democrat Paul Vallas. Johnson calls for removing law enforcement from society. During the 2020 riots, he defended looters, saying they were lashing out against racism. Chicago’s violent crime has surged over the last few years under Lori Lightfoot.

 

More good news over in Wisconsin. This could have more serious ramifications for 2024. The Wisconsin electoral votes will matter. For some reason I thought that whether it was a State Supreme Court or the Federal, the job description included interpreting the law as it was written. Not a political elected office. Oh contraire as we learn in this piece.

 

Janet Protasiewicz, a judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, giving liberals their first majority on the state’s highest court in 15 years

 

Janet Protasiewicz, a judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, giving liberals their first majority on the state’s highest court in 15 years.

Protasiewicz defeated conservative Dan Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice, on Tuesday in what became the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history and one of the most closely watched elections of 2023.

 

Protasiewicz’s victory will allow the court’s new liberal majority to determine the future of several pivotal issues the bench is likely to decide in the coming years, including abortion rights, the state’s gerrymandered legislative maps and election administration — including, possibly, the outcome of the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state.

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SUPREME COURT

2023 WIS. GENERAL

Updated

Apr 5, 2023, 2:40 AM

AP estimates

99% of votes counted

Janet Protasiewicz wins. AP race call at 9:53 p.m. on April 4, 2023.

Janet Protasiewicz NP	1,021,330 votes	55.5%
Daniel Kelly NP	818,182 votes	44.5%

 

 

 

The best of the swamp.

Will The Real Bernie Sanders Please Stand Up?

 

Social Media bas been livid these past days over Bernie’s high charges for appearances and the price of his Anti-Capitalism book “It’s OK to be angry about Capitalism.” In truth? This is just the tip of the iceberg for the Sanders clan. Bernie lets his his wife, son and daughter, in typical Washington style, leave part of the grifting to the family.

$28 bucks for the book, $95 for the book and a ticket.

 

Bernie’s new anti-capitalist book:

$28 for the book
$95 for book tour tickets pic.twitter.com/WZFClfANMw

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 26, 2023

While everyone is looking at Joe Biden’s son Hunter, let us take a look at Bernie and Jane Sanders and their kids and how they are raking in the dough.

 

Flashback March 2019:

Sanders Shuts down Institute Over Pay-To-Play Accusations

The senator’s son was reportedly paid about $100,000 last year for his work at the Sanders Institute. The entire organization raised about $730,000 — and another $459,000 in 2017, according to the Sanders family.

Reflecting on accusations of pay-to-play influence-peddling at The Clinton Foundation, Senator Bernie Sanders told CNN in March of 2016 that:

“It is obscene that Secretary Clinton keeps going to big-money people to fund her campaign…”

All of which makes the news, via AP, that the “nonprofit” think tank founded by Sanders’ wife and son is closing up shop after drawing criticism over the donations it’s been receiving all the more intriguing.

The unexpected move by the institute’s board of directors comes as Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, prepares for a wave of intense scrutiny into his political network and his family’s role in its operation.

The institute was founded to promote liberal policies less than two years ago by Sanders’ family with the backing of pro-Sanders celebrities and advocates – though Sanders himself had no formal role. While it operates at a fraction of the scale of the Clinton Foundation, it has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars during its brief existence and has declined to disclose its donors.

Jane and her son, David Driscoll, founded the Sanders Institute in 2017 under the claim that it would research and promote liberal policies. Instead, people have accused them of using the institute as a way to sell their loyalty to the rich and powerful.

The decision was reportedly made in late February after Sanders launched his campaign.

“I think that was the most important thing to do — to not accept donations,” said Jane Sanders in an interview with the Associated Press.

“Nobody should think that they’re giving money to an organization and that gains them access or favor to anybody elseand anybody running for office.”

You think so? After being under investigation by the FBI?

Jane Sanders told the New York Times that they “didn’t think about the Clinton or Trump foundation” when deciding whether it was right to stop taking donations.

 

Sources  Zero Hedge and the New York Post

Then we have Bernie and Jane Sanders College corruption? Funneled daughter $500,000

How did Jane Sanders funnel more than 500k to her daughter’s for-profit woodworking business during her tenure as President of Burlington College and get away with it?

What hasn’t been discussed in all the noise about Burlington College’s closure is how Jane Sanders (supported by the same Board of Trustees who approved the land sale) openly funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Burlington College’s operating funds to VT Woodworking School — a for-profit business started by her daughter Carina Driscoll in 2007.

Despite scattered reporting on this story, Jane Sanders has never been asked to explain why Burlington College suddenly needed to start a woodworking program in 2009 – the very same year the VT Woodworking School expanded to its current site in Fairfax, VT taking on considerable expense of a new building and needing to find students to fill its cavernous 15,000 square-foot space.

Nor has anyone asked if the College did what would normally be required in this process by creating a Request For Proposal (RFP) to solicit bids in order to guarantee that the process was fair and open to other entities competing for this business.

This appears not to be the case given that the College was also funding another program at the same time (as reported in the College’s tax returns) that directly benefited the children of Jonathan Leopold, a board member.

According to the College’s now defunct website, Carina Driscoll was listed as Director of the Woodworking Program at Burlington College on the Faculty and Staff Directory in 2016. It is unclear how the College was able to hire her on staff while she remained the owner of VT Woodworking — directly benefitting from the College’s funding of her for-profit business.- a great read-  Read more

Recall?

Commie Bernie Sanders and his wife’s FBI investigation continues, new witness interviewed

May 8, 2018 — bunkerville

UPDATE: Last I heard the DOJ will not bring charges. What a surprise.

The links above were from Bunks earlier posts through the years documenting his illustrious career that few ever read about. Yet people are upset about this latest effort to stash more cash?

Do check out the full post:

Bernie and Jane Sanders College corruption? Funneled daughter $500,000

The best of the swamp.

Huge Upset: Commie Leftist Cori Bush Defeats Lacy Clay in Missouri District 1 Democrat Primary

 

There was a major upset tonight in the Missouri Democrat Primary. Welcome to the newest member of congress, a Justice Democrat. A friend of Bernie.

Commie Cori Bush, a Justice Democrat and Black Lives Matter organizer, defeated Rep. Lacy Clay in Missouri District 1 representing St. Louis City.

 

I'm not sure people understand how enormous of an upset it is for @CoriBush to defeat Lacy Clay.

She's a nurse who's never held elective office. She doesn't know rich people she can call for big checks. She didn't moderate her stances to accommodate the status quo.

It's huge.

— Max Berger (@maxberger) August 5, 2020

Of course she thanks Bernie Sanders.

 

.@CoriBush thanks @BernieSanders during her victory speech:

“Let me also thank somebody who stood with me that did not have to stand with me, [somebody] that you all probably know very well — I gotta call out Senator Bernie Sanders.” pic.twitter.com/WDKsoY7OwJ

— Rose Movement 🌹 (@Rosemvmt) August 5, 2020

H/T:Gateway Pundit

Here is a link to her platform… Just one:

Investing in Social Safety Nets

There’s no excuse for extreme inequality, poverty, & insecurity in the richest nation in the world—that’s why I’m a vocal champion for bold policies that will ensure our basic needs are met.

Medicare For All

Green New Deal

Housing For All

More of her platform:

https://coribush.org/issues

Congrats America.

 

Everything going swell in the swamp.

Buttigieg: “I don’t care if millions of American possibly lose their private Healthcare

 

The statement reflects exactly what the democrat candidates think about the voters. “I don’t care.” It is going to be their way or the highway…and the candidates think this going to get them elected? Why yes, probably so. Anyone but Trump. On second thought I think I will rubberneck tonight and take a look at the debate.

Townhall reports:

Buttigieg on Private Insurance: ‘I Don’t Care’ if People Lose Preferred Coverage

Healthcare is a center-stage issue for the 2020 election cycle, both in the Democratic primary and the general election. Democratic contenders have differing views on healthcare, but all candidates want government to take up a bigger role in the insurance market.

Far-left candidates, Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have pledged to completely destroy the private insurance market with a Medicare for All system, which boats a trillion dollar price tag.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Pete Buttigieg have all come out in favor of plans with a more modest cost; although these plans, similar to a public option, require less government funding, each still represents an overhaul of the insurance market.

Pete Buttigieg, who has emerged as a top-tier candidate after the Iowa caucuses, causually brushed off the fact that millions of Americans would lose their preferred insurance under a system exclusively run by the government, as we’ve seen under the Affordable Care Act:

🚨🚨🚨WOW🚨🚨🚨@PeteButtigieg's response to the fact that 180 million Americans could lose their preferred health insurance plans because of Medicare for All: "To be honest. I don't care." pic.twitter.com/sCBhOOGomF

— America First (@AmericaFirstPAC) February 18, 2020

 

Other than that all is well in the swamp

Bloomberg surges to 2nd place nationally in polls

 

Anyone but Trump apparently in the latest polls of Democrats out on Monday. Bloomberg now qualifies for the Wednesday debate. Considering the withering attacks that have been made on him with the unearthing of past statements, everything that in a normal day would disqualify someone, not on a day when Trump is the opponent. Who says money can’t buy you everything?

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg (D) is jumping behind Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to second place nationally, a Zogby Analytics poll released Monday revealed.

The billionaire, whom Sanders has routinely railed against for attempting to “buy” the presidential primary, has made it to second place in a national poll, behind the socialist senator by just four percentage points — 20 percent to Sanders’ 24 percent support.

Zogby:

#National Zogby Analytics Poll (2/13-14):
Sanders 24%
Bloomberg 20%
Biden 18%
Warren 10%
Buttigieg 9%
Klobuchar 5%
Steyer 4%
Gabbard 3%

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) February 17, 2020

 

Monday’s RealClearPolitics average shows a similar lineup, with Sanders in the lead followed by Biden, Bloomberg, Warren, and Buttigieg.

Democratic Presidential Nomination

RCP Poll Averages

National
Sanders	23.6
Biden	19.2
Bloomberg	14.2
Warren	12.4
Buttigieg	10.6
Klobuchar	4.6
Sanders +4.4

Real Clear Politics:

The Takeaway

Bernie Sanders continues his winning ways and is now the national frontrunner. With Michael Bloomberg’s ascendancy into the second slot in the national polls, the campaigns of Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg have suffered tremendously. Biden is hurting too, but is banking heavily on strong support from African American voters in South Carolina, and if he doesn’t win it outright his campaign could be game over. Bloomberg is taking all of Biden’s support among key groups: mainly women, moderates, older voters, suburban voters, suburban women and college educated voters.

H/T: Breitbart

This almost makes me want to watch the debate. Almost.

Other than that all is well in the swamp.

Bernie Sanders family Jane, Driscoll, Carina raking it in like Hunter

 

 

While everyone is looking at Joe Biden’s son Hunter, let us take a look at Bernie and Jane Sanders and their kids and how they are raking in the dough.

Flashback March 2019:

Sanders Shuts down Institute Over Pay-To-Play Accusations

The senator’s son was reportedly paid about $100,000 last year for his work at the Sanders Institute. The entire organization raised about $730,000 — and another $459,000 in 2017, according to the Sanders family.

Reflecting on accusations of pay-to-play influence-peddling at The Clinton Foundation, Senator Bernie Sanders told CNN in March of 2016 that:

“It is obscene that Secretary Clinton keeps going to big-money people to fund her campaign…”

All of which makes the news, via AP, that the “nonprofit” think tank founded by Sanders’ wife and son is closing up shop after drawing criticism over the donations it’s been receiving all the more intriguing.

The unexpected move by the institute’s board of directors comes as Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, prepares for a wave of intense scrutiny into his political network and his family’s role in its operation.

The institute was founded to promote liberal policies less than two years ago by Sanders’ family with the backing of pro-Sanders celebrities and advocates – though Sanders himself had no formal role. While it operates at a fraction of the scale of the Clinton Foundation, it has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars during its brief existence and has declined to disclose its donors.

Jane and her son, David Driscoll, founded the Sanders Institute in 2017 under the claim that it would research and promote liberal policies. Instead, people have accused them of using the institute as a way to sell their loyalty to the rich and powerful.

The decision was reportedly made in late February after Sanders launched his campaign.

“I think that was the most important thing to do — to not accept donations,” said Jane Sanders in an interview with the Associated Press.

“Nobody should think that they’re giving money to an organization and that gains them access or favor to anybody elseand anybody running for office.”

You think so? After being under investigation by the FBI?

Jane Sanders told the New York Times that they “didn’t think about the Clinton or Trump foundation” when deciding whether it was right to stop taking donations.

Sources  Zero Hedge and the New York Post

 

Then we have Bernie and Jane Sanders College corruption? Funneled daughter $500,000

How did Jane Sanders funnel more than 500k to her daughter’s for-profit woodworking business during her tenure as President of Burlington College and get away with it?

What hasn’t been discussed in all the noise about Burlington College’s closure is how Jane Sanders (supported by the same Board of Trustees who approved the land sale) openly funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Burlington College’s operating funds to VT Woodworking School — a for-profit business started by her daughter Carina Driscoll in 2007.

Despite scattered reporting on this story, Jane Sanders has never been asked to explain why Burlington College suddenly needed to start a woodworking program in 2009 – the very same year the VT Woodworking School expanded to its current site in Fairfax, VT taking on considerable expense of a new building and needing to find students to fill its cavernous 15,000 square-foot space.

Nor has anyone asked if the College did what would normally be required in this process by creating a Request For Proposal (RFP) to solicit bids in order to guarantee that the process was fair and open to other entities competing for this business.

This appears not to be the case given that the College was also funding another program at the same time (as reported in the College’s tax returns) that directly benefited the children of Jonathan Leopold, a board member.

According to the College’s now defunct website, Carina Driscoll was listed as Director of the Woodworking Program at Burlington College on the Faculty and Staff Directory in 2016. It is unclear how the College was able to hire her on staff while she remained the owner of VT Woodworking — directly benefitting from the College’s funding of her for-profit business.- a great read-  Read more

Recall?

Commie Bernie Sanders and his wife’s FBI investigation continues, new witness interviewed

May 8, 2018 — bunkerville

UPDATE: Last I heard the DOJ will not bring charges. What a surprise.

 

 

Corruption

Bonus time!!

Hunter Biden was paid an undisclosed amount of money as a consultant by MBNA as his father pushed legislation to help the credit card industry.

At the ripe old age of 31 Hunter was cashing in.

Tom Brokaw to Joe Biden in 2008:

“Wasn’t it inappropriate for someone like you in the middle of all this to have your son collecting money from this big credit card company while you were on the floor protecting its interests?”

The Bidens have been cashing in for decades! pic.twitter.com/rFSKewQ5Ql

— Trump War Room (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TrumpWarRoom) October 14, 2019

All is well in the swamp. It has been a good day.

For the best in conservative news and so much better than Drudge click below

Bernie Sanders: Abortion Rights Help Curb Population Growth to Combat Climate Change

 

Wow. Poor countries need to have more abortions to combat climate change. So says Bernie Sanders. The Marxists going back to their old ways. Bernie takes abortion one step beyond the other candidates. Conflates it with climate change, so anyone who has a little bitty doubt about killing off one’s offspring can glom on to the concept they are helping saving the planet. I include a couple of earlier stories just so we are all clear where the Left plans on taking us.

 

I was thinking of doing a new story on cannibalism – but I had done one before from Newsweek

Newsweek: Time to re-think the taboo on cannibalism?

Since cannibalism is found throughout the animal kingdom and therefore is something natural, perhaps it is time for humans to rethink the “ultimate taboo” against eating human flesh, Newsweek proposes in an article this week.

I posted earlier  The Economist alarmed that poor people are eating more meat around the world

Poor people eating more meat means it is ‘bad news for the environment.’ That means they will live longer, healthier lives. More global warming. Poor people. They need to start thinking of the environment instead of survival and what not.

 So humans next on the Bill of Fare?

So glad Bernie has come up with a solution apparently.

Fabian Socialists. This is where good old Bernie wants to take us.

 

Other than that, all is well in the swamp. For the best in conservative news click below.

Democrat candidates can’t dream up enough to give away for a vote

Whatever it takes to get a vote. I recall the days when it was illegal to sell alcohol on election day in our State. It harkened back to the days when candidates would try and buy a vote with a drink.

We have Fauxcahontas giving the LGBT Community reparations, apparently Black reparations are not enough. Here

 
Biden? He says 22 Million illegals will become legal.

There was a time not so long ago when most Americans would think all of this totally absurd.

Here is the big one for the kiddies. This should bankrupt us.

BUYING VOTES 😡😡 Crazy Bernie Sanders will join Rep. Ilhan Omar on Monday and propose eliminating all $1.6T of student debt in USA. Their proposal package also includes making public universities, community colleges and trade schools tuition-free.https://t.co/9WDamALSIw

— David Waddell (@DavidWaddell5) June 24, 2019

Other than that, all is well in the swamp.

WhatFingerNews  A great site for all the news.

Sanders Shuts down Institute Over Pay-To-Play Accusations

 

So Bernie Sanders’s little Misses with their son get caught with their long fingers in the cookie jar one more time? What is a little bank fraud? We had the daughter with her wood working school ripping of Burlington College. Time for a bit of a review of this Marxist family on a Saturday. The latest:

 

Reflecting on accusations of pay-to-play influence-peddling at The Clinton Foundation, Senator Bernie Sanders told CNN in March of 2016 that:

“It is obscene that Secretary Clinton keeps going to big-money people to fund her campaign…”

All of which makes the news, via AP, that the “nonprofit” think tank founded by Sanders’ wife and son is closing up shop after drawing criticism over the donations it’s been receiving all the more intriguing.

The institute was founded to promote liberal policies less than two years ago by Sanders’ family with the backing of pro-Sanders celebrities and advocates – though Sanders himself had no formal role. While it operates at a fraction of the scale of the Clinton Foundation, it has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars during its brief existence and has declined to disclose its donors.

Jane and her son, David Driscoll, founded the Sanders Institute in 2017 under the claim that it would research and promote liberal policies. Instead, people have accused them of using the institute as a way to sell their loyalty to the rich and powerful.

The decision was reportedly made in late February after Sanders launched his campaign.

“I think that was the most important thing to do — to not accept donations,” said Jane Sanders in an interview with the Associated Press.

“Nobody should think that they’re giving money to an organization and that gains them access or favor to anybody elseand anybody running for office.”

You think so? After being under investigation by the FBI?

Jane Sanders told the New York Times that they “didn’t think about the Clinton or Trump foundation” when deciding whether it was right to stop taking donations.

More at

Zero Hedge

and the New York Post

Let’s take a look:

Bernie and Jane Sanders College corruption? Funneled daughter $500,000

How did Jane Sanders funnel more than 500k to her daughter’s for-profit woodworking business during her tenure as President of Burlington College and get away with it?

What hasn’t been discussed in all the noise about Burlington College’s closure is how Jane Sanders (supported by the same Board of Trustees who approved the land sale) openly funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Burlington College’s operating funds to VT Woodworking School — a for-profit business started by her daughter Carina Driscoll in 2007.

Despite scattered reporting on this story, Jane Sanders has never been asked to explain why Burlington College suddenly needed to start a woodworking program in 2009 – the very same year the VT Woodworking School expanded to its current site in Fairfax, VT taking on considerable expense of a new building and needing to find students to fill its cavernous 15,000 square-foot space. Nor has anyone asked if the College did what would normally be required in this process by creating a Request For Proposal (RFP) to solicit bids in order to guarantee that the process was fair and open to other entities competing for this business.

This appears not to be the case given that the College was also funding another program at the same time (as reported in the College’s tax returns) that directly benefited the children of Jonathan Leopold, a board member.

According to the College’s now defunct website, Carina Driscoll was listed as Director of the Woodworking Program at Burlington College on the Faculty and Staff Directory in 2016. It is unclear how the College was able to hire her on staff while she remained the owner of VT Woodworking — directly benefitting from the College’s funding of her for-profit business.  Read more

 

A key witness in the possible bank fraud case against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ wife, Jane Sanders, was questioned by FBI agents just over a week ago, Fox News has learned.

Other than this, all is well in the swamp.

Ocasio-Cortez and her relationship to George Soros

 

There were few of us thought that the arrival of Ocasio-Cortez came from out of the blue. Our hunch included that perhaps Soros may have had his long fingers in this special find.

After all, a media darling in no time flat. Even after making a total fool of herself with her lack of savvy about most everything, the beat goes on. Merely a primary winner, she already has been chosen for President in say 2020?

It turns out she as well as Cynthia Nixon, candidate in New York for Governor had some powerful backing including from the George Soros’ Media Consortium.

Ocasio-Cortez was a Bernie Sanders organizer.

And as Rich Weinstein in a great Twitter thread points out, this is what her website looks like now:

 

But this is what it looked like last year according to the Wayback archive.

 

What is a Brand New Congress?

 

Their goal was to have 400 candidates to run for Congress by last year and each of those 400 is supposed to commit to a similar far left platform including immigration reform and the abolishment of ICE.

Justice Democrats were founded in part by Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks and former Bernie people. And they are promoting not just Congressional candidates but gubernatorial candidates like Cynthia Nixon in New York.

And as Ocasio-Cortez notes in this interview after with Uygur at the ten-minute mark that BNC and the Justice Democrats were instrumental in soliciting her and then promoting her “after she left Standing Rock” which means she was among the far left pipeline protesters.

 

Start at about the ten minute mark:

 

Uygur doesn’t, however, explain in the interview about his connection to the effort.

And Uygur’s Young Turks is part of the Soros Media Consortium that provided wattage for the Ocasio-Cortez campaign. According to the MRC, this provides favorable coverage to 300 million people across the globe in a month.

 

H/T and more: Chicks on the Right