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Florida Sen. Lauren Book has reached out to Capitol police after receiving an anonymous warning connected to her demand for a state inquiry into Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s handling of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s lenient work release program, the Miami Herald has learned. Book, a vocal advocate for child sexual assault survivors, said she also received more than a dozen calls by Bradshaw’s political supporters asking her to back off on her call for an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement into Bradshaw. (snip) Book, in an interview with the Herald, said she also asked the...

A former Republican strategist has hit out at party leaders who have “enabled” Donald Trump’s behavior, stating they “deserve the reckoning that will eventually come for the GOP.” Sally Bradshaw, strategist and one of the authors of the Republican National Committee’s Growth and Opportunity Project, slammed Trump’s leadership as divisive and spoke about her disappointment with the party as rumors circulated that the president was preparing to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “Donald Trump is anti-woman, anti-Hispanic, anti-black, anti-anything that would bring the country together,” Bradshaw told Buzzfeed in an interview....

Nick Saban might be the most beloved man in the entire State of Alabama. However, he has a long way to go before getting in the good graces of Terry Bradshaw. Saban, who will earn over $11 million in salary alone this upcoming year, became the subject of debate when Terry Bradshaw appeared on the Paul Finebaum Radio Show. During the show, Bradshaw debated Phyllis, the longtime and very loud Alabama fan who frequently calls in to Finebaum. Bradshaw called Saban’s contract “shameful,” and made an analogy between Saban’s contract and the athletic budget of his alma mater, Louisiana Tech:...

A top adviser to former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush and a well-known figure in GOP circles says she's leaving the party and may vote for Hillary Clinton. Sally Bradshaw, who was a senior adviser during Bush's White House bid, told CNN she has left the GOP to become an independent. Republicans are "at a crossroads and have nominated a total narcissist — a misogynist — a bigot," Bradshaw told CNN's Jamie Gangel in an email. "This is a time when country has to take priority over political parties. Donald Trump cannot be elected president," Bradshaw added. Bradshaw also worked...

Jeb Bush's top adviser, Sally Bradshaw, has left the Republican Party to become an independent, and says if the presidential race in Florida is close, she'll vote for Hillary Clinton. Bradshaw, who's been close to the former Florida governor for decades and was senior adviser to his 2016 campaign, officially switched her registration to unaffiliated. She told CNN's Jamie Gangel in an email interview that the GOP is "at a crossroads and have nominated a total narcissist -- a misogynist -- a bigot."

Just when you thought the crap couldn’t get any creepier in Obamaland, BOOM, it does and things just got a little bit more … how shall I say it … peculiar. Can we still use the word “peculiar”? We can? Good. Cue Twilight Zone music, por favor, and allow me to proceed. So, what am I talking about you ask? Am I referring to the forced lesbian kissing class in a Red Hook, New York middle school? No, silly. That was like two weeks ago. Duh. That’s so yesterday. Or, as Jay Carney said of the Benghazi Massacre, “That was...

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw may soon receive $1 million from the state of Florida to set up a new violence prevention unit, but his recent comments encouraging people to turn in their neighbors are causing a firestorm. “We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he’s gonna shoot him,” Bradshaw told The Palm Beach Post. “What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’ ” “How are they possibly going to watch everybody who makes a comment...

Corpus Christi, TX – Jessica-Puente Bradshaw, Republican Congressional candidate in the 27th district of Texas, made the following statement on Scott Brown’s historic victory to the United States Senate. “People all across the country are tired of watching their personal liberties and freedoms decrease, while the size of the federal government increases. Scott Brown’s victory tonight is the beginning of the new Republican Revolution in 2010.” Jessica Puente-Bradshaw is committed to returning the nation to the principles the founding fathers incorporated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A kindred spirit to Senator-elect Brown, Bradshaw is dedicated to reclaiming...

CORPUS CHRISTI — A couple who provided U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz with free trips to China was sentenced Friday in Houston for their role in a complex visa fraud scheme unrelated to the trips with Ortiz. Kenneth and Ping Lee Cohen pleaded guilty in the case in 2006. They owned a company called Asia Access, which charged as much as $60,000 to Chinese immigrants attempting to obtain green cards. The company used fake documents from real companies in which Chinese nationals claimed they would be working as executives in American subsidiaries of Chinese companies, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office...

Ortiz draws line in sand over Neal's appointment U.S. Representative threatens to remove $3M in Ingleside CORPUS CHRISTI — U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz says he’ll take back $3 million in funds meant to offset Ingleside base closure if the Ingleside City Council confirms Nueces County Judge Loyd Neal to the board that oversees base redevelopment. Ortiz’s office announced Thursday that the U.S. House Armed Services Committee authorized $550.4 billion that includes a $3 million earmark for the Ingleside Local Redevelopment Authority. The earmark’s purpose is to help mitigate the job losses from closure next year of Naval Station Ingleside. The...

CORPUS CHRISTI — Area residents will have the opportunity to ask questions and voice concerns about plans to revamp health care during a telephone town hall meeting next month. U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Robstown, whose office has gotten thousands of calls from constituents, will discuss health care proposals under consideration in Congress during the Sept. 2 phone conference. Constituents can call the congressman’s Corpus Christi, Brownsville and Washington D.C. offices to register, Ortiz spokesman Jose Borjon said. Corpus Christi resident Janet Homan plans to be among the first to register for Ortiz’s meeting. Homan, a 56-year-old elementary school teacher, had...

WASHINGTON — Born into South Texas poverty as the son of migrant workers, a man who rose from shoeshine boy to sheriff to congressman is the face of the immigration reform bill set to slog its way through the House of Representatives this year. That's by design. Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi, a 27-year veteran of legislative battles, isn't the only Democrat who concedes the road for immigration reform is steeply uphill in a midterm election year. But the bill's backers are counting on the Robstown native to draw on his life experience to argue that immigration reform is needed...

Yesterday we reported on a Libya reception at the Willard Hotel Wednesday, and wondered who from the U.S. government might dare show up in the wake of the Al-Megrahi controversy. POLITICO's Ken Vogel poked around, and discovered that not everybody in the U.S. government wants to pile on Libya. Here's his report: Not for Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas) the Libya-bashing that followed Scotland’s release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the terrorist convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, and the hero’s welcome he received when he returned to Libya.

TEXAS ELECTION CENTRAL If we are going to make a difference in the upcoming election, we need to KNOW the candidates. Please post the names of ALL your Congressional candidates on this thread along with any and all information available. We need names, positions, platforms, news articles, statements, pictures. We need to separate the RINOS from the Conservatives, and most of all, we need to get the liberals of either party OUT!We can do this if you help. I have started this thread. All you have to do is contribute a little time and a little research. Help us...

Over the course of our lifetimes thought past and present, as Americans of all colors or creeds, immigrant or natural born, we have fought hard to make this country the great nation that it is. Regardless of our situation at our present time, we are obligated as citizens to do our part in carrying forth the torch of liberty, justice, compassion and hard work. How do we maintain and grow those fundamental freedoms? We do it by participating and becoming active citizens and advocates of the message the Founding Fathers first penned in the Declaration of Independence. “…to secure these...

Jessica Puente-Bradshaw for Congress Needs Your Help! Jessica is an educator, mother of two, wife, and churchgoer. She is running for Texas Congressional district 27 because she is fed-up with the size of government increasing while personal liberities decrease. In order to beat the longtime Democrat incumbent from South Texas, she must first win the primary. She is the ONLY person who has a real chance to win this seat in the general election. Please visit ww.texansforjessica.com today and help us take America back! (Excerpt from her website) Like you, I am going to bed every night disappointed at the...

This is a really nice video of Terry Bradshaw on Fox News, meeting with the brave men and women of the armed forces. A must watch.

FORT MYERS – Ho, Ho, Ho! Santa Claus is allowed back at Florida Gulf Coast University. FGCU’s president reversed his decision to ban Christmas decorations. In an e-mail message sent to the campus Wednesday, university president Wilson Bradshaw, Ph.D. acknowledged the “overwhelming negative response” to his original letter banning all holiday and seasonal decorations from the school’s common areas, citing “legal limitations.” “It is now clear to me that we have erred in our attempt to find a balance between how best to observe the season in ways that honor all traditions – while also allowing employees to express their...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Steelers star Ben Roethlisberger, the youngest quarterback to lead a team to the Super Bowl championship, broke his jaw and nose in a motorcycle crash Monday in which he was not wearing a helmet. Four doctors operated on Roethlisberger for seven hours to treat multiple facial fractures and "all of the fractures were successfully repaired," Dr. Harry W. Sell, chairman of the surgery department at Mercy Hospital, told reporters late Monday night. Photo Gallery...Roethlisberger's accident Also... Bradshaw: 'I pray he's going to be OK' Athletes and motorcycle accidents Dr. Daniel Pituch, who led the team, said Roethlisberger...

Terry Bradshaw wants to buy Saints SHREVEPORT - Woodlawn High, Louisiana Tech and Pittsburgh Steelers legend Terry Bradshaw is interested in putting together an ownership group to buy the New Orleans Saints to keep the team in Louisiana. "I'm supporting the citizens of Louisiana who don't deserve to lose the Saints because of a hurricane," Bradshaw said Wednesday in Shreveport. The former quarterback, here to be inducted into the Walk of Stars and witness the installation of the first sign marking the new "Terry Bradshaw Passway" on Inner Loop 3132, said he has used his on-air spot with Fox NFL...