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This "transgender lesbian" (a straight dude with extra steps) is suing Japan because they won't recognize his chosen gender identity and respect his "lesbian" romance. Japan does not recognize same-sex marriage (because that's not a real thing), and they won't recognize someone's gEnDeR iDeNtiTy without them getting the necessary... physical alterations. In 2021, while living as a resident of Japan, McCready and his spouse, Midori Morita, filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government arguing that their refusal to acknowledge his marriage as a lesbian union was unconstitutional... In addition to demanding he be recorded as being in a same-sex marriage,...

Dan McCready lost to his Republican challenger Dan Bishop Wednesday night in North Carolina's 9th district election. Bishop won by two percent of the vote, despite McCready having a two-year head start and millions of dollars in donations. So, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi congratulated...the latter. The Hill ✔@thehill Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "I'm very proud of Dan McCready... He won the campaign. He didn't win the election, but he won the campaign." 168 7:31 PM - Sep 12, 2019 “I’m very proud of Dan McCready,” she said glowingly. “He’s a patriot, he’s an independent voice for the district he would have...

President Trump traveled to North Carolina Monday to show support for the Republican in a special election for a House seat that’s viewed as a toss-up. “North Carolina, vote for Dan Bishop tomorrow. We need him badly in Washington! His opponent is a far left Sanctuary Cities supporter,” Trump tweeted about the GOP candidate, who will face Democrat Dan McCready at the polls Tuesday. Bishop, 55, a state senator since 2017, is a conservative and critic of LGBTQ rights who once compared gay rights activists to the Taliban, and spearheaded North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill,” which banned transgender people from...

Insiders say a multimillion dollar McKinsey-fueled overhaul of the country’s intelligence community has left it less effective. Dan McCready, congressional candidate in North Carolina worked for McKinsey. McKinsey has secured close to $1 billion in government contracts in just the past 10 years. Its work with the intelligence community goes back at least a decade — the firm played a central role in helping the FBI transform its intelligence mission in 2005 in response to pressure from the White House to restructure the bureau’s budget. “They were receiving a generous consulting fee, but did not appear from my vantage to...

Democrat Dan McCready has a narrow advantage over Republican Dan Bishop heading into the final days of the Sept. 10 redo election in North Carolina’s 9th District, according to a new bipartisan poll for Inside Elections. The survey, conducted Aug. 26-28 by Harper Polling and Clarity Campaign Labs, showed McCready with a 46-42 percent advantage over Bishop, and two third party candidates receiving a combined 3 percent. When leaners are included, McCready’s advantage extended to 49-44 percent. In Nov. 2018, McCready finished behind Republican Mark Harris 49.3-48.9 percent, but a winner was never certified or seated in Congress because of...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Early in-person voting is starting [TODAY] for two special congressional elections in North Carolina. *** Early in-person voting continues through Sept. 6, in advance of election day on Sept. 10. *** Candidates on the 3rd District ballot include *** Republican Greg Murphy. The 9th District candidates include *** Republican Dan Bishop.

*** following the landslide victory in the Republican primary by conservative State Sen. Dan Bishop, few are making any big bets on Democrats taking the Charlotte-based 9th District in the special election Sept. 10. Bishop is a solid supporter of President Trump and clearly cut from the swashbuckling mold of many of the conservatives elected to House in the Republican sweeps of 2010 and '14. In surprise results, he rolled up 48 percent of the vote over eight opponents. "Dan Bishop powered his way through the 'redo' Republican primary last night, easily defeating all comers," political analyst Marc Rotterman told...

Mindy McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, has died. She was 37. Waren Olmstead, the coroner in Cleburne County, Ark., said in a statement McCready died Sunday apparently of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound. An autopsy is pending. Just last month David Wilson, McCready’s boyfriend and the father of her 9-month-old son Zayne, was found dead on the same porch where McCready's body was found. His death also was investigated as a suicide. McCready entered court-ordered rehab earlier this month after her father told a judge she was no longer taking...

Country music star Mindy McCready has reportedly committed suicide. The 37-year-old singer has died Sunday night, her brother confirmed to the Daily News. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/mindy-mccready-reportedly-commits-suicide-article-1.1266650#ixzz2LDPoAFZg

Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported. "I cannot refute anything in the story," McCready told the newspaper in a story posted on its Web site Monday night. "I have known Roger Clemens for a long time," she said, without detailing the nature of their relationship. Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed the pitcher and singer had known each other for a long time but told the newspaper there was no sex. "Mindy McCready is...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. - An arrest warrant issued for Mindy McCready says the country singer has violated her probation on a drug charge, authorities said Wednesday. A judge signed off on the warrant Monday because McCready left Tennessee without getting permission from her probation officer and didn't report to the officer during July, according to Williamson County Sheriff's officials interviewed Wednesday. Authorities said this was McCready's second probation violation, which means she cannot post bond this time and likely will have to serve time in jail. The probation violations stem from charges brought against the singer last year, when she pleaded...

Country Singer Being Treated For Overdose POSTED: 7:23 am EDT July 26, 2005 NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- There are more troubles for country singer Mindy McCready. According to authorities in Pinellas County, Fla., McCready was found unconscious Friday in a hotel lobby. She's being treated for an overdose. An incident report did not list the nature of the overdose. McCready was charged last week in Arizona with identity theft and other counts. Within the past two years, she has also faced allegations of driving under the influence and a drug violation. Dennis Tomlin, who had been her attorney until midday Monday,...

Troubled country singer Mindy McCready has been hospitalized in Florida after an overdose. McCready, 28, was found unconscious Friday in a hotel lobby, according to authorities in Pinellas County, Fla. An incident report did not list the nature of the overdose. Last week, McCready was charged in Arizona with identity theft and other counts. Within the past two years, she has also faced allegations of driving under the influence and a drug violation.