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In an effort to address economic disparities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco voters have overwhelmingly approved several tax measures targeting property owners and big businesses with CEOs who are paid far more than their average workers. Under a newly approved law, any company whose top executive earns 100 times more than its average worker will pay an extra 0.1% surcharge on its annual business-tax payment. If a CEO makes 200 times more than the average employee, the surcharge increases to 0.2%, and so on per multiple of 100. "We’re not gonna shed any tears if penthouse dwellers...

Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen appears to be front-runner for Treasury secretary under a Biden administration, The American Prospect reports.Her credentials as a former head of the Fed, before Trump named Jerome Powell to the post, would make it hard for Senate Republicans to block, writes American Prospect's Robert Kuttner, a professor at Brandeis University's Heller School.Also, "Yellen is just liberal enough for the liberals, just conservative enough for Wall Street," Kuttner wrote.Recently, Yellen has been sounding more dovish than she did before she left the Fed.Lael Brainard, a member of the Fed's board of governors, has also been considered...

Lindsey Graham with Maria Bartiromo this morning ‘If Trump concedes, Republicans will never elect another president’ “If Republicans don’t challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again,” Graham said Sunday on Fox News. “President Trump should not concede. We’re down to less — 10,000 votes in Georgia. He’s going to win North Carolina. We have gone from 93,000 votes to less than 20,000 votes in Arizona, where more — more votes to be counted.”

A most interesting thread popped up on Twitter Sunday from a data scientist who wishes to remain anonymous, regarding mail-in ballot data which strongly suggests fraud occurred in the wee hours of election night, when several swing states inexplicably stopped reporting vote counts while President Trump maintained a healthy lead over Joe Biden. Using time series data 'scraped' from the New York Times website, the data - comparing several states (swing and non-swing) - clearly illustrates what fraud does and does not look like, and how several anomalies in swing states left 'fingerprints of fraud' as Biden pulled ahead...

AG Barr just walked into @senatemajldr’s office— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) November 9, 2020

Despite likely seeing California Sen. Kamala Harris inaugurated as vice president alongside a Democratic president for whom an overwhelming majority of Californians voted so dutifully, California is looking to be the biggest loser of the 2020 contest. Our stateÂ’s most pressing problems, which were unaddressed in the run-up to the election, are getting worse. If California-style government continues to creep across America, as it will if Harris and running mate Joe Biden win, we can expect similar problems to creep nationwide.COVID sucked the air out of the room in the presidential debates, and in the media in general. However,...

Folks, here’s where we are with this. It is vital that our constitutional framework be protected. This recount, this canvassing, this investigation must occur. It must take place. The Founding Fathers of our country knew that there would always be intense political battles. They knew that there would be bad actors. They knew there would be people trying to undermine what they had founded, what they had created. They knew it. They were not naive. They knew from the moment they founded the United States that it would be a threat to an entire group of people or many groups...

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey gave an update on the state's vote counting process and totals Monday, stressing the importance of getting to the end before making any determinations about a winner.  "In Arizona, we are still counting the votes, with roughly 75,000 to 80,000 left. Our expectation is that we finish counting," Ducey released in a statement. "We’ve been through this drill before in Arizona. Making it easy to vote and hard to cheat has also resulted in time consuming efforts to ensure the integrity of our elections. We’ve already seen the outcome of races change to a dramatic degree,...

BUSTED: Fox News Anchor, Sandra Smith Gets Busted On Hot Mic Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud…. Fox News is NOT Our Friend / Ally…. pic.twitter.com/MXyAyLqRkI — Rev. Scott Anthony ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@ScottAnthonyUSA) November 9, 2020 Someone at Fox News released this Sandra Smith clip this morning. VIDEO AT LINK................... NOTE — CFP no longer links to any ARTICLES from Fox News or NY Post. Regarding videos, there is a distinction between Fox News content published by someone else, and a video from the Fox News account. I will always seek to avoid any videos from the official Fox News account,...

PITTSBURGH - Mail-in ballots continue to be the focus of the Allegheny County election officials. Bins of ballots are being reviewed by the Division Manager and Deputy Divisions Manager in front of observers, according to Allegheny County officials. The ballots are being sorted into two piles: ballots which can’t be resolved, and another for ballots that will need more research. Those ballots will be reviewed to see if a resolution is possible. Election officials are also taking a look through the ballots returned by voters who got an incorrect and corrected ballot. Those ballots are matched against the incorrect ballots....

Once the CDC told Americans they could leave quarantine to vote, they lost the lockdown argument. And when we see Biden supporters by the thousands congregating, playing musical instruments, shouting, and singing, authorities will be hard-pressed to shove otherwise healthy adults back into their homes. So, this message from self-declared President-elect Joe Biden is pretty confusing. Especially if you live in Georgia, Florida, or any other state that has been open and operating for months: We cannot repair the economy, restore our vitality, or relish life’s most precious moments — hugging a grandchild, birthdays, weddings, graduations, all the moments that...

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Monday called New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s threats to block the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine in the Empire State “absolutely unconscionable.” In an interview with Fox News on Monday morning, Azar also said that it was Cuomo, not President Trump, who was in charge of distributing the vaccine in New York. “It’s just absolutely unconscionable that somebody would want to delay a vaccine to the American people that’s safe and effective just for political partisan reasons,” Azar said after Cuomo earlier Monday called a Pfizer breakthrough on a vaccine...

The USPS creates images of front and back of all first class letters and packages and retains the images for 7 to 30 days. These images could be used to verify the date mail-in ballots were received at a USPS facility and probably includes the voter's signature on the outer envelope. The Trump legal team needs to subpoena these records from the USPS and probably get an injunction ordering retention also. I have sent a message to the Trump campaign but I don't know haw to contact the election legal team. Any Help would be appreciated.

The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, is finalizing a plan to become a citizen of the island of Cyprus, Recode has learned, becoming one of the highest-profile Americans to take advantage of one of the world’s most controversial “passport-for-sale” programs. Schmidt, one of America’s wealthiest people, and his family have won approval to become citizens of the Mediterranean nation, according to a previously unreported notice in a Cypriot publication in October. While it is not clear why exactly Schmidt has pursued this foreign citizenship, the new passport gives him the ability to travel to the European Union, along with...

Question/Answer format explaining former elections and fraud as well as the current election. Explains that our representatives could stop this nonsense, including Pence per the constitution. Many of our representatives were elected because of Trump yet they are absent. And they are not thwarting the current media narrative. The only push I’ve seen is in Georgia, simply because they want those 2 Senate seats. The only Republican that ‘lost’ election night was Trump. And all of those that won........*crickets*. Where are the ‘Constitutionalists’ explaining the process and their duty? Fox controlled Mark Levin?

President Trump’s campaign is vowing to file lawsuits challenging the results of the 2020 election in several key states. Ground zero for litigation is Pennsylvania. Rudy Giuliani, representing the president and the campaign, held a press conference in Philadelphia on Saturday, adumbrating the lawsuits he plans to begin filing today. To call this an uphill battle understates the matter. At the moment, presumptive President-elect Biden is computed to be ahead in the electoral vote, 290 to 214. Three states have not yet been “called” (I’ll address what I mean by that shortly): Georgia (16 electoral votes) leaning Biden, and North...

According to a Republican lawsuit filed, “Pennsylvania’s Democratic election leaders violated state code on Monday when they authorized county election officials to provide information about rejected mail ballots to political party operatives” reports National Review. The lawsuit specifically refers to an email from Jonathan Marks, Pennsylvania’s deputy elections secretary. At 8:38 P.M. on Monday, Marks sent an email to county election directors which read, “county boards of elections should provide information to party and candidate representatives during the pre-canvass that identifies the voters whose ballots have been rejected” so that they could be offered a provisional ballot, reports National Review....

"If the results of the election is disputed, no person is referred to as president-elect until the dispute is resolved"

Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to reports. “Secretary Carson has tested positive for the coronavirus. He is in good spirits and feels fortunate to have access to effective therapeutics which aid and markedly speed his recovery,” Carson’s chief of staff Coalter Baker told ABC News. Carson attended an election night party at the White House along with White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who announced Wednesday that he also tested positive for the virus.

A Detroit election worker and GOP poll watcher allege that they witnessed potential voter fraud and suspicious conduct in sworn affidavits as part of an election lawsuit in Michigan. “Election fraud lawsuit was filed in Detroit with affidavits alleging backdating ballots, no matching signatures. It includes an affidavit from a city employee claiming she was asked to backdate ballots,” Fox News national correspondent Matt Finn said. A Detroit elections worker, Jessy Jacob, testified that a supervisor ordered him to backdate absentee ballots. “I processed absentee ballot packages to be sent to voters while I worked at the election headquarters in...