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Authorities claim there's no need for sentencing hearing, bail option.. A state legal action in Pennsylvania is sparking outrage .. for the result it demanded: Two farmers arrested and jailed on 30-day sentences with no sentencing hearing and no option for bail. ... Their lawyer, Robert Barnes, charges, "This is the craziest thing I've every seen." ... This is an unlawful civil contempt order. There are certain procedures that must be followed in a civil contempt action and to our knowledge those were not followed here. Even if they had been followed, the maximum allowable punishment is 15 days in...
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Wednesday ripped radical Democrat Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) for refusing to admit defeat. “The votes are in. In all Democrat strongholds, municipalities are reporting 100% of wards are in and counted,” Johnson said in a press release. “There is no path mathematically for Lt. Gov. Barnes to overcome his 27,374 vote deficit. This race is over.” Johnson questioned whether Barnes would accept the election result. “Will you accept defeat trailing by 27,000 votes?” Johnson asked. “In 2020, Joe Biden claimed victory in Wisconsin with a 20,000 vote margin.”
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MADISON, Wis. — The race for one of Wisconsin’s seats in the U.S. Senate is too close to call early Wednesday, with the campaigns for both Sen. Ron Johnson and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes telling their supporters to go home for the night while the final votes are tabulated. Speaking to his supporters, Sen. Johnson said he was not going to declare victory in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but said “we feel very confident that there’s no way that they can make up that gap.” As of 1 a.m. Wednesday, 98% of Wisconsin’s votes had been counted, with...
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As he made his final pitch to voters in western Wisconsin last week, Sen. Ron Johnson told a story about a truck driver who got stuck while navigating a tricky road. The senator said he was driving through Portage when he encountered a traffic snarl caused by the immobile truck. Johnson said he is typically impatient but was not in this case because he witnessed something “heartwarming”: The people of the small community in central Wisconsin sprang into action to help the truck driver get going again. He ended the story with this reveal: “You know, one little point really...
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R) is leading Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes by 4 percentage points in Wisconsin’s Senate race, according to a new Emerson College Polling-The Hill survey released Wednesday. The poll shows 50 percent of very likely voters favor Johnson, compared to 46 percent who support Barnes, the state’s lieutenant governor. Three percent are undecided, and 2 percent plan to vote for someone else.
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has increased his lead over “defund police” Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race, an AARP poll found Thursday. The survey shows Republicans are picking up steam in the 2022 Senate races in which they must hold Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Carolina and reclaim either Arizona, Nevada, Washington State, or Georgia to take back the Senate from Democrats.
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Wisconsin’s incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson slightly leads his radical opponent, Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, for United States Senator in the most recent Trafalgar Group poll, less than two months before the November election. The poll found that Johnson was leading by just over two percent. Johnson claims 48.7 percent of the likely general election voters respondent. In comparison, 46.5 percent said they would vote to elect Barnes, who’s been marked as a defund the police candidate, with no law-enforcement endorsements.
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MADISON, Wis. — A captain in the La Crosse County Sheriff’s Department who was included in a press release of law enforcement officials endorsing Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes says he made no such endorsement. Capt. John Siegel, who is also running as a Democrat for La Crosse County Sheriff, said he found out Friday that his name was among the list of endorsers. “I called immediately — whoever I could get a hold of, and finally got a hold of somebody operating their campaign and said, ‘Hey, I didn’t ever agree to put my name on anything or...
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Wisconsin Senate candidate Mandela Barnes believes it is “foolish” to think the United States’ wealth was “justly earned,” a resurfaced video from 2021 revealed. “I didn’t even get to the point about Critical Race Theory,” Barnes said in a video released by WKOW ABC over the weekend. “That’s something else too. You know, it would be foolish to assume that the wealth of America was earned justly.” The 2021 event, held by the Portage Area Chamber of Commerce, was advertised as a question and answer session to discuss “issues of racism and systemic racism as they affect rural communities.” “Things...
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en. Ron Johnson (R) has pulled slightly ahead of Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) as the two vie for the Wisconsin senator’s seat in November’s midterm elections, according to a poll from Marquette University Law School released Wednesday. The poll puts Johnson ahead of Barnes by just 1 percentage point. The incumbent garnered 49 percent support from likely voters, and his Democratic challenger garnered 48 percent support. The results are within the poll’s margin of error.
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Pro-lockdown Wisconsin Senate Democrat candidate Mandela Barnes mocked small business owners as “selfish” after the pandemic, a video unearthed by the Republican National Committee shows. On the show Real Talk with Henry Sanders Madison365 in 2021, Barnes said business owners who wanted to serve customers during the pandemic were “selfish” because they were not thinking of “the larger group.”
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Wisconsin Senate candidate Mandela Barnes (D) refused to campaign with President Joe Biden at Milwaukee’s Laborfest campaign event on Labor Day. Barnes’ refusal to be publicly seen with Biden at the presidential campaign event is likely because Biden is deeply unpopular in Wisconsin. Only 41 percent approve of Biden in the Badger State, while 53 percent disapprove, a Civiqs poll found.
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President Biden expressed his support for labor unions and boasted about Democratic legislative victories during a Wisconsin labor event just two months ahead of the November midterms. Speaking at Milwaukee Laborfest, the president said Labor Day is “a special day to me as well because the fact of the matter here is I wouldn’t be here without unions! Unions. Electricians, iron workers … teamsters, laborers, bricklayers, transit workers, plumbers and pipefitters, steel workers.”
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, logged more than 10 times as many hours of security than his predecessor, an issue that Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is raising in the hotly contested race. *SNIP* Barnes’ increased use of security was an issue early in his term as lieutenant governor, and now Johnson is raising it again in the context of his reelection campaign. Alec Zimmerman, Johnson’s campaign spokesperson, called the rising costs “outrageous and unprecedented.” He said it is hypocritical for the lieutenant governor “to use the State Patrol as his own...
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President Joe Biden’s approval rating is underwater in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, two states the president plans to visit on Labor Day to boost the Democrats’ midterm hopes. Biden announced he will visit the states while polling shows the Senate races are tightening. In Pennsylvania, radical Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) is leading Trump-endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz (R) by about 5 points. Polling is a bit tighter in Wisconsin, where radical Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes is leading Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) by 2 points.
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Wisconsin Senate Democrat candidate Mandela Barnes claimed last July that national parks “weren’t made for the enjoyment of people who weren’t white.” Speaking on the “Black Oxygen” podcast, Barnes suggested national parks are a part of the systemically racist fabric of America because the “parks are on land that was indigenous.” “It’s important to create more welcoming spaces because things haven’t always felt welcome,” he said. “And that’s historical, just that perspective, given the fact that national parks weren’t made for the enjoyment of people who weren’t white. National parks are on land that was indigenous.”
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While Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes is narrowly preferred over incumbent Ron Johnson in the Wisconsin Senate race, Johnson’s supporters have the enthusiasm. A Fox News survey of Wisconsin voters finds Barnes ahead of Johnson by 50-46%, an advantage within the survey’s margin of error
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Mere hours before jury selection began in the self-defense trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a key defense attorney who put together a “dream team” of jury selection experts announced he was off the case. Robert Barnes says the change in the defense team means someone is “deliberately sabotaging Kyle’s defense.”Kyle Rittenhouse is the 17-year-old who shot three people, two of whom died, at the Kenosha riots in August of 2020. He claims the shootings were in self-defense.PJ Media will provide daily coverage of the trial.After eight months of affiliation with the Rittenhouse case, Barnes, a nationally acclaimed defense...
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Robert Barnes @Barnes_Law The letter I am writing to Senators to object to the certification of any elector from any contested state where no meaningful audit of the vote occurs prior to January 6. No copyright asserted by me; feel free to borrow, steal, or copy, as you please. Link: https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/285794/senator-letter-draft Dear Senator, I request you exercise your Constitutional and statutory authority to object to the certification of any elector from any state that refuses to allow a meaningful audit of the November general election for electors to the Presidency, which must include: 1) a re-canvass of the vote that...
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