Utah Republican Senator 'Saint' Mitt Sets Himself Up As A Trump-Alternative

Looks like the current U.S. Senator might be listening to a higher calling to gain the Presidency in the highest office in the land of The Free and The Home of The Brave.
After all, he was once a GOP contender.
Another report was revealed in The Washington Examiner:
'Troubling in the extreme’: Romney breaks ranks with
GOP over Trump and Ukraine

Mike Brest 10 hrs ago

 

"Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said that if President Trump asked Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, it would be "troubling in the extreme."

After reports of a complaint filed by an intelligence community whistleblower, details have surfaced of a conversation in which Trump allegedly urged Ukrainian officials to dig into both Biden and his son, Hunter, for his business dealings there.
"If the President asked or pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rival, either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme," Romney tweeted Sunday afternoon. "Critical for the facts to come out."
Sunday morning Trump said that there was no "quid pro quo" involved in the talks with the Ukrainian president, and he called the conversation in question a "perfect conversation."

A Loser's Game Interrupted By Impeachment: The Donald's Tabloid-Trash Gamble

We now have in clear view the Donald's Fall-back Default Scenario 2020: TV Evangelist.
Just like them all he's caught up in corruption - at the highest level.
Shamelessly pleading his case on a world stage at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, where people already know his game. 
Trump's playbook running-the-table to hold onto his shuffled deck of cards is dealing him a no-win.

 A 'Public Relations Guru' he is not - The Donald keeps getting caught making all-the-wrong moves in a televised script he's been producing for more than three years.  
The latest - what White aides say is just one more OUTRAGE DU JOUR

• get out ahead of the Ukraine story
• set the boundaries of the narrative so that Joe Biden is as squarely in the bullseye as he is
• and overwhelm Americans with new and often conflicting information so the details change by the hour — and always at his bidding.

Nancy Cook writing in Politico
 ( via http://www.msn.com/en-us/news ) 
2 hours ago tells it like it is:
Burgess Everett and Ben White contributed to this report.
Inside Trump world
public defiance vs. private anxiety over impeachment

> In public, Trump world is casting the Democratic impeachment inquiry as more white noise.
> In private, White House aides and allies say the impeachment momentum is now presenting a serious threat to the rest of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, to his negotiating strength with world leaders and to his concentration
The Democrats’ decision to launch an impeachment inquiry on Tuesday afternoon raises the stakes of this massive White House gamble, even as the president called any impeachment proceedings “just a continuation of the witch hunt.”
The White House is betting that Trump will ride out this “outrage du jour,” as one senior administration official called it, and move on just as he has skated through the release of the Mueller report, concerns of late about a possible recession, the Charlottesville uproar, Stormy Daniels, the explosive “Access Hollywood“ tape and dozens of other threats to his presidency. . .
But current and former administration aides believe Trump will view the latest impeachment inquiry as a major blow to his ego — and the proceedings will likely distract him, cloud all of his meetings and halt any agenda for this fall including the passage of a major trade bill heading into an election year. . .
Whit Ayres, founder and president of North Star Opinion Research, a Republican polling firm, had this to say"
 “We’re so polarized and in our tribes that people will look through their current lens and determine either the president did something wrong, or Joe Biden did something wrong.
The facts won’t be particularly relevant.”
The White House press office framed the impeachment inquiry as the Democrats’ effort to “continue to weaponize politics.”
“President Trump is working hard on behalf of our country here in New York City while they continue to scream the word impeachment. Nothing new here,”
----- Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary and communications director
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BLOGGER NOTE ON STEPHANIE GRISHAM: She's out of Arizona
Use the Search Box on this blog to see an earlier post where she's the subject

26 June 2019 

New IT Girl For Trump: Grisham Carries A Lot of Baggage With Roots in Arizona

The Donald has named a New Apprentice as the new role model for the Defender for Everything Trump. If you happen to notice a physical similarity with First Lady Melania and former Communications Director Hope Hicks, professional qualifications aside, the departure of Sarah Sanders is an opportunity to introduce a new character into the spotlight: Stephanie Grisham.

Just like Sanders she carries the last name [as a single mother] of another well-known public person, the mystery writer John Grisham. Put that aside for the moment - she actually has worked with other politicians, as spokesperson for the Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives. She also previously served as the spokesperson for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne.

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Brad Parscale, the Trump 2020 campaign manager, said in a statement.
“The misguided Democrat impeachment strategy is meant to appease their rabid, extreme, leftist base, but will only serve to embolden and energize President Trump’s supporters and create a landslide victory for the President.”
Still, the impeachment proceedings could lead to other revelations that are even more distracting for Trump and the GOP agenda.
 

Republican Rusty Bowers, AZ Speaker of The House Claims Sex-Education Classes Are 'Sexualizing' Children

Bowers has been serving terms in the Arizona State House for more than a few years in both chambers. He has been representing District 25 since January 5, 2015. Before that he was a member of the Arizona Senate from 1997-2001 and before that, the Arizona House of Representatives from 1993–1997.
As the current Speaker of The House, where Republicans have a slim majority of one, Bowers expresses certain issues in public.

Some of those views and opinions are the subject of posts on this blog that readers here can view by using the Search box.  

In the last week he's made news headlines for saying he supports more traditional sex education classes in public schools. Some of the presentations he looked at were more graphic than he expected from his perspective of "traditional family values". Surprisingly he got personal on that topic

In of a review of a new tentative curriculum at a meeting in Gilbert, all the visuals and illustrations were way too much.

Way too many details . . .

They simply were not the way he found about sex.

That's a very unusual and un-solicited statement made in public about a very private thing.

Nobody asked.

Since he went there, let's Go There!  We, the public, have been finding out a lot things about sex - and sex practices - of our elected representatives inside the Arizona State House.

Is that way too much information?

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Let's hit the pause button:

In his official capacity as Speaker of The House, Bowers exercises control over the passing of bills to get approved to become laws or house statutes.Here's how tricky he can get trying to impose a statute of limitations on what is public information in outing serial sexual predators.

Speaker preparing sexual abuse statute of limitations bill to break budget impasse

Health Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - May 16, 2019

The top Republican in the Arizona House of Representatives appears to be attempting to break a legislative logjam by introducing a measure to increase the statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual crimes that several GOP senators have said is key if leaders want them to vote on the budget.

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Back to the issue of public school sex-ed classes, keep in mind there is an election on 2020 - and Bowers needs all the hype for what he wants as HOT BUTTON issues attacking the new Democratic Superintendent of Public Education . . .but then he suggested maybe they’re not necessary at all.

“You know what? I have seven children,” he said.
 “I figured it out, my kids have figured it out.’’

“Go to a kid in high school and say,

 ‘Do you know how sex happens, do you know what happens when you have sex?’

[hey Rusty, kids are maturing much earlier these days - in middle school or before]

“I’m betting most of them know,’’
Bowers continued.

“We don’t need to sexualize them in order to educate them.’’

 

But are there teens who don’t know how to prevent pregnancy?

“Oh, please,’’ he responded.

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Mesa lawmaker rails against sex-ed classes             

By Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services 3 hrs ago

(Published online on http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/news 

A Mesa legislator drew a sharp rebuke from the state’s top education official over his claims sex-education courses are sexualizing children.

House Speaker Rusty Bowers alleges materials he saw in a presentation at a Gilbert charter school by Family Watch International have drawings of people engaged in sex acts.

 The Republican speaker called the materials “a complete change’’ in how sex education has been taught for 40 years.

The comments come on the heels of the speaker, from the weekend meeting, indicating Kathy Hoffman, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is promoting these kinds of changes.

“When Kathy Hoffman promotes this, I don’t have any question it’s about radicalizing children and their sexuality.’’

Hoffman called the comments “abhorrent and reprehensible,’’ saying they have “no basis in reality.’’

EVT Staff Writer Jim Walsh Reveals A Tantalizing Missing Detail in City's of Mesa Seizure of Land by Order of Immediate Possession For Police-Fire Complex

Hmmm...certainly now looks like another one of those sweet qwacky "back-handed" deals that City Hall and its real estate acquisition cohorts try to hide behind convenient cover stories and games of charade all the time.
The missing clue: the heretofore un-named private landowner
attorney Paul Wetzel has conveyed the land
"as a gift to a non-profit, non-denominational Christian organization for another purpose."
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Fight brewing over NE Mesa police-fire site

By Jim Walsh, Tribune Staff Writer Sep 22, 2019

"Mesa considers eight acres at Power and Brown roads the best site for a long-awaited police and fire facility targeted at reducing unacceptably long response times in northeast Mesa.

After negotiations to buy the property went nowhere and the landowner spurned a $2.1 million offer, the Mesa City Council is scheduled to decide Monday whether to initiate eminent domain proceedings, if necessary, as “a matter of public necessity.’’

But attorney Paul Wetzel of Cornville was not happy to learn from the Tribune that his property had been selected and questioned why the city could not choose a smaller, cheaper site instead.

“I don’t like to make a lot of waves,’’ Wetzel said, adding that he tries to get along with everyone. . .

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21 September 2019

Seizure By Eminent Domain: City of Mesa Seeks Order of Immediate Possession On Privately-Owned Property

< Here's the most recent intended target:
certain undeveloped property located in the 1300 block of North Power Road (APN: 218-04-013B) of approximately 8.38 acres.
The justification: the construction of the Northeast Public Safety Facility
The city's real estate acquisition staff and the un-identified property owner have not yet reached an agreement for the purchase price of this parcel after almost more than a year.
Property values have sky-rocketed in that area.

The same real estate market forces that reaped a windfall-profit from the sales of city-owned lands in northeast Mesa in District 5 are now blowing back when the city is more eager, ready, and willing - or desperate as the case may be - to consummate a sale-deal at the same time when the parcel owner(s) is/are unwilling at the price offered.
The city is seeking an
Immediate Order of Possession
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Wetzel declined to name the non-profit, but he said he is a member of its board of directors.

". . . Although he received an offer from the city for the property in December,

 

 

“I thought they had forgotten about it,’’ Wetzel said.

Wetzel said the city needs only two acres for such a police and fire facility, not more than eight acres.

“That’s why it doesn’t make sense to me,’’ he said.

But Kim Fallbeck, Mesa’s real estate administrator, disagrees, at least according to her explanation during a Sept. 12 city council study session

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Other characters emerging in Walsh's thrilling writing

> Mesa Mayor John Giles and Councilman Dave Luna, who represents northeast Mesa, both said they are sold on Wetzel’s property as the perfect location for the northeast Mesa facility.

“Please do proceed with this location. It seems obvious this is the right thing to do,’’ Giles said.

 “Let’s go through this process and pay them what’s fair and get this built as soon as possible.’’ . .

> City attorney Jim Smith said that many condemnation proceedings end in mediation, with a mediator helping to set a reasonable price to avoid disputes that end up in lawsuits.

> City Manager Chris Brady said the city is working on a new fire station near the Eastmark master-planned community and the Northeast Police and Fire Facility is probably about three years away from completion.

Coronal Holes, Storms, Electromagnetic Earth & Sun | S0 News Sep.23.2019

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ANOTHER COMING RECESSION? Federal Reserve funds banks billions, market i...

Here's Glenn Beck going on for about 18 minutes about banks are broken. Beck owns his own media network named "Blaze". This is an upload on his own YouTube channel ...Note the new "talking head" view wearing a black baseball cap. He's certainly changed his appearance over the years.

Published on Sep 20, 2019

Views: 244,000+

Comments - more than 2000 so far

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The Lord Calls Lehi as a Prophet | 1 Nephi 1:4–6 | Book of Mormon

Hard-to-believe this one claiming it is about "actual events" recorded from a religious organization established in the 19th Century ...However, there are those who believe it

Published on Sep 22, 2019

Views: 44,000+

"Lehi, a prophet in Jerusalem, becomes troubled at what is happening in the world around him, so he seeks God's direction, and God answers his humble prayer.
Based on 1 Nephi 1:4–6:
4 For it came to pass in the commencement of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, (my father, Lehi, having dwelt at Jerusalem in all his days); and in that same year there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed.
5 Wherefore it came to pass that my father, Lehi, as he went forth prayed unto the Lord, yea, even with all his heart, in behalf of his people.
6 And it came to pass as he prayed unto the Lord, there came a pillar of fire and dwelt upon a rock before him; and he saw and heard much; and because of the things which he saw and heard he did quake and tremble exceedingly.
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