Here's a quick 12-Minute look - WHOA! The outcome from the Study Session is what readers of this blog can see - it's something the City Council had wanted to avoid. It really is way too early for Ms. Cannistraro to be looking so ragged so soon. Last year's October Budget Hearings are clearly coming back-to-bite and rattle both Hizzoner mayor John Giles and City Manager Chris Brady when faced to answer specific questions raised by District 2 Council member Jeremy Whittaker. A PUBLIC HEARING ON JANUARY 27TH _________________________________________________________________________________
Yes there are 'some good things to talk about' as John Giles makes his opening statements calling first on Mr. Whittaker who clearly states a number of questions and Candace Cannistraro is ready to assume her position in the hot seat to respond - time and time with repeating the same rehearsed replies constantly looking over in the city manager's direction for reassurance. Both Brady and Giles need to step-in when Whittaker doesn't give up asking for more clear answers.
That all starts in the first three minutes when what inquires exactly what is that 5-Year Capital Improvement Project? Is it a wish-list as written last year or actual ? Back-and-forth with oblique responses from both Brady and Giles, "Let's be clear" and "Honestly . . ." and "Let's be careful" and finally "Let's be careful" . . . Brady: "I don't want to get caught in any word-games . . ." _________________________________________________________________________
BLOGGER NOTE: Brady gets so rattled trying to maintain his forced composure that he makes a blunder when reciting a litany of future scheduled meetings - THERE IS NO NEXT CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 16th. It's not on the Mesa Legistar Calendar! After all that tense jockeying back-and-forth and self-assurances to assert questionable excuses, the mayor rattles off a list of events attended, followed by other councilmembers trying to score points tamping-down the very evident tensions. _________________________________________________________________________
Thank you Governor Ducey for nominating this temporary-Senator to fill in the unfinished term of Jon Kyl. McSally created some drama in a hallway yesterday -
"Manu, you're a liberal hack. I'm not going to talk to you,"McSally said before cutting into a side room. Raju had asked McSallly whether the Senate should consider new evidence as part of the impeachment trial.
It's unclear what exactly prompted McSally's barb but it was leveled at a news network regularly panned by Republicans for showing liberal bias.
After Raju tweeted about the incident, McSally doubled down and tweeted her own video of the exchange.
Manu Question : Senator McSally, should the Senate consider new evidence as part of the impeachment trial?McSally: You’re a liberal hack I’m not talking to youManu- You’re not going to comment about this?McSally: You're a liberal hack. _________________________________________________________________
manu Raju tweeted
Sen. Martha McSally, a Republican facing a difficult election race, lashed out when I asked if she would consider new evidence as part of the Senate trial. “You’re a liberal hack - I’m not talking to you. You’re a liberal hack.” She then walked into a hearing room.
Raju also seemed to indicate McSally's comments stemmed from the fact that she faced a difficult election in Arizona. _________________________________________________________________ Here's reporter Jim Small's story yesterday
McSally stands athwart a fair impeachment trial yelling, ‘Liberal hack!’
Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz, gestures to President Donald Trump during a rally for her U.S. Senate campaign at the International Air Response facility on Oct. 19, 2018 in Mesa. Photo by Ralph Freso | Getty Images
"McSally has for months squirmed about her role in an impeachment trial. And in doing so, she’s changed her position on many things – including witnesses. . .
But now, with the ball in her court, McSally has decided that witnesses and evidence aren’t necessary elements of fairness.
That’s because the “fairness” she cares about isn’t a fairness to the Constitution or the people of Arizona whom she represents – and who in 2018 said she shouldn’t – that would demand she honestly assess the mountains of evidence and testimony already gathered and seek the truth.
Instead, “fairness” for McSally and too many of her GOP colleagues is defined by quickly exonerating Trump – and enabling him to continue to run roughshod over the U.S. Senate, the Constitution and the American people.
Anyone who dares question her on that must be a liberal hack. Are you listening, Arizona?
If you’re having trouble with how the magnitude of the scandal involving Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine has seemed to grow at a bewildering rate in the past 72 or so hours, just do like Martha McSally and refuse to even consider what this new evidence means.
Should the U.S. Senate consider new evidence discovered in the weeks since the U.S. House finished its investigation?
It’s clear that McSally doesn’t want to consider the evidence unearthed this week by House investigators – and made public – that Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was in Ukraine digging up dirt on Joe Biden’s with the president’s “knowledge and consent.” Or that Lev Parnas, who was working with Giuliani, says he was acting on behalf of Trump and is “betting my whole life that Trump knew exactly everything that was going on.”
Here's hoping he can maintain the dignity and integrity of The Supreme Court inside the Senate Chamber in The Congress Published yesterday Chief Justice John Roberts affirms his own oath to enforce Impartial Justice and then swears in 99 senators at the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
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More than 2 hours, but posted here for information purposes. Bannon was raised Irish-Catholic in the 50's and 60's from what he calls 'a tough neighborhood. "The Family, The Church and The Phone Company" This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Explore the transcript and interactive version of this interview, and others, on the FRONTLINE website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/in... ____________________________________________________ Steve Bannon is a media executive and political strategist. He served as executive chairman of Breitbart News, as an adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and later as chief strategist in the Trump White House.
Bannon's candid interview was conducted with FRONTLINE on March 17, 2019 during the making of the two-part January 2020 documentary series “America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump."
Watch Part One here: https://youtu.be/SnMBYMOTwEs
And Part Two here: https://youtu.be/l5vyDPN19ww
