2016 Presidential Campaign

hillary rodham clinton vs donald john trump who will win?

  • hillary rodham clinton

    Votes: 12 40.0%

  • donald john trump

    Votes: 18 60.0%
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Jeb Bush owns his own email server






For all of the talk about Hillary Clinton using private email for official correspondence when she was U.S. Secretary of State, likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush also used private email for official correspondence when he was Florida's chief executive:




Jeb Bush owns his own email server | MSNBC

When he was Milwaukee County Executive, Walker’s staff kept a secret email system and set up a secret wireless router in Walker’s government office that commingled government and campaign business on private Gmail and Yahoo email accounts.

On top of that, county employees were doing campaign work on government time and, by extension, on the taxpayers’ dime—in violation of state law. As the story goes, one of Walker’s aides, Darlene Wink, copped to a misdemeanor guilty plea, and got off with probation for doing campaign work during office hours. Kelly Rindfleisch, Walker’s deputy chief of staff when he was county executive, pleaded guilty to a single felony count for spending “significant time” working as a fund-raiser on government time for Brett Davis, Walker’s running mate.


But it didn’t end there. Brian Pierick, one of the secret website’s webmasters, was convicted of enticing a minor. Another Walker webmaster, Timothy Russell, was sentenced to two years in prison and five years’ probation for stealing from a veterans group, using the money for trips to Hawaii and the Caribbean, and for meeting with Herman Cain’s presidential campaign on the veterans’ tab.




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It’s Not Just Hillary: Scott Walker’s Email Controversy - The Daily Beast
 
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some people think Wisconsin's Scott Walker may be the top runner in the GOP campaign - not with this news:



Wisconsin's middle class is shrinking faster than in any other state



Wisconsin's middle class is shrinking faster than in any other state



Inequality is rising and the American middle class is shrinking. But nowhere is it shrinking faster than in Wisconsin:
In 2000, 54.6 percent of Wisconsin families fell into the middle class category but that has fallen to 48.9 percent in 2013, according to U.S. Census figures compiled by Pew.
All other states showed some decline but none as great as Wisconsin’s 5.7 percent figure.

Wisconsin's median household income fell 14.7 percent during those years.

Obviously this decline pre-dates Scott Walker's election as governor, but it's safe to say that Walker's terrible job creation record, a poor record even according to the Chamber of Commerce, isn't helping. Neither is saying the minimum wage "doesn't serve a purpose," or attacking the unions that reduce inequality, or slashing education funding. Walker was able to get elected by playing on the fears of voters in a shrinking middle class, but his agenda was always aimed at accelerating the decline.
 
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And they say Jeb's the bright one.............








The presumed Republican presidential nomination candidate, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, said if he'd been in George w's boots, he'd have also ordered the invasion of Iraq (link is external).

“I would have [authorised the invasion], and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody,”

Bush told Fox News television in an interview to be aired late on Monday. “And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.”

Of course Jeb conveniently overlooks that the "intelligence" was a compendium of fiction ginned up by his brother's administration. He also seems to have forgotten that the teams of UN weapons inspectors under Hans Blix scoured every potential WMD site the Americans could think of and reported there was nothing to be found.

Jeb also seems to have left out the part about how he's surrounding himself with many of the same advisers who so ably assisted George w. Bush to build a phony casus belli against Iraq.






Jeb Bush: I would have invaded Iraq | US news | The Guardian
 
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Bobby Jindal Broke Louisiana So Badly That Even the GOP Doesn’t Want Him









Corporate Welfare: Louisiana loses $300,000 every time the A&E show Duck Dynasty films an episode. The state once gave an oil refiner $10 million to create 43 jobs. All in all, Louisiana directs over $1.1 billion in taxpayer money to business incentives—more than double the cost when Jindal took office. As The Advocate reported last year, these giveaways have deepened rather than alleviated the state’s economic woes.


Education: To paper over the chasms of corporate tax breaks, Jindal has repeatedly robbed the state’s colleges and universities. Funding for higher education has been slashed by more than 43 percent since Jindal took office, a cutback exceeded only by Arizona. The flagship Louisiana State University may be forced to shrink its budget by 40 percent next year. Jindal also presided over the creation of one of the largest public-school voucher systems for K-12 grade students, which courts have twice ruled unconstitutional. Recent data suggests that Jindal’s much-publicized reforms are not delivering the promised educational gains.


Health: Jindal’s record in this regard is particularly atrocious, considering that he once headed Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals. Nearly 250,000 people don’t have healthcare because Jindal refuses to use federal money to expand Medicaid. Earlier this year a crucial emergency facility announced that it was closing because it couldn’t afford to treat so many uninsured. Other public hospitals have been privatized. Under his leadership STD prevention programs have lost millions of dollars in state funding, and some health clinics have been barred from opening. Louisiana now has the nation’s second-highest rate of gonorrhea and the third-highest rate of syphilis, along with some of the highest rates of HIV infection and teen pregnancy.


Voting Rights: Jindal applauded when the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act in its Shelby County ruling in 2013, commenting, “The Court recognized that states can fairly design our own maps and run our own elections without the federal government.” A year later the NAACP won a lawsuit against his administration for preventing Louisianans from registering to vote at state agencies that assist them with public services like food stamps—a prohibition that impacted low-income and minority Louisianans in particular. “There’s nothing wrong with protecting the integrity of our elections.” Jindal said during a radio interview earlier this month. He then claimed that voter-identification laws are “not an unusual or overwhelming burden.”


Discrimination: A self-anointed champion of the Christian right, this spring Jindal bypassed the legislature and issued a “marriage and conscience” executive order to protect religious business owners who discriminate against gay customers. “I don’t know about you, but sometimes it feels like evangelical Christians are the only group that it’s okay to discriminate against in this society,” he said in Iowa this spring. Jindal has been a staunch defender of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson since he compared homosexuality to terrorism, among other things.


Criminal Justice: Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration in the United States. Last year Jindal vetoed legislation aimed at reducing the state’s prison population—which is largely made up of nonviolent offenders—by hastening parole eligibility and investing in rehabilitation, calling the bill “a step too far.”


Jindal isn’t the only current or former Republican governor to enter the primary after making a mess of his state. But thanks to the conservative backlash back home, Jindal’s mess is particularly toxic. What’s fascinating is how Jindal has morphed from a politician with a serious, almost nerdy policy focus to an ideologue with a reputation for mismanagement. The guy who once admonished the GOP to abandon “dumbed-down conservatism” has embraced it fully.




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Bobby Jindal Broke Louisiana So Badly That Even the GOP Doesn’t Want Him | The Nation










 
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tay said:
Bobby Jindal Broke Louisiana So Badly That Even the GOP Doesn’t Want Him









Corporate Welfare: Louisiana loses $300,000 every time the A&E show Duck Dynasty films an episode. The state once gave an oil refiner $10 million to create 43 jobs. All in all, Louisiana directs over $1.1 billion in taxpayer money to business incentives—more than double the cost when Jindal took office. As The Advocate reported last year, these giveaways have deepened rather than alleviated the state’s economic woes.


Education: To paper over the chasms of corporate tax breaks, Jindal has repeatedly robbed the state’s colleges and universities. Funding for higher education has been slashed by more than 43 percent since Jindal took office, a cutback exceeded only by Arizona. The flagship Louisiana State University may be forced to shrink its budget by 40 percent next year. Jindal also presided over the creation of one of the largest public-school voucher systems for K-12 grade students, which courts have twice ruled unconstitutional. Recent data suggests that Jindal’s much-publicized reforms are not delivering the promised educational gains.


Health: Jindal’s record in this regard is particularly atrocious, considering that he once headed Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals. Nearly 250,000 people don’t have healthcare because Jindal refuses to use federal money to expand Medicaid. Earlier this year a crucial emergency facility announced that it was closing because it couldn’t afford to treat so many uninsured. Other public hospitals have been privatized. Under his leadership STD prevention programs have lost millions of dollars in state funding, and some health clinics have been barred from opening. Louisiana now has the nation’s second-highest rate of gonorrhea and the third-highest rate of syphilis, along with some of the highest rates of HIV infection and teen pregnancy.


Voting Rights: Jindal applauded when the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act in its Shelby County ruling in 2013, commenting, “The Court recognized that states can fairly design our own maps and run our own elections without the federal government.” A year later the NAACP won a lawsuit against his administration for preventing Louisianans from registering to vote at state agencies that assist them with public services like food stamps—a prohibition that impacted low-income and minority Louisianans in particular. “There’s nothing wrong with protecting the integrity of our elections.” Jindal said during a radio interview earlier this month. He then claimed that voter-identification laws are “not an unusual or overwhelming burden.”


Discrimination: A self-anointed champion of the Christian right, this spring Jindal bypassed the legislature and issued a “marriage and conscience” executive order to protect religious business owners who discriminate against gay customers. “I don’t know about you, but sometimes it feels like evangelical Christians are the only group that it’s okay to discriminate against in this society,” he said in Iowa this spring. Jindal has been a staunch defender of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson since he compared homosexuality to terrorism, among other things.


Criminal Justice: Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration in the United States. Last year Jindal vetoed legislation aimed at reducing the state’s prison population—which is largely made up of nonviolent offenders—by hastening parole eligibility and investing in rehabilitation, calling the bill “a step too far.”


Jindal isn’t the only current or former Republican governor to enter the primary after making a mess of his state. But thanks to the conservative backlash back home, Jindal’s mess is particularly toxic. What’s fascinating is how Jindal has morphed from a politician with a serious, almost nerdy policy focus to an ideologue with a reputation for mismanagement. The guy who once admonished the GOP to abandon “dumbed-down conservatism” has embraced it fully.




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Bobby Jindal Broke Louisiana So Badly That Even the GOP Doesn’t Want Him | The Nation










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