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Politics channels dopesThe FBI and IRS Target a Democrat Well, today I am starting off with a sort of local story. On Wednesday the 17th, you may recall this piece from J.J. Sefton's Morning Report from Joel Pollak: Former Democrat Congressman T.J. Cox Indicted on 28 Counts of Fraud. It's a good, short piece: Former Rep. T.J. Cox (D-CA), who was part of the 2018 "blue wave" election that brought Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) back to power, was indicted Tuesday on 28 federal counts, including fraud and campaign contribution fraud. I haven't seen that in other pieces, but it reminds me of another person in the news who lives in Maryland while representing people elsewhere. There is a discussion of legal ballot harvesting connected to his 2018 win in this piece, too. From the DOJ press release: A 28-count indictment was unsealed today in the Eastern District of California charging a former member of Congress with multiple fraud schemes and campaign contribution fraud. There is more. I first learned about this story from the radio while riding back from Fresno after surgery. I had been under conscious sedation, so I might get some details wrong, but he was arrested at the federal courthouse in Fresno and soon after that, someone stuck a microphone in his face. I heard a vague statement about how he had not read the indictments and how politics was tough and how he would not be there now if it weren't for politics. Well, he would not have faced the campaign-related charges, but what about the tax charges and the business fraud charges? Would he have been a fine, upstanding citizen if he had steered clear of politics? Was he being framed? The charges seem really serious: This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the IRS Criminal Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Henry Z. Carbajal III and Jeffrey A. Spivak are prosecuting the case. The "daily buzz question" from the radio station concerned whether or not we thought the charges against Cox were politically motivated. What do you think? The New York Times pointed out that "In recent months, the Justice Department has pursued a handful of cases against Democratic officials." That proves that they are not just targeting Trump and his supporters. Right? Has Cox lost favor with Democrats? How did Cox go from being a big wheel in Fresno to a representative of an even more rural district? The 21st Congressional District This congressional district is very rural, and BIG. Well, not as big as, say, Wyoming. But still, it stretches through parts of Kern County, all of Kings County and parts of Tulare and Fresno Counties. If you have ever driven along the I-5 from Los Angeles to San Francisco or flown your plane into Harris Ranch for a steak, you have been to the 21st District. Much of this land is in the rain shadow of the Coast Range, and is dependent for water on the California Aqueduct and canals from the Sierra for water. Thus, it is very dependent on government decision-makers. There are oil and mining interests as well as farms in the district. Even though there are a lot of conservative people in the district, there are also a lot of old-fashioned labor union type activists representing farm workers as well as newer "Erin Brockovich" type activists (the movie was about a town in this district). As of 2022, it is the most Democratic district to be represented by a Republican. David Valadao, the current representative, is one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. Politics in the 21st District Devin Nunes once represented the district, but the boundaries have not always been the same. He represented the 22nd congressional district from 2003 to 2022. He was a bulldog as Adam Schiff engaged in serial lying during the Russia Collusion miasma. Nunes is something of a contrast to Valadao. Still, Valadao seems preferable to Cox, who won by just a few votes in 2018 long after election day. It was the last election decided that year. There seemed to be something fishy about the late votes coming in. When Cox first ran in the district, he live a little outside of it and was known as a Fresno community development leader. That is, he got grants for development projects. And, as we learned later, scammed his business partners and others. From what I have read, all of the federal charges are from before he was elected in 2018. March of 2018: "Obviously the DCCC doesn't think too highly of any of the residents of California's 21st Congressional District. Instead, they have decided Washington insiders know best, coercing out locals and running their own handpicked candidate," wrote Cole Rojewski, campaign spokesman for Valadao. Unfortunately for Cox, it appears that part of the contributions from donors were from money he gave to the donors to contribute back to his campaign. Those are some of the charges made against him this week. Campaign finance laws can cause problems for "the little people", but this guy seemed to go way beyond breaking the rules in one area of the law. Cox was criticized for pushing to gain preferential access into Yosemite National Park over the July 4 weekend. In October 2020, Cox's campaign acknowledged fabricating a tweet to make it appear as if Valadao had retweeted a message from President Trump saying "California is going to hell. Vote Trump!" I remember the news about the July 4 weekend. Didn't seem like a real big scandal to me. The fabricated tweet is really creepy. There were rumors about problems with taxes and business dealings, but they seemed kind of vague. Not anymore, I guess. Cox's time in Congress seemed kind of vague, too. Anyway, Valadao won the seat back in another squeaker. Before the Cox scandals really hit. Valley politics could use some upgrading. I wonder if Cox thought he would be able to skate forever? Think Piece for the Weekend Remember this tweet about from Kurt Shideler? There's a follow-up. A really detailed follow-up.
You got me. I have never yet written a serious word about the left's desire to make war on half the country. I will do better. Here's "better": How the government shifted its "Counter-Extremism" strategy to target the mainstream. The narrative is here, and it doesn't like you very much. "Extremists have gone mainstream," echoes journalist Zahra Ahmad. "Lawyers, realtors and every-day folks make up their ranks." Ahmad cites a figure suggesting a quarter of Americans hold "ideas incubated by white nationalists." The Chicago Project is led by Robert Pape, a University of Chicago academic best known for declaring that Islamic extremism plays no role in suicide bombings and who once urged a U.S. government-identified front group for the terror organization Hamas to purchase copies to promote his book. So it's an open question whether Pape and company can actually identify extremism when they see it. There's a question you don't often see: "A threat to whom?" Then Shideler tackes the questions, How did we get here? And What do we do about it? He goes back to decisions made early in the War on Terror. Other decisions built on those, and gradually, the official narrative became ridiculous. People turned into dopes. Anyway, read the whole thing. The last heading in the piece is correct: Music Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend. This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.
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