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To the editor: A few supporters of President Trump blame liberal news organizations for feeding the deranged mind-set of radicals, to quote directly from one letter. (Are anti-Trump media to blame for the Alexandria shooting? Some readers say yes, Readers React, June 17)

What these people miss is the simple point that we liberals are not responding to media prompts such as those from Breitbart or Fox News. We are responding to the simple reality of what Trump actually does or wants to do: gutting environmental protection, repealing financial regulations and consumer protection, pushing for the privatization of public education, eroding healthcare, implementing massive tax cuts for the rich and engaging in friendly relations with autocrats.

No spin or phony conspiracies are in play here.

Jan Rainbird, Irvine

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To the editor: I have been able to vote starting with President Eisenhower. Since then, I am unable to recall any candidate utter the vindictiveness that Trump has.

When he was running for president, Trump offered to pay the legal fees of anyone who roughed up hecklers at his rallies. Have we ever seen a candidate who maligned his opponents the way Trump did? When have we ever heard a president call the media the enemy of the American people?

It is not a wonder that this president has touched a very raw nerve in the public. The fault for the total lack of civility in politics today lies not with the Republicans or the Democrats, nor with the so-called left or right. Rather, the fault belongs to the most important man on this planet.

Ed J. Mizrai, Woodland Hills

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For the second day in a row, the BC Liberals have unveiled new pre-Throne Speech spending items not included in the 2017 budget or Liberal election platform.

Today the new Environment Minister announced a $50-million boost to electric car charging stations.

READ MORE: B.C. government sends 30 news releases in 7 hours, announcing over $2.3B in spending

Jordan Sturdy says over five years, the money will allow for 321 fast-charging stations and 4,211 level-two charging stations around the province.

As for where the cash will come from, Sturdy says the province can afford it without going into the red.

The finance minister is quite confident that were going to be able to incorporate this $50-million into our $49.5-billion budget, Sturdy said.

The move brings the total in new spending announced by the Liberals this week to $218.6-million.

WATCH:Christy Clark announces whats next following deal made by NDP, BC Green Party

Sturdy also commented on why the program wasnt included in the Liberals election platform.

Im pleased to be involved in this change in direction, or this additional initiative I suppose is a better way of saying it, he said.

This is the next phase of our Climate Leadership Plan. So this is something that were putting forward as a, you know, theres an important component its important to have a robust infrastructure around the province.

READ MORE: BC Liberals pledging to raise welfare rates, ban big money in Throne Speech

The announcement comes amid a flurry of about-faces on core BC Liberal policies as the clock ticks down to Thursdays Throne Speech and a confidence vote an allied NDP and Green party are projected to win.

Last week, the Liberals announced they would scrap a requirement for Metro Vancouver to hold a referendum on any new transit funding mechanisms.

And Monday, the party said it would move to ban union and corporate political donations while increasing welfare and disability rates both moves the party has long resisted and campaigned against ahead of the May election.

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Caitlyn Jenner was heavily criticized by liberals over the weekend after a video surfaced showing Jenner joking about them at a Republican conference in Washington D.C.

Jenner made the joke Friday evening at the annual College Republican National Committees conference during a discussion about last weeks shooting that targeted congressional Republicans practicing for the annual congressional baseball game.

Nobody deserves what happened out there, Jenner said, according to the Washington Examiner. Theres no justification.

There are crazy people. We have to minimize that type of stuff, Jenner added. As far as the people that were injured, its an absolute shame. You just want them to recover.

Fortunately the guy was a really bad shotliberals cant even shoot straight, the former Olympic champion quipped.

Jenner was referring to 66-year-old James Hodgkinson, the now-deceased man who ambushed a group of Republican congressmen last Wednesday morning while they practiced at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia. It was discovered through Hodgkinsons social media channels that he was a devout progressive liberal who had a deep hatred for Republicans and President Donald Trump.

Though the motive of the attack will never truly be known, most believe Hodgkinsons hatred of Republicans motivated him to carry out the attack.

Hodgkinson was able to critical injure House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), a GOP congressional aide and two Capitol Police officers before he was shot and subdued by the Capitol Police officers, who were part of Scalises security detail.

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Jenners remarks at the convention came in the form of a question and answer session where a moderator incorporated questions submitted by college students in the audience. Over the course of the dinner, Jenner spoke on a variety of topics, from Kanye West to the Paris climate agreement, which the track and field legend said was just a way for the rest of the world to kind of ruin us economically.

Video of Jenners remarks were originally uploaded to Facebook, but the video has since been deleted. Another video of Jenners remarks were later uploaded to YouTube.

Needless to say, liberals were angered by Jenners remarks:

https://twitter.com/DearAuntCrabby/status/876475432115343364

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Caitlyn Jenner jokes about liberals while discussing baseball shooting and liberals are enraged - TheBlaze.com

The BC Liberals have stopped disclosing political donations in real time, saying they are instead focusing staff time on preparing for potential new fundraising rules under an NDP government.

The move caught the BC NDP off guard, but a spokesman for the the party, which is preparing to work with the BC Green Party to oust the Liberals in a confidence vote, said New Democrats will stick with ongoing efforts to raise corporate, union and individual donations under the current system before they can get into power and ban union and corporate donations.

BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark had once touted the partys voluntary posting of weekly donation updates on its website as an admirable effort at clarity in light of criticism about the lack of fundraising limits that led to some of Canadas highest political donations being made in B.C.

But in an e-mail, party spokesman Emile Scheffel said the system is taking too much effort.

Real-time reporting requires significant staff time, and we are now focused on evaluating how we will raise funds in accordance with likely new rules, he wrote, explaining the shift.

The party is turning away from providing ongoing information on donors to preparing for the introduction of a ban on corporate and union donations expected by an NDP government.

The media and public had the opportunity to see who contributed to our party, and how much, during the pre-writ period and the election campaign. Unfortunately, they wont know who funded the BC NDP or Green Party campaigns until election financial reports are made public by Elections BC in August, Mr. Scheffel wrote.

Late Sunday, Stephen Smart, a spokesperson for Premier Christy Clark, said the government's throne speech will include a commitment to ban corporate and union donations. However, Ms. Clark has acknowledged her government appears certain to fail a confidence vote in the coming weeks.

NDP Leader John Horgan and his party have said there is little point in weakening their ability to engage in political combat with the Liberals so they have forged ahead raising money following the election. The NDP and Greens were searingly critical during the election campaign of the Liberals refusal to bring in donation limits and ban union and corporate donations.

Last year, the Liberals raised $12-million while the NDP raised $6.2-million in donations. The Green Party has already banned corporate and union donations to their party.

Indeed, the NDP are planning a fundraising event in Vancouver on June 23 featuring Mr. Horgan and other NDP MLAs that Glen Sanford, the partys deputy director, said is sold out. Regular tickets are $350, with group rates for a ticket buyer and three friends going for $1,000.

While the party continues to accept union and corporate donations, it is not making a specific outreach effort for those donations, Mr. Sanford said in an interview.

Weve said all along that we will play by the rules that are in place. As soon as were government, were going to change those rules. Theres way too much at stake to give an advantage to Christy Clark and the Liberals, he said. Anybody who donates to us knows we will change the rules. We have been very clear about that.

A governance agreement between the NDP and the BC Green Party commits to the corporate and union donation ban, as well as a ban on contributions from non-residents of B.C. There will also be limits placed on individual contributions. Other measures include a review of campaign finance and the B.C. Election Act.

Mr. Sanford said the Liberal real-time policy was a bid to change the subject on the need to ban corporate and union donations, and suggested the Liberal reversal appears an effort to conceal a drive to aggressively raise money ahead of changes to campaign-finance laws.

Mr. Sanford said his party has generally received most of its money from individual donations, and is making more appeals for small donations such as last weeks written outreach for $5 or more to help the party prepare for a possible snap election. The appeal was included in a letter to prospective donors signed by Mr. Sanford himself.

We are developing and improving our techniques for reaching out to individuals and asking for donations, and that means we try to adjust the request amounts to what individuals can contribute, he said. Our focus is on turning our attention to the new reality where political parties will only be funded by individuals.

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Liberal groups like the Sierra Club have led the charge in filing environmental lawsuits against the Trump administration in its first five months.

Buttheres one environmental lawsuit against the Trump administration that liberals seem to have avoided almost entirely: the Immigration Reform Law Institutes lawsuit againstthe Department of Homeland Security, filed on behalf of several environmentalist groups, for ignoring the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

IRLI lawyers told The Daily Caller in a recent interviewthat DHS has never analyzed or publicized the environmental effects of the agencys immigration actions, as they are legally required to do under NEPA.

NEPA says every time an agency takes a discretionary action, it has to think about the environmental impact of it and they didnt do that, said IRLI lawyer Julie Axelrod. There are many immigration actions and cumulatively they have an extremely large environmental impact, they change the quality of life for the American people, which is ultimately what NEPA was about.

The heart of their mistake is that when they passed regulations under (NEPA), which all agencies do, they never took into account that one of their main missions, which is the implementation of immigration law, is something that can be environmentally meaningful, she added.

Liberal groups like the Sierra Club have been of no help, IRLI said.

Immigration concerns were common in the environmental movement really up until the turn of the century, that was a keystone of people who were active in the environmental movement including David Brower who used to be the head of the Sierra Club, talking about population andimmigrationtogether were not controversial, saidEric Ruarkof Numbers USA,an advocacy group that supports reduced immigration.Sierra Club has entered into coalitions where environmental concerns have taken a backseat to other political priorities.

Most of our population growth is because of immigration and when the population grows it affects the environment in a host of ways thats the source of urban sprawl it affects resource use such as water, food, you havetraffic, you have pollution.According to the global warming theory, carbon emissions actually go up with immigration because people who immigrate typically use more carbon when they move to a new country, IRLI lawyer Julie Axelrod explained.

The legal group filed the lawsuit at the end ofthe Obama administration and it has continued into the Trumpyears.The Department of Justice lawyers handling the lawsuit have continued stalling under the Trump administration, much like they did under when Obama was president, the IRLI lawyers said.The DOJ did not return a request for comment by press time. (RELATED:Environmentalists File Lawsuit Against DHS For Ignoring Impact Of Mass Migration)

Theyve had seven months to respond to this lawsuit. Under the federal rules they have 60 days to begin with. They asked for two more 60 days and then right before their response was due we were trying to get a meeting and see if maybe their views on this had changed and they said oh yeah give us another 30 days and we can set up a settlement discussion but basically they got there and it was just a ruse and it was in bad faith, said IRLI attorney Dale Wilcox.The head DOJ attorney basically said to Julie (Axelrod),Your guy (Trump) won what more do you want?'

In addition to environmentalist groups, other plaintiffs in the suit include residents on the southwest border who have seen their land damaged by illegal aliens crossing the border.

One such plaintiff is Caren Cowan, executive director of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association, who said she no longer feels safe out on the cattle range due to aliens crossing the border and damaging her property. The lawsuit stated: Her grandmothers homestead was ransacked and despoiled by illegal aliens on multiple occasions.

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The One Environmental Lawsuit Against The Trump Admin That Liberals Want To Ignore - The Daily Caller