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In the House, two Republicans, Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, were stripped of their committee assignments for social media posts that contained threats of violence against Democratic colleagues and a third, Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado, could yet be sanctioned for suggesting one of two Muslim women in the House, Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, could be a suicide bomber. When the House on Tuesday debated Ms. Omars bill to create a State Department post to combat anti-Muslim bigotry, Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, accused Ms. Omar of harboring terrorist sympathies.

Insults and shout-downs have become the order of the day. Ms. Taylor Greene showed up in September at a Democratic news event to heckle the majority party, calling them baby killers. In July, liberal protesters drowned out her and other far-right House members with jeers and taunts as they tried to hold a media event denouncing the treatment of those imprisoned for the attack on the Capitol.

Indeed, the ill will on Capitol Hill cannot be separated from the Jan. 6 attack and the fallout from it a hasty impeachment of Mr. Trump that ended in acquittal and an attempted convening of a bipartisan commission to examine the attack that ended with a Republican filibuster in the Senate.

Norman J. Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, tagged Congress as the broken branch back in 2006. But 2021, he said, started with not just a broken branch but a broken Capitol.

Senate Republicans had the chance in February to bar Mr. Trump from ever running for office by joining Democrats in convicting him of inciting an insurrection. While seven Republicans did vote to convict, the Senate needed 10 more.

Ms. Murkowski said that the revelations since those events that some House Republicans encouraged the overturning of Mr. Bidens victory, that Fox News personalities begged that Mr. Trump call off the riot and that the former president embraced an illegal, step-by-step effort to maintain control further validated her votes to convict Mr. Trump and create an independent inquiry.

On the Republican side, there was such an effort weve got to get this behind us; weve got to get beyond it and in fairness, we have work to do every day, she said. But this was not just a bad disagreement over policy. This was an insurrection. This was a threat to our very democracy.

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Former president Donald Trump is getting more help paying his legal bills from the Republican National Committee.

According to TheWashington Post, the RNC has signed on to shoulder up to $1.6m towards the costs incurred by Mr Trump in the course of civil and criminal investigations into his eponymous real estate businesses.

The investigations are being conducted by New York State Attorney General Letitia James and outgoing Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr, both of whom are examining whether the Trump Organization broke New York laws laws by over or underreporting the value of various pieces of real estate for tax or insurance purposes.

Mr Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing in either probe, but a Manhattan grand jury indicted his company and its longtime chief financial officer, Alan Weisselberg, this summer on charges that theyd carried out a long-running scheme to avoid paying taxes on employee compensation.

In a statement to the Post, GOP spokesperson Emma Vaughn said the RNCs executive committee signed off on approving certain legal expenses that relate to politically motivated legal proceedings waged against President Trump.

As a leader of our party, defending President Trump and his record of achievement is critical to the GOP. It is entirely appropriate for the RNC to continue assisting in fighting back against the Democrats never ending witch hunt and attacks on him.

The Post described the move as highly unusual given Mr Trumps status as a former president and as a potential candidate in the 2024 presidential primary. Because the current president is not a Republican, the RNC is bound by its own bylaws to remain neutral in any primary contest.

Doug Heye, a former RNC spokesperson and a critic of Mr Trump, told the Post he does not think GOP donors will complain much even though their money is being used to subsidize a putative billionaires legal expenses.

Some will grumble privately, but most wont say anything, and a lot of them will be good with it, he said.

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December 18, 2021By: Dwayne Page

Both the DeKalb County Democratic and Republican Parties will hold a primary school board election for districts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 and any other vacancies that may occur on Tuesday May 3, 2022.

I have received a proper request from the DeKalb Democratic Party to add school board seats to the May 2022 Primary, said Administrator of Elections Dennis Stanley.

Local Democratic Party leaders met on Monday, December 6 to make it official.

We request a May primary be held for any and all school board offices on the August 2022 ballot, including any vacancies that may occur, signed by Chairman Billie Ann Tubbs-Trigueros and Secretary Carolyn Hawkins.

The Republican Party Executive Committee met on Monday, November 29 and voted to hold a DeKalb County School Board Republican Primary election on Tuesday May 3, 2022.

Party leaders had until December 10 to notify the election commission of their decision in time for the 2022 elections.

Under a new state law, candidates for local school boards in Tennessee can now run-in partisan races.

For many years local school board elections have been nonpartisan in Tennessee and candidates were barred from campaigning as a nominee or representative of a political party when running for school board.

Now, local political parties are allowed to direct county election officials to hold a party primary for the seats. Even with the change in the law, school board candidates do not have to run as Democrats or Republicans. They could still choose to run as nonpartisan or independents in the county general election as they have for the last several years.

In DeKalb County, there are seven school board positions, but the four-year terms are staggered, meaning five of the school board seats are filled in the same election year while the other two positions are filled in elections two years later. In 2022, the seats up for election are currently held by Danny Parkerson in the 1st district, Alan Hayes in the 2nd district, Jim Beshearse in the 3rd district, Kate Miller in the 4th district, and Shaun Tubbs in the 7th district. The other two up for election in 2024 are Jamie Cripps in the 5th district and Jason Miller in the 6th district.

In a letter to chairs of both the DeKalb County Democratic and Republican Parties, Administrator of Elections Stanley explained that the district offices for school board up for election in 2022 can be added to local party primary ballots in May 2022.

The General Assembly passed legislation during their recent special session that allows parties to nominate candidates for any school board office. Because you have called a primary in May, you have the option to add school board offices that will appear on the August ballot to the primary. This includes county school districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, said Stanley.

If you would like to supplement your existing call for a primary to add school board offices, you must file an original written notice with our office no later than the close of business on Friday, December 10, 2021. Like any call for a primary, we request that it be signed by two members of the county executive committee, Stanley said.

The election commission will begin issuing candidate petitions for the May 3, 2022, primaries on December 20, 2021.

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Three Republican residents of the hedonistic Florida retirement haven The Villages have been charged with casting multiple votes in the 2020 presidential election, according to local reports. Click Orlando identified the three as Jay Ketcik, 63, Joan Halstead, 71, and John Rider, 61. Each of them have reportedly been charged with casting more than one ballot in the electiona crime that could land them in prison for as long as five years. Ketcik allegedly voted by mail in Florida while also casting an absentee ballot in Michigan; Halstead is accused of voting in-person in Florida and as an absentee in New York; and Rider allegedly voted in Florida and an unspecified out-of-state location. Ketcik and Halstead reportedly turned themselves in to police, while Rider is said to have been arrested at a Royal Caribbean cruise-ship terminal in Port Canaveral. Click Orlando states that its not known who the trio voted for, but all three are reportedly registered as Republicans in Florida, and Facebook pages that seem to belong to Ketcik and Halstead show posts supporting Donald Trump.

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To the Editor:

As a former Republican, I have now realized that the Republican Party of Lincoln, of Eisenhower, or even of Reagan is no more and is not likely to return.The two-party system at the state level, due to restrictions on access to the ballot put in place by both parties over the years to prevent the rise or power of a third party, will effectively prevent the formation of a viable new political party or the rise of multiple political parties as exist in other western nations. Balance is important, but we do not have it now; there exists little or no dialogue between parties and zero debate on real issues. The most rapidly rising registration is Independent, showing frustration or disgust with both organized political parties in the US. The problem with that is closed primaries and a system where whoever wins the primary is an automatic winner in the general election and Independents are disenfranchised have no say. For Republicans a moderate cannot win the primary which has given us the crazies like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and Paul Gosar. So, I have a radical but workable solution to allow the election of more moderate Republicans and a return to sanity. In states with closed primaries, all Democrats and Independents need to re-register as Republicans and let it be known that you will only vote for a moderate Republican. Even in districts with only 30 percent Democrats or Independents, it would be enough to move the election away from the extremist cult QAnon group and would let moderate Republicans know they could win, if they run. A game changer? A real solution? Lets do it!

Jack StephensVillage of Sanibel

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