3 Stories You Should Read 2/18/2019: North Carolina, Lawton Chiles, Alec Baldwin
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In the category of: He’s probably right.
Alec Baldwin: Trump’s ‘SNL’ Attack May Be ‘A Threat To My Safety’
The actor wondered about the president’s intentions for assailing his role in the TV comedy.
Alec Baldwin hit back at President Donald Trump’s rage-tweet “Saturday Night Live” attack, asking whether the president’s “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” smear constitutes “a threat to my safety and that of my family.”
The actor known for portraying Trump on the comedy show raised the question Sunday night.
Baldwin’s question followed a Trump tweet blasting “SNL” as “tired” and NBC as “Fake News.”
“Very unfair and should be looked into,” Trump wrote. “This is the real Collusion!”
He added: “THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”
In the category of: Democracy gone sideways and inside out.
11-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Refusing to Recite ‘Racist’ Pledge of Allegiance
On February 4th, the 11-year-old student at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland, Fla., was asked, along with his classmates, to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, according to Bay News 9. Instead, the boy told his substitute teacher that the American flag is racist against black people.
The teacher recapped everything in a handwritten statement to the district. “Why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live,” she reportedly told him, and the boy responded, “They brought me here.”
She said, “Well you can always go back, because I came here from Cuba and the day I feel I’m not welcome here anymore I would find another place to live.” She added, “Then I had to call the office because I did not want to continue dealing with him.”
In the category of: Go fi
North Carolina investigators describe “unlawful” ballot tampering scheme in House election
A state hearing finally brings some clarity to the explosive election fraud scandal.
What we’ve learned about the alleged ballot tampering at Monday’s hearing
It’s important to remember two things about absentee ballots in North Carolina: Anybody can request one, and at the end of every day before the election, state officials publish a file of which voters requested an absentee ballot by mail and whether they have returned it to be counted.
A campaign could check that file every morning to know how many registered Republican, Democratic, and unaffiliated voters had requested and returned a mail-in ballot.
“From a mechanics point of view, this is a gold mine of information for candidates and their campaign,” Bitzer told me previously.
That treasure trove of data would have given Dowless and the people he worked with a detailed picture of how many absentee ballots were coming in every day from Republican, Democratic, and unaffiliated voters — and, by extension, how many absentee ballots they needed from their voters to keep pace with the Democrats. Harris beat McCready by fewer than 1,000 votes, going by the Election Day count.
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