Just when we thought the behavior by some elected officials couldn’t get worse, Missouri’s attorney general, Eric Schmidt, enters the contest for most craven action of the week.
After suing Kansas City and St. Louis to try and prevent local mask ordinances, he is now trying to keep Kevin Strickland from being exonerated by prosecutors.
Strickland, who is wheelchair bound, has served 40 years for a murder both he and prosecutors say he didn’t commit.
He has joined Governor Parson who failed to release him after the only witness recanted their testimony and after prosecutors investigating the crime are in court trying to secure Strickland’s release.
Schmidt has filed an emergency appeal to try and keep him in jail.
It is noteworthy that Schmidt joined the petition to the Supreme Court trying to invalidate the election at Trump’s urging as well as being a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat being vacated next year by Roy Blunt. I guess when you are in a primary and seeking the endorsement of the former President, and your opponents include a user of women and a gun waiving fool, you have to keep upping the ante. I don’t even want to imagine what comes next. Maybe a new Scopes trial?
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Yes, this guys is craven, but check out Texas. No, not even the disgusting abortion law and what the Supremes did, but their new gun law. Thank heaven I’m in California, where these things do not happen. But, oops, we are burning in hell.
I guess there’s Mars, but i will need a few years and a booming stock market to get to $28 Million.
BTW, Greitens is still my sentimental favorite—what a guy!
Be well!!!
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The behavior of these GOP lunatics is astonishing and incredibly depressing to contemplate. However, I think that another Scopes trial would be the least of my concerns. The Trumpanzees seem to be capable of much worse antics and eager to out-crazy each other.
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Interesting….as someone who always wears a mask whenever I go into a store or enclosed public spaces, I am upset that deep blue California does NOT have a mask mandate. Because of the lack of a mandate, I estimate 30-50% of the people I see in stores do not wear a mask.
Just to prove that there are crazy people on both sides of the aisle, Ilhan Omar is still campaigning to get rid of police departments, penning an OpEd just a few days ago on getting rid of the Minneapolis police dept.
And AOC wants to rid the Federal Reserve from its total independence from political pressure, and make sure that the next Federal Reserve Chairperson incorporates her political positions into Fed decisions. This is the same AOC that campaigned against Amazon putting 25,000 high paying IT jobs into her district.
Radical left politicians in many venues have eliminated cash bail, allowing criminals to go back on the street 30 minutes after they are arraigned.
There is insanity on both sides of the aisle….no one party has a corner on it.
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Leo, I’ll see your Ilhan Omar and AOC. But I raise you a Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbot, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, John Kennedy, Rand Paul, and Lauren Boebert. No party has a monopoly on wackos, as you state. But the GOP does seem to have much more than their fair share.
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