Abbott slams Austin over homeless ordinance, officers don’t want waistlines measured, Beto O’Rourke and Mayor Pete Buttigieg clash.
Gov. Greg Abbott spoke during a ribbon cutting ceremony last month for the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.
By Jamie Hancock
1:00 PM on Oct 3, 2019
Good morning!
Points from Austin, TX:
1. Gov. Greg Abbott has given Austin 30 days to stem what he calls the city’s “mounting homelessness crisis,” warning if improvements aren’t made, he’ll unleash five state agencies with powers to intervene and protect public health and safety.
Abbott admonished Austin Mayor Steve Adler for not reversing the City Council’s June ordinance that allows sitting or sleeping in public and panhandling in certain parts of the city that don’t specifically prohibit it.
Abbott cited news reports about used needles and feces littering certain locations, and the arrest early last month of a homeless man for assault with injury of a woman.
2. Federal immigration officials are extending the tenure of the 1,000 National Guard troops Gov. Greg Abbott deployed to the southern border in June to help slow an influx of migrants.
The Pentagon, which is paying for the state’s deployment, has approved an extension through Nov. 15, a spokesman said. But it is still unclear how much the mission has cost American taxpayers.
3. The Texas Department of Public Safety Officers Association filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging a new addition to the agency’s fitness assessments that requires officers to have their waistlines measured.
A 6-2, 230-pound male trooper who has a 41-inch waist because of his “large build” could be removed from duty because of the “shortsighted directive,” the group said in a news release.
Points from the trail
Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Rep. Beto ORourke speaks during the 2020 Gun Safety Forum hosted by gun control activist groups Giffords and March for Our Lives at Enclave on Oct. 2, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Rep. Beto ORourke speaks during the 2020 Gun Safety Forum hosted by gun control activist groups Giffords and March for Our Lives at Enclave on Oct. 2, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)
1. Democratic presidential contenders Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg clashed Wednesday over whether it’s practical to implement a mandatory buyback program for the millions of assault weapons in America.
“To Chuck Schumer and Chris Coons and Mayor Pete and others, not only is it the right thing to do, not only will it save the lives of our fellow Americans, our fellow human beings, the American people are with us on this issue. It’s time to lead,” O’Rourke said at a gun violence prevention forum in Las Vegas.
2. Presidents don’t typically devote campaign time to states where they’re coasting to victory.
So Trump’s rally in Dallas on Oct. 17, announced this week, struck Democrats as a gratifying confirmation that whatever they’re doing, it’s working. If the state wasn’t suddenly up for grabs, they reasoned, why would he bother?
Republicans insisted otherwise.
2. Dallas Republican Pete Sessions is poised to run for the congressional seat held by retiring U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, according to his longtime friend and fundraiser.
Dallas businessman Roy Bailey said Sessions will make an announcement in Waco today.
“He’s running,” said Bailey, the Dallas businessman who also leads the campaign finance efforts of President Donald Trump. “He’s sees it as an opportunity to keep a district red, a district that includes his hometown.”
Points from Washington
Energy Secretary Rick Perry spoke at the California GOP convention last month. The former Texas governor has become embroiled in the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president.
1. In the ongoing drama over allegations that President Donald Trump abused his office by asking a foreign leader to investigate one of his Democratic presidential rivals, Energy Secretary Rick Perry keeps making cameos.
So where exactly does Perry fit in? Here’s a guide.
2. Texas Sen. John Cornyn has been one of President Donald Trump’s fiercest defenders on Twitter in the face of a formal impeachment inquiry sparked by Trump’s July phone call with the president of Ukraine.
Cornyn has directly tweeted or retweeted criticism of the inquiry more than 50 times from his personal Twitter account over the course of the past week.
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The latest on the scam the Democrats are trying to pull on the American people in to regards to the Trump impeachment. Another HOAX!
American Thinker
The Dems are doomed | So the whistleblower went to Adam Schiff first, not the designated intelligence authorities?
October 3, 2019
Schiff’s lies about no advance knowledge of Whistleblower complaint make the impeachment efforts look like a conspiracy
By Thomas Lifson
When wrongdoing by Democrats is discussed, the media like to call charges against them “conspiracy theories,” implying that crazed partisans are imagining phony connections where none in fact exist. But when people with no visible connection with each other work together in secret to accomplish some goal and then lie about their collaboration, the dreaded word “conspiracy” becomes completely appropriate.
And that’s what the charges that Nancy Pelosi tasked Adam Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee (and 5 other House committees) with investigating, with an eye toward impeaching President Trump, now look like. A conspiracy including one or more Deep State operatives within the White House who acted as spies on a confidential conversation between two heads of state, and a separate intelligence officer who composed a “whistleblower” complaint with the help of Schiff’s staffers and a lawyer or lawyers unknown.
Adam Schiff has repeatedly lied to the media and American people by claiming that “we” (he and his staff) had no contact with the “whistleblower” before the complaint was filed. Schiff went on MSNBC on September 17 and flat-out lied:
SAM STEIN: Hey, Congressman, a couple questions here on this whistleblower front. First off, have you heard from the whistleblower? Are you — do you want to hear from the whistleblower? What protections could you provide to the whistleblower? And then you also said that the DNI’s refusing to turn over the stuff, citing a request from a higher authority. The insinuation left at least for me and others was that the president himself had intervened. Is that the insinuation you sought to provide and, if so, what basis do you have for making that insinuation?
REP. ADAM SCHIFF: We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would like to. But I’m sure the whistleblower has concerns that he has not been advised, as the law requires, by the Inspector General or the Director of National Intelligence just as to how he is to communicate with Congress. So the risk for the whistleblower is retaliation. Will the whistleblower be protected under the statute if the offices that are supposed to come to his assistance and provide the mechanism are unwilling do so. But, yes, we would love to talk directly with the whistleblower.
(The Whistle Blower is an unqualified “blower of fact.”
Caught in a blatant lie, Schiff’s staff offered a weaselly claim to Stein that it was all a misunderstanding:
That is just pathetic. Schiff has denied any connection multiple tiemes, not just once. He was concealing the fact that purportedly unrelated parties were working together. That’s the definition of conspirators.
At this point, Nancy Pelosi has to be regretting choosing Schiff as the point man in impeaching Trump and conducting a joint press conference with him a couple of hours before the story exploded.
Image credit: Donkey Hotey (cropped)
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Todd’s take
Todd J. Gillman is the Washington bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News. He has covered government and politics for decades, from Dallas to D.C., and is a White House Correspondents’ Association board member.
•Today, instead of Todd’s Take, we’ll recap his Wednesday. Every so often, it’s Todd’s turn to be the White House pool reporter responsible for covering the president and sending email dispatches throughout the day to journalists around the world.
•Todd reported from the Oval Office on Wednesday that Trump called Rep. Adam Schiff “a lowlife,” adding that the California Democrat, who heads the House Intelligence Committee, should resign from office in disgrace and be investigated for treason. The president has expressed anger than Schiff received an early account of a whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s phone conversation with the Ukrainian president and read a parody of it at a hearing. Trump also compared Schiff to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “That guy couldn’t carry his blank strap.” (The phrase he didn’t say is likely jockstrap.)
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Trump also insisted that he’s within his authority to pursue former Vice President Joe Biden, the front-runner in the Democratic race for president and the subject of the phone call: “Biden’s son is corrupt and Biden is corrupt, and I’d rather run against Biden than almost any of those candidates and I think they’re all weak.”
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Trump was asked about a New York Times report alleging he wanted a moat with alligators and snakes and an electrified fence with flesh-piercing spikes at the southern border with Mexico. He was obviously familiar with the report, though he said it came from The Washington Post, and recounted the allegations in detail. He said “moat” is not a word he uses and called the story fake. “Never said it. Never thought of it. … It was a total lie.”
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The president later held a news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö.
Points from Dallas
Oscar Torres said his medical bills total $250,000 and could climb higher if he has a follow-up surgery that doctors say is necessary.
Oscar Torres said his medical bills total $250,000 and could climb higher if he has a follow-up surgery that doctors say is necessary. (Jason Janik / Special Contributor)
1. Oscar Torres was struck in the face by a metal sheet while repairing a garage door at work and rushed to Baylor University Medical Center in October 2017.
Doctors spent 12 hours treating the gashes across his nose and right eye. Two weeks later, Torres was shocked to receive a $20,000 bill in the mail.
But the bills didn’t stop there. After having an appendectomy last year and complications following the surgery, his debt soared to $250,000.
People of color, like Torres, are more likely to face medical debt because they lack health insurance coverage and have lower incomes, according to a report that the left-leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities published last month.
2. Robert Jeffress, First Baptist Dallas’ senior pastor, went on Fox News on Sunday night and said, “If the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, I’m afraid it will cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal.” City columnist Robert Wilonsky called him to find out what he meant.
3. A Dallas County jury sentenced Amber Guyger to 10 years in prison Wednesday after convicting her of murdering her upstairs neighbor Botham Jean in his apartment last year. Guyger, 31, had been facing between five and 99 years or life in prison.
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We find out another hoax by the Democrat Socialists perpetuated on the American people by the fake news media.
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