[NJ] The former mayor and councilman of Lawrence Township has admitted to stealing thousands of dollars for unapproved salary increases while serving as the executive director of Asbury Park Housing Authority.
Mark Holmes, 56, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft by unlawful taking and faces five years in state prison when he appears for sentencing before Monmouth County Superior Court Judge John Tassini on April 6, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni announced in a blurb Wednesday.
Holmes was indicted in December 2015 on 38 counts of official misconduct and other offenses. He was placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at his Lawrence home in 2013 but was released from jail after posting $70,000 bail.
Holmes admitted Tuesday to stealing more than $90,000 by using state grant money intended to help low-income residents of Asbury Park to give himself a salary increase that wasn't approved by the agency's board between 2008 and 2011.
Before becoming the executive director, Holmes served as the agency's deputy director. Prior to taking over as executive director, Holmes applied for -- and received -- a $99,897 grant from the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The money was intended to be spent on training in computers and other skills for residents who qualified for public housing in Asbury Park.
An investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office's financial crimes and public corruption bureau found that between November 2008 and August 2009 Holmes transferred $75,721 of the grant into the general operating fund for the housing authority and then moved the money into his own accounts, authorities said.
Holmes created the APHA Community Development Corporation, where he funneled $58,000 to give himself a $50,000 salary increase without board approval, Gramiccioni said.
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...Hmm. Started off well by transferring the money into the GOF, but then failed to put a couple more kinda-legal transfers between there and his personal accounts. Sorry, but 4/10. Welcome to Joisey.
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[BREITBART] A federal appeals court upheld the state of Tennessee’s 2014 vote in favor of a ballot measure that removed the right to an abortion from the state’s constitution.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the ballot amendment known as Amendment 1 ‐ which won by a 53 percent margin ‐ by a 3-0 opinion.
According to the Tennessean, the measure added language to the state constitution that reads, in part: "Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion."
Eight voters who opposed the measure ‐ including the former chairman of the board of Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party. ‐ challenged the vote’s results, demanding a recount, and won at the trial court level.
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[FOX] Former President Barack Obama resurfaced on Friday and took a shot at Fox News viewers, saying they're "living on a different planet" than people who consume mainstream media.
Obama made the remarks on the premiere of the new monthly Netflix series "My next guest needs no introduction with David Letterman," which hit the streaming service on Friday morning. Early in the episode, Obama asked Letterman about his retirement but the veteran talk show host quickly let the former president know who was boss.
"Now here's how this is gonna work. I'm gonna ask you stuff, and then you respond to stuff," Letterman joked.
Letterman then asked Obama what he considers the more dangerous threat to a democracy, the president demeaning the press or a foreign power sabotaging the voting process. Both options are clearly jabs at President Trump and Obama answered without mentioning the current president's name.
"One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don't share a common baseline of facts," Obama said. "If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than you are if you are listening to NPR."
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This has been a recurring theme with Baraq. As far as he's concerned that old First Amendment thing is way in the heck out of date. He would have ditched the entire US Constitution if he'd had enough time to tip the balance of the Supreme Court.
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I do not believe that man is capable of doing anything outside the Seedy Politician category, including breathing. As The Smartest Man in the Room, he knows that the carbon dioxide in his exhalations is more worthy than ours.
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This whole thing about the word shithole, really? Everyone there denies he said it, with the exception of one, but its a good reason to derail DACA. Neither side wants DACA fixed, the divisiveness feeds votes and cash. So lets pick an irrelevant, possibly made up, statement and use it to stop this. The only thing Trump has done here is to put congress on the spot to come up with and answer. But they wont. If you ask most republicans, they want resolution as much as anyone, so do the dems. But they don't want to lose a decisive issue that drive voters. If the dems wanted it fixed they could under Obama, but it never was really taken serious. The republican could have driven it as well. Trump is trying to tell both sides to sit down, act like adults and get something done.
And now on to the bigger issue: since when did I become a misogynous bigoted, racist, gay hating bigot??? I have not. Since when has many of my friends that are dems become haters, one step short of fascists? They also have not. This nation is completely divided, and will fall, unless we the people act. There is a fight for this nations soul. It not the right vs the left, as they would like us to believe. It not our corrupt political elites, they have always been corrupt, its human nature. The fight for our soul really took place with the internet and the 24 hour news cycle. The press has sewn this nation into a divisive hate filled shithole that has turned families inside out. Our judicial, executive and representative branches have been undermined by the corporate press.
I have a friend that recently stated she hated Trump, wished he was dead. This woman is a Christian, from the hills of West Virginia. I cant find another person that lives her Christian values more than her. Yet she is now blasting hate, how did this happen? Its not because Trump is the devil, he's not. He is human, and will make some good and bad decisions, like every president. But how did the information driven to her drive her away from her Christian values? I see it on the right as well. This is not a left right thing, she is just an incredible example of how this constant bombarding of lies and hate can normalize the hate.
Obama say it early, he made nice with the press, supported their narratives. And for that the press put halo's around him in photos like he is the second coming. I believe this issue really took root when the Clintons made strategic decisions based on surveys, and the press controls the methods, Trump win proves the polls are manipulated to try and drive results.
We the people have a real problem. The corporate press is fighting for the very soul of our nation. The politicians blow in the winds, prostituting themselves for votes. The press run 24 hour propaganda shows calling themselves news. But they are not. They drive to audience segments, dividing and spewing hate. They hide behind the 1st amendment, spouting free speech. But we the people drink it up like its true, we are fools listening to pied pipers on both sides leading us off a cliff.
If we are to have a constitution, if we are to have a 1st amendment we e have to figure out how to hold the press accountable for their lies. We have to find a way to stop the propaganda machines cloaked as news. We have to understand that I am no more a bigot now than I was 8 years ago and that my friends are the same as they were. We have to get past this and shut down the corporate news machines that are taking our souls, one person at a time...
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[Right Scoop] Hawaii's nutty Rep. Tulsi Gabbard blamed Trump for the false missile alert in Hawaii that made millions panic. She says it's his fault because he hasn't done what a handful of presidents before him had not been able to do either – solve North Korea.
If there's one thing you actually CANNOT blame Trump for is the mess in North Korea. Each president before Trump has kicked the can down the road, even as we had more and more signs that they were building up their nuclear and ICBM capabilities. Yes, it falls on Trump's lap, but it's not an easy thing to solve, and he's certainly trying.
In any case, given that some idiot in Hawaii just "pressed the wrong button" and panicked millions, maybe Tulsi should look after her own in the state before casting aspersions on the prezzy.
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The Scoop Jackson democrat act wasn't polling well.
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You know if we sell Hawaii to the Chinese to pay off a damn good portion of the debt, they'd have a degree of protection as the Norks are unlikely to target the Middle Kingdom's property.
[THEHILL] Rep. Maxine Waters U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 26.121101118050802 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 41.11904772996046 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist... '>Comrade Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said Friday she will not attend President Trump’s first State of the Union address following his vulgar remarks aimed at Haiti, El Salvador and African nations.
"Why would I take my time to go and sit and listen to a liar?" Waters said on MSNBC’s "All In with Chris Hayes." "Someone who lies in the face of facts, someone who can change their tune day in and day out. What does he have to say that I would be interested in?"
"I don’t trust him, I don’t appreciate him and I wouldn’t waste my time ... listening to what he has to say," she continued. "He does not deserve my attention."
Waters is the third Democratic politician to announce they won’t attend Trump’s address, which is scheduled for later this month.
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) announced Friday he would skip Trump’s State of the Union over the president's "unbelievable" remarks, in which he referred to Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as "shithole countries."
"I cannot in all good conscience be in a room with what he has said about so many Americans. I just cannot do it. I wouldn't be honest with myself," Lewis said.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) announced last week that he too would boycott Trump’s address.
"Rather than listening to yet another destructive and divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... speech by Trump, I will not attend this year’s annual address to Congress," he said in a statement. "Instead, like I did during Trump’s Inauguration, I will be working here at home listening to Oregonians about what they think about the State of the Union."
Members of the Democratic caucus are planning ways to protest during Trump’s speech. Female Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... (D-Calif.), plan to wear all black in solidarity with victims of sexual misconduct and the #MeToo movement.
Some House Democrats are also reportedly planning to invite sexual assault survivors as their guests that evening, and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said she has invited the founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke, to be her guest that evening.
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State of the Union should be a jolly good show.
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I am secretly hoping that a regiment of US Marines is placed around the capital buildings on 30 January 2018, as an "honor guard", and Trump then uses the speech to announce the arrest for treason of about 60% of the government officials in the room. Thereafter, each perp is led out of the Capitol in handcuffs, by a pair of Marines, to a nearby section of parking lot, that has been transformed into a helipad, where a steady stream of Chinook helicopters ferry the criminals to a nearby airport. At the airport, C141's are standing by, to airlift the traitorous scum to Guantanamo.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Chelsea Manning ...formerly Bradley Manning before he decided to become a girl. He, or she or whatever it was, was a misfit Army intel analyst who decided to leak all the secrets he could lay hands on. Sentenced to 35 years in Leavenworth, he was sprung on an Obamapardon in 2017.... , the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to Wikileaks, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal election filings.
Manning, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, would be challenging Democrat Ben Cardin, who has served two terms in the Senate and is up for re-election in November. Cardin is Maryland’s senior senator and is considered an overwhelming favorite to win a third term.
Manning, 30, who is formerly known as Bradley Manning, was convicted in 2013 of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Last year, then President Obama commuted Manning’s sentence to time served and she was released from a military prison in Kansas.
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Being mentally ill is a prerequisite for political office in Maryland, right?
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I'd say hers chances in the Peeeholes Dumbocrapic Regluglic of Maryland are even money or better...
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Cindy Sheehan 2.0.
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We need start an operation chaos and get this guy/gal nominated by the Donks. I'm thinking it wouldn't take much unless MD doesn't allow cross-party voting in primaries.
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Personally, I think of this as a military/male supremacist plot against feminism. The military prepared a male agent - disguised as a woman - to steal female votes.
[DAILYCALLER] Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich ...political has-been current Republican governor of Ohio... , a staunch critic of President Trump, said Friday that the media needs to "move on" Trump’s crude comments about Haiti and African countries and focus on real issues that affect Americans.
Trump ignited a media firestorm on Thursday by reportedly telling politicians in private that America doesn’t need more Haitian immigrants colonists and referring to African countries as "shithole countries." Kasich appeared on CNN’s "The Lead" with Jake Tapper Friday afternoon and grew frustrated with the constant focus on Trump’s comments, which he compared to reality TV.
Tapper asked Kasich several pointed questions about Trump’s comments, at one point running through Trump’s history of racially controversial comments and asking Kasich "what it would take" for him to call Trump racist. Kasich noted that he’s been a fierce critic of the president but declined to call him racist, saying, "I’m not a name-caller. What would it take? I’m not into name-calling."
Tapper asked Kasich if he thought Congress should censure the president for his comments, prompting Kasich to tear into the media’s focus on Trump’s comments
"We need to move on, Jake. Look, I’ll be honest with you, I understand clicks, hits, ratings in television, okay? Everybody’s had their say. Hopefully we’ll see some more out of Republicans. Maybe the president will say something, apologize or whatever. We’ve got to move on. We have big issues out there. We’re facing maybe the closing of the government. We’ve got a situation where we’ve got to take care of these other folks," Kasich said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party.
[FOX] Former President Barack Obama resurfaced on Friday and took a shot at Fox News viewers, saying they're "living on a different planet" than people who consume mainstream media.
[Right Scoop] Hawaii's nutty Rep. Tulsi Gabbard blamed Trump for the false missile alert in Hawaii that made millions panic. She says it's his fault because he hasn't done what a handful of presidents before him had not been able to do either – solve North Korea.
U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 26.121101118050802 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 41.11904772996046 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist...
Nancy 
...formerly Bradley Manning before he decided to become a girl. He, or she or whatever it was, was a misfit Army intel analyst who decided to leak all the secrets he could lay hands on. Sentenced to 35 years in Leavenworth, he was sprung on an Obamapardon in 2017....
...political has-been current Republican governor of Ohio...
