[FoxNews] Emanuel pushes back on ‘straight White man’ question, says ideas matter most in 2028. The former ambassador, Chicago mayor and Obama-era chief of staff who is mulling a White House bid is stopping in key early presidential primary states.
Rahm Emanuel is shrugging off the Democratic Party's identity debate and emphasizing that the showdown for the Democrats' 2028 presidential nomination should be about ideas and not gender.
Should is all very well, but he is everything current Democratic Party shibboleths forbid: white, male, heterosexual, Jewish, and Israeli. Nor does he have the charisma of Bill Clinton to push through regardless. But if he can find donors who’ll give him money to throw away proving it, I say go for it.
The former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama is mulling a White House run of his own in 2028 in the race to succeed term-limited Republican President Donald Trump. But in a party that has made diversity one of its core tenets, Emanuel will have to face the question: will the Democratic Party elect a straight White male to represent it?
Emanuel told Fox News Digital on Monday that Democrats should be asking potential presidential contenders different questions entirely, such as: "Do you have the ideas of how to make sure the American Dream is alive and well, accessible and affordable to another generation?"
He’s right, of course. But they won’t — they’re not yet at the extinction burst stage of the proceedings.
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Chicago and Democrats… the Beacon of Great Ideas!
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These days, the Dems seem to be about anarchy and tearing up cities and not "tiny dancers." The Dems could run Hunter Biden. They have a lot of attention-getting, ready-made video they could work into such a campaign.
[Breitbart] A California climate change program has spent $49 million to hand out free solar panels to illegal migrant homeowners, a shocking report revealed.
The Farmworker Housing Component of the Low-Income Weatherization Program is one of the state’s many climate change initiatives, and this one is aimed at farm workers — including those who are in the U.S. illegally, according to City Journal researcher and writer Christopher Rufo and his co-author Austen Hufford.
The program is part of California’s multibillion-dollar cap-and-trade system which “taxes carbon producers and redistributes approximately $3 billion per year to energy programs and left-wing social causes — all under the banner of fighting ‘climate change,'” the two wrote.
Rufo and Hufford found that California has spent about $49 million on the program to hand out free solar panels to recipients, some of whom are illegal aliens.
The company that runs the program is called Nonprofit La Cooperativa Campesina de California. La Cooperativa then partnered with MAROMA Energy Services, which describes itself as “minority owned.” These two have contracted out the installations of said solar panels.
As Rufo and Hufford note:
These
organizations have heavily advertised the program to California’s nearly 900,000 agricultural workers, half to three-quarters of whom are illegal immigrants. In its official documentation, California’s Department of Community Services and Development acknowledges that non-citizens are eligible for the program and that they even accept identification from foreign governments.
In a Spanish-language radio broadcast, Natalie Velores, a program manager for MAROMA, confirmed that participants do not need “legal status” in the United States and can use a matrìcula consular, a common form of identification that the Mexican consulate provides to migrants who have crossed the border, to apply.
These companies confirmed that legal citizenship is not required to be afforded the free solar panels.
The providers also mounted an extensive information drive by sending representatives out into the farm worker communities across the state to let them know how to get their free solar power systems.
But, while a ton of cash has been spent on this program, only 2,000 families have been the recipients of the free solar systems to date.
“That means the State of California has allocated roughly $23,000 per household for its program to provide free solar panels, refrigerators, and other services — a number that raises serious concerns about financial accountability,” Ruffo and Hufford wrote.
Finally, it appears that at least one politically connected activist is at the center of these groups that are reaping millions from the state. The man, Mauricio Blanco, “worked as a project manager for La Cooperativa Campesina de California, which has been awarded at least $10.7 million by the state; is currently listed as an executive of MAROMA Energy Services, which has been granted nearly $34 million from La Cooperativa for ‘weatherization’ services since 2017; and is CEO of John Harrison Contracting, a firm that appears to have done much of the solar installation work.”
This fellow has made a career out of redirecting millions in state funding to his little companies.
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.
