6 thoughts on “Get More Smarter on Wednesday (September 5)”

1. Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton is getting hit for prior remarks he made suggesting that Colorado should focus its funding on boosting prisons instead of public schools.

   Well, since Republicans are more likely to wind up in prison these days than they are back in school, Stumbleton is just looking out for his own.  Besides, as they are finding out, knowledge is a dangerous thing to them in the right hands.

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2. An absolute blast from the past at Kavanaugh's hearing.

   Comment Of Senator Leahy On His Questioning Of Judge Kavanaugh On Hacked Democratic Files

   Leahy is on the hunt after Kavanaugh denied (in his earlier confirmation hearings) seeing pilfered documents during his time working judicial nominations back in the Bush administration.  A couple of Republican staffers took advantage of weak security to "obtain" Democratic strategy documents for nomination hearings and spread them around.

   Now Leahy has docs, and thinks there are more, making Kavanaugh's earlier representations out to be lies.

   Here's a story on the incident from back in the day.

   Hacking Incident Riles Democrats
   Senate panel members demand outside probe of accessing of files by two Republican staffers.

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   1. Leahy was pretty blunt about it, and hinted there was worse he wasn't saying (yet). Someone suggested that this could be a veiled threat about future impeachability of Kavanaugh.

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3. Why on earth is Stapleton talking about building more prisons when the ones we have now are being mothballed? Seriously, CSP II sits empty. Besides, wouldn't Stapleton rather contract out to private prisons?

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   1. This is a defining moment; two very divergent views of rural Colorado.  Walker vision: prisons; Jared’s: renewable energy, new crops, expanded educational opportunities and health care access, no matter your circumstance. 

      There couldn’t be a brighter line between the candidates than this one.

      We’ve gone down the route of  private-prisons-as-economic-development out yonder. It’s a shitty way to build a rural economy. 

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4. I wonder if Duncan Hunter's wife was responsible for doling out campaign funds to his side pieces?

   Duncan Hunter’s ‘Personal Relationships’ Get New Attention in Indictment

   According to the indictment, the Hunters were profligate spenders who lived well beyond their means.

   The couple overdrew their bank account more than 1,100 times in a seven-year period. They accrued approximately $37,761 in “overdraft” and “insufficient funds” bank fees. In the same period, the couple’s credit cards were charged to the credit limit, often with five-figure balances, resulting in approximately $24,600 in finance charges, interest and other fees related to late, over the limit and returned payment fees.

   Duncan spent some of that money on five unidentified people living in Washington, D.C., with whom he had “personal relationships,” prosecutors allege: “Individuals” 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 in the indictment.

   I'm hoping that 14-18 aren't their ages.

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