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    Fox’s Judge Nap Calls Out Feds in Portland: They’ve ‘Incited’ Violence

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-ne...cited-violence

    Appearing on Your World with Neil Cavuto, Napolitano agreed with Barr’s assertion that the federal government has the right and even the obligation to protect federal property in Portland. At the same time, the Fox analyst said that many agents have been seen “nowhere near the courthouse disrupting freedom of speech.”

    Spot on!

    Unfortunately, the violence will continue unabated to the detriment of the Floyd cause, despoil the effort of the peaceful protestors, and negatively impact the imagine of the state / municipalities thereby impacting their economies and its public safety.

    61 days and as the violence continues in Portland and other communities experiencing like chaos while state and local government leaders continue to label the demonstrations peaceful and under control.

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    The Media’s Biggest Favor to Biden Was to Ignore Him

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgdhp

    There’s a good reason why Democrats shut Joe Biden out in 1988 and 2008 when he ran for president, and why he had the sound sense to sit out the 2016 contest. He rambles. He plagiarizes. He flip-flops. Over his long career in Washington, he has become the human embodiment of the political gaffe.

    The press has documented Biden’s limitations in such detail that if the presidency was a regular occupation, and Joe’s press clips were job references, his recruiter would dump his application in a waste can without even bothering to send him an insincere note wishing him luck elsewhere. But instead of hammering him and pouring vinegar on his wounds, the press has bestowed “strange new respect” status upon Biden— strange new respect being the clever trope Tom Bethell invented to describe the press corps’ sudden shift from negative to positive coverage of a politician.

    As a vulnerable codger, he had a good excuse to sequester himself in his basement, burrowing so deeply that some took to calling him “Punxsutawney Joe.” And with Biden mostly in hiding, Donald Trump’s blundering response has become the only real story of the campaign. Every time Trump opens his mouth, he convinces somebody out there to vote for Biden.


    Spot on!

    Regardless who wins in November: We are so screwed!

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    Wellstone staff apologizes for memorial service rhetoric
    Reference: http://news.minnesota.publicradio.or...ckt_backlash1/

    Well, did they do it again?
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    Who is the provocateur?

    Federal properties have been under nightly attack for the past two months in Portland. Oregon Governor Brown charges the federal agents assigned to guard the federal courthouse against destruction declares the federal government has agreed to withdraw federal officers from Portland.

    DHS has emphasized that the withdrawal of law enforcement will not begin until the agency is assured that the courthouse and other federal property will not be attacked. Agents will remain inside the fence installed to keep demonstrators out. State police were assigned Thursday to keep demonstrators outside the fence to keep them back.

    Hundreds of demonstrators once again gather by the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse tossing fireworks – prompting federal officers to launch tear gas to cause them to disperse.

    People in the crowd Tuesday night wore gas masks and helmets, and carried signs, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks, umbrellas, leaf blowers and fireworks. Police said people started a fire inside the fence at about 10:45 p.m. and began shooting roman candles and other commercial-grade fireworks at the courthouse. People also threw rocks, bottles and other objects, use lasers and climbed over the fence. A large fire was set where the Elk statue used to stand in the park across the street. Federal agents respond with tear gas, less-lethal ammunition, and arrests.


    Some peaceful protestors are encouraging groups to not participate in the violence as it distracts from the Black Lives Matter movement. “If you really want to respect Black lives, and if you really want to respect Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, you’ll listen to the movement instead of antagonizing,” 22-year-old Portlander Najee Gow told people beginning to gather along the fence outside the courthouse around 9:45 p.m.

    I don’t know of anyone who does not favor a peaceful protest. There have been numerous videos of peaceful marches and gatherings. Unfortunately, there have been numerous videos of agitators attending those same events bent on violence, destruction, and advocating anything but justice for George Floyd.

    My question is why any ‘peaceful protestor’ would not distance themselves from the mob instead choosing to protest at the very spot where the assigned violence / chaos consistently takes place – an area under the jurisdiction of the federal government? There is no other place for the ‘peaceful' protest to take place? Why should the onlooker not conclude that any protestor in attendance in the riot area.is complicit with anarchy lawlessness?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Unfortunately, there have been numerous videos of agitators attending those same events bent on violence, destruction, and advocating anything but justice for George Floyd.

    My question is why any ‘peaceful protestor’ would not distance themselves from the mob instead choosing to protest at the very spot where the assigned violence / chaos consistently takes place – an area under the jurisdiction of the federal government? There is no other place for the ‘peaceful' protest to take place? Why should the onlooker not conclude that any protestor in attendance in the riot area.is complicit with anarchy lawlessness?
    The irony of all of this violent revolutionary garbage is that the federal government is the target of violence, when the Floyd atrocity was the work and responsibility of a local police department and a blue state government.

    Is it not reasonable for one to expect that the unsettled masses would look to the federal government to necessarily restore order when the obviously inept state and local authorities can not, and lend its collective federal voice in support of any necessary local and state corrective measures?

    We hear a great deal about "States Rights" from the Left these days. Do not those states have a responsibility to the ensure that its citizens receive the national Constitutional Rights that fundamentally co-exist with their state's "Reserved Powers?"
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    Why is it that during the Rodney King circumstances, the Left criticized a Republican President for his purported LACK of federal intervention?


    Equally, why is it that the Left is now criticizing offers of a ROBUST response from President Trump in connection with the Floyd situation?


    Was it because 1992 was also an election year when a Republican President stood for re-election?


    Consider these 1992 positions of Leftist actors, some of whom are so vocal in their opposition to federal intervention today:


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    "Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and Rep. Maxine Waters, (D-Calif.), both urged Attorney General William P. Barr to move quickly to bring federal charges against the policemen implicated in the King beating."
    Reference: http://tech.mit.edu/V112/N24/react.24w.html


    Comment: Did not Trump immediately order federal legal machinery into action to see to it that Mr. Floyd's murder(s) met with federal justice?

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    https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ge-floyd-death

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...-case-n1216026


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    After meeting with Barr, Waters, whose district includes the area of the worst rioting, said, "We let them know that we think the situation not only in Los Angeles but across the nation is extremely volatile and we want them to make the decision with all due haste."

    Jackson, declaring that justice must be done to protect the credibility of the judicial process, accused Bush of failing to exercise leadership and said his "kinship" with Police Chief Darryl Gates "throughout all of this shows his disregard for justice and fairness."

    Jackson and other civil rights leaders also criticized Bush for reacting too slowly to the developments in Los Angeles and refusing to meet with Jackson Wednesday night after violence broke out. The president was attending a state dinner at the time and a White House spokesman told Jackson that Bush would have to talk with him later.
    Reference: http://tech.mit.edu/V112/N24/react.24w.html

    Comment: So why these comments from Leftist actors when President Trump and the same Attorney General Barr sought, and still seek, to use federal assets to restore order?:

    References:

    https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...al-officers-to


    https://www.opb.org/news/article/don...-jenny-durkan/


    Talk about trying to have it both ways.


    Curious, very curious.
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    Coronavirus threat rises across U.S.: ‘We just have to assume the monster is everywhere’

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    President Trump continues to promote fringe science, the daily death toll keeps climbing and the human cost of the virus in America has just passed 150,000 lives.


    Comment

    According to just released U.S. Covid-19 stats, July 2, 1 am:

    4,696,297 confirmed cases
    156,621 fatalities
    3.33% fatality rate

    July 27,2020

    4,308,420 confirmed cases
    149,112 fatalities
    3.46% fatality rate

    5-day assessment

    387,877 confirmed case increase
    7,509 increase in fatality
    1.94% fatality rate

    Increasing fatalities is distressing, but constantly bombarded with media dark news, some comfort can be had when realizing that New York’s stats are:

    415,767 confirmed cases
    32,683 fatalities
    7.86% fatality rate

    The 5-day U. S. period daily average of 77,577 confirmed cases is a significant increase and indicative of the uncontrolled virus spread. Although there are significantly more cases reported as well as fatalities, there is little media mention that the fatality rate has become significantly lower over time.

    With the forecast of a vaccine by year’s end, there is hope that the virus is coming under control. The sky is not falling as some media outlets would lead us to believe.

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    Bombastic evidence?

    https://youtu.be/H8ZuTr6bZKM

    Bombastic evidence, we shall see. Considering the mainstream liberal media has well defined Trump as the consummate liar, racist, fascist, incompetent leader, inept / callous leader of the uncontrolled Covid spread and cause of tens of thousand deaths, etc., it will be interesting to see their coverage of the upcoming expose which puts Obama, Clinton and the intelligence committee in shameful / corrupt light.

    CNN, New York Times, Washington Post and MSNBC, have taken extraordinary measures to keep distant from posting anything that praises Trump, denigrates Biden or the socialist left, holding them up as the ‘purity test’ standard.

    Corruption, lies, hypocrisy by the left, I'm shocked - NOT! Deep State to undermine Trump and remove him from office by any means? Indeed!

    And all this horse**** helps us to determine most qualified presidential candidate, how? Or serves the best interests of the American citizen?

    Our country is in dire need of good leadership, top to bottom. So what do we get across all government agencies? Rancor, partisanship, with little evidence of compromise intent, rather polarization for the sake of political agenda and self-preservation. Citizens be damned!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Bombastic evidence?

    https://youtu.be/H8ZuTr6bZKM

    Bombastic evidence, we shall see.
    Lee, methinks we are being played from both sides.

    I am tired of listening to the 8-track tape parade of investigative reporters (John Solomon and Sarah Carter), Republican lawmakers, (Hello Lindsey Graham, Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan), and lawmakers-turned talking heads (Trey Gowdy) promising resolution to, and full justice for, the rather obvious transgressions of the anti-Trump forces. For a very long time, their unfulfilled words promising exposure and indictments have resembled elevator music; one notices it when it is not present.

    When the American military liberated occupied Europe in World War Two, it did not delay revealing Nazi atrocities; it exposed them to the world immediately, lest the fortunes of war reversed.

    In that common sense connection, I am nearly convinced that if the Republicans were going to effectively address the Leftist transgressions, they would have done so 2017-2019 when they had the majority. Rather, the Republican House under Ryan acted helpless, and facilitated their intended impotence by failing to deliver on health care and immigration reform.


    Kind of seems like many Republicans may have wanted to lose control of the House in 2018, and turn the Trumpster over to the forces of the dark side, eh?


    Indeed, we are so screwed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Regardless who wins in November: We are so screwed!
    If I had a dollar every time Lee Chowaniec whined "We are so screwed," I'd have about two gazillion dollars right about now. Gee Lee, give me a break. Can you ever say anything positive? Then always attempting to be "middle of the road," "independent"-minded in his "Regardless who wins in November" hogwash; just another in-a-long-line of whinny horse crap, and written of course in that snooty "Lee knows best" tone - and as if he takes no sides, "just fair-minded opinion" yet anyone reading his stuff has no other conclusion: Lee Chowaniec is a puppet of the Republican Party.

    Please! Just admit it Lee.

    It's really funny that Lee endlessly states "we are so screwed" and for many, many years now; yet, it seems pretty cool in Lancaster.

    Am I missing something?

    Where is this "we are so screwed" results around town when the candidate Lee supports doesn't make it into office? Because a lot of folks Lee supported have not made it in.

    Just saying

    Of course anyone reading this stuff on SPEAKUP WNY for any amount of time can instantly recall the line where maybe the "gazillion dollars" would be modest! The ole "I despise most politicians," other than maybe one or two in his lifetime whom are worthy of his respect and admiration. Again: Give me a break Lee. Interesting that someone could "despise most politicians" and at the very same time promote their efforts, naturally his Right as an American of course, but it is clearly a sign that he is still an absolute shill for the GOP, Republican candidates, even fronting for a local Conservative Party, too. When Joe Gallo says jump, well, you know what Lee does.

    Yeah, readers, the Conservative Party, that Conservative Party, the one which is anything but conservative when you pull back the curtain, especially in light of the history of Joseph Gallo, local party boss. Here's how this fellow works:

    In 2015, Mr. Gallo writes:

    Unfortunately, on Primary night, the Democrats carefully orchestrated a campaign to steal the Conservative line from Joe Brainard and give it to ... Dawn Gaczewski. ... I am writing to let you know that she is not one of us. ... Economically, they support socialist policies that would bankrupt small businesses with a living wage, and drown property tax owners in bills to fund never ending social programs. ... To be frank, we can’t afford a Town Council with Dawn Gaczewski serving on it, and that is why we didn’t endorse her in the first place.
    Then, in 2019, Mr. Gallo writes:

    The Lancaster Conservative Party doesn’t endorse candidates based on their political party. Instead we support candidates who share our values of lower taxes, smaller government and professionalism. We only endorse candidates who meet our high standards. ... The candidates who earned our endorsement are; ... Dawn C. Gaczewski for Town Supervisor
    Does anyone have the letter from 2020?

    LOL - Just asking.

    Yeah, she LOST that one, again. LOL

    Readers, you get the picture here, you can see another shill at work here in Mr. Gallo - another shill for the Republican Party just like Lee; and Lee knows it, too, and Lee even goes way out of his way to beat up Democrats in Lancaster who dare seek Conservative Party support. Below is another good example.

    Lee also belts out smears like this gem a lot:

    I posted numerous times years ago that I was baffled why the Lancaster Conservative Party endorsed Democratic Party candidates 100% of the time. A party with conservative values consistently endorsing candidate with liberal, ideological values.
    I just don't know where he gets off.

    Just another lying, stinking, line of crap.

    Who the hell are you Lee Chowaniec to determine the political sensibilities where you can get into the mind of people who happen to be members of the Democratic Party? Heck, I looked it up. Remember the Right to Life Party? Ron Ruffino had that line right up to the day the party left the ballot. Are you telling me that Bob Giza was some socialist or as your 'spot on buddy' Mark Blazejewski says, a "Communist?" I would hardly state that any of the crop of Democratic office holders in Lancaster were out of line with the values of the Conservative Party, especially in the likes of todays bloviating Lee Chowaniec linking "liberals" to some kind of crazed army of zombie socialists.

    Most people are middle of the road, Lee, especially folks who stand up, run for office, and serve the community.



    Maybe it's madness since most local political leaders have heard what he has to say and have filed those opinions away as some sort of grumbling grievance, or maybe even use his own word, "claptrap." There are some pretty good things that could maybe bring a smile to the face of a town critic, isn't there?

    Lee, you and Gallo are just are crooked as you always say about the Dems around Town. Maybe it's just jaded. A means to an end. You are just as guilt as anyone else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breezy View Post

    Readers, you get the picture here, you can see another shill at work here in Mr. Gallo - another shill for the Republican Party just like Lee; and Lee knows it, too, and Lee even goes way out of his way to beat up Democrats in Lancaster who dare seek Conservative Party support. Below is another good example.
    Speaking of past elections, party leaders who reconsider things, and party shills, Breezy, you NEVER did answer this question...

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    Who the hell are you Lee Chowaniec

    One sentence that truly exposes Breezy's reason for anger toward Lee :Breezy stated/asked , "Who the hell are you Lee Chowaniec to determine the political sensibilities where you can get into the mind of people who happen to be members of the Democratic Party?"

    Thats what Lee does mainly - presents statements - questions - opinions that actually makes sense to most people ! Its not aimed at promoting one Party over another - unlike Breezy who cant waver one step from Lancaster Democrat Patronage Politics !

    He's upset and trying to discredit Lee and anyone who doesn't agree with the Lan Dem agenda . Breezy has to answer when some party supporters ask about facts raised by people like Lee ! There are common sense Dem voters still out there - some are actually inside the Dem committee sphere of influence.

    As November nears - as mentioned before - Breezy and his buddies will get more nasty and pointed in their attacks. See how its already getting personal by the Breeze !

    Nov 3 rd we will be heard !
    #Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !

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    Screwed again

    When Covid deaths are at an all time high, there is anarchy on the streets, significant increases in murders / suicides / substance abuse rates, record unemployment and general anxiety and despair, everyone’s hopes turn to the discovery of a vaccine to control the spread and destructiveness of the beast at the root of all the chaos!

    Today the New York Times published a report that dampened the hope of such vaccine promised within the next few months by President Trump, or by year’s end by Dr. Fauci.

    Same-old-same old report: Trump bad, Fauci good, vaccine risks now outweigh benefits. Negative report to undermine Trump and fuel political divisiveness.

    Vaccine development, speed called a bad mix
    Political pressure concerns scientists
    NEW YORK TIMES


    WASHINGTON – In April, with hospitals overwhelmed and much of the United States in lockdown, the Department of Health and Human Services produced a presentation for the White House arguing that rapid development of a coronavirus vaccine was the best hope to control the pandemic.

    “DEADLINE: Enable broad access to the public by October 2020,” the first slide read, with the date in bold.

    Given that it typically takes years to develop a vaccine, the timetable for the initiative, called Operation Warp Speed, was incredibly ambitious. With tens of thousands dying and tens of millions out of work, the crisis demanded an all-out public-private response, with the government supplying billions of dollars to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, providing logistical support and cutting through red tape.

    It escaped no one that the proposed deadline also intersected nicely with President Trump’s need to curb the virus before the election in November.

    The ensuing race for a vaccine – in the middle of a campaign in which the president’s handling of the pandemic is the key issue after he has spent his time in office undermining science and the expertise of the federal bureaucracy – is now testing the system set up to ensure safe and effective drugs to a degree never before seen.
    Under constant pressure from a White House anxious for good news and a public desperate for a silver bullet to end the crisis, the government’s researchers are fearful of political intervention in the coming months and are struggling to ensure that the government maintains the right balance between speed and rigorous regulation, according to interviews with administration officials, federal scientists and outside experts.

    Even in a less politically charged environment, there would be a fraught debate about how much to accelerate the process of trials and approval. The longer that vaccines are tested before being released, the likelier they are to be safe and effective.

    But with 1,000 people dying each day in the United States, schools finding it difficult to reopen and the deep recession inflicting economic pain across the country, the desire to find a way to return to normal life is powerful and transcends partisan politics and borders. On Sunday, Russia announced that it planned to start a nationwide inoculation campaign in October with a vaccine that had yet to complete clinical trials, the latest evidence of the global potential for cutting corners.

    Despite concerted efforts by the Trump administration and a bevy of pharmaceutical companies it is working with, the original October target has slipped, with the administration now pushing to have hundreds of millions of doses available by the end of the year or early 2021.

    But experts inside and outside the government still say they fear the White House will push the Food and Drug Administration to overlook insufficient data and give at least limited emergency approval to a vaccine, perhaps for use by specific groups like front-line health care workers, before the vote on Nov. 3.

    “There are a lot of people on the inside of this process who are very nervous about whether the administration is going to reach their hand into the Warp Speed bucket, pull out one or two or three vaccines, and say, ‘We’ve tested it on a few thousand people, it looks safe, and now we are going to roll it out,’” said Dr. Paul A. Offit of the University of Pennsylvania, who is a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee.

    “They are really worried about that,” he added. “And they should be.”

    Trump relentlessly touts progress toward a vaccine, raising hopes of quick approval. Touring a North Carolina biotechnology lab last week, he vowed to “deliver a vaccine in record time.” In a tweet last month, he explicitly tied vaccines to his re-election hopes.

    The president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, who is helping to steer the re-election campaign from the White House, is a regular participant in meetings of a board formed to oversee the vaccine effort.

    While White House officials do not specifically mention the election during the board’s discussions, people familiar with the conversations say they ask regularly about October, a date that hangs over the effort. Trump campaign advisers privately call a pre-election vaccine “the holy grail.”

    White House officials said that Trump would not distort the vaccine review process to help his campaign. “The rapid research, development, trials and eventual distribution of a Covid- 19 vaccine is emblematic of President Trump’s highest priority: the health and safety of the American people,” said Judd Deere, a White House spokesman. “It has nothing to do with politics.”

    Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told lawmakers on Friday that he remained “cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021.”

    Dr. Stephen Hahn, the FDA commissioner, has not ruled out emergency approval of a vaccine.

    “We would consider using an emergency use authorization if we felt that the risks associated with the vaccine were much lower than the risks of not having a vaccine,” he told the Journal of the American Medical Association in an online interview.

    He also said regulators would certify that any vaccine would meet the agency’s rigorous standards, adding, “My job as commissioner is to make sure to the fullest extent possible that any pressure that comes to the agency is not reflected downward” onto regulators and scientists studying the vaccines.

    Operation Warp Speed got its start in April, the brainchild of Dr. Peter Marks, a pencil-thin, bespectacled physician who leads the regulatory unit at the FDA that approves vaccines and therapies.

    A “Star Trek” fan, Marks named the initiative Warp Speed and pitched it in an April 10 phone call to Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of Health and Human Services, who quickly embraced it. In a follow-up phone call a few days later, according to a person familiar with the discussions, several health officials said the October deadline was unrealistic; over the next few months, officials began publicly citing the end of the year or early 2021 as a target.

    With his job on the line, Azar, the target of Trump’s wrath over the virus, was especially eager to prove his worth to the White House. He teamed up with Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, whose department has long experience with vaccine development and distribution to protect troops. An expert in complex logistics, Gen. Gustave F. Perna, became the operation’s chief operating officer.

    Kushner, Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus coordinator, and others interviewed Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a pharmaceutical industry veteran, and orchestrated his appointment as chief scientific adviser despite concerns within the FDA about conflicts of interest because of his financial ties to two companies that are developing a vaccine. Rather than being bothered by the conflict, Kushner and others reasoned that it took someone with such industry experience to oversee the effort.

    The administration has conducted the vaccine hunt with a focus lacking in much of the rest of its pandemic response. Contracts have been executed at a brisk pace. Mobile trailers have been speedily delivered for experimental doses to be administered. When a company was short on needles, the Pentagon dispatched planes to deliver supplies within 48 hours.

    The pharmaceutical companies are reporting the results of their trials at regular intervals, accelerating the review process. With the government paying much of the cost, the companies are beginning the process of manufacturing millions of doses of vaccine essentially on spec so that they can be distributed quickly if they secure approval.

    The process has moved at a remarkable clip. Two vaccine candidates, one developed by Moderna in conjunction with Fauci’s institute and another by Pfizer, last week began Phase 3 trials, the final stage of clinical experimentation. Others are expected soon.

    Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, also talks with pharmaceutical executives. People briefed on the discussions say the White House has also pushed for progress by the fall on therapeutics – drugs to treat people who fall ill to the disease – including the possibility of an emergency use authorization for one or more of those drugs. Late last month, Trump called the chief executive of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to check on the progress of a potential antibody treatment.

    Career officials have assured Hahn that they would stand behind him to head off any vaccine decision not based on science. But Hahn already lost a measure of credibility with the scientific community for approving the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. The FDA later revoked the authorization, concluding the risks outweighed the benefits.

    Scientists have argued that it would be unwise to cut corners on a vaccine that is to be injected into some 300 million Americans, adding that a failed effort would fuel public distrust of vaccines generally.

    It is not clear that a vaccine approval shortly before the election would be an “October surprise” sufficient to alter the outcome of the vote.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breezy View Post
    I would hardly state that any of the crop of Democratic office holders in Lancaster were out of line with the values of the Conservative Party, especially in the likes of todays bloviating Lee Chowaniec linking "liberals" to some kind of crazed army of zombie socialists.

    Most people are middle of the road, Lee, especially folks who stand up, run for office, and serve the community.
    Does that crop of Democrat office holders in Lancaster whose views are "not out of line" with Conservative values include Assemblymember Wallace?



    How did she vote on the Reproductive Health Act?


    References:
    https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/A1748

    https://rewire.news/legislative-trac...alth-act-1748/


    In April, 2020, how did she vote on the state budget which included bail "reform?"


    I am also am about this June, 2020 posting on her Assembly Face Book page...


    Wallace Post June 6, 2020.jpg

    And, how does Monica Wallace stand on the issue of forced vaccines for children, and the attendant issue of parental rights?

    Just askin.
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    Correction.

    This...

    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post


    I am also am about this June, 2020 posting on her Assembly Face Book page...


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    ...was intended to, and should read...


    I am also CURIOUS about this June, 2020 posting on her Assembly Face Book page...


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