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Anti-LGBTQ Texas GOP Megadonor Charged With Two Felonies Related To 2020 “Voter Fraud” Search Incident
The Texas Tribune reports:
Conservative activist Steven Hotze on Wednesday was indicted on two felony charges related to his alleged involvement in an air conditioning repairman being held at gunpoint in 2020 during a bizarre search for fraudulent mail ballots that did not exist, according to his attorney, Gary Polland.
Hotze, 71, was indicted by a Harris County grand jury and faces one count of unlawful restraint and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The charges stem from Hotze’s hiring of more than a dozen private investigators to look for voter fraud in Harris County ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Read the full article.
Hotze last appeared on JMG when he left a voice mail for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, telling him to “shoot to kill” Black Lives Matter activists.
You may recall that Steven Hotze has compared gays to “communist termites” eating away at America’s moral fabric. He is also fond of declaring that it’s now a hate crime to denounce homosexuality.
It was Hotze who bankrolled the successful campaign to repeal Houston’s “wicked, evil, Satanic” LGBT rights ordinance, during which he compared gays to rapists and murderers.
According to Hotze, same-sex marriage will result in children “practicing sodomy” in kindergarten.
In 2017, he appeared here when he “prophesied” that God will deliver “just retribution” to lawmakers who vote for LGBT rights.
When he’s not calling on God to kill politicians or for the governor to kill Black Lives Matter activists, Hotze sells “miracle” supplements because high cholesterol doesn’t really cause heart disease.
Hotze regularly quotes QAnon slogans.
These old white trumper’s think they can get away with stuff just like Trump does.
This is why Trump is their hero.
mikeiver Longpole • 2 months ago • edited
Guess what, he will get away with it. This is the one star state we are talking about here. The state that put a black woman in jail for 5 years for attempting to vote with the help of a poll worker and a provisional ballot when she was banned. He will 100% be let off!
Republicans keep talking about voter fraud but it seems the only people committing voter fraud are Republicans.
Christopher Gigi • 2 months ago
It’s always projection with that lot.
Dude is facing some serious charges but he is white, christian and conservative so this kind of behavior is what we should expect.
Police Rescue 77 From Nigerian “Rapture” Church
The New Arab reports:
Nigerian police have rescued dozens of people, including many children, from a church basement where they had been told to wait for what they believed would be second coming of Christ, police said.
Police raided the Whole Bible Believers Church in southwestern Ondo State on Friday after a tip from a local mother who said that her children were being kept there against their will. Seventy-seven people, including 26 children, were rescued and two church pastors were arrested, Ondo State police spokeswoman Funmilayo Odunlami said in a statement.
Police said the people had been kept in the church after being told they must wait for Rapture, a belief among some Christians that they will ascend to heaven when Jesus Christ returns.
The Voice Of America reports:
Reports say some of the people had been in the Whole Bible Believers Church for as long as six months and had been convinced they would soon witness the second coming of Jesus Christ. While some of the people are reported to have been kidnapped, others came freely.
One young woman said that she had decided to join the church because “my parents were leading me away from God and I want to make heaven.” Authorities conducted the raid on the church after complaints from parents. The pastor and other members of the church have been arrested, police said.
So, let me get this straight….
The Rapture DIDN’T come, and they waited as long as SIX MONTHS!?! What is wrong with their Jeebus anyway? How disappointed they must be with him!
Still busy rigging sportsball games. He’ll get around to it. Eventually.
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“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell won’t support a bipartisan domestic manufacturing bill if Democrats try to lower prescription drug prices and tax the rich, the Kentucky Republican announced Thursday.
Bipartisan negotiators from the House and Senate have been hammering out a compromise of a bill boosting the semiconductor chip industry after each chamber passed its own version.
The Senate’s bill was called the United States Innovation and Competitiveness Act, or USICA. “Let me be perfectly clear: there will be no bipartisan USICA as long as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill,” McConnell tweeted on Thursday.
McConnell’s threat comes just as Democrats have made progress on a new budget reconciliation bill to replace the stalled Big Back Better Act. The centerpiece of the legislation would be a provision giving Medicare more power to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers for lower prescription drug prices.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) have nearly finalized a prescription drug agreement, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. NBC News first reported the details of the plan on Thursday.” *
As Ohio restricts abortions, 10-year-old girl travels to Indiana for procedure
So it begins. Females are the only ones required to let another use the resources of their body against their will. For at least nine months in half the country women will lose all rights to control their own body, including what they wish to eat or drink because of the effect it may have on a fetus. Hugs
On Monday three days after the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio.
Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.
Could Bernard help?
Indiana lawmakers are poised to further restrict or ban abortion in mere weeks. The Indiana General Assembly will convene in a special session July 25 when it will discuss restrictio ns to abortion policy along with inflation relief.
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But for now, the procedure still is legal in Indiana. And so the girl soon was on her way to Indiana to Bernard’s care.
Indiana abortion laws unchanged, but effect still felt across state
While Indiana law did not change last week when the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking Dobbs decision, abortion providers here have felt an effect, experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of patients coming to their clinics from neighboring states with more restrictive policies.
Since Friday, the abortion clinics where Dr. Katie McHugh, an independent obstetrician-gynecologists works have seen “an insane amount of requests” from pregnant people in Kentucky and Ohio, where it is far more difficult to get an abortion.
A ban on abortions after six weeks took effect on last week in Ohio. Last Friday the two abortion providers in Kentucky shut their doors after that state’s trigger law banning abortions went into effect.
Indiana soon could have similar restrictions.
That pains doctors like Bernard.
“It’s hard to imagine that in just a few short weeks we will have no ability to provide that care,” Bernard said.
What to know about abortion in Ohio: Who can be charged? What about ectopic pregnancy?
For now, Indiana abortion providers have been fielding more calls from neighboring states. Typically about five to eight patients a day might hail from out of state, said McHugh, who works at multiple clinics in central and southern Indiana. Now, the clinics are seeing about 20 such patients a day.
Kentucky patients have been coming to Indiana in higher numbers since earlier this spring when more restrictive laws took effect there, McHugh said.
Indianapolis abortion clinics seeing surge in patients from Ohio, Kentucky
A similar dynamic is at play at Women’s Med, a medical center that performs abortions in Indianapolis that has a sister center in Dayton, Ohio. In the past week, they have doubled the number of patients they treat for a complete procedure, accepting many referrals from their Ohio counterpart.
More than 100 patients in Dayton had to be scheduled at the Indianapolis facility, a representative for Women’s Med, wrote in an email to IndyStar.
Women and pregnant people are “crying, distraught, desperate, thankful and appreciative,” the representative wrote.
The two centers are working together to route patients to Indianapolis for a termination after a pre-op appointment in Dayton. In recent months, they have also had people from southern states, like Texas, come north for a procedure.
Many patients, particularly from Ohio and Kentucky, are seeking care through Women’s Med while also making multiple appointments in other states so if one state closes down, they will still have some options, the representative wrote.
The center is advising pregnant people with a positive pregnancy test to book an appointment even though prior to the Supreme Court ruling they asked people to wait until their six-week mark to do so.
For years people have traversed state lines for abortions, particularly if a clinic across the border is closer to their home than the nearest in-state facility.
In 2021, 465, or about 5.5% of the more than 8,400 abortions performed, were done on out-of-state residents, according to the Indiana Department of Health’s most recent terminated pregnancy report. More than half, 264, lived in Kentucky and 40 in Ohio.
Midwestern residents can also travel to Illinois, where abortion is likely to remain legal even in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling but for many Indiana is closer and until the lawmakers pass any measure to the contrary, abortion will be legal here.
Still, it remains murky what the future holds.
Thursday a lower court ruled that abortions could resume, at least for now, in Kentucky. On Wednesday abortion clinics in Ohio filed suit, saying that state’s new ban was unconstitutional.
In Indiana lawmakers have declined to provide specifics of what measures any abortion legislation considered here might contain.
For now, then, abortion providers are doing their best to accommodate all Hoosier patients as well those from neighboring states.
“We are doing the best we can to increase availability and access as long as we can, knowing that this will be a temporary time frame that we can offer that assistance,” McHugh said.
Real life consequences do not concern this Supreme Court. They care only about maintaining the purity of their Catholic doctrine, people be damned.
tomcor Ecce Homo • an hour ago
Well some have lied under oath, others have cited obscure medieval judicial philosophy, and another has a wife who worked diligently to overthrow a peaceful transfer of power probably with his help…and it seems for the six rogues the Constitution be damned…yes, I’d say they’re corrupt.
Tomcat Elagabalus • an hour ago
Lets not lay this ALL on catholic doctrine, we lived years with catholic doctrine and allowed abortions. It was after protestants, mainly southern baptist got involved in controlling our government that we arrived here.
Ecce Homo Tomcat • 35 minutes ago • edited
But those two clown groups ride in the very same car, drunk with power, the pedal to the fucking metal, driving backwards into traffic on a one-way freeway. What can’t happen?
When Ireland banned abortion we had these same issues.
They led to repeal of the ban and a referendum allowing abortion.
A ban on abortion throws up all kinds of problems and issues.
A ban on abortion is just a doctrinaire piece of religious bullshit by zealots.
Randy Left Brooklyn • 2 hours ago
See? If Indiana doesn’t outlaw abortion, pretty soon all of the 10 year-olds will be showing up for abortions there from everywhere. Why not teach the little sluts to take advantage of the opportunities that life hands them? /s
DevilDog Randy Left Brooklyn • an hour ago • edited
Furthermore, according to various Republicans:
– If she really didn’t want the sex, then her body would have shut down the pregnancy.
– Was she dressed in a provocative manner?
– She should view the pregnancy as a blessing and as God’s will.
– And the latest: if she goes through with the abortion, she is a murderer and should be put to death.
What, me worry? Randy Left Brooklyn • an hour ago
Yeah, those 10 year old girls need to stop seducing their grandfathers! (snark–I am so pissed off about this that I can hardly type.)
We’re going to get a barrage of these stories. Doctors are going to be unwilling to risk their licenses and/or jail time to assist.
Houndentenor cfa • an hour ago
2016 shattered whatever hope I had in my fellow citizens. I think they’ll think “well isn’t that awful” and then go on doing whatever they were doing before. Maybe it will wake up enough to swing an election, but probably not more than just that.
Ecce Homo • an hour ago • edited
Southeast Portico of the Jefferson Memorial:
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
Thomas Jefferson
Sadly there will be a lot more of these cases, and little girls and young women will DIE. This is what republicans live for–other people’s suffering.
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