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From The Reporter’s Notebook
TPM’s Katherine Krueger reported on how the California Secretary of State’s on-the-ground investigation into possible voter fraud turned into allegations of voter intimidation by its own investigators. The “constitutional” sheriff of rural Siskiyou County, Jon Lopey, told TPM he suspects the Asian American immigrants in the area are being “manipulated” into committing voter fraud.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Climates of fear and threat do frequently, though not always, buoy parties of the right. This pattern is not unique to the United States. But we know it from the way it defined American politics in the years after the 9/11 attacks. Another Republican candidate might be buoyed by the climate of threat and fear inevitably generated by this kind of horror. But to assume that will happen in this case is, I think, to misjudge both candidates.”
Say What?!
“What we need is for every American—Democrat and Republican—to come together, abandon political correctness, and unite in defeating radical Islamic terrorism.”
– Ted Cruz issued a statement in the wake of the Orlando shooting.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “The cost savings of privatization never materialize. One thing that does materialize is the political constituency of commerce chambered Rumpublican businessmen, to the exclusion and at the expense of Democratic leaning union workers. Another thing that materializes is the statistical illusion, feeding the political pretense and outright lie that the government is shrinking. But in fact, the workers are just reclassified while the government pays more to achieve less.”
Related: How privatization became a corporate opportunity and a standard conservative response.
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What We’re Reading
Cheating in corporate fitness contests. (WSJ)
A list of women’s sites run by men. (Bust)
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