THE FIRST THING BECERRA DID WHEN LA RAZA SUPREMACIST GOV
JERRY BROWN APPOINTED HIM A.G. OF CALIFORNIA WAS TO DELETE FROM THE STATE’S
A.G. WEBSITE THE LIST OF CALIFORNIA’S MOST WANTED CRIMINALS. THEY WERE ALL, AND
ALWAYS MEXICAN!
As in 2016, Democrats advance a corrupt ruling-class candidate.
Like the dead man Gary Ernst, Democrats want people to vote for Joe Biden so
they can swap him out for Kamala Harris, already a beneficiary of voter fraud
and with the exception of Xavier Becerra possibly the worst attorney general in
California history.
LLOYD BILLINGSLEY
XAVIER BECERRA IS A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST FASCIST AND ASSOCIATED WITH THE MEX SEPARATIST MOVEMENT OF M.E.Ch.A.
An
overflowing toilet of corruption: Biden picks Xavier Becerra as his health
chief
Of all
the Democrats out there, why would Joe Biden pick Xavier Becerra, a former
congressman and California state attorney general to be his secretary of Health
and Human Services?
On the inside-baseball political side, sure he's
probably been picked to fill a 'Latino' slot, but more likely, the important
reason is that it's a political payoff to the election-rigging
one-party California Democratic machine -- Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein,
etc. That is Biden's
model for the country now, so maybe it's not surprising that he's reaching
deep into California, a state he has no ties to, for talent.
But
that leaves the U.S. stuck with Becerra, and don't think there won't be a raft
of incompetence, corruption, and scandal as a result.
Corruption
is what he does. Take a look at some of his recent scandals.
Twitchy reminds of this one,
calling Becerra's appointment a #MeToo headache for presumptive Vice President
Kamala Harris, who employed a serial pervy sex harasser named Larry Wallace as
her top law enforcement division man.
I'm
going to argue it's also Becerra's scandal, too, and no, I don't think the
presence of Becerra is going to make Harris uncomfortable. #HeelsUpHarris
is incapable of shame. CNN reports that this is what happened:
[Plaintiff] Hartley alleges that while working as Wallace's
assistant, he would ask her daily to refill paper or replace the ink in a
printer that was located on the floor under his desk. She says that asked him
to move the printer to a different location so that she would not have "to
bend down on her knees under the desk in her dresses and skirts, but Wallace
refused."
"Many times, Wallace would ask her to put paper in the
printer while he was sitting at his desk or with other male executives from the
(Division of Law Enforcement) in the room," the lawsuit says.
In addition, Hartley alleged that Wallace asked her to book
flights for his children, wash his car and run personal errands for him. She
said other employees mocked her for carrying out those tasks, with hostile
comments like: "Are you walking the walk of shame?" She alleges that
California state Justice Department officials were aware of the comments.
After informing one of her supervisors about Wallace's
alleged behavior, she says she was subjected to retaliation by being
involuntarily moved to a new job.
In answer to the lawsuit, the DOJ denied the allegations,
according to court documents.
The lawsuit was settled by the Department of Justice in May
2017, though they continued to deny the claims, after Xavier Becerra had
assumed the role of attorney general. By that time, Wallace was working as a
senior adviser to Harris in her Sacramento office.
Here's
why it's Becerra's scandal. The state paid out a huge $400,000 settlement
while Wallace walked off scot-free, un-prosecuted, and taking another
well-padded job in Contra Costa County,
investigating "corruption." Someone protected this toad. Becerra had the
wherewithal to prosecute him and didn't. Political protection comes to mind, with the California
taxpayers making the hush-money payoff. Very convenient for Harris.
Here's another: Becerra did a few terms in Congress, and got enmeshed with the Imran Awan scandal, two apparent Pakistani spies who eavesdropped on the Democratic Congress's emails. When lawmen tried to get to the bottom of it, they asked for the hacked server, just a copy.
But according to the Daily Caller News Foundation:
On Jan. 24, 2017, Becerra vacated his congressional seat to
become California's attorney general. "He wanted to wipe his server, and
we [a 'senior official'] brought to his attention it was under investigation.
The light-off was we asked for an image of the server, and they deliberately
turned over a fake server," the senior official said.
A fake
server? Why isn't he in jail? This is a political thug who's capable of
anything. Someone protected him. I wrote about that here.
It gets
worse. Here's a little about his law enforcement record prior to his becoming
California Attorney General, according to the Los Angeles Times in 2008, when
President Obama floated his name as his trade representative:
WASHINGTON —
President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to make Rep. Xavier
Becerra (D-Los Angeles) the next U.S. trade representative makes him the second
Cabinet-level candidate to have been involved in President Clinton’s
controversial 2001 commutation of a Los Angeles cocaine dealer’s prison
sentence.
The other is Eric H. Holder Jr., whom Obama has nominated
to be attorney general.
The dealer, Carlos Vignali, was convicted in 1994 for his
role in a drug ring that delivered more than 800 pounds of cocaine -- worth
about $5 million at the time -- from Los Angeles to Minneapolis. He was
released after serving less than half of his 14 1/2 -year sentence.
Becerra was one of a number of Southern California
political leaders who urged Clinton to consider commuting Vignali’s prison term
in response to a campaign by Vignali’s father, Horacio, a Los Angeles
businessman and developer who contributed to Becerra’s political campaigns. The
senior Vignali also paid Hillary Rodham Clinton’s brother, Hugh Rodham,
$204,000 to lobby for his son’s release.
Pay to
play, the Becerra way. Sure, the story and its angry editorials sank his
prospects (Imagine him browbeating Colombia over drugs to block its free trade
pact with the U.S. with a record like that. Imagine what they'd say in Mexico.)
But the more pertinent question now is why wasn't he prosecuted for that?
He's
also quite a jerk to young Latinos -- I wrote about his nasty behavior to them
when he paid a visit to a Los Angeles college in 2013. There's undoubtedly a whole raft of scandals linked to
his name because he's a big reason why California is what it's become. These
scandals are just a sampling and a deep dive will undoubtedly reveal that he's
more corruption than actual pol. It's like Joe Biden is surrounding himself
with men like himself.
Why, again, is Becerra about to get his hands on
the levers of power (and incoming piles of cash) of the vast health and Obamacare
apparatus? This guy is as corrupt as they come.
Voter Fraud Plus Bait-and-Switch Equals Tyranny
Lessons from 2016.
Mon Nov 9, 2020
The 2020 election battle has left millions of voters in a state of confusion. For a sense of clarity, they might recall a significant race from 2016.
“Voters in Oceanside, Calif., have chosen a dead man over a woman,
re-electing Gary Ernst as city treasurer despite the fact that Ernst died in
September,” reported National
Public Radio on November 10, 2016. Challenger Nadine Scott charged that
Oceanside councilman Jerry Kern urged voters to choose the dead man so he could
hand-pick a successor. Kern acknowledged as much a week after the death of
Ernst, telling ABC news, “vote for him anyway, because that way we can get
somebody that’s qualified there.” That presages a key feature of the 2020
election.
As their candidate for president of the United States, Democrats
selected Joe Biden, 77, a 47-year Senate veteran and loser in 1988 and 2008
presidential bids. In 2020, Biden says he’s running for the Senate, doesn’t
know his location and claims 200 million
Americans have
died from Covid. And so on.
Joe may be above ground, but to all but the willfully blind he is
completely incapable of carrying out the duties of the presidency, the most
difficult job in the world. Democrats selected Biden for the same reason Jerry
Kern urged votes for dead man Gary Ernst. They wanted to get somebody else in
the office.
That would be Kamala Harris, supposedly qualified as an
intersectional “woman of color.” Harris is a favorite of the “composite character”
president formerly
known as Barry Soetoro, who called her the “best looking attorney
general in the country.” That invites a look at the way Harris became
attorney general of California, and its relevance to the current campaign.
Democrat queenmaker Willie Brown also thought Harris, 30 years his
junior, was good looking. In a daring act of poontronage, Brown set up Harris in lucrative
sinecures and backed her runs for San Francisco district attorney and state
attorney general in 2010.
Harris was so lightly regarded that the Sacramento Bee,
a veritable Democrat newsletter, backed Republican Steve Cooley. On election
night Cooley claimed victory, but pro-Harris SEIU drones harvested enough
ballots to give Harris a “lead” of less than one percent, and the race was called
in her favor. It was blatant, voter fraud of the same brand Democrats now
deploy. They halt crucial vote counts that favors Trump and dredge up ballots
for Biden, many delivered by the postal workers union that endorsed
Biden, who helpfully clarified the issue.
In an October 24 video, Biden bragged that he
had created, “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the
history of American politics.” The Democrat front-man got help from
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a crony of Nancy Pelosi. In March, Newsom
deployed emergency powers to order ballots sent to every registered voter,
which includes at least one million illegals registered to vote through the DMV
“motor voter” plan.
On November 2, a judge ruled Newsom’s order “an unconstitutional
exercise of legislative power,” too late to stop the illegals from
voting. At this writing the massive fraud continues, and evokes other
memories of 2016.
“Last time, in 2016, the establishment was not ready for Donald
Trump,” writes Roger Kimball at
American Greatness. “This time they knew it was not only possible but probable, and
they prepared accordingly.” That includes the massive voter fraud openly touted
by Biden and the bait-and-switch hailed by Nancy Pelosi, who announced that the
bid to deploy the 25th Amendment had nothing to do with
Trump.
Victor Davis Hanson was already onto it.
From day one, the Democrats would begin the process of deposing Biden in favor of Harris.
Biden was simply the front man, and he knew pollsters would rig the numbers to
show him with a massive lead. The establishment media confirmed they had
learned nothing.
Fox News polls were among the worst and on election night, as
Kimball noted, Fox refused to call Florida for Trump even after he had won the
state. They called Arizona for Biden when it still in play, with lines at the
polls. Two days after the election, Fox refused to call Alaska and other states
for Trump, even though the president’s win was clear.
Mark Levin, Jesse Waters, Judge Jeannine and Tucker Carlson are on
to the Democrats’ scam, but the most astute of all may be Tyrus. As he announced on the Greg Gutfeld show
in 2016, the Democrats “got their asses kicked” but “claimed they gained more
yards.” In 2020 Trump is again kicking ass but Democrats bring in fake ballots
by the truckload.
As in 2016, Democrats advance a corrupt ruling-class candidate.
Like the dead man Gary Ernst, Democrats want people to vote for Joe Biden so
they can swap him out for Kamala Harris, already a beneficiary of voter fraud
and with the exception of Xavier Becerra possibly the worst attorney general in
California history.
To adapt Tyrus’ football analogy, the game does not carry on until
the penalty has been marked off. As President Trump says, we’ll have to see
what happens.
Judicial Watch Exposes Mexican Separatist School Is Academia Semillas del Pueblo Training the Next Generation of Mexican Revolutionaries?
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that
investigates and prosecutes corruption, today announced the release of a
special report, Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Seeds of the People Academy):
Training the Next Generation of Mexican Revolutionaries with American Tax
Dollars. Judicial Watch’s report includes excerpts of new documents obtained by
Judicial Watch through the California Public Records Act that highlight the
school’s radical agenda. According to the report’s introduction: “Academia
Semillas del Pueblo is not much more than a training ground for the Mexican
reconquista movement, which seeks to conquer the American Southwest – by force
or by ballot box – and return it to Mexico.” Among the highlights of Judicial
Watch’s special report: • Academia is led by Mexican revolutionary radical
Marcos Aguilar, who recently told an interviewer with UCLA’s Teaching to change
L.A.: “We don’t necessarily want to go to White schools¼the White way, the American way, the neo
liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.” •
Academia offers an 8th grade United States history and geography class
entitled, “A People’s history of Expansion and Conflict – A thematic survey of
American politics, society, culture and political economy; Emphasis throughout
on the nations the U.S. usurped, invaded and dominated; Connections between
historical rise of capitalism and imperialism with modern political economy and
global social relations.” • Academia is funded by the Mexican reconquista organization
“National Council of La Raza.” Moreover, Aguilar previously served as a leader
of M.E.Ch.A., a radical student-run Chicano organization, while attending UCLA.
According to M.E.Ch.A.’s official statement of principles, “Aztlan (the
American southwest) belongs to indigenous people, who are sovereign and not
subject to a foreign culture¼We are a union of free pueblos forming a bronze Nation.” •
According to Academia’s original charter application, the school targets
“communities [that] are highly self-identified as Latino.” English instruction
for Academia’s students does not begin until the fourth grade. “Marcos
Aguilar’s school seems to be brainwashing school children with Mexican
separatist, anti-American, Marxist propaganda, and getting American taxpayers
to pay for it,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “How could the Los
Angeles Unified School District agree to fund this sham of a school with tax
dollars?” To read a copy of Judicial Watch’s new special report, visit www.judicialwatch.org.
Big Tech and Big Law dominate Biden transition teams, tempering progressive hopes
Alexander Nazaryan administration
takes office in January.
WASHINGTON — For six years, Brandon Belford
worked as an economic policy adviser to President Barack Obama in the White
House and federal agencies. He moved to the Bay Area when Donald Trump became
president, part of a massive flight of Obama officials from Washington to
Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Hollywood. He took high-ranking positions with
Apple and then Lyft, where he is currently the ride-sharing company’s chief of
staff.
Now Belford is back, as part of one of the
“transition teams” named by President-elect Joe Biden to restock a federal
government that has been battered after four years of Trump by hiring new
officials and advising the incoming administration on what its first governing
steps should be.
Those steps could be timid, judging by the
composition of those teams, where Obama-era centrism prevails. That has some
progressives worried that Biden represents nothing more than a return to
normal, at a time when many of them believe the nation is ready to embrace
policy ideas well to the left of center.
“The status quo is killing us,” says former
Bernie Sanders press secretary Briahna Joy Gray, who now hosts a podcast called
“Bad Faith.”
Belford is joined by dozens of other Democratic
operatives who have spent the past four years working at prestigious law firms
and think tanks. On these “agency review teams” are high-ranking executives
from Amazon, partners at white-shoe law firms like Covington & Burling and
enough experts from D.C. center-left think tanks — including six from the
Brookings Institution alone — to fill a center-left think tank.
Progressives knew this was coming. “I am very
concerned about the role Uber executives would play in this administration,”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N.Y., told Yahoo News. Even though she also
effusively praised the appointment of Ron Klain as the incoming White
House chief of staff, Ocasio-Cortez vowed that corporate America would not
“pull the wool over our eyes” when it came to crafting the Biden presidency.
Some have put it less bluntly. “Biden’s
transition team is full of wealthy corporate executives who are completely
disconnected from the struggles of the working class,” complains left-leaning
activist Ryan Knight, whose Twitter handle is @ProudSocialist.
App-based drivers from Uber and Lyft protest in a caravan
in front of City Hall in Los Angeles on October 22, 2020 where elected leaders
hold a conference urging voters to reject on the November 3 election,
Proposition 22, that would classify app-based drivers as independent
contractors and not employees or agents. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
(Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)More
He was presumably referring to the two dozen
agency review team officials who come from law firms like Arnold &
Porter. Or to the 40 or so members of the Biden transition who are current or recent
lobbyists.
The agency review teams are not exactly
settling into their cubicles just yet. For one, President Trump has not yet
conceded the election, and the transition has been hindered in part by
Republican operatives at the General Services Administration. And agency review is
an enormously complex process, one that actually began months ago. The
transition teams are supposed to ensure a “smooth transfer of power,” in large
part by making sure that capable officials are ready to get to work in their
respective agencies the moment Biden lifts his hand from the Lincoln Bible.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, one
member of the Biden campaign working on agency-related matters says teams were
primarily tasked with surveying the landscape of the federal bureaucracy. She
says that the transition teams would make some hiring recommendations, but only
as a secondary function.
With a single exception, the agency review team
members mentioned in this article did not respond to requests for comment.
One with a typically impressive biography is
that of Aneesh Chopra, who served as the U.S. chief technology officer for
Obama before starting his own medical data logistics company, CareJourney. Now
he is on the transition team for the U.S. Postal Service, where he will
presumably work to undo the alleged damage by another logistics maven: Trump appointee Louis
DeJoy.
Of course, most progressives are glad that
there’s a Biden transition to speak of, instead of a second Trump term. But
they also recognize their own role in the Democratic candidate’s victory.
“Everyone fell into line and did everything
they could to get Joe Biden elected,” says Max Berger, a progressive
activist who worked for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign and Justice
Democrats, the group that helped elect Ocasio-Cortez to the House in
2018.
Berger recognizes that progressives will be a
“junior partner” to the establishment Democrats with whom Biden has been
ideologically and temperamentally aligned for a good half-century. They want to
be partners all the same, not just the loyal opposition.
Many are cheered by some of the agency review
teams. For one, they are notably more diverse, a stark contrast to Trump’s
reliance on white males for so much of his advice. On the transition team for
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is Jedidah Isler, the
Dartmouth professor who in 2014 became the first Black woman to earn a
doctorate in astrophysics from Yale. The transition team for the Small Business
Administration includes Jorge Silva Puras, a political leader in Puerto Rico
who also teaches entrepreneurship at a community college in the Bronx.
“The presence of labor officials throughout
many of the groups is notable,” says David Dayen, executive editor of the
American Prospect. In the Department of Education team, for example, are
several executives from the American Federation of Teachers.
He called the Federal Reserve and Treasury
teams “all-stars,” a sentiment shared by other progressives interviewed for
this article. On the Treasury team is Mehrsa Baradaran, a progressive
economist who has written on the
racial wealth gap. She is also on the Federal Reserve team, along with Reena Aggarwal, a corporate
governance expert.
Progressive strategist Elizabeth Spiers says the
finance-related teams are not “not quite Elizabeth Warren levels of
aggressiveness but also not stuffed with finance people.” Biden’s advisers
appear to have learned the lessons of his former boss. During Obama’s first
year, he relied on banking
executives to help quell the financial crisis. They did so in ways
that steered the new president away from progressive proposals, such as nationalizing those
very same banks.
There is not a single current executive from
Citibank or Goldman Sachs on any of the transition teams. Bank of America has
also been shut out. JPMorgan can boast a single toehold in the agency review
process: Lisa Sawyer of the Pentagon team. A spokesman for JPMorgan told Yahoo
News that the bank was “following the appropriate election laws” and that
Sawyer was “not on an agency review team that will touch any banking issues.”
“I think the Biden administration is going to
be surprising to progressives in some ways and disappointing in others, and the
agency review teams reflect that,” Dayen says. During the summer, the
American Prospect published a lengthy exposé about Biden’s foreign policy
advisers’ lucrative foray
into corporate America. Many are set to return to the highest
echelons of official Washington.
“I have to be cautiously optimistic,” says
Waleed Shahid, communications director for the Justice Democrats.
Relatively young progressives like Shahid are
less likely to wax romantic about the way things were in Washington. They are
less interested in experience than conviction. But for many in Biden’s camp, a
lack of experience was among the several fatal flaws of the Trump years.
“Everyone — right or left — has made the
mistaken assumption for years that governing is easy,” says “The Death of
Expertise” author Tom Nichols, who teaches at the Naval War College
and is an ardently anti-Trump
Republican.
“After having a bunch of nitwits and cronies
loose in the government,” Nichols wrote in an email, “I think a lot of people
on the left are really giving in to the assumption that as long as you’re not
Trump, or not a complete idiot, anyone can do it.”
Given the title and theme of his book, Nicholas
cautioned against that approach. “It’s a childish and silly approach to
government, but it’s a bipartisan problem,” he told Yahoo News.
While progressive may not see their stars like
Sens. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren occupying the Treasury Department,
they do very much hope that a Biden presidency amounts to more than a third
Obama term. It was unaddressed economic inequality, they believe, that bred the
populist resentment that gave Trump an opening in 2016. The coronavirus has
only made that inequality worse. That will only increase populist resentment,
they worry, to be exploited by a Trump acolyte — or perhaps Trump himself,
again — in 2024.
Addressing that inequality, for now, falls to
transition team officials like Mark Schwartz of Amazon and Ted Dean of Dropbox,
as well as Arun Venkataraman of Visa and David Holmes of defense contractor
Rebellion Defense, in which Eric Schmidt of Google is an investor. Many of these
officials are veterans of the Obama administration or Democratic offices on the
Hill.
“There is a lot of corporate
influence there,” says Maurice Weeks, co-founder of the Action Center on
Race and the Economy. “And that is troubling.” But he is encouraged by the
presence of “hard-core progressives” like Sarah Miller, a former Treasury
deputy who is both an anti-Facebook activist and the executive of the American
Economic Liberties Project, which seeks to curb corporate power. She is now on
the Treasury transition team.
In some ways, the difference is between former
Obama officials who, like Miller, went on to become activists and those who
moved on to become rich. The latter did only what many government officials had
done before them. But at a time of mass unemployment, a stint at the corporate
law firm Latham & Watkins (three transition team members) may not seem as
impressive as it may have when Obama was president.
“We don’t just want to rewind the clock by four
years,” Weeks says.
For many progressives, Trump was a singular
threat to important institutions of the federal government, but rebuilding
those institutions is simply not as important as rebuilding entire communities
shattered by economic, social and racial inequalities.
It doesn’t help matters that, today, tech
giants are distrusted by conservatives and progressives alike. Firms that were
run out of Palo Alto garages now chafe at antitrust laws like the railroad
companies of a century ago.
And like those companies, they know how to use
their influence. In 2019 alone, two of the biggest and most influential
technology firms — Amazon and Facebook — each spent $17 million on “government
affairs,” better known as
lobbying.
Ocasio-Cortez’s reference to Uber may have been
a subtle warning to the incoming administration: The brother-in-law of Vice
President-elect Kamala Harris is Tony West, who worked for the Department of
Justice under President Bill Clinton and is now the chief counsel at
Uber. Jake Sullivan, another top Biden adviser, also worked for Uber.
The company recently won a major victory in
California with Proposition 22, a successful response
to legal efforts to make Uber drivers and other “gig workers” employees, not
contractors. That’s exactly the kind of labor policy, Ocasio-Cortez says, the
Biden administration must avoid.
Many top Obama staffers went to Silicon Valley
in 2017. They could be returning to Washington with a new appreciation for free
market capitalism at a time when “socialism” is no longer a dirty word.
“Joe Biden’s transition is absolutely stacked
with tech industry players,” noted Protocol, an online publication
that covers technology.
That’s exactly what worries Jeff Hauser,
executive director of the Revolving Door Project, which tracks what Trump has
called, without much affection, “the swamp.” He notes that the transition team
for the Office of Management and Budget appears to have borrowed rather avidly
from Silicon Valley, with team members hailing from Lyft, Airbnb and
Amazon.
The budget office wields an “enormous amount of
power,” says Hauser, including in both how congressionally appropriated money
is doled out and how certain rules are implemented. Though it had a supporting role
in Trump’s impeachment drama over foreign aid, OMB is otherwise
obscure, making it a perfect site for covert exercises of federal power.
Hauser also didn’t like the prevalence of Big
Law talent on the Department of Justice team, which signaled to him that the
Biden administration could go soft on corporate malefactors.
Watching the transition, Gray, the former
Sanders adviser, recalled an old saying: “The fish rots from the head.” The
head, in this case, is Joe Biden, of whom Gray has long
been a skeptic.
“He’s a fundamentally conservative man,” Gray
says. She reasons that if Biden was “unmoved by the largest protest movement in
American history” to endorse Medicare for All, he can’t be trusted to do much
for conservative causes like a $15 minimum wage and the Green New Deal.
Still, she believes that Biden can be made to
hear the voices of progressives — if, Gray says, they are loud enough. She
points out that there is widespread support for progressive legislation
like the $15 minimum wage in
Florida, even though Trump won the state.
Biden easily won Oregon, but a push to
legalize small amounts of drugs, known as Measure 110, was even more popular
than he was.
She sees that as evidence that progressive
ideas are more popular than Biden himself. “Progressives should never stop
screaming that reality from the rooftops,” Gray told Yahoo News. And she vowed
to keep fighting, even with Trump gone and a Democratic president in the Oval
Office once again.
“I don’t accept resignation,” she said.
Cover thumbnail photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
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