Red Wing Daily: January 4, 2024
"the more you know..."
Links of interest today, in no particular order:
State:
Arkansas’ Air National Guard 188th Wing Commander Col. Dillon Patterson resigned after less than six months on the job, citing the DoD abortion/travel policy as being against his religious beliefs. WE APPLAUD Col. Patterson.
Mostly progressive Bentonville will require businesses to register with the city ($25 initial fee/$15 annually). They say it will "help with planning..." The mayor broke a 4-4 tie to approve the new policy. Nonprofit groups and home-based businesses are exempt.
Governor Sanders has named Allen Kerr to the State Banking Board. Kerr was Arkansas Insurance Commissioner for five years; wife Marliese Kerr was chair of the Pulaski County Republican Party until last year.
Nikki Beaver, a former activist in NWA, has taken a job as National Political Director with the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) in D.C. to work with fellow Arkansan Julie Harris who was elected NFRW President for 2024-2025.
National:
If you don’t know the name Ray Epps, just skip over this one. Epps is in line for six months in prison after he pleaded guilty last fall to a misdemeanor charge of “disorderly conduct on restricted grounds.” The DoJ is recommending this sentence for RAY EPPS, when our J6ers are acquiescing to guilty pleas and years and years in prison — if they even get to trial after languishing in horrid conditions in a D.C. jail for going on 3 years now!
You may have seen where the CCP has opened police stations at various locations across the U.S. The idea is that the CCP maintains surveillance of Chinese nationals that are in our country, continuing to enforce its will on them by holding their families back in China as “hostages” with threats of torture, imprisonment, or worse. In Utah, a Chinese foreign exchange student was “missing,” and authorities located the young man “secreting himself” in the Utah woods in a tent. His family told police they had transferred ransom money to bank accounts in China "due to continuous threats from the kidnappers”… Interestingly, the ABC News report focused on what they called “cyber-kidnapping” — not the CCP’s intrusion into our country.
They say it's President Trump's "false election claims" that makes only 22% of Republicans fully trust that our votes will be properly counted in 2024. Not so fast! How about the everyday refrain in the news where conservatives see our values, positions, and lifestyle constantly squashed by media; where we see Leftists shredding the Constitution; where our rights to redress are consistently criminalized; and Leftists' lawfare is ruining what used to be a fair and equal justice system?
Republican party infighting between patriots and establishment members is creating havoc across the country; it seems the Party, in many cases, is more focused on keeping patriots out than on uniting behind the Party’s platform and principles to beat back the Left’s takeover of our country. Here’s what’s going on in the battleground state of Michigan.
Election Integrity:
How accurate are absentee ballots, really? In “Wisconsin election clerks can accept absentee ballots that contain minor errors such as missing portions of witness addresses… Dane County Circuit Court ruled in favor of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin in its lawsuit to clarify voting rights protections for voters whose absentee ballots have minor errors in listing their witnesses’ addresses…”
In New Caddo, Louisiana, Henry Whitehorn won the sheriff’s race by one vote in November’s runoff election. His opponent contested the results and a Caddo judge plus a majority panel of the appellate court agreed, citing at least 11 voting irregularities in their rulings. A new election was ordered, but Whitehorn appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court. That Court has now turned down his appeal, upholding the findings of election irregularities rendering the November runoff election invalid. Election officials’ testimony at the trial revealed a" substantial gap in compliance with statutory election code procedures."
On November 17, 2020, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that an audit “using forensic techniques” was completed with “no sign of foul play” in the 2020 election. Open Records Requests were made to the counties that were allegedly “audited,” but not one county can show any records suggesting that an audit of their equipment was ever performed.
In December the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) was set to hear the July 2022 complaint alleging that over 17k ballot images did not exist or were “missing,” 3k ballots were counted twice, and 20k ballots were attributed to tabulators that Fulton County has been unable to show even exist in the 2020 election — but the SEB cancelled the hearing with no new date set. Now we see where the SEB got the FBI to investigate one of the complainants over a 7-page email that individual sent to numerous elected officials and the SEB on September 21, 2023 that asked:
“Will we now be the targets of an investigation? Like True the Vote, are we too in jeopardy or at risk of being sued by the State Election Board for seeking redress and remedy from our government for fraud, waste, and abuse? Does anyone at the Secretary of State’s office want to acknowledge that we have a First Amendment right to petition our government for a [sic] redress of grievances?”