A dozen paid operatives registered with Arizona’s secretary of state on Sunday to collect signatures on behalf of left-wing presidential candidate Cornel West, listing their employer as a Republican-leaning firm that recently worked for GOP House candidate Blake Masters. Arizona, unlike most states, requires paid or out-of-state petition-gatherers to register with the state. On their […]
Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of Donald Trump’s scheme to subvert the 2020 election, has been charged with felony forgery in Wisconsin, court records show. Chesebro, who developed a strategy to send false slates of presidential electors — and to use them to stoke a conflict on Jan. 6, 2021 aimed at blocking Joe Biden’s Electoral […]
A pair of political operatives tied to Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, have agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with the Justice Department’s bribery case against Cuellar, according to court documents unsealed this week. Mina Colin Strother, Cuellar’s former campaign manager and chief of staff, and Florencio “Lencho” Rendon, a Texas businessman described as a “close […]
Crossing the Line Saudi Arabia is working on a comically colossal skyscraper, called “The Line,” that aims to stretch across 105 miles of desert and tower over the Empire State Building. And that’s only one part of an even greater ambition, the world’s largest construction project simply called “Neom.” Unsurprisingly, The Line is already turning […]
Far-right operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay New York Attorney General Letitia James‘ office up to $1.2 million for a robocall campaign they put together to suppress the Black vote ahead of the 2020 election. “Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt […]
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two conservative operatives who launched a robocall campaign designed to prevent Black New Yorkers from voting by mail in the 2020 U.S. election will pay $1.25 million in a settlement, New York state Attorney General Letitia James said on Tuesday. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were found liable by a […]
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is tapping three veteran Democratic operatives to head up its efforts in Florida amid a deeper debate over whether the state remains in play for Democrats in the November elections. Jasmine Burney-Clark, the founder and former director of Equal Ground Education Fund and Action Fund, will serve as Biden’s Florida […]
Bob Menendez isn’t the only Washington insider in hot water for his dealings with Qatar. Two longtime Republican political consultants who backed Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign admitted in court filings Tuesday to deceiving the Justice Department about their lobbying activities on behalf of the small but wealthy Arab nation. Barry Bennett and Doug Watts […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two well-connected political consultants provided false information about lobbying work on behalf of a wealthy Persian Gulf country during the Trump administration, according to Justice Department court records unsealed Tuesday. Charging documents filed in federal court in Washington allege that Barry P. Bennett, an adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, spearheaded […]