Tag: presidential race
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Here’s where Denver Mayor Mike Johnston stands on the local ballot issues
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced Friday he will not support the fur and slaughterhouse bans, though is backing a sales tax hike aimed at generating $100 million for “affordable” housing. The mayor on Friday outlined his positions on several local and statewide measures that will appear on the city’s ballot this November. Initiated Ordinances…
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The Trump shooting: An aftermath as disturbing as the incident | SONDERMANN
Vince Lombardi once described football as “a game of inches.” The same is true for a number of other sports. Until Saturday evening, I had not thought of politics in quite that vein. But here we are with the narrowness of a single inch or less all that saved America from a fifth presidential assassination.…
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Deconstructing the simple, insulting notion of the Trump voter | SONDERMANN
This week in Milwaukee, Donald Trump will join a rare group of only four Americans who have received their party’s presidential nomination in three consecutive elections. The others were Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt who, of course, set the record at four. Whatever his flaws and outrages, or in some cases because…