The Isolated Politics Blurt Thread I: A New Beginning

NEW YORK — Federal authorities arrested and charged two chiefs in the New York City Fire Department in a corruption scheme, alleging they took at least $190,000 in bribes to expedite FDNY building inspections.

Brian Cordasco and Anthony Saccavino are accused of secretly partnering with a co-conspirator to start a fire safety company while the pair were both FDNY chiefs. Businesses would pay the company to speed up their building inspections with the fire department, according to an indictment unsealed Monday morning by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Cordasco and Saccavino would refer customers to the company, use their government jobs to pull strings and then get a kickback from the company.

The scheme is alleged to have lasted from July 2021, during Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, through early 2023, under Mayor Eric Adams.

fucking corruption, corruption, corruption. nail the buggers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...&cvid=6a81d219356a4c62a9f48ff9319af37e&ei=130
 
this seems entirely the wrong way to deal with the situation:

An 11-year-old boy was punished this month for reporting a classmate for having a bullet at school because, according to administrators, he waited too long to do so.

School officials at St. John the Apostle Catholic School in Virginia Beach suspended a sixth grader for 1½ days for waiting about two hours to report a bullet his friend had shown him, according to Tim Anderson, a lawyer representing the boy and his mother Rachel Wigand.

the school counters that the child's actions could have had severe consequences. Instead of punishing a kid for waiting 2 hours, wouldn't it have been better to hold assemblies and class talks to stress the importance of speaking out if something like that happens? how it's not a matter of snitching on a friend but a matter of reducing any danger to all their classmates as well as to the child bringing in something potentially dangerous, like a knife, a gun, an unknown substance? The kids who bring in strange, possibly dangerous things might be in need of protection themselves... where did they lay hands on the item and how is it they were able to bring it to school?

suspension seems totally inappropriate to me; it might even be detrimental to encouraging kids to come forward and speak out.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/1...&cvid=9927f135d38c465c9e361c91d7410c8c&ei=163
 
Remember, Trump was very popular with Democrats until about 2011...hmmm...I wonder why? Maybe the campaign cash?
 
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear banned the use of “conversion therapy” on minors in Kentucky on Wednesday, calling his executive order a necessary step to protect children from a widely discredited practice that tries to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling.

The governor used his executive powers after Republicans who control the state legislature repeatedly blocked efforts to enact a state law banning the practice. Beshear said he would no longer wait for others to "do what’s right.”
good!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/g...&cvid=0f21988073794312b18911ac951b316b&ei=287
 
lol. Josh Shapiro had an embarrassing moment Tuesday as he was filming a promotional about buying canned cocktails from a convenience store... he'd forgotten his ID and was refused.

Shapiro found himself being possibly one of the first consumers in the state to be denied a canned alcoholic cocktail under the new law.

In footage obtained by CBS21, the Democrat was seen inside the gas station, picking up canned Surfside tea and vodka beverages.

But, the 51-year-old governor was then seen putting the drinks back on the shelf after clocking he’d forgotten his identification.

He appeared to joke with staff about the fail, before leaving empty handed.

The governor’s office confirmed Shapiro put the alcohol back and no one purchased the drink for him, The Hill reported.

“You can now buy your ready-to-drink canned cocktails at your local grocery store or gas station,” Shapiro said on the day. “Boosting our economy and protecting tax payers, this reform is projected to raise $137 million in new revenue.”

we all have off days :D
 
this belongs in the jan 6th perps thread but i can't bring it up:

WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who bear-sprayed officers during the Jan. 6 attack, and whose photo was featured in a Joe Biden ad in early 2024, has pleaded guilty, admitting that he hit at least three officers during the attack, temporarily blinding at least two of them.

Andy Steven Oliva-Lopez — whom online sleuths had dubbed "Blue Plaid Sprayer" because he was wearing a blue plaid shirt along with a helmet and a gas mask when he unleashed chemical spray on officers protecting the Capitol — pleaded guilty on Wednesday. His sentencing was set for Jan. 17, 2025, just days before the next president of the United States will be inaugurated at the U.S. Capitol.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...&cvid=f3e35da579524ad3c8194b60b396d4b4&ei=195
 
Allies of former President Donald Trump who control the Georgia State Election Board approved a controversial new rule Friday requiring counties to hand-count the number of ballots cast at polling places on Election Day, despite bipartisan objections from election officials and poll workers.

The vote was 3-2, with the three Trump allies supporting the move, and a Democratic and independent GOP-appointed member of the board strongly opposing it, calling it an added step that could delay the results of the presidential election in the battleground state.

The office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican, previously warned the GOP-run board that this move would likely be unlawful because state laws don’t allow local election workers to hand-count ballots before the votes are officially counted.


“These proposed rules are not tethered to any statute — and are, therefore, likely the precise type of impermissible legislation that agencies cannot do,” his office wrote.

Carr’s office also warned the board that it might be too close to the election to make these changes – and that judges might even block these changes because of long-standing precedents that favor maintaining the status quo on the eve of elections.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=75f384ed4bb745e28fb917d59cfd20ec&ei=26
 
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