Spanish/English translator. Int'l ad agency veteran. Española in past life. Red Sox forever. "Nevertheless, she persisted." "I'm speaking."
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Janine Libbey retweeted
After Tennessee Republicans eliminated the state’s only Black-majority district, in Memphis, Justin J. Pearson took a campaign about economic inequality to rural white voters. When Pearson speaks about issues such as health care and pollution, he believes that he is talking to voters beyond the usual racial and partisan alignments. “This MAGA-envisioned state and MAGA-envisioned country are not good for any of us, including MAGA people. Especially MAGA people,” he said. “Life should not be this hard in the richest country in the history of the world. My thing is that, if you are not a billionaire, you are one of us.” Read more: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/8O…
Janine Libbey retweeted
The midterms might spell the beginning of the end of Trump’s long, strange hold on the American electorate, Susan B. Glasser writes. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
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I’m getting asked a lot what race could shock the country … one that’s not on the radar right now but should be. Mine is #TNGOV and @Jerri_M_Green vs #BeltwayBlackburn … if you’re looking for a sleeper/upset race…that’s mine.
Janine Libbey retweeted
WHAT A CONTRAST TODAY: Democrat @Jerri_M_Green launches a program to relieve $17M of medical debt for 12,000 Memphians. As GUV, she wants to take the program statewide.
Republican Marsha Blackburn attends a corporate photo op for a new Air France flight to Paris.
Their posts were moments apart.
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Marsha Blackburn and I have very different priorities about who the Governor should work for.
I want to put a moratorium on data centers and fully fund our public schools.
Marsha wants more data centers and private school vouchers.
I want to eliminate the grocery tax and put more money back in your pockets.
Marsha keeps voting for billionaires to have tax breaks.
Those are real differences. Now you get to decide who's going to work for YOU.
I hope to have your support as the next Governor of Tennessee.
Early Voting: October 14-29
Election Day: November 3
Make your plan to vote at greenforgovernor.com/vote.
Janine Libbey retweeted
The ‘Dumocrats’ are coming for Trump, and all he can do is call them names….
My new column on the POTUS panic tour of red-state America: newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
Janine Libbey retweeted
Read that again.
“Without the tariffs, it’s estimated prices would’ve fallen.”
Remember that and make a plan to vote before November 3rd.
Janine Libbey retweeted
This could have been all of us but some of yall had to vote for the pedophile.
Janine Libbey retweeted
Buried in Trump's bill: a NINE YEAR ban on improving the programs that help seniors afford Medicare premiums.
CBO scored it as $66 billion in "savings."
That's not savings. That's $66 billion taken from seniors who can't afford their pills.
#RepublicansCutMedicare
Janine Libbey retweeted
Can someone explain to us why Tennessee networks are protecting @MarshaBlackburn from a moment like this and refusing to hold a debate without her as she ducks @Jerri_M_Green? 🤔 🦆
@WKRN @Tennessean @NC5 @WSMV @knoxnews @FOXNashville @newschannelnine @wbir @DailyMemphian @memphisnews @clarksvillenow @WMCActionNews5 @3onyourside
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My statement on Marsha Blackburn's refusal to debate:
I don't need Marsha Blackburn to give me a platform. I already have one.
The people of Tennessee gave me that when they made me the nominee, an election I won by nearly 70% compared to Marsha who got merely 43% of her own party.
The truth is she doesn’t want to stand on a debate stage because she can’t tell you what policies she stands for.
She doesn’t want to take the questions because she thinks she only has to answer to her dark money donors.
She doesn’t want to have voters see she has nothing to offer besides culture war talking points, not plans for everyday Tennesseans. But the voters see through this.
And they see her for what she is - a coward.
So, I’ll still be there. I’ll still be answering the questions voters have. After all, this is a job interview. Just looks like I’m the only one showing up.
Janine Libbey retweeted
Leading medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together to issue shot guidelines — and highlight the science behind them — saying they hope to ease confusion caused by the Trump administration's changing advice. to.pbs.org/4i9BU4C
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Would you like to inspire a love of reading or increase early literacy in your community? We need partners like YOU to help start a program and create a culture of reading for young children. To find out how you can start a program, visit bit.ly/3djM7Ki
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EXCLUSIVE: The White House already has a secret bunker built deep in the Washington bedrock — undercutting the core of Trump’s continuity-of-government ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say.
New, from @noahjrobertson and @ddiamond washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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This is a job interview. Tennessee voters deserve to have us stand on a stage side by side and hear what we stand for, hear how we’d solve the problems they face everyday. I’m ready whenever you are, Marsha.
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Name the time. Name the place. I’m ready to debate you, @VoteMarsha. Not only am I not scared to tell the people of TN where I stand, I think the voters are owed a debate.
In KINGSPORT, @MarshaBlackburn again refuses to commit to debating if she wins the Republican nomination 🐔 🐔
(Again: She only talks to “individuals” who agree with her “every single day” — no town halls 2017)
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I have carefully reviewed Todd Blanche’s qualifications to be Attorney General. This includes his record and responses to questions from Senators at the Department of Justice Appropriations hearing, his confirmation hearing, and in the weeks that followed.
While I believe Mr. Blanche is a capable lawyer, the Department of Justice has become increasingly political.
Mr. Blanche has taken several actions that have further eroded the Department’s independence, and that is the basis for my vote to oppose his confirmation:
Mr. Blanche approved an order to shield the President, his sons, and the family business from IRS audits, protections unavailable to other American taxpayers.
He approved the creation of a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.
He promised an anti-abortion organization that he would seek to prohibit the mailing of abortion medication to women nationwide.
Under his leadership, the Department attempted to indict Senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin over their ill-advised, but constitutionally protected, videos encouraging resistance to unlawful orders.
More than 1,200 former Department of Justice employees have opposed his nomination, arguing that he has undermined the institution.
For these reasons, I will vote against this nomination.
Janine Libbey retweeted
This is insane
🚨MARSHA STAFFER: “IT’S GONNA BE HELL. YOU’RE GONNA BE ASKED TO BREAK THE LAW.”
@PhilNvestigates got tapes from INSIDE @MarshaBlackburn’s office showing Marsha + “bald-headed psychopath” Ward Baker illegally make taxpayer-funded staffers do campaign work - and Marsha is lying about the ethics probe.
Full: newschannel5.com/news/newsch…