Democrats | What are they good for?

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Democratic Candidates Won’t Directly Talk to Voters
Teachers unions managed to kill an event that would allow an open dialogue between teachers and the candidates for the Democratic nomination.

Recently, while speaking at a public high school in Des Moines, Iowa, President Barack Obama criticized political correctness and those who not only refuse to hear opposing views, but go so far as silence opposing points of view:

“I’ve heard of some college campuses where they don’t want to have a guest speaker who is too conservative, or they don’t want to read a book if it had language that is offensive to African Americans or somehow sends a demeaning signal towards women. I’ve got to tell you, I don’t agree with that either—that when you become students at colleges, you have to be coddled and protected from different points of view. Anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with them, but you shouldn’t silence them by saying you can’t come because I’m too sensitive to hear what you have to say.”

While his message was directed at college students, the message is really universal. While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it’s critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day—and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.

Incidentally, while President Obama’s message may have resonated with the high school students sitting in the gymnasium, it falls on deaf ears with the nation’s largest teachers’ union.

Recently, The Seventy Four and the American Federation for Children teamed up to hold forums focused on our nation’s education system. The first forum was held in New Hampshire and featured six of the leading Republican presidential candidates—all of whom sat for 45 minutes to speak in depth on education issues facing our nation. The events were unscripted, live, open to the public and forced candidates to talk policy specifics and not in soundbites.

A second forum was to be held in Iowa and feature Democratic candidates for president. In addition to The Seventy Four and the American Federation for Children, the two organizations teamed up with the Des Moines Register, one of the nation’s most respected newspapers.

Unfortunately, this event will not take place, as Politico reported, the nation’s two largest teachers unions, National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation for Teachers (AFT), worked aggressively behind the scenes to kill the event.

Rather than risk having Democratic candidates speak about education reform, perhaps celebrate the teachers’ unions positions or perhaps break with the teachers’ unions (both the NEA and AFT have endorsed Hillary Clinton), the unions maneuvered behind the scenes to actively discourage candidates from participating.

This form of bullying is anti-democratic. It diminishes the free engagement of ideas—just as the president said, those you agree with but perhaps equally important those you disagree with.

The teachers’ unions active attempt to undercut an event sponsored by two organizations dedicated to education reform and a highly respected newspaper perhaps says more about AFT’s and NEA’s weakness than their strength.

Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers’ union are rewarded. The NEA and AFT oppose empowering parents, they oppose charter schools, oppose common sense tenure reform that would protect good teachers and remove ineffective teachers, and they sue to stop parents from accessing school choice programs. Meanwhile, voters strongly support all of these issues which is why in 2014, despite spending an estimated $100 million, the NEA and AFT were largely seen as the biggest losers of the election cycle. In nearly all parts of the country, voters rebuked the teachers’ unions’ message and backed reform-minded candidates.

The evidence is more than anecdotal. In a national poll conducted by Beck Research, a Democratic pollster who has previously done work for the NEA, 60 percent of Democrats favored the concept of school choice. Furthermore, 63 percent of voters supported private school choice, when they were specifically asked if they support or oppose “opportunity scholarships, also known as school vouchers.”

Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers’ union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

In the end, while the NEA and AFT may claim a momentary victory by silencing discussion and debate on education reform, ultimately they will continue to lose the battle with public opinion. More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers’ union antiquated, top down, one size fits all approach to education, and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.

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O'Malley: Limited Debate Schedule Proves Dems 'Fear the Future'
Cortney O'Brien | Oct 10, 2015
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has barely cracked 1 percent in most 2016 election polls. That's why he is especially looking forward to the Democratic Party's first presidential debate this Tuesday night. O'Malley has often called for more visibility leading up to the Democratic primary, yet the DNC has not budged in its decision to only hold six debates. The governor believes this is an intentional plot to protect the "inevitable" nominee, Hillary Clinton. In September, he had no problem calling out DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz herself for 'rigging' the campaign.

He voiced the complaint again on Friday:

“It would appear to me that they’re trying to circle the wagons around this year’s inevitable front-runner,” he said of Clinton’s presidential campaign. "I think it shows a lot of fear about the future.”

The Democrats perhaps should be fearful about next year's election. Hillary is facing a serious investigation into whether she mishandled classified information on a private server and compromised national security. Because of the ongoing inquiry, the electorate doesn't trust her. Meanwhile, her attempts to appear likeable and down to earth have been poor at best, proving she can't stray from her precious talking points even on late night talk shows.

She's their frontrunner? I'd be scared too.

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Only about a year later. No one ever accused Democrats of being fast on their feet. Or knowing much about anything.

The Party of Global Warming.

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9565119/d ... ep-trouble

Democrats are in denial. Their party is actually in deep trouble.

The Democratic Party is in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself.

Yes, Barack Obama is taking a victory lap in his seventh year in office. Yes, Republicans can't find a credible candidate to so much as run for speaker of the House. Yes, the GOP presidential field is led by a megalomaniacal reality TV star. All this is true — but rather than lay the foundation for enduring Democratic success, all it's done is breed a wrongheaded atmosphere of complacence.

The presidency is extremely important, of course. But there are also thousands of critically important offices all the way down the ballot. And the vast majority — 70 percent of state legislatures, more than 60 percent of governors, 55 percent of attorneys general and secretaries of state — are in Republicans hands. And, of course, Republicans control both chambers of Congress. Indeed, even the House infighting reflects, in some ways, the health of the GOP coalition. Republicans are confident they won't lose power in the House and are hungry for a vigorous argument about how best to use the power they have.

Not only have Republicans won most elections, but they have a perfectly reasonable plan for trying to recapture the White House. But Democrats have nothing at all in the works to redress their crippling weakness down the ballot. Democrats aren't even talking about how to improve on their weak points, because by and large they don't even admit that they exist.

Instead, the party is focused on a competition between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton over whether they should go a little bit to Obama's left or a lot to his left, options that are unlikely to help Democrats down-ballot in the face of an unfriendly House map and a more conservative midterm electorate. The GOP might be in chaos, but Democrats are in a torpor.

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Hrmm, do elections determine majorities? So hard to say...

http://www.vox.com/2015/11/5/9672706/ke ... ats-denial

This week's elections in Kentucky and Virginia reveal the Democratic Party's peril

Kentucky and Virginia have been treading opposite political trajectories for the past 20 years, but on Election Day 2015 they came together to deliver a clear warning that the Democratic Party is in a much weaker political position than most of its supporters realize. The Kentucky result, in which a reasonably popular Democratic attorney general was bested by a Tea Party favorite last seen getting crushed by Mitch McConnell in a primary, has garnered more attention. But it's Virginia that's the more profound sign of the party's rot.

The root cause of the rot is something progressives generally know deep down but are reluctant to admit. The Blue Team in American politics, the one whose leader sits in the White House and used to be a community organizer, has gotten routinely out-organized by conservatives, who inhabit denser, more meaningful social networks and exhibit concurrent greater political awareness and commitment.
A disappointment in Kentucky, a disaster in Virginia

The loss of the Kentucky governor's mansion comes as a serious disappointment to Democrats, but largely because it confirms a trend the party has mostly learned to live with — Kentucky and Kentucky-like places have broken hard to the right in American politics as the Democratic Party coalition has become more firmly based on nonwhites and secularly minded college graduates. The local Kentucky version of the Democratic Party puts a different face forward than the national party — less culturally liberal and fanatically devoted to the Cult of Coal — but the growing nationalization of politics advantages the Kentucky GOP.

Democrats' more fundamental problem is that these same trends ought to help them in Virginia, which has a large African-American population, growing Latino and Asian voting blocks, and a very well-educated set of white people.

And in many ways it has helped them. Barack Obama carried Virginia twice, both its senators are Democrats, and the Virginia House delegation is so GOP-tilting largely because of gerrymandering.

But to cure that gerrymandering, Democrats need to make gains in the state legislature, both houses of which are in Republican hands. The party picked up zero seats this week, including two closely targeted state Senate races in districts that went heavily for Obama in 2012, largely because of low turnout. Midterm elections see lower turnout than presidential elections. Elections held on odd-numbered years see even lower turnout. And elections like Virginia 2015 that are on an odd-numbered year but with no gubernatorial election on the ballot see the lowest turnout of all. Yet low turnout is not a symmetrical phenomenon in American politics. Instead, it delivers an electorate that is systematically more conservative than the electorate in presidential elections.
Turnout is about organizing

It would be foolish to chalk up Democrats problems at downballot politics exclusively to low turnout. Low turnout isn't why there's a Republican governor of Illinois, and low turnout isn't why coal country is trending red. But differential turnout is a constant gravitational force on American politics, skewing the building blocks of American politics to the right even while it skews the commanding heights to the left.

Yet it's not a law of nature that Democrats don't show up to vote. It's a consequence of political organizing.

To see why, it's worth skipping past the trollish framing and fully reading Eitan Hersh's recent 538 article about school board elections. In this specific case, it's Democratic Party politicians — not Republicans — who deliberately seek weird election dates in order to encourage low turnout. The reason is that teachers unions like it this way. And the reason for that isn't that public school teachers are rich or politically conservative — it's that public school teachers are well-organized politically.

That means teachers talk to one another (they work together, after all) about questions of public policy (everyone talks at work about work, but public school teachers' work is public policy), and they also have hierarchical channels of information dissemination (the union itself) through which this work talk can connect to practical politics. In other words, if something important to teachers is happening in politics, the union leadership will know about it and pass that on to the leaders in each school. Those leaders then have a natural opportunity to disseminate information horizontally to their colleagues, and their colleagues can engage at least a handful of non-teacher friends and family.

What a well-organized group of people does when faced with an election is: realize that the election is happening, obtain some grasp of the stakes, and then vote.
Progressives are weak at organizing

Every local area in the United States, no matter how liberal, features a local chamber of commerce through which leaders of the business community engage one another on issues of common interest. The other major civic institution in American life is the church, and people who attend religious services regularly are much more likely to vote Republican.

Now, he is correct to point the PAINFULLY OBVIOUS that Democrats are the SUPERMINORITY PARTY, but he is unbelievably wrong about the reasons.

obama was ushered in on superior organizing, now teabaggers do email better? Let's be serious.

It's because the Democrat obama has been a total failure and people have had enough.

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Lookit this. A lifelong politician just beginning to grasp fundamental politics. I would have thought this was an onion article.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... ock-213325

t’s all too common today to portray regular Americans as the victims of dysfunctional politicians. It’s certainly true that in recent years those in public office seem unable to make the combination of tough choices and difficult compromises necessary for our government to function. But elected decision makers don’t operate in a vacuum; they’re not self-selected autonomous actors who willfully refuse to work together as matters of personal choice or political temperament.

Those decision makers, after all, were chosen by the very voters now complaining of dysfunction. And there is no basis for harshly condemning the elected while expressing sympathy for the electorate whose decisions put politicians in office. After all, the desires of the voters are a major influence on how officeholders behave once they are in power.

The electorate as a whole has established the basis for gridlock by its biennial display of schizophrenia. In 2008, the people put Barack Obama in power, with a Democratic congressional majority. Two years later they gave the House to people who had made clear their determination to both do everything possible to stop Obama from achieving anything he wanted to accomplish and also to undo everything he had already done. Two years later, in 2012, they switched back to Barack Obama, renewing his mandate—only to revert to empowering his unrelenting opponents in 2014.

To repeat a point I have made here earlier, this alternation of electoral winners has been particularly stressful because our Constitution staggers terms of federal officeholders. Had the winner in each cycle gained with their victory the ability to enact their agendas, we would not have suffered from gridlock, although we might have seen its opposite—policy whiplash. But with our Constitution calling for senators serving six-year terms, the president four, and House members two, it usually takes two successive biennial election victories to get the power to make major changes. Those who win every two years only to lose two years later do get the power to block further action. But this two-year-long time in power rarely carries with it the ability to undo previously enacted policy.

Thus, part of the reason government is so immobilized today is that the electorate has made sharply contradictory decisions every two years for the past four elections about who should be running government.

Duh...

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Breathtaking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... overnment/

The 2015 election is over. (You may not have known it was even happening.) And it proved one thing: Republicans have an absolute stranglehold on governorships and state legislatures all across the country.

Consider:

* With Matt Bevin's win in Kentucky on Tuesday night, Republicans now hold 32 of the nation's governorships — 64 percent of all the governors mansions in the country. (One race, in Louisiana, won't be decided until next month. Democrats believe they have a good chance of winning that race against now-Sen. David Vitter.)

* Democrats' failure to take over the Virginia state Senate means that Republicans still hold total control of 30 of the country's 50 state legislatures (60 percent) and have total or split control of 38 of the 50 (76 percent.)

That dominance — and what it means to the policy and political calculations and prospects for both parties at the national level — is the single most overlooked and underappreciated story line of President Obama's time in office. Since 2009, Republicans have made massive and unprecedented gains at the state level, gains that played a central role in, among other things, handing control of the U.S. House back to the GOP in the 2010 election.

This chart via GOP lobbyist Bruce Mehlman tells that story in stark terms (although it doesn't include updated results after Tuesday's vote):

It's hard to overstate how important those GOP gains — and the consolidation of them we've seen in the last few years — are to the relative fates of the two parties. While the story at the national level suggests a Republican Party that is growing increasingly white, old and out of step with the country on social issues, the narrative at the local level is very different. Republicans are prospering at the state level in ways that suggest that the party's messaging is far from broken.

There are other, more pragmatic effects of the GOP dominance in governor's races and state legislatures, too. Aside from giving the party a major leg up in the decennial redrawing of congressional lines, which has led to a Republican House majority not only today but likely through at least 2020, the GOP's dominance gives the party fertile ground to incubate policy that makes its way to the national level and to cultivate the future stars of the national party from the ground up.

While the demographic and electoral challenges that Republicans must confront at the national level are very real, the idea, pushed in some circles, that those struggles are leading indicators of a dying party is absolutely wrong. In fact, at the state and local level the Republican Party is considerably more robust than its Democratic counterpart.

Focus on the presidential race exclusively if you will. But remember that the long-term health of a party is about much more than simply the man or woman at the top of the ticket.

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Not yet updated to reflect this week's teabagging.



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Why has obama been so toxic to his party? Or, why is the Democrat Party so toxic?

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Maybe this is why.

http://morningconsult.com/2015/11/democ ... ng-losses/

Why was anyone surprised again?

“Last night, I think, was a wakeup call,” Israel said. “We need to begin to demonstrate action.”

The problem, in some Democrats’ minds, is that the Democratic message simply doesn’t resonate beyond its base.

“We live in a world, like it or not, where there are more conservatives than there are liberals,” said Delaware Gov. Jack Markell. “The idea that we can win elections just by turning out our base, to me, doesn’t make a lot of sense. We have to win elections by having an agenda that’s compelling not only to Democrats, but to independents and even a few Republicans.”

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Yup, he was right.

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Yup, he was right.

Mr P,

I like to see a good number of 'moderates' in any politics.

Alex.

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Thankfully they are voting with Conservatives these days.

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Clinton campaign attorney represented voting group now charged with registering dead people
posted at 3:31 pm on November 1, 2015 by Jazz Shaw

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In case you haven’t already been properly introduced, meet Marc Elias.

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Marc is currently the general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, but he’s had plenty of other assignments for the Democrats before this. It seems as if Marc’s specialty is dealing with pesky cases involving voter registration and election fraud. One of the latest examples on his resume dealt with a voter registration group in the Buckeye State who he represented earlier this year known as the Ohio Organizing Collaborative. They were challenging the state’s new voter ID law, though their usual purpose was supposed to be going out and registering voters of all stripes to increase citizen participation in the electoral process. A noble goal to be sure, but there are a few rules which must still be followed. For one thing, the people you register are supposed to be, er… you know… alive. (Washington Free Beacon)

Marc Elias, an attorney at Perkins Coie who has become the go-to fixer for Democrats and is now general counsel for Clinton’s presidential campaign, became involved with the Ohio Organizing Collaborative this May when he filed a lawsuit on its behalf to challenge the state’s voter identification laws.

Now the group is being investigated by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal investigation after a local board of elections alleged that 25 to 30 of the voter-registration applications that the group submitted appeared to be fraudulent…

“They have turned in roughly 530 voter registrations, of which five of them were dead people,” said Johnson. “They actually had the dead people’s drivers license numbers and Social Security numbers, and of course they forged the signatures of these dead people.”

You don’t often find a case of fraud this blatant and ham handed, but now Ohio is faced with the task of going back and surveying all of the group’s other registration forms to see what other surprises await. It’s true that the normal voter registration process can be subject to typical clerical errors with bad addresses or zip codes on forms, people who have moved or any number of other complications. But these are brand new registrations which include multiple forms filled out in the same handwriting for residents who have already shuffled off the mortal coil.

Elias is described as a “fixer” for the Democrats and he certainly has a history of that. Lest you think this pesky Ohio detail is an aberration, you’ll find Marc’s name attached to some other high profile cases. For just one example, back in 2010 he was involved in the contentious Minnesota gubernatorial election when the close race went into a recount. At the time it had been noted that in certain precincts there were more votes cast than the total number of people who showed up and signed in to vote. One estimate placed the number of “overage” votes at roughly 12,000 which was greater than the margin of victory claimed by the Democrat, Mark Dayton.

Dayton hired Elias as part of his team. Marc showed up in court and argued that going back and checking all of the ballots just because the basic laws of math had essentially been turned upside down would be a big waste of everyone’s time. (MPR News)

“Once the ballots are opened and once you know the vote total, courts should be skeptical about procedural challenges that could have been brought earlier,” Elias said. “The time to challenge the voting process is before the election when the veil of ignorance still stands as to whether this process or that process benefits one candidate or another.”

To his credit, Elias actually sold that argument and Dayton went on to be declared the winner. With a track record like that it’s no wonder that the Democrats have taken to calling on Marc when the going gets tough in court. And even less wonder that the scandal embroiled Hillary Clinton would want him on her team now.

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Minn Democrat withdraws from race after Tweet

DFLer abruptly quits race after saying 'ISIS isn't necessarily evil'
Dan Kimmel of Burnsville says his Twitter posting was “badly misinterpreted.”
By Paul Walsh Star Tribune
November 15, 2015 — 2:33pm
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Twitter posting from DFLer Dan Kimmel of Burnsville.

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A Burnsville DFLer’s campaign for the state House abruptly ended Sunday morning within hours of him posting on social media that ISIS “isn’t necessarily evil” and is “made up of people doing what they think is best for their community.”

The Twitter posting Saturday by Dan Kimmel, coming as the world’s emotions remain raw from Friday’s terror attacks on Paris, brought swift rebuke from others on Twitter. House Minority Leader Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, called for Kimmel to give up his campaign.

“I’m folding up the campaign tent,” Kimmel told the Star Tribune. He later issued a written apology and called his tweet “stupid,” adding that it’s probably best for him to “shut up” for the time being.

Kimmel said in the interview that the posting “was not interpreted as I intended. It was so badly misinterpreted.” He added that he was dropping out of the race “to remove the ick” from his party.

On Saturday, Kimmel wrote on Twitter: “ISIS isn’t necessarily evil. It is made up of people doing what they think is best for their community. Violence is not the answer, though.”

The response on Twitter included rebukes and puzzlement: “What in the world are you talking about??!” and “Kind of like the Nazis, Stalin or Pol Pot,” read two replies.
Dan Kimmel ran for Minnesota District 56A State representative as a Democrat in 2014.
Dan Kimmel ran for Minnesota District 56A State representative as a Democrat in 2014.

Kimmel, 63, tried to explain himself, posting in a follow-up, “I deplore evil acts of ISIS. I do not defend their acts.” Both of Kimmel’s tweets were also posted on his campaign’s Facebook page.

In further elaboration late Sunday morning, Kimmel wrote on his campaign’s website, “My tweet last evening was in response to a statement made during the candidate debates, not in response to the activities in Paris. It was poorly worded and did not convey my intent.

“I do think the attacks in Paris ... along with other ISIS terrorist actions are cowardly and despicable. My heart breaks for the people of France, of Paris, the families of those wounded or killed and the casualties themselves. ... I condemn the attacks, as I condemn all violence.”

Kimmel added that he wants to “apologize to the volunteers and contributors who have put so much time, effort and money into my campaign. ... I will do everything I can to help resolve the issue: most likely the best thing for me to do is shut up. The tweet was stupid. I’m sorry.”

DFL Party Chair Ken Martin addressed Kimmel’s posting, writing in a statement that “the views … have no place in our party. On behalf of the Minnesota DFL, I strongly condemn his comments. I ask Dan Kimmel to apologize to all the families who have been torn apart by the terrorist organization and their senseless violence. … We shouldn’t be making excuses for this barbaric behavior.”

The statement did not explicitly call on Kimmel to quit the campaign. That came later, when the question was posed to Thissen on Twitter: “Will the MN DFL urge @KimmelDan to drop out of the race?”

Thissen replied: “Yes” and also said the same in a statement issued through the House DFL Caucus’ communications director.

Before dropping out Sunday, Kimmel was challenging 22-year-old Republican incumbent Drew Christensen of Burnsville. Kimmel lost to Christensen for that seat in 2014, by a roughly 12 percentage points.

Kimmel currently works for U.S. Bank in its technology and operations section. Before moving to Burnsville with his family in 1997, he was elected to and served two four-year terms on the Lockport (Ill.) Township High school board of Education.

The native Oklahoman received appointments to West Point, the Air Force Academy as well as a full Naval ROTC scholarship to the University of Oklahoma. He entered the Air Force Academy in June 1970. In 1972, he transferred to the University of Oklahoma and graduated in 1974 with a major in economics, then received a master’s in computer science from North Central (Ill.) College in 1991.

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Apparently they are afraid of this thread

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Something knew for the list of what Dems are afraid of -- Children. At least they don't like them very much.

I suppose if I said 9 year old lives matter I would be called a "rascist"

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Ar ... 91311.html

Man Charged With Murder in 'Assassination' of 9-Year-Old Tyshawn Lee
Corey Morgan, who was questioned as a "person of interest" in the case last week, was arrested and in police custody. He was ordered held without bail
By Alex Maragos

Police say an arrest was made in the murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. (Published Friday, Nov. 27, 2015)

A man has been charged with first-degree murder in the brutal killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, who was lured from a Chicago park to a nearby alley where he was "assassinated," authorities said Friday.

Corey Morgan, who was earlier considered a "person of interest" in the case, was arrested and charged with murder, according to Chicago Police News Affairs. Police believe he was one of three people involved in the young boy's execution-style shooting in Chicago earlier this month.

Person of Interest in Tyshawn Lee Killing Free on $1M Bond

In bond court on Friday, a visibly angry Judge Peggy Chiampas ordered Morgan held without bail for a crime she called "exceptionally brutal and heinous." Judge Chiampas called Morgan a danger to the public and said the night Tyshawn was killed, he was a predator grabbing prey.

Authorities have said Tyshawn was lured from a park into an alley near his grandmother’s house in the 8000 block of South Damen. The grade-schooler was shot multiple times at close range with a .40-caliber weapon in what authorities have said was a gang-related incident.

Person Questioned in Tyshawn Lee Investigation: Sources

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy called the shooting "a crime that shook our city" and said the "targeted and calculated" killing was gang retaliation to get back at Tyshawn's father.

Morgan, 27, was arrested last week on an unrelated weapons charge, but had been free on bail after meeting the $1 million bond requirements with the help of his girlfriend. Police say he was in violation of his bond when he was taken into custody this week.

Chicago School Warns Parents of 'Increase of Gang Activity'

Morgan's attorney, Jeff Kent, said Morgan has denied having any involvement in the young boy's murder.

"[Morgan] maintained his innocence when police questioned him a couple of weeks ago and maintains his innocence now," Kent said in a statement released on Morgan's behalf last week. "His family is supporting him through this ordeal. He says he had nothing to do with Tyshawn Lee's execution. The entire city wants the person who did this caught but it's not Corey."

Newborn Baby Girl Found Buried Alive in Southern California

The murder weapon has not yet been recovered and police say they're searching for another suspect identified as Kevin Edwards, allegedly a member of the same gang as Morgan, who they believe was also involved in the murder. Edwards is wanted on a first-degree murder charge, police said.

Photo credit: Chicago Police

A third suspect is already in custody on an unrelated charge, and McCarthy said he is "not getting out anytime soon."

Investigators said at least three people were involved in the killing, but it's not clear yet who did what.

NYC Man Completes Atlantic Paddle for AIDS Awareness

Police noted that members of the community have been vital to the investigation.

"This was very clearly not a case of no snitching, but there was a lot of fear," McCarthy said.

Former Owner Chooses to Die Inside NJ Restaurant

McCarthy also vowed to "obliterate" the gangs involved in the shooting.

Tyshawn was a student at Scott Joplin School, where his teachers say he was a "delight" to have in class. He liked to play sports and video games.

Slain Officer in Planned Parenthood Attack Was Dad, Ice Skater, Pastor

"He was supposed to play ball. That's all he do, all he liked to do is play ball and play video games," Tyshawn's mother, Karla Lee, said. "He didn't hurt nobody. I don't know why this happened."

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The Reasons Why Democrats Are the Party of Slavery and Victimization

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Hillary Clinton: The criminal investigation keeps moving forward

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Former Obama prisoner of conscience destroys Amherst college student's "White Privilege" arguments.
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"By their fruits you shall know them"






One postive note since Obama took over the White House, world wide, 'Forced labor rates" have sky rocketed

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The fix is in:

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/01/27 ... -for-them/

Activists Who Exposed Planned Parenthood Horrors Indicted in Texas – DA’s Office has Planned Parenthood Board Member Working For Them
Posted on January 27, 2016 by Tim Brown

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Lauren Reeder is a prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney’s criminal family law division. She apparently notified District Attorney Devon Anderson of her role with Planned Parenthood last week. Reeder is listed as a non-compensated “Director” on the 990 Tax Form for 2014 filed by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.

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The indictment was by the Grand Jury.

Apparently, everything is bigger in Texas.

Including social conservative stupidity.
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Always amusing and bemusing how self-described libertarians are hell-bent on minding other people's business.