Republican Workers Shot In Minneapolis Drive-by –Diontae Rayquan Wallace and Andre Conley, campaign workers for Republican congressional candidate Lacy Johnson, were shot in a drive-by shooting, Sept. 14, in Minneapolis.
Andre Conley
Conley died in the hospital.
Johnson is seeking to unseat radical Jew-hating Muslim Democrat Ilhan Omar in Minnesota’s 5th District.
The Johnson campaign does not think the shootings were politically motivated. Nine people under the age of 18 have been shot in the city this year.
Just the same, we’ll reserve judgement until an arrest.
Bernell Trammell, 60, a Black supporter of Donald Trump, was shot in the street in Milwaukee on July 23.
With less than two months until Election Day 2020, more and more news stories are focused on the pivotal African-American vote. In a New York Timesop-ed written by Fox News contributor Juan Williams, the author boldly wrote that “the black vote now defines American politics.” Williams’ commentary went on to provide a long list of reasons that Black Americans should support challenger Joe Biden over incumbent President Donald Trump.
Boiled down, Williams contends that African-Americans dislike President Trump because they perceive him as a racist. He believes that four more years of President Trump would be bad for Black and Latino Americans. As Williams wrote, “Black Americans have had enough,” and for them defeating Trump is “personal.” Fox News viewers know that Williams can barely contain his disdain for President Trump.
On one count, Williams is spot on. Come November the Black vote, which is 12 percent of the national electorate, could determine whether President Trump remains in the White House or whether Biden achieves his five-decade long dream of ascending to the U.S. presidency. President Trump hopes to capture more than the 8 percent of the Black vote he received in 2016. The President’s 2020 reelection campaign created Black Voices for Trump, a program designed to increase African-American voter turnout and help him garner 15 to 20 percent of the Black bloc. Expect to hear President Trump tout his pre-COVID-19 success that helped drive Black unemployment to a record low 5.5 percent last year.
Had Williams in his 2,100-word column added fact to his opinion, he could have concluded that a Biden presidency would be disastrous for African-Americans and other minorities. Biden proposes through expanded immigration to increase the work-authorized population by more than 15 million people. In short, Biden, on his website, wants to grant amnesty to roughly 11 million unlawfully present aliens, to provide an easier entry path for asylees and refugees, to protect from deportation deferred action for childhood arrivals and their families, to maintain the diversity lottery, to expand employment-based visa categories for both low- and high-skilled workers, to dilute border and interior enforcement, and to defend temporary protected status recipients.
Biden’s immigration platform means millions of employment-authorized persons will enter the labor pool to compete for American jobs – not Williams’ well-paid, elitist job, but the type of employment that helps lower-skilled, less-educated minorities begin their ascent to the middle class. Williams is typical of mainstream media globalist reporters who refuse to connect the dots between immigration and work authorization which impedes upward mobility for minorities. The media has powerful allies that also favor waves of new employment-authorized immigrants even though they contribute to Black workers’ unemployment. The 55-member strong Congressional Black Caucus is united in its immigration advocacy, and votes accordingly.
A Biden presidency and the mass immigration that would accompany it will derail the economic recovery that blue-collar workers are just now enjoying. A Bloomberg report titled “Factory Owners Hiking Pay to Lure Workers Even with Jobless Rates” found that staffing firms in key U.S. cities are offering bonuses of up to $5 an hour to bolster the existing $12 an hour wage. Jobs posted with a wage scale of $12 – $14 an hour went wanting, but $17-hour positions were eagerly snapped up. President Trump’s tighter immigration policies have contributed to higher wages.
T. Willard Fair, the Urban League of Greater Miami’s chief executive officer, spoke the tough, honest talk that the Black Congressional Congress should heed. Fair once told the Miami Herald that amnesty for illegal workers is more than a slap in the faces of Black Americans; it’s an economic disaster that weakens African-Americans’ political empowerment. And in his congressional testimony, Fair said that “the interests of black Americans are clear: no amnesty, no guest workers, enforce the immigration law.”
History proves that Fair is right. The low-immigration, tight labor market years from 1924 to 1965 spawned impressive wage gains for all Americans. As the “Journal of Economic Literature” confirmed, white males’real incomes expanded two-and-one-half-fold between 1940 and 1980, but for Black American men, those same incomes quadrupled, and closed the economic gap between the races.
Black Americans must listen to a true and fearless voice like Fair’s to help them reach the long-elusive economic stability that they deserve.
Joe Guzzardi is a Progressives for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org.
A chase in Merrie Olde Englande was a hunt. Cheviot Hills straddles the Anglo-Scottish border and has been known as “Chevy”. The Ballad of Chevy Chase tells the story of a large English hunting party that the Scots mistook as an invading army and attacked resulting in a bloody battle.
Yes, the once-famous comedian/actor is named for it.
Ballad of Chevy Chase William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 9-15-20
Pennsylvania Leadership Conference 2020 is Sept. 25-26 and will be virtual. Registration is required but it is free. It can be found here.
Speakers and panelists include former US Sen. Rick Santorum, state representatives Russ Diamond and Daryl Metcalfe, State House Speaker Bryan Cutler, State Sen. Doug Masriano, and climate expert Joe Bastardi, who was pressured out of AccuWeather for his dissent on global warming.
Don Gilmore of Chester died Aug. 21 of cancer. He was 64. He served in the Army and Army Reserves. He had been employed by Fed Ex for 21 years.
He is survived by his brother John and sister Arlene and others.
He was a smart guy and we had many a long conversation about whatever topic happened to pop in our heads. He was one of my favorite people and I will miss him.
There is a lot of debate about voting in person vs. voting by mail.
I just want to let you know what happened when I mailed something to the District Court in Norristown. I purchased a Certificate of Mailing (see the copy) so that I would have proof that I did indeed send the paperwork within the thirty day time limit. That was on March 31. Since the courts were closed to the public, and no one was answering the phone, I was not aware that the court had not received the paperwork until late July.
Proof of Mailing
Now the question is this: Were the clerks at the court told to “misrepresent” the truth and they actually received and discarded the paperwork or did the postal service fail to deliver it?
Since I have the Certificate of Mailing, the postal service had it to deliver. But I do not have a signature verifying that it was received by the court.
The same question goes for mail-in ballots. They send you a ballot. You fill it out and mail it back. From what I understand, you should receive confirmation that it was received. In the primary this past May, I worked in the poll as the Judge of Election for my precinct. That day, twenty-four people who had applied for a mail-in ballot came in to vote because
1. They never received the ballot.
2. They received the incorrect ballot.
3. They did not get confirmation that their ballot was received.
4. They changed their mind and decided to vote in person after all.
Valid reasons, however, if you apply for a mail-in ballot, then for whatever reason you decide to come in and vote in person, you should know that you will not put a ballot through the scanner. You will fill out a Provisional Ballot. It will not be scanned. The provisional ballot gets put into a secure envelope and at the end of the day it travels to the tabulation site in Norristown via the Judge of Election’s car to a drop off site, then via the truck from the drop off to Norristown.
Ed. Note: A rule has been changed for the general election so that if you bring your (unmarked) mail in ballot and envelopes to your polling place, they will be spoiled and you will be allowed to vote in person.
Sometimes the provisional ballots get delivered properly, sometimes the bags are “lost.” If they make it to the tabulation, the people who work there have to verify that a mail-in ballot was not received by them from you. That is why it is provisional. If they find your mail-in ballot, the provisional is not counted.
Either way, a mail-in ballot or a provisional ballot has to be handled by people and counted by people.
In-person voting is done through the scanner and is much, much more secure.
Note: If you apply for a mail-in, do it early, fill it out immediately, and mail it back. Hanging on to it serves no purpose, especially if you run out of time.
Anyway, you have to make up your mind. I just want you to know there are pitfalls if you choose to mail-in your ballot or go to the poll and fill out a provisional ballot.
The best way is still to NOT apply for a mail-in and just go to the polls.
Ms. Braccio is a a resident of Towamencin Township in Montgomery County, Pa.
