KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Stacey’s Right — Republicans Could Still Ruin Everything. “I was called a ‘sell-out’ for wanting the GOP to embrace the 21st century and pitch a story that would make undecided voters show up for them. The Capitol Hill Club Republicans all live in 1988. The new stuff scares them.”
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February 16, 2022
THE TYRANTS OF THAT AGE WERE MORE CIVILIZED THAN THE “DEMOCRATIC LEADERS” OF TODAY:
THE PARENTS’ REVOLUTION GATHERS STEAM: San Francisco recalls 3 members of city’s school board.
Three members of San Francisco’s school board were ousted Tuesday in the wake of widespread backlash over the slow reopening of schools shut down by COVID-19 and a controversial plan to rename dozens of school sites.
School board president Gabriela López, vice president Faauuga Moliga and commissioner Alison Collins were all stripped of their positions during a special election, according to tallies by the San Francisco Department of Elections.
Furious parents launched the recall effort in January 2021 after arguing the school board was pushing progressive politics instead of acting in the best interests of children amid the pandemic.
“The city of San Francisco has risen up and said this is not acceptable to put our kids last,” said Siva Raj, a father of two who helped launch the recall effort.
More like this, please.
DECOUPLING: America Is Showering China With New Restrictions. “In recent years, Washington’s China policies have expanded rapidly into technology sectors such as telecommunications, semiconductors, data security, and financial services. Growing bipartisan concern about Beijing’s actions and intentions have fueled these developments, with little difference between the Trump and Biden administrations or between the White House and Congress.”
Well, good.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Trust in elected leaders and media hits bottom.
REVOLUTION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SLOGAN, NOT AN EVENT: Why They’re So Afraid of the Truckers: When real labor awakens to the true parasitic nature of the Left, the whole system comes crashing down.
DON’T GET COCKY: Republicans Hold a Massive 13 Point Lead on a Generic Ballot — Don’t Underestimate Their Ability to Blow It. “What Republicans should not be doing is unveiling plans that include amnesty for millions of illegal aliens as seven House members are.”
THE ABA NEEDS TO LOSE ITS ROLE IN ACCREDITATION, IT’S TOO PARTISAN AND IDEOLOGICAL: How the American Bar Association Just Radicalized Law School.
BE PREPARED: Augason Farms Breakfast and Dinner Variety Pail Emergency Food Supply Everyday Meals 4 Gallon Pail. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Seattle’s Transit System ‘Unusable’ due to Toxic Fentanyl, Meth Smoke.
The Times reported the transit system has become overloaded with reports of toxic fentanyl, meth smoke and volatile behavior. It has created a toxic work environment for employees and has scared off travelers.
In an attempt to turn things around, the city plans to release a new “Safety, Security and Fare Enforcement Initiative” in February. The initiative incorporates surveys and comments from 8,000 people.
The Times reports that plan hopes to improve the dangerous environment, welcome back commuters, but also show compassion to those who are doing drugs, and especially homeless people, as “a necessary step on its journey to becoming an anti-racist mobility agency” according to the King County website.
Translation: They’re doubling down on stupid.
YOU DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO SEE WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS: 30 retirements and counting: Moderate House Dem Kathleen Rice throws in the towel.
#HIMTOO? Chris Cuomo fired after CNN learned of alleged sex attack during office ‘lunch:’ report.
And if you missed it last night: Allison Gollust Has Resigned from CNN Following Warnermedia Probe of Cuomo, Zucker.
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WAS A LIBERTY DESTINATION: Liberals and Conservatives Agree: Florida Leads in Liberty — and in Tourism.
February 15, 2022
PUSHBACK: Judge blocks Michelle Wu’s Boston employee vaccine mandate, orders injunction.
An appellate judge has ruled against Mayor Michelle Wu, indefinitely extending the court-ordered pause on enforcement of Boston’s employee coronavirus vaccine mandate as the public-safety unions further prevailed in a lawsuit against the city.
Massachusetts Appeals Court Association Justice Sabita Singh issued the order on Tuesday, overturning a lower-court judge’s decision to let Wu go ahead with disciplining city workers who didn’t get the shot.
“Given the limited harm to the city and the public health interest it seeks to promote, and the substantial harm likely to be sustained by the unions in the absence of an injunction, the balance of harms favors the issuance of an injunction to preserve the status quo, in view of the unions’ likelihood of success on the merits,” Singh wrote.
She added that “an injunction would avoid the risk of loss of essential public employees, a harm suffered by the unions and the public alike.”
This stems from a lawsuit filed by the International Fire Fighters Association Local 718, Boston Police Superior Officers Federation and Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society against the mandate Wu announced in December. As the omicron variant surged, the mayor rolled out a policy that all municipal workers would need to get one shot of the vaccine by Jan. 15 or face discipline — up to firing.
But the unions argued that Wu didn’t have the authority to override the memoranda of agreement they’d signed with the city in the fall under a previous vax-or-test rule, and that this new requirement doesn’t have the same urgency as the city was claiming.
“The employees represented by the unions — members of the police and fire departments — ‘are vital to the City,’ as the motion judge noted,” Singh wrote, citing the lower-court judge’s comments that were complimentary of the first responders.
After a January hearing days before enforcement was due to begin — and as the omicron-driven surge was right around all-time highs — Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke said that the unions’ collective-bargaining arguments likely had a leg to stand on, but that he wouldn’t rule on that at the time, and he ultimately said he would not enjoin the city from taking action during a public-health emergency.
The Boston Police Superior Officers Federation said Tuesday’s decision is “a thoughtful and independent review of the facts and the law.”
I sense a change in the weather. Something’s happening here. Storm warning and it looks like rain.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: ‘Trudeau is Alone’: Fifth Canadian Province Abandons Vaccine Passports Amid Crackdown on Freedom Convoy.
Related: Trudeau the Thieving Bully. “Which of these limited powers is Trudeau invoking first? None of them. He’s using it to track and steal the money of people who dare to disagree with him. . . . How quickly government power went from ‘We’re only taking money from druglords and terrorists’ to ‘We’re tracking all transactions of peaceful protestors.’ Imagine if the U.S. government announced it was going to freeze the bank accounts and impound the cars of everyone marching in Selma. That’s what’s going on in Canada. All over a vaccine mandate that was never enacted into law by Canada’s parliament.”
That’s dangerous. He certainly doesn’t want anyone looking into his money.
As the US Department of Justice says, a riot is the voice of the unheard.
THE LATEST FROM PROJECT VERITAS: FDA Executive Officer on Hidden Camera Reveals Future COVID Policy: ‘Biden Wants To Inoculate As Many People As Possible. . . Have to Get an Annual Shot.’
FDA Official Statement: “The person purportedly in the video does not work on vaccine matters and does not represent the views of the FDA.”