MI-GOV: Michiganders are pissed Gretchen Whitmer won't stop saying 'damn'

There are a lot of things to get angry about when it comes to politics. People dying because they don't have health care? Blame politics. People living under bridges instead of in homes? Politics. Car tire swallowed by a pot hole? While less important, yes, that's politics too.

Then there are the political gripes so trivial they honestly bear mentioning only for their lunacy. And that's where we turn our focus to Michiganders who are apparently angry about the use of mild curse words. Yes, they are offended by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer's most visible campaign slogan, "Fix the damn roads."

"Just don't say 'damn' anymore," a woman on the internet urged of Whitmer yesterday. "[It] takes away from your ladyness."


https://m.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/08/30/michiganders-are-pissed-gretchen-whitmer-wont-stop-saying-damn


GRETCHEN WHITMER




https://www.gretchenwhitmer.com/

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Manafort Ally Admits to Helping Foreigners Donate to Trump's Inaugural Committee

A former Paul Manafort associate who pleaded guilty to a lobbying crime admitted that he helped foreign donors give money to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Committee.

In a plea agreement made public Friday, prosecutors outlined other crimes that the lobbyist, Sam Patten, admitted to but wouldn’t be charged with. Among them was “causing foreign money” to be paid to the Trump inaugural committee. Patten signed off on the allegation.

Patten pleaded guilty earlier Friday to failing to disclose his lobbying on behalf of Ukraine, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-08-31/patten-caused-foreign-money-to-be-paid-to-inaugural-committee

Another Manafort pal just flipped

Sam Patten, a former associate of Paul Manafort who pleaded guilty to a lobbying violation, agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors, giving them access to insights from a longtime international political operative whose Russian business partner has already been indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, Bloomberg reports.


https://politicalwire.com/2018/08/31/ex-manafort-ally-agrees-to-cooperate/

Nazi Sympathizers Running for Mayor in Hilton Head

One candidate in the Hilton Head, South Carolina mayoral race denies that the mass genocide of Jews by the Nazis ever happened, the Charleston Post & Courier reports.

Another candidate praised the leadership style of Adolf Hitler: “He did what he had to do. He got that many people to follow him. He must have been doing something right.”


https://politicalwire.com/2018/08/31/nazi-sympathizers-running-for-mayor-in-hilton-head/

Manafort associate Sam Patten charged with Foreign Agents Registration Act violations

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