GrizzledVeteran wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:

pacino wrote:i honestly don't even get what the horizon bill was about? someone that knows nj politics give me a primer?

Yeah, I could give you the basics of the bill, but the why this, why now is a mystery to me. Power grab by somebody for somebody, but I don't know where the roots lie.

I read somewhere that Christie wanted Horizon to use the cash to buy the insurance firm of South Jersey political capo George Norcross. Christie's former chief of staff works for Norcross now. Even though Norcross is a Dem, he and Christie have worked together.

thephan wrote:I saw a survey that had more people trusting CNN then Trump, but there were some other numbers in that that were on the order of 89% of R's trust Trump, and 9% Trust CNN. It was a flip for D's. I did not see self identified Indy's listed. TBF, I was browsing on my phone.

thephan wrote:44 states are out, but 3 states are in.

Missouri's argument is that it will provide publicly available information. Jay Ashcroft, Missouri Secretary of State says that every form of "Vote Fraud" you can imagine happens in Missouri. They had one case on record that was prosecuted, and that is enough it would seem to line up. I would be on board with providing what is generally available as it is in circulation and I know that, but the line of justification to participate is sad.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A package of legislation aimed at ending a two-year Illinois budget standoff is heading back to the House.

The House convenes Wednesday to consider overriding Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's vetoes of a $36 billion budget fueled by a $5 billion increase in income taxes. The legislation bounced several times Tuesday.

The Senate approved the budget plan and tax increase with a necessary three-fifths majority vote, but Rauner vetoed them three hours later.

The Senate then wasted no time in overriding the vetoes and sending them back to the House for consideration.

Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan announced after the Senate action that the House wouldn't vote on the vetoes that day, but didn't say why.

pacino wrote:

UPPER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA
A state senator is seeking the Democratic nomination in the 7th Congressional District, which includes parts of Berks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster and Montgomery counties.

Sen. Daylin Leach of Montgomery County made his announcement Saturday night. He plans an official campaign kickoff event Thursday.
At least two other Democrats - Dan Muroff and Molly Sheehan - are seeking the nomination in the May primary to face incumbent Republican Rep. Patrick L. Meehan of Delaware County in November 2018.

The new lawsuit comes weeks after the publication of a classified National Security Agency report describing a sophisticated scheme, allegedly by Russian military intelligence, to infiltrate local U.S. elections systems using phishing emails.

The suit cites the work of private cybersecurity researcher Logan Lamb, who discovered last August that a misconfigured server had left Georgia's 6.7 million voter records and other sensitive files exposed to hackers. The complaint also notes that seven months after Lamb made that discovery, another researcher was able to do the same.