The three senators furthest out toward replies corner are Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania; Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky; and Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado. Toomey and McConnell are tied for first in the race to take home the dubious prize of Most Replied To: 44 percent of the actions taken in response to their tweets are replies.5 (By way of comparison, about 12 percent of the reactions to Trump’s tweets are replies.) The two big retweet winners are Utah Republican Mike Lee and Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe. And while these outliers are all members of the GOP, they are still part of a larger trend: Twitter’s gravity generally appears to pull the Republicans toward the replies corner, while the Democrats are more firmly clustered along the retweet-like axis.

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pacino wrote:

thephan wrote:

pacino wrote:2 person Montana firm gets biggest contract to turn on Puerto Rico's power

You go out to the site and there are two points of contact that have email addresses of ldwwgroup.com, which turns out to be a marketing firm. I don't have time to dig around, but clearly this is super sketchy.

“The fact that there are so many utilities with experience in this and a huge track record of helping each other out, it is at least odd why [the utility] would go to Whitefish,” said Susan F. Tierney, a former senior official at the Energy Department and state regulatory agencies. “I’m scratching my head wondering how it all adds up.”

Whitefish Energy is based in Whitefish, Mont., the home town of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Its chief executive, Andy Techmanski, and Zinke acknowledge knowing one another — but only, Zinke’s office said in an email, because Whitefish is a small town where “everybody knows everybody.” One of Zinke’s sons “joined a friend who worked a summer job” at one of Techmanski’s construction sites, the email said. Whitefish said he worked as a “flagger.”

Zinke’s office said he had no role in Whitefish securing the contract for work in Puerto Rico. Techmanski also said Zinke was not involved.

NBC Montana quoted Techmanski in a report Oct. 1 as saying he had asked Zinke for help in getting personnel and equipment to the territory. Chiames, the Whitefish spokesman, confirmed that “Once the company got the go-ahead from PREPA on September 26 to begin work, company executives did reach out to contacts in case they could help expedite getting qualified linesmen to the island.”

everything they accused the Clintons of doing they decide to do in a more brazen manner

FBI better already be looking into this.

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Doll Is Mine wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:Take a look at the hourly rates Whitefish is getting plus per diems.

Under the contract, the hourly rate was set at $330 for a site supervisor, and at $227.88 for a “journeyman lineman.” The cost for subcontractors, which make up the bulk of Whitefish’s workforce, is $462 per hour for a supervisor and $319.04 for a lineman. Whitefish also charges nightly accommodation fees of $332 per worker and almost $80 per day for food.

TomatoPie wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:

Is that a pic from the future, where President Gaga poses with all the living ex-presidents who aren't in jail?

Woody wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:Take a look at the hourly rates Whitefish is getting plus per diems.

Under the contract, the hourly rate was set at $330 for a site supervisor, and at $227.88 for a “journeyman lineman.” The cost for subcontractors, which make up the bulk of Whitefish’s workforce, is $462 per hour for a supervisor and $319.04 for a lineman. Whitefish also charges nightly accommodation fees of $332 per worker and almost $80 per day for food.

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Im in DC. Corker spoke to our group this morning then went to blast trump minutes later. Pretty incredible.

For work, or for modern slavery/human trafficking?

a twofer?

CalvinBall wrote:

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Im in DC. Corker spoke to our group this morning then went to blast trump minutes later. Pretty incredible.

For work, or for modern slavery/human trafficking?

a twofer?

Huma trafficking lobby day. Meeting with Costello and then staffers for Marino, Brady and Toomey. Other PA people have Casey and other reps.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Woody wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:Take a look at the hourly rates Whitefish is getting plus per diems.

Under the contract, the hourly rate was set at $330 for a site supervisor, and at $227.88 for a “journeyman lineman.” The cost for subcontractors, which make up the bulk of Whitefish’s workforce, is $462 per hour for a supervisor and $319.04 for a lineman. Whitefish also charges nightly accommodation fees of $332 per worker and almost $80 per day for food.

No, Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not dress up as a KKK member for Halloween - PolitiFact

CalvinBall wrote:

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:Im in DC. Corker spoke to our group this morning then went to blast trump minutes later. Pretty incredible.

For work, or for modern slavery/human trafficking?

a twofer?

Huma trafficking lobby day. Meeting with Costello and then staffers for Marino, Brady and Toomey. Other PA people have Casey and other reps.

drsmooth wrote:meanwhile, rat diarrhea in wingtips Devin Nunes tackles the issue consuming all Americans' attention these days: The Uranium Deal.

Eat uranium, you traitorous scum