“Hundreds of U.S. government employees — including some with sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress and law enforcement agencies — used Internet connections in their federal offices to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison,” the AP reports.
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Kansas Democratic Chief Quits Amid Uproar
Kansas Democratic Party chair Larry Meeker has resigned following uproar over comments he made this week about moving the party in a more conservative direction, the Wichita Eagle reports.
“Meeker said Kansas Democrats were fiscal conservatives and emphasized that there was room in the party for people who were pro-choice or pro-life, for same-sex marriage or against it. He said conveying this to voters would serve as “a pickup line” in a more conservative state. But that message did not resonate with many members of the party’s base.”
Bush Opposes Data Encryption
Jeb Bush said that “encryption makes it harder for law enforcement to track down ‘evildoers’ — and called for a ‘much better, more cooperative relationship’ with Apple, Google, and other tech companies that are building uncrackable private communication apps into their new products,” First Look reports.
Said Bush: “If you create encryption, it makes it harder for the American government to do its job — while protecting civil liberties — to make sure that evildoers aren’t in our midst.”
Trump Plans Massive Southern Rally
“Mobile, Alabama doesn’t usually host presidential primary rallies. But this weekend it’s expected to host a doozy. Donald Trump will take over Ladd-Peebles Stadium, usually home to high school football games on Friday nights, not presidential pep rallies. Trump’s campaign shifted from a smaller venue to the stadium after seeing big demand for tickets; it expects 35,000 to attend,” the Washington Post reports.
“That’s 35,000 Trump fans in a city of 200,000 — in a county that backed Mitt Romney by 20, 30, 50 points less than its neighbors. What Trump’s doing, clearly, is not just trying to hold a rally in Mobile. He’s trying to show strength across the entire Deep South. If his grandiose expectations come true — which they have a recent habit of doing — his point will be made.”
Bush Defends Using Term ‘Anchor Babies’
“A feistier, combative Jeb Bush said Thursday that he doesn’t believe the term ‘anchor babies’ is offensive and blamed Democrats for perpetuating the idea that it’s a loaded term,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “Do you have a better term? You give me a better term and I’ll use it.”
GOP Elites Have No Plan to Take Down Trump
Washington Post: “Though flummoxed by Trump’s staying power and aghast at the coarse tone he has brought to the race, party elites said they have no plan to take him down. Donors feel powerless. Republican officials have little leverage. Candidates are skittish. Super PAC operatives say attack ads against him could backfire. And everyone agrees that the Trump factor in this chaotic multi-candidate field is so unpredictable that any move carries dangerous risks.”
“The non-Trump candidates are falling into three categories: Those who are emulating and befriending him in an effort to win over his supporters; those who are assailing his background or calling him out for his views and rhetoric; and those who prefer to stay silent, as if hunkering down in the basement to ride out the tornado.”
Dozens of Clinton Emails Were Classified from Start
“In the small fraction of emails made public so far, Reuters has found at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, that include what the State Department’s own ‘Classified’ stamps now identify as so-called ‘foreign government information.'”
“This sort of information, which the department says Clinton both sent and received in her emails, is the only kind that must be ‘presumed’ classified, in part to protect national security and the integrity of diplomatic interactions.”
Quote of the Day
“I welcome you all to the political revolution of 2015.”
— Sen. Bernie Sanders, quoted by the New York Times.
Trump Says He Would Scare Pope
Donald Trump was asked by Chris Cuomo on CNN how he would respond if Pope Francis told him that capitalism can be toxic.
Said Trump: “I’d say, ‘ISIS wants to get you. You know that ISIS wants to go in and take over the Vatican? You have heard that. You know, that’s a dream of theirs, to go into Italy.”
Cuomo, taken aback, asked if Trump would actually scare the Pope, who is coming to the U.S. for his first visit next month.
Said Trump: “I’m gonna have to scare the Pope because it’s the only thing.”
Feingold Leads in Wisconsin
A new Marquette Law School Poll in Wisconsin finds Russ Feingold (D) leading Sen. Ron Johnson (R) in a U.S. Senate match up, 47% to 42%.
Jeb Bush Plans Family Fundraiser
“Jeb Bush, is hosting another campaign donor retreat in late October — his parents, former president George H.W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, once again promise to be headliners at the ‘Jeb Celebration’ to be held in Houston, and another notable Bush will be in attendance as well: his older brother, former president George W. Bush,” the Washington Post reports.
“The event is billed as an end-of-quarter meeting of top fundraisers who help bundle at least $50,000 for Bush’s campaign by the end of September. Jeb Bush’s sons, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush and Jeb Bush Jr., also plan to attend. Both sons are actively campaigning for their father and raising money among younger Republican donors.”
Is Donald Trump Just Riding a Boomlet?
Lynn Vavrek: “What is happening now in the Republican primary is not that different from what happened in 2012. And despite the excitement and attention that Mr. Trump is generating, others who were in his same position four years ago fell out of the spotlight after several weeks of being the star of the show and never recovered.”
“We call them boomlets because they don’t build and last throughout the nominating process, not because they are quick, fleeting or irrelevant. For at least 132 days in 2011 someone other than Mitt Romney, the eventual nominee, was the front-runner in the Republican field of candidates for president — despite Mr. Romney’s being in the race that whole time.”
Amy Walter: “When it comes to picking candidates for president, summer is for dating and winter is for mating.”
Congress Unlikely to Override Veto on Iran Nuclear Deal
“Congress is unlikely to override a promised veto by President Obama if both chambers reject a deal to curtail Iran’s nuclear capabilities, according to a Washington Post analysis of where the votes currently stand. When both chambers return from the August recess, all 246 House Republicans are expected to vote against the deal, the analysis found. So far, 12 House Democrats have declared they too are opposed — more than enough to pass a resolution of disapproval through the lower chamber.”
Greek Prime Minister to Resign
“Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras plans to hand in his resignation Thursday evening to clear the way for early national elections, according to two government officials, in a gamble aimed at bolstering his power and ability to implement Greece’s bailout deal,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Mr. Tsipras intends to tell Greece’s head of state, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, that he can no longer continue as premier because of the lack of a stable governing majority in parliament, said the officials, who took part in the government’s deliberations about when to take the country to snap elections.”
Clinton ‘Didn’t Really Think It Through’ on Private Email
Asked about the use of a private email server, Hillary Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri told Bloomberg that the former secretary of state “didn’t really think it through.”
Said Palmieri: “She has said, had she, she would have done it differently.”
Quote of the Day
“If I were, not president, but if I were king of America, I would abolish all teachers’ lounges, where they sit together and worry about ‘woe is us.'”
— Gov. John Kasich, quoted by the Columbus Dispatch.
Why Trump Is Resonating with Voters
Wonk Wire: How Trump fills a policy void
Trump Upstages Bush in New Hampshire
“For Donald Trump, it wasn’t enough to upstage Jeb Bush by booking a town hall meeting at the same time as the former Florida governor. Trump had to attack him, too,” Politico reports.
Said Trump: “Right down the road, we have Jeb — very small crowd. You know what’s happening to Jeb’s crowd right down the street? They’re sleeping now.”
New York Times: “In an apt sign of the enthusiasm imbalance, Fox News at one point cut away from Mr. Bush, midsentence, to focus on an empty lectern awaiting Mr. Trump.”
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