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    Grimes Staff Caught on Hidden Camera: She’s Lying About Support for Coal Industry

    Grimes Staff Caught on Hidden Camera: She’s Lying About Support for Coal Industry

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    BY: Lachlan Markay
    October 6, 2014 8:00 am

    U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is lying about her support for the state’s coal industry according to Kentucky Democrats, including members of her campaign team, who were captured on a hidden camera video.

    The video, produced by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, shows five employees of the Grimes campaign and local Democratic Party affiliates speculating that the Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is only professing her support for the industry out of political expediency.

    “If we can get her elected do you think she is going to do the right thing and she’s gonna try to wipe out that coal industry and go for better resources?” asks an undercover videographer in one segment of the video.

    “I absolutely think she is,” responds Fayette County Democratic Party operative Gina Bess.

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    The video’s release comes as Grimes works to salvage a campaign that has consistently trailed in public polling and which, according to Nate Silver’s election model, has just a 12 percent chance of victory in November.

    “Let me set it straight for you Mitch McConnell. I am the pro-coal candidate in this race,” Grimes declared at a recent campaign event with former President Bill Clinton.

    Grimes has used that type of rhetoric in attempts to distance herself from President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency, which has enacted regulations on coal-fired power plants that coal companies and supporters say are taking a heavy toll on the industry.

    Support for such regulations is a political albatross in coal-heavy Kentucky, and Grimes campaign staffers featured in O’Keefe’s video recognize that fact.

    “She’s saying something positive about coal because she wants to be elected,” said Ros Hines, a staffer in Grimes’ Lexington campaign office. “And in the state of Kentucky, if you are anti-coal, you will not get elected, period, end of conversation.”

    Some Grimes supporters captured in the hidden-camera video likewise suggest that Grimes is lying about her support for the industry in order to get elected.

    “She has to say that,” remarked Juanita Rodriguez of the Warren County Democratic Party. “But you know what? Politics is a game. You do what you have to do to get [elected]. … It’s a lying game unfortunately.”

    Rodriguez speculated that Grimes does not in fact support the industry to the extent that she has declared publicly.

    “I really don’t think her heart is 100 percent in backing coal. But she has to say she is because she will not get a high number of votes in this state if she doesn’t. But she’s got to get in there first and she’s gonna say whatever she has to say or do. And that’s the way the political game is played.”

    Like Grimes, McConnell routinely criticizes the EPA’s attempts to crack down on the coal industry. McConnell has also introduced legislation to stymie those efforts. However, Senate Democrats have stymied McConnell’s efforts.

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) blocked action this summer on a McConnell bill that would block EPA power plant regulations unless the agency certified that it would not eliminate jobs or increase electricity prices.

    McConnell’s staff seized on O’Keefe’s video to blast Grimes’ purported dishonesty on the coal issue.

    “It is absolutely shocking that Alison Lundergan Grimes’ own staff now admits that she has no intention of protecting the coal industry,” campaign spokeswomen Allison Moore wrote in an emailed statement. “The level of deception that Alison Grimes and her campaign engages in to appear pro-coal despite virulent opposition is both disturbing and dangerous.”

    Neither Grimes’ campaign nor the Kentucky Democratic Party returned requests for comment.

    O’Keefe’s video is the first from an offshoot of his group called Project Veritas Action. He says that the Grimes video “is the beginning of a nationwide undercover investigation into the upcoming elections.”

    The original group has recently used O’Keefe’s trademark undercover video techniques to uncover controversial activities by other Democrats and allied groups.

    In February, Veritas videographers caught activists with the Democratic group Battleground Texas using information from voter registration drives to bolster their database of voter information in an apparent violation of Texas law.

    O’Keefe rose to prominence in 2009 after the first of his “sting” videos revealed employees of the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) offering to assist his (non-existent) underage prostitution ring.

    http://freebeacon.com/politics/grimes-staffers-suggest-kentucky-dem-lies-about-coal-support/

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    BOMBSHELL Video is Sure to Cost This ‘Pro-Coal’ Democrat the Election
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    This video will more than likely be the final nail in the coffin



    BOMBSHELL Video is Sure to Cost This 'Pro-Coal' Democrat the Election
    A video has been released that Kentucky candidate for U.S. Senate Alison Grimes is most likely not going to like since it has the potential of...
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    BOMBSHELL Video is Sure to Cost This ‘Pro-Coal’ Democrat the Election

    in News, Opinion, Politics / by Sean Brown /on October 6, 2014 at 2:03 pm /



    A video has been released that Kentucky candidate for U.S. Senate Alison Grimes is most likely not going to like since it has the potential of costing her the election in November.
    The FreeBeacon reports that conservative film maker James O’Keefe sent videographers with his Project Veritas Action out to Grimes’ campaign offices, where they documented that Grimes has been deceiving the public in a big way regarding the state’s coal industry.
    O’Keefe’s video shows five operatives for Grimes’ campaign and local Democratic Party affiliates openly admitting that the Senate candidate is lying to the public about her support for coal only to get elected, since being anti-coal in Kentucky is a sure-fire way to anger voters.
    Despite the Democrat’s widespread opposition to the coal industry, Grimes had recently taken a shot at her challenger, incumbent Mitch McConnell, and professed that she’s the right candidate for Kentucky because of her pro-coal stance, according to the FreeBeacon.
    “Let me set it straight for you Mitch McConnell. I am the pro-coal candidate in this race,” she said at a campaign event.
    However, the video tells a different tale, one that will undoubtedly outraged Kentucky residents, since so many rely on the coal industry to support themselves.
    “If we can get her elected do you think she is going to do the right thing and she’s gonna try to wipe out that coal industry and go for better resources?” one of O’Keefe’s undercover videographers asks in the video.
    “I absolutely think she is,” said Gina Bess, a Fayette County Democratic Party operative.
    Another operative from the Warren County Democrat Party, Juanita Rodriquez, echoed her sentiments and went further by describing politics as a “game” where anything goes.
    “She has to say that,” she said. “But you know what? Politics is a game. You do what you have to do to get [elected]. … It’s a lying game unfortunately.”
    Grimes has been trying to distance herself from Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency’s cumbersome restrictions that have delivered a blow to the coal industry. But polling numbers show her trailing McConnell by a wide margin, and in fact, she’s predicted to only have a 12 percent chance of actually winning in November.
    Perhaps that’s why the Senate hopeful has been deceiving the public, as Ros Hines from the Fayette County Democrat Party explained, “In the state of Kentucky if you are ‘anti’ coal you will not get elected, period. End of conversation.”
    With that in mind, this video will more than likely be the final nail in the coffin, which would be the best thing for Kentucky. Any politician willing to deceive someone on this level should not be in office, especially when so many people’s livelihoods rely on the very industry they’re trying to destroy.
    Not surprisingly, when the FreeBeacon reached out to Grimes’ campaign and the Kentucky Democrat Party for comment on the video, they didn’t receive a reply.

    Check out the shocking video below, then let us know what you think:



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    Bluegrass Poll: Grimes leads McConnell in Ky. Senate race

    James R. Carroll, The Courier Journal 11:49 a.m. EDT October 6, 2014



    In this Aug. 20, 2014, file photo, Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes speaks in Louisville, Ky.(Photo: Timothy D. Easley, AP)

    After two polls in his favor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell again has slipped behind Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, according to the latest Bluegrass Poll.
    Grimes, Kentucky's secretary of State, now leads the veteran five-term senator 46% to 44% among likely voters, the survey found. While that advantage is within the poll's margin of error, it represents a 6-point swing to the Democrat since the last survey in late August.
    Libertarian candidate David Patterson had 3% support in the poll, while 7% of likely voters said they were undecided.

    Whereas the Aug. 28 poll, showing McConnell leading by 4 points, suggested he might be slowly pulling away from Grimes, "today, McConnell suddenly and unexpectedly looks wobbly," said SurveyUSA, which conducted the poll for The Courier-Journal, Lexington Herald-Leader, WHAS-TV in Louisville and WKYT-TV in Lexington.
    Kentuckians go to the polls on Nov. 4 to decide a race that has been close from the start. And opinions are solidifying: The survey found that among likely voters who had made a choice, 82% said they had made up their minds, and only 16% said they might change their minds.
    Despite President Obama's dismal job approval ratings in the state (55% unfavorable to just 29% favorable among registered voters), McConnell apparently has had trouble convincing Kentuckians of one of his central arguments: that his opponent would be a rubber stamp for the administration's policies.



    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., answers questions from a reporter while campaigning at Cumberland Valley Electric during a two-day bus tour of eastern Kentucky on Aug. 7, 2014.(Photo: Win McNamee, Getty Images)

    McConnell likewise has had difficulty making his case for a sixth term, as he also suffers from upside-down job approval numbers: 48% of registered voters viewed him unfavorably, while 35% viewed him favorably.
    Kentuckians' opinions of Grimes are divided: 40% viewed her favorably, while 39% viewed her unfavorably.
    Patterson is nearly unknown to Kentucky voters: When asked whether they view him favorably or unfavorably, a total of 79% were either neutral or had no opinion.

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    The Not So Silent Majority By Proliferocks.com

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    New poll shows Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell trailing Alison Grimes
    Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell trails Alison Grimes according to new Bluegrass Poll
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    Bluegrass Poll: Grimes takes lead over McConnell

    James R. Carroll, jcarroll@courier-journal.com 1:32 p.m. EDT October 6, 2014

    New poll shows Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell trailing Alison Grimes




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    After two polls in his favor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has slipped behind Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes, according to the latest Bluegrass Poll.
    Grimes, Kentucky's secretary of state, now leads the veteran five-term senator 46 percent to 44 percent among likely voters, the survey found. While that advantage is within the poll's margin of error, it represents a 6-point swing to the Democrat since the survey was last conducted in late August.
    Libertarian candidate David Patterson had 3 percent support in the poll, while 7 percent of likely voters said they were undecided.
    Whereas the Aug. 28 poll showing McConnell leading by 4 points suggested he might be slowly pulling away, "today, McConnell suddenly and unexpectedly looks wobbly," said SurveyUSA, which conducted the poll last week for The Courier-Journal, Lexington Herald-Leader, WHAS-TV in Louisville and WKYT-TV in Lexington.
    The survey also found that 82 percent of 632 registered voters deemed likely to cast ballots in the Nov. 4 election said they had made up their minds, and only 16 percent said they might change their minds.
    And despite President Barack Obama's unpopularity in the state, the poll suggests McConnell has had trouble convincing Kentuckians of one of his central arguments: That Grimes would be a rubber stamp for the administration's policies.
    McConnell likewise has had difficulty making his case for a sixth term, as he also suffers from upside-down job approval numbers: 48 percent of registered voters in the poll viewed him unfavorably, while 35 percent viewed him favorably.

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    Kentuckians' opinions of Grimes are divided: 40 percent viewed her favorably, while 39 percent viewed her unfavorably.
    But the 6-point shift to Grimes on who to vote for may not be real, cautioned University of Kentucky political scientist Stephen Voss. He said she may have strengthened a little, but not as much as the poll indicates.
    "I would take these results with a grain of salt, given that they deviate from everything we've seen recently," Voss said, referring to a number of other polls showing McConnell leading Grimes.



    "I don't buy the absolute totals," he said. "I think she's still behind."

    Readers react: Readers write about the race

    But the deeper numbers in the survey do show Grimes' ads — one showing her trap-shooting and another featuring former President Bill Clinton — are helping her gain ground with conservative Democrats, Voss said.
    Nationally, Republicans need a net gain of six seats to win control of the Senate. That would make McConnell majority leader if he wins re-election.
    Perhaps the most alarming number for McConnell is that 57 percent of registered voters surveyed said that after 30 years in office, it's time for him to be replaced. That sentiment was shared by 33 percent of conservatives and 27 percent of Republicans.
    "I don't think he's that concerned" about problems facing average Kentuckians, said Alma Harbin, 86, of Hodgenville. A retired author of cookbooks, she plans to vote for Grimes.
    "He's taken enough from the government," Harbin said of McConnell. "It's time to let somebody else have a turn."
    Grimes is being buoyed by shifts in her direction among middle-income voters, those with some college education and Democrats in general. The survey found Grimes doing much better than in the last poll in Eastern and Western Kentucky, and she has improved her lead in the Greater Louisville area from 7 percent to 16 percent. A Democrat's strength in Louisville is critical to winning statewide office.
    But just under a majority — 49 percent — told pollsters that Grimes "will simply vote for President Obama's agenda and Kentucky needs someone who can stand up to the president."
    That is what Shelley Stutzman, 44, of Louisville, believes.
    "She is too much of a follower," said Stutzman, who works for Veterans Affairs. "I think she's going to follow what Obama and the rest of the Democrats want."
    Even so, she said she is not enthused about backing McConnell. "I don't have a better option," she said.



    What appears to be aiding McConnell is that 47 percent of registered voters in the poll believe Republicans would do a better job if they were in control of the Senate. Forty-two percent sided with the Democrats.
    Slightly more than a third of Kentucky's registered voters — 34 percent — think McConnell has done a bad job explaining his positions, while almost two-thirds — 63 percent — think he's has done a good or fair job.
    As for Grimes, 27 percent of Kentucky voters think she has done a bad job explaining her positions, while 66 percent think she has done a good or fair job.
    SurveyUSA interviewed 800 Kentucky adults between Sept. 30 and Oct. 2, including 730 registered voters and 632 who were determined to be likely voters. For results among likely voters, the poll's margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points. For registered voters, the sampling margin was plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
    MORE COVERAGE
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    Reporter James R. Carroll can be reached at (703) 854-8945. Follow him on Twitter @JRCarrollCJ.


    Former President Bill Clinton was in Kentucky to help the U.S. Senate candidate Grimes, and later to receive an award from the PGA. Jonathan Palmer, Special to The C-J





    McConnell has made the Affordable Care Act a central issue in hiis campaign against Democrat challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes. Frankie Steele, Special to The C-J

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    "Grimes is one of the most hilariously phony candidates in this election cycle"




    Allison Grimes and the Lying Game | Human Events
    Her staff and supporters think it's funny that so many of the rube voters in Kentucky are falling for her act.
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    Allison Grimes and the Lying Game


    By: John Hayward
    10/8/2014 10:50 AM

    Video at the page link:

    If North Carolina is one of the biggest sore spots in Republican hopes to take the Senate, Kentucky has become at least a bit of a headache. It’s a closer race than the aspiring majority leader of the Senate wanted, as Sen. Mitch McConnell is only running about four points ahead of Democrat challenger Allison Grimes, and there are polls that actually show her slightly in the lead. Even if the odds still favor McConnell winning, this isn’t a race national Republican strategists wanted to pour resources into.
    Grimes is one of the most hilariously phony candidates in this election cycle – there’s no Democrat who does a less convincing job of pretending to be a maverick who barely even heard of this Obama guy, and doesn’t like what little she’s heard. It doesn’t speak well of McConnell that he can’t close the deal against such a challenger in Kentucky. Maybe it will help that a new undercover video from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas makes it clear just how phony Allison Grimes is. Behind the scenes, her staffers and local Democrat Party big shots think it’s pretty funny that the rube voters of Kentucky are falling for her act:



    Here you’ve got people working for the ostensibly pro-coal Democrat literally laughing at how she’ll do her best to team up with Obama and wipe the industry out if she can get elected. They’re quite clear about how it’s necessary to lie about the issue to keep a campaign alive in the state, and they’re very comfortable with doing so. One of them even refers to it as a “Lying Game,” which means I now have the theme song to “The Crying Game” stuck on endless loop in my head. Thanks a lot, guys.
    How does anyone in Kentucky, outside the hardest of the hardcore Democrats, watch this without their blood boiling so hot that their ears start whistling like tea kettles? This is the distilled white-lightning moonshine brew of everything Americans hate about politics, right down to fatcat special-interest campaign contributors chuckling over the crazy fibs their bought-and-paid-for candidates have to tell in order to get elected.
    O’Keefe and his crew long ago mastered the art of releasing their exposes in stages, with some of the best stuff bottled up for the later chapters, making it tough for the mainstream media to bury their stories. Sure enough, there’s a Part 2, in which Project Veritas goes undercover at a Grimes fundraiser, in which one of her rich supporters chirps that if she can trick Kentucky voters into sending her to the Senate, she’ll wipe out the coal industry without delay: “She’s going to f**k them as soon as she gets elected.” He makes a shushing gesture to emphasize the importance of Grimes supporters keeping quiet about this until the idiot voters have been successfully bamboozled.



    There’s not much Grimes can do about this, except distance herself from her own campaign staff and supporters, just like she pretends to be the mortal enemy of President Obama. As NewsBussters notes, this bombshell hit right as Grimes was pumping out a deceptive ad trying to make McConnell look like the enemy of coal in the race.

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    DEM REFUSES TO ADMIT SHE VOTED FOR O




    40 painful seconds of Alison Lundergan Grimes refusing to say whether she voted for President Obama
    Awkward.
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    40 painful seconds of Alison Lundergan Grimes refusing to say whether she voted for President Obama

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    By Philip Bump October 9 at 4:56 PM

    Alison Lundergan Grimes (D), who is trying to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) this fall, appeared before the Louisville Courier-Journal editorial board on Thursday to make her pitch for their endorsement. The life-long Democrat, whose father represented Kentucky for the party in the state House and who herself has been on the ballot in the state on the Democratic ticket, was asked a simple question. Did she vote for President Obama in 2008 and 2012?
    And she didn't answer. Repeatedly.
    In an interesting nod to the times, the interview was streamed live, meaning that it took no time at all for Republicans to clip the non-answer and put it online.



    Obama is far more unpopular in Kentucky than he is in the rest of the country. Polling last month had his approval rating in the state at about 30 percent, the sort of numbers that wouldn't earn him a victory in the state if he were to run again, not that he won it in 2008 or 2012.
    Grimes tries to pivot off of the board's question (for some reason!) by linking herself to Hillary Clinton. There's not a lot of good data on Clinton's approval in Kentucky, but at least the state voted for her husband twice. If you have to be a type of Democrat in Kentucky, be a "Clinton Democrat" as Grimes puts it. Fine.
    But there was no reason to do this. Grimes is fairly new on the national scene, but she's not new enough not to know how to answer this fairly simply. "Yes, I voted for him," you say, "but I've been disappointed by a lot of the things he's done, particularly on COAL and JOBS and GUNS" or whatever. It's simple. And then you can say, "but I backed Hillary in the primary" and so on and so on. 2008 was a landmark year, a wave for Democrats, when Obama's approval was sky-high. Of course she voted for him! Dodging the question looks like she's trying to hide her position, which is never the face you want to show -- particularly when conservatives are accusing her of hiding her positions on other things.
    This isn't the sorts of incident that makes or breaks a candidate. It's one of the little ruts on the long road they'll be traveling for the next 26 days. But it's a mistake, and in a race in which Grimes needs everything to go her way, this little bit of bad driving is the sort of thing she should both know to avoid and know how to avoid.
    Philip Bump writes about politics for The Fix. He previously wrote for The Wire, the news blog of The Atlantic magazine. He has contributed to The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The Daily, and the Huffington Post. Philip is based in New York City.

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    WATCH: The Most Destructive 40-Second Video You'll Ever See For Obama & The Democrats
    When she was asked a simple, straight-forward question...
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    WATCH: The Most Destructive 40-Second Video You’ll Ever See For Obama & The Democrats

    When she was asked a simple, straight-forward question...

    Norvell RoseOctober 10, 2014



    Not that much needs to be said about this brief but breathtaking video — it really speaks for itself. In truth, it screams for itself — screams that Barack Obama has become so toxic, so radioactive for Democrat candidates that, well, at least this candidate is essentially disavowing the president.

    Here’s the context for what you’ll see…

    In Kentucky’s high-stakes Senate race — a contest into which the party has poured millions of dollars and invested high hopes, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is trying to knock off Republican Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader.
    Grimes, a life-long Democrat, appeared before the Louisville Courier-Journal editorial board on Thursday to make her pitch for their endorsement.
    When she was asked a simple, straight-forward question, she dodged repeatedly. That extraordinary dodge pretty much sums up how so many Democrats feel they must divorce themselves from the once-exalted leader of their party — Barack Obama.
    You can see the :40 “scream” by clicking on the video above to learn what this desperate Dem said when asked, “Did you vote for President Obama?”

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    The Alison Grimes campaign may now start imploding.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary) | October 6th, 2014 at 10:00 AM | 21

    How much money did the Democrats spend on this one, again? – Because I bet that, say, Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA)Heritage ActionScorecard

    Rep. Bruce Braley

    House Democrat Average See Full Scorecard 4% wouldn’t have minded getting some of that. Or Mary Burke. Or Greg Orman, later this month:
    U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is lying about her support for the state’s coal industry according to Kentucky Democrats, including members of her campaign team, who were captured on a hidden camera video.

    The video, produced by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, shows five employees of the Grimes campaign and local Democratic Party affiliates speculating that the Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)Heritage ActionScorecard

    Sen. Mitch McConnell

    Senate Republican Average See Full Scorecard 68% (R., Ky.) is only professing her support for the industry out of political expediency.
    Oopsie. I am amazed that there are people still in this business who will step on their own candidate’s message like these people did:



    Executive summary: O’Keefe got a bunch of Democratic and Grimes staffers on-camera telling the world that:

    • Alison Grimes is lying about her coal stance;
    • She’s doing that because you can’t win statewide elections in Kentucky if you don’t support coal;
    • Democrats, of course, don’t support coal;
    • And Kentucky voters are STUPID stupid-heads for liking coal so much.

    This would have destroyed Alison Grimes campaign, except that it wasn’t exactly alive to begin with at this point. It’s certainly not going to help her, though. To the point where Kentucky Democrats are probably thanking God right now that at least they don’t hold statewide elections in a mid-term year…

    Via @lachlan.
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    Moe Lane (crosspost)

    O’Keefe is promising more videos, on a national level. I guess from where depends on the answer to the question Where do state Democrats habitually lie about their support of the national Democratic agenda? Oh, wait, my bad: the answer is They all do. So, basically, the next one could come from anywhere – although, preferably, somewhere where there’s a tight Senate or governor’s race.


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