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stevenleser

stevenleser's Journal
stevenleser's Journal
July 1, 2016

I haven't posted pics of my youngest daughter in a while, she is now 15 months old

I call this picture "I am Angela Hear Me Roar"



And this one of her on the beach reminds me of Katharine Hepburn for some reason...

June 24, 2016

Trump: Fixing the country is like fixing one of my golf courses

In the nonsense Trump says I'm hearing echoes of Peter Sellers as Chance (Chauncey) Gardiner



At one point, Mr. Trump even compared his renovation of Trump Turnberry with how he is hoping to overhaul the United States as president. When a reporter pointed out — correctly — that a country is hardly a golf course, Mr. Trump replied: “No it’s not, but you’ll be amazed how similar it is. It’s a place that has to be fixed.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/us/politics/donald-trump-scotland.html
June 23, 2016

Hillary: Trump has written a lot of books about business, they all end at chapter 11

Donald J. Trump has written a lot of books about business, but they all seem to end at Chapter 11.

- Hillary Clinton

https://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton/videos/1171453809577813/

June 19, 2016

Looking forward to the implementation of the new rules! Long live civility!

Tick Tock! 5 hours and 15 minutes and counting!

June 15, 2016

CEO of Trump SuperPac plead guilty to massive ponzi scheme in 1995

The CEO of Trump Super PAC "Get our jobs back", http://www.getourjobsbackinc.com/ , Steven Hoffenberg, in 1995 pleaded guilty to bilking investors out of $475 million in one of the largest pre-Madoff Ponzi schemes in history and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
See http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/21/business/hoffenberg-confesses-to-ponzi-scheme.html

This is inconvenient considering what the ‪#?TrumpUniversity‬ allegations already say about Trump. And yes its the same guy, its mentioned on the front page of the Super Pac website.

June 6, 2016

The lesson is clear. If you want to lead a political revolution from the left in the US

African Americans and Latinos better be part of your coalition from its earliest incarnations. They're not someone you try to pick up along the way.

June 2, 2016

Hispanic Official to Leave R.N.C. in Sign of Disaffection With Donald Trump

Cancer has a higher approval among Latinos than Donald Trump does.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/us/politics/rnc-trump-ruth-guerra.html?_r=0

The head of Hispanic media relations at the Republican National Committee is resigning this month in what appears to be another indication of the lingering discomfort some party officials have about working to elect Donald J. Trump president.

Ruth Guerra, who is of Mexican descent and was in charge of carrying the party’s message to Hispanic voters, is joining the American Action Network, a Republican-aligned “super PAC,” she confirmed in a brief interview on Wednesday.

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But Ms. Guerra told colleagues this year that she was uncomfortable working for Mr. Trump, according two R.N.C. aides who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the difficulties surrounding the party’s presumptive standard-bearer.

It is relatively rare for party staff members to leave the national committee in the midst of a presidential campaign unless they are going to work directly for the nominee.

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