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The Beginner’s Primer to Running For Public Office: Online Platform
Saturday , 25, November 2023 Candidates, Election 2024 Leave a commentSo, you’ve decided to run for public office. Wonderful. You’ve committed the next 12 to 24 months to campaign staff strategy meetings, public appearances, media interviews, and meeting your future constituents face-to-face. It would help if you listened to what they had to say. That means time spent knocking on doors, holding coffee cloches, meet […]
Truth Social Enters the Parler Hoping to Telegram MAGA Gab and Gettr Back at Big Tech
Thursday , 21, October 2021 MAGA, Sad! Leave a commentOn October 20, 2021, The Fat Orange Bitch announced a new media partnership to force Big Tech on its knees and give him back his Twitter account. What will this new conglomerate of tech and media offer? Apparently, everything. If you read the fine print, and you should always read the fine print where Trump’s […]
Religious Fanaticism Has No Denomination: Stand With Planned Parenthood
Sunday , 29, November 2015 Community, Michigan Women, Religious Fundamentalism, Tea Party, Tealiban Leave a comment… belief is the death of intelligence” – Robert Anton Wilson On social media anti-choicers applauded Robert L. Dear for stopping the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood from murdering more babies while most of the GOP presidential candidates remain mute over the attack on the health care clinic. So far, Mike Huckabee exercised his lack of […]
What Has Tea Party Charter School Founder Pasquale Battaglia Been Up To Lately?
Friday , 28, August 2015 Section 16, Tea Party Charter School 4 CommentsAs of April, 2015, Tea Party Charter School aka Livingston Classical Academy was still in search of an authorizer for their for-profit charter school. It’s been rather quiet since this past spring, when a member of the public attempting to attend an open to the public open house was arrested because the owner of the […]