Ben Cline mum on $1.7B Trump slush fund, as other MAGAs speak out
Ben Cline, back in 2023, was against settlement slush funds, to the point that he was an out-of-the-box co-sponsor of a bill called the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act.
Ben Cline, back in 2023, was against settlement slush funds, to the point that he was an out-of-the-box co-sponsor of a bill called the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act.
The worst-kept secret in Virginia politics, if it was a secret at all, is out of the bag now – Ben Cline, on Monday, announced his campaign for re-election to Congress.
Virginia, which saw a referendum erased by four MAGA justices on our state Supreme Court, has a Democrat in office as governor, and a Democrat in office as attorney general.
Donald Trump is scheming to give himself $1.7 billion of our money as a settlement in a lawsuit that he filed against the IRS, which he heads up – and is claiming, because he oversees the IRS, he can tell the agency to just give him the money.
The U.S. Supreme Court, not surprisingly, is not even going to hear the challenge from Virginia Democrats to the state Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the April 21 redistricting referendum.
The corruption, cronyism, and self-dealing that now define the American government — under Donald Trump in particular — amount to a slow-motion stick-up carried out in broad daylight.
I’m here to sheepishly admit that I hadn’t fully thought through the racially-charged meaning of the turn of phrase “cotton-picking” until this recent controversy involving Congresswoman Jen Kiggans.
Gary Taylor, in Year 2 of a two-year probation for emotional abuse of swimmers at two colleges and a local YMCA, is still listed on the UVA Swimming website as an assistant coach.
WINA-1070 AM MAGA talk-show host Rob Schilling, over there in “the bowels of the den of iniquity in Charlottesville,” seems to be enamored with the smell of his own flatulence.
What frustrates me the most about the holy war being waged by a local MAGA pastor over supposed trans kids in school bathrooms is, the guy is doing what the billionaires want people like him to do.
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