{"id":14654,"date":"2023-05-04T18:53:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14654"},"modified":"2023-05-04T19:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T02:25:57","slug":"maga-election-clerk-ousted-by-rightwing-michigan-township-in-recall-bradcast-542023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14654","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Election Clerk Ousted by Rightwing Michigan Township in Recall: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/4\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_StephanieScott-RonDeSantis_050423.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">There was far too much news to fit into one <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> today. We tried to do it anyway. [<i>Audio link to full show follows below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our many stories&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was difficult to notice this week, but there was yet another very good election day on Tuesday for non-Rightwingers, including more bad news for MAGA World in several local contests around the country. In <b>Lincoln, Nebraska<\/b>, incumbent Mayor <b>Leirion Gaylor Baird<\/b>, supported by Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Mayoral_election_in_Lincoln,_Nebraska_(2023)\">defeated<\/a> a well-funded opponent supported by the state&#8217;s billionaire Republican U.S. Senator (and former Governor) <b>Pete Ricketts<\/b> and fellow billionaire publisher <b>Thomas Peed<\/b>. Gaylor Baird won by nearly 10 points. Apparently, ads describing Lincoln, the state capital, as a dystopian hellhole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/5\/3\/2167353\/-Blue-Wave-In-Lincoln-Nebraska?pm_source=story_sidebar&#038;pm_medium=web&#038;pm_campaign=recommended\">did not go over well<\/a> with voters&#8230;in Lincoln. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A MAGA election conspiracist and local elections clerk named <b>Stephanie Scott<\/b> (<i>pictured above<\/i>), was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/election-denying-clerk-ousted-recall-make-adams-township-boring-again\">tossed out of her job<\/a> in a rare recall election on Tuesday in <b>Adams Township, Michigan<\/b> in Hillsdale County, one of the state&#8217;s most Republican-leaning areas. Scott is under state criminal investigation after refusing to turn over her town&#8217;s computer vote tabulator in 2021, which she believed held evidence of fraud revealing Democrats had stolen the state&#8217;s Presidential election in 2020. That, in a town that Trump\/Pence won with 75% of the vote that year. (If the story sounds familiar, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?cat=1670\">see Tina Peters<\/a>, former <b>Mesa County, Colorado<\/b> Clerk, who has since been tossed out of <i>her<\/i> job and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/09\/1085452644\/colorado-clerk-indicted-on-13-counts-of-election-tampering-and-misconduct\">indicted<\/a> on 10 counts.) This appears to be part of the multi-state MAGA conspiracy to breach voting systems, hatched at the Trump White House in December 2020, as we <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14643\">detailed again last week<\/a>. Scott was defeated by a 2 to 1 margin on Tuesday by an independent challenger running on the slogan &#8220;Make Adams Township Boring Again&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But, if ya can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, suppress their vote! That seems to be the Republican plan for &#8220;winning&#8221; elections from here on out, apparently. After losing statewide ballot initiatives that would have restricted abortion rights last year, including in so-called &#8220;red&#8221; states like <b>Kansas<\/b> and <b>Kentucky<\/b>, the GOP is now hoping to game the ballot initiative process itself in several states. The most immediate and noteworthy is <b>Ohio<\/b>, where supporters of reproductive freedom hope to place an initiative on the ballot in November to establish a state Constitutional right to abortion. But Republicans, who just four months ago adopted a statute ending costly August elections, are now moving to place an amendment on the ballot in a $20 million Special Election in August that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/23\/us\/republicans-abortion-voting.html?unlocked_article_code=iUszvhOlPMbZ_OveLJ0Xvm8Sp8YnSUHlq1LewntpxcPeGJZsooWwrRSIiTV6idqgztuiqTxtTvLf_-8Q87ytXez-cxitAN-ekWJUUwM0py5e1eUFgY_43kcjzr_Zs8fTUPOw6-ZZPImADFkpG-0LxkpkTNMxsWFN6A\">raise the requirement for adoption of Constitutional Amendments<\/a> from a simple majority vote to a required 60% for passage. (Ironically, the GOP lawmakers own Amendment, if voted on in August, would only require 50% to be adopted.) Other gerrymandered GOP states are now attempted to do the same thing, including <b>Missouri<\/b>, where Republican lawmakers there are doing something arguably even more insidious in their own attempt to fool voters into supporting their anti-democracy measure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And then there&#8217;s <b>Florida<\/b>, where democracy goes to die. The state legislature has just passed a one of their final gifts to beleaguered Presidential hopeful <b>Ron DeSantis<\/b>: a 96-page law that will, among other things, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/03\/politics\/florida-republicans-election-restrictions\/index.html\">severely restrict voter registration<\/a> by nonpartisan third-party organizations. As recent research finds, Black and Latino voters are more than five times more likely to be registered by third-party groups than White voters.  DeSantis is expected to sign the legislation soon as one of his last official acts before declaring his 2024 candidacy. It will be the third year in a row that Sunshine State Republicans have adopted new voting restrictions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A D.C. jury on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jan-6-enrique-tarrio-seditious-conspiracy-trial-f8738f17552cda21eef6d89504da2a0e?utm_source=homepage&#038;utm_medium=TopNews&#038;utm_campaign=position_06\">convicted<\/a> four members of the far-right, racist militia group, <b>Proud Boys<\/b>, of seditious conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to impede Congress from performing its duties, obstructing law enforcement and other federal crimes related to their participation in Donald Trump&#8217;s Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The charges for conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding both carry sentences of up to 20 years in prison. Their former leader, like <b>Donald Trump<\/b>, was not even at the Capitol during the riot, but was among those found guilty. All of that good news is likely very bad news for the former President and the specific federal charges likely to soon be brought against him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In still more bad news for Trump today, his lawsuit against the <b><i>New York Times<\/i><\/b> and several of their reporters, charging an &#8220;insidious plot&#8221; to obtain his tax records resulting in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting by the paper, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/judge-tosses-trumps-lawsuit-against-ny-times-orders-him-to-pay-legal-fees?ref=scroll\">tossed out<\/a> by a <b>New York<\/b> judge on Wednesday. Moreover, the judge &#8212; finding Trump&#8217;s claims &#8220;fail as a matter of constitutional law&#8221; and that the paper&#8217;s newsgathering efforts were &#8220;the very core of protected First Amendment activity&#8221; &#8212; ordered Trump to pay <i>all<\/i> of the attorneys fees, legal expenses and other associated costs for the <i>Times<\/i> and their reporters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>ProPublica strikes again. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow\">First they revealed<\/a> that GOP megadonor <b>Harlan Crow<\/b> showered U.S. Supreme Court Justice <b>Clarence Thomas<\/b> for decades with hundreds of thousands of dollars in luxury vacations which he unlawfully failed to disclose. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus\">Then they reported<\/a> that Crow had actually purchased Thomas&#8217; mother&#8217;s house from him, made nearly $40,000 worth of improvements to it, and has allowed the corrupt Justices mom in it, rent-free, ever since. None of that was ever disclosed by Thomas either, in violation of the law. And now, on Wednesday, they did it again. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus\">Their latest bombshell scoop<\/a> documents how Crow&#8217;s company paid for years of tuition to private schools for Thomas&#8217; grandnephew who the nation&#8217;s longest serving Justice says he raised &#8220;as a son&#8221; since taking legal custody at the age of 6. The tuition for the boy, now in his 30s, amounted to approximately $100,000. Congressional Republicans continue to applaud the unspeakably corrupt Thomas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, as you haven&#8217;t had enough already today, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14653\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> to detail the unprecedented heat wave in <b>Spain<\/b>, as <b>Italy<\/b>&#8216;s rivers dry up; the <b>EU<\/b>&#8216;s passage of &#8220;the biggest climate protection law of all time&#8221;; and <b>New York<\/b>&#8216;s adoption of a landmark law banning natural gas hookups in new building construction&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-MAGAClerkRecallMI-InitiativeScamOH-SuppressionFL-ProudBoysGuilty-TrumpNYTSuitFail-MoreClarenceCorruption_0504232.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was far too much news to fit into one BradCast today. 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[Audio link to full show follows below this summary.] Among our many stories&#8230; It was difficult to notice this week, but there was yet another very good election day on Tuesday for non-Rightwingers, including more bad news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,89,675,469,543,299,223,479,969,106,6,28,841,16,1878,1590,865,176,477,305,120,498,111,148,15,1883,1572,300,126,1238,1023,313,280,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-clarence-thomas","category-climate-change","category-democrats","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-election-2020","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-eu","category-florida","category-harlan-crow","category-insurrection","category-italy","category-journalist-intimidation","category-kpfk","category-michigan","category-missouri","category-natural-gas","category-new-york","category-new-york-times","category-ohio","category-pete-ricketts","category-proud-boys","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-ron-desantis","category-spain","category-us-supreme-court","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14654"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}