Curtis Sliwa was Offered $10 Million to get out of Mayoral Race

Apparently, Sliwa has a backbone. Which is unusual for a politician:

‘Politics is the dirtiest business there is,’ he said, adding that Adams was ‘so corrupt’ as mayor. The Daily Mail has reached out to Adams’s office for comment. Sliwa previously opened up about the bribe in a profile with The New Yorker , claiming he was offered $10 million across seven offers. He has remained tight-lipped about who tried to bribe him, but was encouraged to step down by several high-profile entities, including President Donald Trump, Republican donor John Catsimatidis, and the editorial board of The New York Post.

Sliwa also claims his life was threatened by people who wanted him out:

The 1 percent was desperate to defeat Mamdani. They thought they could buy election like they’ve bought other politicians:

Not every Republican is a racist bigot:

My question is, why didn’t those oligarchs spend millions on Sliwa early on and try to help him win the election. In a 4-way race Democrats would have split the vote which would have let the Republican win the election. We won’t ever know the answer to that question, and the press won’t ask.

Live Coverage of Brazil’s 2022 Presidential Election

The election this year is monumentally important. Will Brazil keep it’s Trump-like leader, Jair Bolsanaro, or will it return to democratic rule:

BBC Live Coverage


Bloomberg Lives Coverage (includes Map)


NY Times Coverage


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Karl Rove: Texas Abortion Law is too Extreme

Rove’s opinion on this matter will be hard to dismiss by the GOP:

Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove said Saturday that Texas’ abortion law is too extreme, underscoring an increasingly public discomfort with the measure among Republicans.

Rove made the comment during an exchange at a Texas Tribune Festival panel about elections following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. He said voters in Kansas had defeated an “extremist measure on abortion,” defining extreme as “essentially no abortion, no exceptions.”

“Do you think Texas is too extremist?” Tribune CEO Evan Smith asked.

“Yeah, I do,” Rove replied. “I think it’s gonna create a real problem for Republicans in the Legislature next year when they have to deal with it.”

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