Crye was elected last November, when he joined Patrick Jones and Chris Kelstrom to form a far-right majority on the Shasta County Board of Supervisors (SCBOS).
Last month, the trio outvoted two other commissioners to terminate the county’s contract with Dominion Voting Systems, leaving the county with no settled process for voting, and forcing election officials to contemplate counting votes by hand.
Bartelsmeyer, previously the elections director in smaller La Paz county, Arizona, posted multiple times on his Facebook page about the 2020 election, making false claims about Trump’s loss, widespread fraud and Dominion voting machines, according to reporting by Votebeat.
One post he shared from 2020 said: “Please join me by posting: Trump legally won in a landslide.” He posted multiple times about then Trump attorney Sidney Powell’s lawsuits over the 2020 election. He also posted an image with a quote about how election fraud is “treason”.
MyPillow founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell made a bold offer ahead of a “cyber symposium” he held in August 2021 in South Dakota: He claimed he had data showing Chinese interference and said he would pay $5 million to anyone who could prove the material was not from the previous year’s U.S. election.
He called the challenge “Prove Mike Wrong.”
On Wednesday, a private arbitration panel ruled that someone did.
The panel said Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert and 63-year-old Trump voter from Nevada, was entitled to the $5 million payout.
Zeidman had examined Lindell’s data and concluded that not only did it not prove voter fraud, it also had no connection to the 2020 election. He was the only expert who submitted a claim, arbitration records show.
Jackson Lee represents District 18, once represented by Barbara Jordan, who in 1972 became the first Black Texan elected to Congress after Reconstruction. There are families in the district who have lived there for 50 years, Jackson Lee said.
“The 18th [District] has been surgically, erroneously and unconstitutionally, under federal law, been drawn incorrectly,” Jackson Lee said.
The proposed new map “eliminates the base of the historical 18th Congressional District,” said Carl Davis, chair of the Houston Society for Change, who testified before the Senate committee.
While the current congressional district map in Texas has one district with a Black majority of eligible voters, the proposed new map has none.
The proposed map increases by one the number of districts with white majorities and cuts the number of districts where Hispanic Texans make up the majority of eligible voters from eight to seven.
The current proposal moves downtown Houston, the Third Ward, Texas Southern University, the University of Houston and Jackson Lee’s own home out of the 18th District.
Cut-from-cloth politico Pete Sessions (R-Waco) won a second term in the 17th District by a more than 2 to 1 margin. Except for the 2019-2021 term, he has represented Texas in the U.S. House since 1997.
In a surprise development, the former Dallas congressman appears to be eyeing a return to the U.S. House — but not in his old district. Insiders say the response in Central Texas has been lukewarm. "I wish he'd called me first," Flores said.
Allamakee County voted twice for Barack Obama -- by 14.2 percentage points in 2008 -- but flipped big time to Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, by 24.1 and 29 percentage points. MAGA yearnings.
JT Klein Company is expected to begin work on the $105 million project next month that will include 465 housing units just north of the Hy-Vee grocery store. A 2.5 acre parcel at the corner of Whitney Way and Tokay Boulevard is also being eyed for a medical clinic but retail and restaurants are not a part of the project, Jacob Klein, president of the development company said Monday.
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