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Eviction Voting Fallout
One of the hidden consequences of lifting the eviction moratorium may be invalidating millions of voter registrations due to their change of address.
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craig, i noticed you didn’t use the words “unintended consequences.” might it be some of the critters knew that disenfranchisement was a possibility/probability?
which brings another question: just how can/do homeless persons register (and now the newly homeless re-register) to vote without proof of residence?
can imagine your trip could inspire some sort of updated version of MLK’s letters from the bir’m jail, except in this case one will be espousing segregation [this time for the masked from the unmasked a-holes].
couldn’t find a suitable pic for the airport, but here’s one for the jail — any difference?
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act clocked in at some 2,700 pages, and senators could begin amending it soon. Despite the hurry-up-and-wait during a rare weekend session, the final product was not intended to stray from the broad outline senators had negotiated for weeks with the White House.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said a final vote could be held “in a matter of days.”
Patd, no, I made it out of Birmingham yesterday just in time to miss my connection to Pittsburgh by 15 minutes. I got to experience a night in Philadelphia at American Airlines’ expense. I’ll be back home in time to work half a day if all goes well. Good trip home, though. Unfortunately my uncle isn’t doing all that well mentally. My sis and I decided that wherever he lands for his next step up in level of care will happen when this new wave of Covid passes, so trying out my best Jean Dixon, I see travel in my future.
Rocha joins a growing field of Republicans and Democrats looking to challenge Issa. Former Santee City, Calif., Councilmember Stephen Houlahan, urgent care nurse Mari Barosay, and Timothy Bilash are among the Democrats running. Former Escondido, Calif. Mayor Sam Abed is challenging Issa from the GOP side of the aisle.
Any Democrat running in the district will face an uphill challenge against Issa in the right-leaning district. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the district as R+8. Issa defeated Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar with 54 percent in last year’s election.
I many places the homeless can register to vote using some options. Like service centers and in California. You can use the intersection where they hangout
“Despite mortgage rates at historic lows, housing affordability is worsening. In the United States, the median home costs between 4.5 and 5 times median household income — pricier than in the run up to the 2008 housing crash…”
“Pension funds, investment firms and Wall Street banks are snapping up family homes in Europe and the United States at a rapid pace as prices rocket higher, looking for alternatives to lockdown-hit office parks and shopping malls, and betting that a permanent increase in remote working following the coronavirus pandemic will keep demand for suburban houses elevated.“
BiD, In my experience home prices and loan interest rates (construction loans and mortgage loans) tend to have an inverse relationship. It’s not a perfect one, but the trends when I’ve been in the market were that housing prices in the ownership segment tended to be higher when interest rates were lower and vice versa due primarily to demand spurred by cheap money and depressed by expensive money. I admit that I don’t understand why the entities scooping up property are doing that. Word I heard last week is that the housing price bubble is already showing signs of bursting. If that’s true, this is a bad time to be buying investment real estate. but I’m guessing those folks know a bit more about this than I do and that they have pretty sophisticated analytic tools telling them to buy.
John Oliver did an expose last week on just how black families have been shut out of the housing market including being blocked from the GI benefits following WWII. Since real estate is the base for generational wealth this is a major component of systemic racism in society.
He can still spread to the unvaccinated. It is the hypocrisy of the vaccinated GOP that offends me. How is it okay for their constituents and their children to die even though they have protected themselves.
Dozens of House Republicans and their staffers marched maskless out of the House to the Senate floor in protest of the new mask mandate for the lower chamber.
The lawmakers and their staffers traveled across the Capitol on Thursday to protest the fact that Capitol Police have instructed officers to arrest staffers and visitors who don’t wear masks and refuse to leave the House.
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NOW: large maskless group of House GOP members has just crossed onto the Senate side and asked to enter the Senate Chamber. pic.twitter.com/gfmEAQMWbj
In the Republican Senate conference, 46 of 50 senators confirmed to CNN that they are vaccinated. Only two refuse to say if they are not vaccinated: Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday lauded the Covid vaccine after testing positive for the disease, saying that his “symptoms would be far worse” without it.
Graham said in a tweet that the House physician notified him of his positive test despite being fully-vaccinated. He said he begun having flu-like symptoms Saturday night, and that he will be quarantining for ten days.
While the Senate has not formally issued a mask mandate, Graham was reportedly seen wearing a mask on Monday, according to a Politico reporter.
[from another tweet]
I feel like I have a sinus infection and at present time I have mild symptoms. I will be quarantining for ten days. I am very glad I was vaccinated because without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I do now. My symptoms would be far worse.
That may be the most intelligent thing Lindsey has said in quite some time. Was listening to Dr. Kavita Patel (I believe that’s who it was – the audio was not very clear) while driving back to East Bumfuck this morning and she said that the data indicate that the Delta Variant is roughly twice as transmissible as the original strain of Covid, but that people (and she was referring to vaccinated folks but I believe she said it should be the same for all) who become infected have 1000 times as many transmissible particles in their nasal passages than folks who are infected by the original variant. Yoiks.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and Lindsey’s body will produce the “Graham variant”- it will hang around forever but not do much of anything and will amount to a minor annoyance 🥁
The coronavirus officially returned to the United States Senate on Monday.
News that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tested positive quickly jolted through the Capitol and sparked an hours-long scramble to figure out who else might have been exposed, which only escalated after sources confirmed that the South Carolina Republican attended an outdoor event on Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) houseboat over the weekend with other senators.
Graham’s “breakthrough” case, the first known instance among senators, comes as the chamber has largely loosened social distancing restrictions in recent months, with at least 96 of the 100 senators vaccinated. Though the Capitol physician has recommended mask wearing regardless of vaccination status, most Republicans have not been wearing them, and even some Democrats would remove them while hobnobbing on the floor with their colleagues.
It also comes as the Senate is embarking on a tense slog of legislating: It is currently debating a bipartisan bill, which Graham has been helping advance, before Democrats turn to a budget resolution and then leave for a weeks-long break.
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Graham’s positive result is the first for senators in months, after most were vaccinated. His diagnosis raised immediate questions about whether another senator could test positive after several lawmakers confirmed that they had been at a houseboat gathering with Graham over the weekend.
Manchin, who hosted the event on his boat, said that he tested negative.
“There was no celebration. We’re just trying to keep people together and do things in a bipartisan way. That’s what we do,” Manchin said about the houseboat party, which another Senate office noted took place outdoors.
Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) were also at Manchin’s bipartisan boathouse event. Manchin estimated that roughly a dozen senators were there.
Spokespeople for Coons and Thune both said that they tested negative, while Cantwell is getting tested. Spokespeople for Kelly, Rosen and Cortez Masto said that they were following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. For fully vaccinated people, the CDC recommends they get tested three to five days after exposure and wear a mask indoors for 14 days or until they get a negative test result.
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craig, i noticed you didn’t use the words “unintended consequences.” might it be some of the critters knew that disenfranchisement was a possibility/probability?
which brings another question: just how can/do homeless persons register (and now the newly homeless re-register) to vote without proof of residence?
pogo, you still at the Birmingham airport?
can imagine your trip could inspire some sort of updated version of MLK’s letters from the bir’m jail, except in this case one will be espousing segregation [this time for the masked from the unmasked a-holes].
couldn’t find a suitable pic for the airport, but here’s one for the jail — any difference?
in case you missed john’s latest beef last night
John Oliver explains how emergency medical services function in the U.S., why they can be so expensive, and what we can do to fix things.
It’s in – and big: Senators produce $1 trillion infrastructure bill (boston.com)
What’s going to happen to those who are evicted? The fallout from this will be something we’ve never seen before.
Is THAT why some states haven’t distributed the federal money they were given? They want to disenfranchise potential voters.
Did blue states use those funds?
It is a difficult procedure, but the homeless can now register to vote if homeless.
The Homeless Vote: Can You Legally Cast a Ballot? (findlaw.com)
Patd, no, I made it out of Birmingham yesterday just in time to miss my connection to Pittsburgh by 15 minutes. I got to experience a night in Philadelphia at American Airlines’ expense. I’ll be back home in time to work half a day if all goes well. Good trip home, though. Unfortunately my uncle isn’t doing all that well mentally. My sis and I decided that wherever he lands for his next step up in level of care will happen when this new wave of Covid passes, so trying out my best Jean Dixon, I see travel in my future.
the hill:
I many places the homeless can register to vote using some options. Like service centers and in California. You can use the intersection where they hangout
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/business/family-homes-wall-street/index.html
“Despite mortgage rates at historic lows, housing affordability is worsening. In the United States, the median home costs between 4.5 and 5 times median household income — pricier than in the run up to the 2008 housing crash…”
“Pension funds, investment firms and Wall Street banks are snapping up family homes in Europe and the United States at a rapid pace as prices rocket higher, looking for alternatives to lockdown-hit office parks and shopping malls, and betting that a permanent increase in remote working following the coronavirus pandemic will keep demand for suburban houses elevated.“
Vultures
BiD, In my experience home prices and loan interest rates (construction loans and mortgage loans) tend to have an inverse relationship. It’s not a perfect one, but the trends when I’ve been in the market were that housing prices in the ownership segment tended to be higher when interest rates were lower and vice versa due primarily to demand spurred by cheap money and depressed by expensive money. I admit that I don’t understand why the entities scooping up property are doing that. Word I heard last week is that the housing price bubble is already showing signs of bursting. If that’s true, this is a bad time to be buying investment real estate. but I’m guessing those folks know a bit more about this than I do and that they have pretty sophisticated analytic tools telling them to buy.
John Oliver did an expose last week on just how black families have been shut out of the housing market including being blocked from the GI benefits following WWII. Since real estate is the base for generational wealth this is a major component of systemic racism in society.
wonder if lindsey can blame those anti-masked house members who paraded down to the senate the other day.
He can still spread to the unvaccinated. It is the hypocrisy of the vaccinated GOP that offends me. How is it okay for their constituents and their children to die even though they have protected themselves.
3 days ago
foxnews:
as of 7/22/21
Nearly half of House Republicans won’t say publicly if they are vaccinated – CNNPolitics
In the Republican Senate conference, 46 of 50 senators confirmed to CNN that they are vaccinated. Only two refuse to say if they are not vaccinated: Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota.
The homeless can register is all 50 states
cnbc:
[from another tweet]
I feel like I have a sinus infection and at present time I have mild symptoms. I will be quarantining for ten days. I am very glad I was vaccinated because without vaccination I am certain I would not feel as well as I do now. My symptoms would be far worse.
That may be the most intelligent thing Lindsey has said in quite some time. Was listening to Dr. Kavita Patel (I believe that’s who it was – the audio was not very clear) while driving back to East Bumfuck this morning and she said that the data indicate that the Delta Variant is roughly twice as transmissible as the original strain of Covid, but that people (and she was referring to vaccinated folks but I believe she said it should be the same for all) who become infected have 1000 times as many transmissible particles in their nasal passages than folks who are infected by the original variant. Yoiks.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and Lindsey’s body will produce the “Graham variant”- it will hang around forever but not do much of anything and will amount to a minor annoyance 🥁
Graham’s COVID-19 ‘breakthrough’ case jolts Senate | TheHill
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