one warehouse in Surprise, Arizona, previously valued at just under $12 million, ICE paid over $70 million.
another in Social Circle, Georgia, valued at about $30 million, the agency paid nearly $130 million
Another in Salt Lake City, valued at just $97 million, was purchased by ICE for $145 million
etc, etc,
“The plan came from folks very close to the White House who were sitting on properties that were causing them losses every year. And the decision was made to buy them at taxpayer expense.”

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Hong has earned her place in the top tier. But what’s her ceiling? The real question to me is who out of the rest joins the top tier. It feels like it would be Rodriguez, if she isn’t there already.

If any of these candidates are showing good polls, they should be releasing them. Because a lot of Dem voters just want to know who CAN win the primary, and which of that group has the best chance of winning in November, and winning big enough to bring a Dem trifecta to get real change done in January.

Tax breaks for the rich are more important to RoJo than even a basic universal healthcare system. So the above statement is pure reTrumplican BS, because our government most definitely is standing in the way of people fighting for their lives.
I can’t comprehend the workings of the minds of people in our government, who we have elected to represent and serve us as their constituents, being this clueless, oblivious, ignorant, and willfully blind to the realities of the average American.

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And yet even this modest effort is not part of any plan by

What this will mean for tourism dollars here and for other cities like Madison is innumerable. It is long past time to right the wrong decision made by Scotty Walker over a decade ago regarding Wisconsin passenger rail. We’ve proven that it works here.

Now we have to light a fire under state transportation officials to get the downtown Milwaukee Muskego Yards freight bypass project expedited to free up more passenger rail service to & through the MKE Intermodal Station and to halt the transport of hazardous cargo right through the heart of downtown. That will actually make things better for freight service as well!

@Waterboy – There is indeed significance, under FRA regulations, to those break points. There are signaling requirements that kick in at 60mph and 80mph. The 80mph is the most expensive to reach because of infrastructure requirements, including for freight trains operating in the corridor.

The Republican dominated state legislature has shortchanged the city of ‘Shared Revenue’ due. Therein lies Milwaukee’s financial problems. This goes back to at least 2010 when Scott Walker was governor.

State Assembly Representative, Ryan Clancy, stands robust in the most gerrymandered Assembly in the country. I identify with him as a Social Democrat, aka, Progressive.

Fielding a Primary against an Incumbent highlights the divisions within the Democratic Party. It’s outgrown it’s tired, old centrist position. The DNC needs to field left-leaning candidates.

This is essential to selecting Presidential candidates. We’re still experiencing the employment crisis under former president Clinton.
He was a ‘corporate’ Dem, aka, ‘big dog’ Dem. He sold us out! NAFTA was bad. Granting China favored nation trade status remains an atrocity. Solid manufacturing jobs with Union protections went overseas devastating working families and wiping out half of the middle class. Black Americans were hit the hardest.
It’s not enough to say vote blue; that’s a default position. We need a tenacious candidate.

If Clancy “has a passion and a heart for noble causes”, as Ms. Maniaci states, perhaps that is a trait we should hope for in all of our candidates. Pragmatism certainly has its’ place, but, that approach has also come at the expense of constituencies.

As for Socialism vs Capitalism? When I consider their impact on society’s well- being, l’ve always leaned toward the former. Democratic Socialism offers a trickle down that may actually work.

(2) So much of the rhetoric around the Palestinian crisis lacks any awareness of the historical context. Does Clancy realize that there have been 2 major negotiations for equitable resolutions to the Palestinian the issues? In both cases, It was the Palestinian leadership and surrounding Arab nations that vetoed the resolutions.
At the beginning of this current conflict (which began with the abduction of 14 Israelis) an attempt to resolve the current conflict was presented to both sides. Hamas, as in the past, rejected the resolution, stating it would not rest until Israel was driven into the Mediterranean Sea. So too, The World Court indicted both Netanyahu AND the Hamas leaders. Both sides are equally responsible for the devastation. The conditions in Gaza are as much a result of the overwhelming Israeli response to the abduction, as is the Arab world use of the Palestinians as pawns in their goal of controlling the entire eastern Mediterranean.
Since 1948, the two most hated peoples in the Mideast are the Israelis AND the Palestinians.

Energy expended by local leaders like Clancy on the Palestinian crisis, is energy not spent on resolving the crises facing Wisconsin working and farming families.

To claim that farmers are only being hurt because he had to “put out a fire, we had to extinguish a nuclear weapon” is laughable. None of his supporters mention his idiotic tariff policies that have only been magnified by his war of choice with Iran. I’m certain there some within the meager few that attended this smoke and mirrors show believed this line of BS…

“Your fertilizer prices are going to go way down, just like they were four months ago,” Trump said. “Your fertilizer is down, your energy’s down, your oil, your gas is all coming way down. And frankly, I thought it would go much higher than it did.”

If you believe that, Frump has already sold you the biggest pile of fertilizer you will ever need.