Category Archives: Politics

Standing With Dan Bongino

July 12, 2025

Update: Scrolling through the news since early this morning, the one thing I need to add to my post here is that FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly standing with Dan, as well. Sources say he will resign along with Bongino if Dan leaves his position. Other news items said that both Bondi and Patel would not leave their appointments regardless of any infighting between the AG and FBI leadership.

The only other thing of interest to me was the simple verification, according to another news article, was that the missing minute of Epstein’s jail cell footage at midnight had been edited by Adobe Premiere, a long standing software that has user friendly versions for home videos and professional versions for people in the entertainment industry or other businesses.

Reports say the White House said, in general, that there was nothing to this story and everything was fine between the FBI’s Director, Deputy Director and AG Pam Bondi.

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Deputy FBI Director spars with Attorney General Pam Bondi

July 11, 2025

Written by Juliana Simone

Washington, D.C. – Current Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Dan Bongino, took a pass on work today taking a personal day to assumably reconsider his position there as it stands today. Differences between him and U.S. AG Pam Bondi, after her public statement about how there was nothing to see in regards to the ongoing story about how Jeffrey Epstein died in jail, made Bongino walk out as the two disagreed in terms of the conclusion.

Bongino, who for his millions of followers as a top ten podcaster, before he took the job to be the DD under Kash Patel, has always been brazenly honest about his career from his days as a New York police officer and later as a Secret Service special agent on the Presidential detail where he protected three Presidents of the United States.

Moving forward to become one of the few people asked to replace famed radio host Rush Limbaugh’s coveted time slot after his death, Bongino’s fan base grew to daily viewer numbers at over 100,000 each day. Mixing humor with insider knowledge from his work as a policeman and SS agent, his appeal reached a large audience for both of these reasons.

One of the things he used to say before taking the assignment under FBI Director Kash Patel, was that everyone listening had a real job, whereas he just talked into a camera and reported daily news, insights, and personal stories. He told all of his followers, myself included, that when President Trump called him and asked him to serve under Patel, there was no way he could say no. His fan base agreed he should go back to Washington D.C., where he was needed. Bongino and his “chatsters” hoped he would find out some answers to many of the mysteries that were successfully buried by the swamp.

This brings us back to today’s news. Bongino would not leave a position he was called to do for his country unless there was a real breach. I stand with Dan Bongino. A man of his word who is a good husband, father, loyal employee and American. Best of all, he has FY money so he is not tied to any backroom deals.

As someone who has reported on politics for almost 20 years, researching Bondi and Patel for more details during their nominations, I was surprised to read they both had ties to Qatar. Is this relevant today? I don’t know. Let the experts figure this out. Victor Davis Hanson would be someone good to ask among others. As more news breaks, we’ll learn more and I’ll follow up on this story.

PASS PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

What is it with Republicans when they have the power?

Written by Juliana Simone

July 2, 2025

As someone with twenty years of working for the Republican Party as a paid staffer or a volunteer, in addition to being a long-term town RTC Chairman, state delegate, and someone who had a cable public access political interview half hour show for 14 years, I’m still amazed to witness how whenever Republicans have the Presidency, House and Senate majorities, they falter on anything that could be achieved. It’s a big fail.

Democrats, whenever given this opportunity, instantly ram everything through… regardless of public opinion. Most recently, under Biden, they used lawfare to try to arrest our sitting President under any means, all of which were bogus. Who cares to them? They tried with any false story, charge, or twist of the law they could for their end result. Take out Donald J. Trump. The man the majority of America loved and voiced their opinions of what our country should be and return to after both four years of Biden and 8 years of Obama. Hard to leave out the Clintons.

Republican holdouts. Vote for this bill. Move forward after this passes. The Democrats want this bill to fail. Are you with them?

The mainstream media, or whatever you want to call these networks today, keep pushing the false narratives about the contents of this bill. It is to their advantage in 2026. Example: The taxes have increased because of Trump and his Party. No, they will have increased because the Democrats didn’t vote for the big beautiful bill that would have extended tax cuts made by Donald J. Trump.

I know the Americans who voted for Trump want to see extra funds extended to finishing the border wall, deportation of first and foremost illegal aliens who are criminals and potential terrorists, election law integrity (i.e. real voter I.D. required in every state), no war, and the many things President Trump promised on his campaign: no taxes on tips/overtime, no taxes on seniors, raising the cap on SALT deductions, and raising the Child Tax Credit to $2,200 per child.

These are just some of the good things no one seems to want to focus on. Especially members of the Republican Party. Again, Democrats in this same situation would have passed everything immediately, extended the Supreme Court judges to their advantage, arrested more political enemies under unfounded charges and redrawn all districts in every state to make sure they never lost a seat again, statewide or nationally.

What are the Republicans who are not voting for this bill thinking? Our elected officials need to go long term. Not short term.

We the people.

Trump Mandate Supporters: Get out the vote in Florida And Wisconsin Tomorrow, 4/01/2025

3/31/2025

There are three very important elections tomorrow that Trump supporters must go out and vote for his endorsed candidates at their polling place. Democrats have spent tens of millions of dollars to try to flip the two Congressional special election races in Florida, as well as the Wisconsin Supreme Court race as to who will take the place of the retiring Judge and how it will affect the state of Wisconsin going forward.

In Florida:

Vote for Republican candidate Randy Fine (FL-6)

Jimmy Patronis (FL-1)

Of course, both of them are very qualified to serve in Congress.

In Wisconsin:

Vote for Republican candidate Brad Schimel to serve on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Long impressive resume.

Huge money has poured into the Wisconsin judgeship race, because if the democrat party can take this seat, they will retain their 4-3 majority and will move to redistrict the state map, which would likely take away two Republican held House of Representative seats.

president Donald J. Trump (45-47): Confirming his Cabinet

FBI Director nominee Kash Patel, HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Esq., DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard and Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, Esq.

January 29, 2025

Written by Juliana H. Simone

Congratulations to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, EPA Chief Lee Zeldin, former U.S. Representative from NY (R-1), DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, former Governor of South Dakota, and DOT Secretary, Sean Duffy, for going through the partisan and laborious process of getting confirmed despite the huge mandate the country gave President Trump last November. For the record the mandate includes winning all seven swing states, the U.S. Senate and House Majorities and the popular vote.

Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, former Florida U.S. Senator, is the only nominee to be confirmed unanimously and with ease.

Moving ahead, the slate includes candidates who outweigh and outperform any democrat from the previous Biden administration, as well as any democrat on any bench for any position to represent our country, now and in a very long time. Who are they? If you don’t know, and most of my viewers do, or if anyone needs further details, click on these links to read their biographies:

FBI Director Nominee Kash Patel: https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/2418491/kashyap-p-patel

Mr. Kash Patel, Chief of Staff Secretary of Defense, poses for his official portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 17, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Keisha Brown)

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr: https://www.mahanow.org/about

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/directory/tulsi-gabbard

U.S. Attorney General: https://americafirstpolicy.com/team/pambondi

The confirmation hearings of all of these fine candidates have shown the Democrat Party’s true colors with their ridiculous questions, embarrassing outbursts, hostile interrogations, rude interruptions and grossly partisan displays towards all of President Trump’s candidates to head agencies in his cabinet. Clearly, what they like the least about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard is they were former democrat members who now see their own vision for a better America align with those of Republican President Donald J. Trump and are choosing to work with him instead of their former party.

Republicans should take note and in the future, not to be so fast to act professionally and fairly by doing their job to quickly vote in Democrat Presidents administration picks, regardless of lack of experience, poor records from previous positions or being unfit to hold these important titles and offices that work for and represent the American people. Democrats should remember all of these nominees and their goals after being confirmed are what the American people voted for by large in November of 2024, instead of trying to shove their failed and lost agendas down their throats by verbally attacking these stellar candidates.

Vote Pete Hegseth in Tonight

Update: Congratulations to Secretary Hegseth as our new Defense Secretary under President Donald J. Trump (45/47), and to our fine Vice President J.D. Vance for making his first tie-breaking vote in the United States Senate to confirm Pete Hegseth into this cabinet position.

January 24, 2025

Written by Juliana Simone

Anyone who follows real news, and not fake news, knows that Pete Hegseth deserves to be confirmed this evening as President Donald J. Trump’s choice to be his Defense Secretary.

An impeccable resume as both a Harvard and Princeton University Ivy League graduate, U.S. Army Captain veteran with two bronze stars, financial analyst and television political commentator exceeds by far any nominee brought forward by the Democrat Party in some time.

This noted, the leftist media who has branded themselves now as the “legacy media,” has worked long and hard with their usual falsehoods to smear and disrepute this man with their usual narratives of anything negative that are usually from the lowest tier in terms of defamation.

Hegseth has acknowledged in his personal life he has erred like the majority of people throughout time, but he has lived a happy and successful career and role as a father and husband for years now.

The vote should absolutely confirm Pete Hegseth. There are few people who could have the resume he does to present for confirmation tonight and for those who do have the same experience, you understand. For those who don’t, you should have respect for this exceptional nominee and vote yes for Pete Hegseth.

All supporters of President Trump and his cabinet choices expect former Senate Majority and Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell to vote YES on this confirmation. Alaska really needs to work on finding a new Republican U.S. Senator to serve their state as this liberal representative does not uphold their voters policies or values in Washington.

UPDATED: God Bless Donald J. Trump

Former President and 2024 President Candidate Shot at PA Rally

July 14, 2024

The name of the victim in the seats behind Former President and 2024 Republican President Nominee, Donald J. Trump, has been released. Corey Comperatore, 50, was fatally shot during the assassination attempt of Trump at yesterday’s rally. He was a fire chief and died protecting his family by throwing himself in front of his wife and daughters. He regularly attended church services every Sunday, was well-liked in his community and was a proud supporter of Trump.

(Photo: Dawn Comperatore Schafer/Facebook)

Two other attendees were also shot and critically wounded.

There is a donation gofundme page for Butler, PA victims that has raised over twice as much as the intial million dollar goal. If you’d like to donate, please look it up under “Support For Butler PA Victims – President Trump Authorized.”

The shooter has also been identified. Twenty-year-old, Thomas Matthew Crooks, drove an hour from his home in PA to climb the roof and plan on assassinating the former President and 2024 Republican nominee. Mainstream media points out he was a registered Republican, but as someone who worked in my own state capitol, I knew several Democrats who chose to register as Republicans so they could vote in our primaries, they told me. Donation records also show Crooks gave to liberal causes.

The BBC also has reported since yesterday, as can be seen on video, a rally attendee told them he saw Crooks on the roof as did several others. They tried to point to the roof and wave to the secret service agents on hand to look up at the man with the rifle, but they received no response.

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July 13, 2024

In a failed assassination attempt at today’s rally in Butler, PA, former President Donald J. Trump escaped the shooter’s goal and was helped off the stage after receiving a gunshot wound in his ear. Reports coming in at 7PM EST are that he is well. Pray for our fine former President who is essentially running for his third term as the 2024 Republican nominee.

This is how desperate the left is in Washington. With their addled incumbent, unpopular Vice President and a very weak bench, why not give it a shot? Pun intended (even though it’s dark humor). These are sick, desperate and anti- American people who apparently had nowhere else to go. President Biden himself said this on a phone call: “We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye,” a recording of which was obtained by CNN.

As many have pointed out, President Donald J. Trump has been harassed, falsely accused, slandered, impeached for next to nothing, twice, raided by the FBI, and been found guilty by a New York jury despite there being no crime, with a hostile Pro-Biden judge presiding who conducted a trial to preside that legal commentators regardless of political party, had never seen the likes of before in re its irregularities, unfairness, instructions to jurors before their verdict and leaks.

Even with an unexpected wound, Trump showed how strong a man he is by putting his fist up to the crowd while security put him in an SUV, and yelling, “Fight!” Thankfully, no supporters were shot sitting behind him.*

The media has reported that sitting President Joe Biden has been informed. I guess the news was, “Sorry, Joe. We missed.” Kidding. Sort of…who really knows? This has been done before.

With more information coming forth over two hours later, in my opinion, why did the shooter miss? Was he a bad shot? Or, did he miss for a different reason, i.e. to instigate an uprise from the devoted Trump supporters?

{Header Photo from The Hill}

*Writing this as news is breaking, I am sorry to relate a now confirmed report that a man sitting behind the former President, was shot and killed. The shooter has also been killed.

Reports keep updating, naturally. New details say that two people were injured from the shots. *Trump’s injury was from teleprompter shrapnel.

Biden will be making a televised appearance to address this news tonight.

The shooter has now been identified as a Chinese Nationalist. As reported by the New York Post:

The gunman believed to have been behind the attempted assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Saturday was shot and killed by Secret Service, sources told The Post.

The shooter, identified as a Chinese man, was in a sniper position located hundreds of yards away from Trump’s podium in Butler, Pa. as he spoke to a campaign crowd, sources said.

* Former President Donald J. Trump has now released a statement saying it was a bullet that grazed his ear.

Update: 12:27 EST – The information has now changed from the shooter being a Chinese Nationalist to a white male. Details to follow.

Summary of CT GOP US Senate Race 2022

Written by Juliana Simone

August 17, 2022

The conclusion of this race is that former President Donald J. Trump’s endorsement of Leora Levy a short time before Primary Day is what gave her the life she needed to win this three candidate battle. Interesting to note some insiders have divulged Trump became involved after hearing former supporter turned adversary, former New Jersey Governor Christie, endorsed convention winner Klarides at a Connecticut event earlier.

Trump continues to rule the Republican Party and in this instance, it put Levy over the State GOP party favorite and the grassroots/base favorite. Peter Lumaj, and his campaign staff are proud of their hard work, appearances with the RTC’s, statewide media and pro-America message. Look for Lumaj on the Fox News Network as a contributor where he has appeared for six years among other news outlets.

Update: CT U.S. Senate Primary Peter Lumaj is the Best Candidate

Written by Juliana Simone

August 9, 2022

{The featured image here shows Peter Lumaj as the 2014 State Party Secretary of the State Nominee receiving almost 500, 000 votes statewide, including inner city and cross over votes.}

In late 2021, Peter Lumaj cleared the field of all potential candidates speaking with any fellow Republicans he thought might also be considering a run against Senator Richard Blumenthal in 2022. Two of the people he asked were Themis Klarides, the former State House Minority Leader for two terms of her eleven terms, and CT Republican National Committee member Leora Levy, who replaced long-serving and well-respected Pat Longo. Both women declined, telling Lumaj that Blumenthal could not be beaten and wishing him luck.

Klarides had an exploratory campaign to run for Governor, and said that was the office she was seeking. The other said she was thinking of running against Connecticut’s second Senator Chris Murphy in two years. Veteran and small business owner, Matthew Corey, an exceptional candidate who took on both Congressman John Larson and Senator Murphy in previous years, said he tried very hard for some time and was not interested in a run in 2022. Others also passed, happy to hear Lumaj was going to run against Blumenthal. He filed his papers with the FEC in late November of 2021.

Waiting two months to publicly announce his candidacy for U.S. Senate to challenge Richard Blumenthal, Peter Lumaj appeared on the Capitol steps in mid-January to hold his press conference.

Lumaj brought attention to state and national news by pointing out that Blumenthal had just attended the CT Communist Party Awards Dinner in New Haven and gave the group high praise. Not a view popular with voters, this gave a new vulnerability to Blumenthal. He had not had a chip in his thin veneer since press exposed in his first run for the U.S. Senate against retired Colonel and U.S. Congressman Rob Simmons that Blumenthal had lied about serving overseas in Vietnam.

Klarides hearing from Republican Town Committees and their state convention delegates that they were sticking with Bob Stefanowski to challenge democrat Governor Ned Lamont a second time, saw her hopes to be Governor dashed. She had to close her exploratory committee and call it a day.

Former State Senate Minority Leader, John McKinney, saved Klarides’ political career and the jobs of her expensive campaign staffers, by giving her a dog whistle on a local Sunday morning political news show suggesting she switch from the Governors’ race to the U.S. Senate race. McKinney said Lumaj was a nice guy, and a fellow Fairfield RTC member like himself, but Themis had the moderate values Connecticut residents’ shared unlike the announced conservative Lumaj. Klarides jumped the sinking ship for Head of State and announced days before the end of January she was switching to the U.S. Senate race.

Leora Levy, sniffing opportunity with the incoming red wave, threw her hat into the ring days later.  Her opening argument to CT Republicans as the last entry in the race was that she was the only one of the three candidates who knew anyone in Washington.

Repackaging herself weeks later she then claimed and continues to claim to be the outsider in this race. She loses this statement right out of the box for three reasons:

One, she is a member of the Republican National Committee. Right there, this makes Levy an insider. Outsiders are not RNC members, or on a smaller level, not State Central Committee members for the state party. (Two people elected to represent each senate district within their state.) She has been a RNC member since 2017, so is not someone new who thinks she might have made a mistake joining this organization. Additionally, she sat on the RNC finance committee which brought her further into the circle, and more connected to D.C. insiders.

Two, Levy was a Jeb Bush supporter in 2016 and throughout his career. Supporting Jeb Bush for President 2016 out of that long bench of candidates that year, she, like any of his supporters, didn’t like the way Trump spoke to Bush on stage and disliked the “low energy” moniker Trump attached to Jeb. The Bush family as a whole including the two former Presidents, (41 and 43) and their wives, were very public with their negative comments about Trump, and were firmly implanted in the “Never Trumper” clan. Their bitterness and scorn was so deep, even before Election Day they all vowed to vote for Democrat challenger but fellow swamper, Hillary Clinton.

Three, Levy has served as a rainmaker for national GOP candidates through her RNC post, giving her insider status and VIP access in D.C. Looking up her political contributions, Levy’s thousand dollar donation to former liberal Democrat Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, public records show, she wrote the personal check alone.

It was interesting to see many of her donations were to real insiders in the Republican party such as Senate Majority or Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former House Minority Leader Paul Ryan.

Levy and her advisors continue to parallel her campaign with U.S. Senate candidate and refugee Peter Lumaj. Borrowing his whole story, she was advertised as being from a communist country, and her public narrative was that her parents had to ‘escape’, too. She became ProLife, a firm supporter of the Second Amendment, was the biggest advocate for President Trump, touted as the only true conservative, and without any factual basis, was said to be the only one who could beat Blumenthal.

In the only debate between the three candidates, Levy’s chryon generated screen description had a bullet point that highlighted she had escaped Communist Cuba.

At three years old, she was taken into her parents arms and landed in America with a granted visa.

Different from actually climbing mountains, crawling under barbwire and evading search lights hoping not to be shot like Lumaj, who truly escaped a brutal Communist country.

Klarides got into the mix excelling her own family background story during various public appearances, beginning with the story that her grandparents left Greece for opportunity in America, but then changed the story that her grandparents had escaped communist Greece and then finally stating that they fled the Greek genocide. This Connecticut U.S. Senate race became a war of the refugees.

The winner in this contest (though he’d much rather not be) is Peter Lumaj. His father was tortured to death in a concentration camp in Albania for allowing his sons to escape to freedom.

And for Levy? She said in her first address to town committees and many speeches to follow, that at the age of 3, she had to leave a shiny red new tricycle behind when her parents left Cuba. This is when Levy learned communism was bad.

Themis, also chiming in with her own version of a miserable childhood story, said she wanted to work as a lifeguard in the summer but had to scoop ice cream in her family grocery store instead. Her current TV ads show a black and white photo of a store front that were the family’s beginnings. They went on to own the whole shopping plaza which allowed them to move into the real estate business. Both Klarides and Levy grew up in privileged homes. Levy went to Ivy League college to become a highly paid broker, and Klarides went to Law School before seeking out the bonus of being an elected official.

This is back story information but it’s relevant for people outside of CT just learning of our U.S. Senate race in CT due to the Trump endorsement for Levy last Friday. This information is also relevant to our own voters who don’t know these details.  

Levy has shown herself on the campaign trail as unprofessional innumerable times.

Having direct interaction with her for the first time after she failed to show up on time for the Danbury RTC monthly meeting, she blamed her staff when speaking to the Chair, and said she would find out who made this mistake. Disinterested, when she asked him if she could speak to anyone still here, he said sure, whoever’s left. This was me, my partner and the Mayor of Danbury. Wearing my Lumaj jacket she waved me off and said oh, you’re with Peter, can I talk to both of you? So self involved, she failed to notice the huge insignia on the Mayors windbreaker, that said “Mayor of Danbury.” She rattled on for ten minutes about her amazing achievements, finishing saying “and this is why I am the only candidate that can beat Blumenthal.”

Despite the fact I have a long resume in terms of titles, as staff, I politely said at this point, we feel the same way about Peter. At this, she quickly stepped closer to me, and pointed her finger in my face, and yelled at me. “Yah? Well, He’s going to lose! HE’S GOING TO LOSE!” She then asked for all of our names, as if she was writing them down to report us to someone. Hearing Dean Esposito say he was the Mayor, her cross nature changed, and she offered him her business card so that they could speak privately.

As a Chairman of an RTC since 2010, public access cable show host for fourteen years that has interviewed Former U.S Congressmen Chris Shays and Rob Simmons, as well as Peter Schiff, sitting state legislators, federal and local candidates, I have never seen such an unprofessional response.

Another Chairman who wrestled with voting for her or Lumaj, that chose Peter pr-convention and still supports his candidacy, described her as “easily triggered.” Perfect analysis after his own moment in July when he asked a simple question to her at a public event of a group he was a member of and officer at the time.

Levy’s only prior run for office she lost, when in 2021 she hoped to be the Republican State Senate nominee in a special election which included her own hometown of Greenwich. Her Senate District delegation voted twenty to nine for her opponent, Ryan Fazio. Fazio went on to beat the democrat challenger and holds the seat in the Connecticut State Senate today for the Republican Party. Good choice. Likability is a key factor in electability.

Read here an opinion recently published from Hearst Media journalist on Leora Levy:

https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/Dan-Haar-Leora-Levy-a-political-insider-in-17315734.php

The local media writes so many negative portraits of Lumaj. Surfing the web, it is astounding how they describe this hard working, self made, and deeply admired man. If he was not a Republican, worse, a conservative, they would laud his candidacy and promote him twenty four seven. One newspaper article said he lost as a “candidate” for the Secretary of the State office in twenty fourteen, leaving out he was the State Party endorsed candidate. Winning much of the election night until the big cities came in, Lumaj outperformed the top of the ticket in Waterbury, proving his inner city voter appeal, and receiving almost a half million votes in this statewide race.

But, some people either fear or envy great people like Lumaj, so they do their best to keep them down. Even today, updating this post, a local radio host blocked Lumaj from his agreed upon call in time for a Levy supporter instead, who used the time the program knew Lumaj voters were tuning in to make derogatory comments about Levy’s opponents.

Levy, got a much needed boost by former President Trump’s phone-in endorsement at a RTC a few days ago. This brought some much needed new life to a withering campaign. Trump must not have been aware of the searing Letter to the Editor Levy wrote in the Greenwich Times in 2016 which described him as vulgar among other negative notations. Or he forgot. Or no longer cared listening to the people who advised him to endorse her. Fellow Chairmen and Republicans wonder how much that helps a candidate here in Connecticut, however. Especially one that was shouting at fellow candidate Lumaj during the last two minutes of his speech at an event demanding he drop out of the race a week earlier.

Regardless of all that is mentioned here, Peter Lumaj has a true grassroots campaign and the love of his supporters is something his opponents or detractors cannot take away. August 9th will be an interesting day. Does Connecticut stay the same and vote, as Lumaj has said in numerous speeches, for the party favorite and let Hartford or Washington decide who our state’s candidate should be? Or is the ground swell growing enough here in what was the Constitution State to vote in the man who is, and has always been, the true Constitutionalist? They broke the mold when Peter Lumaj was created. Americans who love liberty and freedom should wish him the best today. Connecticut Primary Voters – be honored to have a candidate like this on your ballot. Cast your vote for Peter Lumaj.

Peter Lumaj, U.S. Senate Candidate R-CT

For more about U.S. Senate Candidate Peter Lumaj:

Editor’s Note: The writer of this article is an advisor on the Lumaj for U.S. Senate campaign and the Chairman of the Barkhamsted Republican Town Committee.

CA Recalls: Why Davis and Not Newsom

September 22, 2021

Written by Juliana Simone

The reason why Gray Davis lost his seat as Governor in 2003 when voters said yes to his recall, and why Gavin Newsom kept his seat as Governor in 2021 comes down to three things. They’re really quite basic.

First and foremost is the mere factor of time. Almost two decades have passed and in CA, where the liberal legislative majority rules the once Golden State, spoon fed voters young and old have by majority bought into their rhetoric in terms of what is good and what is bad for our country and California. Little to none is true, but nevertheless, the daily messaging has taken hold. The people who live there are ripe for this pablum, having lived there myself for over a decade, and their majority vote should not be surprising to Americans. Unlike many commentators’ thoughts I read after the results, as much as I understood their negative remarks against Californians, such as, “you’ll get what you ask for,” I don’t agree as I feel for the many people there who don’t want these people in office and want to see their state turn around for the better. Geographical red/blue maps post elections show much of CA is conservative or Republican but they can’t win over the massive numbers of the liberal southern and northern hubs.

Secondly, syndicated conservative radio host, Larry Elder, the favorable opponent to Newsom in the September 14th recall vote, is an admirable and accomplished Black man, but not in the right Party as a Republican. Ask the brilliant Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, or his predecessor Thurgood Marshall; Accomplished former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Gifted Neurosurgeon Ben Carson; U.S Senator Tim Scott (R-SC). The list is long, actually. All of these amazing people would be lauded 24/7 by the mainstream media and the left, if they only had a D by their name and ran as democrats.

Third and last, Newsom is part of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s cartel, and she made clear in a public appearance that she supported her nephew-through-marriage the evening before the recall vote. This is no small thing in California as politics go. With no lauds available for Newsom on September 13th, the last day for pro get out the vote speeches for the unpopular Governor, as he has created such a large exodus from the state they lost a Congressional seat in re a reduction of population, all the liberals from President Biden to Vice President Harris who flew out there to save him could say about why the people of California should vote for him, was…wait for it…he’s not Trump! Ah, the go-to mantra for the left when another unimpressive failing candidate who has no merits or record to stand on needs something – anything – for why they should be elected. In California, the anti-Trump rhetoric works well enough to get even the most shameful people into office. Fortunately for the rest of America, that’s not the case almost anywhere else, as we all know.

What I admire about Larry Elder, aside from his coming out of South Central Los Angeles to graduate from Brown University and the University of Michigan to then practice law for ten years before his becoming a radio talk show host, is his concession speech. He closed saying , “We may have lost the battle, but we sure as hell are going to win the war.” That is the spirit, gumption and tenacity needed.

Concession speech:

Larry Elder Speech Transcript After California Recall Election

{Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG}

Californians: Vote For Larry Elder For Governor

Elect Larry Elder for Governor of California Campaign Sign

September 13, 2021

Written by Juliana Simone

Like many Americans are thinking tonight, the hope is that Californians recognize what a dire state they are living in under sitting democrat Gavin Newsom and will vote for Larry Elder tomorrow on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. The vote should be unanimously in favor of Elder who would have a strong chance of finally turning the largest state in America in a positive direction and bringing it back to its once golden status. California was a state people dreamed of going to and traveled far to get there to put down stakes and make a successful life for themselves and their future generations.

Under democrat leadership, it’s whittled away to near ruin and drove away many of those born and raised residents to new homes in other states. California is the only place with such a high declining population as people flee from the many and exorbitant taxes, weak illegal immigration policies, skyrocketing crime and homeless rates and an overbearing big government for greener pastures anywhere else regardless of direction. So much so they lost a congressional seat this year.

Newsom personifies all that is negative about California with his reckless spending, liberal legislation, and clueless personal mindset that makes him blind to how the people he represents as Governor live under his rule while he lives above it all flitting from one fun event to another in privileged seclusion from the sad reality all around him. Like most left leaning politicians, his private security detail keeps him away from the violence others have to deal with every day in California, so reducing the police forces that keep his people safe and restricting gun ownership for citizens self-protection seem like fine ideas. His list of failures as the head of this once fine state is long, and it’s why over two million people signed the petition to recall him from office.

The vote is tomorrow for those who still vote the real way, in person. Let’s hope there are a lot of voters who still plan on filling out their ballots in their local polling places, since mail in ballots clearly lose their way or end up counted or uncounted in mysterious ways. There is a news story that’s been out for a few weeks that the vote by mail ballots have been printed in such a way that there is a keyhole type punch on the back of the envelopes that will show if the voter voted for Newsom or not. Unbelievable but if this is still the fact, why was it allowed? Republicans are also reporting they’ve been told that they’ve already voted, when they in fact have not, so the fix is already in as far as democrats and Newsom are concerned.

What they perhaps don’t understand is how many people don’t want Newsom as their Governor anymore and don’t like the liberal policies being shoved down their throats statewide and federally. Perhaps there will be enough fed up Californians regardless of party affiliation or background, to overcome any potential fraud and send the man ruining their state packing. Gavin will be fine. More time to dine at The French Laundry and no one will care he’s not wearing a mask despite his mandate.

Perhaps they’ll elect Larry Elder who, as the mainstream media keeps failing to mention as he’s in the wrong party as a Republican, would be the first Black American to be the Governor of California. A long serving career conservative talk radio host, his fiscal policies would right the state economically. His values would reduce the growing crime wave and make streets and homes safe again. His life travels from growing up in a tough neighborhood in southern Los Angeles to become a successful businessman would focus on education opportunities for those who now find learning impossible. His turning the state around in a positive direction might even bring back some of the native Californians who felt they had no choice but to leave taking their families, businesses and needed taxes with them.

Larry Elder, who’s had to deal with physical threats and harassment while campaigning without a peep of outrage from the typically vocal media, has shown his strengths throughout this unfair negative barrage. How he’s dealt with all of this, except for the conservative outlets that exist for the millions of people who fight for patriotism and love of Country, shows the volume of personal convictions and inner self guidance he possesses. These qualities are what make someone a great leader. 

Living there twelve and a half years over three decades, many people I knew signed the petition for Gray Davis to be recalled at the time including myself. California is special in that it even gives voters this option. Not all states do. Twenty do altogether with different provisions. I wish I could cast my vote for Larry Elder tomorrow. Even though I haven’t lived there in well over a decade, perhaps I already did unbeknownst to me.

Vote For PReSIDENT TRUMP – tHE Whys are long

Written by Juliana Simone

November 2, 2020

For viewers watching CNN, which is the only American news channel shown throughout Europe and many other parts of the globe, or those watching any network affiliate on their local stations every night, people viewing these broadcasts would only perceive President Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, as a man who has no good qualities, and as a man who did nothing productive throughout his entire first term except perform some illegal activities. Even children are subjected to this messaging, whether through certain teachers at their schools or literature handed out to them which makes them believe our President is a bad person they should not respect in any way or vote for if nearing voting age. It’s a sad misuse of commentary whether public through media leverage and distribution, or private through unobserved classrooms throughout the education system K-12 and beyond.

The exact opposite is true from what these people with their anti-Trump agenda proclaim.

Donald J. Trump is one of the finest Presidents of the United States ever elected – and some scholars argue, perhaps the best. This analysis is based on how much he has achieved in almost four years; how many promises he has kept when seeking office as a candidate; how hard he pushed forward with continual attacks and false narratives against him on a daily basis from the press, the opposing Democrat party and the never-Trumpers. He was even impeached on totally bogus grounds bought and paid for by his former opponent in 2016, who was (and is) guilty of much more.

The huge appearances of United States citizens appearing at his nationwide rallies demonstrate how educated American voters are on all of these facts and so much more, as the tentacles run deep. Shouts of “We love you” are a new rally chant to let President Trump know how firmly our country stands behind him. His opponent on his best day had three hundred cars show up in a parking lot to beep their horns when he made an attempt at simulating a Trump event. Interestingly, attendees and objective reporters noted the horns only beeped when his opponent made an anti-Trump comment – not when he talked about proposed policy.

The vote for the left ticket, is only about the people who writers have deemed those with “Trump derangement syndrome” in that their unexplainable hatred for the sitting President exceeds any logic or acknowledgement of his accomplishments. Going into the final hours before Election Day, November 3rd, 2020, the left Democrat mantra has little to run on so they’ve chosen two talking points: Trump is responsible for the Coronavirus and Trump is a racist.

Sad. Neither is true, of course. COVID-19 came out of Wuhan, China and Trump immediately took the right steps to keep the virus from spreading worse here in America. His opponent at the time of Trump’s decision called him a xenophobe for this act. Trump being called a racist is really baseless with the left organized mainstream media reiterating to death, the tired claim that the President never said he was against white supremacy groups, and that he called felons from Mexico bringing their crime into the United States the reason we needed to build a wall.

The President made the right actions. Stop air travel from China and later parts of Europe to keep the Coronavirus from coming into our country, and stop gang members and criminals from Mexico coming into our country who would not abide by our laws and wreak their havoc here. Good decisions.

The list is long as to why President Donald J. Trump should be reelected for four years.

I’ll list a few most readers here would know: Supreme Court Justices appointed; lowest unemployment rate among all groups before the virus hit – and is now resounding back; tax cuts that made families, small businesses and corporations thrive resulting in a booming economy including eliminating obsolete burdensome regulations; taking business out of China and returning it to America; rebuilding our military that when he assumed Office was a dismal shell; returning health insurance from mandated Obamacare to consumer choice and lowering prescription drug cost; recognizing Israel’s Capitol Jerusalem and his Middle East Peace Treaty; making clean fossil fuel affordable to all Americans with record low prices; dissolving the ISIS Caliphate; renewing the Nation’s commitment to space exploration while also adding the Space Force, a new branch of the military directly assigned for defense; negotiating trade deals that created thousands of jobs in the U.S. and increased exports, the exceptional Republican National Convention that showed winning speakers with no stereotypical view of who understands Republicans and who votes for them, and the amazing First Lady given zero credit by females on the left, among many other things.

The list is long! Look it up on an unscrubbed search engine, uncensored social media network or objective website if you need more reasons to vote in our patriotic 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.

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(Trump Rally photo: Wall Street Journal)