California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law which is aimed at forcing President Trump to reveal his tax returns. The bill requires every candidate to release five years of past tax returns in order to compete in the state’s primaries. From KPIX 5:
While the law is aimed at Trump, it would apply to all presidential contenders and candidates for governor…
Candidates will be required to submit tax returns for the most recent five years to California’s Secretary of State at least 98 days before the primary. They will then be posed online for the public to view, with certain personal information redacted.
However, it’s not clear if that would impact Trump, who is running unopposed within his party for reelection. If he simply ignored the California primary he would still secure the GOP nomination. However, the Sacramento Bee reports the new law could impact some Democrats, including their leading candidate:
Of the 12 highest-polling candidates, four would not currently qualify for a spot on California’s ballot, including former Vice President Joe Biden – who has only released three years of tax returns…
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and venture capitalist Andrew Yang have not yet disclosed their tax information.
But all of this is assuming the new bill isn’t brought down by the courts, which is what Trump’s team expects will happen:
The issue of disclosing tax returns to get on California’s 2020 primary ballot could prove moot if Trump prevails in an all-but-certain legal challenge.
Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, previously told The Bee that “the Constitution is clear on the qualifications for someone to serve as president and states cannot add additional requirements on their own.”
Even Gov. Moonbeam thought this was a stretch and vetoed it. Here’s a bit of what Jerry Brown said in 2017:
“Today we require tax returns, but what would be next?” he wrote in his veto message. “Five years of health records? A certified birth certificate? High school report cards? And will these requirements vary depending on which political party is in power?”
This is another feel-good moment for the resistance but it’s not likely to withstand a court challenge and, even if it does, Trump could probably sidestep it if he wanted to do so.
Brief bursts of heat steal the headlines, but it’s the persistent cold that’s the real story of 2019 so far, and not just in South America either — North America just averaged it’s coldest Oct-May in recorded history, while practically ALL of Europe was anomalously cold during the first 3 weeks of July before this two day plume was tossed-up from Africa (wavy jet stream flow, see links below for more).
The time to prepare is now.
Grand Solar Minimum + Pole Shift
Cold Peru: “We are going through one of the most Intense Winters in 50 years” July 26, 2019 Cap Allon
Lima, the capital of Peru, is going through one of its coldest winters in almost 50 years, according to the National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology, with this year even surpassing the truly brutal 2018 season.
“Lima is currently recording minimum temperatures around 14.7C,” said climatology expert Lourdes Menis Álvarez of Senamhi. “As for maximum temperatures, we are around 17.5C.”
Comparing these temperatures to the 2018 season, which itself was one of the coldest winters on record, Álvarez found that this year has been significantly cooler to date, with temps ranging on average between 1C to 1.5C colder.
According to Álvarez, these types of cold winters were once common-place in Lima. Of late, however, strong El Niños have brought “long summers and warm winters” to the region.
Though the tide is clearly now turning. Álvarez: “The winter of 2018 was one of the coldest in almost 50 years. However, the winter of 2019 has already surpassed it in intensity.”
The cold times are returning, in line with historically low solar activity:
The Democrats would have us believe Trump should be impeached because he allegedly told his Counsel to fire someone who was never fired in order to obstruct investigation of a crime that didn't take place
A Question -- Will this stupidity by New York state take Pennsylvania down with it because of the PJM (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, etc.) Grid interlinkages? PJM Interconnection coordinates the movement of electricity through all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
July 18, 2019 02:16 PM Cuomo's war on the power grid
Since the five-hour blackout that hit Manhattan on Saturday night, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly attacked Con Ed, the utility that provides electricity and gas to customers in the New York area. He has threatened to strip the utility of its operating license and said the city was playing “Russian roulette” with electricity reliability.
That’s pretty rich. Over the past few years, Cuomo has repeatedly made political decisions that have reduced the reliability of New York’s energy infrastructure. Cuomo telling Con Ed that it needs to improve its reliability is like an arsonist telling the fire department to buy more pumper trucks.
Better stock up on candles: In just three years, New York may face a wave of blackouts following the closure of the Indian Point nuclear-power plant.
That’s the bottom line of a new report by the Manhattan Institute’s Robert Bryce: The early shutdown of the reactors in 2020 and 2021 “threatens the reliability of New York City’s electric grid.” And the risk is even greater because Team Cuomo is nixing pipelines needed to bring natural gas to plants that could replace IP’s juice.
He urges New York policymakers to “begin a serious analysis of the implications” of taking IP offline. Now.
Wise advice. Bryce’s report echoes numerous warnings — from the New York State Independent System Operator (which oversees the state’s grid), a team of General Electric experts, the New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance and others — about the folly of pulling IP’s plug.
Alas, Gov. Cuomo has ignored them all and instead fed baseless fears of the plant’s “dangers.” He calls Indian Point “a ticking time bomb” that puts Gotham at risk because it’s located just 30 miles north in Westchester, even though experts have repeatedly deemed it 100 percent safe.
In a bid to close the plant, Cuomo and officials like state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman harassed its owners for years, forcing them to shell out more than $200 million in a drawn-out legal battle to re-license the plant. In January, they got their wish: The owners gave up and agreed to close IP’s two reactors by 2021.
Trouble is, Indian Point pumps out up to 30 percent of the region’s juice; without it, demand may soon outpace supply. In particular, peak demand will become increasingly hard to meet — making power fluctuations that can stress the grid to the breaking point more common.
Plus, Cuomo has blocked expansion of pipelines needed to fuel gas-fired plants that could help make up for lost IP power. In April, he nixed a permit for the Northern Access Pipeline and for more than a year refused to grant one to the Millennium Pipeline Co. A third pipeline, to fuel the planned Cricket Valley gas-fired plant, is also in limbo.
What’s the gov’s Plan B? Well, renewable energy (solar and wind) is at the heart of his fantasies. Yet unless the weather cooperates 100 percent of the time, renewables just aren’t reliable. Even Cuomo admits they won’t meet the state’s needs anytime soon.
He also calls for hydropower from Canada. But, as Bryce notes, a transmission line to carry the juice can’t be built in time to help replace what’s lost when Indian Point closes. The clock’s ticking. Pray answers arrive — before the lights go out.
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RE: CNN Coverage Of Democratic Debates
‘The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.’ ~George Orwell, 1984.