I think it's safe too say "Her Come Da Judge!"

The establishment just pissed away $30 million on this Rino!

The winning will continue...

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by Herkdriver:
Edit to add: Moore was elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court twice and suspended both times.

If I understand correctly, it's something about the Ten Commandments granite?

The first time was the 10 Commandments monument. He was suspended and eventually removed. After he was reelected he was suspended for directing the county Probate Judges to not issue marriage licenses to gay couples after the USSC ruled gay marriage was legal.

Moore is killing it.

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Originally posted by Herkdriver:

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by Herkdriver:
Edit to add: Moore was elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court twice and suspended both times.

If I understand correctly, it's something about the Ten Commandments granite?

The first time was the 10 Commandments monument. He was suspended and eventually removed. After he was reelected he was suspended for directing the county Probate Judges to not issue marriage licenses to gay couples after the USSC ruled gay marriage was legal.

Well, then, he's a fine gentleman in my book.

AP calls it. Moore wins

Moore leading by 13% w 51% reporting

Guess there was a reason that Corker decided not to run. He thought he would lose the primary.

Bad bad week for McConnell.

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Originally posted by lbj:
Moore is killing it.

Yep a real Clair Voyant

I thought the polls were showing Strange with a near double digit lead a couple days ago?

Was Moore colluding with Russians????

CANDIDATE VOTE PCT.
Roy Moore
262,204 54.6%
Luther Strange*
218,066 45.4
100% reporting (2,286 of 2,286 precincts)

The MAGA base makes its collective voice heard again. One more swamp critter has been shown the door. Trump hopefully gets a shot in the arm and realizes - in some small way, at least - that he's currently surrounded by more swamp critters giving him questionable advice. McConnell loses a rubber stamp vote.

A good day all around. Thank you, Alabama!

-Rob

Excellent!! Winning!!

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Follow the money:

Sen. Luther Strange’s (R-AL) swamp pal, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), is set to receive more money each year from Alabama taxpayers from the sweetheart deal in an Alabama retail development arranged by a law firm that is a big donor to Strange’s Senate campaign than he receives from his salary as a United States senator.

Under the terms of that sweetheart deal signed off on by the Mobile City Council and the Mobile County Commission, Corker, as a 13 percent owner of McGowin Park Incentive, LLC, a Delaware Corporation, receives a prorated split of that entity’s hefty sales tax rebate from retail purchases made at stores in McGowin Park retail center in Mobile Alabama. The center is a huge development opened in 2015 of more than 24 stores, including “Dick’s Sporting Goods, Field & Stream, HomeGoods, Ross Dress for Less, Hobby Lobby, Best Buy, Old Navy, Petco, Ashley Furniture HomeStore and Dollar Tree,” as one publication noted, strategically located right off heavily traveled I-65.

That rebate is substantial; 28 percent of all city sales tax collected and 30 percent of all county sales tax collected from stores in the center is paid out to McGowin Park Incentive, LLC, in two securities known as City of Mobile Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013 and Mobile County Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013.

Corker received $40,459 in 2015 and $108,682 in income from City of Mobile Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013, and Mobile County Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013, according to financial reports he filed with the United States Senate. He is scheduled to receive $155,500 in income from those warrants in 2017; $168,808 in 2018; $192,000 in 2019; and $192,000 a year for the next 15-and-a-half years.

During the twenty years in which he receives money from this deal, Corker is expected to receive more than $3 million of the Mobile, Alabama, city and county sales tax revenue paid by customers who make purchases at the McGowin Park retail center in Mobile.

Corker’s current annual salary as a United States senator is $174,000 per year.

Does it say what Corker paid for his "investment"? Was it available to members of the investing public? Or was it a pay-to-play scheme?

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
I thought the polls were showing Strange with a near double digit lead a couple days ago?

Was Moore colluding with Russians????

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Originally posted by BurtonRW:
The MAGA base makes its collective voice heard again. One more swamp critter has been shown the door. Trump hopefully gets a shot in the arm and realizes - in some small way, at least - that he's currently surrounded by more swamp critters giving him questionable advice. McConnell loses a rubber stamp vote.

A good day all around. Thank you, Alabama!

-Rob

I don't know about a shot in the arm, all you will hear all day is how Trump campaigned for Strange and he lost. This must surely mean that his base is rejecting him, his coattails aren't strong, the dems will win the mid terms, etc etc. That's what it will be all damn day

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That rebate is substantial; [28]28 percent of all city sales tax collected and 30 percent of all county sales tax collected [/b]from stores in the center is paid out to McGowin Park Incentive, LLC, in two securities known as City of Mobile Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013 and Mobile County Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013.

So this is tax money meant for running the city and county (LEO, Fire, Teachers, feed the hungry children etc) and is instead going into a senators pocket? Do I have that right - tax revenue is paying it, not sales revenue?

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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Follow the money:

Sen. Luther Strange’s (R-AL) swamp pal, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), is set to receive more money each year from Alabama taxpayers from the sweetheart deal in an Alabama retail development arranged by a law firm that is a big donor to Strange’s Senate campaign than he receives from his salary as a United States senator.

Under the terms of that sweetheart deal signed off on by the Mobile City Council and the Mobile County Commission, Corker, as a 13 percent owner of McGowin Park Incentive, LLC, a Delaware Corporation, receives a prorated split of that entity’s hefty sales tax rebate from retail purchases made at stores in McGowin Park retail center in Mobile Alabama. The center is a huge development opened in 2015 of more than 24 stores, including “Dick’s Sporting Goods, Field & Stream, HomeGoods, Ross Dress for Less, Hobby Lobby, Best Buy, Old Navy, Petco, Ashley Furniture HomeStore and Dollar Tree,” as one publication noted, strategically located right off heavily traveled I-65.

That rebate is substantial; 28 percent of all city sales tax collected and 30 percent of all county sales tax collected from stores in the center is paid out to McGowin Park Incentive, LLC, in two securities known as City of Mobile Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013 and Mobile County Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013.

Corker received $40,459 in 2015 and $108,682 in income from City of Mobile Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013, and Mobile County Limited Obligation Project Revenue Warrants, Series 2013, according to financial reports he filed with the United States Senate. He is scheduled to receive $155,500 in income from those warrants in 2017; $168,808 in 2018; $192,000 in 2019; and $192,000 a year for the next 15-and-a-half years.

During the twenty years in which he receives money from this deal, Corker is expected to receive more than $3 million of the Mobile, Alabama, city and county sales tax revenue paid by customers who make purchases at the McGowin Park retail center in Mobile.

Corker’s current annual salary as a United States senator is $174,000 per year.

Does it say what Corker paid for his "investment"? Was it available to members of the investing public? Or was it a pay-to-play scheme?

Corker is one of the wealthiest senators. His net worth is ~$50 million.

There was an election?

Moore Defeats Trump-Backed Strange In Alabama Primary Runoff

Ben Shapiro

Roy Moore on Tuesday defeated Sen. Luther Strange in a special Alabama primary to decide the Republican nominee for the November election, a slap in the face for President Trump and GOP leaders who backed Strange.

Moore is the controversial former jurist most famous for refusing to abide by court rulings attempting to force the removal of a Ten Commandments display from his courthouse, and instructing probate judges not to comply with court orders to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Moore resigned from the bench in 2016 and announced he would run for the Senate.

Strange is considered an ally of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — not because he was an establishment lackey, per se, but because he worked with McConnell in the Senate in the first place. President Trump himself said that Strange wasn’t friendly with McConnell, stating, “he doesn’t even know Mitch McConnell.” Nonetheless, grassroots conservatives rallied around Moore. Interestingly, while Trump campaigned ardently for Strange — he was campaigning for Strange when he dropped his latest bombshell on the NFL — Trump’s former White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon, campaigned just as ardently against Strange and for Moore. Trump, true to form, admitted on Friday that he might have made a mistake getting involved in the primary at all, stating, “I might have made a mistake. I'll be honest, I might have made a mistake.”

The special election was a fascinating look into the battle over “Trumpism” as a movement and a philosophy. One of the conceits of Trump’s most ardent supporters is that Trump is the leader of a movement rather than a cork bobbing on the waves of popular discontent with Washington, D.C. Alabama’s special election seems to debunk that notion — Trump couldn’t even defeat his heretofore anonymous former campaign chief strategist in that election. Trump doesn’t have coattails. Bannon presented himself as the avatar of Trump’s heart... against Trump himself. And Trump lost.

The reality is that the election had nothing to do with Trump or Trumpism, which is an attempt to put a face to an incoherent mishmash of ideas. The election had to do with a continuing backlash against the establishment Republican Party that began with the Tea Party in 2010, built with support for politicians like Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and culminated in Trump’s victory in the primaries and general election. In other words, this election shows that Trump is not more important than the movement that preceded him and drove him into office, and that Trumpism isn’t anything at all — Moore would have won in 2012 if this election had taken place then, long before Trump considered running.

Practically speaking, Mitch McConnell is the man hardest hit. He’s already got a fractious caucus; now a senator who voted for his top priorities will be replaced by a bombastic figure known for going rogue. That means that McConnell’s tightrope is even tougher to walk — and it means that Trump is even more likely to buck his own Senate and walk across the aisle to his good friends Nancy and Chuck. In the long run, however, it means that the anti-establishment movement will be looking to replace outgoing Republicans. The face of the Republican Party will soon start to resemble the heart that’s been driving votes for the last seven years.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/...-alabama-ben-shapiro

I think it's safe to say the Shapiro is not a big fan of The Donald.

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One of the conceits of Trump’s most ardent supporters is that Trump is the leader of a movement rather than a cork bobbing on the waves of popular discontent

Shapiro is wrong. Without President Trump acting as a leader and giving a rallying point, there would be no organized movement achieving results. There would only be grumbling and complaining.

President Trump is the spark of the movement, not "a cork bobbing on the waves".

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Without President Trump acting as a leader and giving a rallying point

He rallied for Luther Strange, who was backed by Mitch McConnell to the tune of $30 million.

Shapiro's point is that those of us who are against the swamp were against the swamp before Trump (tea party, 2010) and will be against the swamp whether Trump rides the wave or allies with the swamp.