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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | AUGUST 1, 2019 “McConnell has refused to protect our democracy from being undermined by Russia or other foreign adversaries.” Someone finally got to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe on MSNBC, last week repeatedly called McConnell “Moscow Mitch” for blocking all bills to strengthen election […]
Enclosed for your information is a piece entitled “Don’t give up on HR 1. The battle lies ahead,” by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer, published here on July 31, 2019 in The Fulcrum. Read the full article here or below. Don’t give up on HR 1. The battle lies ahead. By Fred Wertheimer | 7/31/19 […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | JULY 25, 2019 “Trump and McConnell are playing Russian roulette with our democracy. Their destructive efforts must be overcome.” Special Counsel Robert Mueller had made clear that he did not want to testify in Congress on his report. Yesterday, the country saw why. It was a combination of not wanting […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | JULY 18, 2019 “Trump is combining the worst demagogic aspects of the late Governor George Wallace and Senator Joe McCarthy to stoke racism and divide the country for personal partisan purposes.” Special Counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify next week before two House committees. The hearings will take place […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | JULY 11, 2019 “If Russia or any other foreign adversary successfully attacks our elections in 2020, Senator McConnell and President Trump will bear the brunt of responsibility for the damage done to the country.” Months after his report was made public in April, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | JUNE 27, 2019 “McConnell is arrogantly holding our democracy hostage and living up to the name he has chosen for himself – the ‘Grim Reaper.’ Hopefully, it’s not the integrity of the 2020 presidential and congressional elections that he is killing.” Special Counsel Robert Mueller found in his report that […]
Enclosed for your information is an op-ed entitled, “The Man Who Ruined The Senate: Meet Mitch McConnell,” by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer, published on Medium on June 26, 2019. According to the piece: When McConnell leaves the Senate, this will be his legacy: Senator McConnell turned “the world’s greatest deliberative body” into a dysfunctional, […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | JUNE 20, 2019 “If the Supreme Court rules 5-to-4 in favor of obvious Republican partisan interests in these two cases by allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering and allowing the dubious citizenship question in the Census, the Court will dangerously undermine its legitimacy and credibility for many years to come.” The Supreme […]
President Trump’s comment yesterday that he sees nothing wrong with accepting opposition research from a foreign country seeking to influence our elections, shocking as it is, should come as no surprise to anyone.Trump made his position on this clear during the 2016 presidential campaign when he publicly called on Russia to find and make available […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | JUNE 13, 2019 “President Trump is a lawless, authoritarian President and a direct and unprecedented threat to our constitutional system of government, our democracy, and the rule of law.” President Donald Trump’s comments yesterday that he sees nothing wrong with accepting opposition research from a foreign country seeking to influence […]
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