Tag: Eric Swalwell

Everybody Hates Bill Pulte

These escapades may have given Pulte “deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America,” but nobody would accuse Pulte, even on his own corrupt terms, of managing them particularly well. Further investigation established that criminal charges against Cook, Schiff, and James would never stick. Meanwhile, it came out that four members of Trump’s own […]

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California Shows Why Nonpartisan Primaries Stink

If the Democratic field is weak, the Republican field is (much like the Republican Party itself) a catastrophe. Swalwell’s departure reduced but didn’t eliminate the risk that a Democratic split would cede the two top spots to Republicans Steve Hilton, a former Fox News blowhard previously known as British Prime Minister David Cameron’s “pint-sized Rasputin,” […]

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Swalwell and Gonzales Officially Resign Before Being Forced Out

“I had contact with Eric Swalwell on three separate occasions after meeting him socially. He offered me connections to further my software company, and I also had an interest in local politics. He invited me to two public events. I knew he was married at the time and that his wife was pregnant. He was […]

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Reps Eric Swalwell And Tony Gonzales Resign From Congress 

Source: After talks of their expulsion gained significant traction on Monday, Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) announced they would be resigning from the House of Representatives.  According to CNN, Swalwell announced his resignation on Monday afternoon after the House Ethics Committee said it would launch an investigation. “Expelling anyone in Congress without […]

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California’s Democratic Statehouse Hopefuls Are Stuck in a Trump Rut

Reporters love a race with a tidy narrative. You can take your pick of tales and tropes: There’s the old guard and the new face (Cuomo-Mamdani), the bomb thrower and the problem solver (Crockett-Talarico), or the Trump loyalist and the principled conservative (Paxton-Cornyn). Without the structure of a narrative, we’re a bit lost—which is probably […]

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California’s Would-Be Democratic Governors Are Stuck in a Trump Rut

Reporters love a race with a tidy narrative. You can take your pick of tales and tropes: There’s the old guard and the new face (Cuomo-Mamdani), the bomb thrower and the problem solver (Crockett-Talarico), or the Trump loyalist and the principled conservative (Paxton-Cornyn). Without the structure of a narrative, we’re a bit lost—which is probably […]

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Growing Number of Democrats Call on Eric Swalwell to Leave Congress

“My three Representatives, as all of this time went by, became, not surprisingly, very friendly and respectful of Iran’s Representatives, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Abbas Araghchi, and Ali Bagheri, but that doesn’t matter because they were very unyielding as to the single most important issue and, as I have always said, right from the beginning, and many […]

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How Did California Democrats Let Eric Swalwell Get This Far, Anyway?

The Democrats need to unite behind one candidate, and according to the polls and common sense, that candidate is Steyer. He can win. Easily. Besides, my friend Harold Meyerson, who knows California politics as well as any journalist in America, tells me that Steyer actually holds some progressive positions. He’s funded several liberal ballot measures, […]

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Pam Bondi’s Firing May Not Have Had Anything to Do With Epstein

“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We love Pam, and she […]

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A GOP Governor? In California? Unless the Dems Get It Together, Yes.

Some California Democratic leaders are very aware of this issue and have been trying to fix it. Earlier this month, Rusty Hicks, the chairman of the California Democratic Party, released a public letter urging some of the lowest polling candidates to get out of the race before the formal filing deadline on March 6, to […]

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California Democratic Chair Asks Candidates To Drop Out Of Governor Race

Source: Christina House / Getty For the first time in nearly a decade, there’s a wide-open path to the governor’s office in California as Gov. Gavin Newsom nears the end of his final term. As such, there’s a crowded field of Democrats campaigning to become California’s next governor. While Californians having plenty of options sounds […]

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