I'm running to ensure what happened to my family and Lori's family doesn't happen to anyone else.
MAY 17, 2018
Ryan Petty, whose daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting in February. He, and another parent of one of the 17 victims, announced this week that he is running for school board.
Source: Tribune News Service
We believe criminals who kill our police should get the death penalty -- bring it forth.
MAY 16, 2018
President Trump, in his speech at the annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service on Tuesday.
Source: CBS News
Most officers are great guys and women who are working hard, but there's always the one.
MAY 15, 2018
Kansas state Rep. John Whitmer, on why he voted for a new law making it illegal for police officers to have sex during traffic stops.
Source: The Wichita Eagle
Profiling [by police] is absolutely necessary. Sometimes race might play some part in that.
MAY 14, 2018
Nashville mayoral candidate Ralph Bristol, at a forum last week. His comments elicited gasps among the largely black audience.
Source: The Tennessean
Vote for the homo, not Cuomo.
MAY 11, 2018
New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon at the annual Legislative Correspondents Association dinner this week. This is a personal dig with some history: In 1977, when Andrew Cuomo's father Mario was running for governor against Ed Koch, posters appeared throughout the city that said: 'Vote for Cuomo, not the homo.'
Source: New York Magazine
I just know I didn’t harass anybody, and I can’t leave and let that be the last word because it’s an admission of guilt. I would like to fight. I don’t know if I can win, but you have to try.
MAY 9, 2018
North Carolina State Rep. Duane Hall when he was first accused of sexual misconduct back on March. Hall has denied the allegations and refused to drop out of his race. On Tuesday night, he lost his primary and his spot in the state legislature next year.
In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.
MAY 8, 2018
Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned from his post Monday night after four different women came forward to accuse him of physical abuse.
Source: The New Yorker
I understand that not everyone will agree with this decision. But if death is determined when a heart stops beating, then doesn't a beating heart indicate life?
MAY 8, 2018
Kim Reynolds, the governor of Iowa, as she signed the nation's most restrictive abortion law last Friday afternoon. The law bans most abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat, which can be as early as six weeks -- before many women even know they're pregnant.
Of our 16 or 17 lawsuits on environmental issues, we have 10 or 11 victories to date. We have not lost one case against the Trump administration.
MAY 7, 2018
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. California and 16 other states plus Washington, D.C. are suing the Trump administration to prevent it from weakening Obama-era vehicle emissions standards. The state currently has 32 lawsuits pending against the administration.
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