Kansan state Senator Barbara Bollier – a woman of integrityIn the Americans of Conscience checklist there was an item about three Kansas state lawmakers jumping the GOP ship and becoming Dems. Their addresses were provided in case checklist users wanted to send them a note of appreciation. Kansas.com provides an interesting article on one of the three politicians. State Sen. Barbara Bollier switched parties from GOP to the Dems because as a bona fide moderate she concluded that the the GOP no longer represented enough moderate positions for her to remain in the party..
Bollier a former physician, obviously believes that one’s principles take precedence over partisan allegiance. Not believing that the tail should wag the dog, she looked across the aisle and saw politicians espousing principles she herself embraced. She completely disagreed with the Kansas GOP position on a transgender issue and found Trump untenable.. She also endorsed Dem candidates for Kansas positions prior to the Mid-Terms which obviously infuriated the Kansas GOP establishment. They pushed back. And Bollier made the change.
In referring to her district’s constituents, she said “They elected me as a moderate knowing nine years of voting history that I do not vote along party lines.” Here is a politician of uncommon courage. She won’t be hog-tied to any political party – just to have a home. The country needs more politicians like her.
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article222990385.html
Sarah Huckabee Sanders – duplicity and doublespeak Maybe you caught the tape of the exchange between Chris Wallace and Sarah Sanders in an interview yesterday. It has received tons of coverage due to Chris Wallace actually stopping Sanders in her tracks when she stated that 4.000 terrorists come into the country each year and then immediately followed with the non sequitur “And our most vulnerable point of entry is the southwest border.” If one were not listening carefully, it would then be easy to assume that she meant that these thousands of terrorist were coming across the southwestern border.
Wallace, thankfully, said no,(and the rest is paraphrased) They are being caught in airports. Sanders persists with a “Yes. but” argument. – They come in by land, sea or air but what really matters is that the southwestern border is the most vulnerable. You get the gist. Sanders intends to keep the number of terrorists – 4,000 and the southwestern border firmly linked in the viewer’s mind.. .The truth is that No connection exists. Chris Wallace got it right. Suspicious aliens are primarily nabbed in airports. To see her double down and continue to obfuscate knowing that she does it solely to bolster the need for a wall makes her a propaganda artist not a press secretary.. She jumbles the facts with malice and forethought to make a false claim.
In the end, Sanders will find herself on the wrong side of history. Duplicity and doublespeak will be the hallmarks of her role as Press Secretary. She will be viewed as an important accomplice during the most corrupt presidential administration in our history. Not a good position to find oneself.
Here is an interesting article from Alternet detailing the Wallace – Sanders exchange.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/fox-news-chris-wallace-fact-checks-sarah-sanders-on-terrorists-and-the-wall-theyre-not-coming-across-the-southern-border/