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One of the more interesting stories in Iowa in the past week is how Iowa’s SoS Paul Pate has tried to do his MAGA part in this election by suddenly coming up with a list of what he claims are 2022 non-citizens who may attempt to vote in this election. Of course this is hokum and Pate is merely trying to inflame the hate against immigrants and “others.”

Zachary Oren Smith now of Iowa Starting Line and formerly of Iowa Public Radio does a great job of sorting out the story. Pate did not have to take this to the conclusion that he took it to. The public hype could have been avoided by Pate, but he will be running for re-election in two years and he must have thought he needed a veneer of a politician above the fray by creating a fray.

So, Paul Pate sheds any dignity he has for a nod from the MAGA crowd. “Puppet Paul” seems to fit the situation. Not to be outdone, Brenna Bird started chirping her inanities on this story. Iowa deserves so much better from its public servants.

Questions, I’ve got questions!

A) Trying to hold a campaign rally in Albuquerque Thursday, the Trump campaign ran into what problem?

B) Since Trump is a felon out on bail awaiting sentencing, he violated terms of his current release by doing what to Liz Cheney Thursday?

C) Tony Hinchcliffe achieved his 15 minutes of fame Sunday. Who is he and what did he do?

D) What MSNBC long time newser announced she would retire after the inauguration next year?

E) Let’s sneak in a few election questions. When was the last time that a Republican candidate for president won the popular vote on their initial run?

F) This could be a record. A Russian court fined what US company 20 decillion dollars for blocking Russian media content?

G) The US is far from the only country getting wild, extreme weather. What European country experienced a year’s worth of rain in eight hours last week causing major flooding?

H) As for voter participation in elections, where does the US rank among world nations?

I) DonOLD Trump once again tries to intimidate media. Last week he sued what network for $10 Billion over the network’s interview of what candidate?

J) Where will VP Harris spend election night?

K) Vice-President Kamala Harris gave her “closing argument” before a crowd estimated at what size on the Ellipse in Washington DC Tuesday?

L) After a cosplay stint as a McDonald’s French frier last week, what cosplay did Candidate Trump engage in this week at a Wisconsin airport?

M) What news company received 250,000 cancellations after its owner squashed an endorsement for president?

N) The moving vans showed up at whose upper east side apartment in Manhattan new owners who received the apartment as partial payment in a lawsuit could look at the property?

O) Election Day as “the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November” became law in what year?

P) Speaking of the Pate fiasco in Iowa, what two organizations filed lawsuits concerning Pate’s list of ‘potential illegal voters’?

Q) Good news in Cedar Rapids as the strike at what company ended Thursday night?

R) Companies in the US are preparing to do what should Candidate Trump somehow become president?

S) In what may be early violence and vandalism associated with this year’s election, ballot drop boxes were set on fire in what two states?

T) During his presidency, Candidate Trump tried to swap Puerto Rico for what other island with Denmark?

The fact that I know more about Joe Biden’s one alleged “garbage” comment than I do about Donald Trump’s years of raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media. – Andrea Junker

Answers:

A) They hadn’t paid a $400,000 bill from a previous event so Albuquerque refused to grant a permit. The event was held outside city limits

B) Threatening to have her shot by a firing squad

C) Hinchcliffe is a far right ‘comedian’ who gained his fame Sunday by calling Puerto Rico ‘garbage’

D) Andrea Mitchell

E) GHW Bush in 1988

F) Google ( that’s $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – I think that is enough zeroes) 

G) Spain – the Valencia region on the Mediterranean side to be exact – as much as 400 mm (16 inches)

H) 139th out of 172

I) CBS. For the Harris interview on CBS 60 Minutes

J) On the campus of her Alma Mater, Howard University

K) 75,000

L) he dressed up like a garbage collector and rode in the passenger seat of a garbage truck emblazoned with a large ’Trump’ sticker.

M) Washington Post

N) Rudy Giuliani’s. Giuliani lost the apartment as part of a settlement with Shae Moss and Ruby Freeman 

O) 1845. Early November was after harvest, before winter and having the election on Tuesday gave folks a chance to go to town without traveling on Sunday.

P) the ACLU and LULAC

Q) Cargill

R) They are working on price rises should tariffs become law. Expect steep price rises should tariffs come in.

S) Washington and Oregon.

T) Greenland

Donald Trump talks about women at his rallies like they are objects, he doesn’t see them as equals. – Alex Cole

VOTE!!! DAMMIT!