All posts tagged "Jim Clyburn"

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — President Joe Biden cruised to an expected victory Saturday in Democrats’ first recognized contest of 2024, following a month-long push by the president and his proxies to drive up turnout after the party put South Carolina first on the official voting calendar.

After The Associated Press called the race at 7:23 p.m., less than a half-hour after polls closed, the roughly 100 party faithful gathered at the South Carolina Fairgrounds chanted “four more years!”

With less than 30,000 votes counted, Biden was winning with 97% of them....

A top House Democrat’s campaign committee was slapped with a $3,500 fine over a filing mistake made as the group grappled with a consultant’s death, according to Federal Election Commission records and a source close to the campaign.

The committee raising funds for U.S. Rep Jim Clyburn (D-SC) mistakenly filed a financial disclosure report in October 2022 that didn't include about $62,100 in disbursements, according to a letter from the FEC.

A source close to the campaign told Raw Story the committee, Friends of Jim Clyburn, didn't know the consultant who helped draft the filing was sick until after she had been hospitalized. ...

The Honor Code of The Citadel, South Carolina’s 181-year-old military college, states that cadets “will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do.”

But The Citadel now finds itself quietly tolerating one of its most recognizable honorary degree recipients — Rudy Giuliani — who, in the estimation of the U.S. House’s January 6 select committee, lied and cheated while attempting to steal the 2020 presidential election away from its duly elected winner, Joe Biden.

“Mr. Giuliani’s effort to undermine the integrity of the 2020 presidential election has helped destabilize our democracy,” a DC Bar Association panel wrote last month in recommending Giuliani, who served as former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, be disbarred. “The misconduct here sadly transcends all his past accomplishments.”...

Like other such buildings dedicated to ex-presidents, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., contains a replica of the Oval Office, complete with photos, mementos and flags placed carefully to depict what it looked like when the actor-turned-politician was the most powerful man in the world.

Five miles away, California Lutheran University had a replica office, too. But this replica was designed — “within an eighth of an inch” — to depict the Capitol Hill haunt of former Rep. Elton Gallegly.

If Gallegly’s name isn’t familiar, that’s understandable. The California Republican left Congress more than a decade ago, having decided against seeking re-election instead of running in what would’ve been a highly competitive race for a newly redistricted congressional seat. ...

Read part one of this interview, available here

Now that control of the House has changed parties, some liberals are worried about what Republicans will do with their new power.