Authorities downplayed the political and racial context of the shooting, saying it grew out of a traffic dispute.
The judge, noting McKinney’s lack of criminal history and honorable discharge from the military, ordered two sentences to run concurrently, for a maximum of 10 years. There is no mandatory minimum to serve before McKinney becomes eligible for parole.
This sounds like they bent over backwards to give him the most lenient sentence possible. For SHOOTING INTO A CROWDED CAR! It’s a miracle that nobody was killed.
Trump supporters criticized authorities for charging McKinney, arguing that his shot protected rallygoers by scaring the car away and noting that McKinney frequented pro-police “Back the Blue” rallies.
"Another carveout benefited investors of publicly traded pipeline businesses. Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, added an amendment for them to the Senate version of the bill just before it was voted on.
Without his amendment, investors who made under a certain income would have received the deduction anyway, experts told ProPublica. But for higher-income investors, a slate of restrictions kicked in. In order to qualify, they would have needed the businesses they’re invested in to pay out significant wages, and these oil and gas businesses, like real estate developers, typically do not.
Cornyn’s amendment cleared the way.
The trade group for these companies and one of its top members, Enterprise Products Partners, a Houston-based natural gas and crude oil pipeline company, had both lobbied on the bill. Enterprise was founded by Dan Duncan, who died in 2010.
The Trump tax bill delivered a win to Duncan’s heirs. ProPublica’s data shows his four children, who own stakes in the company, together claimed more than $150 million in deductions in 2018 alone. The tax provision for “small businesses” had delivered a windfall to the family Forbes ranked as the 11th richest in the country.
In a statement, an Enterprise spokesperson wrote: “The Duncan family abides by all applicable tax laws and will not comment on individual tax returns, which are a private matter.” Cornyn’s office did not respond to questions about the senator’s amendment."
I had to go back and look, but that’s definitely not a white Texas unless they are using a white cross to symbolize Texas in some white nationalized mumbo-jumbo.
You’re right. At the smaller resolution it looked like Texas, but that was just the white cross being distorted by the angle. When I found some higher-res pics it was clearly a white cross.
Wanna bet he has no idea that it has anything to do with Switzerland, and just sees it as a way to declare his white Xtian dominionist leanings? I suspect that is the most likely.
Sure we’d all like to protect the world from the cataclysmic effects of climate change but how come AOC refuses to address the totally real nationwide epidemic of [checks notes] birds spontaneously bursting into flame due to solar power plants??
So, in that statement Lazarro confirms that he believes the charges against Gaetz are accurate? Good. I hope he keeps saying this as he desperately and fruitlessly attempts to save himself.
Texas after all is a red state, and so Abbott acting according to the preferences of the right wing of his party is simply him being responsible to the public. Even if we set aside Texas Republicans’ careful and long-standing efforts to engineer a more conservative electorate, though, the present situation illustrates something deeply dysfunctional about our democracy. Something is wrong when an extreme primary electorate has such a stranglehold on a state of 29 million people that a public official believes it is against his interest to take basic steps to keep his own constituents alive.
