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Tom Bevan Profile picture
@TomBevanRCP
May 17 • 2 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Progressive allies of Mayor Brandon Johnson have released a financial blueprint titled - and I'm not joking - "First We Get the Money" calling for $12 billion in new taxes, including:

"Head tax" of $33 per worker for companies with 50+ employees

Quadrupling the tax on jet fuel.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
The plan also calls for eliminating all current vacant positions at the Chicago Police Department AND cutting the CPD budget by 9%.

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Nov 13, 2022
The more you dig through the #s the more stunning this election looks. GOP moved the national vote roughly 7 points in their direction from 2020 but will gain only a handful of House seats & make no gains (or may even lose a seat) in the Senate.....
despite the fact three of those races took place in states that were razor close in 2020 (GA, AZ, and NV) - and despite the fact Biden's approval rating was in the low 40s in all of them.
Even though according to the exit polls the economy was the number one issue for voters, it wasn't as dominant as expected. And those who rated the economy 'not so good' overhwelmingly voted for Dems, including in all the major senate races - even in Florida where Rubio won big.
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Nov 7, 2022
Quick 🧵

Fact: average in-party midterm losses since 1934: 28 House seats and 4 Senate seats.

I have yet to hear a convincing argument for why Dems will do significantly better than average this year, especially taking into account 8% inflation & Biden approval in low 40s.
Initially, the argument was that Dobbs was a game-changer. I was skeptical of that from the beginning because, while it energized the Dem base in the short term, the data never supported the claim it would supplant the economy as the most important issue. And it hasn't. /2
The other argument was/is that GOP Senate candidates were too problematic. (BTW, that claim doesn't apply to the House, where by and large the GOP has nominated a pretty strong, diverse group of candidates.) /3
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Jan 4, 2022
1) @DLeonhardt's mea culpa is infuriating on many levels. One of the 1st things we knew abt covid was that kids were at almost no risk. And many parents have been screaming from the start abt the devastating effects of locking kids out of schools.

nytimes.com/2022/01/04/bri…
2) The "country" did not make these decisions, public officials at the state, federal and local level did. The teacher's unions colluded with the CDC to ensure kids stayed home. Local unions & officials in blue states followed suit
3) And this was all driven and amplified by a compliant media complex - of which Leonhardt's own NY Times was a leader - that relentlessly hyped public fear about the pandemic.
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Dec 9, 2021
This is the most biased, intentionally dishonest, and racially inflammatory story I think I've ever read. Reuters should be ashamed. Gotta 🧵, because the details matter.
Here's the story's inflammatory lede, intended to set pulses racing.
The details: Spalding County has a 5-person election board, which contained a majority of 3 black Dem women, and a black Dem woman election supervisor.

The new law stipulates the parties still get to choose 2 board members each, with the 5th member appointed by a local judge.
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Apr 26, 2021
1) @Acosta yesterday: "As the nation grapples w/a rash of police killings of black Americans, many of them happening the same week former officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd."

Let's see the receipts for this claim, Jim.

msn.com/en-us/video/ne…
2) If @Acosta was relying on this AP story to claim a "rash of police killings of black Americans," he either didn't read the story or willingly misled his viewers.

apnews.com/article/columb…
3) Even setting aside the fact that it appears in almost every one of the 6 instances from the AP article the police were confronting someone who was armed and/or dangerous, @Acosta's claim falls flat.
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Apr 14, 2021
She'll get to it eventually. In the meantime, let's hop in the time machine and head all the way back to 2019.....
Here she is on June 28, 2019.
And again on July 31, 2019.
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