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Openly GOP Man – Former Blogger Boi from Troi – Running for West Hollywood City Council

January 20, 2011January 20, 2011 Jon Ponder

Okay, time out for a little local politics. Via a WeHo Daily link to the Bay Area Reporter, I learned this morning that Scott Schmidt, the one-time blogger “Boi from Troi,” is running for a city council seat here in West Hollywood.

What makes this unusual is that Schmidt is a Republican. And, oh yeah, he’s openly gay, but then so are eight of the 10 candidates running for the three seats up for grabs on the five-person council, according to BAR.

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Openly GOP Man – Former Blogger Boi from Troi – Running for West Hollywood City Council

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“The Trump Administration is drowning in corruption — and few Americans seem to care. It’s another sign of a dying Republic.”

— Professor Larry Sabato, quoted by Blue Virginia.

— Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha, quoted by Politico.

“I think we essentially have become a kleptocracy that would make Putin blush. I mean, keep in mind that in the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”

— Business school professor Scott Galloway, quoted by the New Republic.

“Every day is a kind of Watergate at this point.”

— The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, speaking at a journalism summit.

— New York Times

Numerati

10.3 million

Politico: “The Medicaid portions of the GOP megabill would lead to 10.3 million people losing coverage under the health safety net program and 7.6 million people going uninsured, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.”

$21 million

$1 million

$1,000

“The Trump administration says it is going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who’ve returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000 as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda,” the AP reports.

57th

The new World Press Freedom Index finds the U.S. has fallen to 57th out of 180 countries when it comes to overall freedom of the press.