7. Two big projects for Alabama taxpayers are moving forward: A new state house was approved by the Alabama Legislative Council with the Retirement System of Alabama handling the heavy lifting, and the cost of a 4,000-bed Elmore prison is north of $1 billion, a massive increase over the original projection of $623 million.
6. A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump repeatedly committed fraud when misrepresented the value of his real estate holdings by as much as $3.6 billion dollars. This is all part of a $250 million civil case, where the Trump legal team argued many of the loans at hand happened too long ago to be part of a civil case. However, the case will now focus on “falsification of business records, issuing false financial statements, insurance fraud, and conspiracy.”
5. As soon as today, the House Oversight Committee is preparing to show President Joe Biden’s crackhead son was wired $260k in 2019 with Joe Biden’s Delaware address as the beneficiary of the funds, this was when Biden was running for president. This is all part of an alleged influence-peddling scheme where the Bidens and their associates earned $24 million in foreign payments, $15 million for the Bidens alone, between 2014-2019.
4. President Joe Biden got tripped up yesterday, in more ways than one, when it was announced that the federal investigation into the handling of classified documents by the former vice president has become a “sprawling investigation.” But even with 100-plus witnesses interviewed, many more than once, it is reported that they will likely find these were careless mistakes and not criminal acts.
3. A continuing resolution face-off is happening between the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. A “bipartisan” Senate solution is not popular in the House and ignores the issues of the group of House members who don’t want a continuing resolution, want the border to be a focus, and do not want funding for Ukraine to continue unabated but the Senate bill sends $6 billion more to Ukraine. Both of Alabama’s senators voted against the bill.
2. While the Supreme Court has decided that they will allow the special master’s congressional map to go into place, benefitting Democrats, Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) is making it clear that he is not done yet. Marshall argues, “This racial agenda is pressed by left-wing activists, not just in Alabama, but in any Republican state where it might advantage Democrats. If this brazen and divisive commandeering is permitted without even a whisper of concern from other quarters, America’s congressional elections as we know them will never be the same. We will be grouped together by race alone, with counties and cities split down the middle — the same way that we were so wrongfully segregated once before.”
1. Tight primary races for multiple U.S. House races might be happening after a redrawing of Alabama’s congressional districts, including the one that now houses both U.S. Reps. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile) and Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) along the coast in the First Congressional District. Other primaries will include U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) facing State Sen. Bobby Singleton (D-Greensboro) in the Seventh District, while former State Sen. Dick Brewbaker (R-Montgomery) told Talk 99.5 that he is probably one of many running as a Republican in the new Second District where the mayor of Montgomery Steven Reed is expected to run as a Democrat.
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and on Talk 99.5 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
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