Toward the end of his testimony (click here) before the House Intelligence Committee, former special counsel Robert Mueller responded to Democrat Peter Welch, who asked: “Have we established a new normal from this past campaign that is going to apply to future campaigns, so that if any one of us running for the U.S. House ― any candidate for the U.S. Senate, any candidate for the presidency of the United States ― aware that a hostile foreign power is trying to influence an election, has no duty to report that to the FBI or other authorities?”
Mueller responded: “I hope it’s not the new normal, but I fear it is.” During his testimony, Mueller added that “we are expecting [Russia] to [interfere] again during the next campaign.”...
Cindy Hyde-Smith is actually afraid that if foreign governments don't effect the USA elections Republicans will lose. They are Un-American. Just that simple. Anyone running for office should be representing ONLY those voting and not the influence of foreign power that seeks to end the USA democracy. They are cowards. They are afraid of their own voters unless they are UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF FOREIGN POWER.
...As if sensing an opportunity to prove Mueller correct, on Wednesday Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi blocked two election-security bills and a measure regarding cybersecurity for Senate staff. Democrats hoped to pass two bills requiring campaigns to alert the FBI and the Federal Election Commission if they received offers of assistance from abroad. Within the Senate, their bill would allow the sergeant-at-arms to offer voluntary assistance to help secure the personal devices and accounts of lawmakers and their staff....
Republicans cower in the corners of the American democracy along with White Supremacists/Nationalists and foreign powers that literally wage cyberwar against the freedoms and power of the USA. They are all cowards.
Foreign governments spending enormous amounts of money in efforts to end the power of the USA are among the most cowardly in the world. They don't care about the values of the USA in order to join capitalism as a strategy for their countries to begin to instill a strong middle class.
Cowards. That is what Republicans are, cowards among all the cowards of the world.
Having a strong and safe electoral system is the call of the unafraid to stand on their values and hopes for this country.
November 24, 2018
By Christal Hayes
Washington – Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (click here) attended a segregation academy in high school and praised a Confederate soldier's attempts to "defend his homeland," according to reports.
The reports, from the Jackson Free Press, an independent newspaper in Mississippi, and CNN, are the latest to bring up Mississippi's racist history ahead of a tense runoff election between Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy, who is vying to become the state's first African-American in the Senate since the Reconstruction.
In recent weeks, Hyde-Smith was criticized for a joke where she said she'd gladly attend a "public hanging" and be in the "front row." She was also captured on video making a joke about voter suppression, and photos posted to Facebook in 2014 show her with Confederate items and a caption reading, "Mississippi history at its best!"...
