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21-Year-Old Wins Denver School Board Seat, Becomes Youngest Elected Official In Colorado History
New Revelations From First Public Hearings Paint Damning Portrait Of President Donald Trump
On Nov. 5, after a hard- fought campaign, a reinvigo- rated Tay Anderson rose to his feet in triumph. The first election results from his bid for a seat on the Denver school board had just come in and as raw emotion coursed through his veins, all he could think about was calling the woman who inspired him as a child to disrupt the status quo.
“I told her, ‘Mom we did it. We won,’” he told reporters. “And she and I both began to tear up and cry.”
Hours later, his biggest threat, Alexis Menocal Har- rigan, would officially concede defeat—cementing Ander- son’s status as Denver Public
JACKSON, Miss.— Mis- sissippi Democrat Mike Espy announced Tuesday that he’s running again for U. S. Senate against Republican incum- bent Cindy Hyde-Smith, setting up a 2020 rematch of a race that churned up the state’s painful racial history.
“I can and will do a better job for the people of Missis- sippi and the United States,” Espy told supporters by email, after telegraphing the move for months.
A former U. S. Secretary of Agriculture and U. S. House member, Espy lost their 2018 special election race to fill the last two years of retired Sen. Thad Cochran’s six-year
TAY ANDERSON
Schools Director-At-Large with 50 percent of the vote and re- portedly making him the youngest elected official in the history of Colorado at a jaw- dropping 21 years old.
MIKE ESPY
term. Hyde-Smith, who was
Mississippi’s agriculture com- missioner when Gov. Phil Bryant appointed her to tem- porarily take Cochran’s place, became the first woman elected to Congress from Mis- sissippi.
Dramatic new disclosures on Day 1 of the House impeach- ment hearingspainted an in- criminating picture of Donald Trump as a President in- stinctively willing to sacrifice America's interests for his own.
In the most critical step so far in the investigation into Trump's alleged scheme to coerce Ukraine's help for his reelection campaign, Democ- rats posed a question to every US citizen at the core of this dark national chapter.
"If this is not impeachable conduct, what is?" House In- telligence Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, asked, arguing that the repub- lic's values and the concept of an accountable presidency were at stake for future gener- ations.
Using as their first witnesses two conscientious, apolitical diplomats who devoted their lives to national service, De- mocrats built a foundation for a case that Trump abused his far greater power. It is a story certain to play out again and again in the coming weeks as lawmakers contemplate whether to deal Trump the historic stigma of being only the third president to be im- peached.
In Wednesday's most strik- ing moment, the top U. S. diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Tay- lor, revealed a previously undisclosed call between Trump and the U. S. Ambas- sador to the European Union
Maryland Democratic Party Chairwoman Maya Rockeymoore Cum- mings, the widow of U. S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, is running for her husband’s seat, arguing Monday she is the best option to carry out his legacy and continue his vision.
“I am, of course, devas- tated at the loss of my spouse, but his spirit is with me,” Rockeymoore Cum- mings, 48, said in an inter- view with The Baltimore Sun. “I’m going to run this race and I’m going to run it hard, as if he’s still right here by my
Impeachment hearing testimony further connects President to Ukraine pressure
Mississippi Democrat Espy To Run Again For US Senate In 2020
Gordon Sondland that took place a day after Trump's no- torious talk with Ukraine's President in July.
He said that an aide -- who heard the call on a mobile phone while in a restaurant in a scenario that raised national security concerns -- reported that Trump asked Sondland about "the investigations" into former Vice President Joe Biden that he had requested from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump told reporters on Wednesday he had no memory of the event.
"I know nothing about that. First time I heard it," Trump said at the White House. "In any event, it's more second- hand information. I don't re- call it, not at all, not even a little bit."
The new detail deals a blow to Republican claims that there
is no evidence of any direct link between Trump and an at- tempt to pressure Ukraine into targeting Biden. Since Trump has previously claimed of Sondland: "I hardly know the gentleman" the testimony also poked new holes in Trump's denials. And it raised already extreme pres- sure on Sondland himself, who is due to testify next week.
Taylor and his colleague George Kent, the deputy as- sistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Af- fairs, also provided testimony to back up the theory that Trump demanded political dirt from on Biden.
In a political world ruled by fact and where polarized dif- ferences still allowed dispas- sionate debate, Trump's position immeasurably wors- ened over an intense day of testimony.
cancer, died Oct. 17 after serving more than two decades in Congress. He left a record of fighting for the needy and battling the ad- ministration of Republican President Donald Trump.
Rockeymoore Cum- mings, a public policy con- sultant who is founder of the Washington consulting firm Global Policy Solutions LLC and a former 2018 candidate for governor, said her hus- band told her months before he died he would like for her to succeed him.
Maya RockeymooreCummings, Widow Of Baltimore Rep. Elijah Cummings, Will Seek His Seat In Congress
MAYA ROCKEYMOORE CUMMINGS
side.”
Cummings, who had
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