by jpitney | Sep 6, 2022 | Civility, Elections, Public Service, Violence
Neil Vigdor at NYT: In Wisconsin, one of the nation’s key swing states, cameras and plexiglass now fortify the reception area of a county election office in Madison, the capital, after a man wearing camouflage and a mask tried to open locked doors during an election...
by jpitney | Sep 3, 2022 | Civility, Elections
John F. Harris at Politico: The paradox of modern technology, especially as harnessed by social media, is that it is especially proficient in unleashing primitive dimensions of human character. That suggests a renaissance of insult, indignation and conspiracy theory —...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2022 | Elections, Public Service, Violence
Ryan Williamson at LegBranch.org: The Homeland Security Committee recently held a hearing on current and ongoing threats to elections. Much of the discussion centered on threats of violence against election workers, and there was considerable agreement from the...
by jpitney | Aug 4, 2022 | Civility, Elections, Public Service, Violence
Perry Stein and Tom Hamburger at WP: The Justice Department has reviewed more than 1,000 hostile threats against election workers over the past year, leading to federal charges in five cases and one conviction, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite told the...
by jpitney | Jul 28, 2022 | Business, China, Elections, Public Opinion
Caitlin Oprysko at Politico on Bruce Mehlman (P’21 P’25): MEHLMAN’S LATEST: Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas’ Bruce Mehlman is out with his latest slide deck, which zeroes in backlash threatening to upend four different trends in politics and policy....
by jpitney | Jul 27, 2022 | Civility, Elections
🚨🚨 #PrinciplesFirst alert:@RepDeanPhillips puts principle before party; takes DCCC to task over its signal boosting of election deniers: “If this institution stands a chance of doing its work the ways our founders intended, we need people of civility & decency on...
