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Opinion | The 2022 House Republican midterm candidates give ‘crazy’ new meaning – The Washington Post
Much of the public focus in the midterm elections has been on the, er, exotic nature of the Republican nominees in Senate and gubernatorial races, and understandably so. There’s Mehmet Oz’s crudite, Doug Mastriano’s white supremacists, and Herschel Walker’s … well, pretty much everything he says and does. But GOP nominees for the House are no less erratic — just less well known.
What they all have in common is that they’re in competitive races, which means they could well be part of a Republican House majority in January. And that’s on top of a larger group of GOP nominees in deep-red congressional districts who are a motley assortment of election deniers, climate-change deniers, QAnon enthusiasts and Jan. 6 participants who propose to abolish the FBI and ban abortion with no exceptions, among other things. Some won nominations despite efforts by party leadership to stop them and continue without financial support from the National Republican Congressional Committee.
J.R. Majewski, the Trump-backed lawn painter from Ohio, has a different agenda: He wants to “abolish all unconstitutional three letter agencies,” including the CIA. He has said he’s willing to fight a civil war, and he made a campaign video in which he carried a rifle and said he would “do whatever it takes” to “bring this country back to its former glory.”
Maybe this is what John Gibbs, the Michigan Republican who questioned women’s suffrage, had in mind when he wrote as a Stanford student that women don’t “posess [sic] the characteristics necessary to govern” because they rely on “emotional reasoning.”
George Santos, a nominee in New York, claimed he was the victim of election fraud in his failed 2020 bid. Sam Peters, a nominee in Nevada who has used the “#QArmy” hashtag and embraced being called the “male” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, characterized those facing charges for the insurrection as “civically engaged American citizens exercising their constitutional freedoms.” And Iowa nominee Zach Nunn, who found it suspicious that Capitol Police couldn’t “stop a bunch of middle-aged individuals from walking onto the floor,” argued that “not a single one” of the defendants was charged with and convicted of insurrection. (That’s because the charge is “seditious conspiracy.”) Madison Gesiotto Gilbert, a nominee from Ohio, was precocious in her false claims of election fraud: She claimed in 2018 that a voting machine had switched her vote in the Ohio Senate race from Republican to Democrat.
Of course, the People’s House has always attracted the eccentric, and even the shady, from both parties. But the would-be Republican Class of ’22 is extraordinary in the number of oddballs and extremists in its ranks. This is no accident: The trend in Republican primaries, accelerated by Trump, has favored those with the most eye-popping tapestry of conspiracy theories and unyielding positions. GOP primaries are dominated by a sliver of the electorate on the far right.
That’s why they produce figures such as Erik Aadland, a Colorado nominee who claims that the 2020 election was “absolutely rigged” and that the country is “on the brink of being taken over by a communist government” — and who has followed various extremist groups, including the Proud Boys, on social media. In New Jersey, Frank Pallotta is again a Republican nominee, after declaring during his 2020 run for the same seat that he stands by the Oath Keepers, a group whose leaders are now on trial over Jan. 6.
Starting in January, a likely narrow Republican majority might have to find consensus among a freshman class that can’t agree on basic facts. Karoline Leavitt, a nominee in New Hampshire, claims that “the alleged ‘existential threat of climate change’ is a manufactured crisis by the Democrat Party.” In Virginia, nominee Yesli Vega argued that it was less likely for a rape victim to become pregnant because “it’s not something that’s happening organically.” Also in Virginia, nominee Hung Cao asserted that more “people get bludgeoned to death and stabbed to death than they get shot,” which is wrong by an order of magnitude.
California business owner flees Golden State, heads for Alabama: ‘It’s crazy out there’ | Fox Business
Derek Thoms, who owns several laundromats in California, discusses what prompted him to move his family out of California.
Derek Thoms, who owns several laundromats in California, said he moved his family out of the Golden State to Alabama because of the increase in crime.
Thoms told “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” on Monday that what prompted him to move his family to Alabama included the fact that the state has “low crime” and “more strict laws.”
“They’re definitely not afraid to put people in jail,” he told host Neil Cavuto. “You just don’t have to deal with all the stuff that comes with California,” the business owner added.
“I mean, you have to be sensitive to everyone in California, even especially as a business owner, you really fear even saying the wrong thing to somebody and being boycotted out there,” Thoms continued. “It’s crazy out there.”
Derek Thoms, who owns several laundromats in California, says the rise in crime made him want to move his family out of the state. (istock / iStock)
He also noted that several of his locations were targeted by those attempting to steal from him, sometimes in broad daylight. The business owner says they often don’t get away with anything, but cause a lot of damage. He captured the incidents on his security cameras, which showed that some of the same offenders come back more than once.
Thoms, who still owns several laundromats in Northern California, including Oakland, told Cavuto that he is hoping to sell his businesses in the state given “it is just too expensive to try and move everything.”
He said that he recently purchased a laundromat in Alabama with his brother, who also moved to the state.
“So if we can restart out here and slowly phase the California ones out, that would be ideal,” Thoms said.
Fraser Ross, owner of Kitson Los Angeles, says criminals use masks, hats and hoodies to hide their identities.
Meantime, another California business owner has been documenting an uptick in crime. In fact, the Los Angeles store he owns banned customers from wearing masks inside the establishment, due to “daily” escalations in crime and the inability to identify criminals after recent robberies.
Fraser Ross, owner of Kitson Los Angeles, said on “Fox & Friends” Monday that thieves wear masks, hats and hoodies to hide their identities.
“In a lineup, we’d never be able to identify them,” he said. “The cameras in the store can’t identify them. The security guard in front of the store can’t identify them.”
Ross said he’s fed up with masking after employees were threatened by thieves. He said he was choked and pepper-sprayed inside the store during one incident.
Ross said his business now spends $150,000 per year for security in an effort to deter criminals.
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He also said that now, during regular hours, customers are required to remove masks for the safety of employees and the security of the business.
“We’ve got to protect the assets of the company and our staff now,” Ross said.
“It makes total sense,” Thoms said, reacting to Ross’ decision not to allow masks during regular business hours.
“Every recent crime that has happened in the laundromats, they get to hide behind their COVID mask.”
“They will come in when the stores are open, not even necessarily breaking in at night; they will come in midday and kind of wait for an empty time, but they’ll still be able to wear their mask and hide their face,” Thoms added. “So I completely understand what he is saying.”
FOX News’ Amy Nelson contributed to this report.
Lea Michele to Star in ‘Funny Girl’ After Beanie Feldstein’s Departure – The New York Times
The “Glee” co-creator Ryan Murphy had gotten the rights to “Funny Girl,” thinking that Michele’s character would audition for the role on the TV series and then, perhaps, Michele would star in the show in real life. In a 2017 appearance on Andy Cohen’s talk show, Michele said they had been considering collaborating on a Broadway production after the end of “Glee,” but it felt too soon because she had just performed many of the songs on the TV show.
“But I feel really ready to do it now,” she said on the show, “so maybe we can do it soon.”
That dream did not come to fruition — until now.
Michele was 8 years old when she made her Broadway debut as Young Cosette in “Les Misérables,” but spent more than a decade focused primarily on television. Michele sang at last month’s Tony Awards during a reunion performance with other original cast members of “Spring Awakening.”
In 2020 the meal-kit company HelloFresh terminated its partnership with Michele after a former “Glee” castmate, Samantha Marie Ware, who is Black, tweeted that Michele had been responsible for “traumatic microaggressions” toward her. Michele released an apologetic statement on Instagram saying she did not recall making a specific comment that Ware wrote about, but adding that she had been reflecting on her past behavior. “Whether it was my privileged position and perspective that caused me to be perceived as insensitive or inappropriate at times or whether it was just my immaturity and me just being unnecessarily difficult, I apologize for my behavior and for any pain which I have caused,” she wrote.
The current production of “Funny Girl,” which opened in April at the August Wilson Theater, has had strong ticket sales, grossing an average of about $1.2 million each week during the 14 full weeks since it started performances. The show’s only nomination at last month’s Tony Awards was for Jared Grimes’s role as Brice’s friend, Eddie Ryan, a tap-dance extraordinaire who aids Brice’s rise in show business.
Grimes will continue in his role, as will Ramin Karimloo, who plays Brice’s suave love interest, Nick Arnstein.