MOORE-MENTUM: The Washington Reporter made a rare pre-primary endorsement of Rep. Barry Moore (R., Ala.) ahead of his Senate runoff; we argued that Alabama Republican voters should stand with President Donald Trump and send Moore to the Senate to succeed Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.). We are pleased to see that voters did just that, handing Moore a decisive victory.
CUBAN VS. KHANNA: Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban, a frequent subject of Washington Reporter interviews, is feuding online with Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) about healthcare policy — which Cuban has made into one of his hot-button issues. “I have an idea for you,” Cuban wrote to Khanna. “Get a bunch of Dem donors to buy or lease or take over a small hospital. Plenty are close to going out of business. Have it charge ONLY MEDICARE RATES. For everything. Be completely transparent with every penny you spend so everyone can see what it truly costs to run a small hospital. See if you can make it work. See what services you can offer. Do not ask for any government subsidies. It has to operate at least to break even. There are some hospitals that already do this. It wouldn’t be unique. If it works out, you can buy another one. Then another one. Till you have a network. I’ll help where I can. And for those asking the inevitable, I have tried. As I posted earlier, they all ghosted me after learning how transparent I wanted to be.”
LOCK IN FAM: One of the top aides to Janeese Lewis George, the likely next Mayor of Washington, D.C., posted that her “mission is black queer disabled feminist joy and liberation…lock in fam.”
UNDETERRED: Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) was one of the reported targets of the would-be assassins from this past weekend’s UFC fight at the White House. Blackburn, however, is undeterred by the threat on her life. “I will not let maniacs like this one deter me from celebrating or serving this great nation, and I am grateful to law enforcement for keeping us safe,” she said.
ALL IN THE FAMILY: Abdul El-Sayed, one of the leading candidates for Senate in Michigan for the Democrats, has a “queer communist half-sister” who is currently facing felony charges for spitting on police officers. The Sentinel Action Fund (SAF) tied that to how one of El-Sayed’s former staffers was arrested for “terrorizing” University of Michigan leaders. SAF noted that El-Sayed’s “former staffer isn’t the only person in his circle with radical beliefs and disdain for law enforcement. His ‘queer communist half-sister’ is cut from the same cloth.”
GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT: Scott Kupor, the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is out with another reaction video that is on its way to going viral. Watch it here.
FAKE NEWS: Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R., S.D.) team is pushing back against a report in the Daily Caller that claimed that Thune said that some Senate Republicans “hate Trump too much to support Save American Act.” Ryan Wrasse, Thune’s communications director, called the story the “the fakest of fake news.”
BIG BIRTHDAY WEEK: The Washington Reporter wishes a happy birthday to Newsmax’s Kyra LaMotte, the House Small Business Committee’s AB Langley, the Department of Education’s David Samberg, Rep. Carlos Gimenez’s Roberto Lugones, and to Sen. Rick Scott’s Elli Dalton.
CONGRATS: Congratulations to Allen English and Audrey Kittila on their recent engagement!
