It’s been a helluva year, and that’s not a good thing. For the United States, the watchwords for 2017 have been violence and hatred–against women, African-Americans, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals and basically everyone who isn’t a straight white male. You don’t have to be a master at reading the room to know that greed and ignorance […]
Maui Rep. Angus McKelvey criticizes U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for not denouncing Stephen Bannon
Angered by multiple news reports that U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D–Hawaii, didn’t sign a letter with 169 of her Congressional colleagues denouncing President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of white nationalist Stephen Bannon to be his “chief strategist,” Hawaii Rep. Angus McKelvey, D–West Maui, sent Gabbard a letter of his own. The strongly worded letter criticizes Gabbard […]
UPDATED: Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard met with President-elect Donald Trump this morning
[NOTE: After this story went live Rep. Gabbard’s office released an official statement on her meeting with Trump, so this story has been updated accordingly.] Given our Nov. 18 story about how Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D–Hawaii, didn’t sign this letter from 169 of her Congressional colleagues denouncing President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of white nationalist Stephen […]