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Governor Moore to Republicans on Baltimore Bridge Funding: ‘It’s Not a Political Issue… It’s a Patriotic Responsibility’
TheGrio caught up with Moore after the Maryland governor met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and members of Congress on Capitol Hill.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., met with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on the U.S. Capitol to discuss efforts to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore despite opposition from House Republicans.
“This is not a political issue,” Moore told the Grio newspaper. “It’s not biased. It’s a patriotic responsibility.”
He added: “We have six people that we lost in Maryland, but how can we make sure we honor that?”
Maryland’s governor met with the Jeffries family on Thursday shortly after the House Minority Leader’s weekly news conference.
During the conference, Jeffries told the Grio that House Democrats are leading the hassle to “be able to ensure that the city of Baltimore, the people of Baltimore, and certainly immigrant families who have experienced bereavement have the support that they need in this moment of great crisis.”
Moore told the Grio that he was “grateful” for the chance to talk to Jeffries and other members of Congress.
“We just continue to emphasize the importance of the bridge not only to the state of Maryland, but the importance of the bridge to the economy of this country,” Moore said. “I’m grateful that the leader (Jeffries) has already been incredibly supportive of this work.”
Thursday’s meeting got here after Maryland’s Democratic congressional delegation, U.S. Reps. Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Steny Hoyer, John Sarbanes and Dutch Ruppersberger appeared on the House floor to urge their Republican colleagues to support the hassle to rebuilding the bridge on Wednesday.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who also spoke on the House floor together with her Democratic colleagues, told the Grio on Thursday that it was necessary for her to take the stand because she is from Baltimore.
“I’m concerned about what happened to the bridge and what it means for our country and our economy, for the jobs and the lives of the people who lost their lives there,” Pelosi said.
On March 26, at roughly 1:30 a.m., the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed when a large cargo ship struck certainly one of the bridge’s support beams, causing the bridge to collapse into the Patapsco River. The tragedy claimed the lives of six migrant construction staff.
“Tens of thousands of people whose jobs depend on the port… we have a port that is responsible for approximately $70 billion in economic activity not only in the state but across the country,” Governor Moore said.
He added that Baltimore has “the largest port in the country for new passenger cars and heavy trucks and agricultural products.”
After the bridge collapse, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would spend $60 million in relief funds to rebuild the bridge.
However, some House Republicans refused to support a bill providing additional funding. Some even went to date as to blame the tragedy on diversity, equity and inclusion.
U.S. Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Utah, he tweeted message with a headshot of Baltimore Port Commissioner Karenthia A. Barber – who happens to be a black woman. The congressman wrote: “This is what happens when we have governors who put diversity ahead of the well-being and safety of their citizens.”
Others joined Lyman in calling Moore and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott “DEI is hiring” on social media.
Moore told TheGrio that he “didn’t take the time” to address the far-right attacks, as an alternative prioritizing “honoring the families and bringing closure to them… and making sure that we support the people who have been impacted.”
Despite the refusal of some House Republicans to support the Biden-Harris administration’s plan to rebuild the Baltimore bridge, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, R-N.Y., told the Grio that he has “absolute faith that Biden will somehow give money to Wes Moore Quick.”
“Baltimore will get what it needs,” Bowman said. “The administration will make sure of it.”
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During the NABJ-WHYY panel, Harris showed us once again that she won’t let Trump define the conversation.
“Sometimes your adversaries will try to turn your strength into weakness,” she said. “Don’t let them. Don’t let them.”
In that moment, she’s portrayed her joy and laughter as strengths, and Trump as someone who would attempt to idiot her and all of us into pondering they weren’t strengths. She’s portraying Trump as a thief of joy — almost a cartoonish Grinch-like villain — but without actually or overtly saying anything provocative. The Trump campaign is filled with attempts to attract Harris into ridiculous conversations, corresponding to whether immigrants eat pets in Springfield, Ohio. Harris has been steadfast throughout her campaign in refusing to let Trump frame the conversation or select the setting of the moment. She’s not here to reply to his madness. She’s running her own race.
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She then responded to Gaynor’s query by adding more commentary on the subject of joy. “I find joy in the American people,” she said. “I find joy in the optimism… I find joy in the ambition of the people.” She listed several places where she found joy, poetically linking each with the words, “I find joy in…” It was the type of repetition you would possibly expect from a black preacher. She ended the list with, “I find joy in believing that the true measure of a leader’s strength is not who you knock down, but who you lift up.”
All of this jogged my memory that it is a campaign based on optimism, not pessimism, regret, anger and fear-mongering.
At one point she was asked about Springfield, Ohio, home to immigrants Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance falsely accused of eating pets. She didn’t let Trump lead the conversation. When asked about the city, she modified the subject to people. She said it was school picture day they usually needed to evacuate the kids. She began talking about the kids. Harris again insisted on fascinated by people and refused to follow Trump’s conversation. Watch her do that during the race — it’s clearly her selection. Harris is deliberate in avoiding responding to Trump. She doesn’t follow the conversation into the mental gutter he wants to guide her to. Instead, she comes across as a babbling old geezer, and she’s above the argument and above him.
Stevie Wonder is embarking on a 10-city U.S. tour to coincide with the upcoming presidential election.
The “Sing Your Song! As We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart” tour, titled after Wonder’s latest politically themed single, will happen it stops in key states, reports. The 25-time Grammy Award winner will kick off the tour on October 8 on the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with stops in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Greensboro, Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee and Minneapolis, before wrapping up on October 30 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The official announcement says the tour calls for “joy over anger, kindness over resentment, peace over war.” It also notes that “as a special thank you,” Wonder will offer quite a lot of free tickets to “those in our communities who are already working tirelessly to mend the broken heart of our nation.”
The tour announcement comes a month after Wonder gave an electrifying performance and speech on the Democratic National Convention on “the importance of action.”
“It’s time to understand where we are and what it’s going to take to win: win the broken hearts, win the disappointed, win the angry souls — now is the time,” the legendary singer told the group.
“This is the moment to remember, when you tell your kids where you’ve been and what you’ve done… We have to choose courage over complacency. It’s time to stand up!” he said, changing his tone to an appeal, “and go vote!” He then launched into his 1973 classic, “Higher Ground.”
Stevie Wonder’s “Sing Your Song! As We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart” tour dates are listed below:
- October 8: Pittsburgh, PA, PPG Paints Arena
- October 10: New York, New York, Madison Square Garden
- October 12: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wells Fargo Center
- October 15: Baltimore, Maryland, CFG Bank Arena
- October 17: Greensboro, North Carolina, Greensboro Coliseum
- October 19: Atlanta, Georgia, State Farm Arena
- October 22: Detroit, Michigan, Little Caesars Arena
- October 24: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Fiserv Forum
- October 27: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Target Center
- October 30 Grand Rapids, Michigan, Van Andel Arena
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Michael Eric Dyson slams congresswoman Nancy Mace’s claims he flirted with her in text, accuses her of trying to ‘exploit the situation’
Michael Eric Dyson has slammed suggestions that he was flirting with Congresswoman Nancy Mace after she accused him of calling her a racist in an interview with CNN last month.
The interview with the South Carolina lawmaker and Vanderbilt professor made headlines after Mace repeatedly mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’ name during the interview and refused to correct herself. Dyson never called her a racist on air, but he explained why her behavior was problematic.
“When you disrespect Kamala Harris by saying you can call her whatever you want, I know that’s not your intention, that’s the history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of black people,” Dyson told Mace in the interview.
During a congressional hearing Thursday, Mace showed her fellow lawmakers a screenshot of a message Dyson sent her that included a photograph the pair took after a CNN interview that portrayed them as flirtatious.
“He says in this piece, after he called me a racist on CNN, ‘Don’t tell anyone we look good together,’ and he sent me a kissy face emoji,” the South Carolina lawmaker said at a hearing Thursday. “Then the guy says I’m gorgeous in all these pictures. I don’t think he’s that bothered by how someone pronounces Kamala. And if we’re going to have that standard, it has to be applied to both sides, not just one or the other.”6
Dyson posted a response on Instagram, fuming over Mace’s behavior during the hearing. He read the entire exchange with Mace and explained that he was joking about how united they looked in photos taken after the CNN interview, given their very different political positions.
“I’m not hitting on Nancy Mace. This is a woman trying to take advantage of a situation, trying to pretend I’m trying to hit on her,” Dyson said. “You’re trying to generate meanness and cruelty because you’re so bitter about getting your ass kicked that night because I told you that night what you were doing was wrong,” he said of Mace.
He also condemned Mace’s characterization of the intentions behind the lyrics as “malicious”, “misleading” and ultimately “racist”.
“Your attempt is sad and pathetic, but your bigoted and racist attempt will fail,” Dyson noted. “There was no attempt to do anything other than be nice to you, but you have proven to be what I said you are not — a cruel, white supremacist racist who is incapable of accepting the generosity and kindness of a black man. You are a pathetic, sick soul.”
While some web users found the text flirtatious, others got here to Dyson’s defense.
“This is a very strategic framing of this interaction for her to do exactly this. Why didn’t she share the entire exchange?” one person said.
“She’s clearly trying to extend her 15 minutes of shame on TV. Time to let it go,” one other comment read.
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