Discussion: Fresno Bee, Devin Nunes' Hometown Paper, Endorses Dem Opponent Andrew Janz

Their endorsement is well written and clearly speaking to the people of this district.

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Great news. Let’s roll dems

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Boom!

I had wondered about the Bee, thinking it had let Devin get away with baloney for years. But recently we learned that the family farm operation has long been in Iowa. Then there was Eric Swallwell’s devastating piece in the Bee a couple days ago. And now this. Good job, Bee. Now let’s hope Janz can motivate voters.

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I’m thinking the story about the family farm in Iowa made somewhat of an impact.

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now how did Hillary pull that off?
e-mails and dark $$$$$$ lol
Nunes, dust in the wind

Meanwhile in the dark of night, Devin rushes to the White House, the Fresno Bee under his arm, yelling “Boss! Boss!”

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The California Report, produced by KQED, reported that:
This week, some residents in Republican Rep. Devin Nunes’ Central Valley district received a piece of political campaign mail that was unlike your typical mailer asking for donations. It’s a 38-page, full-size color magazine titled “The Fresno Bees: The dirty little secrets of the Valley’s propaganda machine.”

The cover shows cartoon bees drunk on Kool-Aid aboard a ship that’s about to sink. Inside, Fresno Bee reporters and their recently published stories about the congressman and his campaign for re-election are discredited as unethical and unprofessional. Local business owners, elected officials and other community members are quoted criticizing the paper and lauding Nunes, who is also chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. At least one reporter is pictured in the magazine.

from: https://www.kqed.org/news/11696756/is-rep-devin-nunes-at-war-with-his-local-newspaper

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Is Nunes sure he distributed that in the right state?

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Unfortunately he’s probably going to win.

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Yeah, polling not looking too good for Janz, per 538’s aggregation. More’s the pity. Still time to turn it around, but not looking too hopeful :worried:

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“Usually when we see negative mailers we see, you know, a single, 8½-11 kind of two-sided postcard," Bryant said. "So, to think how much this must have cost the campaign and how much effort was put into it, it’s pretty impressive.”

I’m sure his Russian friends didn’t mind picking up the tab…

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Yes. It’s called rural California.

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Lovely rebuke of Putin’s second favorite Congressman.

My quip was made because he portrays himself as a family farmer in CA whereas his extended family has moved to Iowa where they run a dairy farm in an area where such farms are dependent on illegal immigrants.

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I think it is his family farm. And when John Heilman did the gumshoe work for the original Esquire story on this, he was followed by a white SUV that he had observed on the Nunes Family’s Iowa farm. Kind of like Jon Krakauer being followed by the Mormon Goon Squad that began following him when he was driving through one of the Jeff residential compounds.

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Here’s someone else that needs not be endorsed. I thought the same thing when I noticed Columbus Day on the calendar. That we need to quit celebrating him.

The Bee is all over Nunes and that’s got him pissed. He took out an ad against the Bee; guess he never heard the one about an enemy who buys ink by the barrel . . .

https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article213209074.html

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Overheard at Date’s in Dinuba yesterday, “Nunes moved away from us here in the Valley a long time ago.”

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From the article:

The magazine begins with a letter from Nunes campaign chairman Bob Smittcamp and finance director Tony Souza describing the Bee’s stories on Nunes as “derived from baseless insinuations from liberal groups,” in violation of “basic journalistic standards on ethics, objectivity and fact checking,” and equivalent to personal attacks on Smittcamp and Souza themselves.

As it happens, derived from baseless insinuations from liberal groups is the name of my garage band.

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