Andrew Malcolm

Patrick Schreiber, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who has served for 27 years with six tours of duty, adopted his Korean-born daughter when she was 17. Patrick Schreiber, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who has served for 27 years with six tours of duty, adopted his Korean-born daughter when she was 17. Retired Army Lt. Col. Patrick Schreiber was deployed to Afghanistan in 2013 when a critical deadline passed for his now-adopted daughter Hyebin to be able to apply for U. S. citizenship. But she had just turned 17 and the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services age limit for a foreign-born adopted child to become a naturalized U.S. citizen is 16.

We can’t continue with the status quo,” said Scott Arceneaux, a former Florida Democratic Party executive who helped push Democrats’ voter advantage over Republicans to 560,000 during President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. And Democrats are calling on deep-pocketed donors to give up their usual tax-deductible donations to the nonprofits that register voters in nonpartisan efforts — often known by their federal tax code number, 501c3 — and divert some of their money to the state party or into independent “dark money” 501c4 political operations that, without disclosing donors, can push a partisan message. But this summer, for the first time since the state began tracking third-party voter registration organizations, the Republican National Committee signed up to register voters in the state. Gruters, a state senator and 2016 co-chairman of Trump’s Florida campaign, said the party has dedicated 16 employees to registering voters across the state, and hired Matt Parker, a field strategist who worked for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign, as a $180,000-a-year registration director.

Driven by a contest that’s widely expected to draw record voter turnout, political operatives and volunteers from both parties have begun diligently ramping up their electoral efforts — dead set on gaining an advantage in the key 2020 general election battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida. Some volunteers are even offering to take early retirement or a career sabbatical to commit to Wisconsin’s Democratic party full-time between now and Election Day, Wikler said, noting it all adds up to a level of participation that matches 2018, when the state held contentious gubernatorial and Senate races. RNC and campaign officials told McClatchy that, while the Democrats may have kept their 2018 operations in place, Trump’s apparatus never shut down after the last general election and has consistently grown since 2015 from an impassioned, haphazard effort to one “befitting an incumbent.” “Democrats can try, but they will fail to approach the success of the ground game President Trump and Republicans already have in place in key states,” said Erin Perrine, deputy communications director for the Trump campaign. The 2020 re-elect campaign has erected a structure with regional political and field directors, state directors, data directors and organizers that dwarfs Trump’s general election campaign when it first began in the spring of 2016.

Nope, didn’t really know the guy, say many listed in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘little black book’ Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein has been a free man, despite sexually abusing dozens of underage girls according to police and prosecutors. Those are the kinds of answers offered by people listed in Jeffrey Epstein’s “little black book. A lot of these people are making efforts to distance themselves.” Those who did comment often said they were in the book because of their ties to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s socialite girlfriend, alleged enabler and business associate. It’s unclear why she appears in the book, and a staffer said Theodoli was on vacation and could not be reached for comment.