DOJ MADE GOOD MOVE BARRING FED FUNDS TO ROGUE CITIES LIKE SEATTLE!
Related news story: Seattle is an ‘anarchist’ city, Trump administration says--Seattle Times
Commentary: By Peter Ripley.
Yesterday I shared the press release link to the DOJ about this story, here it is again, in case you missed it: Department Of Justice Identifies New York City, Portland And Seattle As Jurisdictions Permitting Violence And Destruction Of Property.
Identification is Response to Presidential Memorandum Reviewing Federal Funding to State and Local Governments that are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities.
The U.S. Department of Justice today identified the following three jurisdictions that have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities: New York City; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. The Department of Justice is continuing to work to identify jurisdictions that meet the criteria set out in the President’s Memorandum and will periodically update the list of selected jurisdictions as required therein.
The list was published on DOJ’s website today in response to President Trump’s memorandum of September 2, 2020, entitled “Memorandum on Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities.”
“When state and local leaders impede their own law enforcement officers and agencies from doing their jobs, it endangers innocent citizens who deserve to be protected, including those who are trying to peacefully assemble and protest,” said Attorney General William P. Barr. “We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance. It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens.”
Criteria for evaluating each city is below:
Whether a jurisdiction forbids the police force from intervening to restore order amid widespread or sustained violence or destruction.
Whether a jurisdiction has withdrawn law enforcement protection from a geographical area or structure that law enforcement officers are lawfully entitled to access but have been officially prevented from accessing or permitted to access only in exceptional circumstances, except when law enforcement officers are briefly withheld as a tactical decision intended to resolve safely and expeditiously a specific and ongoing unlawful incident posing an imminent threat to the safety of individuals or law enforcement officers.
Whether a jurisdiction disempowers or defunds police departments.
Whether a jurisdiction unreasonably refuses to accept offers of law enforcement assistance from the Federal Government.
Any other related factors the Attorney General deems appropriate.
Seattle, Washington
For nearly a month, starting in June, the City of Seattle permitted anarchists and activists to seize six square blocks of the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, naming their new enclave the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) and then the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP).
Law enforcement and fire fighters were precluded from entering the territory. The Seattle Police Department was ordered to abandon their precinct within the CHOP.
Person-related crime in the CHOP increased 525% from the same period of time in the same area the year before, including by Mayor Durkan’s own count “two additional homicides, 6 additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated assaults (to include 2 additional non-fatal shootings).”
The CHOP was allowed to stand for nearly a month, during which time two teenagers were shot and killed in the zone.
The Seattle City Council, Mayor Durkan, and Washington Governor Jay Inslee publicly rejected federal involvement in law enforcement activities within the city of Seattle.
Editorial Note: I agree that if you allow your city to be overthrown by Marxist groups like Antifa, and BLM, allowing these thugs to destroy property, and try and force people out of their homes. You don't get funding period!
TODAY'S TOP STORY...
Senators Murray, Cantwell, Representative Larsen Announce More Than $5.5M in Federal Funding for Paine Field.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the Ranking Member on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and U.S. Representative Rick Larsen (D, WA-02) in announcing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $5,555,555 to Paine Field in Snohomish County. The funding comes from the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program (AIP) and will be used to rehabilitate the Echo taxi lane.
“As Paine Field works like all of us to navigate the devastating economic consequences of this pandemic, this injection of federal funding couldn’t be more timely,” said Senator Murray. “I’m glad to see the federal government and partners on the state and local level work collaboratively to help make Paine Field whole, and I’m going to keep pushing with my colleagues in the other Washington to make sure our airports are getting the federal assistance they need during this uncertain time to keep workers on the job and planes taxiing on the runway.”
“When the formula in the last COVID relief bill left out assistance to Paine Field and put the airport in a significant cash crunch, we worked with the FAA on a solution. I’m glad to see today that Paine Field will receive $5 million from the Airport Improvement Program to help keep the airport financially sound. Paine Field is too important to the region, to the state and to our aviation workforce to not keep it fully operational. As Congress considers another COVID relief bill and additional support for aviation and airports, this funding will help the airport stay on a strong footing,” said Senator Cantwell.
“Paine Field’s commercial air service is a vital part of the regional economy and supports local jobs here in Northwest Washington,” said Representative Larsen, a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and Chair of the House Aviation Committee. “This supplemental grant funding will help ensure Paine Field can continue to maintain operations and support the aviation workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Our congressional delegation has once again come through for us,” said Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers. “When we approached them earlier this year about the loophole that kept Snohomish County’s Paine Field Airport from getting appropriate funding, they immediately jumped into action. I particularly want to thank Senator Cantwell, Congressman Larsen, and Senator Murray for their hard work to make this happen. Paine Field accounts for $60 billion in economic impact and over 159,000 jobs. These federal funds will help us recover more quickly from the COVID-19 pandemic and save jobs.”
Paine Field is the economic engine of Snohomish County, supporting 159,000 jobs and $60 billion in annual business activity. The grant announcement comes after Paine Field was shortchanged in funding allocated to airports from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, since the formula used to allocate the grants was based on how many passengers an airport served in 2018. Passenger airline service at Paine Field did not begin until March 2019.
Paine Field has quickly become a favorite among travelers in Snohomish County and Seattle’s North End. In February 2020, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, monthly passenger traffic at Paine Field was 71,022 travelers. One year after the opening of Paine Field’s passenger terminal, the airport hit 1 million travelers. Last month, Larsen landed at Paine Field on its first day back in operation following the airport’s 10-week closure for planned ramp repairs.
Cantwell, Murray, and Larsen have long supported the AIP and helped airports throughout Washington state get funding through the program. From 2013-2020, Washington state airports have received more than $600 million in grants from the program.
IN TODAY'S HEADLINES...
WORLD NEWS HEADLINES:
UN chief appeals for global solidarity at General Assembly, warns COVID is ‘dress rehearsal’ for challenges ahead.
In his centerpiece address to the historic and unprecedented 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for global solidarity to overcome the COVID-19, and again call for a global ceasefire during the pandemic, by the end of the year.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1072972
DPRK nuclear activities still ‘cause for serious concern’, says UN atomic energy chief.
Nuclear activities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) “remain a cause for serious concern”, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in Vienna on Monday.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1072922
US delivering ‘peace through strength’: President Trump tells UN.
Speaking on Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump lauded the military power of his country, which, he said, demonstrates that the country is “fulfilling its destiny as peacemaker, but it is peace through strength”.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1073002
NATIONAL HEADLINES:
AI Aids DOD in Early Detection of COVID-19--DOD
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Defense Innovation Unit are applying commercial technology for early detection of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, which causes the COVID-19 coronavirus disease.
Trump Administration Invests $268 Million in Rural Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Improvements in 28 States---USDA
BUSINESS & FINANCE:
Chamber’s Clark: Racial Equality is ‘Essential’ to U.S. Competitiveness---US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act--THE FED
STATE NEWS HEADLINES:
This year’s predatory pikeminnow reward fishery extended through Oct. 11, rewards temporarily increased.
OLYMPIA – This year’s Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery, which for 30 years has paid anglers to catch qualifying northern pikeminnow in the Columbia River basin, has been extended through Oct. 11 at select registration stations. In addition, the program has increased incentives for anglers to help reduce the number of these predatory fish where threatened or endangered salmon or steelhead may be present.
State auditor: UC wrongly admitted well-connected students--The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/article245919185.html#storylink=hpdigest_politics
IN OTHER HEADLINES...
Amy Barrett — Immediately, If Not Sooner
President Trump has the right nominee at the right moment in American history.---American Spectator
https://spectator.org/amy-barrett-immediately-if-not-sooner/
NFL Finds Itself Tuned Out as Fans Change Channel--NEWS MAX
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/blm-goodell-jones/2020/09/21/id/988026/
Who is Pascale Ferrier, the woman accused of sending ricin to Trump?---NY POST
https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/who-is-pascale-ferrier-the-woman-accused-of-sending-ricin-to-trump/
VIDEO: The One Where Joe Biden Says 'I Lost My Line' in the Middle of a Softball Interview---PJ MEDIA
Biden's SCOTUS Political Play
Joe charges Trump with politicizing the Court while refusing to release his own list.--Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/73630-bidens-scotus-political-play-2020-09-22
Mask Fanatics Have Officially Abandoned Science To Control Your Life
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is now requiring people to wear masks while playing sports. 'Experts' say that’s dangerous, but mask fanatics apparently know better than those they revered just months ago.--The Federalist
What You Need to Know About Supreme Court Confirmation Process, and Trump’s Top Picks---Daily Signal
