Hillary mad at Sanders "lying"

"Hillary Clinton got angry when confronted by a voter Thursday over donations she has received from the fossil fuel industry.
She was asked if she will follow through on her “word” to refuse “fossil fuel money” going to her campaign.
“I have money from people who work from fossil fuel companies,” replied Clinton. She then said angrily, “I am so sick! I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about that, I am sick of it.” DailyCaller

Montana: Kasich ballot access challenged by Cruz

"Montana’s presidential primaries are June 7.....officials of the Ted Cruz campaign say they have examined the petition to put John Kasich on the Republican presidential primary, and they believe Kasich does not have enough valid signatures." BAN

Trump meets with RNC

"Trump was scheduled to be in the nation's capital to meet with his foreign policy team, but his

appearance at the RNC came as a surprise.
An RNC source told NBC News the meeting was planned last week and was originally intended to be a short, informal stop merely to take advantage of Trump's previously planned trip to D.C. But the New York real estate mogul ultimately spent nearly an hour huddling with GOP officials Thursday for a discussion that the source said included party unity and "a few other things" Priebus had hoped to discuss." NBC

Hillary to be Questioned by FBI

"Wednesday night, Shuster just reported on the 7:00 PM EST AJAM nightly newscast that the FBI has completed its examination of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton‘s private email server after an investigation lasting nearly one year. The former Fox News and MSNBC reporter states investigators are nearing a verdict whether to seek criminal charges against the Former Secretary of State, Senator and First Lady." Mediaite

Trump abortion comments draws fire from all sides

"Donald Trump’s assertion that “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who have illegal abortions sparked a firestorm of criticism across the political spectrum, with Democrats and Republicans as well as abortion rights activists and antiabortion activists condemning the Republican frontrunner.

Hillary Clinton was among the first to do so." yahoo

D.C. Dems stick it to Sanders

"As a result of a registration error committed by the District of Columbia Democratic Party, Sen. Bernie Sanders won't appear on the Washington D.C. ballot.
The Vermont senator's name won't appear on the ballot because the party submitted the requisite paperwork one day too late....Both the Sanders' campaign and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's campaign paid the $2,500 fee to appear on the June 14 Democratic primary ballot on time but the district's Democratic Party failed to inform the Washington D.C. Board of Elections until March 17, one day after the deadline." Politico

Sanders Edging Hillary in Wisconsin Poll

"Voters planning to vote for Democratic presidential candidates  (March Marquette Law School poll results released Wednesday, March 30, 2016)
 

• 49% Bernie Sanders
• 45% Hillary Clinton
• 6% Not sure" 15WMTV Madison

Rubio to hold onto delegates

"Despite suspending his campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio is attempting to keep every delegate he won while running for president.
The unusual move reflects preparations for a contested convention this summer — and comes as Donald Trump backed away from an earlier pledge to support the Republican party's nominee if he is treated unfairly after winning more delegates than his rivals.
Rubio aide Alex Burgos told MSNBC that while the Florida senator is "no longer a candidate," he "wants to give voters a chance to stop Trump."

                      

When presidential candidates suspend their campaigns, typically their delegates become free to support the candidate of their own choosing at the convention. Rubio, however, has quietly been reaching out to party officials with a different approach.
He is personally asking state parties in 21 states and territories to refrain from releasing any of the 172 delegates he won while campaigning this year, MSNBC has learned.
Rubio sent a signed letter to the Chair of the Alaska Republican Party requesting the five delegates he won in that state "remain bound to vote for me" at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July." NBC

Walker endorses Cruz

"He says it was an easy call. The Wisconsin governor endorsed the conservative Republican Ted Cruz for president." USAToday  

G.O.P. U.S. Virgin Islands Caucus from earlier in March

 Delegates Won

Rubio 2

Uncommitted 2

Cruz 1

Trump 1

Kasich 0 CNN

Trumpster Turns on Trump

"The former director of a pro-Donald Trump Super PAC officially defected from Team Trump on Monday with an essay about how she lost faith in her candidate of choice. Stephanie Cegielski, a strategist and communications specialist, says she was brought in to run the Make America Great Again Super PAC last summer, but ultimately came to realize what everyone who hasn’t fallen under the Trump spell could sniff from the very beginning: Trump is wholly unprepared to be president and is only out for himself.

Cegielski paints a picture of a campaign and candidate that began with modest aspirations of hitting double digits in support, but later caught fire and began to believe its own hype. Here’s a sampling of what Cegielski has to say:

Even Trump's most trusted advisors didn’t expect him to fare this well … the goal was to get The Donald to poll in double digits and come in second in delegate count. That was it. The Trump camp would have been satisfied to see him polling at 12% and taking second place to a candidate who might hold 50%. His candidacy was a protest candidacy … And I am now taking full responsibility for helping create this monster — and reaching out directly to those voters who, like me, wanted Trump to be the real deal

…

I don’t think even Trump thought he would get this far. And I don’t even know that he wanted to, which is perhaps the scariest prospect of all. He certainly was never prepared or equipped to go all the way to the White House, but his ego has now taken over the driver’s seat, and nothing else matters. The Donald does not fail. The Donald does not have any weakness. The Donald is his own biggest enemy.

What was once Trump’s desire to rank second place to send a message to America and to increase his power as a businessman has nightmarishly morphed into a charade that is poised to do irreparable damage to this country if we do not stop this campaign in its tracks … He doesn’t want the White House. He just wants to be able to say that he could have run the White House. He’s achieved that already and then some. If there is any question, take it from someone who was recruited to help the candidate succeed, and initially very much wanted him to do so. The hard truth is: Trump only cares about Trump." Slate

Police charge Trump campaign manager with battery

"Florida police have charged Donald Trump's campaign manager with simple battery in connection

with an incident earlier in the month involving a reporter.
After examining the evidence, Jupiter, Florida, police determined that probable cause existed to charge Corey Lewandowski, who has served as Trump's top political aide for his entire presidential run. Police on Tuesday morning issued Lewandowski a notice to appear before a judge on May 4 for the misdemeanor charge, which carries up to a year in jail.
A surveillance video released by the police appears to show Lewandowski grabbing Michelle Fields, who worked for Breitbart News at the time, as she tried to ask Trump a question during a March 8 campaign event.
The Trump campaign said Lewandowski "is absolutely innocent of this charge" in a statement released Tuesday. "He will enter a plea of not guilty and looks forward to his day in court," said the statement. "He is completely confident that he will be exonerated." AP

ISIS Crucifies Priest

ISIS 'crucifies Catholic priest on Good Friday' after kidnapping him from old people's home where four nuns were shot dead

• Father Tom Uzhunnalil was kidnapped by ISIS gunmen in
  
  Yemen
• Terrorist had previously threatened to crucify the Indian Catholic priest 
• Reportedly carried out the threat on Good Friday DailyMail
  

Taliban bombing targets children in Pakistan

"At least 56 people have been killed in a suicide attack in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park of Iqbal Town on Sunday evening, provincial government officials said. Edhi sources add that over 200 are injured.
Iqbal Town Superintendent Police Dr Muhammad Iqbal confirmed this was a suicide attack and took place at a children's park, where a large number of families, especially women and children, were present.
DCO Captain (Retd) Muhammad Usman said the head of the suicide bomber has been recovered. Ball bearings have also been found at the site.
The area is a renowned residential area of Lahore. The blast was just outside the exit gate and a few feet (metres) away from the children's swings.
Eye witnesses said there were pools of blood and scattered body parts across the site of the attack." Dawn

Bird at Sanders Rally

"At a rally in Portland, Ore., on Friday morning, Bernie Sanders had an unexpected visitor.
And the crowd went wild." NPR

Sanders Wins Hawaii Caucus

Democratic

100% Reporting

Delegates Allocated: 34/34

Delegates

B. Sanders	69.8%	23,530	18
H. Clinton	30.0%	10,125	13
Uncommitted	0.1%	43	3
R. De La Fuente	0.0%	12
M. O'Malley	0.0%	6

Politico

Sanders Wins Washington State Caucus

Democratic

100% Reporting

Delegates Allocated: 48/118

Delegates

B. Sanders	72.7%	19,159	23
H. Clinton	27.1%	7,140	18
Uncommitted	0.2%	46

Politico

Sanders Wins Alaska Caucus

Democratic

100% Reporting

Delegates Allocated: 20/20

Delegates

B. Sanders	81.6%	440	13
H. Clinton	18.4%	99	Politico

 

Walker comments on open convention

"A contested Republican National Convention in July could lead to a GOP nominee who's not currently running for president, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker predicted Thursday.
"I think if it's an open convention, it's very likely it would be someone who's not currently running," Walker told reporters Thursday, according to The Capital Times newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin." CBS

National Enquirer goes after Cruz

"Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is battling an entanglement of rumors that allege the Texas senator is "hiding five different mistresses," according to the tabloid the National Enquirer. According to its source, identified as a "Washington insider," "private detectives are digging into at least five affairs Ted Cruz supposedly had," and "the leaked details are an attempt to destroy what's left of his White House campaign." The supposed affairs are detailed in the Enquirer's most recent print issue.

Though unconfirmed, the rumor sparked chatter across social media Friday with the hashtag #CruzSexScandal. People on Twitter were skeptical at best, scathing at worst." yahoo

More Hillary Corruption

 "....the FBI is investigating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for granting favors to her family’s foundation donors and for its systematic accounting fraud.
To take one of so many examples, there’s the case of Clinton Foundation donor Claudio Osorio — who is now housed at a federal prison serving twelve years for fraud — who in 2010, with Hillary’s help (and Bill’s too), won a $10 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
T

he loan was granted to an Osorio firm called InnoVida, which was supposed to build houses in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Instead, Osorio pocketed the money and used it to underwrite his lavish lifestyle and to pay off politicians.
And that leads me to another Clinton Foundation donor Hillary helped out who happened to use Mr. Mantz (who now runs Hillary’s presidential campaign Super PAC) as well, and apparently with the same great effect: Gonzalo Tirado, a crooked Venezuelan financier.
Tirado was president of and ran Venezuelan operations for the famously corrupt Stanford Bank, which was headquartered in Antigua and was named for its American founder, Allen Stanford. He and Stanford came to be extremely close, and “were like father and son,” one well-placed source told me.
Stanford’s name may ring a bell as he was sentenced to prison for 110 years for committing an $8 billion Ponzi scheme .In 2006, the Hugo Chavez government was asked to investigate Tirado by scandal-plagued, pro-Wall Street New York Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, a member of the House Committee on Financial Services and a major recipient of cash and perks from jailbird Allen Stanford. Tirado was charged with tax evasion and theft, The Hill newspaper has reported.
(Tirado, who did not reply to a request for comment, has kept a low profile as of late. His last reported sighting came in 2014, when he unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, or at least claimed he intended to kill himself.).
Incredibly, the Obama administration not only failed to help the Chavez government investigate Tirado, but it also indicted a legendary former DEA agent named Tom Raffanello, a one-time  head of the DEA’s Miami office and the agency’s chief of congressional affairs during Bill Clinton’s first term as president.
Raffanello’s  subsequent prosecution, which ended in abysmal failure, almost surely was prompted and abetted by Tirado, a secret FBI informant. Unsurprisingly, the vindicated Mr. Raffanello had few kind words for Tirado or Hillary during a recent interview.
“Tirado believed in buying influence,” Mr. Raffanello said of the crooked financier. “He wouldn’t give away ten cents that he didn’t think he’d get back a dollar on. That was his entire philosophy.”
As for Hillary, he said that during her years in the Obama administration the “prevailing wisdom in Miami at the time, among people in high profile civl and criminal defense circles, was that giving money to the Clinton Foundation was very helpful. She was secretary of state and a potential future president. I’m sure that’s the same thinking now.”
(Ms. Clinton’s presidential campaign did not reply to a request for comment.)
Up until 2006, life was cushy for pampered, wealthy, jet-setting Gonzalo Tirado, who was running the Stanford Bank’s Venezuela operations. Events took a turn for the worse when an internal Stanford Bank audit discovered that he had fleeced about $5 million from the company.
Tirado’s actions did not sit well with Stanford and the Venezuelan beat a hasty exit from his job. He soon opened a bank of his own and lured in a few local investors. His new enterprise went down the tubes and the defrauded locals, who were very close to the Chavez government, looked to it for help, leading to an investigation of Tirado.
(See this Wikileaked cable for more on the topic and on Tirado’s feud with the Venezuelan government.) That led to the filing of criminal charges against Tirado, as noted above. (The Venezuelan embassy in Washington did not reply to a request for comment.)
Mantz went to work lobbying Hillary’s State Department to let Tirado stay in Miami. Meanwhile, the crooked Tirado donated between $5,000 and $10,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to its website. As is its custom, the foundation does not state when the donation was made and declined to answer questions about the money it took from Tirado.
To sum up here, a corrupt Venezuelan banker hired a lobbyist close to Hillary Clinton, made a donation to her family’s foundation, and has been allowed to live in the United States without fear of prosecution in his homeland." Observer
   

Wisconsin POLL: CRUZing.....

"As establishment Republicans look for ways to slow Donald Trump’s relentless march toward the

party’s presidential nomination, Wisconsin’s winner-take-all GOP primary contest on April 5 offers some intriguing possibilities. In a statewide Emerson College poll released today, Texas Senator Ted Cruz is not only leading Trump 36% to 35% in the upcoming primary, but Cruz is only trailing Hillary Clinton by one point in a hypothetical general election matchup, 46% to 45%. In contrast, Trump is trailing both Clinton and her Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, by the same 9-point margin of 47% to 38% in a potential general election match-up." msn

War over the Wives

"Ted Cruz lashed out at Donald Trump today after the GOP front-runner’s comments about the Texas senator’s wife in recent days.

When asked by ABC News if he could still respect and support Trump were he to win the Republican presidential nomination after the latest attacks, Cruz raised his voice and told Trump to leave his wife, Heidi, "the hell alone."

“I don't get angry often,” Cruz said while campaigning in Wisconsin. “But you mess with my kids, you mess with my wife, Donald, you’re a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone!” yahoo

Obama's Tango in Political Tangle

"Obama and first lady Michelle Obama danced the tango at a state dinner in Argentina. By the next morning, a bipartisan chorus of disapproval of the optics was bursting out on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Obama should not have canceled his trip to Argentina after the attacks in Brussels, said Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, but his recent photo op at a baseball game in Cuba and his tango left much to be desired." Politico

California Poll: Hillary up by 7

 

"Hillary Clinton, who appears well on her way to getting her party's nomination, led Bernie Sanders by 48 percent to 41 percent, according to the poll released Wednesday." SanJoseMercury

California Poll: Trump has 11 point Lead

"In the first independent survey since it became apparent that the Golden State will play a major role in deciding the Republican presidential nominee, the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found that Trump has the support of 38 percent of likely voters, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is favored by 27 percent. Ohio Gov. John Kasich placed a distant third with 14 percent." SanJoseMercury

Kasich on ISIS Attack on Belgium

"John Kasich, in Minneapolis on Tuesday to raise money for his presidential campaign, used the terrorist attacks in Brussels to take swipes at both President Obama and his Republican rivals.
“We are not at war with Islam, we are at war with radical Islam,” Kasich said in advance of a fundraiser at the Minneapolis Club. “In our country, we don’t want to create divisions….Just because you happen to be a Muslim doesn’t mean that you are a radicalized person who wants to destroy somebody in the West.”
TwinCitiesPioneerPress

European Union attacked in Mali

"Gunmen on Monday attacked a hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, that had been converted into the

headquarters of a European Union military training operation, but there no casualties among the mission's personnel.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which began at around 6:30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT), but Mali and neighboring West African countries have increasingly been the target of Islamist militants, some of them affiliated with al Qaeda.
One of the assailants was killed and two suspects were arrested and were being interrogated, the country's internal security minister said." Reuters

POLL: Deadlocked Convention- who to turn to other than Trump?

"Of those who said someone else should prevail at a contested convention, 33 percent favored Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and 23 percent said they would like to see Ohio Gov. John Kasich win the nomination. Others receiving support were Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida (10 percent), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (5 percent), 2012 nominee Mitt Romney (4 percent), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (3 percent) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (2 percent). Eighteen percent said they didn’t know." Politico

Hillary Hits Cruz

"Hillary Clinton calls Ted Cruz’s proposal to patrol Muslim neighborhoods "dangerous" ABC

Jeb Endorses Cruz

Cruz Wins Utah Caucus

Republican

85.4% Reporting

Delegates Allocated: 40/40

Delegates

T. Cruz	69.2%	118,904	40
J. Kasich	16.9%	29,015
D. Trump	14.0%	23,984 Politico

Sanders Wins Utah Caucus

Democratic

81.5% Reporting

Delegates Allocated: 31/37

Delegates

B. Sanders	79.7%	52,185	24
H. Clinton	19.8%	12,993	7
Uncommitted	0.5%	301 Politico

Trump Wins Arizona Primary

Republican

96.5% Reporting

Delegates Allocated: 58/58

Delegates

Trump	47.1%	248,383	58
T. Cruz	24.8%	130,762
M. Rubio	13.4%	70,534
J. Kasich	10.0%	52,679
B. Carson	2.7%	14,307
J. Bush	0.8%	4,069
R. Paul	0.4%	2,025
C. Fiorina	0.2%	1,174
M. Huckabee	0.2%	1,164
C. Christie	0.2%	918
R. Santorum	0.1%	460
L. Graham	0.1%	449
G. Pataki	0.1%	264
T. Cook	0.0%	216 Politico

Hillary Wins Arizona Primary

Democratic

96.5% Reporting

Delegates Allocated: 73/85

Delegates

H. Clinton	57.8%	234,713	46
B. Sanders	39.8%	161,720	27
M. O'Malley	0.9%	3,593
R. De La Fuente	0.6%	2,538
M. Steinberg	0.5%	2,112
H. Hewes	0.4%	1,650 Politico

Sanders wins Idaho Caucus

Democratic

100% Reporting

Delegates Allocated: 23/27

Delegates

B. Sanders	78.0%	18,640	17
H. Clinton	21.2%	5,065	6
Uncommitted	0.7%	175
R. De La Fuente	0.0%	4

Bill Clinton Swipe at Obama

"Former President Bill Clinton faced criticism on Monday for telling voters that the country needed to “put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us,” comments widely interpreted as being critical of President Obama." yahoo

ISIS Attack in Belgium

1. More than 30 people believed killed in attacks on Brussels airport and a central metro station
2.  Two blasts at Zaventem airport - CCTV image of three suspects shown on local media
3.  Airport blasts kill 11, and wounds 81, health minister says
4.  About 20 people killed and 106 injured in Maelbeek metro station bombing
5.  Islamic State militants claim responsibility
6.  The blasts come days after the capture of Salah Abdeslam, the main fugitive in the Paris attacks in November BBC

Sanders goes Perv..... again

"Bernie SandersBernie SandersSanders jokes about topless protester at rallyThe Hill's 12:30 ReportBrussels attacks roil WH raceMORE this week joked about a topless woman who showed up at one of his rallies recently to protest Republican rival Donald Trump.....

"Well I was trying very hard to get every detail," Sanders joked during an interview with Phoenix-area radio station KTAR when asked if he could read text on the woman's chest." TheHill

Cruz at AIPAC

"Cruz, R-Texas, running second to Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential

nomination, took aim at the front-runner in remarks to AIPAC’s annual conference.
In remarks to American Israel Public Affairs Committee activists in Washington, D.C., Monday night, Cruz said he would not remain neutral on Israel and would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital — in contrast with positions Trump had adopted that earned criticism from some in the pro-community.
“Let me be very clear,” Cruz said. “As president I will not be neutral.” JTA