This Conservative MP is 'best friends' with Trump running mate J.D. Vance
VP candidate and MP Jamil Jivani bonded over being outsiders at a top U.S. law school
Two men from disparate backgrounds who say they forged a friendship while feeling like outsiders at an elite American institution could help chart the future of the Canada-U.S. relationship.
Those men are Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance — who was picked by former president Trump as his running mate on Monday — and Jamil Jivani, the Conservative MP who was elected to Parliament in a byelection earlier this year.
If their respective parties win power this year and next, the long personal history between these two political neophytes could be an asset for Canada, some politics-watchers say.
Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman told CBC's Power & Politics she is "very happy" to see Trump pick Vance, someone she said is well-known at the embassy for "supporting the Canada-U.S. relationship."
Some European diplomats, meanwhile, are fearful of Vance, an avowed isolationist who's campaigned against more aid for Ukraine.
A second Trump term — which, according to most polls, is the likely scenario — could be a turbulent one for Canada, with talk of a renewed trade war and a sustained push to make allies spend a lot more on defence or risk losing U.S. military support.
Canada is highly dependent on U.S. trade. It's also a long-time laggard on defence spending.
Under a Conservative government, Jivani could be Canada's conduit to the Oval Office.
Anthony Koch, a former spokesperson for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, said it doesn't hurt that one of Poilevre's high-profile recruits is close personal friends with a possible vice-president who's familiar with Canada and its people.
"But at the end of the day, national interest will trump personal interest," Koch told CBC News.
"I suspect both Jamil and J.D. are primarily concerned with serving their constituents more so than being chummy-chummy with the other side. But, yeah, it's cool, we'll see."
Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential
candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) attend the first day of the
Republican National Convention on Monday, July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Vance — a self-described "hillbilly" who grew up in a white working-class Ohio family with roots in neighbouring Kentucky's coal country — and Jivani, the Black son of a single mother from a Toronto suburb, were classmates at Yale Law School.
It was there that the two became, according to Jivani, "best friends."
"We attended a wine-and-cheese reception. I didn't know so many different kinds of cheese existed. And I had never tasted wine before. Needless to say, I felt out of place. Across the room stood a fellow student who seemed equally unfamiliar with wine and cheese," Jivani wrote of Vance in a November 2020 National Post op-ed.
"We went on to develop a strong friendship, forged through moments of shared discomfort over the course of our three years in the Ivy League."
Jivani also performed the Bible reading at Vance's wedding to his wife, Usha. In a social media post, Jivani described the U.S. senator-turned-VP candidate as his "brother."
Conservative
Leader Pierre Poilievre raises the hand of newly-elected Conservative
member of Parliament Jamil Jivani as he introduces him at a caucus
meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
While previously unfamiliar with "hillbillies" and the people of Appalachia, Jivani said he bonded with Vance over their similar personal circumstances — growing up with poverty, addiction, "fatherlessness" and inadequate health care.
Jivani was not available for an interview.
Vance achieved fame after his book, Hillbilly Elegy, became a best-seller amid Trump's rise to the presidency.
Vance's memoir depicts his struggle to succeed in a "rust belt" town damaged by drug addiction and job loss as the manufacturing base was destroyed, in part, by globalization.
Vance's book was praised by critics for offering an inside look at why so many working-class voters in Middle America have grown disaffected with their political leaders.
After the book's success, Vance formed Our Ohio Renewal, a charitable organization focused on economic and social revitalization, and tapped Jivani to run its day-to-day operations — a testament to their continuing closeness years after their time at Yale.
The short-lived organization did relatively little work and brought in only about $300,000 in donations, according to a New York Times investigation.
Jivani would later say the group's work was derailed by his cancer diagnosis — his lymphoma is now in remission. Our Ohio Renewal was wound down as Vance plunged into electoral politics.
But the group's stated purpose — to tackle joblessness, the opioid crisis and broken families — reveals what drives these two millennial political figures.
In a 2017 video recorded at an event in Toledo, Ohio, where Jivani was representing Vance and his charity, the Canadian tied manufacturing job losses in the American heartland to drug addiction and broken families.
Jivani argued for more government intervention through community benefit agreements that guarantee jobs and benefits from companies that get government contracts.
In another era, conservatives like Vance and Jivani might have touted private sector solutions as the only fix.
Sen. J.D. Vance speaks during the Ohio March for Life rally at the Ohio
State House in Columbus, Ohio on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Carolyn
Kaster/AP Photo)
Vance, an economic nationalist, and Jivani — a cultural warrior and critic of "wokeness" and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies — are on the frontlines of the fight to reshape conservatism into a form that eschews total devotion to free markets and free trade and supposed political correctness.
Jai Chabria, a former political adviser to Vance during his Senate race, said the VP pick is all about Trump's nationalistic and protectionist "America First" agenda.
"J.D. Vance is probably the best person to go on TV and very tough environments with hostile hosts [to] advocate for his vision. He has the ability to communicate a message to the cocktail party set, but also to everyday working class Americans," Chabria said when asked if Vance is the right pick for the job.
"He wants what's best for America."
In an April 2020 interview for Jivani's now-defunct YouTube series, The Road Home, the two men discussed economic decline, disorienting technological change, the decline of the two-parent family unit and the rise of China.
Vance, a critic of libertarians, lamented the decline of traditional working class institutions like churches and unions and the demonization of civic nationalism.
While he's the product of a prestigious law school with past work experience as a venture capitalist in San Francisco, Vance accused "elites" of ignoring people outside big, wealthy cities.
"The elite business class in our respective countries has become hyper-international. If you talk to a bank consultant in Toronto or Vancouver, would they feel more comfortable having dinner with an elite lawyer in Paris? Or a coal miner or an oil and gas worker in Alberta?" Vance told Jivani.
"For the elites of the U.S., there's this gravitational velocity where their interests are no longer connected to the working class of their own country."
In his March byelection victory speech, Jivani also railed against "liberal elites" in the Liberal Party but also people who run big corporations like banks and telecoms and Canada's public schools.
This sort of populist, anti-corporate rhetoric runs through the Vance-Jivani strain of conservatism.
In his interview with Jivani, Vance said corporate behemoths like Apple and Google develop products in North America only to offshore manufacturing to cheaper jurisdictions like China — depriving workers on this continent of good jobs that can sustain a middle-class family.
Vance said the U.S. has to take a hard look at its relationship with China.
"We want to ensure our critical supply chains are controlled by America or actual allies like Canada or the U.K., as opposed to the Chinese," Vance said in his interview with Jivani.
Vance has since endorsed Trump's proposal to impose tariffs as high as 10 per cent on all U.S. trading partners as part of a bid to spur companies to make more products in places like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.
In an op-ed he wrote in 2021 with former U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer — who renegotiated the trade pact with Canada and Mexico — Vance said Mexico is one reason why "America's industrial core" has been "hollowed out."
"These policies have made our country far less self-sufficient economically," Vance said, suggesting further changes may be needed to the trilateral trade deal.
But Vance's state depends on Canada — Ohio exports $21.4 billion in goods to Canada annually, according to government data. Ohio sells more goods to this country than to its next eight largest foreign markets combined.
"He's going to fight for what's best for America — not necessarily other parts of the world," Chabria said of Vance. "There are some conversations to be had with the rest of the world."
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Canada braces for Trump 2.0 as the former president takes the lead in U.S. presidential race
Experts say a second 4-year term could be fraught with tensions over trade, defence spending
Polls suggest former president Donald Trump is in a strong position to win back the presidency this November — a development that could have wide-ranging implications for Canada, given how tumultuous his first term was for this country.
Trump leads a united party despite sometimes intense opposition and criticism of his election denial and role in the January 6 insurrection attempt.
Elected officials and card-carrying Republicans — even former anti-Trumpers — have rallied around him at this week's convention after the failed assassination attempt. The former president is leading in every electoral battleground and other states previously thought to be safe for the Democrats.
President Joe Biden, who faced an uprising with his own party after a disastrous debate performance last month, stepped aside Sunday to make way for someone else to take on Trump — a decision that adds considerable uncertainty to the race.
The prospect of a second Trump presidency brings the possible consequences for Canada into sharper focus.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tapped Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne to be his point man on bilateral irritants.
Champagne has been jetting around the U.S. — he's been to New York, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Washington D.C., New Jersey and Nebraska in recent months — to lobby officials to protect bilateral trade from possible disruptions, or worse.
"Throughout these visits, he has actively engaged with key influencers, including mayors, governors, labour leaders and chambers of commerce, who recognize the increasing interconnectedness of our economies," a spokesperson for the minister said in a statement.
Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the 2019 NATO summit in the U.K. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Laura Dawson is a Canada-U.S. relations expert and the executive director of the Future Borders Coalition.
She said that while there may be some opportunities for Canada with a second Trump presidency — his pro-fossil fuel agenda could be a boost for the oilpatch — there are many more challenges to consider with such an erratic leader in the White House.
"I think it's quite likely we will have a second Trump presidency. It is a very real possibility unless something really unforeseen happens. He's not just the Teflon candidate, he's the man of steel at this point," she told CBC News.
A possible second Trump presidency could lead to a revival of protectionism and a combative relationship between Canada and the U.S., she said.
Trump's former trade representative Robert Lighthizer has said Canada-U.S. relations were at their lowest point since the War of 1812 during the NAFTA negotiations of 2017-18.
Dawson said a second four-year term could be just as fraught.
"A Trump victory gives Canadians pause, it gives Canadians reason for concern. We have a pretty good idea of where the Trump team will be going on issues affecting Canada and none of them are very good," she said.
Trump's platform is released
The Republican Party's recently released platform is shorter — it's just 16 pages — and less detailed than previous platforms.
Written in a Trumpian prose style, the platform is reminiscent of his social media posts — it's heavy on populist rhetoric and sloganeering and short on details.
But it suggests a second Trump presidency would be narrowly focused on illegal immigration (he wants to "carry out the largest deportation operation in American history") and imposing trade sanctions.
It puts allies like Canada on notice that they will have to spend more on defence — or risk losing U.S. military support.
It also promises to "drill, baby, drill" — to flood the market with cheap energy products to try to bring down inflation and gas prices.
All of these priorities could touch Canada in meaningful ways.
"We are a Nation in SERIOUS DECLINE. Our future, our identity, and our very way of life are under threat like never before. Today we must once again call upon the same American Spirit that led us to prevail through every challenge of the past if we are going to lead our Nation to a brighter future," the platform reads.
Tariff threat looms over Canada-U.S. trading relationship
The issue top of mind for Canadian political, business and labour leaders is the bilateral trading relationship.
The federal Liberal government successfully renegotiated NAFTA with Trump and Mexico in 2018 after a sometimes heated battle with Lighthizer and anti-free traders in Trump's circle like Peter Navarro.
The new NAFTA left the trading relationship intact and did relatively little damage.
In fact, U.S. exports to Canada and Canadian imports were a lot higher last year than they were in 2015, according to U.S. Census data.
But Trump's platform is again blasting out messages about "unfair Trade Deals" and "blind faith in the siren song of globalism."
"For decades, our politicians sold our jobs and livelihoods to the highest bidders overseas," the platform reads.
One immediate priority for Canadian officials will be pushing back on Trump's proposal to impose tariffs as high as 10 per cent on all U.S. trading partners as part of a bid to spur companies to make more products in America, Dawson said.
"I don't see a way to shield the USCMA from that 10 per cent universal tariff in the short term. Canada is going to have to contend with this and it's going to create investor insecurity, instability," Dawson said, referring to the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Trade Agreement.
"The second Trump administration will be doing everything it can to focus investment, jobs and attention on the U.S. to the exclusion of neighbours and allies."
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, Trump's pick for vice-president, telegraphed what's to come in his keynote address to the Republican convention in Milwaukee on Thursday.
Vance said Biden, as a past senator who supported NAFTA, "sent countless good jobs to Mexico" and gave China a "sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good, American middle-class jobs."
"We're done sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade, and we're going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label, 'Made in the U.S.A.,'" Vance said.
Kirsten Hillman, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., said Canada will push back against protectionism that could be damaging for interests on both sides of the border.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Republican convention, where Trump was officially nominated, Hillman said Canada is already in talks with the former president's inner circle about some sort of exemption.
Kirsten
Hillman, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., says Canada is already
talking to Trump's advisers about some sort of exemption to the former
president's proposal to impose tariffs as high as 10 per cent on all
U.S. trading partners. (CBC)
"We're talking to Trump's advisers on this," Hillman said during a panel hosted by Politico and CNN.
"We are really urging them to consider what the implications would be."
Trump's representatives are being non-committal about giving Canada a break from the proposed tariffs, CBC News has reported. Canada is considering some sort of trade retaliation if there's no exemption.
Dawson said one solution to these trade woes is a revival of the NAFTA-era "Team Canada" approach that helped get the revised trade deal over the finish line, with federal, provincial, local and business and labour leaders meeting with Americans to protect bilateral trade.
Protecting the new NAFTA, which will come up for a review in 2026, is also a priority for Canadian officials. After all, more than 78 per cent of Canada's exports went to the U.S. last year.
Republicans critical of Canada's defence spending
While trade irritants are an almost constant feature of the Canada-U.S. relationship, Canada's position as a relative laggard on military spending has emerged as a new area of dispute.
Republicans have trashed Canada's military spending in recent weeks, saying Ottawa needs to finally fulfil its longstanding NATO commitment to spend two per cent of national GDP on defence.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, a staunch Trump ally, has said Canada has been riding U.S. "coattails" for too long.
"They have the safety and security of being on our border and not having to worry about that. I think that's shameful," he said.
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said in a media statement "it's time for our northern ally to invest seriously in the hard power required to help preserve prosperity and security across NATO."
Speaking Thursday, Vance said a Trump administration will ensure there's "no more free rides for nations that betray the generosity of the American taxpayer."
That could foreshadow what's to come if Trump actually wins.
At a rally in South Carolina earlier this year, Trump said the U.S. would not protect allies who fail to meet the two per cent target.
"In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want," he said of unnamed military adversaries. "You gotta pay. You gotta pay your bills."
World
leaders at the last NATO summit in Lithuania last year. U.S. senators
have pressed Trudeau and others to have a plan to meet the 2 per cent
spending target, and at the last NATO summit in Washington, Trudeau said
Canada could meet that benchmark by 2032. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters)
Canada has pushed back against the claim that it's a freeloader, saying the country is among the top five NATO nations in terms of increases to military spending since 2015.
And last week, Trudeau said Canada would hit the two per cent target by 2032 but offered no plan to get there.
David Perry, the president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, said the Americans are fixated on Canadian military spending right now.
Now that Canada has made the commitment to get to two per cent in eight years' time, it will have to produce a credible plan to get there to counter American criticism, Perry said.
"For our allies, this metric matters. I was down in D.C., the spending pledge, two per cent, came up over and over again," Perry told CBC News of his talks on the sidelines of the recent NATO meeting.
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With files from Alexander Panetta
Folksy J.D. Vance sends a stern warning to Canada
Canada could become collateral damage if Trump and Vance live up to their campaign rhetoric on trade and security
JOHN IVISON
Published Jul 18, 2024
J.D. Vance’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee was as comforting and familiar as chicken soup for many Canadians.
Donald Trump’s new running mate touched on many of the same notes that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hitting: championing the working class, domestic production and legal immigration; maligning elites, wasteful spending, unaffordable housing and unfair Chinese trading practices.
It was an impressive introduction to a national audience and suggests the MAGA project has a clear heir to Trump, who is intent on building a durable, mainstream coalition.
But there were plenty of warning signs, too, that their America First agenda may not be good news for the rest of the world. Canada, in particular, which could become collateral damage if Trump and Vance live up to their campaign rhetoric on trade and security.
“Together, we will make sure that our allies share in the burden of securing world peace,” Vance said in his speech Wednesday. “There will be no more free rides for nations that betray the generosity of the American taxpayer.”
Mike Johnson, the House of Representatives Speaker, singled out Canada for “riding on America’s coattails” last week.
The Trudeau government said it plans to hit NATO’s spending target of two per cent of GDP in 2032 — eight years from now. But provincial premiers meeting in Halifax urged the prime minister to cut that timeline in half to ward off a backlash from a presidential candidate who has said retribution will be a hallmark of his administration if he’s re-elected.
“Canada needs a plan to get that two per cent in the first four-year term. Otherwise, it’s going to be a trade irritant,” Manitoba’s NDP premier, Wab Kinew, told Politico.
Vance’s folksy style befits his status of the author of the bestseller, Hillbilly Elegy, and over the course of 37 minutes, he appeared to win over the bulk of the crowd.
He was deferential if not borderline fawning toward Trump, who sat watching, his ear in a bandage.
Vance revisited his hardscrabble history as the son of an addicted mother in rustbelt Middletown, Ohio, raised by his strong-willed grandmother, before joining the Marines and ending up at Yale Law School.
The speech displayed none of the swivel-eyed agitation present in the one given Wednesday by Trump’s former economic adviser, Peter Navarro, who was released from federal prison in Miami earlier in the day, after serving time for criminal contempt of Congress. “The D.C. swamp convicted me … I went to prison so that you won’t have to,” he said, like some would-be messiah.
Navarro did not seem to get the new memo about toning down the political rhetoric, suggesting President Joe Biden “threw down the woke blue carpet to let in murderers and rapists, drug cartels, human traffickers, Chinese spies, terrorists and a whole army of illiterate illegal aliens to steal the jobs of Black, white and brown Americans.”
Vance’s speech was absent much of the vitriol and calls for retribution that have become MAGA staples. One Canadian in the audience wrote to say that at times he sounded like a traditional rustbelt Democrat.
He blamed Biden’s support for the passage of NAFTA, “a bad trade deal that sent countless good jobs to Mexico”; the entry of China to the World Trade Organization, “a sweetheart deal that destroyed even more good American manufacturing jobs”; and the invasion of Iraq. (The signing of NAFTA and the Iraqi invasion both happened under Republican presidents).
“At each step, of the way in small towns like mine in Ohio, next door in Pennsylvania, and in Michigan, jobs were sent overseas and children sent to war,” he said. “We need a leader who is not in the pocket of big business and who answers to the working man, union and non-union alike.”
He returned time and again to the divide between “the few with comfort and power in Washington and the rest of us.”
“From Iraq and Afghanistan; from the financial crisis and the great recession; from open borders and stagnating wages, the people who govern this country have failed and failed again,” he said.
Nowhere is this failure more apparent, he said, than in the “absurd” cost of housing, the consequence of Wall Street “crashing the economy” and putting builders out of business, as well as the Democrats allowing the country to be “flooded” with illegal aliens.
The solution is to stop “sacrificing” supply chains to global trade, he said. “We’re going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label: Made in the United States of America,” he said. “We’ll protect the wages of American workers and stop the Chinese Communist Party from building their middle class on the backs of American citizens.”
By the time he had pledged to Americans of all parties that he will give all he has to serve them — “to make this country a place where every dream you have for yourself, your family and your country will be possible again” — even his harshest critics in the room had laid down their swords.
But America First promises to be less benign than it sounds for the rest of the world.
Neo-mercantilist trade and an isolationist foreign policy will leave a mark.
In an opinion column for the New York Times this year titled The Math Doesn’t Add Up, Vance said he opposed the $60-billion aid package to Ukraine and remains opposed to “virtually any proposal for the U.S. to continue funding the war.” His argument is that the U.S. doesn’t have the capacity to manufacture the weapons Ukraine needs, particularly artillery shells, where Russia has five times the amount.
But it is an argument that ignores the contribution from EU countries, which is growing, and discounts the problems that Russia is having trying to maintain its war effort. The Economist noted this week that Russia’s vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out and it faces shortages in everything from tanks to artillery barrels. Two experts quoted suggest Russia will reach “a critical point of exhaustion” next year.
Vance’s logic would apply equally to any future adventurism by Vladimir Putin in the Baltic state or Poland, and his indifference to Ukraine’s fate seems to reflect a similar disinterest in the future of Eastern Europe.
Would a Trump/Vance Administration reaffirm its commitment to NATO’s Article 5 collective-defence principle, or would it accept the establishment of Russian satellite governments in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius and even Warsaw?
That was left unsaid in Vance’s speech, but no amount of chicken soup can make that prospect comforting.
National Post
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https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamil-jivani-my-friend-the-hillbilly
Jamil Jivani: J.D. Vance, My friend the hillbilly
The author of Hillbilly Elegy taught me that some of his experiences in Appalachia weren't that different from my own
In
this article first published in November 2020, former National Post
columnist, now Conservative MP, Jamil Jivani describes his close
friendship with J.D. Vance. On Monday July 15, Vance was named as Donald
Trump’s vice-presidential running mate for the 2024 American election.
If you had told me 10 years ago that my best friend from law school
would be a self-described hillbilly, I’d have laughed in your face. But
you’d have been right.
I first met J.D. Vance during our law school orientation at Yale University a decade ago. We attended a wine-and-cheese reception. I didn’t know so many different kinds of cheese existed. And I had never tasted wine before. Needless to say, I felt out of place. Across the room stood a fellow student who seemed equally unfamiliar with wine and cheese.
We went on to develop a strong friendship, forged through moments of shared discomfort over the course of our three years in the Ivy League. We were by one another’s side for awkward interactions with professors and classmates, life-changing job interviews, and hundreds of hours of studying. We became such good friends that I eventually performed the Bible reading at his wedding.
We became such good friends that I eventually performed the Bible reading at his wedding
Growing up in the Toronto area, I never met a person who’d call himself a hillbilly. Most of my neighbours were the children of middle- and working-class immigrants, and we understood terms like hillbilly to carry negative, even comedic connotations. Like Cletus from The Simpsons. But my friendship with J.D. taught me that his Appalachian family and friends aren’t so different from my own. The challenges that many Appalachians experience — poverty, addiction, fatherlessness, inadequate health care — are challenges seen and felt by my loved ones, too. And the positive qualities possessed by many Appalachians — loyalty, resilience, striving — are qualities we also hold dear.
Since being published in 2016, J.D.’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, has had a similar, humanizing effect for many others. His definition of hillbilly is fairly specific: you know you’re a hillbilly when “you love (Appalachia), you love the people who live there … it’s about loving the rural lifestyle and having some connection to it, familial or otherwise,” J.D. explained to the American Enterprise Institute. But the experiences of hillbillies transcend geography. My friend Lianne Bell shared on my talk radio show last week that reading Hillbilly Elegy made her feel like she wasn’t alone for the first time. She saw her community in Greenbush, Ont., reflected in the pages of J.D.’s book. Further, as the Brookings Institution has outlined, there are striking similarities between J.D.’s account of Appalachia’s white working class and observations of urban America’s Black working class made by Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson.
J.D.’s book resonated with so many that it has been adapted into a Netflix movie starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams. The movie’s release this week marks another opportunity for J.D.’s story to humanize the hillbilly to an even bigger audience. J.D.’s grandmother (Close) shows the kind of tough love to her grandson that many who survive adversity need from their parental figures. And J.D.’s mom (Adams) brings to life the ups and downs of addiction and single motherhood that exhaust children growing up in broken families. Surely, there will be many more Lianne Bells who see their own communities reflected on their screens, and William Julius Wilsons who connect lived experiences across racial and cultural differences.
Unfortunately, the potential of Hillbilly Elegy to build bridges has been overlooked, if not entirely downplayed, by commentators and film critics who appear more interested in politics than the stories on screen. The Atlantic’s David Sims complains “the film’s ambitions simply aren’t that serious” and it lacks “sociopolitical analysis.” Stephanie Zacharek, writing for Time, thinks it’s a knock against director Ron Howard that he “framed Hillbilly Elegy as a purely personal, rather than overtly political, story.”
During a time when it feels like partisanship has overtaken so many parts of our lives, is it actually a bad thing for a movie to be more personal than political? Howard made a deliberate artistic choice. “I didn’t view this as any kind of polemic or societal overview … I wanted to understand everything through these very rich and yet very relatable characters,” he said in a magazine interview last month. I’d argue Howard’s approach helps to further humanize the communities that J.D. writes about. It’s a lot easier to identify with people than political commentary.
Not everyone will have the chance to become good friends with a self-described hillbilly. Through Hillbilly Elegy, though, more people will come to learn that they’re more like hillbillies than they thought. And inspiring empathy is a laudable goal in and of itself.
J.D. Vance on his new book Hillbilly Elegy
Hoover InstitutionNov 11, 2016
Recorded on October 27, 2016 J.D. Vance chronicles his life and the history and issues of hillbillies in America. Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, writes about growing up in a poor Rust Belt town and how his family never fully escapes the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma in their lives. Vance paints a broad, passionate, and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans.
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About JD Vance
JD Vance is a United States Senator for the great state of Ohio. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022 and sworn into office on January 3rd, 2023
JD was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, a once flourishing American manufacturing town where Ohioans could live content, middle-class lives on single incomes. Over time, many of those good jobs disappeared, and JD’s family suffered the effects along with many others.
Turbulence was common at home and at school. His grandmother, called Mamaw, was his saving grace. Her tough love and discipline kept him on the straight and narrow. A “blue dog” Democrat, she owned 19 handguns and nurtured a deep Christian faith in herself and her family. She died in 2005, shortly after JD enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.
JD went on to serve our nation in the Iraq War, then graduated from The Ohio State University and Yale Law School. He wrote a bestselling book, Hillbilly Elegy, which was turned into a Netflix movie. He also started a business dedicated to growing jobs and opportunity in the American heartland.
JD believes Ohioans deserve better. And he aims to fight for it in the U.S. Senate.
Ohioans deserve a Senator who knows how to fight.
That’s exactly what I’m here to do.
Office Locations
Columbus
37 West Broad Street, Room 300
Columbus, OH, 43215
Phone: (614) 369-4925
Cleveland
1240 East 9th Street, Room 3061
Cleveland, OH 44199
Phone: (216) 539-7877
Toledo
420 Madison Avenue, Room 1210
Toledo, OH, 43604
Phone: (567) 304-3777
Middletown
300 North Main Street, Suite 200
Middletown, OH 45042
Phone: (513) 318-1100
Washington, DC
288 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3353
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Tucker Carlson made a strong return to prime time at the Republican convention, receiving a warm welcome from the Make America Great Again crowd. Recently reconnected with former President Donald Trump's inner circle, Carlson delivered an unscripted monologue reminiscent of his Fox News days, touching on controversial topics and making veiled jokes about President Biden. Despite efforts by convention organizers to present a softer image of Trump, Carlson's speech included references to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being stolen.
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Peter Thiel | Cambridge Union
Cambridge UnionJul 10, 2024
Peter Thiel speaks in the Debating Chamber at 7:30pm on Wednesday 8th May 2024. PETER THIEL
Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and has funded companies like LinkedIn and Yelp. Peter also started the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking.
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J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II
National Conservatism Nov 10, 2021
J.D. Vance's keynote address at the second National Conservatism Conference, 11/02/21.
“He’s a Fake”: Robert Kuttner on How J.D. Vance Disguises His Anti-Worker Views as Economic Populism
Jul 16, 2024We speak with journalist Robert Kuttner about Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 election. Vance rose to fame in 2016 after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his upbringing in Appalachia. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with the backing of right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, who spent $10 million on his candidacy. While he was a vocal critic of Trump’s politics, once comparing him to Hitler, Vance has since embraced the MAGA movement and is now one of the most vocal defenders of the former president. Vance’s elevation is “very dangerous” because it lets Republicans pretend to care about working-class voters, says Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect. “Vance is much more effective at connecting Trump’s cultural and social and racist populism to what looks like pocketbook populism, except it’s a fake,” he says. “We are really screwed if we can’t find somebody who can beat this ticket — and the ticket is beatable. You just need a stronger candidate than Biden.”
https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/robert-kuttner
Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, as well as a distinguished senior fellow of the think tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week, and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe.
Kuttner's other positions have included national staff writer on The Washington Post, chief investigator of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, and economics editor of The New Republic.
Bob Kuttner can be reached through his email kuttner@prospect.org
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J.D. Vance Praised 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones as Truth-Teller in Private 2021 Speech
Democracy Now!Jul 17, 2024
Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is preparing to make his first speech Wednesday at the Republican National Convention after being tapped by Donald Trump to be his running mate. On Tuesday, ProPublica published a newly uncovered speech Vance made a year before he was elected to the Senate in which he said “the devil is real,” praised conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, denigrated transgender people and more. We speak with reporter Andy Kroll, who says the video “gives this unvarnished look into what J.D. Vance believes and into what he says to an audience of his peers.” Kroll also responds to President Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reforms, sparked in part by ProPublica’s reporting on ethical violations committed by sitting justices.
Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/1...
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"White Trash" Historian Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy" & Class in America
Democracy Now!Jul 18, 2024
American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance a peddler of the "self-made man myth." Isenberg criticizes Hilbilly Elegy, the memoir that propelled him to fame, as a deceptive way of selling this myth and the conservative politics it comes with. "Much of what his memoir says tells us nothing about real class conditions,"
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Tucker Carlson Rips Gretchen Whitmer While Praising Trump's 'Strength' After Assassination Attempt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZz78qQHLCw
JD Vance SHUTS DOWN Kaitlan Collins And This Happened!
Devin GibsonJul 20, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWvSys3yTvo
JD Vance Goes No Holds Barred Against Kamala Harris In Virginia Campaign Rally
Jul 22, 2024
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) holds a campaign rally in Radford, Virginia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umywcYhqFA
Republican VP candidate JD Vance addresses his home town in Middletown rally
WCPO 9Jul 22, 2024
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am from Middletown, Ohio and I am proud of it and I will never forget where I came from," Vance told the packed auditorium at Middletown High School.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXFdEyOKc4
Peter Thiel, Leader of the Rebel Alliance
Hoover InstitutionNov 9, 2022
Recorded in Florence, Italy, on October 19, 2022 With his many varied interests in technology, politics, and culture, Peter Thiel has often been described as a Renaissance man. So perhaps it was only fitting that we traveled to Florence, Italy—where the Renaissance originated and thrived for hundreds of years—to speak with him. In this wide-ranging interview, we cover several topics, including his support for candidates across the country who are running as outsiders, why technology has not fulfilled many of its early promises, and why California is still America’s incubator for ideas and growth.
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How pop culture is responding to Trump's assassination attempt
Writers Drew Magary, Marina Fang and Jason P. Frank unpack this week in U.S. political memes and hot takes
Less than a week after former U.S. president Donald Trump had his ear clipped by a bullet while speaking at a rally, American politics shows no sign of slowing down — and the entertainment world appears to be struggling with how to keep up.
Today on Commotion, writers Drew Magary, Marina Fang and Jason P. Frank discuss how the attempted assassination of Donald Trump has reverberated through the world of pop culture this week, and what it suggests about our current political moment.
We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion, listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player.
Elamin: Marina, this is a news photograph that is now being analyzed by art critics in major publications. How are you feeling about this photo now being discussed as a work of art?
Marina: It is a really striking photo. There's so much gravity to it. I see the rationale for analyzing it as this moment of art and this symbol of what is happening right now. It's been really interesting also to hear from other photographers and the photographer himself, Evan Vucci, about what it takes to get a photo like that. We talk about in journalism that we're writing the first draft of history, and this is sort of the photojournalism version of that.
Elamin: Jason, what do you make of the speed with which this image has been turned into memes and merchandise?
Jason: Well, that's the thing about media right now: the Washington Post really doesn't set what the narrative is anymore — that all happens on social media. One of the interesting things about watching this particular image exist is that you see it and you notice how effective it is. It's such an emotional image, whether or not you agree or disagree with the emotion in the picture. And yet, because of the metabolism of the internet, that means that it's the best fodder for jokes for a few days, right? The effectiveness of this means that it's exactly the kind of thing that we want to spin on its head and make light of.
So you see a photo of this quality being instantly turned into memes, instead of being a historical document that gradually acquires its iconic power through newspapers that would later be talked about in an APUSH class or something. It doesn't become a defining document of American history through the same route anymore. I don't know if one photo can have the power that photos during the Vietnam War had anymore. It feels like in our context, it will always also be a joke.
Elamin: Marina, are you surprised at how quickly the photo ended up showing up in memes and in merchandise?
Marina: Not at all…. It speaks to the meme-ification of politics over the last 8 to 10 years. I think that's happened on both sides, but particularly on the far right it has taken on this particular tenor of, "Anything that we can use to make Trump into our hero, we'll use that." And so this photo was the perfect encapsulation of that. Trump, more than really any political figure in recent memory, understands that power of image and of celebrity, and this made perfect sense that this would become fodder for t-shirts.
Elamin: There is one comedian who didn't make the most tactful response to the whole situation. Jack Black, who is one half of [comedy rock duo] Tenacious D, presented Kyle Gass with a birthday cake, and he said, "Hey, make a birthday wish." And then the response was, "Don't miss Trump next time." The fallout from that comment has been pretty swift. Jack Black said he was blindsided by the comment. He canceled the rest of the tour for the band. Kyle Gass was dropped by his agent. An Australian politician called for the band to be deported from the country.
I'm curious about this moment because it displays the dangers of reacting in the moment, Drew. There's something about people who want to participate in commentary on an unfolding event. I should say Tenacious D are not strangers to taking shots at Trump. What do you make of Jack Black's response to Kyle Gass's incident?
Drew: It was a business decision. I think someone in his representation said, "You have to distance yourself from this, otherwise we're going to have a hard time getting you cast in the next WB movie," or whatever, right? Same deal with Stephen Colbert. He's on CBS. That's the official network of Cops. He's not going to make fun of Trump when his entire audience is retired people who are going to vote for Trump, right? His bosses are going to say, "Let's tread lightly here," and then he'll do the serious thing. And his writers will want to make jokes, and they'll all get thrown in in the trash because that's late night television now. It has no cultural relevancy with anyone under the age of 40.
All of this is reflected in pop culture now over the past decade. Where are the protest songs? Where are the great war movies that were made after Vietnam? Where is pop culture effectively commentating on this moment? Nowhere. Because the people who control the money that goes into pop culture don't want to ruffle any feathers, because then they reduce their audience size and they make less money and the stock goes down. Stock is the product, not the product itself.
You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Panel produced by Stuart Berman.
Revolution LLC is an American investment firm based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2005 by AOL co-founder Steve Case, after leaving the AOL Time Warner board.[1] The firm seeks to fund entrepreneurs who are transforming legacy industries with innovative products and services, with an overarching focus on companies that are based outside of the coastal tech hubs of New York City, San Francisco, and Boston.[2] Through the firm's Rise of the Rest platform, it has developed a network of business and civic relationships that helps Revolution source investments and support existing companies as they seek to expand across the country.[3] Notable investments include LivingSocial, Zipcar, DraftKings, and sweetgreen.[4]
Foundation
Revolution LLC was founded in 2005 by Steve Case, a well-known entrepreneur and a co-founder of America Online (AOL), the first Internet company in the world to go public along with Donn Davis and Tige Savage.[1][5] After negotiating the merger of AOL and Time Warner, a transaction that today remains the largest merger in business history,[6] AOL Time Warner floundered and Case resigned from his post in January 2003, with the merger often cited as one of the worst mergers ever.[7] After leaving the AOL Time Warner board in 2005, Case co-founded venture capital firm, Revolution LLC, where he is the chairman and CEO.[8]
Investment funds
Revolution operates three major investment funds with different focuses.
Revolution Ventures focuses on early-stage technology investments under $10 million.[9] Revolution later announced their "Rise of the Rest" seed fund that included major investors from across multiple industries including Jeff Bezos and the Walton family.[10]
Revolution Growth makes growth-stage investments of $10 million and above, primarily in consumer technology businesses. It was created in 2011 with $450 million of initial capital.[11] It typically invests in two to three new companies per year, mostly on the East Coast of the United States.[12] Its major investments have included Sweetgreen,[13] Bigcommerce,[14] Optoro,[15] Handybook,[16] and PolicyGenius.[17]
Revolution Places makes real estate and hospitality investments, usually between $25 and $50 million. It is usually the majority shareholder in each portfolio company.[18]
Profile investments in the collective Revolution portfolio include Zipcar, LivingSocial, Lolly Wolly Doodle, Waterfront Media, FedBid, Exclusive Resorts, Inspirato, Miraval, SparkPeople, Extend Health, BrainScope, AddThis, BenchPrep,[citation needed] Framebridge,[19] SpareFoot,[citation needed] OrderUp,[citation needed] and Custom Ink.[citation needed]
https://blog.revolution.com/the-appointment-of-ron-klain-as-white-house-chief-of-staff-c70b2b922975
The Appointment of Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff
Revolution
Ron Klain has been asked by President-elect Biden to return to public service in a critically important role at a critically important time in our nation’s history. Ron has been one of Joe Biden’s most trusted advisors for more than three decades, and brings enormous experience and wisdom to the role.
Ron has been instrumental in building Revolution into a major venture capital investment firm. He has served as General Counsel and Executive Vice President since the firm launched in 2005, with notable departures to serve our country as Vice President Biden’s Chief of Staff in 2008 and President Obama’s Ebola Czar in 2014.
We applaud Ron’s decision to return again to public service, and wish him all the best as he takes on this task. We are sorry to lose him, but we’re more optimistic about getting through the pandemic and building back better knowing Ron will bring his many talents to bear to support the President and serve the nation.
I also congratulate the President-elect on his victory. I’ve known Joe Biden for three decades. He is a good man, and a great American. He has the experience & character to bring us together. He can bring hope & opportunity to the people & places that have been left behind.
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman & CEO of Revolution and Chairman of Case Foundation; Author of “The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future”
Ronald Alan Klain (born August 8, 1961)[1] is an American attorney, political consultant, and former lobbyist who served as White House chief of staff under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2023.
A Democrat, Klain previously served as chief of staff to two vice presidents: Al Gore from 1995 to 1999 and Biden from 2009 to 2011. He was also appointed by President Barack Obama as White House Ebola Response Coordinator after the appearance of Ebola virus cases in the United States, serving from 2014 to 2015.[2]
Throughout 2020 he worked as a senior advisor to Biden's presidential campaign.[3][4] Following his victory, Biden announced on November 12 that Klain would serve as White House chief of staff.[5][6] During his tenure as chief of staff, Klain was often characterized as a key ally of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party within the White House.[7][8][9]
In January 2023, Klain announced his plans to step down as chief of staff in the weeks after Biden's State of the Union address in February.[10][11] He was succeeded in the role by Jeff Zients on February 7.[11]
Early life and education
Ronald Alan Klain was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Stanley Klain, a building contractor, and Sarann Warner (née Horwitz), a travel agent.[12][13][14][15] Klain is Jewish.[16][17] He graduated from North Central High School in 1979 and was on the school's Brain Game team which finished as season runner-up. A first-generation college graduate, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1983.[18] In 1987, he received his Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.[19]
Career
Law clerk and Capitol Hill
From 1983 to 1984, Klain served as legislative director for U.S. representative Ed Markey (D–MA).[20] Klain was a law clerk for Supreme Court justice Byron White during the 1987 and 1988 terms.[21] From 1989 to 1992, he was chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary,[22] overseeing the legal staff's work on matters of constitutional law, criminal law, antitrust law, and Supreme Court nominations, including the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. In 1995, Senator Tom Daschle appointed him the staff director of the Senate Democratic Leadership Committee.[19]
Clinton administration
Klain joined the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1992 and was involved in both of Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns.[22] He oversaw Clinton's judicial nominations. In the White House, Klain was Associate Counsel to the President, directing judicial selection efforts and leading the team that won confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.[22] In 1994, he became chief of staff and counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno and in 1995, chief of staff to Al Gore.[23]
Gore campaign 1999–2000
Klain continued to serve as Gore's chief of staff following the official launch of Gore's presidential campaign on June 16, 1999.[24] On August 2, 1999, Klain resigned from the role to join the Washington, D.C., office of O'Melveny & Myers, a law firm.[25][26] As general counsel of Gore's Recount Committee, Klain oversaw the November–December 2000 recount of votes in Florida, which ended when the Supreme Court put an end to the counting and George W. Bush was named the winner.[2]
2004–2014
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During the early primaries of the 2004 presidential campaign, Klain worked as an adviser to Wesley Clark during Clark's run for president. After John Kerry won the Democratic nomination, Klain became heavily involved behind the scenes in his campaign.[27] Klain was registered as a lobbyist for Fannie Mae until 2005.[28]
Klain served as an informal adviser to Evan Bayh who is from Klain's home state of Indiana. In 2005, Klain left his partnership at O'Melveny & Myers to become executive vice president and general counsel of Revolution LLC, a technology venture capital firm launched by AOL co-founder Steve Case.[2] At the time of his October 2014 appointment as Ebola response coordinator, he was general counsel at Revolution LLC and President of Case Holdings.[29]
Obama administration 2008–2015
Klain was one of the people who assisted Barack Obama in his preparation for the 2008 United States presidential debates.[30] On November 12, 2008, Roll Call announced that Klain had been chosen to serve as chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, the same role he served for Gore.[31][32][33]
Klain had worked with Biden, having served as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary while Biden chaired the committee and assisted Biden's speechwriting team during the 1988 presidential campaign.[34]
In May 2010, amid concerns about whether the now-defunct solar-panel company Solyndra was viable, Klain gave the go-ahead for an Obama visit to the factory, and stated in an email to White House advisor Valerie Jarrett that "the reality is that if POTUS visited 10 such places over the next 10 months, probably a few will be belly-up by election day 2012."[35]
Klain was mentioned as a possible replacement for White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel,[36] but opted to leave the White House in January 2011 and return to Case Holdings, where he oversaw Revolution LLC and assisted Steve Case and his wife, Jean Case, in administering the Case Foundation.[37]
On October 17, 2014, Klain was appointed the "Ebola response coordinator" sometimes referred to as Ebola "czar."[38][39][40] Although Klain, according to Julie Hirschfeld Davis writing in The New York Times, had "no record or expertise in Ebola specifically or public health in general,"[39] the choice was praised by Ezra Klein for his bureaucratic experience with coordinating agencies.[41][42] His term as Ebola response coordinator ended in February 2015.
After his term as Ebola czar, Klain worked as an external advisor to the Skoll Foundation Global Threats Fund.[43] He also served as chairman, public advocate and private advisor for Higher Grounds Labs, which describes itself as supporting "start-ups building products that help progressives win."[44]
Clinton campaign and Trump years
In 2015, Klain joined Hillary Clinton's ultimately unsuccessful presidential campaign.[45] He helped Clinton prepare for the Democratic primary debates,[46] as well as the presidential debates against Republican nominee Donald Trump.[47] After Trump's election, he continued to work at Revolution LLC, and repeatedly criticized the administration in op-eds and television appearances.[45]
Biden campaign and administration
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During the 2020 Biden campaign, Klain served as an advisor on the COVID-19 pandemic.[48] In April 2020 he told Wired: "If we’re going to make Covid-19 go away, we’re going to need a very high vaccination rate. The number one public health challenge of 2021 is going to be getting people to take the vaccine."[48] He helped Biden prepare for the presidential debates against Trump.[49][50] On November 11, 2020, it was announced that President-elect Joe Biden had selected Klain to be White House Chief of Staff.[51][52]
Klain has received praise for his organizational abilities and for his responsiveness while serving as President Biden's chief of staff, while drawing criticism for being overly concerned with élite opinion, as reflected by his active Twitter presence, and for being too aligned with his party's left bloc. During his first year in his position, Klain used Twitter, saying "I find being on Twitter useful as an early-warning system of things that, to be honest, reporters are talking about." He also uses the platform to take aim at critics and to push pro-Biden messages.[53]
In October 2022, the Office of Special Counsel found that Klain had violated the Hatch Act and was warned not to do so again.[54]
Klain was seen as a highly impactful chief of staff who achieved major legislative victories such as passing the American Rescue Plan Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Klain resigned on a high note for the Biden Administration following an unexpectedly strong showing in the 2022 midterm elections and signs of easing inflation.[55]
On January 21, 2023, it was reported that Klain would resign as chief of staff in the period following the 2023 State of the Union Address on February 7.[56] On February 1, 2023, the White House held a goodbye transition event for Klain.[57][58] Klain returned to legal services firm, O'Melveny & Myers LLP as a partner, on April 18, 2023, to lead its Strategic Counseling and Crisis Management Practice.[59]
Post-Biden administration
On November 20, 2023, Airbnb announced that Klain would join the company as chief legal officer on January 1, 2024.[60]
During the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, Klain publicly warned the Biden reelection campaign to refocus on immediate economic problems affecting American voters such as inflation rather than long-term projects such as infrastructure investments.[61]
Personal life
Klain is married to Monica Medina, an attorney, consultant, and co-founder of Our Daily Planet, an environmental news platform.[62] They were college sweethearts at Georgetown and in February 2019 he tweeted that they were celebrating their 40th Valentine's Day together.[63] They have three adult children, Hannah, Michael and Daniel.[64][13]
In financial disclosures, Klain reported owning assets worth $4.4–12.2 million in 2021 compared to $1.4–3.5 million in 2009. He received a salary of almost $2 million in 2020 from the venture capital firm Revolution LLC, where he served as general counsel and executive vice president.[65][66] In 2009, he reported earning a salary of $1 million.[65]
Klain lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with neighbors that include U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He has referred to his large home as “the House That O’Melveny Built,” after his lucrative time at the international law firm O’Melveny & Myers.[67]
In popular culture
Klain was portrayed by Kevin Spacey in the HBO film Recount, which depicted the tumult of the 2000 presidential election.[32] In 2021, he was included in the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[68] In 2023, Klain was portrayed by Jon Levine in season four of For All Mankind, which takes place in an alternate timeline in which Al Gore wins the 2000 election and Klain becomes the White House liaison to NASA.[69]
Ron Klain oversees Airbnb’s global legal and ethics functions and community policy team.
Ron served as the 30th White House Chief of Staff, from January 2021 to February 2023 – the longest tenure of any Democratic President’s first chief of staff.
Ron’s career in public service began as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron White for the Court’s 1987 and 1988 Terms. Following his time clerking at the Supreme Court, Ron was Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Staff Director of the Senate Democratic Leadership Committees, Associate Counsel for Judicial Selection under President Clinton, Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore, Chief of Staff and Counselor to the US Attorney General, and Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden. In the Obama administration, Ron served as White House Ebola Response Coordinator, to tackle the West African Ebola epidemic of 2014-15.
In the private sector, Ron has served as Partner and National Practice Group Chair at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, from 1999-2004 and again in 2023. Earlier he was General Counsel for the technology investment firm Revolution LLC from 2005 to 2020.
Ron is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia only.
https://news.airbnb.com/ron-klain-to-join-airbnb-as-chief-legal-officer/
Ron Klain to join Airbnb as Chief Legal Officer
Ron is a distinguished leader with more than four decades of experience across government and business, best known for his role as White House chief of staff during President Biden’s first two years in office. Previously, Ron was chief of staff to then-Vice President Biden and to Vice President Al Gore at just 34 years old, making him the youngest chief of staff to a vice president in American history.
“Ron is both a big-picture strategic thinker and a highly skilled operator, and I’m thrilled he’ll be a close advisor,” said Airbnb co-founder and CEO, Brian Chesky. “People have described Ron as one of the smartest people they’ve ever met, but more than his intelligence, he’s known for his excellent judgment and his big heart. Ron is the perfect addition to our team.”
In addition to his notable career in government, Ron brings significant private-sector legal experience to Airbnb. During his tenure as a partner at O’Melveny & Myers he represented numerous technology and marketplace businesses in complex litigation. He also served as chief legal officer at Revolution, the venture capital firm started by AOL founder Steve Case.
“I have always believed that travel is such an important part of creating connection and cultural understanding, and I am honored to join Airbnb to further this important work. Airbnb has accomplished so much already, and I’m especially inspired by Brian’s vision for the company’s next chapter,” said Ron Klain, Airbnb’s incoming chief legal officer. “I was proud to rejoin O’Melveny & Myers earlier this year and work with outstanding colleagues and clients, and I had planned to finish my career there, but the opportunity to work for Brian and join his incredible executive team was impossible to pass up.”
Klain is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School. He will start at Airbnb on January 1, 2024, and will report to Airbnb CEO & co-founder, Brian Chesky.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/us/politics/ron-klain-biden-trump-debate.html
Ron Klain, Former Chief of Staff, Will Return to Help Biden With Debate
Mr. Klain left the White House last year and became the chief legal officer at Airbnb. He plans to take a vacation from his job to help President Biden prepare.
Reporting from Washington
Ron Klain, the president’s former chief of staff, will take some time away from his post-White House job to help President Biden prepare for a debate against Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Klain, who left the White House last year, said in a text message that he would take a vacation from his job as the chief legal officer at Airbnb in the coming weeks to help get Mr. Biden ready.
“On my own time, I will assist,” he said.
Mr. Klain, 62, is one of the president’s most trusted confidants, and was critical to Mr. Biden’s debate preparations during the 2020 campaign.
When he left the White House, Mr. Klain, whom Republicans sometimes referred to as “prime minister” in describing his influence, took with him decades of institutional knowledge about Washington politics, the inner workings of Capitol Hill and an intimate knowledge of the Biden family. He was so well liked within the White House that staff members had a nickname for themselves: “Klainiacs.”
Though he took a nonpolitical job after leaving, Mr. Klain did not end up going very far: He has been summoned to the White House regularly in recent weeks to participate in political strategy discussions, and the president still calls him by phone often.
By the time Mr. Biden told the radio host Howard Stern in April that he was prepared to debate Mr. Trump, Mr. Klain had agreed to help. Days later, Mr. Klain told Jen Psaki, a former Biden White House press secretary who now hosts a television show on MSNBC, that “rules are going to have to be enforced” ahead of any debate between the two men.
“I think what we have to see is something different than we saw in 2016 and 2020, where the debate commission lost control of the debates, Trump didn’t follow the rules at all, he talked over his opponents, there wasn’t a fair division of time, it was more a spectacle than a debate,” Mr. Klain said. “That’s always going to be true with Donald Trump on the stage.”
But, he added, “we need to have debates where the candidates get equal time” and “where the American people can compare the two people who are the leading candidates for president.”
Katie Rogers is a White House correspondent. For much of the past decade, she has focused on features about the presidency, the first family, and life in Washington, in addition to covering a range of domestic and foreign policy issues. She is the author of a book on first ladies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/09/ron-klain-joe-biden-infrastructure-00151438
Klain on Biden: He is focused too much on bridges
The former chief of staff praised the president’s accomplishments. But he also wondered whether he had the right focus.
“I think the president is out there too much talking about bridges,” Klain said, according to audio exclusively obtained by POLITICO. “He does two or three events a week where he’s cutting a ribbon on a bridge. And here’s a bridge. Like I tell you, if you go into the grocery store, you go to the grocery store and, you know, eggs and milk are expensive, the fact that there’s a fucking bridge is not [inaudible].”
Speaking at an event hosted by the publication “Democracy: A Journal of Ideas,” the longtime Biden adviser went on to say that while the infrastructure being built under the Biden administration was “a positive thing,” the president was thinking too narrowly in focusing so heavily on it.
“He’s not a congressman. He’s not running for Congress,” said Klain. “I think it’s kind of a fool’s errand. I think that [it] also doesn’t get covered that much because, look, it’s a fucking bridge. Like it’s a bridge, and how interesting is the bridge? It’s a little interesting but it’s not a lot interesting.”
In a follow up interview, Klain noted that elsewhere in Tuesday evening’s event, he expressed pride over Biden’s accomplishments. But he also did not back down from the main thrust of his critique, noting that it was incumbent on Biden and his campaign to turn the election into a debate about the future and not a referendum on what they’ve done.
“The president’s most effective economic message is contrast around whose side are you on, and compassion for the [pinch] of family budgets, and his agenda to bring down costs and raise incomes — and that lauding achievements — especially ones with abstract benefits — is less persuasive with voters,” Klain said.
The comments from Klain are a rare instance of a luminary from the president’s close orbit openly questioning current White House strategy. Klain left the administration in February last year, having helped spearhead the passage of much of the domestic agenda. But he also has had a long-standing reputation for being among the more politically aggressive of Biden’s core advisers.
And he has a well known, well publicized belief that a key component to Biden’s political survival is getting prices down. In the lead up to the 2022 midterms, Klain was monomaniacally focused on the cost of gas, searching the average national price on AAA every morning. In recent days, he also cautioned the Biden campaign against taking a victory lap on inflation.
“Although inflation has moderated, prices are still high, the price of gasoline is still high, other prices are still high, and people feel that pinch,” Klain said on MSNBC recently. “And though wages have gone up, and the statistics say wages have gone up faster than prices, people still feel pinched in their pocketbooks. And so, I think the president needs to make more progress on that.”
Reached for comment, the White House said it sees no daylight between what it’s doing and what Klain is suggesting.
“Like Ron says, President Biden is crisscrossing the country building on his State of the Union message, highlighting that he is fighting to grow the middle class and lower costs like prescription drugs while blocking the trickle-down agenda Republican officials have proposed on behalf of rich special interests, including Medicare cuts and tax giveaways to big corporations,” said White House Deputy Press Secretary and Senior Communications Adviser Andrew Bates. “The President repeated that message in his Univision interview yesterday and will not let up.”
Klain’s comments on Tuesday echo some concerns that some other Democrats have about the balance the administration and campaign are trying to strike in crowing about accomplishments and focusing on the future. The former chief of staff said there was an easy template for Biden to follow when it came to finding that proper balance: the State of the Union address he delivered one month ago.
“I thought the economic message of that speech was very strong and should be the economic message overall, which is less about just logging the accomplishments and more about an agenda and choice,” Klain said. “And I think when they frame it that way, it’s very powerful.”
After the State of the Union address, Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and top administration officials went on a nationwide tour, touting the accomplishments and talking about the promises the president made in the speech. Biden himself has made appearances in Raleigh, Chandler, Arizona and Las Vegas talking about everything from housing to health care costs.
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re Sexual violence oversight teams only working with half of N.B. police forces
To: <jamil.jivani@parl.gc.ca>
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Subject: Re Sexual violence oversight teams only working with half of N.B. police forces
To: martin.gaudet <martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca>
Cc: <wpfadmin@nbpolice.ca>, <allan.walker@town.woodstock.
Monday 26 February 2024
Sexual violence oversight teams only working with half of N.B. police forces
Sexual violence oversight teams only working with half of N.B. police forces
5 remaining forces will join program over next 2 years to improve police response to sexual assault
Frontline
workers in the field of gender-based violence are working with four of
New Brunswick's nine police forces to review closed cases of sexual
violence crimes. (Twitter)Frontline workers in the field of gender-based violence are set up to review criminal cases of sexual assault at four of New Brunswick's nine police forces.
The number falls short of a timeline that would have seen each force working with an independent oversight committee by this April.
The committees look at closed sexual assault cases to identify any gaps, missed steps or potential biases police officers had during investigations.
The oversight role can lead to improvements in police response to sexual violence or even cases being reopened, according to Jenn Richard, director of strategic development for Sexual Violence New Brunswick.
New Brunswick made national news in 2017 for having the country's highest rate of unfounded sexual assault cases, meaning officers did not believe a crime had occurred.
First launched with the Kennebecasis Valley Regional Police Force in 2021, the committees are now working with municipal forces in Saint John, Fredericton and Woodstock and review cases on a quarterly or annual basis.
"[Police officers] are more aware of the services that may exist in their community, which I think is really important for survivors, not just for their own healing, but it also helps them stay engaged in the justice process, which is a benefit to everyone."
How police forces and activists against sexual violence are working together
Teams may overlap in geographically close areas, Richard said. There's also a team working with New Brunswick RCMP.
Similar programs exist in other provinces, including Ontario and Alberta. They're based on work done by Sunny Mariner, who developed the model through her work at the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre in 2017.
Richard previously told CBC News all nine police forces in New Brunswick would be working with the oversight committees by the end of the current fiscal year. Logistical challenges have delayed that timeline, she said, and she now hopes the remaining forces will be participating within the next year or year-and-a-half.
Jenn Richard is the director of strategic development with Sexual Violence New Brunswick. (Marc Genuist / CBC)
"We've also done a presentation to the New Brunswick Association of Chiefs of Police, and they've all responded positively, so we're pretty optimistic that things are going to roll ahead," she said.
The Edmundston Police Force and the BNPP Regional Police Force, serving communities northeast of Bathurst, confirmed to CBC News that they will participate in the program. Police in Grand Falls, Miramichi and Bathurst didn't respond to requests for comment.
Head of police chiefs wants review process to stay
Woodstock Chief Gary Forward, who's also the president of the New Brunswick Association of Chiefs of Police, said the oversight teams are a step in the right direction.
"If we see through these types of partnerships the opportunity to be better, then we need to not only embrace that, but we need to make sure that moving forward we have it in place," he said.
His department had its first audit with the team in 2023. Over the course of a few days, the team members examined records, files and details about the investigative processes of closed cases of sexual violence.
The files never left the building, Forward said, and team members signed a nondisclosure agreement before reviewing them. Some information, like personal medical information, was also redacted.
Gary Forward is the Woodstock police chief and president of the New
Brunswick Association of Chiefs of Police. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
After they finished with the files, the team put together a report for the Woodstock force recommending ways to improve their investigative processes going forward.
"There was some very helpful information there," Forward said.
Forward said he wants the auditing process to continue at least yearly. The goal is that officers will learn from each audit, he said, so that the force can proactively address any shortcomings in the investigative process.
Woodstock police also received specialized training from Sexual Violence New Brunswick in 2023, Forward said. They were joined by officers from the Fredericton force and the RCMP.
"It demonstrates that the public safety services in New Brunswick are very aware this is something we need to be on top of and be a part of."
Recommendations about police response still not public
Bettering police response to crimes of sexual violence gained momentum across Canada following a 2017 Globe and Mail investigation that revealed police officers were often dismissing victim allegations as unfounded, depriving them of thorough, trauma-informed investigations.
The Globe's investigation found New Brunswick had the highest percentage of unfounded cases in the country, leading the province to perform an audit of sex crime investigations from 2010 to 2014.
The Department of Justice and Public Safety then put a working group together, made up of advocates in the field and police force associations, to compile formal recommendations about how New Brunswick police officers can improve their response to crimes of sexual violence.
Sexual Violence New Brunswick was part of that work. Richard confirmed to CBC News the recommendations were delivered to the Department of Justice and Public Safety at least two years ago, if not earlier. She also told CBC News in 2022 the recommendations would soon be made public.
That never happened.
The Department of Justice and Public Safety confirmed in an email that the task force made nine recommendations, but would not share them, nor say why they were never made public. In a followup email, the department said it's consulting with stakeholders on a release date.
"I couldn't tell you why they're not public," Richard said."I've also been asking that myself. There has been a lot of really excellent progress that has been made on those recommendations. It's something to actually show off."
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David Amos
Guess who just called Gary Forward
Reply to David Amos
Forward should be demoted.
David Amos
Guess who just called Sexual Violence New Brunswick
"Woodstock Chief Gary Forward, who's also the president of the New Brunswick Association of Chiefs of Police, said the oversight teams are a step in the right direction.
"If we see through these types of partnerships the opportunity to be better, then we need to not only embrace that, but we need to make sure that moving forward we have it in place," he said.
Yea Right
Reply to David Amos
Perhaps the cops should look at what is in front of everyone right now
Oh My My
David Amos
Gary Forward knows why this news does not surprise me
Denis Van Humbeck
Too bad this current government is soft on crime relaxed the bail rules.
Reply to Denis Van Humbeck
Just like California, totally
David Amos
Reply to Denis Van Humbeck
It depends on who the Crown deems as criminals there are 2 dudes in Alberta that have been locked up for over 2 years without bail while awaiting trial
"Frontline workers in the field of gender-based violence"- So different violence has different people? not sure what that means.
Reply to Miles Haukeness
You are so smart. Good for you.
David Amos
Reply to Wilbur Ross
I wish the cops were half as smart
This is a subject that would conflict with our premier's optimistic view of the state of the province.
Canada is too soft on crime and people get released on bail when they shouldn't.
Reply to Denis Van Humbeck
You can thank a previous government that abused the bail process—one of several abuses—to the point that the Supreme Court had to set rules based on something other than optics.
Reply to Denis Van Humbeck
Pretty general statement to make. Statistically, the numbers are very small.
Reply to G. Timothy Walton
There was no abuse of the bail program by the previous government.
Reply to Denis Van Humbeck
Yea Right
Reply to Denis Van Humbeck
Yes, there was. People were being denied bail purely for the optics of being "tough on crime", regardless of their actual offence. It resulted in individual wealth mattering more than individual accused or individual crime.
And since some people who couldn't afford bail were being held in remand longer than their sentence would have been with a trial within a reasonable period, we ended up with the limits the SCOC has set in place.
That's what the abuse was. People effectively serving longer sentences without having received a trial, simply because they were poor.
Reply to G. Timothy Walton
Ah wrong. SCOC should not be allowed to set limits.
Eugene Peabody
The government has sat on the report because the minister of public safety does not agree with it. As usual people have to do the job of the government like they did with the homeless file.
Like the police chief said this idea will only help to make the police forces better over time. There will always be a few members that will not change but maybe they will decrease in number over time.
Reply to Eugene Peabody
Tip of the iceberg How many RCMP members sued the Crown because of sexual harassment by their fellow members?
Sounds like a lot of duplication.
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Subject: Guess who just called Gary Forward
To: My Son
Max Amos
Followed you
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Guess who just called Gary Forward
Comment by David Amos.
21 min ago
Guess who just called Sexual Violence New Brunswick
Comment by David Amos.
47 min ago
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"Woodstock Chief Gary Forward, who's also the president of the New
Brunswick Association of Chiefs of Police, said the oversight teams
are a step in the right direction.
"If we see through these types of partnerships the opportunity to be
better, then we need to not only embrace that, but we need to make
sure that moving forward we have it in place," he said.
Yea Right
Reply by David Amos.
46 min ago
Perhaps the cops should look at what is in front of everyone right now
Comment by David Amos.
51 min ago
Oh My My
Comment by David Amos.
2 hrs ago
content deactivated –
Gary Forward knows why this news does not surprise me
Comment by Denis Van Humbeck.
2 hrs ago
Too bad this current government is soft on crime relaxed the bail rules.
Reply by Wilbur Ross.
2 hrs ago
Just like California, totally
Reply by David Amos.
44 min ago
It depends on who the Crown deems as criminals there are 2 dudes in
Alberta that have been locked up for over 2 years without bail while
awaiting trial
Comment by Miles Haukeness.
3 hrs ago
"Frontline workers in the field of gender-based violence"- So
different violence has different people? not sure what that means.
Reply by Wilbur Ross.
2 hrs ago
You are so smart. Good for you.
Reply by David Amos.
43 min ago
I wish the cops were half as smart
Comment by MR Cain.
3 hrs ago
This is a subject that would conflict with our premier's optimistic
view of the state of the province.
Comment by Denis Van Humbeck.
5 hrs ago
Canada is too soft on crime and people get released on bail when they shouldn't.
Reply by G. Timothy Walton.
4 hrs ago
You can thank a previous government that abused the bail process—one
of several abuses—to the point that the Supreme Court had to set rules
based on something other than optics.
Reply by MR Cain.
3 hrs ago
Pretty general statement to make. Statistically, the numbers are very small.
Reply by Denis Van Humbeck.
2 hrs ago
There was no abuse of the bail program by the previous government.
Reply by David Amos.
42 min ago
Yea Right
Comment by Robert Fish.
6 hrs ago
The reality that we even need this service is just the worst of the
worst in society.
Comment by Eugene Peabody.
7 hrs ago
The government has sat on the report because the minister of public
safety does not agree with it. As usual people have to do the job of
the government like they did with the homeless file.
Like the police chief said this idea will only help to make the police
forces better over time. There will always be a few members that will
not change but maybe they will decrease in number over time.
Reply by David Amos.
40 min ago
Tip of the iceberg How many RCMP members sued the Crown because of
sexual harassment by their fellow members?
Comment by Jack Whitehead.
7 hrs ago
Sounds like a lot of duplication.
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 1:47 PM
Subject: Re Methinks Rick Howe, Todd Veinotte, Leanne.Fitch, Gary Forward, Roger Brown, the RCMP, the lawyer Anne Jarman, Q.C. and their minions have ignored me for way past to long N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc???
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From: Brenda Lucki <brenda.lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:20:25 -0400
Subject: Re: David Coon and his buddy Chucky Leblanc know Attorney
General Serge Rousselle told the CBC political panel the topic should
not be discussed.because I am about to put my matter before the
Supreme Court (Transferred - Mutation à Ottawa)
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>>> David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> 04/13/18 15:20 >>>
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
New harassment policy in works after allegations against Speaker
Legislative administration committee is setting up sub-group to write
policy, says David Coon
CBC News · Posted: Apr 12, 2018 7:53 PM AT |
The CBC Political Panel discussed the harassment allegations against
Speaker Chris Collins. Details about the allegations have not been
made public. (CBC News)
Listen to the full CBC New Brunswick Political Panel podcast by
downloading from the CBC Podcast page or subscribing to the podcast in
iTunes.
Members of the legislative administration committee want a more robust
harassment policy specifically for the legislature, according to Green
Party Leader David Coon.
A sub-group of the committee is drafting a new policy, which "will go
above and beyond the workplace harassment policy for general
government," Coon, a member of the committee, said during the CBC New
Brunswick Political Panel podcast this week.
Speaker Collins to fight 'politically driven' harassment allegation
Mystery swirls around who will run for Liberals in Moncton Centre
The decision follows harassment allegations revealed last week by
Premier Brian Gallant against Speaker Chris Collins.
Gallant suspended the Moncton Centre MLA from caucus over a complaint
he harassed a former employee of the legislative assembly.
Collins, who was planning to run in the September provincial election,
will fight the allegations, according to his lawyer, T.J. Burke.
Political Panel: April 12 Edition
00:00 34:42
This weeks political panel with Terry Seguin discusses the allegations
of harassment against Chris Collins. 34:42
Filling policy gaps
The legislative administration committee has agreed the clerk of the
legislature will select an independent investigator to examine the
complaint. It has also begun work to clarify issues with the
harassment policy with respect to the allegations against the Speaker.
"The decision to do that reflects that there was a gap at the
legislative assembly," Coon said.
The Liberals were criticized by opposition panel members for their
response to the complaint. Four of the five panellists said the
government failed to follow the existing harassment policy in not
taking action when it learned there might be a complaint.
Green Party Leader David Coon says the legislative administration
committee is going to draft a new harassment policy. (CBC News)
Gallant learned of a possible complaint in February but has said his
office couldn't act until the official complaint was filed April 5.
But the Progressive Conservatives were quick to point to the policy
that says senior officials must take action about harassment "whether
or not a complaint is filed."
PC member Ted Flemming said on the panel that he was pleased to see an
independent investigation because he doesn't trust the executive
branch to get to the bottom of it.
There is a pattern of shrouding the truth, said the MLA, pointing to
scandals such as Atcon and inflated property taxes.
"We're not able to get thNDP Leader Jennifer McKenzie took exception
to Flemming's comparisons,
saying the process should be followed and communicated clearly to the
public and shouldn't be politicized.
McKenzie said the rights of both Collins and the complainant should be
respected and due process given.
Speaker Chris Collins says he'll fight the harassment allegations. (CBC)
People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said time is of a factor with the
investigation since it's an election year and Collins was committed to
running. Austin pitched a 60-day deadline for the investigation.
Gallant has said Collins could not run as a Liberal candidate while
suspended from caucus.
Rousselle responds
Attorney General Serge Rousselle told the panel the topic should not
be discussed. He said the harassment policy is being followed and it
would be "inappropriate" to comment on the matter during the
investigation.
Attorney General Serge Rousselle says the Collins case shouldn't be
discussed while an investigation is underway. (CBC News)
Rousselle also dismissed calls for a full inquiry.
"It could jeopardize the confidentiality of this process and
discourage other people from coming forward with their own complaints
for the fear of publicity that would follow," he said.
He said it's the government's understanding the complainant does not
want a full inquiry either.
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:24:24 -0400
Subject: Re: Attn Sergeant-at-Arms Gilles Cote (506) 453-2527 I just
called AGAIN
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<premier.ministre@cex.gouv.qc.
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:59:24 -0400
Subject: Fwd: So what does Premier Gallant and Minister Doucet et al
think of my lawsuit? How about David Coon and his blogging buddy
Chucky joking about being illegally barred from parliamentary property
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Keirstead.Brian@gnb.ca, "Ross.Wetmore" <Ross.Wetmore@gnb.ca>,
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 17:05:07 +0000
Subject: RE: So what does Premier Gallant anthink of my lawsuit? How
about David Coon and his blogging buddy
Chucky joking about being illegally barred from parliamentary property
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick.
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On 1/19/18, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> Good Day Sir
>>
>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>
>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>
>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>> suggested that you study closely.
>>
>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>
>>
http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>
>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>>
>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/
>>
>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/
>>
>> April 3rd, 2017
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/
>>
>>
>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>
>>
http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>
>>
>> The only hearing thus far
>>
>> May 24th, 2017
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/
>>
>>
>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>
>> Date: 20151223
>>
>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>
>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>
>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>
>> BETWEEN:
>>
>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>
>> Plaintiff
>>
>> and
>>
>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>
>> Defendant
>>
>> ORDER
>>
>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>> December 14, 2015)
>>
>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
>> in its entirety.
>>
>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the
Canadian
>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen
Quigg,
>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
>> he stated:
>>
>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check
the
>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including
you.
>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>
>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number
of
>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be
witnesses
>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>> Minister of Canada, The Right Hon>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>> Police.
>>
>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et
al,
>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>
>>
>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator
of
>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
>> is no order as to costs.
>>
>> “B. Richard Bell”
>> Judge
>>
>>
>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>
>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>
>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the
>> most
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
>> dudes are way past too late
>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>
>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>
>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>
>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Merci ,
>>
>>
>>
http://davidraymondamos3.
>>
>>
>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more
war
>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>
>> January 13, 2015
>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>
>> December 8, 2014
>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>
>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>
>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>
>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary
to
>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the
dearth
>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>> campaign of 2006.
>>
>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>
>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and
babbling
>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>
>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>
>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and
control,
>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>>
>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>
>> Subject:
>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>
>> January 30, 2007
>>
>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>
>> Mr. David Amos
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>
>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December
29,
>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>
>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner
Steve
>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>> Minister of Health
>>
>> CM/cb
>>
>>
>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.
>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>
>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>> over the holidays and>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>
>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our
position
>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>
>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>
>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>> Traffic Services NCO
>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>
>>
>>
>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>> fax: 506-444-5224
>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>> Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM
>> Subject: RE My complaint against the CROWN in Federal Court Attn
David
>> Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to submit a motion for a
>> publication ban on my complaint trust that you dudes are way past too
>> late
>> To: David.Hansen@justice.gc.ca, peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca
>> peacock.kurt@telegraphjournal.
mclaughlin.heather@
>> david.akin@sunmedia.ca, robert.frater@justice.gc.ca,
>> paul.riley@ppsc-sppc.gc.ca,
>> greg@gregdelbigio.com, joyce.dewitt-vanoosten@gov.bc.
>> joan.barrett@ontario.ca, jean-vincent.lacroix@gouv.qc.
>> peter.rogers@mcinnescooper.com
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, gopublic@cbc.ca,
>> Whistleblower@ctv.ca
>>
>> https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-
>>
>>
http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/
>>
>>
http://thedavidamosrant.
>>
>> I repeat what the Hell do I do with the Yankee wiretapes taps sell
>> them on Ebay or listen to them and argue them with you dudes in
>> Feferal Court?
>>
>> Petey Baby loses all parliamentary privelges in less than a month but
>> he still supposed to be an ethical officer of the Court CORRECT?
>>
>> Veritas Vincit
>> David Raymond Amos
>> 902 800 0369
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:10:14 -0400
>> Subject: Yo Mr Bauer say hey to your client Obama and his buddies in
>> the USDOJ for me will ya?
>> To: RBauer@perkinscoie.com, sshimshak@paulweiss.com,
>> cspada@lswlaw.com, msmith@svlaw.com, bginsberg@pattonboggs.com,
>> gregory.craig@skadden.com, pm@pm.gc.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net, MulcaT@parl.gc.ca,
leader@greenparty.ca
>> Cc: alevine@cooley.com, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
>> michael.rothfeld@wsj.com, remery@ecbalaw.com
>>
>> QSLS Politics
>> By Location Visit Detail
>> Visit 29,419
>> Domain Name usdoj.gov ? (U.S. Government)
>> IP Address 149.101.1.# (US Dept of Justice)
>> ISP US Dept of Justice
>> Location Continent : North America
>> Country : United States (Facts)
>> State : District of Columbia
>> City : Washington
>> Lat/Long : 38.9097, -77.0231 (Map)
>> Language English (U.S.) en-us
>> Operating System Microsoft WinXP
>> Browser Internet Explorer 8.0
>> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; >> Javascript version 1.3
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>> Visit Number 29,419
>>
>>
http://qslspolitics.blogspot.
>>
>>
>> Could ya tell I am investigating your pension plan bigtime? Its
>> because no member of the RCMP I have ever encountered has earned it
yet
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:36:04 -0400
>> Subject: This is a brief as I can make my concerns Randy
>> To: randyedmunds@gov.nl.ca
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> In a nutshell my concerns about the actions of the Investment
Industry
>> affect the interests of every person in every district of every
>> country not just the USA and Canada. I was offering to help you with
>> Emera because my work with them and Danny Williams is well known and
>> some of it is over eight years old and in the PUBLIC Record.
>>
>> All you have to do is stand in the Legislature and ask the MInister
of
>> Justice why I have been invited to sue Newfoundland by the
>> Conservatives
>>
>>
>> Obviously I am the guy the USDOJ and the SEC would not name who is
the
>> link to Madoff and Putnam Investments
>>
>> Here is why
>>
>>
http://banking.senate.gov/
>>
>> Notice the transcripts and webcasts of the hearing of the US Senate
>> Banking Commitee are still missing? Mr Emory should at least notice
>> Eliot Spitzer and the Dates around November 20th, 2003 in the
>> following file
>>
>>
http://www.checktheevidence.
>>
>> http://occupywallst.org/users/
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Hansen, David" David.Hansen@justice.gc.ca
>> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 19:28:44 +0000
>> Subject: RE: I just called again Mr Hansen
>> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>
>> Hello Mr. Amos,
>>
>> I manage the Justice Canada civil litigation section in the Atlantic
>> region. We are only responsible for litigating existing civil
>> litigation files in which the Attorney General of Canada is a named
>> defendant or plaintiff. If you are a plaintiff or defendant in an
>> existing civil litigation matter in the Atlantic region in which
>> Attorney General of Canada is a named defendant or plaintiff please
>> provide the court file number, the names of the parties in the action
>> and your question. I am not the appropriate contact for other
>> matters.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> David A. Hansen
>> Regional Director | Directeur régional
>> General Counsel |Avocat général
>> Civil Litigation and Advisory | Contentieux des affaires civiles et
>> services de consultation
>> Department of Justice | Ministère de la Justice
>> Suite 1400 – Duke Tower | Pièce 1400 – Tour Duke
>> 5251 Duke Street | 5251 rue Duke
>> Halifax, Nova Scotia | Halifax, Nouvelle- Écosse
>> B3J 1P3
>> david.hansen@justice.gc.ca
>> Telephone | Téléphone (902) 426-3261 / Facsimile | Télécopieur (902)
>> 426-2329
>> This e-mail is confidential and may be protected by solicitor-client
>> privilege. Unauthorized distribution or disclosure is prohibited. If
>> you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us and delete
>> this entire e-mail.
>> Before printing think about the Environment
>> Thinking Green, please do not print this e-mail unless necessary.
>> Pensez vert, svp imprimez que si nécessaire.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----->>> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:23:24 -0300
>>> Subject: ATTN FBI Special Agent Richard Deslauriers Have you talked
to
>>> your buddies Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly about the wiretap tapes
YET?
>>> To: boston@ic.fbi.gov, washington.field@ic.fbi.gov,
>>> bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>> Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov, Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov,
>>> jcarney@carneybassil.com, bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net
>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, birgittaj@althingi.is,
>>> shmurphy@globe.com, redicecreations@gmail.com
>>>
>>> FBI Boston
>>> One Center Plaza
>>> Suite 600
>>> Boston, MA 02108
>>> Phone: (617) 742-5533
>>> Fax: (617) 223-6327
>>> E-mail: Boston@ic.fbi.gov
>>>
>>> Hours
>>> Although we operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, our normal
>>> "walk-in" business hours are from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
>>> through Friday. If you need to speak with a FBI representative at
any
>>> time other than during normal business hours, please telephone our
>>> office at (617) 742-5533.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:20:20 -0300
>>> Subject: Yo Fred Wyshak and Brian Kelly your buddy Whitey's trial is
>>> finally underway now correct? What the hell do I do with the wiretap
>>> tapes Sell them on Ebay?
>>> To: Brian.Kelly@usdoj.gov, us.marshals@usdoj.gov,
>>> Fred.Wyshak@usdoj.gov, jcarney@carneybassil.com,
>>> bbachrach@bachrachlaw.net, wolfheartlodge@live.com,
shmurphy@globe.com,
>>> >> jonathan.albano@bingham.com, mvalencia@globe.com
>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
>>> PATRICK.MURPHY@dhs.gov, rounappletree@aol.com
>>>
>>>
http://www.bostonglobe.com/
>>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
>>>
>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
ask
>>> them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>
>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>>> cards?
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>
>>>
http://archive.org/details/
>>>
>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>
>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>
>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>> United States Senate
>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>
>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the
matters
>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>
>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap
>>> tapes.
>>>
>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this
previously.
>>>
>>> Very truly yours,
>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Amos" david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>> To: "Rob Talach" rtalach@ledroitbeckett.com
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:59 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Attn Robert Talach and I should talk ASAP about my
suing
>>> the Catholic Church Trust that Bastarache knows why
>>>
>>> The date stamp on about page 134 of this old file of mine should
mean
>>> a lot to you
>>>
>>> http://www.checktheevidence.
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:37:08 -0400
>>> Subject: To Hell with the KILLER COP Gilles Moreau What say you NOW
>>>>>> maritme_malaise@yahoo.ca, Jennifer.Nixon@ps-sp.gc.ca,
>>> bartman.heidi@psic-ispc.gc.ca, Yves.J.Marineau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> david.paradiso@erc-cee.gc.ca, desaulniea@smtp.gc.ca,
>>> denise.brennan@tbs-sct.gc.ca, anne.murtha@vac-acc.gc.ca,
>>> webo@xplornet.com, julie.dickson@osfi-bsif.gc.ca,
>>> rod.giles@osfi-bsif.gc.ca, flaherty.j@parl.gc.ca,
toewsv1@parl.gc.ca,
>>> Nycole.Turmel@parl.gc.ca,Cleme
maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca,
>>> >> oig@sec.gov, whistleblower@finra.org, whistle@fsa.gov.uk,
>>> david@fairwhistleblower.ca
>>> Cc: j.kroes@interpol.int, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com,
>>> bernadine.chapman@rcmp-grc.gc.
>>> Juanita.Peddle@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com,
>>> Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Robert.Trevors@gnb.ca,
>>> ian.fahie@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>>
>>> http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nb/
>>>
>>> http://nb.rcmpvet.ca/
>>>
>>> From: Gilles Moreau Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:03:22 -0500
>>> Subject: Re: Lets ee if the really nasty Newfy Lawyer Danny Boy
>>> Millions will explain this email to you or your boss Vic Toews EH
>>> Constable Peddle???
>>> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Please cease and desist from using my name in your emails.
>>>
>>> Gilles Moreau, Chief Superintendent, CHRP and ACC
>>> Director General
>>> HR Transformation
>>> 73 Leikin Drive, M5-2-502
>>> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R2
>>>
>>> Tel 613-843-6039
>>> Cel 613-818-6947
>>>
>>> Gilles Moreau, surintendant principal, CRHA et ACC
>>> Directeur général de la Transformation des ressources humaines
>>> 73 Leikin, pièce M5-2-502
>>> Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
>>>
>>> tél 613-843-6039
>>> cel 613-818-6947
>>> gilles.moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>
>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 13:31:38 -0300
Subject: Methinks Rick Howe, Todd Veinotte, Leanne.Fitch, Gary
Forward, Roger Brown, the RCMP, the lawyer Anne Jarman, Q.C. and their
minions have ignored me for way past to long N'esy Pas Chucky
Leblanc???
To: Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, premier
<premier@gnb.ca>, premier@gov.ab.ca, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
andre <andre@jafaust.com>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
anne.jarman@edmonton.ca, "martin.gaudet"
<martin.gaudcet@fredericton.ca
<Roger.Brown@fredericton.ca>
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