Cocktails & Popcorn: This Is Not A Political Campaign, This Is A Quest To Avoid Federal Indictments: Bill Schuette Trying To Get His Groove On - VIDEO

I really do not understand why this is such a salacious find, simply for the fact that the Michigan

Bill Schuette -Circa 1980

Board of Canvassers has still, yet, to this very moment that I type these words, to certify and record the 2018 Primary Election vote results.

Bill has multiple investigations going on with child trafficking and other criminal operations in the Christian Churches, Medicaid fraud in child welfare, mortgage fraud, campaign finance fraud, money laundering, real estate fraud, election fraud, international drug and uranium smuggling operations, public corruption, geographic genocide, corporate & political international espionage, patent fraud, bank fraud, both on the federal and state levels, even as a person of interest, too.

Bill also knows about some really fun indictment avoidance stuff Gretchen is doing, but I am not going to snatch his thunder.


Besides, this #MeToo crap is getting rather old.

What about the kids?

Priorities, you know.

He was a bit unrefined in the art of seduction back then, but maybe she liked it.

We should ask her.

Obviously, she consented to the expressions of passion because she did not curse him out nor did she immediately throat punch him, so before we jump to any political smearing conclusions, let us just sit back, relax, do a few shots, play a few rounds of quarter bounce while we wait for Bill to respond.

I already heard internet chatter that there is an earth moving operation about the partying of Engler, Schuette and a lawyer named Pete Jordan out of Big Rapids in the 1980s.

Bill has many options, and subpoena powers, you know.

Hey Bill, whacha gonna do?

Smooches!

Schuette regrets ‘embarrassing’ exchange from 1989

Lansing — Michigan Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bill Schuette said this week he is embarrassed by and regrets his "poor attempt to be humorous" during an exchange with an unidentified woman ahead of a 1989 interview.

American Bridge, a Democratic group specializing in opposition research, published the archival outtake online Thursday but was unable to provide additional context. The 38-second clip begins with a woman who is off screen and never seen asking Schuette to move closer to a lamp.

“I will do anything you want,” said Schuette, who was an elected member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1989. “Some things I may not let you run the camera on.”

The woman then says something inaudible, and Schuette responds.

“I admire your tenacity, appreciate your spirit of Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Toulouse-Lautrec.”

A slightly shorter version of the clip appears to have been posted online in July by a conservative news site that has usually published stories friendly to Schuette. The American Bridge version quickly spread online Thursday and generated strong reactions among Democrats and their allies.

Women are subjected to “creepy behavior like this” every day when they go to work and try to do their jobs, said Lori Carpentier of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan PAC, which has endorsed Democrat Gretchen Whitmer for governor.

“It wasn’t funny then. It’s not funny now,” she said in a statement.

Schuette’s campaign said he did not know the origin of the video and does not recall the apparent interview it came from. But he watched it recently and responded late Wednesday before the Democratic group had published its version of the clip.

"That apparently was my poor attempt to be humorous 30 years ago,” Schuette said in a statement, noting the clip was edited to show only one short portion of an exchange that "has been in the public domain for some time."

“It’s fortunate for me that Cynthia came into my life and let me know that I am not a very funny guy, but this is no less embarrassing to me today, and I regret it."

The Midland Republican married Cynthia Grebe, a former WOOD-TV news anchor, shortly after losing his 1990 campaign against then-U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Detroit.

Now the sitting state attorney general, Schuette is competing with Whitmer and third-party candidates in the Nov. 6 general election to replace term-limited Gov. Rick Snyder.

Whitmer responded to the video online.

"I imagine everyone who’s watched it had the same uncomfortable look on our faces,"  she wrote on Twitter. "But even more troubling is the fact that Schuette has spent the past 33 years in office attacking the rights of women and working to take away our access to contraception and health care."

A spokesman for American Bridge said the group does not have any additional footage from the interview.

The clip was “sent to us via a file sharing service by someone who gave us an assumed name,” Zach Hudson told The Detroit News in an email. “We don’t know anything beyond what is in this video.”

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Statement of the Honorable John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member Full Committee Hearing on “Planned Parenthood Exposed"

" Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider”

“I want to take a moment to walk through the events that have led up to this hearing:

§  “In the weeks or months prior to their public release, Mr. Franks and others in the Majority—including, we have learned, his subcommittee staff—received and previewed these surreptitiously recorded videos.

§  “On July 15, 2015, the first video was released to the public.  Others were posted online over the August break.

§  “Three different House committees then launched simultaneous congressional investigations.

§  “On September 9, this Committee held its first hearing on the topic—at which the Majority’s witnesses refused to discuss the videos at the heart of the matter. 

§  “There have since been two other hearings on this topic, making this hearing the fourth in the House in less than a month.

§  “And, finally, the Majority has announced that it will create a new, taxpayer-funded select committee to extend this so-called ‘investigation’ indefinitely.

“As I reflect on these events, I think we are able to draw a few conclusions.

“First, there is no evidence in the record whatsoever of illegal activity at Planned Parenthood. 

“On behalf of its 59 affiliates, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has provided this committee with hundreds of pages of documents.  The organization is cooperating fully with all three investigations in the House. 

“The documents we have reviewed so far allow us to go point-by-point to correct the false impressions created by the highly edited, highly misleading videos that nominally inspired these investigations. 

“Chairman Chaffetz, who sits on this Committee and is running his own investigation into these matters in the Oversight Committee next door, has agreed with this conclusion.

“Last week, Wolf Blitzer asked the gentleman from Utah: ‘Is there any evidence . . . that Planned Parenthood has broken any law?’  Mr. Chaffetz answered with the truth: ‘No, I’m not suggesting that they broke the law.’

“Second, I am led to conclude that this hearing—much like the Majority’s broader attack on Planned Parenthood—is largely political theater, designed to rally the conservative base and roll back the constitutional right to choose wherever possible. 

“In practice, these investigations have had little to do with the videos—which the Majority went to great lengths not to discuss at our last hearing.  They have everything to do with appeasing the most extreme elements of the Republican Party during an intraparty leadership crisis and a fractious presidential primary.

“We may have a legitimate difference of opinion on Roe v. Wade, but it remains the law of the land—and the Majority’s attempt to re-litigate a forty-year-old decision places thousands of lives at risk.

“Many women enter the health care system through a family-planning provider.  In fact, 6 in 10 women who receive services at a publicly funded family-planning center consider it their primary source of medical care.

“Planned Parenthood alone serves 2.7 million Americans every year.  Abortion procedures make up an incredibly small amount of the services it provides—only 3 percent. 

“For example, in 2013, Planned Parenthood provided 900,000 cancer screenings to women across the country.  88,000 of those tests detected cancer early or identified abnormalities that might signal a greater risk of cancer.  In short, in this way and so many others, Planned Parenthood saves lives. 

“The attempt to defund Planned Parenthood places each of those lives at risk.  We should be grateful that the effort has been almost entirely unsuccessful, at least at the federal level.

“Finally, it is important to observe all of the good work this Committee might be doing instead of meeting for the second time on this subject in thirty days.

“As we head into our second election season since Shelby County v. Holder, this Committee has done very little to restore the enforcement mechanisms of the Voting Rights Act. 

“We have done nothing to advance comprehensive immigration reform, even though the proposal remains overwhelmingly popular and would easily pass the House. 

“11 million men and women are waiting to come out of the shadows and contribute to our economy and communities.  At this pace, I fear they will wait much longer.

“Although the scourge of gun violence has touched every one of our districts—including yours, Mr. Chairman—we have all but ignored calls to strengthen background checks and close the gun show loophole.  All of these solutions would save lives; and all of them are consistent with our constitutional rights.

“The list of missed opportunities is long, Mr. Chairman, and our time is short.  We should not spend one more minute—or one more taxpayer dollar—vilifying Planned Parenthood without a speck of evidence to back these claims. 

“This Committee simply has too much important work to do.  I urge my colleagues to put this moment of political theater behind us.  We can do better. I thank the Chairman, and yield the balance of my time.”

Click HERE to read the testimony of Democratic witness, Caroline Fredrickson, President, American Constitution Society for Law and Poverty.

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CONYERS: CHAFFETZ CONFIRMS PLANNED PARENTHOOD DID NOT BREAK ANY LAWS

Washington, D.C. – Last night, during an appearance on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, admitted that he has not identified any evidence that Planned Parenthood has violated any laws:

Blitzer:      “Is there any evidence in your opinion that Planned Parenthood has broken any law?”

Chaffetz:   “No, I’m not suggesting that they broke the law.” 

Despite this stunning admission, the House Judiciary Committee has announced its intent to hold its second hearing in thirty days to examine the medical services provided by Planned Parenthood and its affiliates.

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr., released the following statement in response:

“I am somewhat relieved that Mr. Chaffetz has admitted what Democrats have been arguing all along: there is no legal basis whatsoever for the allegations against Planned Parenthood.  Ultimately, these ideologically-charged attacks are part of a broader campaign to change existing laws that protect a woman’s right to access safe and affordable healthcare. 

“Now that we agree these hearings have been pure political theater, perhaps we can move on to the important work facing this Congress—finding a long-term solution for funding the government, enacting comprehensive immigration reform, tackling the scourge of gun violence, and restoring the Voting Rights Act.”

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U.S. Judiciary Holds Ex-Parte Planned Parenthood Hearings, Child Welfare Fraud Style

Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held hearing on Planned Parenthood allegedly selling fetal tissue for profit based upon heavily edited video which was submitted as evidence.

To begin, let's examine the title of the hearing:

“Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider”

Basically, the majority came up with what I call a "Pitchfork and Torch" title which lacks any sembelance of professionalism in an investigative body.

 It sounds like a first grader pointing the finger at someone who they think farted.

Exclusive video of U.S. House Republican Majority Judiciary Committee conducting Hearing with fraudulent evidence on Planned Parenthood allegedly selling fetal tissue for profit.  

Next, the majority of Judiciary Committee (this means it is Republican controlled) allowed the submission of fraudulent documentation into the record.

Then, Planned Parenthood was not even allowed to attend the hearings to provide testimony.  

Even more disturbing, Center for Medical Progress was not even allowed to attend to be cross examined.

It was at this moment when I had a revelation..  I have seen and heard this type of unparalleled jurisprudence before.  It is called child welfare.

In child welfare legal proceedings, more intuitively known as a child abuse and neglect case, one is:

        (1) "guilty until proven innocent", hence the title of the proceedings;

        (2)  through ex-parte proceedings, not allowed to show up at the hearing;

        (3)  not allowed to face their accusers;

        (4)  not allowed to examine the evidence.

If a corporation, in this instance, Planned Parenthood, is considered, statutorily, an individual person, then their civil rights were violated for not being allowed to participate in the hearing.

The only reason this has become an issue is there are private, corporate interests, under the guise of non-profit organizations, who want to get their hands on the Social Security Trust Fund for private investment of Wall Street through religious, tax-exempt, social welfare organizations.

Simply put, they want the public money, Medicaid, badly and will generate whatever fraudulent documentation while violating civil rights to get it.

This is a classic Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare scheme, just taken to the next level.

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Rep. Chu Statement on Planned Parenthood Hearing in Judiciary Committee

WASHINGTON, DC –Today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Planned Parenthood. The hearing comes after the recent release of edited videos that purport to reveal illegal activities by Planned Parenthood employees, despite numerous claims that question their conclusions. Ahead of the hearing, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27), a member of the Judiciary Committee, sent a letter signed by 11 members to Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (VA-6) urging the release of the “full, unedited source footage” as Congressional investigations proceed. Rep. Chu released the following statement:

“Just one day back from the August recess, and the Republicans are already resuming the political circus, picking up a baton originally carried over the summer by a biased group with a history of targeting Planned Parenthood. It is unfortunate that instead of focusing on any of the pressing issues on the Congressional agenda this fall, Republicans are choosing instead to try to discredit and smear a vital health care organization that millions of Americans depend on every day.

“From just the witness list and dramatic title of today’s hearing, it is clear that the intention was not fact finding, but opinion confirming. It is the same old war on women – particularly low income women – wrapped in a new layer of fear and lies. The truth is that Planned Parenthood’s services are anything but ‘horrific.’ They are legal and safe. The real danger to women will come if Republicans get their way. Defunding Planned Parenthood would mean truly horrific consequences by forcing women back to the dangerous days of back alley and unlicensed abortions instead of the high quality care available today. Moreover, the health impacts will extend far beyond abortion services as well, since most women go to Planned Parenthood for reliable cancer screenings, family planning, STD testing, sex education, and more. Without this organization, women will be left with fewer – or no – options. That is the real goal of today’s hearing, and it is an unacceptable cost to our country and our families.”

Letter to Chairman Goodlatte_Center for Medical Progress Videos

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Statement of the Honorable John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member Full Committee Hearing on “Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider”

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

“As today’s one-sided hearing title suggests, we will likely hear a series of allegations leveled against Planned Parenthood that it engaged in unlawful conduct based solely on a series of deceptively-edited undercover videos. 

“Notably, the Center for Medical Progress – the entity that filmed these videos and which could answer significant and troubling questions about their accuracy and veracity -- is not here today. 

“In addition, the Majority chose not to invite Planned Parenthood, the target of today’s attacks. 

“As we hear from our witnesses, we should keep in mind the following points.

“To begin with, there is no credible evidence that Planned Parenthood violated the law.

“The videos wrongly imply that Planned Parenthood sells fetal tissue and organs for profit.

“The law governing fetal tissue research - which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in 1993 - provides, in part, that no one can ‘knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration.’ 

“In short, for-profit sales and purchases of fetal tissue are illegal.  Similarly, federal law prohibits for-profit sales and purchases of human organs.

“In both cases, however, ‘valuable consideration’ does not include reasonable payments to cover certain costs associated with either fetal tissue or organ donations.

“The Center for Medical Progress’s doctored videos do not support the allegation that Planned Parenthood sought profit from fetal tissue or organ donations.

“Rather, they show, among other things, discussions over payments for costs associated with fetal tissue or organ donations, payments that the law clearly allows. “The videos also wrongly suggest that doctors at Planned Parenthood violated the law by altering the procedures used to perform abortions so as to preserve fetal tissue or organs.  There is no evidence that Planned Parenthood has altered methods.

“Moreover, the statutory prohibition on changing the timing, method, or procedures of an abortion to preserve fetal tissue applies only to certain federally-funded research, and such research has not been funded since 2007.

“In other words, that legal prohibition did not apply to Planned Parenthood at the time the Center’s undercover videos were filmed.

“Finally, no evidence supports the suggestion that Planned Parenthood doctors may have violated the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

“The fact that Planned Parenthood officials refer to ‘intact’ fetuses and tissue specimens in many of the videos is immaterial.

“To violate the Act, the physician must partially deliver a living fetus and have the intent to terminate that fetus after this partial delivery.

“None of the videos show any Planned Parenthood official engaging in or suggesting the use of such a procedure.

“In short, no reliable evidence demonstrates that Planned Parenthood violated federal law.        

“What is troubling about the videos is the manner in which they were produced.

“The Center for Medical Progress created a false tissue procurement company to use as a front in order to infiltrate Planned Parenthood facilities and to create the undercover videos, and may have deceived any number of state and federal authorities to do so.

“Additionally, the Center heavily edited the videos to present a misleading picture of the surreptitiously-recorded conversations in order to suggest illegal conduct by Planned Parenthood and to maximize the videos’ shock value.

“A forensic analysis submitted to Congress has concluded that ‘thorough review of these videos in consultation with qualified experts found that they do not present a complete or accurate record of the events they purport to depict.’

“And, even the alleged ‘full footage’ released by the Center includes – and I quote – ‘cuts, skips, missing tape, and changes in camera angle,’ as well as ‘more than 30 minutes of missing video’ and took dialogue out of context ‘so as to substantively and significantly alter the meaning of the dialogue.’

“Finally, we must step back and look at the context in which this hearing is being held.

“The real purpose of the videos is to undermine one of the Nation’s leading providers of high‑quality health care for women.

“Planned Parenthood serves 2.7 million Americans a year, and 1 in 3 women will have used Planned Parenthood services by the age of 45.

“Some abortion opponents are attempting to use these videos as a pretext to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood.  If successful, this effort would hurt those who rely on Planned Parenthood’s services and doing so would not prevent abortions.

“It is already the case that no federal funds may be used to pay for abortions with certain limited exceptions.

“Instead, federal funding pays for Planned Parenthood’s many critical health services, such as annual wellness exams, cancer screenings, contraception, and to further the study of sexually transmitted diseases.

“Surely, the Congress has better things to do than spend its time helping to undermine an organization that provides vital health services.  Thank you.”

Priscilla Smith Testimony - PP Hearing 9.9.15

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Top House Dems Call on Chairmen to Suspend “One-Sided” Investigations of Planned Parenthood— Or Fully Investigate Numerous Allegations of Illegal Activity by David Daleiden and His Group

Washington, D.C. (Sept. 3, 2015)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John J. Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter calling on their Chairmen to suspend their “one-sided” investigations of Planned Parenthood, or to also fully investigate multiple allegations of illegal activity by the Center for Medical Progress and its founder, David Daleiden, who engaged in an unsuccessful three-year effort to secretly entrap Planned Parenthood officials.

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representiatives
John Conyers, Jr.

“As the Ranking Members of two House Committees that have launched congressional investigations against Planned Parenthood, we are writing to request that you suspend these investigations, which are based on the potentially illegal actions of a radical anti-abortion group that has admitted to falsifying documents, lying to their own contributors, and deceptively editing secretly-recorded videos in a three-year crusade against Planned Parenthood,” the Ranking Members wrote.

“However, if you choose to move forward, we request that our committees also investigate the actions of David Daleiden and his organization, the Center for Medical Progress, which—in contrast to Planned Parenthood—may have violated numerous state and federal laws in their clandestine effort to roll back the rights of millions of women across the country who rely on the legal and critical healthcare services provided by Planned Parenthood every day,” they added.

The Ranking Members cited a forensic analysis of videos secretly recorded by the Center for Medical Progress that concluded that even the “full footage” released by the group contains “cuts, skips, missing tape, and changes in camera angle,” as well as “more than 30 minutes of missing video.”  The analysis also found that the video transcripts contain “numerous errors, discrepancies, and omissions” that “render them useless as ‘evidence.’”

The letter from the Ranking Members noted that, “within the last two weeks, attorneys for Mr. Daleiden have indicated that he and others involved in this scheme intend to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights rather than defending the dubious actions of their organization.”

“Our committees are actively pursuing aggressive investigations of Planned Parenthood even though we have seen no credible evidence that the organization has done anything unlawful,” the Ranking Members wrote.  “Yet, thus far our committees have taken no action whatsoever to investigate the potentially illegal actions of Mr. Daleiden and his group.”

“Based on these facts, we call on you to halt these one-sided investigations immediately,” the Ranking Members wrote.  “Millions of women across the country rely on Planned Parenthood for critical health services, and they should not be denied their rights under the law and the Constitution based on the Center for Medical Progress’s warped—and ultimately unsuccessful—effort to entrap Planned Parenthood.”

Reps. Conyers & Cummings Letter to Suspend Planned Parenthood Investigation 2015-09-03 by Beverly Tran

Reps. Conyers & Cummings Letter to Suspend Planned Parenthood Investigation 2015-09-03 by Beverly Tran

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