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Pay Your Own Way Petition Close to 200k Votes

By Jeralyn, Section Trump Administration
Posted on Wed Mar 29, 2017 at 11:19:09 AM EST
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The Change.org petition to make Melania Trump pay her own security costs at Trump Tower until she moves to the White House has 198,000 votes.

“The U.S. taxpayer is paying an exorbitant amount of money to protect the First Lady in Trump Tower, located in New York City,” the petition reads. “As to help relieve the national debt, this expense yields no positive results for the nation and should be cut from being funded.”

Yesterday, there were only 108,000 votes.

The NYPD estimated it costs between $127,000 and $146,000 per day to protect Mrs. Trump and Barron while President Trump is out of town, according to the New York Times. The cost to guard Mr. Trump and his family between the election and Inauguration Day reached $24 million, the NYPD said.

The petition now goes to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. (I'm not sure what they are expected to do with it.)

Donald, meanwhile, says his duties are so important he should be immune from having to answer a state lawsuit against him. Gloria Allred disagrees.

1,392 days and counting.

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    Pay Your Own Way Petition Close to 200k Votes | 3 comments (3 topical)

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    He is not immune (none / 0) (#1)
    by Ga6thDem on Wed Mar 29, 2017 at 11:22:25 AM EST
    from lawsuits according to the supreme court. Too bad the GOP was so desperate to start all this and now they are going to pay for it.

    Ha! (none / 0) (#2)
    by Blue Jean on Thu Mar 30, 2017 at 09:51:21 AM EST
    Tell it to Bill Clinton, Cheato.

    Gloria, in Excelsis Deo. (none / 0) (#3)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Thu Mar 30, 2017 at 06:09:09 PM EST
    Say what one will about the always colorful Ms. Allred, but she's nothing if not relentless. She's the type of attorney about whom people just love to complain -- that is, until they actually find themselves in (a usually desperate) need of her skill, strength and determination.

    In so many respects, Gloria Allred reminds me of the late Harriet Bouslog, a prominent Honolulu labor rights attorney of an earlier generation who was a similarly pugnacious advocate for people who'd otherwise had little or no voice.

    It was Ms. Bouslog who ultimately convinced the Territorial Supreme Court to strike down capital punishment in the islands. And her voracious, no holds barred defense of ILWU leader Jack Hall and the "Hawaii Seven" in the early 1950s struck a powerful blow not only on behalf of our constitutional right to freedom of association,  but also for the right of attorneys everywhere to advocate freely for their clients in public without fear of legal retribution from prosecutors and judges.

    Personally, I'd much rather have bulldogs like Ms. Allred and Ms. Bouslog on my side, than have their teeth sunk into my own hind end.

    Aloha.

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