Louisiana Governor, Comrade John Bel Edwards, Shuts Bars Effective Tomorrow Until after Christmas…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on November 24, 2020 by sundance

Yes, you read the headline correctly.  Apparently the COVID virus can tell the difference between your grocery store and your local drinking establishment.  Effective tomorrow Louisiana Governor Bel-Edwards is shutting down bars until AFTER Christmas.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Many bars across Louisiana will be forced to close effective tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 25 until after Christmas.

The closures will come as a result of tighter new restrictions announced by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards Tuesday, Nov. 24.

There were 3,266 new COVID-19 cases and 39 additional deaths reported in the state overnight.  “It is imperative that we take action and take action now,” Gov. Edwards said.

[…] Previously, if a bar was forced to closed because of high positivity rates in a parish, they were allowed to reopen if that rate dropped again. That will not be the case this time. Once a bar is forced to close, it must remain closed until the end of the governor’s order.  (read more)

Pushed far enough, decisions are reached…

Boston Authorities Contemplate Private Property Confiscation Under Guise of COVID Compliance…


Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on November 24, 2020 by sundance

There are times when you wish you were wrong about the extreme lust for power within leftist political officials… Alas, some things are also too predictable.

Boston authorities are now contemplating the confiscation of private property under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation or “public health”, because they need to house/detain people in socially distant venues.   The COVID provides a reason to confiscate private domicile.

Massachusetts – […] Could the city commandeer vacant private properties to help supplement supply?

Leo Beletsky, a law and health sciences professor at Northeastern University, presented the controversial move to city officials during a virtual hearing last week, according to the news station.

“When you commandeer a property, there is no preliminary process. The government just comes in and takes over private property,” Beletsky told the outlet.

“There’s a long tradition of doing that in the United States,” he added. “This is not some radical idea.”

While Beletsky’s proposal was met with swift opposition, he said the practice could quickly remedy a solution to the pressing problem.

“Lives certainly take precedence over private property interests, especially when private property owners will be compensated,” Beletsky said. “This could also apply to all the hotels that are sitting empty.” (read more)

FUNDAMENTAL CHAINS” – What they are planning to do is weaponize COVID-19 to attain ideological objectives. This is why they hyped the fear within it for almost a year. Nothing within their plan requires the approval or consent of any representative body in Washington DC. COVID is the tool to “fundamentally change” the way the United States exists.

Think about the federal government using mandates for enforced national COVID-19 compliance rules. Think about USDA (Dept of Agriculture) and OSHA federal inspections for social distancing (etc) in all businesses, not just restaurants.

Think about the COVID-19 regulatory and compliance system and what political beneficiaries stand to gain.

Think about the Dept of Education using COVID to restructure the way education is taught and the downstream regulations on charter schools and non-compliant educational systems that do not meet the ideological objectives of the master control plan.

Think about how the Dept. of Labor (complaint division) can be weaponized against political opposition based on arbitrary inspections under the guise of employee health and safety…. using federal COVID compliance rules.

Think about Housing and Urban Development (HUD) having new rules about dwellings and complexes for housing grants. Population density; the need to move into the suburbs and the confiscation of private property to “ensure the common safety” of the citizens.  (read more)

Sidney Powell Discusses Status of Election Lawsuits and Investigations With Lou Dobbs…


Posted originally on The Conservative tree House on November 24, 2020 by sundance

Investigative attorney Sidney Powell appears for an interview with Lou Dobbs to discuss the status of current findings and lawsuits.  Ms. Powell notes a legal challenge against the election results in Georgia is likely to be filed tomorrow.

Gates’s Vaccine Cemetery


Take at your own peril

Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com NOV 23, 2020 AT 10:56 AM

Bill Gates, like his father, is a eugenicist. His dad was the head of Planned Parenthood and friends with the Rockefellers. The elitists at the top want us dead. Even Prince Phillip said if he was reincarnated he wanted to come back as a virus to wipe out mankind.

Gates isn’t waiting for reincarnation. He wants us gone from his planet now. Yes, that’s right. The elitists including Bill Gates believe they own the planet and most of humanity are useless eaters who are mucking it up for them. Especially under the great reset which means people won’t have jobs. That’s why Gates funds Planned Parenthood, Monsanto (GMO foods kill humans), the WHO, the CDC, a spate of big vaccine makers, and globalism.

Gates has already killed a great many in India and Africa with his experimental vaccines. He did not face justice. Like all of the elitists, he’s above the law. Now he’s pushing a vaccine for COVID-19. He already owns the patent for the virus and the vaccine is probably already made. He’s just waiting for the right moment to release it. First, he and his operatives—people such as Dr. Fauci, bought-out politicians, and the corrupted mass media—all want us to be miserable. They want us masked up, and joyless. “Safe,” but not really living. No job, no church, no holiday get togethers. They’re isolating us. They’re forcing degradation upon us. They’re humiliating us. They’re exhausting our will to resist. Gates wants us to beg for his vaccine. Politicians will see to it that we are forced to take it in order to work and travel and possibly even use financial services. It’s the mark of the beast.

Once nearly everyone takes the foul concoction, people will begin mysteriously dying in a few years because of it. Gates and the corporate shill media will say it’s not due to his vaccine, but rather a new strain of the virus. Gates has already warned about a new, stronger viral wave that’s coming. He’s got it all planned out. He even smiled when he said it. So did his wife, Melinda. They couldn’t help but smile. They are, after all, sadistic fiends. Regardless, more and more vaccines will be mandated. More death will result. A lot of people will have to die to satisfy their magic spell that’s written on the Georgia Guide Stones.

Even if you choose to disbelieve my ‘conspiracy theory,’ do not take the vaccine. Big Pharma and the so-called medical experts who march under the banner of ‘science,’ are paid to cherry pick data and ignore the myriad deleterious side-effects. Vaccine makers can’t be sued. Taxpayers pay damages in a special vaccine court. It means Big Pharma is unaccountable and reckless. They don’t care about you or your family. They care about money. A cure would stop the money flow, so there will be endless virus waves and endless rushed out vaccines.

Forget about taking their vaccine cure. It will be worse than the disease.

—Ben Garrison

John Kerry – Schwab’s Davos-Man in Biden’s Cabinet


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Nov 24, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

John Kerry is a Davos Man. He has already publicly stated at Davos at the World Economic Forum that a Great Reset was urgently needed to stop the rise of populism – (i.e. Trump supporters). They regard Trump was elected by “populism” so what he was saying was to suppress those who voted for Trump which is anti-Democratic. He is preaching totalitarianism because they are right and everyone else must therefore be wrong. Kerry vowed that under a Biden administration, America would rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement to push the Great Reset but added, that this was “not enough.”

The notion of a reset is more important than ever before” according to Kerry. He added: “I personally believe … we’re at the dawn of an extremely exciting time.

A Biden Administration will invoke civil war. Texas might as well secede from the USA now. They intend to wipe out the oil industry. They will bring Texas to its knees. Texas joined the USA on December 29, 1845. It is now in its 20th 8.6-year cycle. The Commerce Clause, provision of the Constitution (Article I, Section 8) that authorizes Congress “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with Indian Tribes.” The commerce clause has traditionally been interpreted both as a grant of positive authority to Congress and as an implied prohibition of state laws and regulations that interfere with or discriminate against Interstate Commerce (the so-called “dormant” commerce clause). Under a Biden government, the Democrats have already been scheming to strip the Supreme Court of the power to rule on specific legislation.

In the case PATCHAK v. ZINKE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIORthe court ultimately upheld the Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act (Gun Lake Act) against a separation-of-powers challenge. However, because a majority of the Court could not agree on the legal basis for its decision, Patchak’s ultimate meaning with respect to Congress’s power over the courts remains uncertain. The various opinions in Patchak signal sharp divisions on the Court concerning the scope of Congress’s power to “strip” the jurisdiction of federal courts. Whereas at least four Justices appear to view that power as being “plenary” in nature, at least four other Justices embrace a more restricted view of Congress’s authority.

The Biden Administration WILL go after stripping the Supreme Court of ruling on pet issues from abortion to socialism. In HARRIS v. McRAE, 448 U.S. 297 (1980), the Supreme Court held that the Constitution was negative and as such it did not require the government to create any social programs or pay for anything on behalf of a citizen. The Constitution was intended to be a NEGATIVE RESTRAINT upon government rather than a positive list of rights for the individual.

So get ready. The Biden Administration is going to completely change the United States using executive orders to circumvent votes in Congress or debates. They argued that Kennedy was Catholic and the same argument was used against Barrett’s appointment to the Supreme Court that their religion would make them subservient to the Pope. This time, the Democrats are subservient to the World Economic Forum. Say goodbye to the Supreme Court on anything meaningful anymore.

Are Politicians Impacted by the Hawthorne Effect?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease re-Posted Nov 24, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Martin,

I want to thank you for all of your work and have enjoyed meeting you at the WEC’s and Computer event in Miami Beach that was a real eye-opener and also John McAfee had some very entertaining stories.

As in the  Hawthorne Effect in Stanford County Jail study do you think the Mayors /Governors/ CDC/NHI heads and political class are playing the guard’s role and the public are the prisoners?

Thank you

DS

ANSWER: Oh yes, that is when I was a speaker at the American Hackers Convention. John McAfee was interesting. We had drinks together and was relaying his support for me in my confrontation with the government.

The Hawthorne effect is a term referring to the tendency of some people to work harder and perform better when they are participants in an experiment. The term is often used to suggest that individuals may change their behavior due to the attention they are receiving from researchers rather than because of any manipulation of independent variables. I believe we are finding politicians imposing lockdowns and closing schools simply because other politicians are doing it and they have no clue as to the legitimacy of their actions in any context.

The PCR (polymerase chain reaction) is a NAT (Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology) method which is not really valid. I personally was tested 5 times in one month and when I told that to a pulmonary specialist in Tampa hospital he said that did not mean anything because the tests were not valid. The test measures sequences, i.e. nucleic acids contained in the virus. A positive test only indicates that SARS-COV-2 RNA is present, but does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the presence of an infection and whether it is contagious. This can only be done by means of virus detection through reproduction in cell culture.

Blog/Disease

Posted Nov 24, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Martin,

I want to thank you for all of your work and have enjoyed meeting you at the WEC’s and Computer event in Miami Beach that was a real eye-opener and also John McAfee had some very entertaining stories.

As in the  Hawthorne Effect in Stanford County Jail study do you think the Mayors /Governors/ CDC/NHI heads and political class are playing the guard’s role and the public are the prisoners?

Thank you

DS

ANSWER: Oh yes, that is when I was a speaker at the American Hackers Convention. John McAfee was interesting. We had drinks together and was relaying his support for me in my confrontation with the government.

The Hawthorne effect is a term referring to the tendency of some people to work harder and perform better when they are participants in an experiment. The term is often used to suggest that individuals may change their behavior due to the attention they are receiving from researchers rather than because of any manipulation of independent variables. I believe we are finding politicians imposing lockdowns and closing schools simply because other politicians are doing it and they have no clue as to the legitimacy of their actions in any context.

The PCR (polymerase chain reaction) is a NAT (Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology) method which is not really valid. I personally was tested 5 times in one month and when I told that to a pulmonary specialist in Tampa hospital he said that did not mean anything because the tests were not valid. The test measures sequences, i.e. nucleic acids contained in the virus. A positive test only indicates that SARS-COV-2 RNA is present, but does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the presence of an infection and whether it is contagious. This can only be done by means of virus detection through reproduction in cell culture.Video Player00:1301:28

They now test so many people that the positive rate would normally increase since where you tested only people who had symptoms, now everyone is being tested. The average age of death in Germany is 81 years with COVID which is no different from the flu. They are clearly using this to terrorize the population to get them to surrender their liberty and in the process destroy as much of small business as possible which employs 70% of the population for the Great Reset – you will own nothing. There is NO POSSIBLE WAY we will ever return to not just “normal” but the economy will be destroyed and people will be forced to buy online where it takes minimal skill to just filling orders if not by robots. The equality gap will increase and this is one reason BigTech supports the Great Reset.

My grandchildren will NEVER know the world as I did growing up. These people are destroying our culture and future. When courts and police support this tyranny, that backs the people into a corner and the only solution becomes civil uprising where revolutions unfold.

Ministry of Pennsylvania COVID Compliance Bans Alcohol Sales For Thanksgiving – Restricts School Attendance, and Non-Compliant Family Gatherings…


Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on November 23, 2020 by sundance

Comrades, the Pennsylvania authorities have announced new COVID-19 compliance dictates to ensure full control during the holiday week.   “Under the new order, bars and restaurants will not be permitted to sell beer and liquor between 5 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday morning.”  Welcome to selective COVID prohibition, because a virus…

Additionally, all schools must now restrict attendance and comply with “full remote learning.”  It is all for your best interest citizen as explained by the command and governing authority: “Having someone in your home who does not live with you – not part of your household – even if they are part of your extended family, or your close friends, puts your entire household at risk.”

Be a good citizen and snitch on your neighbors.

Pennsylvania – officials are issuing new orders and advisories they are calling “additional safeguards” as they work to slow the spread of coronavirus across the state.

Gov. Tom Wolf made the announcement alongside Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine during a press conference on Monday afternoon.

[…] Schools that do not sign the form or fail to comply are required to provide only fully remote learning and suspend all extracurricular activities as long as the county remains in the substantial transmission level.

The Democratic governor also reissued orders intended to protect businesses, employees, and customers. The orders include reiterating cleaning and social distancing requirements, mandatory telework requirements unless impossible, and other safety measures.  (read more)

German Police Raid COVID Lockdown Critic During Livestream of Non-Compliant Thoughts…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree house on November 23, 2020 by sundance

Dr. Andreas Noack was reportedly under investigation by German authorities for being non-compliant with the COVID-19 lockdown laws enacted by the government. During a livestream broadcast of his views on the authoritarian COVID-19 rules, the German police broke down his door and arrested him. The arrest was made after the German Parliament passed the “Infection Protection Law”.

The balaclavas and heavily armed tactical rifles are a nice touch, WATCH:

(Media Report) – Reports from Germany indicate that a German doctor, Dr. Andreas Noack was arrested during a police raid while he was recording a live video. The reasons for the police raid and arrest of the german doctor have not been officially revealed yet. However, there are rumors that Dr. Andreas Noack provided medical assistance to hundreds of protestors during lockdown protests against the administration. (read more)

Tipping Point USA


It is the Democrats who want to tell us what we can and cannot do, and what we can and cannot say. It is their arrogance that will cause this country to self-destruct


Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Roger King —— Bio and ArchivesNovember 23, 2020

With the integrity of the 2020 elections in shambles, our country is at its tipping point.  Forget the notion that because the GOP won down ballots, they will come back strong in the next election.  If the results of this election stand, and the Democrats win the two Senatorial run-off elections in Georgia, fundamental changes will be made to our government and to our voting process that will ensure Democratic control of the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court only to be rectified via a revolution or Civil War if you will.



Constant attacks on both Trump and his supporters, with the enthusiastic support of the mainstream media, Big Tech, Hollywood, businesses that want to have access to cheap goods from China

By the time the Biden and/or Harris term is over, not only will the election process have been changed to advantage Democrats, but they they will flood the country with immigrants who tend to vote Democratic, and they will add Washington DC and Puerto Rico as new states giving the Democrats four more Senate seats and, therefore, control of the Senate.  They will pack the Supreme Court with as many Justices as it takes to give them a majority.  With their long-term power ensured, they will exact revenge on Trump and his supporters.  They will do away with the Electoral College, transferring national power to the relatively few states that have cities with large urban populations.  The opinions of the millions of Americans in fly-over states won’t matter.  They will do away with the filibuster, making it impossible for the Republican minority to have any influence whatsoever in determining policy.  Hate speech will be redefined to include only conservative points of view and then it will be criminalized.  The liberal mob will register our guns, then it will tax them, and eventually it will find a way around the 2nd Amendment and confiscate them.  We are, without a doubt headed, toward a Marxist/Socialist one-party government, if the Democrats take control of the Executive and Legislative branches of our Federal government.

We have endured four years of constant attacks on both Trump and his supporters, with the enthusiastic support of the mainstream media, Big Tech, Hollywood, businesses that want to have access to cheap goods from China —American workers be damned, foreign countries that don’t like Trump’s America First policies and want a return to a more “generous” and “apologetic” United States, and the globalists who want to see the United States come under the control of an international governing body.  It is in every sense a liberal mob.  They embrace the “cancel culture” that tries to silence or destroy any person or entity that disagrees with their leftist points of view, making Americans and American institutions afraid to say what they really think.  And the social media giants Twitter and Facebook, along with Google, have become even more brazen in their censorship of conservative views.  They are not only silencing dissenting opinions, but they are driving a wedge between an already dangerously divided American public.

To Hell with the 1st Amendment; if they don’t like it, we can’t say it

Not content with the current level of censorship, many Democrats are calling for even more control over what people can say and what information they are allowed to receive. This includes Senators Dianne Feinstein, Chris Coons, Mazie Hirono, and many others, such as Richard Blumenthal who wants to put the heads of Trump’s people “on pikes”.  And people like Richard Stengel, who is on Biden’s transition team, want to punish people for what they perceive to be, and define as, hate speech.  To Hell with the 1st Amendment; if they don’t like it, we can’t say it.

Add to these things, increased taxes and regulations, the return to dependency on foreign oil and gas and the resulting loss of American jobs, the Great Reset,  which will bring America more and more under the control of foreign institutions such as the United Nations, and the belief that people don’t have the right to defend themselves or their property with legal firearms, as evidenced in St. Louis with Mark and Patricia McCloskey, and the divide between Americans will grow still wider.  Every crisis will be weaponized and used as an excuse to implement permanent changes to our way of life that will impinge upon our freedoms.  COVID-19 is the most recent example, but by no means the first.  The hysteria over global warming predated it by more than a decade and it is the “crisis”, albeit a faux one, that offers Democrats and globalists the best chance of turning America into a country that our parents wouldn’t recognize or like.

We’re not interested in trying to tell the liberal mob how to live their lives

Ever since Hillary Clinton’s shocking loss to Trump, Democrats and their consortium of self-serving supporters have gone all-in to destroy those who disagree with them and to obtain absolute power by any means necessary.  But the fact that roughly half the country does not support them or their agenda won’t go away.  And that half of the country is not going to sit by idly and allow their freedoms to be taken away by people who think they know what is best for them.  They are not going to tolerate the shows of force and attacks from groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter.  At some point, they will push back and they will push back hard.  The most likely catalyst will be when the liberal mob tries to register, then tax, and then mandate the buyback of our guns.  If/when this country gets to that point, it won’t be pretty.  There will be bloodshed and a lot of it, and it will all be on the liberal mob and their quest for power over a population that doesn’t want to give it to them.  Conservatives just want to be left alone.  We’re not interested in trying to tell the liberal mob how to live their lives.  It is the Democrats who want to tell us what we can and cannot do, and what we can and cannot say.  It is their arrogance that will cause this country to self-destruct.

2020 ELECTION SHOWED LIMITS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM


Measures such as ending cash bail and removing discretion from elected judges to keep a community safe are not popular in our country, even in California, our most liberal state, and in New Orleans, one of our most liberal cities

Re-posted from The Canada Free Press By Jeff Crouere —— Bio and ArchivesNovember 22, 2020



In the2020 ELECTION SHOWED LIMITS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMIn the 2020 election, the far left failed miserably. At the presidential level, Donald Trump added 11 million votes to his 2016 total. In other races, the GOP had a particularly good Election Day as Republicans gained control of at least a dozen U.S. House seats, a governorship, three state legislative bodies and probably retained control of the U.S. Senate, although the answer will not be known until the outcome of the two Georgia races are decided in January.


“Defund the Police”

Some House Democrats were furious with the far-left “squad” gaining control of the airwaves and promoting such messages as “Defund the Police.” They believe this rhetoric cost the Democrats many of these contested congressional seats. In the wake of riots and out of control crime in many urban areas this year, voters are concerned and want law and order, even in liberal areas.

For example, earlier this year, New York had to scale back criminal justice reforms enacted in 2019. At that time, their state legislators passed a measure that eliminated all forms of cash bail for non-violent offenders and forced prosecutors to turn over all evidence within two weeks of arrest.

The result was predictable as repeat offenders released into the community committed horrific crimes. Not only prosecutors and police were upset, but the public as well. Eventually, the reforms were changed, and cash bail was returned for a variety of crimes, while prosecutors were given over a month to provide their evidence. The new rules went into effect in July of 2020.

In the most liberal state in the nation, California, voters passed a variety of criminal justice reform measures in November. Thus, funding will be shifted from police to social services, oversight of law enforcement will increase, sentences will not be increased for petty crimes and parolees will be given the right to vote.  However, on one important issue, the voters were clear, cash bail will stay.

In a lopsided vote, 56.4%, California voters rejected Proposition 25

In a lopsided vote, 56.4%, California voters rejected Proposition 25, which would have ended cash bail and replaced it with an algorithm threat assessment that would determine whether or not a defendant would be a flight risk or show up for court proceedings. This new process would have possibly cost the taxpayers of California hundreds of millions of dollars to implement. More importantly, it would have subjected the citizens to unnecessary danger as criminals would have taken advantage of a system that is not in use anywhere else in the country.

In New Orleans, Louisiana’s most liberal city, voters soundly rejected candidates running on a criminal justice reform platform promoted by a group called PAC for Justice. This is remarkable because Republicans only comprise 10% of the electorate in New Orleans.

The motto of these seven progressive candidates was to “Flip the Bench.” All the candidates were previously public defenders and supported a platform that included eliminating the bail system, removing discretion from judges to hold defendants pre-trial and ending any fees or fines paid by defendants who plead guilty or are convicted for their crimes. 

Of the seven candidates, only two were victorious, and it is entirely possible that the reason for their victory was not their affiliation with PAC for Justice, but the fact that they are African American females, which comprise 34% of the total New Orleans electorate. In the 2020 elections, African American female candidates were successful in a wide variety of races in New Orleans. A similar outcome occurred in Houston in 2018 when 17 African American females were elected to judgeship positions.

The candidates supported by the PAC for Justice lost

The candidates supported by the PAC for Justice lost even though they outspent their opponents by a wide margin.  The PAC for Justice was founded by a convicted murderer, Norris Henderson. Despite his controversial background, he was able to solicit massive donations from philanthropic groups and liberal activists from across the country.

Along with the PAC for Justice, two other progressive organizations, Working Families Together and NOLA Defenders for Equal Justice, lent their support to the seven “Flip the Bench” candidates. The groups financed slick mailers, billboards, and a coordinated media campaign for these candidates. On Election Day, paid workers distributed professional flyers at high traffic spots and near voting precincts.

Despite a huge financial advantage, five of the seven candidates running on this ticket lost, with a meager 37% average vote total. One reason for their defeat was the involvement of The Watchdog PAC, which highlighted the background of Norris Henderson in a series of social media ads, as well as television and radio commercials.

Another factor in the election was the rapidly rising crime rate in New Orleans

In their TV commercials, viewers were reminded that Henderson was found guilty of murdering a teenage girl while she was riding her bike to school. Instead of being wrongly convicted as he claimed, the ads emphasized that he was convicted twice of the crime and never exonerated. It asked voters to “remember the Flip the Bench candidates who have forgotten Henderson’s murder victim.”

Another factor in the election was the rapidly rising crime rate in New Orleans. The murder rate in 2020 will far exceed last year’s total. In fact, the 2019 murder rate was surpassed in September of this year. With crime on the increase, even the liberal voters of New Orleans did not want to support “Flip the Bench” candidates who they felt would not hold criminals accountable for their actions.

With such decisive results in New Orleans, California and other areas, voters have sent a clear message to future candidates. While voters want a justice system that is fair and constructive, they will not embrace an agenda that lacks accountability.

Measures such as ending cash bail and removing discretion from elected judges to keep a community safe are not popular in our country, even in California, our most liberal state, and in New Orleans, one of our most liberal cities.