That would be Dune Capital Management CEO Steven Mnuchin.  I read his bio and if one has been working for the TOPMOST Democrats and Socialists, WHY IN GOD’S GREEN EARTH would have Trump even thought of bringing him on board?  Just the PR of having a Democrat leaning person on staff raises eyebrows – when that person worked for George Soros (Socialist, convicted currency trader), well, it just isn’t going to sit well with the conservative wing of the Party (reformatted, emphasis mine):

More than 80 percent of the campaign contributions Donald Trump’s national finance director has made since 1998 have gone to Democratic politicians, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of Federal Election Commission records. Trump appointed Dune Capital Management CEO Steven Mnuchin to head his campaign’s fundraising operation on Thursday, as he begins to prepare for the general election now that he’s been named the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But Mnuchin’s extensive history of considerable campaign contributions suggests the Wall Street veteran is more interested in getting Democrats elected than Republicans.

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The entitlements of the welfare state can be summarized by Herbert Hoover’s aphorism: “a chicken in every pot.” True, this is quite small an entitlement, but would be easy enough to multiply the level of the guarantee. In his address on the battlefield of Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln recognized that the first American constitutional document entitled Americans to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and nothing more. Chickens in pots and other entitlements came later. Perhaps the most significant quality of the theory of economic equilibrium is its explanation of the interconnected quality of all economic activity within society. Whatever statement that is made in the context of a product [output] market implies come complementary and consistent statement about the factor [input] market that would render sensible that statement made about the product market. Therefore, an entitlement program that offers a chicken in every pot would require an equivalent statement that promised a period of servile labor to staff the chicken farms necessary to put chickens in pots.

-Dick Wagner (Politics as a Peculiar Business)

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Indicating reason number 4,235,153 that the government is too big: They’re going after cigars!!! Cigars! What the hell is wrong with these people? Shut it down. Shut it all down!  The Federal Government is incapable of doing what it’s already seized responsibility for, so what do they do?  Grab more!!  The rapacious insatiable bastards.

I can’t stand these people. And by people, using the term loosely here, I mean Progressives.  (Yes, I’m implying that Leviathan is infected with the parasitical organisms). Progressives are mentally defective control freaks. That’s really all there is to it. There’s something twisted and gnarled in their gray matter that makes them insufferable busy-bodies that just cannot leave people alone. They’re incurable. They see something they don’t like and in their drunk on self-regard arrogance slur to themselves, “I’ll fix it!!” Then proceed to make what wasn’t a problem a problem, or what was a small problem, large. Worse yet:

Nobody’s asking for their M***** F****** help!  Mind your own damned business.

They just can’t help shoveling more and more of life into the fetid maw of the Federal Government.  And the Government just keeps gorging on more and more and evacuating the previously swallowed.

It’s the Monty Python Mr. Creosote skit in The Meaning of Life writ large.

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OK, one by by reporting TV station and two by a politician who swears an oath to uphold the Constitution (reformatted, emphasis mine):

A bill making its way through the Statehouse could put more guns on the streets of South Carolina.

Rep. Wendell Gilliard said Friday he believes it’s a mistake to pass a bill that would open South Carolina borders to concealed carry permits from other states. He added, it would give almost anyone the ability to walk into South Carolina with a gun. “Everybody wants the right to carry a gun and that’s dangerous in a free society,” Gilliard said. “We should not allow that.” Part of this bill also amends current legislation; It no longer requires South Carolinians to get a concealed carry permit to carry in public.

…”We’re definitely moving backwards,” Gilliard said. “It’s not a great day in South Carolina.”

So this is a bill about implementing permitless concealed carry (open carry is illegal) in SC and extending more reciprocity to other CCW holders across the US.  That’s really it – but ABC4News, in their opening line (“put more guns on the streets“) is a bit misleading. Only if a whole lot of carrying tourists go visit and a whole lot of SC law abiding citizens decide to now exercise their Second Amendment rights, given that SC is one step closer to being true to the Constitution’s “not infringe”. But having law abiding citizen is a problem in ABC4News’ eyes? But it is Democrat SC State Rep Gilliard’s statement that I found quite odd:

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Well, it looks like Donald Trump may take ALL of Indiana’s delegates right now (at the time of writing, with 73% of the vote in, Trump has 52.9% of the vote).  In listening to Fox News commentators and anchors, the word that has been consistent through out ALL of the states that when Republican primary voters agree to talk to the exit pollsters has been the word BETRAYAL.  A majority of voters believe that on all levels and in all meanings of the word and what can be done politically, the word BETRAYAL best describes how the leaders and elected officials of the GOP have treated them.

And then these leaders and elected officials are in absolute panic mode that Trump may take this?  That they take no responsibility of the utter shattering of the Party that is going on?  Sorry dudes and dudettes, but if the GOP had been doing the job it should have been doing, this wouldn’t have happened.  The TEA Party wouldn’t have happened either and after 7 short years, a TEA Partier will achieve second place in the Prez race (and many agree that if The Donald hadn’t run as a Black Swan event, Cruz might have taken it all) beating all of the erstwhile GOPe-ers.

Why?

Primarily, the GOPe hasn’t

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https://twitter.com/RonNehring/status/727509538270642176

The Tabloid campaign against Cruz has been nothing if not…amusing. Add Ted’s father–who the Trump-Tabloid Press are now linking to the Kennedy Assassination, and it just gets better. Ted Cruz spokesman Ron Nehring isn’t waiting for another other shoe to drop; he is releasing photos of Rafael throughout history. c/o Twitchy

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