8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
#18131776 at 2023-01-12 20:34:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22229: Top Secret Edition
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>Pete Ricketts
#18130341 at 2023-01-12 16:33:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22227: QR Comfy Edition
Former Nebraskas GOP Gov. Ricketts appoint to fill seat of outgoing Republican Sen. Sasse
Ricketts was appointed by Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen.
Updated: January 12, 2023 - 10:40am
Former Nebraska GOP Gov. Pete Ricketts was appointed Thursday to fill the Senate seat of Republican Sen. Benn Sasse, wh officially resigned this week to become president of the University of Florida.
Ricketts was appointed by Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen.
Ricketts will serve the remaining two years of Sasse's six-year term, ahead of a 2024 special Senate election, according to NBC News.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/former-nebraskas-gop-gov-Ricketts-appoint-fill-seat-outgoing-republican-sen
Pete Ricketts
United States Senator-designate from Nebraska
Assuming office
January 23, 2023
Appointed by Jim Pillen
Succeeding Ben Sasse
40th Governor of Nebraska
In office
January 8, 2015?- January 5, 2023
Lieutenant Mike Foley
Preceded by Dave Heineman
Succeeded by Jim Pillen
Chair of the Republican Governors Association
In office
November 19, 2021?- November 17, 2022
Serving with Doug Ducey
Preceded by Doug Ducey
Succeeded by Kim Reynolds
Children 3
Relatives Joe Ricketts (father)
Marlene Volkmer (mother)
Thomas S. Ricketts (brother)
Laura Ricketts (sister)
Todd Ricketts (brother)
Education University of Chicago (BA, MBA)
John Peter Ricketts (born August 19, 1964) is an American politician who is the United States Senator-designate for the state of Nebraska. He previously served as the 40th governor of Nebraska from 2015 to 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Ricketts is the son ofJoe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade. He is also, with other family members, a part owner of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs.[1] In 2006, he ran for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Ben Nelson, losing in a landslide. He ran for the Nebraska governorship in 2014, narrowly winning a six-way Republican primary, and defeated Democratic Party nominee Chuck Hassebrook, 57% to 39%. He was reelected in 2018, defeating Democratic nominee Bob Krist, 59% to 41%.
In January 2023, Ricketts was appointed by his successor Governor Jim Pillen to be the replacement choice for retiring U.S. Senator Ben Sasse.[2]
2006 U.S. Senate campaign
Main article: 2006 United States Senate election in Nebraska
Ricketts was the 2006 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Ben Nelson. His opponents in the primary were former Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg and former state Republican chairman David Kramer. Ricketts spent nearly $5 million of his own money, outspending his opponents 10-1 in winning the nomination.[19]
Ricketts received somehigh-profile campaign assistance, most notably from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush appeared at a campaign rally for Ricketts on November 5, 2006, just days before the election, in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Ricketts ran on a conservative platform, emphasizing fiscal responsibility,[20] immigration reform,[21] and agriculture,[22] as well as championing a socially conservative platform opposing same-sex marriage[23] and abortion.[24] In all, he contributed $11,302,078 of his own money to his campaign, triggering the Millionaire's Amendment which allowed his opponent to raise larger amounts from each donor.[25][26] He spent more money than any Senate candidate in Nebraska history,[27] but lost to Nelson by a margin of 36%-64%.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ricketts
#18130341 at 2023-01-12 16:33:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22227: QR Comfy Edition
Former Nebraskas GOP Gov. Ricketts appoint to fill seat of outgoing Republican Sen. Sasse
Ricketts was appointed by Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen.
Updated: January 12, 2023 - 10:40am
Former Nebraska GOP Gov. Pete Ricketts was appointed Thursday to fill the Senate seat of Republican Sen. Benn Sasse, wh officially resigned this week to become president of the University of Florida.
Ricketts was appointed by Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen.
Ricketts will serve the remaining two years of Sasse's six-year term, ahead of a 2024 special Senate election, according to NBC News.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/former-nebraskas-gop-gov-ricketts-appoint-fill-seat-outgoing-republican-sen
Pete Ricketts
United States Senator-designate from Nebraska
Assuming office
January 23, 2023
Appointed by Jim Pillen
Succeeding Ben Sasse
40th Governor of Nebraska
In office
January 8, 2015?- January 5, 2023
Lieutenant Mike Foley
Preceded by Dave Heineman
Succeeded by Jim Pillen
Chair of the Republican Governors Association
In office
November 19, 2021?- November 17, 2022
Serving with Doug Ducey
Preceded by Doug Ducey
Succeeded by Kim Reynolds
Children 3
Relatives Joe Ricketts (father)
Marlene Volkmer (mother)
Thomas S. Ricketts (brother)
Laura Ricketts (sister)
Todd Ricketts (brother)
Education University of Chicago (BA, MBA)
John Peter Ricketts (born August 19, 1964) is an American politician who is the United States Senator-designate for the state of Nebraska. He previously served as the 40th governor of Nebraska from 2015 to 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Ricketts is the son ofJoe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade. He is also, with other family members, a part owner of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs.[1] In 2006, he ran for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Ben Nelson, losing in a landslide. He ran for the Nebraska governorship in 2014, narrowly winning a six-way Republican primary, and defeated Democratic Party nominee Chuck Hassebrook, 57% to 39%. He was reelected in 2018, defeating Democratic nominee Bob Krist, 59% to 41%.
In January 2023, Ricketts was appointed by his successor Governor Jim Pillen to be the replacement choice for retiring U.S. Senator Ben Sasse.[2]
2006 U.S. Senate campaign
Main article: 2006 United States Senate election in Nebraska
Ricketts was the 2006 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Ben Nelson. His opponents in the primary were former Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg and former state Republican chairman David Kramer. Ricketts spent nearly $5 million of his own money, outspending his opponents 10-1 in winning the nomination.[19]
Ricketts received somehigh-profile campaign assistance, most notably from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush appeared at a campaign rally for Ricketts on November 5, 2006, just days before the election, in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Ricketts ran on a conservative platform, emphasizing fiscal responsibility,[20] immigration reform,[21] and agriculture,[22] as well as championing a socially conservative platform opposing same-sex marriage[23] and abortion.[24] In all, he contributed $11,302,078 of his own money to his campaign, triggering the Millionaire's Amendment which allowed his opponent to raise larger amounts from each donor.[25][26] He spent more money than any Senate candidate in Nebraska history,[27] but lost to Nelson by a margin of 36%-64%.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Ricketts
#15528984 at 2022-02-02 19:04:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19638: ITS HABBENING!!! Edition
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'Coming of Age' with Margaret Mead
[Blog and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published July 8, 2009]
In 1925-26, armed with a Columbia University Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, 23-year-old Margaret Mead spent about six months on the island of Ta'u, Manu'a, American Samoa, conducting field research on whether nurture or nature was predominant in determining behavior. Her controversial book, Coming of Age in Samoa (which I was required to read in Anthropology 101 at the University of Utah in 1964), described an idyllic place where adolescent promiscuity was a natural part of their society.
Even though her book captured the imagination of many, while raising the ire of others, that didn't stop the people of Ta'u from giving the doyenne of anthropology a royal welcome when she returned for the first time in 46 years on November 11, 1971 . . . and I had fa'amolemole'd [i.e. begged] and bluffed my way onto the official traveling party to see it…
http://nanilaie.info/?p=404
#2928187 at 2018-09-08 00:44:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3704: Better Prepared
CFO of Unity Technologies Resigns
https://web.archive.org/web/20180908004207/https://www.businessinsider.com/unity-cfo-Mike-Foley-resigned-and-the-company-raised-145-million-2018-9
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (1)
#19780543 at 2023-10-22 09:17:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
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'Declaration of war': Mundine rejects criticism from Yes campaign
Mike Foley - October 22, 2023
Leading No campaigner in the Voice referendum Nyunggai Warren Mundine has dismissed as ridiculous and racist a claim from Indigenous leaders for Yes that he is a puppet of right-wing think tanks, as Anthony Albanese declares the referendum created a new national awareness of the disadvantage confronting First Nations peoples.
A draft document dated October 20 intended to be the first collective response of Indigenous leaders supporting the Yes campaign was to be released after a week of silence marking the referendum defeat.
A leaked copy of the statement was published by this masthead on Sunday and had been circulated among about 50 Indigenous people and organisations, including those associated with the Yes 23 and Uluru Dialogue campaigns.
The draft statement said the 61 per cent national No vote was "so appalling and mean-spirited as to be utterly unbelievable". It says the "shameful victory" belongs to right-wing think tanks the Institute of Public Affairs and the Centre for Independent Studies, and the media group News Corporation.
The statement, which is unsigned, has caused division among Indigenous leaders in the Yes camp. Some leaders declined to be part of it, saying it struck the wrong tone or that they disagreed with the points it made. Members of the Yes camp who were approached yesterday declined to comment.
The draft letter says Indigenous leaders Price, Senator Kerrynne Liddle, and Mundine who opposed the Voice to parliament "were just front people for three right-wing organisations".
"It is an old colonial tactic to use black people to fight black people," the statement says.
Mundine said he opposed the referendum because it was divisive between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. He said the draft letter "was a continuation of that".
"So much for reconciliation and uniting the country," he said. "This is a declaration of war, metaphorically.
"This insulting idea that we're some sort of puppet is just totally ridiculous.
"Saying that the No campaign had a racist base is just ridiculous."
Mundine said two-thirds of the population, drawing from a cross-section of society, voted No.
"It's almost Trumpism, quite frankly, that they're rejecting the vote of the people and it wasn't white people alone," Mundine said.
"I'm not going to claim that they were the majority, but there were quite a few indigenous people who voted No."
The draft letter says the lack of political bipartisan support was the determining factor in the referendum. It praises Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's "gallantry" in defeat. However, it says the prime minister's failure to blame No voters for their error is wrong.
"Once the Nationals and Liberals joined the No campaign the full arsenal of racism, ignorance and mean-spiritedness was unleashed and an unprecedented campaign of misinformation and disinformation was employed," the draft letter says.
Nationals leader David Littleproud, who pre-empted his Coalition colleagues in the Liberals by declaring first that his party supported the No case, said the failed Yes campaign was Albanese's fault.
"While I appreciate the disappointment by some Indigenous leaders for Yes, this was a democratically determined outcome the country made," Littleproud said.
"The loss of the referendum lays squarely at the feet of the prime minister. He misread the nation in putting forward a proposition that conflated recognition with more bureaucracy."
Albanese said he accepted the referendum result and said he was optimistic Australians would find a new path to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
"There is a new national awareness of the need to close the gap. We can't continue to have an eight-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians," he said.
"We need to address issues of education, health, housing and other areas of disadvantage. We need to address the justice issues, which are there for all to see."
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/declaration-of-war-mundine-rejects-criticism-from-yes-campaign-20231022-p5ee3g.html