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Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) Nominated for United States Ambassador to the United Nations


Picuture of Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar Ann Harris Bennett

WASHINGTON, DC: Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican Representative of New York, was nominated for United States Ambassador to the United Nations where she will represent U.S. interests in the United Nations.  Her job will to be to strengthen international partnerships among other nations.

In Congress, Representative Stefanik is Senior member of the House Armed Services Committee and Republican Conference Chair working to provide leadership in national defense, foreign policy, and was an advocate for constitutional values and the America First Agenda.

Jordan Sekulow, who is the Executive Director of American Center for Law and Justice, said, “We are excited that our great friend and conservative ally, Representative Elise Stefanik, has been nominated to serve as the chief representative of United States interests at the United Nations.  Her experience, dedication, and clear vision will serve all of us well on the world stage as she advocates for American values, human rights, and global peace.

  • Attribution: Peer Reviewed Politics™ | Media Attribution: Peer Reviewed Politics - Article / Supporting media articles - Jordan Sekulow, Executive Director of American Center for Law | Author(s): @teapartier_al on X.com | Date: November 11, 2024 | Duration: 00:00:00 | Photo/Video Credit: Photo of Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) - contactgovernors.com

Tax Assessor-Collector in Harris County Absent without Leave


Picuture of Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar Ann Harris Bennett

Houston, TX: According to county records an elected official in charge of tax collection and voter registration records for Harris County, TX has been absent without leave.  We are not talking days, weeks or even months either.  Get this, this elected official hasn't been to her office for years, now. According to an access control system installed at the Harris County Tax office at 1001 Preston St. Houston, Texas 77002, Ann Harris Bennett, a Democrat, who is Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar, last swiped her ID card to enter the county building was in October 2020, after being elected.

Since then according to county records, Ann Harris Bennett has badge in 92 times in 2019 and 7 times in 2020.  The last time Ann Harris Bennett badge in at work was in October of 2020, since then she has been missing from work and other employees have been carrying out her duties.  Other county records indicate, she has only sent 18 e-mails since the beginning of the year.  The county auditor office states, the last years salary of Ann Harris Bennett was roughly $171,000.

To make matters even worse for this office, in 2018 Harris-Bennett’s office was sued by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, who stated that the Tax Assessor-Collector was withholding information “related to noncitizen registered voters, either reporting their own unlawful registration or discovered thanks to officials efforts.” Ann Harris Bennett in federal court even battled to keep non-citizens on voter rolls. In a federal court filing, Ann Harris Bennett said there is no requirement she erase names of people, even after they tell her they aren’t citizens. Just as recent as a little over a week ago on October 11, 2024, three former Harris County tax assessor-collector office employees where just indicted for taking bribes in a scheme to processes fake car transactions.

County tax assessor-collector offices provides most vehicle title and registration services, maintains approximately 1.5 million property tax accounts and collects property taxes, does permits & special taxes for businesses, and over sees about 2.5 million voter registrations.

  • Attribution: Peer Reviewed Politics™ | Media Attribution: Peer Reviewed Politics - Article / Supporting media articles - click2houston, publicinterestlegal.org, and Newsweek | Author(s): @teapartier_al on X.com | Date: October 22, 2024 | Duration: 00:00:00 | Photo/Video Credit: Photo of Ann Harris Bennett - Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar

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Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Begging for Cash from Congress...


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Peer Reviewed Politics: On Tuesday, October 31, 2023, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Director of the National Counterterrorism Center on testify on threats to the United States.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) opened with talking about the Church Committee, which was over 50 years ago, did its final report revealing decades of widespread abuses by federal government Intel agencies against United States Citizens.  Senator Paul said, "These powers of the federal government were suppose to be used to counter foriegn threats." Senator Rand Paul iterated that the purpose of the Church Committees years long investigation was to expose the intelligence agencies unlawful overreach into the private lives of Americans. Senator Paul continued to state the committee had hoped that its finding from 50 years ago would result in more transparency and accountability to ensure that these abuse never would occur again.

Senator Paul stated, "We sit here today. I feel our federal government is still undertaking many of the same tactics the Church Committee found to be unworthy of Democracy and occasionally reminiscent of totalitarian regimes." Paul continued, "Federal entities including the FBI and the DHS continue to operate in a manner that is outside the scope of their authorities, wasting taxpayer dollars and infringing on the rights of Americans." Senator Paul stated, "Earlier this month, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Federal Agencies including the FBI and DHS likely violated the First Amendment, -- in fact, the judges said it was one of the worst if not the worst violation of the First Amendment in American history"

Paul stated that government agencies pushed social media companies to remove speech the government disagreed with regarding Covid-19, lock downs, vaccine efficacy, and the Hunter Biden laptop stories. Paul went on to say that the FBI, NDA and DHS regularly met with social media companies to pressure them to remove content that they said was disinformation, including posted accounts that were verifiably true.  In the Censorship of constitutionally protected speech, social media is just one example of the Executive branch actions in recent years weaponizing the federal government against its people.

The FBI continues to misuse its authority under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Act, you would think we would be going after foreigners, but instead we're using the act to go after Americans, as was done in the George Floyd protest, Senator Paul said.

Senator Paul finished by saying, "American people deserve accountability from the federal government and congress cannot continue to abdicate its constitutional duty to conduct oversight.  As the Church Committee aptly pointed out, power must be checked and balanced, and the preservation of Liberty requires the restraint of laws.  Its our responsibility to ensure that the principles of the American Democracy endure and I hope my colleagues on both sides of the isle will work with me to do just that.

Witnesses from Homeland Security - Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director - Christopher Wray, and Director of the National Counterterrorism Center - Christine Abizaid were sworn in to speak at this hearing.  Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was the first to speak to the committee.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that in September that Homeland Security published threat assessment on the most direct pressing threats to the security of the United States, which he did not happen mention the threat of Hamas and a open border, but he has in the past labeled Make America Great Again and Conservative U.S. Citizens as being domestic threat's.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated at this hearing, that since their assessment had been released, "The world has changed." Hmmm, you got to wonder why?  Maybe an open border and a weak President are factors why the world has changed.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas went on to say, "Hamas terrorist horrifically attacked thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Israel on October 7.  Brutally murdering, wounding, and taking hostages of all ages."

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas then stated a bunch of garbage, "We've responded to an increase in threats against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab Americans communities and institutions across our county."  We here at Peer Reviewed Politics thought this statement made by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was definitely strange and insulting to our ally Israel and our citizens as the only threats we've seen to date on the news and social media is from radical students at U.S. colleges (both foreign and domestic students), Palestinian's, and some Muslims made toward Israelis, not Muslims, Arab Americans communities, and/or institutions.  We have yet to see any Jews or citizen threatening Palestinian's or Arab American's whatsoever.

It's really not that unusual to hear Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas lie about our border being secured, but to make false claims that Israelis and others are making threats against Palestinian's or Muslim's is just over the top and not true, whatsoever.  We are not sure what planet that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas lives on, but its certainly not here on Earth.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas must have missed the 1400 plus people (men, women, children, and babies) that were brutally killed in Israel.  A country that is attacked like this, should always have the right to defend its self against those who are seeking to destroy it.

These terrorist psychopaths were so brutal that they actually cut the heads off innocent babies with shovels and stepped on the necks of innocent babies to break their necks.  We never heard any Jews say or doing such evil things to anyone, not alone children, so we're not sure of what Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas narrative is here, but we can say for sure that Mayorkas is only fanning the flames of war against innocent people, which were attacked in their country, just like he is currently doing with our border, put citizens at risk and having our citizen to take the law into their own hands, in order to protect their families, their homes, and livelihoods.

The history of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel began in the and millennium BE, when Israelites emerged as an outgrowth of Southern Canaanites.  The Palestine government did not have a state, until 1947 when UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as Resolution 181 (II).

United Nations (UN) adopted a Partition Plan for Mandatory Palestine, whereas the U.N. recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states and an internationalized Jerusalem.  Immediately after the United Nations General Assembly adopted the plan as Resolution 181, a civil war broke out in Palestine, and according to the U.N., this plan was never implemented.


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Scholars believe the name “Palestine” is derived from the name of the people (the Philistines) who occupied part of the region in the 12th century B.C., whereas Jews had occupied this land according the Hebrew Bible, as it contains narratives of ancient Israelites' presence in the land, including the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, which was established by King David and his descendants around 1000 B.C.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas goes on in his opening statement, speaking about the border which is his organization (DHS) is suppose to be protecting, stating today individuals radicalize to violence can terrorize using a vehicle or firearm, Mayorkas then goes on to state a transnational criminal organization (otherwise known as illegal aliens) who cross the border only needs to conceal 2.2lb of Fentanyl (highly potent synthetic piperidine opioid drug) in a commercial truck or passenger car, crossing through the land port of entry (Mayorkas fails to mention crossing at non-port of entry, like the open wall) to kill as many as a half a million people.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas then drones on about cyber attacks from countries like Russia, Iran, and Peoples Republic of China can use computer code to steal sensitive personal information, shut down critical infrastructure, and extort millions in ransom payments.

Lots of the chaos Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is talking about can and was voided, by sealing our border and not putting sensitive information on the public internet for the world to see, hack, or infect our government computer systems, but it seems Democrats like having chaos or like Rahm Emanuel of the Obama Administration once said, "Never let a crisis go to waste."

Closing the border and not allowing every Tom, Dick, and Harrett to make an asylum claim will protect U.S. and it's citizens from crime, drugs, rape, murder, and it will also protect foreign women and children from being trafficked.  It will also protect our government from other crimes and terrorist activities.

Removing sensitive government computer systems from a Public Wide Area Networks and keeping them on a Private Metropolitan Area Networks, which only connect to Private Government Wide Area Networks would reduced the risk of cyber attacks, hacking, viruses, ransom ware, and spyware our computers systems.  Yet, we have in this administration a bunch of idiots in charge of the border, which don't know the first thing about protecting the border, not alone having enough smarts understand cyber-security for a vast government computer system which is required by law under Federal Information Security Management Act, (FISMA) of 2002.

We're really surprised that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is in charge of anything, as we would be scared to allow this man to dog sit, not alone run a vast government entity like Homeland Security.

People that could do this job well, are usually blacklisted or blackholed by government from doing this government work because of their politics not because they are unfit for the job.  It appears if you don't fit the narrative of being a blue, pink, or combination of haired liberal or foreigner, then you are banned or removed from these secure programs.  Again we believe its do to this famous Rahm Emanuel saying, "Never let a crisis go to waste."  If you have some one doing the job well, then things get fixed and it saves money.  Constituents are starting realize that government does not want to fix things, as this would reduce the debt, and would help keep spending under control.

To top it all off, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas then states his office wants to focus on two such means of critical urgent support.  What the heck does this statement mean in the first place?  It sounds like a word salad or something VP Harris would say.  If you haven't notice, there seems to be a lot of word salad in this administration, starting at the very top.  Anyhow, Secretary Mayorkas after providing this word salad to congress, it appears he is trying to get some salad dressing for his word salad from congress, because obviously Secretary Mayorkas doesn't like his salad dry.

Secretary Mayorkas asked congress continue to provide funding, which expired on July 28, 2023 for PDHS Authorities and Secretary Mayorkas doesn't want these authorities to lapse, which supposedly has to do with chemical facilities anti-terrorism standards.  Our understanding of this funding is CISA cannot enforce compliance with the CFATS regulations without this funding.   Secretary Mayorkas is claiming CISA is barred from inspecting 3000 high risk chemical facilities to identifying who is accessing them and whether they are stock piling dangerous chemicals.  So in other words, we can have an open border, but we need to worry about who is accessing chemical facilities and whether they are stock piling chemicals.  Something is seriously wrong with this line of thinking, because allowing an open border, you are enabling illegal alien terrorists in getting access to these companies in the United States that produce these dangerous chemicals.  Again, this administration following the famous Rahm Emanuel saying, "Never let a crisis go to waste."

Mayorkas then complains that the counter-drone authority will expire in November 18, 2023, and then continues to complain that DHS's countering of Weapons of Mass Destruction is expiring as well on December 21, 2023.

If this is not strange enough, then get this, this should really scare you young folks, Mayorkas states that key elements of the foreign intelligence surveillance act will expire on December 31, 2023.  Mayorkas claims that if the foreign intelligence surveillance expires, it will leave our country vulnerable to attacks supported by 'American Citizens' and would cripple our ability to identify and secure American Citizens who are the targets of such attacks.  Did Mayorkas just say that DHS is using the foreign intelligence surveillance act to monitor U.S. Citizens?  We ran the video over and over several times and yes, Mayorkas did say if the foreign intelligence surveillance act expires, DHS will not be able to monitor U.S. Citizens and it will leave our country vulnerable to attacks by 'American Citizens' on American Citizens, (Listen to the video starting at 15 minutes and 33 seconds)

We thought the name of this act is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is suppose to monitor foreigner, but according to Secretary Mayorkas our government is monitoring citizens?  So, is this Secretary Mayorkas and the Biden Administrations line of thinking that having an open border doesn't put our country at risk by foreigner(s)?  Does Mayorkas and Biden Administration know that the name of this act is called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, not American Intelligence Surveillance Act?

Recently, we here at Peer Reviewed Politics just heard on November 01, 2023 that the U.S. Government has been also involved in censoring conservative news and citizens on social media.  So why is this administration afraid of our citizens?  Do we have foreign nationals and entities controlling our government, because of the open border?  We think inquiring U.S. Citizen minds would like to know this.

On top of all this BS, Secretary Mayorkas is stating that DHS needs critical supplemental Homeland Security Funding, which would be used to discourage and steam the impacts of historic acts of Immigration, but our research shows that the United States has been paying other countries to setup migration camps so illegal aliens can make their way to the United States from their home countries.  Secretary Mayorkas even has the nerve to state that he wants to use this Critical Supplemental Homeland Security Funding to accelerate work authorizations for eligible 'NON-CITIZENS'.  Secretary Mayorkas could careless about our disabled people, veterans, and our homeless citizens who don't get the needed help or support they need and paid taxes on, but for some reason people who illegally enter our country do need help.  If you think this is strange, just listen to the entire opening statement of Secretary Mayorkas.

Mayorkas also thinks that one of the authorizations is needed for fighting global warming, because you know climate change is responsible for extreme heat, wild fires, and devastating hurricanes and he claims that these are increasing in frequency and severity.  Mayorkas has no idea about whether.  We are not seeing any increases in frequency or severity of Hurricanes or extreme heat.  In fact, researchers said on Monday, June 27, 2022 that have constructed a clearer picture and have found that the frequency of the planet’s most devastating storms has decreased over the past century.  The study, which was published in the journal Nature Climate Change, said found that the annual number of global hurricanes, typhoons and tropical storms — or tropical cyclones, declined by roughly 13% during the 20th century.  Not sure where Secretary Mayorkas is getting his information from, but he is definitely not using any scientific studies whatsoever.  Anyhow, even if Secretary Mayorkas office did get money for climate change, how is this money going to fix anything.  The GOP and Republicans need to do there research on these topics and then grill Secretary Mayorkas and others who are making these false statements to get funding.

Anyhow these are just a few things we found when listening to the hearing.  It seems the only politician not sleeping during the hearing was Rand Paul. In fact, his opening statement warned about what Secretary Mayorkas was about to say at this hearing.

You can find the entire hearing here: