Вилы для Нунеса

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Конгресс находится на каникулах, во время которых конгрессмены обычно встречаются с избирателями. Вчерашняя попытка избирателей в Калифорнии пробиться к печально известному Девину Нунесу закончилась тем, что его сотрудники заперли дверь и вызвали полицию.

For more than a year, people have been gathering outside Nunes’ constituent services office every Tuesday, demanding an appearance from the Republican congressman, who is the chair of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee. The regular protesters say that the office is unstaffed.
On Tuesday, front office staff at the Sentinel Executive Offices called Clovis police on the protesters and kicked members of the media and the public out of the building and locked the door.
Democrat Andrew Janz, who is competing for Nunes’ congressional seat, said a building employee (who asked not to be named) would not allow him to go upstairs to Nunes’ office.
“I told her that Nunes ’office is paid for by taxpayers and is public property,” Janz said. “We pay for this office, but if we’re not even given the opportunity to go to the office to make an appointment, and are prohibited from making our way up to his office, I think that’s definitely an issue.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/political-notebook/article216661400.html

Independent polling shows our grassroots supported campaign has it all tied up here in #CA22! We have to keep pushing to #ReplaceNunes
Poll -> https://t.co/JOJ1Kep0j6 Donate ->https://t.co/Rp3k0Eph8b pic.twitter.com/jCGTH9rL36

— Andrew Janz (@JanzforCongress) August 14, 2018

Маловероятно, что Нунеса удастся прокатить на выборах в ноябре. Округ считается сугубо республиканским и до сих пор не представлял для него никаких проблем.

For the past decade, Nunes has sailed to reelection in the conservative 22nd District, where Democrats have tended to only run candidates of the “sacrificial lamb variety,” Fresno State political science professor Tom Holyoke told Mother Jones in February. Enter 34-year-old Andrew Janz, a Fresno prosecutor whose nearly $2.9 million fundraising haul and viral campaign ads may give Nunes his closest fight to date. Democrats shouldn’t expect any miracles though: Nunes beat Janz by more than 30,000 votes in the state’s so-called “jungle primary” in June, and the Cook Political Report still rates the district as “solid Republican.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/08/trumpiest-members-congress-jim-jordan-devin-nunes-chris-collins-dana-rohrabacher/

К тому же Нунес собрал на свою кампанию значительную сумму, в том числе от таких доноров, как Фейсбук.

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, flexed his fundraising muscles this spring, bringing in nearly $5 million between April 1 and June 30 as he faced a surprising surge from challenger Andrew Janz.
In all, the House Intelligence Committee chairman has raised more than $7 million this election cycle. He ended 2016 with just over $3 million and has spent nearly $4.5 million as of June 30, leaving him with a little over $6 million on hand. <...>
Much of Nunes’ fundraising continues to come from retired or acting agribusiness leaders and corporate PACs, one of which may be a bit of a surprise: Facebook. The social media giant’s PAC gave Nunes $1,000 in June and has donated $6,000 to the incumbent to date.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/political-notebook/article214972475.html

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