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SARAH HEWINS SIGNS!
Sarah Hewins is the sole Democrat in the race for 2nd Plymouth District House seat.
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MIDDLEBORO — Democrat Sarah Hewins is campaigning on her more than 25 years of public service in hopes of finally flipping the 2nd Plymouth District House seat.
Hewins, who is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination for state representative, will face the winner of the Sept. 1 Republican primary election. In next Tuesday’s primary, incumbent state Rep. John Gaskey (R-Carver) is fighting to keep his seat against Republican Carver Select Board member Mark Townsend.
Hewins has served on the Carver Select Board since 2009, was elected twice to the Carver Planning Board and worked as her town’s conservation agent for 15 years. Hewins has also held positions on the South Shore Community Action Council, the Regional Transportation Planning Organization and chaired the Plymouth/Carver Aquifer Advisory Committee.
The 2nd Plymouth District – which includes Wareham, Carver and parts of Middleboro – has historically skewed red. A Republican has held the seat since former state Rep. Susan Gifford of Wareham first won it in 2002.
Hewins has run for the seat three times herself. In 2016 and 2018, she ran and lost to Gifford. In 2024, after Gaskey defeated Gifford in the Republican primary, Hewins launched a write-in bid and garnered just under 11% of the vote.
And this year, she’s trying again.
Hewins called herself an “independent-minded Democrat” and said her priorities include transparency in the state legislature, combatting high energy costs and protecting the civil rights of her constituents.
Hewins said she doesn’t take money from nor does she “report to” the state Democratic party.
“I’m doing this as a real person representing real people,” Hewins said. She added that she’s worked outside of her hometown to get things done in the district.
Hewins noted her involvement in the proposed safety improvements on Route 28 and Wood Street near Nichols Middle School as evidence of how her council and committee work has impacted the town.
Hewins also called for an independent audit of the state legislature and having the chamber publicly record its votes. She added that towns should have more local control over issues like housing affordability and the legislature should work to lower utility costs. On her website, Hewins wrote that “heavy-handed regulations” like Chapter 40B housing and the MBTA Communities Act “should have been dealt with by our elected representatives.”
She also criticized her Republican opponents, particularly Gaskey.
“We need to actually have someone in there [the State House] who does things for us,” Hewins said. “And frankly I don’t think either of my opponents is such a candidate.”
Hewins spoke about what she considered the importance of public service, saying she does not believe Gaskey represents the district well. She also criticized Gaskey’s rhetoric as “nasty” and “uncalled for” regarding his 2024 campaign against Gifford, who died of cancer shortly after the election.
“I think public service is kind of a lifetime devotion,” Hewins said. “It’s important for people not to get into the business of public service if they’re not really going to serve the public. This is not politics, it’s about service.”
Primary elections will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 1, which will set the matchup for the Nov. 3 general election between Hewins and her to-be-decided Republican opponent.
When asked who she prefers to go up against in November, Hewins said “That’s up to the voters.”
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On Tuesday, Court of Appeals Judge M. Margaret McKeown took the regime’s defense, summed it up in a sentence, and published an opinion on it. Their position, she wrote, was “fairly reduceable to the excuse ‘the President made us do this.’”
That excuse was covering up for a shakedown over billions in Congressionally approved money for homeless services, city buses, airports, and highways. There were 31 cities, counties, and local agencies who won that money fair and square and had already added it into their budgets. Some already had spent millions of it.
Months later, the regime told grant recipients there were new conditions they would have to agree to. The new rules said no money could be spent on “gender ideology,” abortion, or anything they decided helps immigrants. They also said they needed to run everyone receiving help through a federal immigration database. You had to sign the agreement, or lose the money.
All 31 refused to sign—they sued instead. And on Tuesday, the court left every one of those conditions blocked. It let one piece stand: cities still have to follow anti-discrimination law with the money they’re given, which they already did. The money stays where Congress put it.
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Federal law gives candidates deep discounts on television ads in the weeks before an election. Congress wrote it that way on purpose, so campaigns could afford to reach voters.
Then in March, the FCC’s Media Bureau staff announced that the discount would also go to party committees and joint fundraising committees. Neither of those is a candidate.
So Democrats Sherrod Brown, Roy Cooper, Kristen McDonald Rivet, and Jon Ossoff challenged it. Before they could take the FCC to court, they had to ask them to fix it. The FCC didn’t respond for more than 100 days.
The FCC was stalling, trying to run out the clock—but the court refused to let that happen. The judges treated the agency’s silence as the answer—and that answer was no. On Tuesday, in a 2-1 ruling, Judge Robert King’s panel threw the FCC rule out. The discount is for candidates, not party committees.
Republican committees have a bigger war chest than Democratic ones do. They were only nine days from buying cheaper ad spots reserved for candidates. Now they can’t.
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Abdul El-Sayed—Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan—went live on Fox News Monday night to do an interview with Jesse Watters. It lasted nearly a half hour, where El-Sayed kept his poise and refused to let Watters lead the discussion.
All Watters wanted to talk about was trans athletes, Sharia law, and immigration. El-Sayed kept coming back to gas prices, groceries, and medical bills. He called out Watters, saying: “You have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually care about in Michigan.”
He didn’t dodge immigration either, and he put it in five words: “ICE is clearly not working.”
Then he went after his opponent, Republican Mike Rogers, calling him “a beta.” He also threw a barb at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying he was the unofficial sixth host of the Fox show “The Five.”
Watters continually talked over him, but El-Sayed wouldn’t back down.
Trump won Michigan in 2024, and the open seat will help decide who controls the Senate. On Monday night, an audience that rarely hears from Democrats heard one talk about the price of groceries—on a show built to make sure that never happens.
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Joshua Aviles has been aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln since November—more than 250 days deployed, with two days ashore the whole time. The carrier’s been running short on food and basic supplies, while Aviles has been working twelve-hour days.
On Saturday, he found out that Border Patrol had taken his father, Luis Manuel Aviles, into custody. Luis left his house in Key West to drop his car off at the mechanic. He had been in the US for nearly 20 years working as a handyman for hotels in the area. His family says he had a work permit, a Social Security card, a driver’s license, and a case for asylum still open. Homeland Security says he entered the country illegally.
Luis’s youngest son told Telemundo his father “never hid, he always did things the right way.”
From the ship, Joshua wrote that he couldn’t see how he could keep working the long shifts while his father was “possibly being treated like a criminal.” Joshua posted it publicly, and by the next day it was national news.
On Monday, an immigration judge dismissed the case—only hours after Luis was booked into a Miami detention center. On Tuesday he was let go.
Luis Aviles is back with his family.
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A sailor posted one note from a ship that hadn’t seen port in months. Three days later his father was out. When have you seen pressure actually work that fast?
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OUR MAIN FOCUS TODAY: Tell Congress: Protect our use of voting by mail and voting machines
JUST A FEW OF MANY INFORMED COMMENTS:
Great!!! Thank You Scott! I have to think that there are a lot of mail carriers who would like this whole needless issue to go away. Trump has no evidence to base this need for a federal voting list on. And it is not his job, anyway!! Just like killing the White House Rose Garden and destroying the East Wing was not his business. He needs to focus on getting out of the Iran War, and stop messing around where he doesn't belong!
Yes! Absolutely!
I am a firm believer in ELECTING SMART PEOPLE!
Never mind the horse sh*t and attacks!
ABDUL EL-SAYAD defeated AIPAC=ANTI-DEMOCRACY money!
JESSE WATTERS continues to define the MINDLESS BLABBER for which he's known,
as well as FOX NEWS = FAKE NEWS!
ELECT THE SMART GUY WHO COULD MAKE MORE MONEY ELSEWHERE AND PUT HIS
TALENTS TO WORK!
U-M dual MD/PhD student named Rhodes Scholar
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By Joe Serwach
News Service
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A University of Michigan medical and doctoral student who plans to become a neurosurgeon so that he may “mend with my hands some of the defects I cannot avert through my research” has been named a Rhodes Scholar.
Abdul El-Sayed is currently pursuing both a medical degree from the U-M Medical School and a doctoral degree in epidemiology from U-M’s School of Public Health, as a student in the prestigious dual degree Medical Scientist Training Program.
El-Sayed, who earned his U-M bachelor’s degree in biology and political science in 2007, will enter the Rhodes Scholars program next fall. He is one of 32 scholars named nationwide. Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
El-Sayed’s current research interests include the social determinants of health, Arab-American health, the social determinants of neurological disorders, and the etiology of neural tube defects in Guatemala.
He explained in his application why he was pursuing degrees in research as well as a medical degree.
https://record.umich.edu/articles/u-m-dual-md-phd-student-named-rhodes-scholar/
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