Border Wall Gofundme Campaign Raises Over $12 Million; War Vet Founder Comes Under Fire by James Barrett Tee Brian Kolfage
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Some areas of Nevada infrastructure For Trump, ‘A War Ward One are earns overall GPA “C” Every Day,’ Waged depreciating rapidly from civil engineers Increasingly Alone PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 8 Volume 20, Issue 44 December 26, 2018-January 1, 2019 lasvegastribune.com “I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — Voltaire Border Wall GoFundMe Campaign raises over $12 million; war vet founder comes under fire By James Barrett tee Brian Kolfage. to note his connection to Right The Daily Wire NBC’s beef with Kolfage is a Wing News or Fight4FreeSpeech, A GoFundMe campaign is seek- recent business venture he doesn’t Kolfage said he didn’t want those ing to “Make America safe again” mention in his bio sketch on the projects to be a “distraction” to the by declaring “We The People Will Build the Wall GoFundMe page: a wall fundraising effort, which has Fund The Wall.” In just four days, Facebook page pulled by the plat- a billion-dollar goal. the account has raised over $12 form titled Right Wing News “and a “I don’t wanna mix the two. That million from donations from more ring of affiliate sites that frequently shouldn’t be the focus,” he said. than 200,000 people. But now, trafficked in conspiracy theories.” “My personal issues have nothing NBC News is sounding the alarm “In October, Right Wing News to do with building the wall.” over the man who founded it, Iraq was pulled down by Facebook in a Among the Right Wing News War veteran and three-time ampu- sweep of more than 559 pages that affiliate sites were VeteranAF the company said were ‘using fake and FreedomDaily, NBC reports, accounts … to drive traffic to their both of which the network accus- My Point websites’ or ‘were ad farms using es of pushing “false conspiracy Facebook to mislead people into theories,” including false Hillary thinking that they were forums for Clinton illness claims and voter of View legitimate political debate,’” NBC fraud stories. One example of By Rolando Larraz reports. “Days after the pulldown, “fake news” by the sites, NBC I don’t know why, but some- Kolfage created a group called underscores, resulted in a lawsuit times I go against my feelings and Fight4FreeSpeech, which accepts from a Michigan man who was sometimes I follow them to the “t” donations, and is also not refer- falsely named in one of the articles for a long time and I know that is enced in the GoFundMe.” as the man who plowed his car into wrong, but I don’t know how to let Asked by NBC about failing (See Wall GoFundMe, Page 3) old incidents go. Back in the sixties, I met a lieutenant with the old police de- Trump in Christmas remarks: Shutdown partment before it merged with the sheriff’s office back in 1973; he was the head of the vice and narcotics won’t end until he gets money for wall unit. His name was John Sleeper. By Jordan Fabian it. I’ll call it whatever they want.” I met Lieutenant Sleeper after I The Hill Trump argued that thousands wrote an article in the old La Ver- President Trump on Tuesday of workers being furloughed due dad Spanish Newspaper defending dug in on his demand for a border to the shutdown also want the two police detectives that I should wall as the government shutdown wall. “Many of those workers have not have defended, but at the time stretched into its fourth day. said to me, communicated, stay out I did not know that one of those Speaking to reporters after until you get the funding for the detectives, by the name of Max calling troops on Christmas Day, wall. These federal workers want Huggins Sr., was really a criminal; Trump said lawmakers must ap- the wall,” the president said. an unethical, abusive and corrupt prove wall funding or else the The comments suggest the piece of garbage. shutdown will continue. funding impasse is unlikely to be Anyway, Lieutenant Sleeper “I can’t tell you when the gov- resolved quickly when Congress made an arrest in a house that was ernment is going to be open,” he comes back into sessions after selling drugs to students of our local said. “I can tell you, it’s not going Christmas. schools. to be open until we have a wall, a Senate Minority Leader Charles The house was as protected as fence, whatever they’d like to call (See Shutdown, Page 4) my own is; gates and iron bars all over the house and Sleeper and his guys went in on a flower delivery truck full of cops and arrested the Vogue magazine is under fire for attacking two sisters that were related to a powerful political figure. The two ladies made statements First Lady’s White House Christmas portrait to the media that they did not under- By Alexandra Cohen stand how they were arrested after Las Vegas Tribune all the money they had donated to The liberals, socialists, anti-Trump an- the sheriff’s campaign. ti-Americans with the help of the communist Days later Lieutenant Sleeper mentality mainstream media dislike for the was transferred from head of vice president is above political normal behavior and and narcotics to a graveyard shift is now attacking the private lives of the residents behind a desk for making an arrest at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and showing their outside the city police jurisdiction. ignorance by criticizing the elegant style of the I wrote an editorial stating that if Trump family, which they are not used to seeing anyone does something for the safe- in the White House. ty and protection of our children, it Only a few weeks after her Christmas décor should not make any difference if was vilified, several “art experts” at struggling they wear a blue uniform (police) Vogue ganged up on the White House Christmas or brown uniform (sheriff) and the portrait in an article posted on Vogue’s website jurisdiction of those protecting our that says the image “feels so strangely off.” community should not be an issue The magazine’s piece, which ran without or a matter of concern to anyone. a byline, is headlined, “What’s Up With This Lieutenant Sleeper ran for Sher- Year’s Surreal White House Christmas Por- iff against Ralph Lamb and I went trait?” It accuses “FLOTUS and POTUS of on to help Sleeper in his campaign looking almost like cardboard cutout versions to become the next sheriff of Clark of themselves” and declared they shouldn’t be County, but he lost. smiling amid negative news that is currently in A few years later when another the headlines. head of the vice and narcotics unit, (See White House Portrait, Page 6) a five-year veteran from the old Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department by the name of John Laxalt reflects on term as attorney general McCarthy, ran for sheriff against By Thomas Mitchell to be more than an office that just which is why we created the Law drinking. Torres produced an ID Ralph Lamb, I supported him and As Adam Laxalt closes out his represents state agencies and boards Enforcement Summit concept.” showing he was 29, but the officer we endorsed his candidature for term as attorney general and tran- and commissions in areas that we One of the cases in which the detained Torres while dispatch ver- sheriff. sitions the office to his successor in thought we wanted to find ways to office assisted law enforcement ified the ID and it turned out Torres McCarthy, to everybody’s sur- January, he took the time to reflect lead. The title of top law enforce- that Laxalt cited was out of Elko. In had a felony warrant. prise, won the election and became on what his team has accomplished ment officer comes with the attor- 2008 an Elko police officer stopped His conviction was overturned the worst one-term sheriff of all for Nevada. ney general’s office but we really a California man named Ralph in 2015 by the Nevada Supreme time. “My vision for the office was wanted to lead law enforcement, Torres for suspicion of underage (See Laxalt Reflects, Page 6) I built some kind of relationship with the new sheriff; he used to visit my home and I was always Seven ways for Nevada GOP to get their mojo back welcome at the METRO city hall By Chuck Muth despite what clueless poli-sci professors and headquarters… until I disagreed Part two of a series peanut gallery pundits — such as liberal blog- with him on two issues. Continuing now with Part II of my post-mor- ger Jon Ralston — say, that’s NOT what cost That is the problem that we have tem series on how Nevada Republicans blew the Republicans their elections this year. Here, I’ll with many of the sheriffs elected in 2018 elections and what they need to do to get prove it again… our community; the people around their mojo back in time for the 2020 presidential In my old home state of the People’s Republic the elected official right away try election. of Maryland, Democrats outnumber Republi- to seclude the new sheriff and But first, a little more on this whole voter cans by over a MILLION voters: 2,197,363 vs. create another dictator. On most registration thing… 1,020,611. That’s more than a 2-1 advantage! occasions, it is not the sheriff — or Yes, Democrats in Nevada had a 75,000 And yet, REPUBLICAN gubernatorial can- (See My Point of View, Page 2) statewide voter registration advantage.