Bannon takes aim at GOP incumbents
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon implored conservative voters to join his vowed “war against the (Republican) establishment” and Senate leadership, threatening that massive campaign war chests will not protect GOP incumbents from angry conservative voters.
“It’s not my war; this is our war,” Mr. Bannon said, pacing across the stage during the Values Voters Summit in Washington. “And [you] didn’t start it, the establishment started it.”
In a speech at the annual gathering of social conservative activists, the now-informal adviser to President Donald Trump mocked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., alluding to Shakespeare to suggest that he is eagerly awaiting the day Mr. McConnell’s leadership is publicly undermined by a fellow Republican.
“Up on Capitol Hill, it’s the Ides of March,” Mr. Bannon said.
Death toll records slowed
PuertoRico’s efforts to recordhow many people died asa result of Hurricane Mariahave slowed to a crawl becausea lack of power has forcedofficials to rely on writtenrecords collected from 53 medicaloffices, rather than usingelectronic files.
President Trump has cited the low reported death toll in lauding his administration’s response to the storm, comparing it favorably to “a real catastrophe like Katrina” during a visit to the island.
The official death toll from Maria rose to 48 on Saturday.
Puerto Rico reported 35 deaths so far in October, compared with a normal rate of about 2,000 a month for any cause.
Flynt ad offers $10 million
LarryFlynt’s ad in the Sundayedition of The WashingtonPost is hard to miss.
For one, it takes up a full page.
And there are no pictures — just bold, all-caps text dominating the top third of the page:
“$10MILLION FOR INFORMATION LEADING TOTHE IMPEACHMENT ANDREMOVAL FROM OFFICEOF DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Flynt, best known as the publisher of the pornographic magazine Hustler, outlined numerous reasons he believes President Trump needed to be removed from office, charging him with among other things “gross nepotism and appointment of unqualified persons to high office.”
Swan hunting assailed
MINNEAPOLIS— A federalplan to let hunters shoot trumpeterswans has drawn firefrom some of the people whotoiled to bring the majesticwhite birds back from thebrink of extinction.
Trumpeters wans have made a come back thanks to effortsto reintroduce them. Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife plan aimed at letting hunters shoot them in states that allow the hunting of tundras wans, a more numerous species.
Inmates make donation
When Hurricane Harvey spun into Texas in August, some longtime inmates who remembered the previous efforts that raised more than $44,000 for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, insisted that officials restart their fundraising program. The latest effort was more successful.
In about one month, officials say, 6,663 inmates donated $53,863 for Hurricane Harvey relief — an astonishing sum considering many of the offenders typically have less than $5 in their accounts.