By Ed Wallace, Publisher and WashCo Delegate – March 25, 2024

Related Article: Inside WashCo Politicks – Tactics & Plans – The Hidden Agenda

The WashCoGOP Republican Convention was held Saturday at Hurricane HS. An applaudable 94.5% of elected delegates attended. After a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, six candidates were elected by acclamation because no one opposed them. Then it took about 30 minutes to teach everyone the QR system for voting and then confirming it worked. Then the State Senate candidates spoke their peace. Chad Bennion went first, followed by Cory Green, and Don Ipson (16 year incumbent). 

Out of the 18 candidates that spoke, Ipson seemed to have the most difficulty with speaking while glancing at his script. His movements and cadence reminded me of Joe Biden.

The first round votes were Bennion – 191 (52.5%), Green – 9 (.024%), and Ipson – 162 (44.5%)

A candidate needed 70% of the vote to win at caucus

So, there was a second round of voting that did not include Cory Green.

Both Bennion and Ipson gave their speeches and the delegates voted again.  

The final tally was Bennion at 58.03% and Ipson at 41.97%

Ipson actually decreased his votes after his second speech. No surprise there because he appeared shocked or enraged and was as white as a sheet. He stumbled through his second speech, essentially repeating his first, and spent his time waiting for the results by canoodling with other RINO establishment types,and staring people down. He even stared at me for 10 seconds even though we’ve never been formally introduced. For all I know, he was staring out into space. Watch video:

A GOP Delegate explains the Ipson effect.

The establishment group like to stay in their own tight-knit bundle of power. This was evident to anyone at the WashCo Republican Convention last Friday who was paying attention. 

Imagine being a newer representative like Neil Walter, Colin Jack and Joe Elison. They HAD to vote for Ipson….or their bills would never have an easy time making them through the senate.  

Ipson is a bully…  a mean one, everyone knows this. It didn’t matter if Ipson won or lost at the convention. Delegate votes are online forever for anyone to see. Ipson would see that they didn’t vote for him and he would make sure their projects suffered or died, or at least try to make that happen. Even if he doesn’t get reelected, Ipson has enough buddies in the Senate to go after those Reps who voted against him and make their bills die one way or another. The Reps had to vote Ipson…  it’s a matter of survival.

Ipson is not a nice person and is doing all he can to discredit opponents. His people sent out a link to the Dr. Phil Show last week where one of his opponents, Cory Green, was a guest on the show. Honestly, it was a 2-man race between Bennion and Ipson.  Why drag Cory Green into the mix?

Ipson sat on a ramp by the stage at the convention facing the audience maybe to show the delegates that he is watching them. It seemed that he eyeballing them to intimidate them. Imagine if you work for the sheriff’s department and you vote against Ipson. Ipson calls Sheriff Brooksby and demands that the employee gets some type of write up or gives him/her a hard time. What if any county employee, who is a delegate, voted against Ipson? Ipson sees that the county employee voted against him and calls one of the county commissioners to demand that they find a way to intimidate them or somehow punish them. The county has many employees. If they are delegates, they HAD to vote for Ipson.

It is no secret that County Commissioners Gil Almquist and Victor Iverson were really upset with Ipson recently for voting to fund the new stadiums in Salt Lake. But look, all 3 commissioners voted for Don Ipson at the convention. They HAD to vote for him.

Many delegates noticed and laughed about Ipson’s booth at the convention at Hurricane High School. He brought in a big wooden “Dixie” for the backdrop of his booth.  Hilarious. The guy who literally made sure the history and heritage of Dixie State was destroyed and then suddenly he loves Dixie? Voters are not blind. Ipson did not do anything to save the Dixie name except voting last to keep the name. Delegates knew the truth which was reflect by their votes. 

Ed’s Note

So, now we move onto a costly primary with all the gunk and buck that we’ve seen so far. In a statement to This Week in WahCo, Bennion stated “Thank you for your service as a delegate. Your overwhelming support today was so gratifying. THANK YOU!. I won’t let you down and that includes those who supported my opponent.” 

That’s quite a gracious statement coming from someone who will be enduring attacks from all sides as the establishment and our overlords band together to keep their iron grip on power.

I didn’t see any statement from Ipson, thankful or not. Considering his disdain and rejection of the Caucus system, just like Romney, he should be thanking his lucky stars that there are enough voters still falling for his dismal performance of not upholding our GOP party values and platform, and still fearful of his wrath. 

Senator, there comes a time to call it quits. Now might be your time to exit your public service with whatever dignity you have left. Romney did it, Brad Last did it without any harm to the cherished, all-important Appropriations Committee that you brag about, and Curt Bramble recently announced his retirement from office.

You’ve done some good things, and some very damaging things. People are seldom remembered for the good things. Your legacy is already enshrined by your destruction of Dixie with HB278, your disdain for the caucus system (SB54), your sponsorship of socialist bill SB288 (Government is not a charity), your vote for an Art V convention (SJR9), and your support of the 2018 Tax Act (SB2001)  which the voters of Utah overwhelmingly rejected, just to name a few. 

Isn’t it time for our party to unite behind the principles it was established to uphold? Do you really want to sink lower than your 45% lifetime (16 years) Utah Grassroots score based upon your adherence to the U.S & Utah Constitutions, and our party platform? 

Do you really want to make things any worse than you already have? As evidenced by your decrease in support within minutes at the convention, things are only going to go downhill as more truths come out. 

You seem more intent on advocating for woke issues that destroy our culture instead of representing your constituents. Why would you want to waste thousands of hours of our time and all the money it takes to drag on a campaign that is clearly going against you? 

Our Legislature is largely composed of elected members of Utah’s dominant religion who don’t do anything impressive. We have been appointing worthless priests  whose actions are often anti-Christ on their face. 

The Lord said that “He holds men accountable for their acts in relation” to governments “both in making laws and administering them” (D&C 134:1). 

He expects us to know that the people we vote for are in the spirit of liberty, which is the Spirit of Christ. The Lord challenged Lot to look for righteous people, people who had the gift of prophecy & revelation. 

By your countenance and your actions, you have neither. You stand in your own light.

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Haiti Temple The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 2019

Haiti is on fire. Literally, and not in a good way. Are the Nero(es) in the State Department and Senate Foreign Relations fiddlin’ around?  Are they incapable of doing more than 3 things simultaneously? To watch America’s State department and Congress,  all their fires are Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ terror  in Israel, and man made climate change. Each fire swaps its place in the weekly news cycle.

            And then, on slow news days for the media, there is  an occasional foreign relations news story about invasion on the southern border and foreign state implications, China mulling an invasion of Taiwan, a North Korean missile launched over the Sea of Japan, World cup or Olympics, international golf, pirates in the Indian ocean, Golden Globes of the foreign press, and electric vehicle batteries from China.  All worthy topics to be sure.

Oh wait, stop the press. Some in Congress and social media are in a dither over Tik Tok’s 2 million or is it 2 billion tweens? Gen Zs? littles, or whomsoever uses it daily.

Haiti is located on the  island of Hispaniola,  80 miles to American Puerto Rico. The Caribbean  and Haiti history has impacted America for 2 centuries. The Haitian revolution from 1791 to 1803 overthrew the French, which resulted in the Louisiana purchase, doubling the size of the United States.  Over two centuries, the United States has sent in the Marines a half dozen times, including during the Clinton years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints newsroom reports membership of just over 25,000 members in 5 stakes, 50 units, with 12 family search centers. The first Haitian Temple was  dedicated in 2019.

In the meantime, this week CNN noted the UN resolved last summer to sponsor peacekeepers to go into Haiti.  The Haiti anarchy in the capital is reflected in the assassinations of the Haitian leaders, kidnappings, gang violence, and war. CNN wrote ‘yet the multinational security mission long touted by Haiti’s neighbors … is nowhere to be found.’  CNN summarized the recent reign of terror. 

Matthew Miller, the  State Department spokesman, commented, that as of March 14, 2024, ‘’I would remind you and others that Haiti has been a Level 4 country with respect to our Travel Advisory since 2020. So what that means is for four years we have been telling Americans do not go to Haiti; do not travel there, it’s not safe to do so; and for those who are there, leave as soon as you can feasibly do so without putting yourself at risk.’’ 

Haiti’s Minister requested military assistance in the fall of 2022. The UN Security Council authorized Haiti peacekeeping last summer, with the United States covering the costs.  The peacekeeping is referred to as the Multinational Security Support Mission.

The port and air port are closed. The US State department called to evacuate Americans trapped on the island. Apparently Haiti government buildings are occupied by refugees.

The UN force was to be lead by Kenya, with troops from Jamaica, Benin, Bahamas,  Barbados and Chad.  The AP reported Kenya’s high court blocked the deployment of Kenya’s participation in the Haiti UN  peacekeeping, as of January 26, 2024.

Not so with Chad, which is a central African nation the size of Alaska. Chad’s army is ready to go with or without the other participants.  Chad’s army wants the work.  It is frustrating that Chad’s army needs the ‘go ahead’ from the Senate Foreign Relations or the Department of State, or both. 

Miller advised, ‘’ There is an additional $300 million that the United States is providing to support the Multinational Security Support Mission.’’

Miller did not say so, but if history teaches anything, if Chad does not go in, the mission will ultimately evolve on  American Marines. But since nothing else has been tried, you can expect the Marines.

Remember, as of the end of January, AP reported Kenya was out of the deployment MSS business? At least the Haiti job?  But hope springs eternal in the  State department as it seems, like an old time western movie, Kenya’s cavalry is riding over the ridge to the rescue. This is based on Miller’s comment,  ‘’ Kenya will be launching in the coming days and weeks.’’ ‘’Money will be provided … to the Government of Kenya to support the Multinational Support Mission.’’  This was last week in March 2024, some 7 weeks after Kenya’s court said no way, Jose. Of course the court didn’t exactly say ‘Jose,’ but, according to the BBC,  the court did say Kenya couldn’t deploy police without a reciprocal agreement with the host nation, all subject to appeal, and further review. Apparently no one told State what the AP reported, in that Kenya was not coming, anytime soon, if ever and at all.

Utah Senator Mike Lee stated his concern. “The safety of Americans in Haiti is of great concern, as is the potential for this unrest to worsen our current border crisis. Further, the situation in Haiti is demonstrative of why the United States must treat our own hemisphere as a national security priority. As the regional power house, the United States is responsible for protecting our borders and deterring threats to our hegemony in the hemisphere. The deterioration of an entire nation, which we are seeing first-hand in Haiti, is a ripe opportunity for our peer and near-peer adversaries to exploit. I am not an interventionist and regime change efforts have a long history of failure in the region. But I am a constitutional realist, and believe the situation in Haiti is yet another trigger for a hard look at how the United States approaches hemispheric defense.”

            Hire Chad to step up and keep the peace. It can’t be a surprise, as State’s travel advisory is 4 years old and counting. Don’t wait for Kenya. Act 18 months ago when Haiti begged for help, or if not, act 6 months ago when the UN approved, or if not, act a week ago when the American evacuation went into hi gear.  Copyright.

Bu Ilene Hacker, Columnist, March 22, 2024 (Publisher’s note at end)

Related article: A Quick Look at WashCo’s Elected State Officials

There are 2 ways to get on a ballot.

1. Convention

Where neighbors select delegates to represent them, then the delegates attend a convention where they cast their votes to elect leaders. The Republican Convention will be held on Saturday, March 23 in Hurricane.

2. Signatures

Candidates who fear the delegates won’t vote for them at Convention, use SB54, a bill passed by legislators where candidates are allowed to collect signatures to get on the primary ballot. If a candidate takes the signature route and they get the required signatures on time, even if they lose at convention, they are guaranteed a spot on the ballot.

Candidates can file to take both the convention route and signature route.

Senator Don Ipson elected to do both. 

Ipson was required to get 2000 signatures.

Ipson hired the company, Gather, to collect signatures. Gather hires people to go door to door to get signatures. 

Ipson paid Gather $22,000 to collect signatures. 

Ipson turned in 2400 signatures.

Over 600 of the signatures were thrown out for various reasons by the Washington County Clerk.

Ipson was short over 200 valid signatures.

Ipson now can only go through the convention.

The very delegates Ipson bypassed and tossed aside are the same people who now have the power to keep him off the primary ballot in June.  

Delegates and District 29 Voters, ask yourself…

●How many times have you received legislative updates and correspondence from Senator Ipson in the last 16 years?

     I did get a Christmas card from Ipson last December.   I have never once received an email from him until after he found out he failed to collect the required signatures.

●How many town meetings have you been invited to by Mr. Ipson to reach out to you so he can see how you want him to represent you?

●What did Senator Ipson do to fight to save our history and heritage during the Dixie State name change?

●How many Keep Dixie protests did he attend?  There were many.

●How many Keep Dixie meetings and events did Ipson attend.

●How many parades did Ipson participate in with hundreds of Keep Dixie supporters?

●How many emails sent by you, did Ipson respond to?

●Did Ipson stop the Dixie name change in committee as promised?

●Did Ipson stop the name change bill by rallying his fellow Senators to vote against the name change? We only needed 3 more to win the battle to save Dixie State. Ipson is in leadership, he says he is powerful. We needed his help.

■Facts:

︎Don Ipson SPONSORED HB278 which started the DIXIE STATE NAME CHANGE. This is on record and this is filed with the Utah Legislature.  

︎I was told that Ipson was “just a Senate Floor Sponsor” on HB278, and that the floor sponsor “doesn’t do much, if anything”.  

So, to verify…..

︎I emailed 40 legislators yesterday to see exactly what a floor sponsor does if they are a Senator who co-sponsors a bill with a Representative who sponsors a House-initiated bill. 

Here are a few responses I received from legislators, there were many…

Hi Ilene,

Good question. The floor sponsor is important as they act as the sponsor in their own chamber. So the chief sponsor generally is the lead on the bill and must get it through the chamber in which they serve. In the second chamber, more often than not, the chief sponsor will present the bill in the second committee, although the floor sponsor can do that as well. Then, it is up to the floor sponsor to pass the bill through their chamber through floor debate and voting. So it is more than just a formality, and sometimes the floor sponsor will have significant influence in the bill itself, particularly if there are amendments that must get made to get a bill through their chamber. Hopefully that’s helpful!

Senator Nate Blouin

A bill must pass both chambers. A floor sponsor (House or Senate) is responsible for presenting and debating the bill on the floor of the respective opposite chamber. It is hardly a mere formality – if you have a weak floor sponsor your bill may not pass.

Senator Curtis Bramble

The Senate sponsor runs the bill when it gets to the Senate floor. The same happens when a senate bill gets to the House floor. It’s important and is not just a formality. 

Rep. Carl Albrecht

A bill must pass both chambers. A floor sponsor (House or Senate) is responsible for presenting and debating the bill on the floor of the respective opposite chamber. It is hardly a mere formality – if you have a weak floor sponsor your bill may not pass.

Rep. Marsha Judkins

There are many reasons I am supporting CHAD BENNION.  The reason above are just a few of them.

Publisher’s note – If the Republican Party had any enforceable ethics, Ipson and other RINOS would have been removed from the party long ago for their dismal failure to represent the UTGOP Platform and the U.S. and Utah Constitutions, and their constituents. Our elected State Senators have a lifetime score of 45% (Ipsom, the lowest of all) to 47% (Vickers), while our House representatives have a combined grade of 71%.

HD72 Joseph Elison (R) 2023 Session – 80%    Lifetime Score – 80%  

HD73 Colin W. Jack (R) 2023 Session – 71%    Lifetime Score – 71%  

HD74 R. Neil Walter (R)  2023 Session – 68%    Lifetime Score – 68% 

HD75 Walt Brooks (R)  2023 Session – 76%    Lifetime Score – 64% 

These figures are gathered from the only organization in Utah that scores our officials by their adherence to the guidelines of the Constitution of our nation and state: UtahGrassroots.org  You can read my full report by following the link at the beginning of this article,

By Ed Wallace, Publisher, Mar 14, 2024

Are you aware that Judge Barry Lawrence (Third District) recently ruled against Derek Brown, candidate for Attorney General for the State of Utah? The claims against Derek Brown are “CONSPIRACY” and “INTERFERENCE”!

IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, SALT LAKE COUNTY STATE OF UTAH

Case No.: 220900591 – Judge: BARRY G. LAWRENCE

“…there is sufficient allegations in the Complaint to sustain that (Derek) Brown was part of an alleged conspiracy involving himself, Preston, Stringham, and Winder Newton, wherein the predicate unlawful act was the defamation by the other alleged co-conspirators.”

“…the conspiracy claim against Brown survives for the reason stated above. Because the undertaking of a conspiracy would be “improper means” and was pleaded by Plaintiff (Robinson) in the FAC, Plaintiff’s interference claim against Brown also survives this Motion.”

“Plaintiff (Robinson) has pleaded valid claims against (Derek) Brown for Conspiracy and Interference. The Motion (Derek Brown’s) is thus DENIED with respect to those two claims which may proceed, as set forth above.

Aimee Winder Newton, Senior Advisor to Gov. Cox and Director of Office of Families for the  State of Utah, is also named in the lawsuit. As part of that action, Aimee has had another UTEPA / Anti-SNIPP lawsuit filed against her seven days ago by Cox challenger Sylvia Fisk. You can read the suit here. Both suits show how things are “fixed” in our state

Last December, Derik Brown announced the formation and initial membership of his Finance Committee to run for Utah Attorney General. And, Holy Stinking Cow, Deidre Henderson (Lieutenant Governor of the State of Utah), who oversees elections, is on that committee. Anyone have a problem with the one person who has complete oversight of Utah elections working on a candidates campaign for AG?

Henderson’s involvement only adds more proof to Utah being named as the 2nd most corrupt State in the Nation with a disregard for integrity and principled behavior. Why is Utah so corrupt in politics and business? Let’s not forget Utah is number 1 in white collar crime.

The problem with Brown is that he is a lap-cat of the establishment, and is a paid, professional lobbyist, and has been for a long time.

He has the entire Utah establishment oligarchy on his committee. Former Gov. Gary Herber was named as chair of Brown’s scampaign. Utah Policy reported that Brown’s Finance committee is chaired by Scott Anderson (President and CEO of Zions First National Bank), Deidre Henderson (Lieutenant Governor of the State of Utah), and Scott Keller (Chairman and CEO of Keller Investment Properties). (scroll down for the entire committee membership)

Herbert’s support for Brown is notable since he appointed Reyes as attorney general after the resignation of John Swallow in 2013. Prior to that, Brown served with Sen. Robert F. Bennett who became the first high-profile political casualty of the anti-Washington fervor in 2010. That loss led to the establishment of SB54, sarcastically known as the Incumbent Protection Act ( Keep My Voice).That movement was largely funded by the Orrin Hatch and Mitt Romney Foundations, and most of our current leaders are now in office because of it. 

In 2014, Brown went on to serve as U.S. Sen. Mike Lee‘s deputy chief of staff, who replaced Bennett. Lee announced he is endorsing Derek Brown in the race for Utah attorney general, saying Brown is “uniquely qualified to serve in this vital role.” 

A former UTGOP officer and current county leader, stated:  “From what I understand, Brown is a lawyer but has never been in a court room. I served under him on the SCC…he was and is always a lobbyist…even while running the party. He has no clue regarding conflicts of interest. We are still vetting but I would implore you to seek an AG who can prosecute the law regardless of “standing.” I want an AG who will hold ALL elected officials accountable to the law for the people. Derek agreed to run for party chair at Herbert’s request. If you remember, the Gov came to the SCC to scold us on our divisions. Chair Rob Anderson blew up the party and the Gov was preaching to make the Chair an appointment instead of being elected by the delegates. Derek was the Gov’s “appointment”. Now that the same cabal (Cox) wants the AG position to be an appointment rather than elected by the people, Derek Brown is again their man. We can’t let that happen. We need an independent AG willing to fight for our constitutional rights. I sat down with Trent Christensen yesterday for over an hour – two on one with a colleague. Trent is a convention only candidate with a focus on the delegates. Of all four candidates, Trent is the only one who mentioned election integrity.”

Another party official commented: “Having known Brown and his kind of politics for many years, I can tell you as a GOP Delegate he is the worst possible option. He is nothing more than part of the good old boy network of politics that has a death grip on the State of Utah. Utah has serious problems and Cox, Henderson, Adams and now Brown are the reason that we continue to line the pockets of our elected leaders. It will not change until we wake up and vote in good men and women who are not in this for just their personal gain and for power. What we need are people who care more about the state of Utah and less about what kind of deal they can set in motion for themselves once they leave office.”

Brown’s other committee members include:

• Lew Cramer, CEO of Colliers International-Utah
• Amelia Gardner, Utah County Commissioner
• James Clarke, CEO/Managing Partner, Clarke Capital Partners
• Jonathan Johnson, former CEO of Overstock.com
• Derek Miller, President and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber
• Greg Miller, Vice Chair, Board of Directors at the Larry H. Miller Corporation 
• Walt Plumb, businessman and philanthropist
• Steve Price, Founder and President of Price Real Estate
• Dawn Ramsey, Mayor, City of South Jordan
• Mike Sibbett, Partner at Captus Global Consulting and Former Chairman of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole
• Jacey Skinner, Of Counsel, Ballard Spahr
• Aimee Winder Newton, Chair, Salt Lake County Council
• Seth Sunderland, CEO, Spring Canyon Capital

by Wayne Wickizer, USN Columnist, March 6, 2024

The Corona Virus MANDEMIC hoax spawned the infamous “Cares Act.” This hoax has launched the single most sinister financial fraud in the history of our Nation and perhaps the World.

A “HUSH” has descended all around the fraud like a dark, dank fog over a frothing, festering, cesspool. It is, “’HUSH money‘ and ‘HUSH don’t tell‘ or we will all be in trouble.” Yes, this hoax has birthed an almost perfect crime. It is an “AC/DC crime” with victim and perpetrator indistinguishable one from the other. From all indications, elected Goodfellas and Tribal Leaders operating above and beyond the scrutiny of modest Pueblos and mud huts are reveling in “Cares Act” grift while other Native American Moms and Dads struggle mightily to survive and feed their families.

The “Cares Act” raided the U.S. Treasury to the tune of ~$5trillion. The funds were distributed down into the USA via several channels one of which is the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF). Approximately ~964 prime recipients have received ~$150B in Coronavirus Relief Funds spread out among sub-recipients.

It is estimated that during the “Trail of Tears” of yesteryears ~100,000 Native Americans, including the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole nations,  were uprooted from their ancestral lands during the 1830s.  The phrase “Trail of Tears” has come to encapsulate for even today the collective suffering of  Native American, under-represented, poverty level, 21st Century, desert, tundra, and forest dwellers.

The “[Who] Cares Act” supposedly directed BILLIONS of “Corona[fraud] Relief Funds” (CRF) to various Native American Nations.  Where did all that money go?  Did average tribal members receive any benefit from it?  Or did perverse special interests line their pockets again at tribal expense?  Where there’s smoke there’s fire along the same old “Trail of Tears.”

New Mexico’s Governor
“No Guns” Grisham Lit the Match in 2024.

Grisham presides over a State that like a battered boxer is on the ropes sucking for wind, begging
for water … and desperate for
ethical, moral, and spiritual
resuscitation!

To New Mexico’s Native American Nations, “Have any of the following $5,504,036,430.90 in CRF monies filtered down to you and your villages?”  If not, are you keeping an eye on those who manage this … your money?  If some of the following, critically important spreadsheets don’t load quickly, please be patient and follow the instructions.  Click on the arrow in the upper right corner to expand the spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjustice4all.blog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F03%2F00-CRF-PDF-Nations-Master2-1.pdf&embedded=true&hl=en

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Since this data were published a number of years ago, why has the Government identified the Sub-recipients only as “Not Yet Available for Public Display”?  Is fear of exposure driving the decision to NOT disclose Sub-recipient details?

STOP! THINK! LOOK! LISTEN!  Imagine entrusting your hard earned money into the hands of someone to manage it.  Your money was managed, but no one would tell you how, why, or who?  All they would say for years is that it is, “Not Yet Available for Public Display.”  Those events, our friends, merit a warning of and alert for … 

Smoking Guns

As we dive deeper into this project, we’ll be back repeatedly with other reports.  We are confident that the following factual scenario plays out among other grifting Governors.  It will be our opportunity, destiny, and mission to expose what we find.

For example, the following spreadsheet represents the year 2022’s $5,504,036,430.90 “chunks” of the CRF “Grift Dump” into the Nations.  After a compilation and comparison of how much CRF money was available to NM Nations, we get to see how much gun grabbing Gov. Grisham grifted from the Nations in ~2022.  For “Follow the Money’s” report of all of Grisham’s grift, click HERE.  To find the CRF data, click HERE. 

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjustice4all.blog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F03%2FNations-Pairs-PDF.pdf&embedded=true&hl=en

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We know CRF funds were initially dispersed in 2020; therefore, the $122,455,124.51 (or as we now know ~$250,500.00) were indeed CRF funds or in other words COVID MANDEMIC funds whose ostensible purpose was to bring relief and not pay politicians.  Not even one co-mingled penny of it was earmarked or envisioned for politics.  All but three of these tribes are found in New Mexico.

The reader couldn’t help but notice that silly NM gun grabbing, grifting Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham shook down the Nations to the tune of ~$200,500.00.

Are “[Who] Cares Act” Corona Relief monies directly connected to quirky, corrupt New Mexico Governor Grisham … the one who would ban, on a whim, a citizen’s right to possess firearms?   It certainly appears so! We believe that within the milieu of what the reader sees here and lurks in the data there resides more than mere suspicion.  Another “look” into the Grift and fraud is accessed from the following narrative and its appended Matrix.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjustice4all.blog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F03%2FFTM-CRF-NM-Grift-Master.pdf&embedded=true&hl=en

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We analyze and report that which is shameful, inappropriate, corrupt, and unlawful.  Much of what we report is everything “but” unlawful, but indeed encompass all the other measurements of Goodfella conduct.  Indeed, we are actively and purposefully exposing circumstances that demand to be viewed in more light.

We challenge the Nations to surrender their books for examination.  Fat chance!

For Native Nations, Families, and others please help us connect the dots and expose corruption wherever it exists.   

By Wayne Wickizer, Columnist at UtahStandardNews.com

We break it all down for you as we unfold Utah Governor Lil’ Spencer Coxy’s “Cares Act” Cash Cow (aka “Coronavirus Relief Fund”) grifted from the U.S. Treasury, and other data provided by Follow the Money.  As always, we encourage you to do your own deep dive to verify our findings.  Please be patient as some links open slowly.

The Cash Cow for Lil’ Coxy is found in his “Executive Office of the State of Utah” … pregnant with ~$934,765,676.90 Grift.  All hyperlinks to underlying data are in blue.

Coxy’s ~$127,477,655.63 covert fund within the cow is found in the Executive Office Cash Cow.  Why don’t we get to see who got that grift?

The Executive Office of the State of Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah received $1,250,000,000.00, $1,083,865,742.00, and $934,765,676.90 funds respectively.  These state offices collectively grifted ~$14,329,117.46 to Nomi Health Inc, who in turn kicked back ~$50,000.00 to Lil’ Coxy’s campaign.

https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fjustice4all.blog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F02%2FCox-Nomi.docx

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Obvious Questions & Answers:

1. Is this for real?  Incredulous as it may seem to the uninitiated, our reports go out far-and-wide to Utah’s [S]elected Representatives, the Corporate Press Prostitutes, and many other “Key Communicators,” and we are rarely challenged for lack of accuracy.

2. Do companies receiving these monies have to report it with any detail or explanation?  We don’t know for certain the extent to which reports are made, but the outcomes are increasingly shady. 

3. How can this be legal?  We don’t see how this sort of activity could be, but who knows for certain with the level of corruption we see today?  We may still file IRS “Whistleblower” complaints naming a number of Utah’s Goodfellas.

Whatever is happening, it represents misconduct that is shameful, unusual, unethical — and should be unlawful.  Utah’s history of notoriously corrupt “pay-to-play” misconduct makes our State known — far and wide — as the Affinity Fraud Capital of America.  For those who missed the reality check, Utah was ranked by BestLife as the 2nd Most Corrupt State in America.

Utah’s Gaggle of Goodfellas Reveling over
“Cares Act” Grift!
Utah’s Corporate Press Prostitutes ignore it because they ARE the problem.  As for me, The Ole’ Buzzard, the landscape has only gotten worse in the 6 decades I’ve been in the fray.  However, the degree, the intensity, and the number of players has been amplified to a blaring cacophony of corruption.

Our data sources sometimes, surprisingly, revise their numbers. Because this is a living document, we are editing for, and updating, those revisions, and we will present different formats from time-to-time.  This work is like playing horseshoes: Getting close to the “peg” at this point will suffice as long as we link the reader to the data we’ve collected at that moment.  As we update our reports, we’ll post them here on our blog site.

The reader will repeatedly encounter the Tilde Mark “~” which we use to “signal” an approximation.  Although most of the details are exact, everything can suddenly become approximate if the books are being cooked or updates are ongoing.  Experience with the Utah Auditor’s office and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development in the past has been sadly disappointing after I caught them “cooking and the books” and “obfuscating” the data. Again, the data sources we have chosen are among the finest, but the work we are doing on the front end is a work in progress.

Newest Grifting Examples

The Executive Office of the State of Utah has $934,765,676.90 funds available.  Lil’ Coxy grifted:

• ~$2,026,300.00 to the Utah Manufacturers Association who in turn kicked back ~$1,250.00 to Lil’ Coxy’s campaign.
• ~$3,115,284.00 to the Sanpete County Republican Party who in turn kicked back ~$500.00 to Lil’ Coxy’s campaign.  Lil’ Coxy’s effeminate roots are in Sanpete County.
• ~$2,896,738.00 to Qualtrics’ UT House Repub Elect Committee who in turn kicked back $2,500.00 to Lil’ Coxy’s campaign.
• ~$50,000.00 to L&L Motors who in turn kicked back  ~$47,630.00 to Lil’ Coxy’s campaign. 
• ~$451,621.06 to CVE Technologies Group Inc who in turn kicked back ~$45,000.00 and ~$5,000.00 to Lil’ Coxy’s campaign.
• The Executive Office of the State of Nebraska had $1,083,865,742.00 funds available.  ~$500,000.00 was grifted to Woodbury Corporation for Castlewood Pinn which in turn kicked back ~$260.73 to Lil’ Coxy’s campaign. (Chump change, but where there’s fire, there’s often more fire.)

Previous Grifting Examples

• Lil Coxy’s Executive Office grifted a ~$125,000,000.00 grant to UETN taken from the Cash Cow.  See our story in an earlier posting that connects the dots to Coxy’s family business.
• Penna Powers donated ~$1,500.00 to Lil Coxy’s campaign.  Lil Coxy’s Executive Office grifted a ~$3,519,467.83 grant to Pena Powers from the Cash Cow.  Hell-of-a-return on investment.
• Fred Lampropoulos heads the Merit Medical corporation, a serious violator with the following sleazy record: Penalty: $18,000,000.00, Year: 2020, Date: October 19, 2020 Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses, “Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related, Secondary Offense: kickbacks and bribery.”  Lampropoulos and Merit are significant donors to Utah’s Goodfellas.  Lil Coxy got ~$50,000.00 from Lampropoulos and it looks like Merit cornered a ~$1,862,735.00 contract from the Cash Cow.  Lil’ Coxy, along with a gaggle of other Utah Goodfella grifters, personally picked up another ~$25,000.00 campaign cash from Merit Medical.
• Love Communications donated ~$1,500.00 to Lil Coxy’s campaign years ago and just recently received a ~$7,647,637.27 contract from the Cash Cow.
• Sundance Institute, purveyor of putrid, purulent, pusillanimous porn-cinema, received ~$1,000,000.00 from the Cash Cow.  Chump change when compared to what Utah’s Goodfella legislature has given it over the years.
• Domo received ~$2,000,000.00 from the Cash Cow.  We compiled interesting background information from a variety of sources that connects Lil’ Coxy to Domo found HERE.
• Leavitt Partners received ~$1,067,790.02 from the Cash Cow.  Leavitt Group Enterprises donated ~$10,000.00.  We find it interesting and vexing that Cares Act grift is going from one Governor’s Cash Cow to a former Governor’s financial interests and business, especially one so radically unfit as Michael Leavitt.
• Management & Training Corp (MTC), a Centerville, Utah company with Global “reach,” received ~$1,512,182.70 from an Ohio Cares Act Cash Cow.  Lil’ Coxy’s campaign received ~$51,138.00 from Management and Training.  MTC is an egregious corporate malefactor that has been penalized ~$5,180,000.00 for kickbacks and bribery. 
• Sorensen, Craig F Const Inc received $5,678,314.68 from Lil’ Coxy’s Cash Cow.  Much earlier we noted that Sorensen Construction contributed ~$5,000.00 to Lil’ Coxy’s campaign as recorded at Disclosures.Utah.gov.  Currently, Coxy’s records at the state disclosures site are in a mess and worthless.  The $5,000.00 record disappeared.  From a Utah State Corporations search site: SORENSEN, CRAIG F. CONSTRUCTION, INC  Address: 918 S 2000 W Syracuse, UT 84075 State of Origin: Registered Agent: CRAIG F SORENSEN Registered Agent Address: 918 S 2000 W Syracuse, UT 84075 Status: Expired as of 09/13/2010.  The foregoing in its entirety demands a more detailed analysis and investigation.  It all stinks!
• Rustler Lodge received $150,000.00 from Lil’ Coxy’s Cash Cow.  Rustler Investments contributed ~$42,500.00 to Lil’ Coxy’s campaign. Dan Shaw of Rustler Investments is a reported, PayDay Lending Loan Shark.  Click HERE for our discuss about the likely connections.

Individual Grifting Going On

• Governor Lil’ Coxy’s direct campaign cash cow grifts total ~$4,569,934 via Special Interests.  Is it any wonder he was such a “Quarantine Queen“?
• Lt Governor “Delusional” Deidre Henderson is still, at this point, a “Penny Anti” politician who will swing in the breeze if she doesn’t toe the line for Utah’s Goodfellas.  Click HERE for a look at her “Grift.”  It is noteworthy that she took $5,000.00 from Big Tobacco.  Delusional Deidre learned to make just enough RINO noise to start her kickbacks career.
• Utah Attorney General Sean “Rapp’n Rambo” Reyes gobbled  up ~$5,712,571.00 Grift from special interests.  As for Big Pharma, Rambo Reyes was the Nation’s #2 Grifter among all Attorney’s General at a fulsome sum of ~$237,000.00.
• Utah Senate President Stuart Adams gobbled up ~$1,237,672 in Special Interest Grift.  Notice ~$26,600.00 from Big Tobacco.
• Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz is just getting his legs under him and will be right in with the in-crowd in no time.  He’s on the record for 429 contributions totaling $402,472.00.  His take from Big Tobacco is ~$9,500.00.
• See Senator Lincoln “The Leech” Fillmore’s direct grift of ~$282,598.00 from Special Interests.  We find the ~$10,050.00 grift from Big Tobacco most egregious and revealing of the “Leech’s” lack of credible character.
• It’s worth it to sneak a peek at “Unfit” Mitt Romney’s colossal grifting for  contributions totaling $547,308,582.00 click HERE and prepare to wait for 594,598 entries to load.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

Vladimir Putin: Bad Historian

Why Putin’s revisionist history is no laughing matter

By Oleg Atbashian
First publishеd in the American Thinker

As someone who’s lived in both Russia and Ukraine, who speaks both languages, and is versed in their histories, I’ve been bombarded with questions about Putin’s recent interview with Tucker Carlson. It prompted me to compile my answers into this article, hoping to clarify for my American friends the real backdrop and fallout of Putin’s remarks.

For a more complete breakdown, see a take by Senior Analyst for Russian and European Affairs of the Center for Security Policy, Andrei Illarionov, who used to be Putin’s economic advisor and knows him personally. Illarionov lists 12 main messages and 30 basic fakes in Vladimir Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson, adding that a detailed analysis of Putin’s fakes, errors, absurdities, distortions, manipulations, and falsifications requires considerable space and time and, hopefully, will be done in the near future.

Indeed, Putin packed his interview with so many tall tales, you’d need an academic thesis to tackle them all. But let’s face it, who’s got the time for that? So, I’m serving up a condensed version, sprinkled with my own observations and takeaways for flavor.

First off, I tip my hat to Tucker Carlson for cozying Putin up enough to chatter away for two whole hours, revealing things about himself in ways we’d only speculated about. It appears that 24 years in an echo chamber of yes-men have dulled Putin’s knack for crisp arguments. With real opponents jailed or murdered, and a tame opposition in check, Putin’s debate skills are as rusty as a Soviet-era Lada. Throw him into an actual debate, and he’d fold faster than an empty suit.

Confronted with a question about igniting Europe’s bloodiest conflict since WWII, he unspooled an hour-long Viking saga, more tangled than a bowl of medieval spaghetti, dates flung every which way but right. Forget NATO fears; it’s all about the Kievan Rus princes now.

But how good is Putin as a historian? Let’s just say he’s about as reliable as tales of Conan the Barbarian from Robert E. Howard’s imagination. Had Tucker brought up Conan, Putin might well have anointed him a Russian hero who hailed from Cimmeria, which sounds like the Crimea and overlaps with modern Ukraine. And since in Putin’s imaginary atlas Ukraine equals Russia, it makes Conan a local legend. His entire historical discourse, replete with anachronisms, was equally imaginative.

After the flurry of memes and online jokes that followed the interview, I thought we’d all have a good laugh and leave it at that. Yet, despite the chuckles, some of my conservative friends still saw Putin as a kind of intellectual, a history enthusiast with odd fixations, granting him an unearned gloss of wisdom.

Taking Putin’s historical musings seriously implies viewing Ukraine – home to 44 million people and thousands of years of history – as merely an illusion, a historical glitch, a cartographic mistake in need of ‘fixing’ by Putin. But then we’d be no different from those who turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, dismissing it as a distant issue or even a regrettable means to peace.

It’s deeply troubling that Russia’s nuclear-armed leader places greater weight on a historical soap opera than on the pressing concerns of the living, breathing present.

Before we dive into historical rebuttals, let’s make one thing clear: in this scenario, history isn’t even the main concern.

What’s paramount here is international law and the inviolability of national borders. Yes, borders have been shifting throughout history, but the advent of nuclear arms cemented the principle of national sovereignty. The concept of territorial integrity has been the glue holding the world together for nearly eight decades, stopping us from reducing Earth to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Toss that rule out, and we’re signing up for a doomsday party, a global free-for-all that might just end humanity’s run.

After all, history’s roller coaster aside, Ukraine has been an independent nation for 33 years, forging its modern identity. A generation has come of age in freedom, now raising their own free-spirited kids. Each jab from Putin only tempers the Ukrainian resolve stronger, bonding them like iron in a fire. Ukraine’s newfound solidarity against challenges overrules any ancient drama in its storied past.

Now, back to Putin’s lecture on history. The gist of his tale is this: Russia began when a Viking named Rurik rode in on a high horse and whipped up a state called Rus. Then the Poles, never ones to miss a party, slice off a piece of Russia and label it ‘Ukraine.’ Russia, ever the benevolent overlord, takes back the land and showers it with gifts. But instead of thank you notes, they got a bunch of Banderites stirring up trouble. Cue the Austro-Hungarian masterminds who persuaded the locals that Ukraine had its own language and culture. Then Lenin comes along and conjures up Ukraine from thin air, planting a ticking time bomb that’s now Putin’s headache to dismantle.

Well, the actual story is quite different. The medieval Rus state, also known as Kievan Rus, thrived in present-day Ukraine, predating the very concept of Russia. Russia later emerged from Muscovy, initially a minor entity at the Slavic world’s fringes. Thirsty for power, Muscovy rulers aligned with the invading Mongol forces to expand its territory, annexing neighboring Slavic lands in the process.

The tide turned only centuries later, with Ivan the Terrible conquering of Golden Horde lands, claiming its throne, and adopting their Mongol-Tatar governance model for his entire domain. Thus, rather than being the successor of Rus, Muscovy was more like the Golden Horde’s heir apparent. And that is the twist that makes Russia the odd one out in the European family portrait.

Muscovy kept expanding its borders by absorbing surrounding Slavic, Finno-Ugric, and Tatar lands. The term “Russians” wasn’t in their lexicon yet; they identified as Muscovites. It wasn’t until the 18th century that Czar Peter the Great, in a move to elevate Muscovy to imperial status, decreed the adoption of “Russians” as their new identity, complete with a sophisticated rebranding. To imbue his empire with a sense of historic depth, Peter harked back to the esteemed Kievan Rus, adopting “Rossiya” – a Greek-inflected rendition of “Rus” – because nothing says “legit” like a classic throwback.

Little did Ukrainians know that their land would become a cornerstone of the Russian imperial narrative. History books were rewritten to cast Russia as the legitimate heir of Rus – a script Putin happily sold to Tucker. To those not well-versed, it might even sound plausible – if not for the minor detail of millions of Ukrainian-speaking souls who don’t feel the slightest bit Russian. This begs the question from anyone paying attention: when did this Ukrainian crowd move in, if there weren’t any grand migrations on record?
 Putin’s claim that ‘Ukraine’ translates to ‘the fringe’ is an outdated and debunked idea, rooted in false etymology. The term ‘Ukraine’ dates back to the 12th century, predating Russia itself – so how could it be ‘the fringe’ of something nonexistent? In reality, ‘Ukraine’ signifies ‘the country, the homeland.’ Initially a colloquial stand-in for ‘Rus,’ the term lingered after Rus declined, with its people continuing their lives, tending their farms and keeping their culture as Ukrainians. The Netherlands is also sometimes called ‘Holland’ or ‘the Dutch Republic’ – different names, same place.

Putin’s spin on more recent history is equally dubious. He recycled his threadbare story of an alleged “CIA coup” in Ukraine, a chapter Ukrainians honor as the Revolution of Dignity. This narrative is as flimsy as the notorious “Russian collusion” tale from the 2016 U.S. election. It’s a head-scratcher how some in America, quick to scoff at the “Russian collusion” fiction, readily accept Putin’s “CIA coup” account, even though both scripts likely originate from the same web in Moscow’s Lubyanka Square.

Likewise, those who rightly dismiss claims of America teeming with racist neo-Nazis appear surprisingly receptive to Putin’s parallel claims about neo-Nazis in Ukraine. The tactic of tarnishing with the Nazi brush is very similar, probably crafted by the same political puppeteers. In this light, there’s little difference between Putin and some Antifa radical in Portland, both eager to stir up Nazi narratives to justify their own violence and seize the moral high ground. There’s a global gaslighting effort that is pitting people worldwide against each other. Wonder who stands to gain from such discord?

A Twitter user suggested Putin’s historical narrative mirrored an argument for Israel. I’d say it’s the other way around: Putin’s line is closer to the Palestinian narrative. Their claim to Israel hinges on Mohammed’s legendary flight to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on a winged horse, and they are willing to die for this spiritual legacy. Similarly, Putin aims to annex Ukraine’s hallowed grounds, asserting they’re part of Russia’s legacy – a stance just as implausible.

Strikingly, Putin even found ways to justify Hitler’s invasion of Poland, thus aligning with another despot known for spinning historical myths and phantom grievances to validate widespread slaughter, displacements, destruction, and territorial grabs.

That’s why we’ve got to keep an eagle eye on the Kremlin’s history buff-in-chief. His sit-down with Tucker Carlson revealed a concerning image of Putin: not just a leader disconnected from current realities, but a full-blown historical fantasist, playing fast and loose with the fates of millions, guided not by present-day truths but by some dusty, fictional version of yesteryear.