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Governor Approves New Law Allowing Armed Teachers To Protect Students - NEWS HOUR FIRST Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) has signed a bill that would enable school teachers and personnel to carry guns while on duty with reduced training requirements. “House Bill 99, as you know, also addresses the option, and it is an option, of arming school staff,” DeWine said in a press conference. “Although this bill was in development well before the recent tragedy in Texas, that heartbreaking school shooting certainly increased the urgency to enact it since many learned of House Bill 99 in the wake of this Texas shooting.” Under state statutes pre-dating HB-99, anybody licensed by a school board to bring a gun on school premises would need to go through the minimum training hours of a policeman, which would be more than 700 hours or 20 years of police experience. Those hours are not simply related to gun training. They likewise consist of driving courses, stopping traffic, examining auto crashes, and running a radar gun– abilities that are not applicable to instructors or school security personnel. DeWine stated he believed that the majority of schools would find the previously necessary 700 hours of training impractical for teachers and personnel. He likewise added that Ohio requires legislation to guarantee the training isn’t merely substantial, but in fact appropriate to school security and active shooter risks. HB-99 enables the Ohio School Safety Center to need as much as 24 hours of training curriculum, however, DeWine is directing the center to need all 24 hours. The training consists of de-escalation, crisis intervention, emergency treatment, situation-based training, and psychology of crucial occurrences. The brand-new law likewise needs 8 extra hours of requalification training yearly, along with yearly criminal background checks. “Schools are not required to do this,” DeWine mentioned. “What the bill does is essentially reverts back to the prior practice of allowing local school districts to make a local decision on whether or not they’ll permit certain school staffmembers to be armed on school grounds. This is a local choice,” DeWine said. “It is not mandated by the legislature nor by the government. Each school board will determine what is best for their students, their staff, and their community.” The bill is currently drawing criticism from some. “I’ve had some of my members say, if they were to allow guns into our schools, they would leave the profession,” said Shari Obrenski, president of the Cleveland Teachers Union. “They would pack it up and call it a day. We are asked to do so much. Now to ask us to be the police professionals in all of this is a bridge too far.”

Senate to Undermine 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendment | GOA (gunowners.org) A gun control “compromise” has reached 60 votes in the Senate, giving it a filibuster-proof majority. While the bill is still being drafted, here are some of the provisions the framework calls for: Federal dollars to bribe state legislators into enacting Red Flag Gun Confiscation Laws Delayed and expanded background checks for citizens under 21 years old FFL definition changes which could be a backdoor way to universal background registration checks Establish new federal offenses related to so-called “gun trafficking” that could inadvertently be applied to you, making you a felon Here are the 10 Republicans who have agreed to tear apart the Second Amendment: John Cornyn (TX) Thom Tillis (NC) Roy Blunt (MO) Richard Burr (NC) Bill Cassidy (LA) Susan Collins (ME) Lindsey Graham (SC) Rob Portman (OH) Mitt Romney (UT) Pat Toomey (PA) …and now Mitch McConnell (KY)! So long as we can pressure the Senate to walk away from this assault on our Second Amendment rights, the bill can be filibustered and ripped to pieces. That’s why GOA urgently needs YOU to take action. Your action could be what sways the Senate to stop this gun control nightmare from landing on Biden’s desk. Senate to Undermine 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendment | GOA (gunowners.org) You need to call traitors Tillis and Burr. We have and never will support these two goons. Call their offices and give 'em hell. McConnell, Mitch – (R – KY)Class II317 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510(202) 224-2541Contact: www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=contact Senator Thom Tillis R-NC @SenThomTillis (202) 224 6342 Senator Richard Burr R-NC @SenatorBurr (202) 224 3154 Click here to sign the letter: ATP heartily supports Gun Rights of America, our DC gun lobby. They do good work! Senate to Undermine 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendment | GOA (gunowners.org) -------------------------------------- Gun Bill “Framework” A group of bipartisan Senators this week released a “framework” for legislation that will potentially restrict Americans’ Second Amendment rights. >>Read the framework here from Sen. Murphy’s press office (D-Conn.) While the actual text of the bill hasn’t been released, there are already concerns for conservatives: no red-flag laws have ever been passed that uphold constitutional rights and preserve due process. The proposed “framework” uses federal funds to encourage state governments to adopt these red-flag laws. In essence, Congress wants to use our taxpayer dollars to pay state governments to erode our second amendment rights. A final agreement has not been reached and there is not yet bill text to read. However, the backlash from conservatives has already been swift and loud. Take Action >> You should call your Senators and let them know where you stand on the Second Amendment Thank you for your activism. Jessica and the Heritage Action team

Click on the link for the Action Alert to get all of the details. Call the NC House. They will be voting on this monstrosity Tuesday or Wednesday, June 7/8. Thanks. Action Alert! NC House Poised to Vote for Medicaid Expansion with Republican Blessing! (constantcontact.com)

Thanks to your calls of protest, the Flat Rock Playhouse has taken down their page demanding vax passports, masks, tests, and the rest of their Marxist demands! We celebrate our victories and then we move on to the next battle! Congrats to us. This is how we do it. One battle at a time. Thanks to your efforts, we all win! Health + Safety | Flat Rock Playhouse Please note parents whose child participates: Health & Safety | Flat Rock Playhouse | Studio 52 " All youth students ages 18 and under participating in education programs are required to wear masks when indoors. No proof of vaccination or negative tests are required to participate at this time. All adult students ages 19 and over participating in education programs are required to show proof of full vaccination and a photo ID on the first day of class." You need to demand this cease! On April 14, 2022, I attended the Flat Rock City Council Meeting and delivered this message and letter. They are in the process of determining their 2022 budget which will be finalized in June. April 14, 2022 To: Flat Rock City Council Members Mr. Weedman - Mayor: mayor@villageofflatrock.org Anne Coletta - Vice Mayor: annecoletta@villageofflatrock.org David Dethero - Council Member: daviddethero@villageofflatrock.org Barbara Jeter - Council Member: barbara.jeter@villageofflatrock.org Susan Gregory - Council Member: susangregory@villageofflatrock.org Matt Toner - Council Member: matt.toner@villageofflatrock.org From Jane Bilello Taxpayer: North Carolina, Henderson County, Flat Rock, NC Dear Flat Rock City Council Members: · The Flat Rock Playhouse has removed their vaccine passport mandates for adults from their health and safety policy and website page. While this is a step in the right direction, they continue to target children. (See below) They do not deserve our hard earned tax dollars. As the NC State Theater, they receive state funding. The Flat Rock City Council and the Henderson County Commissioners also contribute to them. This is wrong. Many of us have contacted our legislators in Raleigh to defund them. Taxpayers hope you do the right thing and cease contributing to their blatant disregard for our right to privacy and freedom. · I also ask you to consider changing your public comment period to the beginning of your meetings. Many of us work or have other time commitments and cannot remain for your entire meeting. Much appreciate your consideration in this matter. Thank you for your service, Jane Bilello: Education Health & Safety Policy flatrockplayhouse.org/studio52-health-safety. All youth students ages 18 and under participating in education programs are required to wear masks when indoors. No proof of vaccination or negative tests are required to participate at this time. All adult students ages 19 and over participating in education programs are required to show proof of full vaccination and a photo ID on the first day of class.

Create Those EIGHT SYSTEMS OF ELECTION INTEGRITY IN EACH NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY. ARE YOU WILLING TO COME TO A MEETING IN YOUR COUNTY TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOW EACH COMMITTEE IS SET UP AND TO CREATE THAT PERMANENT INFRASTRUCTURE? In order to create a permanent infrastructure of election integrity in every NC county as they did to achieve 2020 electoral success in Virginia, we need to create committees for the eight systems of election integrity as outlined in the Citizens Guide – Election Integrity Network – Who’s Counting with Cleta Mitchell (whoscounting.us)They are as follows: Citizens Guide to Creating an Election Integrity Infrastructure 71310c_f06a43795f68464c99002c03bbfda79d.pdf (nceit.org) ARE YOU WILLING TO COME TO A MEETING IN YOUR COUNTY TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOW EACH COMMITTEE ABOVE IS SET UP AND TO CREATE THAT PERMANENT INFRASTRUCTURE? Yes ____ No_____ First ______________________________ Last ________________________________ County __________________________________________________________________ My email _________________________________________________________________ My phone ________________________________________________________________ Jane’s contact: Jane@NCEIT.org 209 986 3845 PLEASE copy/paste above and email to Jane@NCEIT.org. I will be in touch with you to arrange this. THANK YOU!

HENDERSON COUNTY POLL OBSERVER SIGN-UP Click or copy the Sign –Up Genius link for Early Voting 2022 Primary for April 28 – May 14th, 2022: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4fa8ae2ca7f9c07-may2022 or HCGOP: EARLY VOTING MAY 2022 POLL OBSERVERS (signupgenius.com) There are (3) four hour time slots per day beginning the first day of Early Voting on April 28th, 2022 and ending on Saturday, May 14th, 2022. You will receive a confirmation email with your sign-up dates and times. Sign up for as many shifts as you like. Click or copy the Sign-Up Genius link for Primary Election Day on May 17th, 2022: You will receive a confirmation email with your sign-up dates and times. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4fa8ae2ca7f9c07-primary or HCGOP: PRIMARY ELECTION DAY POLL OBSERVERS (signupgenius.com)

This list will be periodically updated to include more information for Poll Observers to access. TOPIC PUBLICATION & LINK Assistance must be requested §163-166.8 Assisted voters need not to disabled & mandatory scriptNumbered Memo 2016-16 Assistants shall NOTNCAC 08 10B.0107 Interference Law §163-273 Duties of poll workers 08 NCAC 10B .0101 Set-up procedures 08 NCAC 10B .0102 Voting procedures (observers may hear voter names) 08 NCAC 10B.0103 Spoiled ballot procedures 08 NCAC 10B.0104 Observers can have vote totals at precinct 08 NCAC 10B.0105 Chain of custody for supplies 08 NCAC 10B.0106 Curbside affidavits 08 NCAC 10B.0108 Observers make observation "as the observer may desire "§ 163-45(c) Voting site duties inside polling location 08 NCAC 10B.0109 Observer - warning before ejection & "leaving" abuse 08 NCAC 20.0101 Obs can "ensure the [curbside] voter is not improperly assisted "Numbered Memo 2016-17 Obs allowed access to ensure "zero balance" procedure 08 NCAC 04 .0304 Abs ballot return policies Numbered Memo 2020-23 Click on the pdf link to open.

North Carolina Statewide Election Integrity Summit June 10-11, 2022 About this event North Carolina Statewide Election Integrity Summit, and Who's Counting with Cleta Mitchell, is a project of the Election Integrity Network. We are a coalition of conservative leaders, organizations, public officials and citizens dedicated to securing the legality of every American vote. If you are interested in free and fair elections, please join us for the North Carolina Statewide Election Integrity Summit to be held Friday through Saturday on June 10-11, 2022, at the Raleigh Marriott City Center located at 500 Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tickets here. Summit Details here. To make reservations at the Raleigh Marriott City Center in Raleigh, please click HERE for the special room rate (if you book by 05.31) or HERE for general reservations. For summit related questions or concerns, please email Kerri Toloczko at ktoloczko@cpi.org.

If you saw 2000 Mules, you remember these two heroes. rue the Vote founder and president Catherine Engelbrecht makes a point during a presentation on ballot trafficking at the Arizona statehouse on May 31, 2022. Seated next to her is True the Vote data investigator Gregg Phillips. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) Arizona is one of the key states in the CPI initiative to assure Election Integrity. Arizona joins us, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The election integrity group True the Vote presented Arizona lawmakers with cell phone tracking data showing alleged ballot traffickers visited drop boxes in two of the state’s largest counties no less than 5,700 times during the 2020 election. “When we started the project, we didn’t know [what we would find],” said Catherine Engelbrecht, the Texas group’s founder and president. “We began to think through what is a realistic expectation or threshold for when going to a dropbox is too many times. We wanted to focus on a clear, narrow data set [to demonstrate] “extreme outlier behavior.” The group’s investigators settled on 10 visits as an actual number—but “here, in Arizona, they went an average of 21 times,” Engelbrecht told the panel of state legislators on May 31. Lawmakers—all Republican—vowed to move forward with HB-2289 to make ballot drop boxes illegal in Arizona. “The only thing I would like to see come out of this meeting is people going to jail,” said State Rep. Quang Nguyen (R). “I would just like to see people cuffed.” The presentation was delayed 45 minutes while Arizona Democratic legislators wrangled over proposed gun control. Arizona state Sen. Kelly Townsend (R) goes over data during a presentation on election integrity by True the Vote in Phoenix on May 31. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) “This is political grandstanding, which I find is shameful,” said Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem (R). “They’re trying to suspend the rules, which is always a bad idea—to bring forward a bill that hasn’t gone to committee, and that has not had any vetting whatsoever. It’s not going to happen.” During the 90-minute presentation, Engelbrecht and True the Vote data investigator Gregg Phillips, former head of Mississippi’s Department of Human Services, described the group’s investigation into so-called “mules,” illegal ballot runners, and the role NGOs may have played to commit 2020 election fraud. The investigation focused on two of the state’s largest counties—Maricopa County and Yuma County—and on unique visits to ballot boxes utilizing cell phone tracking technology to develop “patterns of life” for each alleged ballot trafficker. “We resolved to try to find a path that we could measure that would be useful to law enforcement,” Engelbrecht said. The study used Oct. 7 and Nov. 3, 2020 as a timeframe, identifying 202 target devices that made 4,242 unique dropbox visits in Maricopa County. In Yuma County, the study found 1,435 unique dropbox visits by 41 target devices based on cell phone signals, or “pings.” Arizona State Sen. Leo Biasiucci (R) listens as the election integrity group True the Vote presents its findings on ballot fraud in at the statehouse Arizona in Phoenix on May 31, 2022. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) Engelbrecht said a geofence is around every dropbox to provide a “digital coordinate set” and measure how many times a device passed through the geofence. Measurements are precise to within a meter of contact with a ballot box. The federal government uses the same tracking technology. Its accuracy is “nearly perfect [like] wearing an ankle bracelet,” Engelbrecht said. “Friends, it’s happening on all of our phones, which are attached to us at almost all times. Suffice for this purpose and for this time to say the outlier set was so extreme that it warrants serious consideration, one that we hope this body before us will consider,” she said. Phillips said the web of cell phone signals is “so significant. Your phone is sending regular pings [this] is how all that comes together.” He added, “It can’t be overstated not to do what the [New York Times] did” in a series of articles on geofencing—”to say we got 50 billion pings and make all these [erroneous] assumptions.” Phillips said the group’s study sifted through billions of signals, “teasing out” devices based to exclude “false positive” signals. Dinesh D’Souza illustrated these findings in the new movie “2,000 Mules,” which seeks to expose organized ballot trafficking in the 2020 election. “We decided to go in on a methodology that uses ad data [embedded] in all of your phones. This is how digital DNA is captured,” Engelbrecht said. “If there were a subversion of [electoral] process, it would show up in the drop boxes. We believed that to prove it [geospatial data] would be something to focus on. We resolved to look at the ways to prove this.” True the Vote is investigating alleged 2020 ballot harvesting in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania electoral jurisdictions as well, and will share its findings with law enforcement officials that could lead to criminal investigations. Engelbrecht said inaccurate voter rolls provide a “gateway to all your problems” with mass mailing of ballots. She said that issues are more likely to occur at ballot drop boxes because they are not well regulated. Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (C) claps during a presentation of ballot trafficking by True the Vote at Arizona’s statehouse in Phoenix on May 31. Next to her is Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) True the Vote recommends Arizona lawmakers commit to clean voter rolls using real-time technology, and eliminate mass mailing of ballots and drop boxes. Or at the very least, drop boxes should be secure with video surveillance technology. Finally, lawmakers should make the penalty for ballot running something “cheaters will fear,” said Engelbrecht, who views 2020 election fraud as a “vertical grift layers and layers deep.” “The exploitation targets the most vulnerable communities. This is voter abuse. This is not about Republicans or Democrats. This is about securing the vote,” Engelbrecht said. Arizona state Rep. Leo Biasiucci (R) said, “Obviously, something is going on. We’ve got to figure out what went wrong, how to fix it, and if you were involved, you should be prosecuted.” State Sen. Nancy Barto (R) said it is “very scary” for voters not to have confidence in the ballot. “We are going to get a handle on this,” she said. State Sen. Walter “Walt” Blackman (R) summed up the solution for Arizona in “HB-2289.” “After seeing this, we need to move forward with [HB-]2289,” he said to loud applause. Allan Stein Follow Allan Stein is an Epoch Times reporter who covers the state of Arizona.

CPI Senior Legal Fellow Cleta Mitchell Asheville Tea: The New York Times just learned about CPI’s Election Integrity Network and the statewide training conferences we have been leading across the country this year. And after seeing Cleta Mitchell leading just one Summit meeting, they are in full-out panic mode! Sunday, they published a 3,500-word expose on our efforts to: Organize volunteers (GASP!), Teach them how elections work (SHUDDER!), Train them to be civil and gracious (HOW DARE WE!), and Show them how to ensure fair elections. THE HORROR! The ridiculous article was the latest in a series of insinuating, dishonest hit pieces against Cleta, CPI, and conservatives. Whenever conservatives act, the media gets scared. Well… they should be. For generations, the media, the deep state, and liberal poll workers had exclusive power over election information in this country. The lesson Americans learned in 2020: NEVER AGAIN. Help end election fraud today: Support CPI The public wants free and fair elections, and the Election Integrity Network is working every day to ensure we have them. Liberal pundits are outraged that EIN is teaching activists exactly how the system works and how to prevent it from being corrupted. We teach citizens how to regain control over and confidence in their elections – and the Left calls that “intimidation.” Hogwash. They know what this is really about. They know the corners they have cut, the games they play with the rules, and with our votes. And we’re putting a stop to it. We’re going to be holding Election Integrity Summits in numerous states between now and November. But we can’t do it without you. Support CPI and the Election Integrity Network! We need your help to take EIN’s work to the next level. Voting season is in full swing, and the most important mid-term elections of our lives are only MONTHS AWAY! There is no time to lose – and no organization working harder to protect the integrity of the voting booth and the ballot box than CPI’s Election Integrity Network. If the liberals at the New York Times are shaking in their boots, you know we’re doing something right! Thank you for being part of our team and for helping us make CPI the place where conservatives go to win. Sincerely,Jim DeMint CPI ChairmanCONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE 300 Independence Ave SE Washington, DC 20003 (202) 742-8988 Tel | (202) 595-0282 Fax CPI.orgSUPPORT CPI

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Michael Avenatti Sentenced to Prison for Scamming Client out of Book Deal Money (theepochtimes.com) Lawyer Michael Avenatti, who made headlines for his anti-Donald Trump stance, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday for cheating his former client out of $300,000 in cash from a book deal. Avenatti was convicted of aggravated identity fraud and wire fraud in a New York federal court earlier in 2022. He could have faced two years in prison for the first charge and 20 years for the second. During his sentencing, Avenatti acknowledged that he made a “series of mistakes” and “poor judgment” when he represented and bilked Stormy Daniels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Previously, Avenatti said he did not want to appear at the sentencing, but the judge ordered him to. “I will forever be branded ‘disgraced lawyer’ and worse,” he also said Thursday. District Judge Jesse Furman said Thursday that Avenatti’s conduct was “so brazen and egregious” and said that he “took advantage of a vulnerable victim given her unorthodox career and somewhat unorthodox beliefs,” referring to Daniels, an adult film actress. Avenatti, meanwhile, still faces a retrial in California federal court in another case in which is being accused of stealing nearly $10 million from five clients. He’s also currently serving a 30-month prison sentence for attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to release damaging information to the public unless he was paid. Furman said that part of Thursday’s sentence will be served alongside the prison term that was handed down in connection to the Nike case. Avenatti will have to serve two and a half years after the Nike sentence is completed. The disgraced lawyer also has to pay $148,750 to Daniels and $297,900 to the federal government, Furman said. The sentencing marks another chapter in the tumultuous rise and fall of Avenatti, who was heavily featured on MSNBC and CNN during the Trump years as he claimed he would run for president while representing Daniels, who made a series of accusations against the former president. As a guest on mainstream news programs to discuss a lawsuit Daniels had filed against Trump, Avenatti logged more than 100 CNN and MSNBC appearances from March 7 to May 10, 2018, according to an analysis. In that time frame, Avenatti simultaneously gained hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter and other social media platforms. But his time in the spotlight quickly came crashing down in early 2019 when he was arrested in New York City over the Nike extortion case. “I’m not [expletive] around with this, and I’m not continuing to play games,” he told the Nike attorney, according to court documents. Last month, Avenatti issued an apology letter to Daniels, which was handed to Judge Furman. “It is obvious that I failed you in many respects and that I disappointed you and let you down in multiple ways,” he wrote, adding: “I wish that we could turn back the clock so that the mistakes I made would never be repeated. I am truly sorry.” But prosecutors in a sentencing submission last week urged that he should face “substantial” additional time in prison for a wire fraud conviction and criticized his apology letter, saying the 51-year-old failed to apologize for his actual crime. “The defendant certainly had every right to defend himself at trial. But he is not entitled to a benefit for showing remorse, having done so only when convenient and only after seeking to humiliate his victim at a public trial, and denigrating and insulting her for months to her agent and publisher while holding himself out as taking up her cause against the powerful who might have taken advantage of her,” prosecutors wrote. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Jack Phillips BREAKING NEWS REPORTER Follow Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.