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The Story: On Tuesday, June 30, the Democratic Party in Oklahoma voted to nominate Abby Broyles for the US Senate. This pits her against the...

Charles Johnson’s 15 minutes of infamy may not have run their course. It was enough that some critics — Dr. Harry Edwards and civil rights attorney John Burris among them — called for a boycott of the Giants. … I walked away thinking this is a pretty decent fellow,” he said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Need I even describe Santorum's long record as a senator and in other roles attacking LGBTQ communities? Followed by: Johnson has contributed $ to James Inhofe's campaigns. pic.twitter.com/Oxgt0uWy7t 2014, Johnson contributed $2,600 to Bill Cassidy's campaign for U.S. Senate. Gianforte lobbied against a Bozeman city anti-discrimination law to protect LGBTQ people. He's given over $1 million to groups that are anti-LGBTQ, including some that peddle conversion "therapy." — Darwin BondGraham (@DarwinBondGraha) December 4, 2018 In all, BondGraham cites 13 politicians (including one-time presidential candidate Michele Bachmann) and one PAC among Johnson’s political benefactors. “All of which is to say that Johnson’s recent campaign contributions to a candidate who joked about attending a lynching, and to a PAC that ran racist ads in Arkansas, is contextualized in a long history of his giving to anti-LGBTQ politicians,” BondGraham wrote.

(Photo: MICHAEL REYNOLDS, EPA-EFE) WASHINGTON – Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, announced Thursday he would oppose a controversial President Donald Trump judicial nominee, killing the judge's chances of confirmation to be a federal judge In announcing his decision, the South Carolina senator cited a Department of Justice memo obtained by The Washington Post that included information on Thomas Farr's alleged role in the intimidation of black voters by the Sen. Jesse Helms campaign. Scott said the memo "created more concerns" and Thursday afternoon he decided he could not support Farr. Farr has denied that he was involved in the intimidation, according to The Charlotte Observer. Scott had voted to advance the nomination. Democrats have opposed Farr's nomination based on his judicial record, which they say demonstrates a hostility to voting rights. Farr's critics say that as an attorney hired by the state, he defended racially gerrymandered congressional districts in North Carolina, as well as a law that would require photo identification to vote. The Congressional Black Caucus and national civil rights groups have strongly opposed Farr’s nomination, citing concerns about his record on voting rights issues and voter suppression efforts. Johnson said three busloads of NAACP members from North Carolina traveled to Capitol Hill Wednesday to lobby against Farr’s nomination. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a civil rights icon, said "the problems this nominee represents are beyond partisan differences. The judicial opening Farr has been nominated to fill has contributed to the controversy.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Scott Pruitt's tenure as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency ended with his resignation, but political experts in his home state of Oklahoma say he could continue his career in public office. The path could lead him back to Washington. But even with the bad publicity, Pruitt, 50, has widely been considered a potential candidate for either governor or U.S. Senate. Ethical charges aside, many Republicans in oil- and gas-dependent Oklahoma are focused more on what they consider his accomplishments at the EPA, said Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Pam Pollard. As attorney general, Pruitt filed more than a dozen lawsuits against the agency President Donald Trump would later pick him to lead. Inhofe praised Pruitt in a statement Thursday for doing "great work" leading the agency. "I don't think that whatever things he may be accused of are things that most Oklahomans are going to hold against him if he decides to run for office in the future," Worthen said. Keith Gaddie, a professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma, disagreed. "His policy actions as administrator don't cost him in this state. ——— ——— This story has been corrected to show that university professor is not department chairman.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) on Thursday rejected any comparisons between the ambush in Niger that left four American soldiers dead and the 2012 terror attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. Comparisons between the two deadly attacks have become more frequent in recent days, with some liberal commentators questioning why there aren’t more hearings about Niger compared to Benghazi. An investigation is being conducted into the ambush that left the four U.S. soldiers dead in Niger, and lawmakers in both parties have said they are troubled by unanswered questions related to the event — including the lack of a timeline from the Pentagon on what happened. “And so we don't have all the accurate information yet. Questions about whether further intelligence or military support could have prevented deaths at the Benghazi consulate attack were raised for years by Republicans after the 2012 attack. Inhofe claimed in the HLN interview that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew in advance that an attack on Benghazi was coming, making that situation completely different from the incident in Niger. “It was an organized terrorist attack and totally different thing altogether. They were told by intelligence there was no threat.