memeorandum: Texas Deputy Executed Days After Black Radical Group Calls for Killing Cops (BREITBART.COM)

7:25 PM ET, August 29, 2015

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Marc Caputo / Politico:

Top Jeb fundraisers leave campaign amid troubling signs — Three top Jeb Bush fundraisers abruptly parted ways with his presidential campaign on Friday, amid internal personality conflicts and questions about the strength of his candidacy, POLITICO has learned.There are different versions of what transpired.

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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:

Donald Trump: ‘This is a movement’ — Donald Trump says it's not all about him. No, seriously. Campaigning in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump on Saturday paid homage to his supporters — claiming they are a part of “a movement” and using colorful language to beg for their support. <p …

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Trump: I'm winning because Americans are ‘tired of being the patsies’ — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he is leading the GOP race because he represents Americans who have had it with their nation coming up short. — “People in this country are smart,” …

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BREITBART.COM:

Texas Deputy Executed Days After Black Radical Group Calls for Killing Cops — HOUSTON, Texas — A Harris County Sheriff's Deputy was shot execution style at a gas station while reportedly in full uniform. The deputy was filling up his patrol car. Witnesses told Breitbart Texas …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

Houston Chronicle:

Capital murder charges files in deputy's death — A 30-year-old Cypress man has been charged with capital murder in the Friday killing of a 47-year-old Harris County Sheriff's deputy who had stopped at a gas station he frequented in northwest Harris County.

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Faith Karimi / CNN:

Man held in killing of Texas sheriff's deputy — (CNN)A man “believed to be the alleged gunman” in the killing of a uniformed Houston-area sheriff's deputy was in custody and being questioned Saturday morning, Sgt. William Kennard of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN.

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Fox News:
Man suspected of killing Texas county sheriff's deputy reportedly arrested

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Faith Karimi / CNN:
Texas deputy killed ‘execution-style’ while fueling patrol car, authorities say

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Des Moines Register:

Iowa Poll: Clinton leads, but Sanders draws near … Liberal revolutionary Bernie Sanders, riding an updraft of insurgent passion in Iowa, has closed to within 7 points of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race. — She's the first choice of 37 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers …

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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Clinton resets campaign strategy — Hillary Clinton is resetting her campaign strategy with aggressive attacks against Republicans to move the conversation away from questions about the email controversy that has dogged her for months. — By comparing Republicans to terrorists and calling the GOP …

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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Sanders: DNC using debates to rig primary

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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:

Trump rips Clinton aide Abedin and ‘perv’ husband Weiner — Donald Trump on Friday took aim at longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, poking fun at her marriage to former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who he called a “perv” and a “sleazebag.” — Speaking to donors in Boston …

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Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:

‘Django’ actress gets community service after judge calls apology to LAPD ‘insincere’ — When an actress and her boyfriend pleaded no contest to charges stemming from an arrest last fall, there was a catch: They had to apologize to the Los Angeles police officers they accused of mistreating the actress because of her race.

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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

O'Malley challenges DNC over ‘rigged’ debate schedule — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley thinks the Democratic Party's decision to limit the number of primary debates is tantamount to rigging the nomination process. — “Four debates and only four debates — we are told, not asked …

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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Rivals Critical of Democratic Party Politics

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New York Times:
Martin O'Malley Rails at Democrats for Debate Schedule ‘Rigged’ to Aid Hillary Clinton

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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:

House moving toward vote to defund Planned Parenthood — House Republican leaders are planning a vote to freeze funding for Planned Parenthood this fall, according to GOP aides, a move that could help mitigate an inter-party battle and avoid a government shutdown.

Discussion: Hot Air and PoliticusUSA

Robert Taylor / KSAT-TV:

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Fatal deputy-involved shooting — Bexar deputies shot, killed man while responding to disturbance call — SAN ANTONIO - KSAT12 News has obtained exclusive cellphone video capturing a fatal Bexar County sheriff's deputy-involved shooting Friday in the 24400 block of Walnut Pass.

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