Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young President Donald Trump has said he’s “looking forward” to the prospect of sitting down with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But privately, increasing members of Trump’s legal team are vehemently urging him to decline any invitation to talk to Mueller. Negotiations are continuing. But constitutional law experts have […]
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What’s Wrong with UW-Madison?
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young I came across what I consider to be a disturbing article recently. It’s now being reported that the University of Wisconsin Madison will not remove from campus buildings the names of well-known student leaders who were members of a campus Ku Klux Klan society in the early […]
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Noteworthy Case of Police Restraint
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young It goes without saying that no country or place seems immune from random incidents of violence. The senseless rampage in Toronto last week is just the latest example of the turbulent world and times we live in. By in large, news outlets have reported the facts that […]
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Trump vs. Comey: Who’s More Reprehensible?
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young It’s on! The war of words and character assassination between Donald Trump and James Comey has heated up considerably, as each party has begun resorting to personal attacks. Fueled, in large measure, by the release of former FBI Director James Comey’s new book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, […]
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Perhaps … A Changing of the Guard?
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young As you probably know, Spring Elections were held last Tuesday (April 3rd), and, if you’re a Democrat, you should be feeling pretty encouraged by the election results in general — and the outcome in two ballot decisions. Statewide voters were being asked to weigh in on an […]
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Trump’s New Blame Game
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young Donald Trump is up to his old, played out tricks: Blaming Democrats and the Mexican government for an increasingly “dangerous” flow of illegal immigrants. Trump unleashed his latest scurrilous attack in a series of fiery tweets last Sunday, in which he vowed “NO MORE DACA DEAL” and […]
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#Support the March for Our Lives Movement
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young On Sunday March 24, high school kids, families and supporters of March for Our Lives will take to the streets of Washington DC to demand that their lives and safety become a priority and that we end gun violence and mass shootings in our schools today. Organizers […]
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#MSD Strong
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young Let me begin this week’s article by expressing my sincere admiration for the remarkable students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and their extraordinary student activism. In the aftermath of that senseless mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, these young, articulate students were determined to have their voices […]
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Trump’s Kangaroo White House
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young They come and for whatever reason they go. This has been the ongoing spectacle at the White House. Donald Trump’s White House is a more chaotic one than we’ve been used to. That’s not to say that every White House isn’t a chaotic one, but Trump’s is […]
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Exposing the Gun Culture’s False Narrative
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young Let me begin by asking what I consider to be the most important question in the current gun debate: Why does any law-abiding civilian need a semi-automatic or automatic weapon? We hear talk about these types of weapons all the time, but what exactly are they and […]