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Elizabeth Warren Called Transgender Nominee for Governor in Vermont

Matthew McDonald

Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) is one of several Democratic luminaries who called to congratulate Christine Hallquist, a biological male who identifies as a woman who won the Democratic primary for governor in Vermont, according to Hellquist's campaign.

Hallquist, who won the August 14 primary, has also gotten calls from U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), who like Warren is considering a run for president.

Maine Professor:  Union Doesn’t Speak For Me, and Shouldn’t Get My Money
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Maine Professor:  Union Doesn’t Speak For Me, and Shouldn’t Get My Money

Matthew McDonald

A Maine professor disgusted with a left-wing public-employee union is suing to try to force the state university system to stop recognizing the union as representing him and to stop deductions from his paycheck from going to the union.

Jonathan Reisman, a tenured associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Maine at Machias, doesn't belong to the union and says he doesn't agree with the political stands the union has spent money on in recent years, including opposing Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage in 2010 and 2014 and supporting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.

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