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Matt Laslo
@MattLaslo
Journalist, prof. & public speaker. My wire service: thelcb.com My startup: askapolpolitics.com
Washington, DC
Born March 30
Joined March 2009
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    If you disagree with a politician - or a political party - 💯 of the time you’re a part of the problem
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    The Federalist Society’s hosting a black tie dinner inside Union Station tonight, so protestors rolled up a big screen and loud speakers blaring Christine Blasey Ford’s Kavanaugh testimony as a welcome to attendees
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    “You had 8 years!” @LindseyGrahamSC says of Democrats, accusing Dems of failing to take up policing reforms under Obama-Biden* *The GOP blocked the reform proposals Obama-Biden pushed
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    A reporter is having a panic attack because we’re locked in the Capitol without any police protection, and we hear and feel rumblings underneath us. This is scary folks, especially after being labeled “the enemy” for some 4 years
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    “I smell a rat,” @RepRaskin tells me of the missing Secret Service text messages
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    DEVELOPING: A member of the House of Representatives is taking their oath on a classic Superman comic book
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    “These fucking people,” Rep. @DanCrenshawTX tells me after leaving the House floor. “Now they’re just being clowns.”
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    Times have changed at the Capitol: Some of the holy books for new member’s swearing ins, including a Quran, Buddhist Sutra and Hindu Vera (and two Constitutions for the atheists)
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    Veteran and retired police officer drops into #cpac
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    “Josh Hawley is a bitch,” D.C. police officer Michael Fanone says just outside the Jan. 6 hearing room
    “Donald Trump, Josh @HawleyMO — all of them, they’re traitors,” @RepEscobar tells me outside the Jan. 6 hearing
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    Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and his staff are handing out bottles of water and Kind bars to protestors on the Capitol grounds
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    They breached the Capitol
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    Have worked in the Capitol for 12 years and never seen a post-it display of well wishes on any lawmaker’s name plaque but here is @AOC’s