Democrat Governors Receive Template For Carrying Out Insurgency Against Trump Presidency

[JGalt]

Isn't it funny how those who cried "Insurgency!" over the January 6 protest, are planning a real insurgency against a sitting President, including the use of National Guard troops?

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump​

"Democrat governors have a “resistance” playbook created for them that includes draft executive orders to defy the administration’s immigration policies as well as instructions on deploying the National Guard.

The Governors Action Alliance, a Democrat organization that founded the group Governors Safeguarding Democracy, provided such guidance to the staffs of Democrat governors across the country after the election of President Donald Trump.

The 126 pages of the playbook—including emails, talking points, and a “Firewalling for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order”—were obtained in a public records request from the office of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro by the private nonprofit watchdog group Government Accountability and Oversight and shared with The Daily Signal.

The documents offer a potential glimpse for what’s ahead as Democrat-run states prepare to clash with the federal government. The organization laying out the strategy is run by a host of former staffers for Democrat governors and liberal organizations, including NARAL Pro-Choice America, Demos, and Common Cause.

The “Firewall for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order” directs that “no state agency, employee, or agent may comply with a request for information or assistance if they have reason to believe the request is in furtherance of any investigation, arrest, prosecution, or other sanction of conduct initiated by federal authorities or out-of-state authorities.”

This includes no assistance to federal officials regarding “health care services … lawful under state law”; and no assistance to the federal government to “identify or apprehend a person in order to subject them to civil immigration detention, removal, or deportation proceedings,” or “to prosecute a person or persons for offenses related to immigration status.”

While the descriptions for “health care services” aren’t explicit, elsewhere in the documents, the group references abortion and “gender affirming care,” a phrase used to describe surgical sex operations.

“What leaps out is not just the sheer number of consultants being provided by donors for governors willing to serve the donors’ resistance agenda, but the functions they are serving: drafting executive orders, talking points, and white papers to assist in resistance advocacy … up to and including deploying the National Guard,” Chris Horner, a lawyer for Government Accountability and Oversight, told The Daily Signal.

In a Dec. 12 email to the staffs of governors’ offices, Emma Clough, special assistant to Governors Action Alliance CEO Julia Spiegel, wrote: “Please join for a briefing on executive actions governors can take to protect sensitive data and prepare for potential National Guard deployments.”

The model executive order on the National Guard says, “No assistance to deployments over objection of the office of the governor.” The draft order says state employees “shall provide no time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources for purposes of: assistance to any National Guard unit of another state that is deployed to this state, if the Office of the Governor of [this state] has objected to such deployment.”

A Dec. 3 email from Spiegel to governors’ offices offers staff assistance, including a former Democrat Senate aide who “has offered white glove service to support staffing efforts at the state level (gov offices and agencies).” The guidance further says that American Civil Liberties Union national support staff would be available to help.

It’s not clear yet if any Democrat governors have enacted executive actions based on the template.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis are the co-chairs of Governors Safeguarding Democracy.

Neither has signed such an executive order, though Pritzker has supported Illinois’ litigation against Trump’s immigration policies and said Trump administration officials “are threatening people. We’re just standing up for people who live in our state and in our city.”

Polis, meanwhile, has reportedly backed elements of Trump’s plans to deport illegal immigrants. Neither the office of Pritzker nor Polis responded to inquiries for this story.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed an executive order to create a rapid response team coordinating state agencies to respond to Trump’s enforcement of immigration law. However, the order doesn’t mirror the Governors Action Alliance template executive order. Ferguson’s office did not respond to an inquiry for this story.

Shapiro’s office, which provided the documents to Government Accountability and Oversight, also did not respond to an inquiry for this story.

Neither Spiegel, the CEO of Governors Action Alliance, nor Allegra Chapman, the managing director of Governors Safeguarding Democracy, responded to inquiries from The Daily Signal for this story. A spokesperson for the group also did not respond.

Spiegel is a former legal counsel for California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Chapman is a former assistant attorney general under then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Emily Kirby, the Governors Action Alliance director for legal strategy and policy, is a former general counsel for North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper. The alliance’s director of external affairs, Kristin Ford, previously worked for then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris as a deputy communications director.

In a Jan. 19 email to Democrat governors’ offices one day before Trump was sworn in, Chapman promoted a briefing that included personnel from at least two organizations that have consistently sued the new Trump administration.

The briefing was titled, “What Governors Need to Know, with Norm Eisen.” Eisen, the former White House ethics czar under President Barack Obama, is the founder of the State Democracy Defenders Fund and said his group planned more than 100 lawsuits against Trump this year.

Among the “suggested talking points” Chapman listed for governors included pragmatic sentiment, such as: “Our immigration system is deeply broken. … The last thing we need is another four years of chaos and bad judgment under President Trump.”

Other points were more partisan, such as: “Trump Republican immigration extremism is targeting trusted members of our communities. … This chaos is tearing families apart.”

The Governors Action Alliance is a project of the Global Impact Social Welfare Fund, a left-leaning advocacy group that has given grants to liberal groups advocating for gun control and stronger environmental regulations, according to the Capital Research Center, a think tank that monitors nonprofits. The Governors Action Alliance received $500,000 last year from liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s group, the Democracy Fund. The Governors Action Alliance seven-member advisory board is mostly Democrat but does include two anti-Trump former Republican governors—Arne Carlson of Minnesota and William Weld of Massachusetts. Weld unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the GOP presidential nomination in 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump

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[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

I see some folks getting invited for a sleepover at the nearest Federal prison.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The Democrats are escalating their violence

 

[1srelluc]

What a bunch of nut-jobs.....Please dems, never change.

 

[jackflash]

Isn't it funny how those who cried "Insurgency!" over the January 6 protest, are planning a real insurgency against a sitting President, including the use of National Guard troops?

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump​

"Democrat governors have a “resistance” playbook created for them that includes draft executive orders to defy the administration’s immigration policies as well as instructions on deploying the National Guard.

The Governors Action Alliance, a Democrat organization that founded the group Governors Safeguarding Democracy, provided such guidance to the staffs of Democrat governors across the country after the election of President Donald Trump.

The 126 pages of the playbook—including emails, talking points, and a “Firewalling for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order”—were obtained in a public records request from the office of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro by the private nonprofit watchdog group Government Accountability and Oversight and shared with The Daily Signal.

The documents offer a potential glimpse for what’s ahead as Democrat-run states prepare to clash with the federal government. The organization laying out the strategy is run by a host of former staffers for Democrat governors and liberal organizations, including NARAL Pro-Choice America, Demos, and Common Cause.

The “Firewall for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order” directs that “no state agency, employee, or agent may comply with a request for information or assistance if they have reason to believe the request is in furtherance of any investigation, arrest, prosecution, or other sanction of conduct initiated by federal authorities or out-of-state authorities.”

This includes no assistance to federal officials regarding “health care services … lawful under state law”; and no assistance to the federal government to “identify or apprehend a person in order to subject them to civil immigration detention, removal, or deportation proceedings,” or “to prosecute a person or persons for offenses related to immigration status.”

While the descriptions for “health care services” aren’t explicit, elsewhere in the documents, the group references abortion and “gender affirming care,” a phrase used to describe surgical sex operations.

“What leaps out is not just the sheer number of consultants being provided by donors for governors willing to serve the donors’ resistance agenda, but the functions they are serving: drafting executive orders, talking points, and white papers to assist in resistance advocacy … up to and including deploying the National Guard,” Chris Horner, a lawyer for Government Accountability and Oversight, told The Daily Signal.

In a Dec. 12 email to the staffs of governors’ offices, Emma Clough, special assistant to Governors Action Alliance CEO Julia Spiegel, wrote: “Please join for a briefing on executive actions governors can take to protect sensitive data and prepare for potential National Guard deployments.”

The model executive order on the National Guard says, “No assistance to deployments over objection of the office of the governor.” The draft order says state employees “shall provide no time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources for purposes of: assistance to any National Guard unit of another state that is deployed to this state, if the Office of the Governor of [this state] has objected to such deployment.”

A Dec. 3 email from Spiegel to governors’ offices offers staff assistance, including a former Democrat Senate aide who “has offered white glove service to support staffing efforts at the state level (gov offices and agencies).” The guidance further says that American Civil Liberties Union national support staff would be available to help.

It’s not clear yet if any Democrat governors have enacted executive actions based on the template.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis are the co-chairs of Governors Safeguarding Democracy.

Neither has signed such an executive order, though Pritzker has supported Illinois’ litigation against Trump’s immigration policies and said Trump administration officials “are threatening people. We’re just standing up for people who live in our state and in our city.”

Polis, meanwhile, has reportedly backed elements of Trump’s plans to deport illegal immigrants. Neither the office of Pritzker nor Polis responded to inquiries for this story.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed an executive order to create a rapid response team coordinating state agencies to respond to Trump’s enforcement of immigration law. However, the order doesn’t mirror the Governors Action Alliance template executive order. Ferguson’s office did not respond to an inquiry for this story.

Shapiro’s office, which provided the documents to Government Accountability and Oversight, also did not respond to an inquiry for this story.

Neither Spiegel, the CEO of Governors Action Alliance, nor Allegra Chapman, the managing director of Governors Safeguarding Democracy, responded to inquiries from The Daily Signal for this story. A spokesperson for the group also did not respond.

Spiegel is a former legal counsel for California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Chapman is a former assistant attorney general under then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Emily Kirby, the Governors Action Alliance director for legal strategy and policy, is a former general counsel for North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper. The alliance’s director of external affairs, Kristin Ford, previously worked for then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris as a deputy communications director.

In a Jan. 19 email to Democrat governors’ offices one day before Trump was sworn in, Chapman promoted a briefing that included personnel from at least two organizations that have consistently sued the new Trump administration.

The briefing was titled, “What Governors Need to Know, with Norm Eisen.” Eisen, the former White House ethics czar under President Barack Obama, is the founder of the State Democracy Defenders Fund and said his group planned more than 100 lawsuits against Trump this year.

Among the “suggested talking points” Chapman listed for governors included pragmatic sentiment, such as: “Our immigration system is deeply broken. … The last thing we need is another four years of chaos and bad judgment under President Trump.”

Other points were more partisan, such as: “Trump Republican immigration extremism is targeting trusted members of our communities. … This chaos is tearing families apart.”

The Governors Action Alliance is a project of the Global Impact Social Welfare Fund, a left-leaning advocacy group that has given grants to liberal groups advocating for gun control and stronger environmental regulations, according to the Capital Research Center, a think tank that monitors nonprofits. The Governors Action Alliance received $500,000 last year from liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s group, the Democracy Fund. The Governors Action Alliance seven-member advisory board is mostly Democrat but does include two anti-Trump former Republican governors—Arne Carlson of Minnesota and William Weld of Massachusetts. Weld unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the GOP presidential nomination in 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump

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"It's not clear yet if any Democrat Governors have enacted executive actions based on the template."

"Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis are the co-chairs of Governors Safeguarding Democracy".

"NEITHER HAS SIGNED SUCH AN EXECUTIVE ORDER..."

Geeez, I wonder why??? Lets look a little deeper into the below paragraph line by line shall we;

1) "The model executive order on the National Guard says, "no assistance to deployments over objection of the office of the Governor".

2) The draft order says state employees "shall provide no time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources for purposes of: any National Guard unit of another state that is deployed to this state if the office of the Governor[of this state] has objected to such deployment".

The so called legal experts that draft these "fantasy recommendations" for the lefty Governors failed to realize that the governors in question fully realize that pres. Trump is the CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP, meaning the governors are @ best commanders under the authority of Captain Trump when it comes to national security. The Governors are not going to risk their entire futures & risk federal incarceration or worse by attempting what could be viewed as insubordination or worse, a full scale mutiny(treason). That's WHY Governors Pritzker/Polis did 'NOT' SIGN AN OFFICIAL STATE EXECUTIVE ORDER as they would have been apprehended & incarcerated by the feds within hours.

I noticed when Governor Abbott called up the Texas National Guard that he picked his words very Very VERY carefully as he knew he was within an inch of crossing the line that would have triggered the feds to bring charges against him. Fortunately Gov. Abbott made sure the Texas National Guard stood down when confronting the federal border patrol. The statist left are walking a very treacherous stretch @ current. The Trump administration is not just updating the fed computers for convenience. Neither is pres. Trump pushing for new "for profit prisons" by the numbers for illegal aliens as he's throwing the illegal aliens out of country. Those for profit prisons I believe are being built for a very special class of people that pres. Trump well remembers from his 1st tour as POTUS!

 

[itfitzme]

Isn't it funny how those who cried "Insurgency!" over the January 6 protest, are planning a real insurgency against a sitting President, including the use of National Guard troops?

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump​

"Democrat governors have a “resistance” playbook created for them that includes draft executive orders to defy the administration’s immigration policies as well as instructions on deploying the National Guard.

The Governors Action Alliance, a Democrat organization that founded the group Governors Safeguarding Democracy, provided such guidance to the staffs of Democrat governors across the country after the election of President Donald Trump.

The 126 pages of the playbook—including emails, talking points, and a “Firewalling for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order”—were obtained in a public records request from the office of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro by the private nonprofit watchdog group Government Accountability and Oversight and shared with The Daily Signal.

The documents offer a potential glimpse for what’s ahead as Democrat-run states prepare to clash with the federal government. The organization laying out the strategy is run by a host of former staffers for Democrat governors and liberal organizations, including NARAL Pro-Choice America, Demos, and Common Cause.

The “Firewall for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order” directs that “no state agency, employee, or agent may comply with a request for information or assistance if they have reason to believe the request is in furtherance of any investigation, arrest, prosecution, or other sanction of conduct initiated by federal authorities or out-of-state authorities.”

This includes no assistance to federal officials regarding “health care services … lawful under state law”; and no assistance to the federal government to “identify or apprehend a person in order to subject them to civil immigration detention, removal, or deportation proceedings,” or “to prosecute a person or persons for offenses related to immigration status.”

While the descriptions for “health care services” aren’t explicit, elsewhere in the documents, the group references abortion and “gender affirming care,” a phrase used to describe surgical sex operations.

“What leaps out is not just the sheer number of consultants being provided by donors for governors willing to serve the donors’ resistance agenda, but the functions they are serving: drafting executive orders, talking points, and white papers to assist in resistance advocacy … up to and including deploying the National Guard,” Chris Horner, a lawyer for Government Accountability and Oversight, told The Daily Signal.

In a Dec. 12 email to the staffs of governors’ offices, Emma Clough, special assistant to Governors Action Alliance CEO Julia Spiegel, wrote: “Please join for a briefing on executive actions governors can take to protect sensitive data and prepare for potential National Guard deployments.”

The model executive order on the National Guard says, “No assistance to deployments over objection of the office of the governor.” The draft order says state employees “shall provide no time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources for purposes of: assistance to any National Guard unit of another state that is deployed to this state, if the Office of the Governor of [this state] has objected to such deployment.”

A Dec. 3 email from Spiegel to governors’ offices offers staff assistance, including a former Democrat Senate aide who “has offered white glove service to support staffing efforts at the state level (gov offices and agencies).” The guidance further says that American Civil Liberties Union national support staff would be available to help.

It’s not clear yet if any Democrat governors have enacted executive actions based on the template.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis are the co-chairs of Governors Safeguarding Democracy.

Neither has signed such an executive order, though Pritzker has supported Illinois’ litigation against Trump’s immigration policies and said Trump administration officials “are threatening people. We’re just standing up for people who live in our state and in our city.”

Polis, meanwhile, has reportedly backed elements of Trump’s plans to deport illegal immigrants. Neither the office of Pritzker nor Polis responded to inquiries for this story.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed an executive order to create a rapid response team coordinating state agencies to respond to Trump’s enforcement of immigration law. However, the order doesn’t mirror the Governors Action Alliance template executive order. Ferguson’s office did not respond to an inquiry for this story.

Shapiro’s office, which provided the documents to Government Accountability and Oversight, also did not respond to an inquiry for this story.

Neither Spiegel, the CEO of Governors Action Alliance, nor Allegra Chapman, the managing director of Governors Safeguarding Democracy, responded to inquiries from The Daily Signal for this story. A spokesperson for the group also did not respond.

Spiegel is a former legal counsel for California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Chapman is a former assistant attorney general under then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Emily Kirby, the Governors Action Alliance director for legal strategy and policy, is a former general counsel for North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper. The alliance’s director of external affairs, Kristin Ford, previously worked for then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris as a deputy communications director.

In a Jan. 19 email to Democrat governors’ offices one day before Trump was sworn in, Chapman promoted a briefing that included personnel from at least two organizations that have consistently sued the new Trump administration.

The briefing was titled, “What Governors Need to Know, with Norm Eisen.” Eisen, the former White House ethics czar under President Barack Obama, is the founder of the State Democracy Defenders Fund and said his group planned more than 100 lawsuits against Trump this year.

Among the “suggested talking points” Chapman listed for governors included pragmatic sentiment, such as: “Our immigration system is deeply broken. … The last thing we need is another four years of chaos and bad judgment under President Trump.”

Other points were more partisan, such as: “Trump Republican immigration extremism is targeting trusted members of our communities. … This chaos is tearing families apart.”

The Governors Action Alliance is a project of the Global Impact Social Welfare Fund, a left-leaning advocacy group that has given grants to liberal groups advocating for gun control and stronger environmental regulations, according to the Capital Research Center, a think tank that monitors nonprofits. The Governors Action Alliance received $500,000 last year from liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s group, the Democracy Fund. The Governors Action Alliance seven-member advisory board is mostly Democrat but does include two anti-Trump former Republican governors—Arne Carlson of Minnesota and William Weld of Massachusetts. Weld unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the GOP presidential nomination in 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump

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So nothing happened.

"It’s not clear yet if any Democrat governors have enacted executive actions based on the template. "

 

[jbrownson0831]

What a bunch of nut-jobs.....Please dems, never change.

Change the name to Governors Action Yappers or GAY....

 

[elektra]

Democrats have one tired playbook

 

[BluesLegend]

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump

Dems are not resisting Trump. Dems are resisting democracy, the WILL OF THE PEOPLE, a national election they lost by a landslide, and the mandate the American people gave Trump with a victory of 312, swept every swing state and won the popular vote. That's what Democrats are resisting.

Democrats only respect elections if they win, otherwise they have no respect for democracy, the people or the law.

 

[Correll]

They are mentally and pychologically preparing themselves for violence and rebellion.

 

[Mac-7]

I see some folks getting invited for a sleepover at the nearest Federal prison.

Hopefully

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Start jailing these jokers

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Isn't it funny how those who cried "Insurgency!" over the January 6 protest, are planning a real insurgency against a sitting President, including the use of National Guard troops?

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump​

"Democrat governors have a “resistance” playbook created for them that includes draft executive orders to defy the administration’s immigration policies as well as instructions on deploying the National Guard.

The Governors Action Alliance, a Democrat organization that founded the group Governors Safeguarding Democracy, provided such guidance to the staffs of Democrat governors across the country after the election of President Donald Trump.

The 126 pages of the playbook—including emails, talking points, and a “Firewalling for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order”—were obtained in a public records request from the office of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro by the private nonprofit watchdog group Government Accountability and Oversight and shared with The Daily Signal.

The documents offer a potential glimpse for what’s ahead as Democrat-run states prepare to clash with the federal government. The organization laying out the strategy is run by a host of former staffers for Democrat governors and liberal organizations, including NARAL Pro-Choice America, Demos, and Common Cause.

The “Firewall for Freedom – Template Gubernatorial Executive Order” directs that “no state agency, employee, or agent may comply with a request for information or assistance if they have reason to believe the request is in furtherance of any investigation, arrest, prosecution, or other sanction of conduct initiated by federal authorities or out-of-state authorities.”

This includes no assistance to federal officials regarding “health care services … lawful under state law”; and no assistance to the federal government to “identify or apprehend a person in order to subject them to civil immigration detention, removal, or deportation proceedings,” or “to prosecute a person or persons for offenses related to immigration status.”

While the descriptions for “health care services” aren’t explicit, elsewhere in the documents, the group references abortion and “gender affirming care,” a phrase used to describe surgical sex operations.

“What leaps out is not just the sheer number of consultants being provided by donors for governors willing to serve the donors’ resistance agenda, but the functions they are serving: drafting executive orders, talking points, and white papers to assist in resistance advocacy … up to and including deploying the National Guard,” Chris Horner, a lawyer for Government Accountability and Oversight, told The Daily Signal.

In a Dec. 12 email to the staffs of governors’ offices, Emma Clough, special assistant to Governors Action Alliance CEO Julia Spiegel, wrote: “Please join for a briefing on executive actions governors can take to protect sensitive data and prepare for potential National Guard deployments.”

The model executive order on the National Guard says, “No assistance to deployments over objection of the office of the governor.” The draft order says state employees “shall provide no time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources for purposes of: assistance to any National Guard unit of another state that is deployed to this state, if the Office of the Governor of [this state] has objected to such deployment.”

A Dec. 3 email from Spiegel to governors’ offices offers staff assistance, including a former Democrat Senate aide who “has offered white glove service to support staffing efforts at the state level (gov offices and agencies).” The guidance further says that American Civil Liberties Union national support staff would be available to help.

It’s not clear yet if any Democrat governors have enacted executive actions based on the template.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis are the co-chairs of Governors Safeguarding Democracy.

Neither has signed such an executive order, though Pritzker has supported Illinois’ litigation against Trump’s immigration policies and said Trump administration officials “are threatening people. We’re just standing up for people who live in our state and in our city.”

Polis, meanwhile, has reportedly backed elements of Trump’s plans to deport illegal immigrants. Neither the office of Pritzker nor Polis responded to inquiries for this story.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed an executive order to create a rapid response team coordinating state agencies to respond to Trump’s enforcement of immigration law. However, the order doesn’t mirror the Governors Action Alliance template executive order. Ferguson’s office did not respond to an inquiry for this story.

Shapiro’s office, which provided the documents to Government Accountability and Oversight, also did not respond to an inquiry for this story.

Neither Spiegel, the CEO of Governors Action Alliance, nor Allegra Chapman, the managing director of Governors Safeguarding Democracy, responded to inquiries from The Daily Signal for this story. A spokesperson for the group also did not respond.

Spiegel is a former legal counsel for California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Chapman is a former assistant attorney general under then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Emily Kirby, the Governors Action Alliance director for legal strategy and policy, is a former general counsel for North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper. The alliance’s director of external affairs, Kristin Ford, previously worked for then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris as a deputy communications director.

In a Jan. 19 email to Democrat governors’ offices one day before Trump was sworn in, Chapman promoted a briefing that included personnel from at least two organizations that have consistently sued the new Trump administration.

The briefing was titled, “What Governors Need to Know, with Norm Eisen.” Eisen, the former White House ethics czar under President Barack Obama, is the founder of the State Democracy Defenders Fund and said his group planned more than 100 lawsuits against Trump this year.

Among the “suggested talking points” Chapman listed for governors included pragmatic sentiment, such as: “Our immigration system is deeply broken. … The last thing we need is another four years of chaos and bad judgment under President Trump.”

Other points were more partisan, such as: “Trump Republican immigration extremism is targeting trusted members of our communities. … This chaos is tearing families apart.”

The Governors Action Alliance is a project of the Global Impact Social Welfare Fund, a left-leaning advocacy group that has given grants to liberal groups advocating for gun control and stronger environmental regulations, according to the Capital Research Center, a think tank that monitors nonprofits. The Governors Action Alliance received $500,000 last year from liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s group, the Democracy Fund. The Governors Action Alliance seven-member advisory board is mostly Democrat but does include two anti-Trump former Republican governors—Arne Carlson of Minnesota and William Weld of Massachusetts. Weld unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the GOP presidential nomination in 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Dem Governors Get Strategy for National Guard Deployment, Executive Orders to Resist Trump

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Laws simply do not matter while Trump is President.

Nobody sane in this country is going to believe the law matters when you have Nazis picking and choosing who the law applies to....but that is what Trump and this Republican Nazi Party are doing.

 

[wamose]

I don't think Democrats give two shits about the stated goals of these organizations. I think they start up an organization, they make up some ridiculous goals, they raise funds from liberal nincompoops who will believe anything, and then, they create some indignant outrage against Trump to keep the dimwits agitated. But in the end, the money gets laundered right back to the solicitors. Nothing gets done except for the organizers getting rich. I think all government spending is like that, which would explain why these politicians try so hard to hold on to their seats.