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Watch Marco Rubio Smack Around Reporters Asking About Claims of Trump ‘War Crimes’ by Amnesty International (VIDEO)

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was recently asked by some reporters to respond to claims by Amnesty International that the Trump administration and Israel are guilty of war crimes.

Rubio completely flipped the script, reminding these journalists that Iran has killed tens of thousands of their own people in recent months for merely protesting.

He pointed to the fact that the Iran regime sent people into hospitals to kill protesters who had injuries and in some cases, killed their doctors too.

Townhall has details:

On Thursday, Rubio was asked by reporters about the organization’s accusations that U.S. and Israeli actions in Iran constitute “war crimes.” His response was that perhaps Amnesty should focus on actual wrongdoers, like, say, Iran, whose regime has murdered tens of thousands of its own citizens in cold blood just this year. And that isn’t even to mention the roughly half-century the regime has spent spreading its chief export, global terrorism with the murder of innocent civilians as its chief goal…

“Amnesty International is a fraud,” the Secretary of State said. “You know what I think Amnesty International should be focused on? An Iranian regime that murdered, in cold blood, tens of thousands of people on the streets of Tehran and other parts of the country. What Amnesty International should focus on is how the Iranian regime goes into hospitals when protesters are injured and murders the people in their hospital bed and, by the way, sometimes murders the doctors or the nurses who treated them. So they should focus on them. Those are war crimes. Those are crimes against humanity. And those are crimes they’re committing against their own people.”

This comes as Secretary Rubio has made a habit of going after international bodies that have continually overstepped not only their mandates, but the bounds of national sovereignty. That includes sanctions on the International Criminal Court, as well as some of its leading officials individually.

Here’s the clip:

There’s nothing you can add to that. It’s a perfect response.

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Aged Like Milk: AOC and Elissa Slotkin Went Off on Cornell 7 With Vicious Lies (VIDEO)

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses “Cornell 7” of luring, drugging, and raping girl

The Democrats spoke too soon on the lawsuit against seven former Cornell University fraternity brothers over an alleged 2024 gang rape that the District Attorney declined to prosecute due to lack of evidence. 

A former Cornell University student, who remains anonymous under the pseudonym Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit last month against seven Chi Phi fraternity members, claiming she was drugged and gang-raped in October 2024.

As the Gateway Pundit reported, new details on the case have emerged with alleged text messages from Jane Doe obtained by TMZ, where she said she “really liked” being with the men in a text message two days after the encounter. She further slammed other students who were gossiping about the orgy, writing, “anything anyone has to say about the [gangbang] is out of their jurisdiction.”

“I don’t think we should feel any shame for the part. our body our choice [as f*ck],” she further wrote. She even admitted to voluntarily taking ketamine and snorting the drug off one male’s penis.

It wasn’t until more than two weeks later, and after she was uninvited from one of the fraternity’s parties, that she reported the incident as a rape to the police.

MORE:

WHOA: “Our Body Our Choice ASF” – Cornell Jane Doe Texts Frat Bro She “Really Liked” Gangbang but Caught “Heat” in Campus Gossip, Says Snorting Ketamine Off P*nis Was “Insane/Jaw Dropping”

The whole scene is degenerate and, quite frankly, disgusting. The fraternity brothers shouldn’t be admired or heroized, but they also shouldn’t be demonized as rapists or doxxed if they didn’t rape anybody.

But Democratic politicians were quick to jump on the issue to further their anti-male agenda.

While speaking at a “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall hosted by More Perfect University late last month in New York, Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to capitalize on the moment with made-up facts from the case.

“Seven men drugged and gang raped a 20-year-old woman,” she claimed. She also said the girl, who admitted to voluntarily showing up at the frat house after drinking, was “lured into” the house, then “drugged with ketamine.”

“They then posted to a group chat that she was incapacitated, and seven men took turns gang raping her for seven hours,” she added.

WATCH:

This didn’t age well.

Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) also tore into Cornell University last week over its response to the incident.

“I’m a Cornell alum. I also represent places like Michigan State, and we know what it’s like when institutions fail women,” she said, calling on the university to “step up and treat this with the seriousness they should have treated it two years ago.”

“I don’t know all the details. I just know there was, again, a text chain that showed a large number of young men talking about assaulting a woman, and that text chain was presented to that woman, and like they got the equivalent of not even a slap on the wrist in some cases,” she added. “To me, like yes, I’m a Cornell grad. I’m also someone who represents an institution that failed women for years.”

She then accused the fraternity of “violently assaulting a woman.”

There was a group chat on Snapchat, but there is no publicly available evidence that they discussed “assaulting” the woman or that their sexual conduct was not consensual. Additionally, two of the men were expelled from the university, two were suspended, one was barred from campus after graduating, and the other two were ordered to write reflection papers and to study sexual harassment, social media use and bystander intervention.

WATCH:

They should be sued for defamation if this case is resolved with a finding of innocence for the seven accused fraternity brothers.

Currently, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is trying to revive a criminal case against the seven accused fraternity brothers, years after the local DA declined to prosecute the alleged assault. New York Attorney General Letitia James, who already publicly declared that the boys are guilty, will lead the investigation as a special prosecutor.

When announcing James’ appointment as the special prosecutor, Hochul also claimed that Jane Doe was “literally gang-raped while intoxicated.” She further advocated for changing the law by closing the “loophole” that makes a woman accountable for choices made while voluntarily intoxicated.

“It should not matter whether they chose to use drugs or alcohol,” she said, adding that she will work with the New York legislature to make it so that any woman can claim she was raped if she was under the influence, even if she consented.

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Employees at Obama’s Presidential Center ALREADY Complaining About Poor Working Conditions – Trying to Form Their Own Union

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Aerial view of the Obama Presidential Center under construction, showcasing the building's unique architecture and surrounding landscape, preparing for its grand opening in June.

Aerial view of the Obama Presidential Center under construction, showcasing the building's unique architecture and surrounding landscape, preparing for its grand opening in June.
Credit: ABC7 Chicago

Obama’ presidential center and library opened in June, a little more than three months ago, and the employees who work there are already complaining about poor working conditions, cuts in pay, hours, and benefits, and saying that their concerns are being ignored by the people in charge.

After just three months? Really?

They claim that the situation is so bad that they’re trying to form their own union. Well, at least Obama supports unions. Right?

From the Daily Mail:

Barack Obama is facing a fresh humiliation at his ‘eyesore’ presidential center with workers slamming the project’s bosses and moving to unionize just months after it opened.

In a letter to colleagues this week, staff at the Chicago library said they were organizing a union due to the institute’s ‘increasing workloads’ and benefit rollbacks.

Workers have grown frustrated with leadership at Obama’s foundation after their concerns were met with ‘vague responses,’ according to the letter, first shared by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Issues with workloads and benefits have led to a ‘high turnover rate’ among employees, with many more ‘continuing to leave (and) taking with them their institutional knowledge and expertise,’ the letter claimed.

Workers say they were recently told that their healthcare costs would increase, promotions were suspended, and paid time off was reduced, despite also learning they would get no pay increases this winter.

The New York Post has more:

Some of the complaints suggested the $900 million presidential center — often maligned for resembling the Star Wars Death Star or a huge trash bin — could already be facing financial trouble.

They included the center’s recent halting of raises and promotions, an increase in their healthcare costs and a reduction of paid time off — all of which the letter said have led to a “high turnover rate” and exiting employees “taking with them their institutional knowledge and expertise.”

Just how vital those four months of “institutional knowledge” was remains unclear, but the workers included an ace-in-the-hole in their pitch: President Obama’s own glowing words endorsing unions in 2016.

“If I were looking for a good job that lets me build some security for my family, I’d join a union. If I saw a problem in my workplace, I’d organize my coworkers to do something about it,” the letter quoted Obama.

Do you think these workers will get any attention from CNN or MSNOW?

Not likely.

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OOF! Black Commentator in Detroit Gives BRUTAL Response When Asked if Obama Campaigning for Abdul El-Sayed Will Make Any Difference (VIDEO)

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A black commentator from Detroit named Adolph Mongo recently appeared on NewsNation and was asked if Obama campaigning with far left Democrat Abdul El-Sayed would make any difference in the black community, where support for El-Sayed is very low.

His response was pretty brutal. He said that he loves Obama but then talked about how you can’t put lipstick on a pig.

This is not what people at the El-Sayed campaign want to hear.

From NewsNation:

Former President Barack Obama’s upcoming campaign appearance with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed may not be enough to win over skeptical Black voters in Detroit, according to a prominent political voice in the city.

Adolph Mongo, a longtime Detroit political commentator, told NewsNation’s Leland Vittert on “On Balance” that Obama’s support would not change his concerns about El-Sayed. Asked directly whether Obama campaigning for El-Sayed would make a difference with Black voters, Mongo responded: “No, no, it won’t. We love Obama. I love Obama.”

Obama is scheduled to appear with El-Sayed at an Oct. 24 rally in Detroit, which coincides with the first day of Michigan’s required early in-person voting period.

The former president’s appearance comes as Democrats work to consolidate support behind El-Sayed after a fiercely contested primary against Rep. Haley Stevens. NewsNation reported that Stevens outperformed El-Sayed in Wayne County, winning about 51% of the primary vote there compared with El-Sayed’s 45%.

El-Sayed ultimately defeated Stevens by less than 1 percentage point…

Watch the video:

There is another aspect to this story.

Abdul El-Sayed has actually been very critical of Obama’s presidency over the years.

Here he is in 2020 saying that the country is not better off after the eight years of Obama’s presidency.

That could make things a little awkward.

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Husband of Texas Mayor Arrested by ICE

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The husband of a Texas mayor was arrested by ICE for overstaying his visa.

Armando Garza Lira, the husband of Crystal City, Texas, Mayor Jose Cerda, was arrested on Wednesday night for overstaying his visa.

According to NewsNation, the Zavala County Sheriff’s Department along with ICE took Lira into custody following complaints he was in the US illegally.

NewsNation reported:

The husband of Crystal City, Texas, Mayor Jose Cerda was arrested by ICE Wednesday night, law enforcement sources told NewsNation.

According to NewsNation sources, Armando Garza Lira overstayed his visa. NewsNation has reached out to the city and has not received a response.

In a statement, the Zavala County Sheriff’s Office said it took Lira into custody after conducting immigration enforcement action following complaints of an individual reportedly residing unlawfully in Crystal City, 115 miles southwest of San Antonio.

Lira was transported to the Zavala County Jail, where he was transferred to jail personnel pending further immigration enforcement action by federal authorities.

Cerda was released without further incident.

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Where’s Talarico? Trump Savages Talarico Over His “So-Called Flu Bug” as Paxton Places Missing Signs Across Texas

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Ken Paxton drops Talarico wanted posters

Paxton has started placing wanted posters across Texas.

“Missing posters are popping up across Texas as the search continues. LAST SEEN: 12 days ago,” Paxton wrote on X this morning.  “Texans everywhere are asking: where is James Talarico?”

In another post, Paxton wrote, “Michael Jordan played through the flu and won an NBA championship, but Low-T Talarico is too fragile to step out of the shadows with a cough.”

Paxton also trolled him with another wanted poster graphic that reads, “Use caution when approaching! Talarico is mentally fragile, easily overwhelmed, and prone to illness.”

“Jimmy appears to be having a full-blown mental Tala-freak-out on the national stage,” the Texas Republican wrote on X. “My campaign has a simple request: proof of life.”

Trump, in a statement, said they’re looking for Talarico in “probably even weirder places than anyone would think possible.” Perhaps he’s still at the Phoenix Bar in New York, the gay bar where he apparently held a September 30 fundraiser last week, right after Talarico’s September 28 fundraiser with TDS-infected actor Robert DeNiro and allies of NYC Mayor Zohran Mandani.

On September 30, Talarico appeared virtually at a United States Hispanic Business Council forum, where he claimed he had a so-called flu diagnosis while broadcasting from a hotel room– somewhere.

” I was starting to feel kind of under the weather a few days ago, and last night it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas,” he said.

“And I was diagnosed with the flu, and so uh I’m running a fever, and I’m my most contagious uh right now.”

WATCH:

More than a week after his “diagnosis” and 12 days since his last in-person sighting in Texas, Trump’s wondering, “What’s going on?”

“12 days is a long time to rid yourself of the so-called flu bug,” Trump said.

“We need a Senator that’s a proven Champion like one that has been, without question, the Greatest Attorney General in the History of Texas, and one of the Greatest in the U.S.A. His name is Ken Paxton, and he will never let you down!”

TalaFREAKo has been missing for 12 days! Now, after looking for him throughout all of Texas, and beyond, probably even weirder places than anyone would think possible, he put out a statement that he has the “flu.” 12 days is a long time to rid yourself of the so-called flu bug. What’s going on? We need a Senator that’s a proven Champion like one that has been, without question, the Greatest Attorney General in the History of Texas, and one of the Greatest in the U.S.A. His name is Ken Paxton, and he will never let you down! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Late on Wednesday night, Trump also commented on Talarico’s prolonged absence from the campaign trail, suggesting “bad rumors are coming out” and calling on him to debate Ken Paxton.

Talarico responded, claiming he’s ready to debate and saying to Paxton, “ball’s in your court.”

Trump: “TalaFREAKo is Missing in Action… Bad Rumors Are Coming Out” – Talarico Responds

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Roseanne Barr Roars Back from Cancellation by Secretly Filming Star-Studded Sitcom

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Roseanne Barr has finished an eight-episode family comedy she shot without a network, eight years after Disney fired her from the “Roseanne” revival over a tweet.

The series is called “Meemaw.”

Page Six reported Thursday that production wrapped in Austin, Texas, after a quiet start in November 2025. Barr raised the money from private investors and shot it as a union production. No premiere date or buyer has been announced as of yet.

 

Randy Quaid plays her husband, Drea de Matteo plays her daughter, Omar Gooding, Doug Jones, and tween Instagram performer Indy Bugg are also in the cast. Jon Lovitz, Tony Hinchcliffe, and Kim Congdon appear as guests.

TV Insider reported the same lineup and added that the plot includes an attempt to “take down a criminal empire” while planning a family party.

Barr plays the head of what she called a “mixed-race family of preppers in Texas,” trying to give her granddaughter “the most fantastic bat mitzvah Texas has ever seen.”

She told Page Six she thought “now would be a great time for people to actually hear from a Jew.”

The 2018 firing is the reason the shoot was independent. ABC and Disney dropped Barr after she posted a tweet on social media platform Twitter — now known as X — comparing Michelle Obama’s aide, Valerie Jarrett, to the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”

Disney called the post “abhorrent” and “inconsistent” with its values and dumped her from her own show.

Barr apologized to Jarrett, deleted the account, and later said she had not known Jarrett was black.

Her talent agency, ICM, dropped her as well.

Page Six asked Barr whether Elon Musk — whose companies are based in Austin and who has said he would back people fired over free speech — had invested in the production.

Barr said he never returned her call. “Can I get some assistance over here, man? I got fired for a text that was up for two hours that nobody saw,” she said.

Barr described “Memaw” as a “semi-autobiographical series about a woman who hails from a very liberal East Coast Jewish family ” who finds herself disinherited and “must live the lower-class dream in Texas.”

Barr told Page Six the series is meant for families who do not agree.

She said her TV daughters are “super woke,” and that she wrote jokes for them the way she did on “Roseanne.”

“I make fun of everybody ’cause everybody deserves to be made fun of who’s in power,” she said. “So, I’ve got some great jokes about Republicans that the lefties are gonna love. I’m an equal opportunity destroyer.”

She also said the work had improved with time and that “Meemaw” was “every bit as revolutionary as ‘The Roseanne Show,’ if not more.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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JUST IN: Protests Erupt in NYC After ICE Agent Shoots Criminal Illegal Alien Gang Member from Dominican Republic

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Protests erupted in the Bronx on Thursday evening after an ICE agent shot and wounded an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic in Marble Hill.

Video posted to social media shows anti-ICE activists blocking federal vehicles and confronting ICE agents after the officer-involved shooting.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed an ICE agent shot a criminal alien gang member in the Bronx on Thursday.

The alien was transported to a local hospital.

“On October 8, at approximately 4:00 PM ET, ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx, New York, to arrest a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic with a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession. He has associations to the Trinitarios gang. The same gang who brutally killed a CBP officer last year,” the DHS said.

“This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk,” they said.

“During the incident, an ICE officer discharged his weapon and the criminal illegal alien was injured.”

“ICE officers immediately rendered aid. The individual is alive and at a local hospital. The FBI and HSI are on the scene. The incident remains under investigation. More information will be shared as it becomes available.”

“When dangerous illegal aliens are released back onto the streets by radical sanctuary politicians, our officers are forced to make arrests at large in the community in unpredictable and dangerous environments. Our officers should not have to risk their lives, and innocent Americans should not have to face unnecessary danger, because sanctuary politicians refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement,” the DHS added.

Communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani fanned the flames after the ICE-involved shooting and called for ICE to be abolished.

Full statement from Mamdani:

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

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NFL Legend Tony Dungy Says His Christian Faith Played a Role in His Firing from NBC: ‘They Knew Who I Was’

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Authentic Christianity has always made powerful people uncomfortable. Ask NFL Hall of Famer, Super Bowl champion, and outspoken Christian Tony Dungy.

In a short preview of an interview with sports journalist and former ESPN anchor Sage Steele — a preview posted Wednesday to the social media platform X — Dungy indicated that he “kinda knew” NBC would not bring him back for another season as an analyst on the network’s “Sunday Night Football” studio show, in part because of his Christian views.

“There were things that they didn’t want me to talk about,” Dungy said in a tone of resignation, adding that “they knew who I was when I got hired” and “it is what it is.”

Steele then noted that it seemed from the outside that NBC parted ways with Dungy over his pro-life principles.

The legendary former player and coach responded with a chuckle.

“There are some things that, I guess, on TV, especially, they want you to be careful because they want to attract everybody. They wanna have an audience of everyone. They don’t always appreciate you speaking about your faith.”

In other words, Dungy effectively confirmed Steele’s suspicion without saying it directly. He also indicated that he regretted nothing.

“But for me, I’m always gonna do that,” he said of honestly discussing his Christian beliefs, “and I’m gonna try to do it in a respectful way, but people are gonna know that I’m a Christian, so, that part is never gonna leave.”

The Hall of Famer also stated clearly what his public comments and social media posts have made clear for years.

“I am pro-life,” he said, “and I’m not gonna be ashamed to say that.”

The full interview will appear on “The Sage Steele Show” Wednesday, Oct. 14.

For the current season of NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has joined the program’s studio crew.

Ironically, Dungy spent part of his brief playing career with the Steelers. He even forced a game-clinching fumble in Pittsburgh’s 1978-79 Super Bowl victory over the Dallas Cowboys.

In 1996, Dungy took over as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Six seasons and four playoff berths later, he moved on to the Indianapolis Colts, where he made the playoffs every year, including a 2006-2007 Super Bowl win over the Chicago Bears, in which he earned a notable distinction as the first black head coach ever to win a Super Bowl.

Notable, that is, to everyone but Dungy.

Prior to that game — now nearly 20 years ago — the sports media made a big fuss over the fact that whoever won the game, either Dungy or Bears head coach Lovie Smith, would earn that distinction.

“More than anything, I’ve said it before, Lovie Smith and I, not only the first two African-Americans, but Christian coaches, showing that you can win doing it the Lord’s way,” Dungy said after winning the championship, according to Bleacher Report. “And we’re more proud of that.”

At the time, Sarah Braunstein of Bleacher Report was outraged. She insisted that Dungy “compartmentalized his identity: He separated his race from his religion — and he privileged the wrong one.”

Braunstein’s harangue continued.

Instead of citing his black predecessors, she added, “Dungy tried to circumvent race and claim that it was more important that he’d won the Super Bowl as a Christian, thus giving credit and power to a group that has no lack of it.”

In other words, Dungy is no stranger to venomous reactions from sports-media figures who were woke even before wokeness was a thing. After all, his outspoken Christianity has always riled up the wicked.

Fortunately, Dungy has never changed. In fact, his X feed remains as Christian as ever.

In short, NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” executives might not exactly qualify as the modern equivalent of bloodthirsty Roman emperors, but if those executives did indeed part ways with Dungy on account of his faith, then they have countenanced a milder-yet-still-reprehensible form of persecution.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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BRUTAL: Vermont Democrat Candidate Refuses to Answer When Confronted by Republican Lt. Governor Over Silence on Mistreatment of Migrant Workers at the Family Farm

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Vermont Lt. Gov. John Rodgers calmly sips his water after putting Democrat Molly Gray on the spot with a hard-hitting question.

The hypocrisy of the far-left Democrat establishment was laid bare on live television during an explosive debate in Vermont.

Democrat Attorney General candidate Molly Gray was left completely speechless after being confronted head-on by Republican Lt. Governor John Rodgers over shocking federal and state investigations into severe labor violations and horrific housing conditions involving H-2A migrant workers at her own family farm.

As reported by Vermont Daily Chronicle, Gray’s family operation, Four Corners Farm in South Newbury, was hit with multiple government citations following inspections that uncovered unlit, unventilated basement showers and severe fire, plumbing, and heating code deficiencies in migrant housing.

Yet, despite plastering her campaign website with virtue-signaling lectures claiming that “everyone has the right to live with dignity and ensure humane treatment,” Gray has remained noticeably quiet on the alleged mistreatment happening in her family’s backyard.

The exchange unfolded during an October 6 debate hosted by Vermont Public, featuring Republican incumbent Lt. Gov. John Rodgers and Gray, a former lieutenant governor seeking to reclaim the office.

Rodgers asked:

“Ms. Gray, you talk constantly about your family farm. Your campaign website also says you believe everyone has the right to live with dignity and ensure humane treatment. But your family farm was at the center of serious labor violations around its treatment of H-2A migrant workers. Why did you not speak out against the mistreatment of migrant workers on your family farm? And did you use your influence to direct the investigation?”

Gray appeared taken aback by the question.

Her response:

“Wow. You know, John, seems like kind of a new, a new low here. I’m on the ballot. My experience, my background, my policies are on the ballot. My family is not on the ballot. So I’m going to give you an opportunity to ask a different question.”

Rodgers refused to withdraw his question.

“That’s my question,” he responded, pointing out that Gray regularly discusses her upbringing on the family farm throughout her campaign.

WATCH:

According to an October 6 report by the Vermont Daily Chronicle, state investigators identified multiple problems with migrant worker housing at Four Corners Farm, the agricultural operation run by members of Gray’s family.

The reported deficiencies included inadequate insulation, heating concerns, damaged screening and flooring, and livestock housed directly beneath a kitchen area used by workers.

The farm employed seasonal agricultural workers through the federal H-2A visa program, which allows American agricultural employers to hire foreign workers temporarily.

Records described in the report indicate that concerns about the housing prompted a referral to Vermont’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration in August 2024.

The federal Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division conducted an investigation that October, followed by a state inspection in November.

A citation was issued in December 2024.

Problems reportedly continued into 2025.

During a January 22, 2025, inspection, Vermont’s Division of Fire Safety declined to grant occupancy approval for the H-2A worker housing, citing deficiencies involving fire separation, plumbing, heating, and bathroom requirements.

Gray has defended her family against the criticism.

According to WCAX-TV, Gray said her family worked with state officials to bring the migrant worker housing into compliance with rental code standards.

She also criticized Rodgers for involving her relatives in the political dispute.

“John Rodgers has every right to come after me and my policy ideas, but going after my family is disgraceful and a new low,” Gray said.

WCAX also reported that Gray does not own or operate Four Corners Farm.

Rodgers, however, maintained that the subject was relevant because Gray has repeatedly highlighted her family farm as part of her political background.

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