', 'I wasn't drunk,' Carone told Inside Edition as she remained unfazed by the criticism she has received. These adaptations were useful not only in aquatic environments but allowed our ancestors to explore land they were pre-adaptations for life on land. Another LinkedIn page for Mellissa Carone-Wright lists her as an arts and crafts professional in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with 8 years of volunteer experience. It also cites Gonzales vote last year for a bill to codify same-sex marriage, plus his lonely vote against the U.S. House rules package in January, which made it easier to remove the speaker and made it hearder to raise taxes, among other things. have been entangled in a months long fight for political power in Macomb County, then-Michigan GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox accused Ron Weiser, the party's chairman in 2018, of orchestrating a "secret deal" with Stan Grot, claimed she saw thousands of instances of ballots being run through tabulators multiple times, is currently running for lieutenant governor on the U.S. Taxpayers Party, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Learn more at texastribune.org. FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., will take legal action against the Democrat political action committee (PAC) that claimed, without evidence, that she was an "unlicensed paid escort," Fox News Digital has learned. Dominion software was created to cheat. [1] [2] Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services during the 2020 presidential election count. Some species pull themselves forward using well developed fore-fins, while others walk along the ocean floor. By the end of the Triassic period roughly 201 million years ago, both dinosaurs and mammals had evolved excellent running abilities. And many studies show that walking and running are crucial to our wellbeing and physical health. However, until now, the genetics behind the walking of the little skate was difficult to study due to a lack of quality data. But Schatzlines bill doesnt distinguish between sexually explicit drag shows and a man wearing a dress to perform in a theater, bar, nightclub or other commercial business. Carone was previously charged under the name Mellissa Wright with first degree obscenity and using a computer to commit a crime after she sent pornographic videos to her fiancs ex-wife and framed the woman for stealing them. The left wing is attacking me over some class project I did as a teenager where my buddies dared me to wear a dress, Schatzline said in the video. Rep. Madison Cawthorn was targeted by the American Muckrakers PAC in his primary election. Together we the people achieve more than any single person could ever do alone. ", Carone told The Detroit News she's looking forward to Grot's suit and that she "never made a false statement. Carone, an IT contractor for Dominion Voting Systems, appeared to become angered when she was asked about her fraud claims. She had the biggest smile on her face & feels so supported by all of your sweet msgs. I am a mother, I have two children, I have two degrees. Be like Melissa. It has shaped our anatomy, physiology and culture. The comments below have not been moderated. Additionally, it appears as though the PAC removed one of the photos they were trying to say was Boebert from their copy-pasted press release on their website but the currently active link on the website to the release as well as its archived version still have the photo. During the episode's cold open, a farting Rudy Giuliani (played by Kate . "Defendant's statements about plaintiff, Stanley Grot, were made with reckless disregard to the truth," Grot's lawsuit said. The memes quickly flew after her appearance. You can go to prison for this!. We dont know which species this ancestor was, but it probably looked similar to the coelacanth, which has a rich fossil record and is a living fossil that today inhabits the West Indian Ocean and Indonesia. I witnessed countless workers rescanning the batches without discarding them first which resulted in ballots being counted 4-5 times. Melissa Carone is a Behavioral Health Technician at Lifewell Behavioral Wellness based in Phoenix, Arizona. And illegals voted, says Carone, who asks at another point, I signed something that says if Im wrong, I can go to prison. They discovered similar gene expression patterns in motor nerves that help these muscles function. That kind of stuff doesnt make me mad. Read the original article. Carone, who appeared besides Giuliani at a hearing in Michigan, was so over-the-top that she ended up going viral and being lampooned on the comedy show "Saturday Night Live" in 2020. They've used every avenue possible to cheat, they used Dominion. Saturday Night Live also did a sketch where they skewered her testimony. Gustavo Portela, a spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party, rejected Ms. Carones assertions that there was a concerted effort to keep her off the primary ballot. But the highlight of the day's clown show was Melissa Carone, the campaign's "star witness," a "freelance IT consultant." She delivered her testimony while noticeably slurring her words, with the gusto of a woman trying to stay standing upright in a McDonald's at 2 a.m., convinced that the chicken nuggets she ordered and already . Carone became a viral sensation during a hearing with Rudy Giuliani last week where she gave belligerent, bizarre and widely discredited testimony detailing her claims of election fraud. Melissa Carone. "I am sorry but thats so far fetched Im not commenting on the left trying to discredit me," she said. In the suit, filed late on Monday in the name of the State of Texas, its attorney general Ken Paxton argues that Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia violated the Constitution's Elections Clause with their dramatic expansion of mail-in ballots amid thecoronaviruspandemic. In the video, Carone squares off with Representative Steven Johnson of the Michigan House of Representatives, talking over him as he tries to ask a question. Watch on. The office said that Ms. Carone, along with 10 other legislative candidates, had made false statements on an affidavit that candidates were required to submit to election administrators. Carone is currently running for lieutenant governor on the U.S. Taxpayers Party ticket. Melissa Carone is an actress, freelance IT administrator and the star witness for the 2020 Donald Trump election challenge legal team, featuring Rudy Giuliani. Or any number of Shakespearean plays, where women are dressed as men or vice versa?, Hajinazarian said GOP lawmakers are drawing attention to drag queens to rile up their base over what he describes as nonissues., Talk about performance, Hajinazarian said. Humans refined these locomotor powers, evolving numerous adaptations that make us one of the most efficient and capable running species on the planet. He also said its so broad that it may ensnare businesses and performances that lawmakers arent trying to regulate. The deal involved $200,000 in payments from the party's undisclosed administrative account to Grot, alleged Cox, who lost to Weiser in her reelection bid for chair days after she made the claims. Carone was initially charged with obscenity and computer crimes, but the charges were later reduced to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. Organizers of drag queen story hours, where performers read childrens books, often at a library or bookstore, said these events arent remotely sexual. The Explore Talent profile has now led to speculation on Twitter that she may have been paid by the Trump campaign to claim she was witness to widespread voter fraud. Let's give her some love! These were just some of the absurd claims of election irregularities in Michigan made by Carone as part of the Trump campaign's bid to overturn the state's presidential election results, which President-elect Joe Biden won with 154,000 votes. The club was shuttered after four men were charged with torturing a man in the basement - a scene that wouldn't be out of place in an episode of HBO's The Sopranos, which features a strip club of the same name. '", Parker said the suit seeking to overturn Biden's victory in Michigan was "stunning in its scope and breathtaking in its reach.". Mr. Forlini said that it is a felony in Michigan to make a false statement on affidavits like those signed by candidates. Need to keep her as Rudy. To find out, the team looked at which genes were active in the nerves that control limb muscles (motor nerves) in a mouse, chicken and little skate. Juliana is registered to vote in Camden County, New Jersey. The release also claimed the congresswoman had a pair of abortions and said that the allegations came from an anonymous source. BTW Lansing is PACKED too, Im am here I will be posting on it later today. The page indicates that shes engaged. Explore Talent only provides Internet exposure, resources, and tools for you to match your talent with auditions and casting directors. DailyMail.com revealed earlier this week that Carone used to strip at a club called the Bada Bing in 2010, apparently under her own name. But her plans were short-circuited on Tuesday, when the Michigan Department of State disqualified Ms. Carone, 35, a former election contractor, as a Republican primary candidate for a State Senate seat outside of Detroit. The party is normally required to remain neutral in intraparty contests. 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The event was an MMA night promoted by Joseph Donfrio. Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, speaks in front of the Michigan House . Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Systems, speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on December 2, 2020. Walking sarcopterygian fish are either extinct, like Tiktaalik, or so highly evolved that we dont recognise them as fish any longer (tetrapods). Did you?. The partys executive committee is set to hold a quarterly meeting Saturday where it will consider a censure resolution that cites a few of the notable ways in which Gonzales has split from his party in recent months. According to court records, Grot also filed suits against three other Macomb County residents who, he says, made false claims about him: Darlene Doetzel, Marlene Jacobson and Pamela Ulrich. Carone's probation ended on September 13, just weeks before Election Day, when a temporary staffing agency employed Carone to assist Dominion Voting Systems as an IT contractor in Detroit. I will vote, every time, for the people of Michigan to have the right to choose whether they wear a mask or whether they take a vaccine. AFP via Getty Images At one point during her testimony, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani even tried to shush her. Confirmed and Rumored Republican and Democratic Candidates, Viral and 'SNL' -Parodied Trump Election Witness Disqualified from Michigan GOP Primary, One Month Ahead of Midterms, Election Officials Are Preparing for Potential Confrontation, What to Know About the Georgia Grand Jury Subpoenaing Trump Allies, Including Rudy Giuliani and Lindsey Graham. ", In the letter, which was exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, Boebert's attorney Jonathan Anderson wrote that the PAC published "a series of false and defamatory statements" about the congresswoman through the Tuesday release and pointed out that while "Muckrakers has marketed itself as a watchdog group, the truth is that Muckrakers is a political committee that exclusively opposes conservative candidates, is funded by established Democrat donor sources, and is managed by Democrat political operatives. This is like pretty much the trumpiest thing Ive ever seen, Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) December 3, 2020. At one point, Carone seemingly grew so exasperated that Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani could be seen attempting to calm her. Mellissa Carone, a software contractor who preached unproven claims of a stolen presidential election, is seeking a Michigan state House seat to end universal absentee voting. On Wednesday, Michigan Advance reported that Mellissa Carone, a GOP anti-"voter fraud" activist who is running for state legislature in Michigan, espoused white supremacist propaganda to . Eliminate mail-in ballots, good reason absentee ballot requests and ELIMINATE THE MACHINES. Thats truly just clickbait.. Carone is currently running for lieutenant governor on the U.S. Taxpayers Party ticket. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. "By 30,000?" The counters (which were trained very little or not at all), were handed a batch (stack of 50) of mail-in ballots in which they would run through the tabulator. I witnessed over 20 counts of election fraud in a 27 hour period. She also said Democrats had ruined her life and livelihood for speaking out. Because of the statements, Grot has suffered emotional distress, humiliation, embarrassment, sleeplessness and anxiety, according to the filing. Coelacanth fish still exist in tropical seas. When a worker had a ballot that they either could not read, or it had something spilled on it, they would go to a table that had blank ballots on it and fill it out. Mellissa Carone has an acting/modeling profile on Explore Talent. Join Facebook to connect with Mellissa Carone and others you may know. Headless Body of Missing Model Found in Refrigerator of Hong Kong Slaughter House as Police Arrest Ex-Husband and Father-In-Law, Who Was Jack Snyder? Footage of her speaking before the panel has been seen tens of millions of times. I was trained on the adjudication and tabulation process. She looked the vaguely Palinesque part updated for 2020, complete with glasses. Melissa Carone, an information technology worker who said she was contracted by Dominion for the election, was brought on the show to tell Mr. Lindell that she watched thousands of ballots run . Anthony G. Forlini, a Republican who is the Macomb County clerk, said on Wednesday that his office had been following the law and that the disqualification of Ms. Carone was not politically motivated. The president's attorneys, led by . Anyone can read what you share. At those hearings, I would not let liberals in Lansing push me around. Investigators managed to trace the emails' IP address back to Carone and she later admitted to investigators that she was the person responsible for sending them, according to documents. A Michigan election denier who was parodied by S.N.L. is disqualified as a candidate. BUT she has more balls than Mitt Romney, Brian Kemp, Doug Ducey, Pat Toomey, that fat Maryland governor, & basically the entire GOP. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. When Dobbs asked what the vans had in them instead of food, Carone replied, I never saw anything being brought out of the vans. She's a Trump supporter, failed model, dog filter expert, and duck face enthusiast with a nice set of silicon gerber servers, two young kids, and a creepy looking husband. Forgive us, please, because there is a steep learning curve here and one should be seriously worried if one was familiar enough with the entire subject to write coherently on it. Either way, she quickly became a meme. She also made a series of bizarre claims to SarahPalin.com, a website that contacted her after she burst onto the scene. The Detroit Metro Times reports that Shelby Township Clerk Stan Grot filed a lawsuit in Macomb County Circuit Court late last week that accused Carone of making repeated defamatory statements about him, including claims that he conducted "illegal elections," and took money from "an illegal immigrant to turn in a lottery ticket.". This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Melissa Carone, who was an IT contractor for Dominion Voting Systems on election day, testified before a Michigan House panel in December 2020 that she had witnessed electoral fraud take place in . Critics say the proposals stem from the legislators willful misrepresentation of drag. Melissa Carone, a Dominion Voting Systems contractor who worked at Detroit's TCF Center on Election Day, testified before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on Dec. 2 that she witnessed. The workers would also sign the name of the person that the ballot belonged to-which is clearly illegal. Some social media users accused her of being drunk, Trump approvingly tweeted a link to a story by pro-Trump outlet Justthenews.com featuring her testimony. Just like Trump's paid crowd of actors applauding him as he descended the escalator in 2016. "You take a look again. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Mellissa Carone, the star witness in the Trump campaign's "voter fraud" case in Michigan, has become the subject of speculation claiming she was paid to make the allegations of ballot tampering after her acting and modelling profile started being circulated across social media. He won by double digits. Nov 10, 2022. The state party said it believes that the only other time it approved a censure under this method was against former state House Speaker Joe Straus in 2018. @realDonaldTrump @MamaGrizzRadio #MelissaCarone #MAGAMamaGrizzlies pic.twitter.com/UWr5l5WGlY, Kevin Scholla (@kevinscholla) December 3, 2020. On one of the forms that was signed by Ms. Carone, she had attested that she did not have any unpaid fines for election law violations and that all of her public campaign filings were up-to-date. While drag shows which most often find men dressing as women in exaggerated styles have been a mainstay in the LGBTQ community for decades, uproar over the lively entertainment has exploded in recent years as far-right protests led by extremist groups have recruited conservatives to protest these events under the veneer of protecting children. They claim the drag performances are sexualizing kids. DETROIT. Wife Shoots D.C. Police Detective Husband After Sharing Wedding Video, Police Say. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. So did Guiliani pay her to act in that sham hearing? But walking and running remain a central part of our lives, and our evolutionary success. "And I signed something that said if I'm wrong, I can go to prison. The video shows the lawmaker frolicking in a black dress along with classmates during his school days. . Fox News Flash top headlines are here. The legislations broad characterization would apply to drag shows that have no sexual elements. - this woman is an artist. "That poll book is completely off," Carone alleged. "I dont know any woman in the world that would write an affidavit under oath just to write it. Market data provided by Factset. Under this legislation, these events and other nonsexual performances of drag queens would be deemed inappropriate for children. Not all Republicans voted in favor of ensuring that.. The Texas Tribune is a member-supported, nonpartisan newsroom informing and engaging Texans on state politics and policy. She likes the drama, and shes been feeding on it.. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP), When you think about human evolution, theres a good chance youre imagining chimpanzees exploring ancient forests or early humans daubing woolly mammoths on to cave walls. I will still be exposing these establishment sellout RINOs in the Michigan G.O.P.. Republican Mellissa Carone made a series of unverified allegations of fraud at the hearing, which was part of Donald Trump's push to have already-certified votes overturned. If you have any questions, contact our Customer Service department at (702) 553-2700. The years-old clip was tweeted out by Democratic activist Michelle Davis. Market data provided by Factset. "This will be a costly miscalculation for Muckrakers, Wheeler and Muckrakers donors," the attorney added. Among her many unfounded accusations, Carone said that Michigan ballots were counted multiple times, that "dead people" and "illegals" were found to have voted and that poll books used to maintain voter information were in fact wildly astronomically inaccurate, though one Republican lawmaker told her that wasn't what they saw. Melissa Carone at the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Mich., on Dec. 2, 2020. Lives in Macomb, Michigan Mellissa Carone See Photos Works at Member of Michigan Conservative Coalition Lives in Lake Orion, Michigan Mellissa Carone See Photos Melissa Carone Steinhauser See Photos Melissa Carone See Photos Melissa Caron Unfortunately, she wound up making a James Woods movement. The bills want to include any establishments that allow performers to wear clothes or makeup that exhibit a gender identity that is different than the performers gender assigned at birth. Under that definition, Schatzlines performance wearing a dress for entertainment purposes would be defined as drag. 9. Find someone else to play Carone. Browse 6 melissa carone stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. ), "This political committee, funded by far-left Democrat donors and run by two left-wing political operatives, published pages of false statements knowing they were completely fabricated," she continued. Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on. This happened countless times while I was at the TCF Center. But when the lawsuits filed by Giuliani and other Trump allies actually reached the courts, they ended up being tossed out by judges -- sometimes in scathing terms. "If that was who I am today then it would be different, maybe I wouldn't be credible," she continued. 2022, Mellissa Carone. You can go to prison for this. Everything that happened at that TCF Center was fraud, she said, when appearing on December 2 in front of a Michigan House oversight committee. @nbcsnl pic.twitter.com/NfLsIbPOuN, Mr. Pauly (@BigManPauly) December 3, 2020, If I'm Melissa Carone's fiance at this point I'm all, "I gotta hit up the store" pic.twitter.com/vSpEguqRBB, Kevin deLeon (@kevindeleon) December 3, 2020. #melissacarone .Saw this on Facebookthought I'd share. Mellissa Carone, 33, spoke to Inside Edition on Tuesday after she faced intense backlash following her testimony at Trump's Michigan voter fraud hearing on December 2. A LinkedIn page with the same spelling says Carone, of the Detroit metropolitan area, is a cyber security analyst working in IT since 2006, earning a bachelors degree in information technology from ITT Technical Institute in Dearborn in 2015, an associates degree in computer/information technology administration and management from the University of Michigan in 2019, and a certificate in security with that college in 2018. They were supposed to be filling them out exactly like the one they had received but this was not the case at all. "In addition, Wheeler also sent letters to the State of Utah and State of Colorado requesting an investigation. The adjudication process, from my understanding theres supposed to be a Republican and a Democrat judging from these ballots. A receipt filed with the secretary of states office showed that Ms. Carone had paid $125 in late fees with a check on March 24, three days after she signed the affidavit attesting that she did not owe anything. The tabulators would get jammed 4-5 times an hour, when they jammed the computer would put out an error that tells the worker the ballot number that was jammed and gives an option to either discard the batch or continue scanning at which the counter should discard the batch. We have to go back to paper ballots, voting in-person and just ONE election day. It's time for real work and real talk in Michigan. By clicking Accept All Cookies, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyze site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. Has a censure taken place? The president's attorneys, led by Rudy Giuliani, have . Another post read, But Biden won?!? He was the only House Republican from Texas to support the measure and one of only 14 nationwide. THIS MUST STOP! Schatzline was unavailable to answer questions sent by The Texas Tribune this week. President Trump, who lost his reelection bid to Democrat Joe Biden, has falsely claimed that Dominion machines are part of a national conspiracy to flip votes away from him. When she signed the affidavit, Ms. Carone had owed at least $125 in late fees for missing the deadline twice for quarterly campaign filings in 2021, according to a letter from the clerk that was obtained by The New York Times. School Boards have way to much power. ExploreTalent is neither an employment agent nor a modeling agency. Has anyone checked if she was in fact a poll worker? It references a case filed in Michigan supported by the affidavit, and it includes her sworn statement in the appendix for the case. I was at the TCF Center for 27 hours. So anyways, I want to make this very clear. Carole also told the outlet she's 'not concerned at all' that she may have been infected with COVID-19 after her close contact to Giulianiand Jenna Ellis, who have both since tested positive. She has also promoted her media interviews on alleged election fraud, shared related articles, and made numerous pro-Trump and anti-Joe Biden posts. Carone's testimony went viral last week after she made several accusations of mass criminality at a polling center she has worked at during the presidential election. Were just sticking to the letter of the law, he said. AUSTIN Melissa Carone, the voting systems IT contractor who served as a "witness" during a Michigan state House hearing last week, has responded after video of her testimony went viral . The walking catfish is a species of freshwater, air-breathing catfish. We belong to a group of animals called land-dwelling sarcopterygians, but vast amounts of evolutionary change have obscured our appearance. The page reads, Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom #trump2020 #boymom #girlmom #cybersecurity. The page shared a photo of a Time Magazine cover showing Biden, writing, What a joke- clearly Time Magazine isnt credible. According to court records, Grot also filed suits against three other Macomb County residents who, he says,. However, her appearance before a state House panel has the memes flying, with. The censure resolution that the State Republican Executive Committee is set to consider originated from Medina County, which passed it last month and requested the state party take it up. In March, Grot's wife Sylvia ran for the Michigan House in a special primary election, losing to Terence Mekoski, who was supported by Carone. But I was not allowed over in that area at all., She has also insisted, as The Washington Post reported, that tens of thousands of votes had been counted twice.. The venue is now permanently closed following a string of violent incidents, including a 2010 attack where the manager and three other men were arrested and charged with torturing a man in the basement,drilling through his hand with an electric drill. "We've all done stuff we're not happy about," she said. I have been on over a dozen news program and have given countless interviews on how our election was stolen. As a witness in Rudy's . ", (Photo courtesy of Rep. Boebert's office.). Melissa Carone, who went viral for her supporting role in Donald Trump 's attempts to have votes overturned in the 2020 presidential election, has been disqualified from running in a Republican . You can read her claims in court documents here that were submitted as part of the Trump campaigns unsuccessful attempt to stop certification of the Wayne County election results. Carone was at the TCF Center from 6:15 a.m. on November 3, 2020 to 4:00 a.m. on November 4, 2020. DailyMail.com revealed earlier this week that Carone used to strip at a club called the Bada Bing in 2010, The modeling pagefeatures a dozen photos of herself in bikinis and bodycon dresses with teased, curled hair. "I'd say that poll book is off by over 100,000," she shot back. Many of the genes involved in forming limbs and digits in tetrapods are also found in water-bound sarcopterygians like lungfish, which indicates these traits evolved in our ancient common ancestor.
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