Lining up at schools and churches to cast a vote is strictly for the 99 per cent. In Los Angeles’ exclusive Bel Air and Brentwood neighborhoods, as Curbed LA first noticed, well-heeled voters will be treated to free valet parking and hors d’oeuvres at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel. It’s a “luxury voting experience“! So what do we call the experience of the folks in the storm-battered Rockaways who are voting in polling places with no heat or light?
The President Didn’t Always Have Power Over Trade Deals
Until the 1930s, it was Congress that set the terms of U.S. trade negotiations with other countries and raised and lowered tariffs as it saw fit, while the president did little but sign his name.
