GOP Corruption at Every Level

[Anonymous]

The Speaker of the Tennessee House (R of course) received a no confidence vote today after a scandal involving racist misogynistic text messages with his chief of staff, who already resigned.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/20/glen-casada-tennessee-house-republicans-meet-debate-confidence-speaker-leadership/3706350002/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/06/house-speaker-glen-casada-cade-cothren-sent-sexual-texts-women/1122490001/

[Anonymous]

Trump borrowed $11 million last year from a small Florida bank and then appointed the bank CEO to the Atlanta Fed.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/trump-2018-financial-disclosure/

[Anonymous]

Trump staffers helped themselves to $1000 of top-shelf liquor at a Mar-a-Lago bar. No one paid that night.

Six days later, Mar-a-Lago billed the State Department, which refused to pay.

The tab was then forwarded to the White House, which paid for it with taxpayers' money.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-taxpayers-covered-liquor-bill-for-trump-staffers-and-more-mar-a-lago/amp?__twitter_impression=true

[Anonymous]

- Donald Trump uses a personal email account and an unsecured phone
- Kushner and Ivanka use a personal email account
- John Kelly's personal email account was HACKED
- Betsy DeVos used personal emails for work


When Hillary did this, the media couldn't stop talking about it.

[Anonymous]

This should be big enough for its own thread, but the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy “blocked a bipartisan attempt to limit Chinese companies from contracting with U.S. transit systems, a move that benefited a Chinese government-backed manufacturer with a plant in his district.” Stella Li, BYD Motors president, is a campaign contributor to McCarthy. His insistence on this despite national security concerns from both sides of the aisle threatened the spending bill that eventually ended the shutdown.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/despite-national-security-concerns-gop-leader-mccarthy-blocked-bipartisan-bid-to-limit-chinas-role-in-us-transit/2019/05/21/24bb0f72-7813-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This should be big enough for its own thread, but the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy “blocked a bipartisan attempt to limit Chinese companies from contracting with U.S. transit systems, a move that benefited a Chinese government-backed manufacturer with a plant in his district.” Stella Li, BYD Motors president, is a campaign contributor to McCarthy. His insistence on this despite national security concerns from both sides of the aisle threatened the spending bill that eventually ended the shutdown.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/despite-national-security-concerns-gop-leader-mccarthy-blocked-bipartisan-bid-to-limit-chinas-role-in-us-transit/2019/05/21/24bb0f72-7813-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html

Wow, that's egregious. This WaPo commenter said it best:

Republicans hate China...but take their money.
Republicans hate illegals...but hire them.
Republicans hate perverts...and vote for them.
Republicans hate debt...and run it up.
Republicans hate crooks...and elect nothing but crooks.
Republicans hate abortions...but get them for mistresses and daughters.

What do Republicans actually believe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This should be big enough for its own thread, but the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy “blocked a bipartisan attempt to limit Chinese companies from contracting with U.S. transit systems, a move that benefited a Chinese government-backed manufacturer with a plant in his district.” Stella Li, BYD Motors president, is a campaign contributor to McCarthy. His insistence on this despite national security concerns from both sides of the aisle threatened the spending bill that eventually ended the shutdown.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/despite-national-security-concerns-gop-leader-mccarthy-blocked-bipartisan-bid-to-limit-chinas-role-in-us-transit/2019/05/21/24bb0f72-7813-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html

Wow, that's egregious. This WaPo commenter said it best:

Republicans hate China...but take their money.
Republicans hate illegals...but hire them.
Republicans hate perverts...and vote for them.
Republicans hate debt...and run it up.
Republicans hate crooks...and elect nothing but crooks.
Republicans hate abortions...but get them for mistresses and daughters.

What do Republicans actually believe?

Tax cuts for billionaires and pro-business judges. That’s about it.

[Anonymous]

Here’s yet another Republican resigning because of bad behavior!

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/21/725389031/tenn-republican-to-resign-as-house-speaker-after-lewd-and-sexist-texts

[Anonymous]

Megachurch Pastor James MacDonald, founder of Harvest Bible Chapel and a former member of President Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board, is under investigation for trying to hire a hitman to kill his former son-in-law.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/megachurch-founder-james-macdonald-allegedly-sought-murder-for-hire-police-investigating.html

[Anonymous]

“A police report says a south Mississippi lawmaker punched his wife in the face after she didn't undress quickly enough when the lawmaker wanted to have sex.

Republican state Rep. Doug McLeod of Lucedale was arrested Saturday on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge.”

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/report-mississippi-lawmaker-punched-wife-in-face-over-sex

[Anonymous]

Five months after resigning as Bergen County sheriff after getting caught on tape making racist and homophobic statements, Michael Saudino is back in politics.

Bergen GOP chairman Jack Zisa announced tonight that Saudino would play an active role in the organization and will help Republicans raise money for their 2019 campaign.
https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/saudino-returns-and-hes-a-republican-again/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[Anonymous]

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao still owns Vulcan Materials shares she had vowed to divest.

“Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has retained shares in a construction-materials company more than a year after the date she promised to relinquish them, federal disclosure forms show.

Shares of the company, Vulcan Materials Co. , the country’s largest supplier of the crushed stone, sand and gravel used in road-paving and building, have risen nearly 13% since April 2018, the month in which Ms. Chao said she would be cashed out of the stock, netting her a more than $40,000 gain, corporate and government filings show.“

https://www.wsj.com/articles/transportation-secretary-still-owns-stock-she-pledged-to-divest-11559035921?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/4YxxONxbVQ

[Anonymous]

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) failed to report his new wife’s consulting income on his financial disclosure forms.

And also, his father fought for Hitler during WWII and he’s been lying about it for decades.

http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/10/19/rep-andy-harriss-unexplained-gulag-story/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This should be big enough for its own thread, but the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy “blocked a bipartisan attempt to limit Chinese companies from contracting with U.S. transit systems, a move that benefited a Chinese government-backed manufacturer with a plant in his district.” Stella Li, BYD Motors president, is a campaign contributor to McCarthy. His insistence on this despite national security concerns from both sides of the aisle threatened the ea national security threat spending bill that eventually ended the shutdown.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/despite-national-security-concerns-gop-leader-mccarthy-blocked-bipartisan-bid-to-limit-chinas-role-in-us-transit/2019/05/21/24bb0f72-7813-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html

This could be a real national security threat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) failed to report his new wife’s consulting income on his financial disclosure forms.

And also, his father fought for Hitler during WWII and he’s been lying about it for decades.

http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/10/19/rep-andy-harriss-unexplained-gulag-story/

Is this the Eastern Shore guy?