GOP Corruption at Every Level

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today's edition, Scott Taylor, R-VA02

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-virginia-republicans-election-trickery-was-sleazy--maybe-even-illegal/2018/09/07/170889d4-b14b-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html

GOP corruption? I'm still waiting for all those congresscritters, who have tax payer money going to victims of sexual harassment on Capitol Hill to be announced. You think we'll ever find out their names?

We know a lot of their names because they were Republicans who resigned already.
Blake Farenthold
Trent Franks
Tim Murphy
Patrick Meehan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your tax dollars paid $52,000 for Nikki Haley’s curtains:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/politics/nikki-haley-curtains.html#click=https://t.co/JOnhgPajxJ

This isn’t like the others. It may be waste but it isn’t fraud

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your tax dollars paid $52,000 for Nikki Haley’s curtains:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/politics/nikki-haley-curtains.html#click=https://t.co/JOnhgPajxJ

This isn’t like the others. It may be waste but it isn’t fraud

True. Got anything else to say about the rest of this LONG LONG LIST of corruption uncovered in barely more than three months?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today's edition, Scott Taylor, R-VA02

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-virginia-republicans-election-trickery-was-sleazy--maybe-even-illegal/2018/09/07/170889d4-b14b-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html

GOP corruption? I'm still waiting for all those congresscritters, who have tax payer money going to victims of sexual harassment on Capitol Hill to be announced. You think we'll ever find out their names?

This Congress finally agreed on legislation to totally overhaul the sexual harassment claims process. It might be the only decent thing this Congress has done.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/12/13/house-senate-pass-speier-bill-congress-sexual-harassment/

[Anonymous]

“The corruption I mean has less to do with individual perfidy than institutional depravity. It isn’t an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isn’t about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of power—power as an end in itself, justifying almost any means.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/578095/?__twitter_impression=true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“The corruption I mean has less to do with individual perfidy than institutional depravity. It isn’t an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isn’t about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of power—power as an end in itself, justifying almost any means.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/578095/?__twitter_impression=true

Wonderful article. Spot on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“The corruption I mean has less to do with individual perfidy than institutional depravity. It isn’t an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isn’t about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of power—power as an end in itself, justifying almost any means.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/578095/?__twitter_impression=true

This article totally nails it, the historic roots and the sad manifestation we are living with today.

[Anonymous]

I’m waiting for pp to start the dem equivalent thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Start with your own party first then come to the table so we can discuss corruption OP

So, you don't want to talk about GOP corruption, then? You better go take a long winter's nap, dear.

start with your party first. admit they are as corrupt if not more. Were you born yesterday? They are all corrupt. I hate to educate on politics and corruption honey. Even if i tried, you would be in denial, yelling and screaming. Don't have time for snowflakes like you, who are absolutely clueless.

Touched a nerve, sweetie? I notice you can't provide any specifics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It feels like we learn about a new corrupt Republican politician every week

Yup, here’s another one.

“When Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin wanted a new state chief information officer, he didn't do a national search — he hired an old Army buddy and longtime business associate last October at a salary that now leads the nation for similar state jobs.

Some Kentucky lawmakers were stunned last month when the Courier Journal reported that Bevin gave Charles E. Grindle a $215,000 pay raise on Aug. 1 — a highly unusual 134 percent increase after less than a year on the job. The raise also came four months after the passage of a state budget that included no pay increases for more than 42,000 Kentucky public school teachers and most of the state's nearly 30,000 state workers.”

https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/1163054002?__twitter_impression=true

This is one of the most outrageous. There is not even a close to comparable level of corruption on the other side. Rs have proven to be cheaters and to make suckers out of their supporters by enriching themselves at their constituents' expense in the most cynical and hypocritical way.

[Anonymous]

Georgia Gov.-elect Brian Kemp had no evidence whatsoever when he accused Democrats of hacking state voter registration system two days before election.

https://www.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/how-brian-kemp-turned-warning-election-system-vulnerability-against-democrats/iLOkpHK3ea39t8Eh4PCGxM/amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Start with your own party first then come to the table so we can discuss corruption OP

So, you don't want to talk about GOP corruption, then? You better go take a long winter's nap, dear.

start with your party first. admit they are as corrupt if not more. Were you born yesterday? They are all corrupt. I hate to educate on politics and corruption honey. Even if i tried, you would be in denial, yelling and screaming. Don't have time for snowflakes like you, who are absolutely clueless.

Look who is yelling and screaming.

(Honey? Really?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Georgia Gov.-elect Brian Kemp had no evidence whatsoever when he accused Democrats of hacking state voter registration system two days before election.

https://www.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/how-brian-kemp-turned-warning-election-system-vulnerability-against-democrats/iLOkpHK3ea39t8Eh4PCGxM/amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

Of course he didn't' and people here and in Atlanta were begging the ASJ to make that disclaimer in their reports.

[Anonymous]

“U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross twice submitted sworn statements to ethics officials saying he had divested stock that he in fact still owned, a new document obtained by the Center for Public Integrity reveals.

The disclosure, in a new filing by Ross, represents the latest in a series of inaccurate statements and omissions in Ross’ personal financial statements since President Donald Trump tapped him as Commerce secretary in late 2016.”

https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/wilbur-ross-stock-holdings-divestment/

[Anonymous]

“After weeks of discussions about his future, Zachary D. Fuentes, the 36-year-old deputy White House chief of staff, had a plan.

Mr. Fuentes told colleagues that after his mentor, John F. Kelly, left his job as chief of staff at the end of the year, he would “hide out” at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, for six months, remaining on the payroll in a nebulous role. Then, in July, when he had completed 15 years of service in the Coast Guard, Mr. Fuentes — an active-duty officer — would take advantage of an early retirement program.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/us/politics/zachary-fuentes-coast-guard-retirement.html#click=https://t.co/nvafjqFQgx