“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.”

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Anonymous wrote:A local journalist got Rep. Ogles' college transcript.

No, he's not an economist. In fact he only took one econ class (at community college) and got a C.

And he didn't get a degree in "International Relations" - it's in "liberal studies."

It took him 17 years to finally get a degree - those semesters where he flunked every class probably held him back.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tennessee-congressman-andy-ogles-didnt-want-you-to-see-his-college-transcript-we-got-it-anyway

My husband is a quite accomplished computer scientist, considered one by every company he ever worked for - and works for. He doesn’t have a college degree. Is he a not a computer scientist without that piece of paper? Is he a fraud?

The difference is that your husband probably has a career that can justify his credentials based on his body of work.

Ogles claimed to be an economist. But he didn't study economics at all. His work history does not justify calling himself an economist either. He was an anti-tax political lobbyist and then he worked for a year as an executive director at a conservative fiscal think tank. But his role as executive director was primarily administrative and not even working with the economists.

He called himself a former member of law enforcement, but the only related work is that he was a volunteer reserve deputy with the Sheriff's office for 2 years and he had his position (as a volunteer) revoked for failing to meet the minimum standards for the position. He did not complete field training or attend mandatory meetings. So he held the title, but didn't do the work.

So, while your husband has worked in his field for years to justify him calling himself a computer scientist, Ogles did not work in his fields, not even for the volunteer position he claimed, and he still tried to claim being an expert in these areas.

We tipped every local and statewide news outlet about a lifelong con artist politician who was fabricating his entire bio and none of them would even respond. Local media outlets are controlled by local big business (ad buyers) and party apparatuses — and the local business and party jefes create and use these nitwit con artists. The frauds are under their control.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably the same dark money sources that are keeping the GOP afloat.

Thomas Datwyler is a very popular GOP campaign treasurer, including for Santos and Ogles but lots of others.

Is it that the GOP just naturally attracts slimy players? Is it that someone is putting these candidates forward because they’re blackmailable? Why are there so many of these?

This is the problem with cults of personality. Loyalty to the leader is valued more than expertise, more than decency, more than ethics. And in fact it’s *especially* easy for those who lack scruples to sacrifice these other things for the sake of the leader.

As long as one of our major parties remains a cult of personality, we should expect to see more of this.

Get a grip people, nothing will ever happen to him. This is the same state that has rejected Scott DesJarlais to more than SIX TERMS in Congress.

Anonymous wrote:He's a POS, but will become the new garbage hero for the right who think he's being targeted for being MAGA or whatever BS they tell themselves about being victims.

Maybe. But maga type energy has been waning lately.

He's a POS, but will become the new garbage hero for the right who think he's being targeted for being MAGA or whatever BS they tell themselves about being victims.

Anonymous wrote:Meet Andy Ogles of Tennessee, who claims to be an economist with a background in law enforcement combatting international sex trafficking, and is none of those things.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — If you believe Middle Tennessee's newest congressman, he's not only a businessman, he's also an economist, a nationally recognized expert in tax policy and health care, a trained police officer, even an expert in international sex crimes.

But an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered that Andy Ogles' personal life story is filled with exaggerations, a story that's often too good to be true.

If nothing else maybe this will teach local news and opposing candidates to better fact-check these people before the elections? This is a gerrymandered district but it was a crowded GOP primary.

Another lying Republican dink. What a surprise!

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Anonymous wrote:Probably the same dark money sources that are keeping the GOP afloat.

Thomas Datwyler is a very popular GOP campaign treasurer, including for Santos and Ogles but lots of others.

Please take Jim Jordan down!
Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) repeatedly “crying” and “begging” victim not to corroborate accounts of sexual abuse against the university's wrestling team.

Jim Jordan called the brother of a victim, and a witness on the July 4th, “begging me to go against my brother. Begging me. Crying for a half hour. That's the kind of cover-up that's going on there."

Former athletes say Jordan, as assistant coach, ignored sexual abuse at university and 'does not deserve to be House speaker.

Jim Jordan ignored warnings of sexual abuse. Accused of turning blind eye to sex abuse at Ohio State.

Dr. Richard Strauss, a university physician, sexually abused at least 177 male students — 48 of whom were on the wrestling team. He died by suicide in 2005.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably the same dark money sources that are keeping the GOP afloat.

Thomas Datwyler is a very popular GOP campaign treasurer, including for Santos and Ogles but lots of others.

Is it that the GOP just naturally attracts slimy players? Is it that someone is putting these candidates forward because they’re blackmailable? Why are there so many of these?

Anonymous wrote:It’s like liars, scam artists and frauds are drawn to the GOP. I truly wonder why that is. A complete mystery….

It's par for the course with today's GOP. Just a bunch of grifting liars.

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Anonymous wrote:This also seems VERY Santos-esque - the House Ethics Committee uncovered that Santos faked a huge “loan” from himself to his campaign, and then used that fake huge campaign finances lead among his rivals for clout to get donors. All the local news reporters left should be looking for similar scams among their candidates.

EXCLUSIVE: He doesn't report having checking or savings. So where did Andy Ogles get $320,000 he claimed he loaned his campaign?
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/he-doesnt-report-having-checking-or-savings-so-where-did-andy-ogles-get-320-000-for-campaign

Yup.

He’s only in that seat because of egregious gerrymandering.

Anonymous wrote:Probably the same dark money sources that are keeping the GOP afloat.

Thomas Datwyler is a very popular GOP campaign treasurer, including for Santos and Ogles but lots of others.

Anonymous wrote:This also seems VERY Santos-esque - the House Ethics Committee uncovered that Santos faked a huge “loan” from himself to his campaign, and then used that fake huge campaign finances lead among his rivals for clout to get donors. All the local news reporters left should be looking for similar scams among their candidates.

EXCLUSIVE: He doesn't report having checking or savings. So where did Andy Ogles get $320,000 he claimed he loaned his campaign?
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/he-doesnt-report-having-checking-or-savings-so-where-did-andy-ogles-get-320-000-for-campaign

Yup.

“FBI agents executed a search warrant late last week on Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles as the first-term Republican faces continuing scrutiny over fraudulent campaign financial reports that he filed, NewsChannel 5 has confirmed.”
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/fbi-agents-execute-search-warrant-on-tennessee-congressman-andy-ogles-newschannel-5-confirms