Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I hope they included Justice Kennedy in this.

GOOD POINT. I had forgotten about that weirdness.

This is horrifying. What madness.

Sarah Kendzior in 2018:
"GOP wants a one-party state, and DT wants to be the autocrat of that state. The idea that they are incompetent is a myth. They are very competent. They are just not interested in the process of governing. They are interested in ruling."


It sure seems like this is where we are headed.

Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-TX), the top Republican on the House Ethics Committee, is fielding an ethics complaint for years of improper campaign reimbursements and illegal campaign donations from his congressional staff. The complaint outlines 18 instances between 2007 and 2017 in which Marchant House staffers paid out-of-pocket for campaign-related items and then were reimbursed by Marchant's campaign.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/07/10/rep-kenny-marchant-of-coppell-hit-with-ethics-complaint-that-alleges-impermissible-donations-by-staff/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) pressured a local party official to report false election results. Buck is heard insisting that this is an "order of the central committee." The local official resisted committing the misdemeanor. “You’ve got a sitting congressman, a sitting state party chair, who is trying to bully a volunteer — I’m a volunteer; I don’t get paid for this — into committing a crime,” Eli Bremer, the GOP chairman for state Senate District 10, told The Post on Wednesday, confirming the authenticity of the recording. “To say it’s damning is an understatement.”

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/05/06/colorado-ken-buck-gop-primary/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Mike Gula closed up his GOP fundraising shop and opened a company to contract medical supplies to the government. A play in three acts, and less than six weeks:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/politics/coronavirus-money-lobbyists.html

https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-blue-flame-20200502-yowmpux5s5c7xf52wrjwb5dtp4-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/justice-department-investigates-blue-flame-medical-after-claims-it-failed-to-provide-masks-ventilators-to-maryland-california/2020/05/06/e30b5224-8fa1-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html

Anonymous wrote:“According to a state audit, Mississippi allowed tens of millions of dollars in federal anti-poverty funds to be used in ways that did little or nothing to help the poor.

Monday’s audit comes after the arrest in February of John Davis, the former director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, the agency that distributes the federal welfare block grants. Mr. Davis is accused of taking part in a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme.
Five other people were charged in the apparent scheme, including Nancy New, a politically connected figure who was the executive director of the Mississippi Community Education Center, one of the two nonprofit groups mentioned in the report. All have pleaded not guilty.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/mississippi-department-human-services.html#click=https://t.co/JFSRGEz8TO

Jackson Clarion-Ledger has more details
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/04/ms-welfare-scandal-audit-94-m-questionable-spending/3076949001/

Mississippi's Republican DHS Director gave millions in federal welfare dollars to two nonprofits that passed money around to family, friends, and cronies with no oversight:

* The two nonprofits improperly used welfare money to hire lobbyists and for advertising, promotional, and branding campaigns
* MCEC gave contracts to, and hired, family members of (DHS Director) Davis. The payments and salaries to his nephew and brother-in-law totaled more than $1 million.
* Brett Favre's company, Favre Enterprises, was paid $1.1 million by MCEC over two installments for appearances, promotions, autographs and speaking engagements by the former star quarterback from Mississippi; auditors determined that Favre "did not speak nor was he present for those events."
* Both nonprofits gave welfare money to a trio of wrestlers, Ted DiBiase, Ted DiBiase, Jr., and Brett DiBiase — some for work never performed, some for "unreasonable" travel costs.
* MCEC paid Victory Sports Foundation with welfare money to run fitness programs. Mississippi legislators, officials and staffers participated in some of them, free of charge.
* MCEC bought three cars with welfare money, each worth more than $50,000, for MCEC Director Nancy New and her two sons.
* Salaries, cellphones and other expenses were also paid using welfare money.
* MCEC used welfare money for sports-related purposes, including sponsoring a college baseball tournament and other NCAA events.
* MCEC moved $6 million in welfare money to a private school and organization run by New, and bought supplies for the school.
* New and her son invested welfare money in a Florida medical company, Prevacus, in exchange for the company conducting "clinical trials of the new medicine on children in Mississippi."

Funny how it is always Republicans messing with voter registrations and harvesting

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/us/cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html

Congressman Buddy Carter (R-GA) advocated for a spaceport near a $2 million property he bought next to the project he advocated for.

“Congressman Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) bought a large undeveloped piece of land down the road from a proposed spaceport in Camden County in May of 2018. A month later he led the U.S. House of Representatives Georgia delegation in urging the Federal Aviation Administration to move the project forward.

The Spaceport project is still pending and Carter still owns the property.

He said recently he bought it for hunting and fishing, not as an investment. As such, he did not need to disclose the purchase to the FAA, other Congressmen or to constituents through his Congressional financial disclosure forms, he said.”
https://www.savannahnow.com/news/20200502/congressman-buddy-carter-advocated-for-spaceport-near-2-million-property-he-bought?template=ampart&__twitter_impression=true

After reading the Red Dawn emails in the New York Times, I thought Kadlec was one of the good ones.

There are no good ones.

“After Robert Kadlec was confirmed as President Trump’s top official for public health preparedness in 2017, he began pressing to increase government stocks of a smallpox vaccine. His office ultimately made a deal to buy up to $2.8 billion of the vaccine from a company that once paid Kadlec as a consultant, a connection he did not disclose on a Senate questionnaire when he was nominated.

Under the agreement struck last year with Emergent BioSolutions, Kadlec’s office at the Department of Health and Human Services is paying more than double the price per dose it had previously paid for the drug. Because Emergent is the only licensed maker of the vaccine, Kadlec’s office arrived at the price through negotiations with the company rather than through bidding.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/before-pandemic-trumps-stockpile-chief-put-focus-on-biodefense-an-old-client-benefited/2020/05/04/d3c2b010-84dd-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html

Anonymous wrote:

Now a Federal judge requests an investigation of Mitch McConnell for allegedly pressuring judges to retire.
https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/3083144001?__twitter_impression=true

“According to a state audit, Mississippi allowed tens of millions of dollars in federal anti-poverty funds to be used in ways that did little or nothing to help the poor.

Monday’s audit comes after the arrest in February of John Davis, the former director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, the agency that distributes the federal welfare block grants. Mr. Davis is accused of taking part in a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme.
Five other people were charged in the apparent scheme, including Nancy New, a politically connected figure who was the executive director of the Mississippi Community Education Center, one of the two nonprofit groups mentioned in the report. All have pleaded not guilty.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/mississippi-department-human-services.html#click=https://t.co/JFSRGEz8TO

A Trump Administration appointee who allegedly altered findings on a CFPB report so the agency could gut its own rules on payday loans operated a high-interest auto loan business.
https://prospect.org/api/amp/power/cfpb-appointee-helped-water-down-payday-lending-rule/?__twitter_impression=true

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I hope they included Justice Kennedy in this.

GOOD POINT. I had forgotten about that weirdness.

The GOP wants to:

Hide Trump's taxes
Hide the full Mueller report
Allow Trump to silence witnesses against himself
Hide Trump's financial ties to Russia

But go after Biden's personal records.

Because they couldn't create a false story that Biden behaved corruptly in Ukraine.

Anonymous wrote:

I hope they included Justice Kennedy in this.