Missouri Lawmakers Schedule Special Session To Debate Impeaching Greitens

speaks at the Robin Hood Veterans Summit at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on May 7, 2012 in New York City.
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Eric Greitens Founder and CEO, The Mission Continues speaks at the Robin Hood Veterans Summit at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on May 7, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Im... NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Eric Greitens Founder and CEO, The Mission Continues speaks at the Robin Hood Veterans Summit at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on May 7, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Robin Hood Foundation) MORE LESS
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The Republican-majority Missouri House and Senate have set a special session to consider impeaching Gov. Eric Greitens (R) who has been hit with multiple criminal charges, according to a Friday Washington Post report.

Next month, Greitens will go on trial for a felony charge stemming from a photo he allegedly took of a naked woman with whom he was having an affair to use as blackmail to ensure her silence. Last month, he was hit with two felony charges for using the donor list of a veteran charity to fundraise for his campaign without getting the organization’s permission.

According to the Washington Post, House Speaker Todd Richardson said that this is the first time in history that Missouri’s state government has called a special session. It is reportedly slated to begin on May 18.

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  1. That’s it Republicans… get a taste for impeaching your own… feels goooooood, doesn’t it?

  2. Why has it taken so long to get this on the calendar?

    When Gov. Rod Blagojevich got indicted, the IL state lege booted him out in under two months.

  3. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    The longer the process takes, the closer to the midterms. Besides, Blago was just corrupt, whereas this guy is a sexual predator. Takes longer for a bunch of white men to figure that one out.

  4. Also, wasn’t that lege run by Democrats?

  5. They’ve got a homegrown expert on “legitimate” sexual assault. This should be easy to sort out.

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