And it’s not going well.
If you didn’t watch Rep. Matt Gaetz’ (R-FL) stunning interview on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s show last night, you should check out our report on it here.
Texas’ 2019 Voter Purge Disaster Could Come Back From The Dead With New GOP Elections Bills
When at first your ham-handed voter purge gambit doesn’t succeed, try codifying it into the state code.
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How An Indicted Seminole County Tax Collector Landed Matt Gaetz In Hot Water
Joel Greenberg’s court record looks like a CVS receipt.
The former Seminole County, Florida tax collector is in trouble — big trouble. Multiple-superseding-indictments trouble. And, as the world learned yesterday, he’s managed to drag his friend, the die-hard Trump supporting congressman Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) into the spotlight with him.
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Republicans Gleefully Took Credit For Obama’s Stimulus After Voting Against It. Not This Time.
In 2009, Republicans from Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) took credit for improvements to their states funded by former President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill in 2009 — legislation all three of them voted against.
Delta CEO Blasts ‘Unacceptable’ GA Voting Law After Initial Muted Opposition
Delta CEO Ed Bastian issued a companywide memo on Wednesday criticizing the “unacceptable” new Georgia voting law, following mounting backlash over the executive’s statement last week saying that the bill had “improved considerably during the legislative process.” Continue reading “Delta CEO Blasts ‘Unacceptable’ GA Voting Law After Initial Muted Opposition”
‘No Middle Ground’: Black Business Execs Urge Corporate America To Oppose Voting Restrictions
A group of 72 Black business leaders are calling on companies to publicly oppose a series of bills being advanced by Republicans in at least 43 states that could dramatically curb access to the ballot box.
Lawyer Denies Gaetz’s Extortion Accusation, Slams ‘Blatant Attempt To Distract’ From Probe
David McGee, a onetime Justice Department prosecutor whom Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has accused of extorting him, denied the congressman’s accusation on Tuesday night.
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The Self-Immolation of (Not So) Young Matt Gaetz
When I saw the first reports of the Gaetz story I figured he was hooked up with some sleazeball who kept a coterie of young women on hand for his male pals enjoyment. Gaetz partook and got swept up in the investigation of the sleazeball associate. Some version of that seems broadly true and the friend is a disgraced GOP rising star named Joel Greenberg, who was the tax chief in Seminole County before getting indicted for stalking, child sex trafficking and more.
But Gaetz’s performance on TV and Twitter last night makes me think his legal predicament is significantly more serious. Sex with a minor, with money involved and crossing state lines, is certainly bad enough. But these wild claims about good guy and bad guy factions at the DOJ, feds pressuring various friends to testify against him, denials about photographs with underaged girls that no one had at least publicly accused him of yet – these are the flounderings and flailings of a guy wrapped up in something considerably more serious.
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GOP Memo Bearhugs Trump In Bid For Working Class Voters
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) argued in a memo on Tuesday that the future of the Republican Party demands a fresh focus on the working class asserting that former President Donald Trump had created a pathway for working class voters to support the GOP.
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2 Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump For Injuries Suffered During Capitol Attack
Two Capitol Police officers are suing former President Donald Trump for the physical and emotional injuries they say they suffered while protecting the Capitol from his mob during the Jan. 6 attack on the complex.
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