Meh. This bill is almost certainly unconstitutional, and introducing it literally days before the end of session indicates it’s not even a serious effort to get it passed.
I’d prefer Democratic congressmen spend their time governing rather than pandering like WWE stars cutting promos about what they’re gonna do this Sunday at Hell in a Cell.
Democrats need to start being as petty as the Repugs.
Introducing gag legislation during lame duck sessions isn’t how Republicans win elections.
So… she had no evidence. But pressed forward anyway, lying about supposed “fraud”. What the hell was she hoping to gain from her lies? Because that’s what she admitted; that she was deliberately lying.
So? Its a nice way of calling attention to the disgusting GOP candidates. Do you have a problem with Democrats “playing politics”? Are they supposed to just keep quiet while the other party fucks the country?
I don’t consider trolling to be good politics, no. Emulating the Matt Gaetzes and Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world isn’t going to accomplish anything but drag the party down to their level. I want to see Democrats making a serious push for marijuana legalization or serious campaign finance and lobbying reform, not wasting their time on puffery, because it’s the former that can get voters on their side.
The solution to Republicans fucking the country is not to start fucking it from the other end.
Are you aware of the basic American Voter?
If Democrats focused their talking points around marijuana legalization or a $20 minimum wage, they’d have the basic American voter in their pocket for a generation.
Last cycle, $15 minimum wage was a pretty big talking point. Did it work?
You’ve got to get the younger citizens involved AND to the polls. Apathy is strong with them. Dems have the issues, get organized.
The Democrats massively outperformed expectations, didn’t they?
Now just think of what they could’ve accomplished if they hadn’t been wringing their hands about “bipartisanship” and trying to please Trump voters in Iowa and had gone full-bore on that message.
Well, in my state it did.
BTW, if you feel like people aren’t getting excited about $15 per hour, it’s probably because we’ve been asking Democrats to make that a rallying point for so long now that that $15 per hour in 2007 would now be $30 adjusted for inflation.
If anything, the number is too low, and when the Bidens and Schumers of the party quietly mumble about maybe raising it to $12 by 2028 if Ted Cruz says it’s OK, people are disincentivised to vote because they feel it’s not worth their time.
The campaign expenditures reported by the George Santos campaign showed 37 expenditures for $199.99, one cent below the requirement to keep receipts.
No evidence of fraud you say? Look in the mirror you moron.
I personally see no reason why someone running for Federal office shouldn’t have to have a background check done and pass at least a minimum security clearance. I’m a lowly government contractor and I am held to a higher ethical and accountability standard than folks like Trump, MTG, Boebert, etc. Maybe if we start looking into their personal and professional histories before they have a chance to get elected, we’d see a lot fewer of these clowns running for office.
Hell, a whole lot of us have to pass background checks more stringent that that for a Congresscritter. Minimum security clearance (with mods) should be a base requirement. The mods should, however, allow for “youthful indiscretion” and the like. The check needs to be carefully non-discriminatory.
Isn’t this, in itself, a crime? “Structuring”, I think it’s called?
And you can’t make passing a security screening a requirement to run for Congress, at least not without an amendment. But I see no reason why the screening couldn’t be done, and the voters informed of the results, whereupon they could make their own decisions.
I believe structuring is specific to transactions with financial institutions. So, I don’t believe the conduct here would de facto constitute a crime although the pattern is certainly evidence of possible misuse of campaign funds.
Speaking of which…
It’s too bad that this wasn’t made public during the campaign for AG.
Although, given the ridiculously terrible race that the Democratic candidate ran, it probably wouldn’t have made a difference.