He’s not being impeached for being a racist fuck head, he’s being impeached because he threatened to revoke an organization’s funding if they gave a job to a political rival.
I thought impeachment was for “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
This is weak sauce. He’s clearly tweeting about both the Paris knifer shooting and the Cologne sexual assaults, to make some kind of idiotic “Europe is a mess. Because Moslems!” non-point.
The Maine constitution just says “for misdemeanor in office.” The two legislative chambers both have “sole power” to deal with their portion of the process, so that probably means there’s no outside review possible (so it doesn’t matter what he actually did so long as the relevant number of people want to impeach him for it). But what he might be impeached for is quite possibly a real crime. Unlike his racist comments, although it’s probably not smart to make toxic statements right before he’ll need people to vote to keep him out of hot water.
I was whooshed by this, because it sounds much more plausible than a state governor saying something like this in 2016. A state legislator, sure. Maybe even a U.S. congressman. But a state’s governor? Jesus.
Something just occurred to me for no real good reason, but if you take a line of text and color it blue according to your SDMB color palette, does it look close enough to “link blue” to be taken for it? For me, my monitor, whatever, they look very dissimilar.
Oops. I was testing, didn’t mean to post.
You can substitute the hex code for the color name.The standard link blue is #0000FF.
She went full General Ripper.
Dunbar has enlightened of us with her spot on exegesis on Genesis. Jesus would be so proud!
Questions that still remain:
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[li]What about planting the seed? [/li][li]Spilling the seed? [/li][li]Placing said item into a seed bank? [/li][li]Seedy neighborhoods–is this a good thing or a bad thing?[/li][/ol]
Not to mention when a seed a gets under her dentures. I hate when that happens.
You’re supposed to take them out first, silly. Much nicer that way.
(or so I’ve heard…)
Donald Trump has a surprisingly simple answer to the Bundy standoff: “Just go talk to them.”
Gee, why didn’t anybody think of that?
A Missouri lawmaker introduced a bill Wednesday that would require lobbyists to report “sexual relations” with state legislators as a “gift” in their disclosures to the state ethics commission.
I suppose they should be commended for being honest about their extracurricular activities
So how do you determine the monetary value?
And the problem is that it’s built on bribery.
20 dollars, same as in town.
I haven’t given this any deep thought, but this doesn’t sound like a stupid idea to me.
You don’t have to, according to the CNN article. I actually don’t think that’s a stupid or even a bad idea. Unenforceable, probably, but it will require legislators to disclose conflicts of interest or face prosecution or censure when the truth inevitably outs.
I’ve just thought of one reason it could be a bad idea. A lobbyist fucks a legislator, then later looks to see if it’s been disclosed (this is assuming that legislators disclosure forms are eventually made public), and has some nice blackmail material if it wasn’t.
