# What is the Import of Mike Johnson's Win as Speaker of the House? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 25, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097 "2023-10-25T18:20:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/181 "2023-11-06T23:43:08Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Again, all he needs to do is reduce the balance in nonhidden accounts to \<1000 for one day per year. Easy to do. I doubt it is that easy. At least, if Congressional disclosure requirements are anything at all like the disclosures I am required to make under the STOCK Act. I have to report transactions, and am unaware of any provision saying value must exceed $x every single day of the past year. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/182 "2023-11-06T23:56:15Z")
This is the website from [house.gov](http://house.gov) which has the guidelines for the Financial Disclosure reports. I found nothing about that 1000 dollar balance, but I didn’t read the entire site. > **[Financial Disclosure](https://ethics.house.gov/financial-disclosure)** > > Title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended (5 U.S.C. app. §§ 101-111) (EIGA) requires Members, officers, certain employees of the U.S. House of Representatives and related offices, and candidates for the House of Representatives to... ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/183 "2023-11-07T00:06:21Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > I doubt it is that easy. It’s that easy. Almost. Sort of. Here are the rules: > **Reportable Assets** > Real and personal property held by you, your spouse, or a dependent child as an investment or for the production of income must be disclosed on Schedule A if it had a value in excess of $1,000 at the close of the reporting period or generated unearned income in excess of $200 during the reporting period. So everything is as of a particular day. But the money has to go somewhere, and the list of reportable asset types is long. The paycheck to paycheck hypothesis is dubious, but accusing someone in print of a crime requires some care, which might explain the Daily Beast’s characterization. (IMHO!) Quote from p 14 [https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/Final%20Combined%202023%20Instruction%20Guide.pdf](https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/Final%20Combined%202023%20Instruction%20Guide.pdf) ETA: Is a repurchase agreement a corporate security? He could be hiding his assets via a loophole. That’s not a crime. It is, however, a deception. IANAL, I don’t know if there’s a loophole here, and frankly this seems less than probable. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/184 "2023-11-07T00:08:38Z")
Yeah, if he transferred the money out of those accounts for that one day, he’d have to transfer it somewhere else, and then he’d have to report that asset. Again: He’s just plain lying. This is the only hypothesis that is consistent with the evidence. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/185 "2023-11-07T00:19:14Z")
I hope some liberal dark money groups are investigating Johnson’s personal life. I highly suspect that any supposedly straight man who advocates for as many anti gay policies as he does has a high likelihood of being a deeply closeted gay man. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/186 "2023-11-07T00:43:19Z")
Re the disclosure issue, I suspect he will put in a corrected form. I believe in the requirement, and it’s a sign of irresponsibility to fill out the form that way, but not big as scandals go. Really disturbing to me is his low and meritless smear of the President. [Johnson Accused Biden of Bribery](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4292838-mike-johnson-biden-bribery-impeachment/) > [@](#): > > “The president bribed or pressured a foreign leader to fire that country’s top prosecutor because the prosecutor was investigating his son, and he used $1 billion of U.S. taxpayer money to have that bidding done, and then he bragged about it on video,” he said on Fox News in August, referring to Biden’s past comments about Shokin’s ouster. > > Shokin, however, was not prosecuting Burisma his deputy has said an earlier investigation had gone dormant by the time Biden was involved. The U.S. concern over providing aid to Ukraine was because of Shokin’s failure to be an aggressive prosecutor. In the days of our founding fathers, this would lead to a duel. I fear the last post, regarding Johnson being in the closet, is also a smear, but it isn’t coming from the Speaker of the House. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/187 "2023-11-07T00:55:11Z")
A smear would be something negative - like that he likes to molest puppies. But there’s nothing wrong with being gay, despite what bigots (and possibly self hating closeted gay men) like Johnson say. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/188 "2023-11-07T01:13:32Z")
It does however have the side effect of making them very unpopular with the RW homophobic electorate that put him / them in Washington in the first place. And just as with the Gaetz and the FC lunacy, once one of the R pols is publicly known to have teh gay, the others all have to line up in denunciation lest they too be removed from office for being insufficiently homophobic to suit _their_ voters. It’s a nasty and cowardly piece of work from end to end. But it is an interlocking and self-reinforcing piece of nasty cowardice. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/189 "2023-11-07T01:46:51Z")
I don’t think it’s even possible for any straight man to be homophobic any more. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/190 "2023-11-07T01:55:32Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I don’t think it’s even possible for any straight man to be homophobic any more You obviously don’t know my right-wing acquaintances. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/191 "2023-11-07T01:58:15Z")
Or perhaps _you_ don’t know them as well as you think 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/192 "2023-11-07T02:19:15Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > So everything is as of a particular day. Yeah - you’re right. I DO have to report all of my assets as of the END of the reporting period. So when I report in April-May, I have to look up value as of the preceding 12/31. I confused myself by misinterpreting **LSL’s** post as suggesting it need only dip below $1k on any random day during the year. My bad. And, as folk observe, unless he cashed out an account and hid it in a mattress (which he would need to report if he withdrew $10k in cash), if he took it out of 1 account, presumably he would be putting it in another. AND, as I observed, he’d have to report the purchases and sales. (Have I mentioned lately how much I DETEST those damn Form 278s?!) ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/193 "2023-11-07T02:53:14Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Re the disclosure issue, I suspect he will put in a corrected form. I believe in the requirement, and it’s a sign of irresponsibility to fill out the form that way, but not big as scandals go. Legislators routinely file to amend their financial disclosure reports, sometimes years after initially filing them. They almost never face any consequences for doing so. I personally doubt that Johnson is failing to report in order to mask some sort of nefarious financial dealings. The reports themselves are so nonspecific – e.g. asset values are reported in broad bands rather than specific dollar amounts – that they’d be pretty useless for exposing financial shenanigans. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/194 "2023-11-07T03:28:13Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > > > Re the disclosure issue, I suspect he will put in a corrected form. I believe in the requirement, and it’s a sign of irresponsibility to fill out the form that way, but not big as scandals go. > > Legislators routinely file to amend their financial disclosure reports, sometimes years after initially filing them. They almost never face any consequences for doing so. Quite so. We’ve seen how often many of the “constitutional” officials as in Congress, the Prez, SCOTUS (\*), pretty much just make the point of meeting the requirement to file “a” report on the due date, if there is one, and then submit an amended form when _ **and if** _ something’s called out. Johnson may simply be exhibiting plain old vulgar _“why should I comply unless and until they MAKE me”_ attitude. (\* Now, sure, have someone in the Exec Service or in Leg/Court Staff do that, _they_ are getting the works. Some animals are more equal than others.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/195 "2023-11-07T06:22:42Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > Real and personal property held by you, your spouse, or a dependent child as an investment or for the production of income must be disclosed on Schedule A if it had a value in excess of $1,000 Note that excludes a non-interest bearing checking account. ---
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/196 "2023-11-07T13:17:02Z")
A bit too much interest in Mike. He will get to the budget bill votes whenever that is. He will get nothing from Democrats. The gov’t will shut down for about 2 weeks. Johnson gets something passed, a compromise. The Freedom Caucus gets mad. They vote him out of he resigns. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/197 "2023-11-07T13:48:33Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Misleading headline: they article says they each see what the other’s device has logged into. So they’re checking that there is NO pornography, not sharing pornography. Actually the software in question (Covenant Eyes) goes beyond just a log of activity. The activity feed will show the images that it found on your “accountability ally’s” device, but blurred. It’s…kinky, you have to try to guess what’s happening by seeing an arrangement of fuzzy limbs and a phallic shape, say. If you’re…intrigued…you can reduce the blur level. ([cite](https://support.covenanteyes.com/hc/en-us/articles/12044831877659-Can-I-reduce-or-remove-the-blur-on-a-screenshot-)) ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/198 "2023-11-07T13:57:21Z")
Mike Johnson seems like a genuinely strange person. I definitely don’t want to know what my son is looking at. Seriously, WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/199 "2023-11-07T15:33:15Z")
Again, there’s no evidence that he wants this. Based on other such people I know, I’d speculate that it’s a LOT more about control, boosted by the good feeling they get from enforcing moral purity in their dependents. See Iran for why this is a bad idea in politicians. There’s probably also a side of using his son to make sure that he doesn’t watch porn himself, which to my mind is really a inappropriate role for one’s minor children, even passively. I am guessing his daughters have different and more burdensome restrictions on their sexuality, or will have—I don’t know how old his kids are. I just don’t see any evidence that his son has ever watched porn (on a device his father knew about) or that his father has any interest (that he’s consciously aware of) in seeing such porn. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097/200 "2023-11-07T15:35:25Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > There’s probably also a side of using his son to make sure that he doesn’t watch porn himself, which to my mind is really a inappropriate role for one’s minor children, even passively. I would think that he would have the son monitoring him out of fairness. “I watch you, you watch me.” or “you have to put up with this, so do I.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-import-of-mike-johnsons-win-as-speaker-of-the-house/992097.md?page=11)