Wednesday, April 9, 2025
🔥 Lawmakers DEVASTATE Fani with New Law That Could Leave Her Bankrupt?
Well looks like our favorite "Fani" "What you talking about" Willis could end up bankrupt after lawmakers are passing a bill which folks could change things in GA forever. Georgia lawmakers passed a new system to pay the wrongfully convicted and here is where current POTUS 47 comes in as his case in GA is tied in so with this now we also find out that the Trump election case was added and he could sue her office along with people like Young Thug for who knows how many MILLIONS! Esentially bankrupting her.
Next stop is Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk for a signature.
Senate Bill 244, originally inspired by Trump’s election interference case in Georgia, was later amended to revive the Wrongful Conviction Compensation Act, a stalled House bill that was aimed at providing reparations to people wrongfully incarcerated. House lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have faced an uphill battle in their efforts to properly compensate those who have been wrongfully incarcerated. The process is currently done on a case-by-case basis through individual compensation resolutions that must pass through the full legislative process like any other bill. Legislation to standardize the process was initially introduced by Atlanta Democratic Rep. Scott Holcomb in 2022, and re-introduced in 2023, but his efforts have repeatedly been stalled in the Senate by Republican opposition. The version that ultimately emerged as the clock ran out on the 2025 legislative session Friday, sponsored by Alpharetta Republican Sen. Brandon Beach, secured a 35-18 vote in its second pass through the Senate, with all Republicans and the three highest-ranking Senate Democrats voting in support of the legislation. Its passage also marked a final sine die gavel for Beach, a staunch Trump ally who was recently appointed by the president to serve as U.S. Treasurer.
If Gov. Brian Kemp signs the bill into law, it will allow criminal defendants to recoup their legal costs from county prosecuting attorneys’ budgets in cases where the prosecutor is disqualified for personal or professional misconduct. (During Trump’s election interference case in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified after an appeals court judge found that her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created a “significant appearance of impropriety.”) Separately, it will establish a new process under Georgia state law for people who have been convicted for crimes they did not commit and later exonerated, allowing administrative law judges to rule on wrongful conviction compensation cases and awarding a standardized rate of $75,000 for each year of incarceration to each exoneree, with an additional $25,000 added for each year spent on death row.
This is the third consecutive biennium that legislators in the House have attempted to reform the system for compensating those who have been wrongfully incarcerated. However, Republican opposition in the Senate particularly from Sen. Randy Robertson, a Cataula Republican and former law enforcement officer has repeatedly stalled those efforts. Under current Georgia law, those who have been wrongfully convicted must find a state representative who is willing to sponsor an individual compensation resolution for them and file a claim with Georgia’s Claims Advisory Board. Those resolutions then go through the full legislative process and must pass committees and floor votes in both the House and Senate before they can take effect, but those efforts too have routinely died in the Senate in recent years.
Though Robertson emphasized that he was still not fully on board with the legislation aimed at compensating the wrongfully convicted, he conceded that the current system was in need of reform in a speech on the final day of the 2025 legislative session. “What I realized is the process is not a good process,” Robertson said, but vowed to continue work shopping the wrongful conviction component of the bill after the 2025 legislative session concludes. “I’m going to ask you today to support the senator from the 21st and vote for this legislation, and in the off-season, we’ll tackle the other thing that’s attached to it and we’ll come up with a process that works,” he continued, addressing his Senate colleagues. “Support this bill, get it across, and I promise you the fight’s not over.” Democrats also condemned the original language of the bill, arguing that it could have a disproportionate impact on smaller counties with more limited budgets, and discourage prosecutors from tackling complex or high-profile cases.
But Holcomb celebrated its passage. “This will give hope to real people whose lives were devastated and destroyed by a wrongful conviction, and it gives them a path to get some measure of compensation so they can restart their lives,” he said. “I’m very grateful for that. This is a major legislative achievement that comes out of this session.” Though he acknowledged that there is no way to fully undo a wrongful conviction, he hopes that the new system will bring equality and efficiency to the process. “There isn’t a person alive who would trade the money that these individuals are receiving for what happened to them in terms of being locked up in our state’s prisons, for usually for decades of their lives for something that they didn’t do,” he said. “This is a path to provide some remedy. It’s an inadequate remedy in terms of nothing can bring back those years, but it’s an adequate remedy in terms of dollars that will really help them through the remaining years of their lives.”
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
RFK Jr.'s HHS votes are in!
Good news friends RFK Jr. clears key Senate committee, moving Trump's nominee to be the nation's top health official, moved closer toward confirmation Tuesday, with the Senate Finance Committee voting along party lines to send his controversial nomination to the full Senate.
#RFKJrConfirmation
— july4thbaby (@TerriMorrison4) February 4, 2025
How on earth did We The People allow “this thing” in our govt! 🤮🤮 Let’s Go RFK Jr! 👏🏻👏🏻🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/afPkA1g0ys
Cassidy, who is up for reelection in 2026, announced his support shortly before the vote in a post on X, saying he had "very intense conversations" with Kennedy and The White House over the weekend. "With the serious commitments I’ve received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on like healthy foods and a pro-American agenda, I will vote yes," Cassidy said.
Outside of Trump's Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, Republican senators have stayed united behind the president's Cabinet picks, but Kennedy's nomination as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has presented the biggest test yet. It's unclear whether Kennedy has the votes for passage in the Senate, but at least four Republican senators would likely have to vote against Kennedy for his nomination to fail given Republican's 53-47 majority.
“Obviously it is a challenging political time,” Wyden said, but, “the fight is not over. We can continue this on the floor of the Senate." Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a polio survivor, has raised concerns over Kennedy's position on vaccines. And Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine have showed a willingness to buck Trump when it comes to his nominees when they voted against the Hegseth pick.
BREAKING: The stocks of both vaccine manufacturers, Pfizer and Moderna, immediately crashed after RFK Jr.'s nomination advanced toward the Senate. pic.twitter.com/L1o28ipxrl
— The General (@GeneralMCNews) February 4, 2025
Saturday, December 7, 2024
House Rep. Have 3-Seat Majority!
Good news being reported as the House Republicans will have 220 seats in the House of Representatives in the 119th Congress, completing their majority caucus, after the last election to the House with outstanding results was called on Dec. 5. The House Republican Conference declared victory in its quest to retain the majority in 2024’s general elections on Nov. 12, and the Associated Press called the majority-making 218th House seat for the GOP in Arizona’s 6th Congressional district, where Rep. Juan Ciscomani won re-election on Nov. 13. while, in a few races, the differences between candidates were just hundreds of votes and thus were too close to call until recounts and legal proceedings were completed. That process concluded on Dec. 4, nearly one month after Election Day on Nov. 5.
It’s highly likely that special elections to these seats will yield Republican winners, given their partisan rating and electoral history. One former House Republican, Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), was nominated for the role of attorney general by Trump but withdrew shortly afterward amid heavy opposition to his nomination. Gaetz resigned from the 118th Congress immediately after he was nominated and, despite his withdrawal, has announced he will not take his seat in the 119th Congress.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
CNN ‘speechless’ poll finds Trump headed for ‘historic performance’ with Black voters
Enten said Biden has seen a slight decline among Black voters over 50. However, support for the current president from Black voters under the age of 50 has cratered, plummeting from 80 points in 2020 to just 37 points in 2024. "I’ve just never seen anything like this. I’m like speechless," Enten said. READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP In late May, Enten said Trump’s gains with Black voters represent a "huge alarm" for Biden’s re-election campaign. He said that not accounting for other voting shifts from 2020, the increase in Black support would put Trump over the top in 2024 with 291 Electoral College votes.
A USA Today/Suffolk University poll published Sunday found that support for Biden among Black voters has dropped roughly 20 percentage points since the last election in both Michigan and Pennsylvania. In Michigan, the poll found that Trump has 15% of Black voters, compared to Biden, who has 54% of the support from Black voters. BLACK VOTERS REJECTING BIDEN AS SUPPORT DWINDLES AHEAD OF 2024: ‘EVERYTHING WAS BETTER’ UNDER TRUMP who received just 9% of the Black vote in Michigan in the 2020 election. According to the poll, the former president gets 11% of the Black vote in Pennsylvania, which is up three points compared to 2020. A majority, 56%, of Black voters still prefer Biden in the state. The latest Fox News poll shows Biden receiving 72% support among Black voters. That’s up from 66% in February but still a drop from his 79% before the 2020 election. Among all voters, Trump holds a narrow lead over Biden.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Businessmen Say They Will No Longer Invest in New York After Justice Engoron’s Trump Ruling
This reporting by the Epoch Times on the justice’s finding that former President Donald Trump is liable for fraud has some investors taking their business elsewhere is showing that yes what Donald said is coming true. NOT just truck drivers bringing in supplied got mad but a lot of major investors also see this as a major issue and will now remove themselves from New York.
Remember AOC didn't want AMAZON to open a location in the Bronx which would have helped the community with a lot of work, and income and would have been a big economy boom. Now this TRUMP thing with the other Democrats destroying NY and it's clear you vote Blue you become part of the banana republic too.
Anyway read the rest as this was very real and it's going to be a major issue in NEW YORK...... WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Some real estate investors are losing interest in investing in the Big Apple after New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s staggering ruling last week in a civil fraud case against President Donald Trump.
President Trump and Trump Organization executives were ordered on Feb. 16 to pay $355 million in fines, plus interest, after Justice Engoron found them liable for inflating the values of their assets to obtain better rates from lenders and insurers.
The judge also barred the former president and his sons from managing their businesses in New York for three years.
“I’m shocked at this. I can’t even understand or fathom the decision at all. There’s no rationale for it,” “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary told Fox Business on Feb. 19.
The Canadian businessman, often called “Mr. Wonderful,” described New York as a “mega loser state” for business.
“New York was already a loser state, like California’s a loser state,” he said. “There are many loser states because of policy, high taxes, uncompetitive regulation. It was already on the top of the list of being a loser state. I would never invest in New York now.”
Instead, Mr. O’Leary said he would be looking to Oklahoma, North Dakota, and West Virginia for future investment opportunities.
“Those are winner states. They don’t do things like this.”
Grant Cardone, a private equity fund manager and owner of real estate investment firm Cardone Capital, said he was considering investing in New York before Justice Engoron’s ruling.
The real estate mogul added that his companies would now be doubling their efforts in Florida, Arizona, Texas, and Tennessee instead.
Ms. Cardone also stressed that the purpose of the fundraiser was to defend not only the 45th president but all businesses against “a system that increasingly seeks to penalize dissent and curb our freedoms.”
President Trump’s latest fine adds to the more than $83 million in damages he was recently ordered to pay writer E. Jean Carroll in a defamation case over his denials that he sexually assaulted her. He has pledged to appeal both rulings as he simultaneously fends off four criminal indictments.
The former president maintains that all of his current legal troubles are nothing more than an attempt by Democrats to thwart his campaign to reclaim the White House.
“I should not have to go through any fake prosecutions before the election, he wrote in all caps on Feb. 19. “This is communism, and a threat to democracy. Our country will not stand for it. Make America great again!!!
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
John Kennedy crushes Gus Schumacher on the effect of climate change!
It was all bad for Olympic skier Gus Schumacher to give his perspective as the committee considered the impact of climate change on the recreation industry. Schumacher tried to fend off what Kennedy asked which should have been a no brainer for this guy since he's up there sitting being asked as an expert of the left so the interrogation which began with a question about what carbon dioxide is was answered this way! 'I'm not a professional to talk about carbon dioxide so much.' Clearly this answer explains all the issues facing todays leftist idiots... I mean young people. But as John Kennedy demanded an explanation about the gas's role in climate change.
Member The House Democrats presented the young skier as an 'expert witness' as the Budget Committee considered the effect of climate change on the recreation industry But Schumacher, 23, struggled in a series of excruciating exchanges, claiming that the 0.04 percent of CO2 in the atmosphere was a 'huge part.' He also refused to explain his calls to abolish the police and claims that the war on drugs was designed to jail black people. The excruciating exchange continued with Schumacher insisting carbon dioxide is a 'huge part of our atmosphere', before Kennedy pointed out that it accounts for 0.04 percent. 'Well, okay. But, yeah. I don't know,' the skier admitted. Democrats invited US Olympic skier Gus Schumacher to the Budget Committee to answer questions on 'Recreation at Risk: The Nature of Climate Costs'
Democrats invited US Olympic skier Gus Schumacher to the Budget Committee to answer questions on 'Recreation at Risk: The Nature of Climate Costs' The 23-year-old said climate change has 'dramatically altered the conditions for winter sports' Introducing the hearing, Senator Whitehouse praised the quality of the 'highly credible witnesses' the committee had heard from. 'We have heard warnings from economists, scientists, medical professionals, insurance and investment executives, even a former Republican Senate Majority Leader. They warn of danger ahead.' But there was danger ahead for Schumacher as he tried to fend off Kennedy's interrogation which began with a question about what carbon dioxide is. 'I went to high school, but carbon dioxide is a gas,' the skier told him 'I'm not a professional to talk about carbon dioxide so much. But Kennedy demanded an explanation about the gas's role in climate change. 'Carbon dioxide is, what I see it as, you know, a gas that exists in our atmosphere,' Schumacher explained.
'Is it a major part of our atmosphere?' Kennedy asked innocently.
'It's a huge part of our atmosphere,' the skier insisted.
'It's a very small part of our atmosphere,' the Senator pointed out.
'Well, okay. But, yeah. I don't know. What are you asking specifically?' Schumacher replied. But the skier slipped over in the face of questions from Republican Senator John Kennedy 'You said we need to reduce carbon emissions,' Kennedy reminded him, 'I'd like to know first if you know what it is.' Schumacher, who competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics, insisted he had seen 'climate change dramatically alter the conditions for winter sports,' during his decade or so on the slopes. Kennedy was keen to test his expertise on other issues he had weighed in on including a 2020 retweet claiming the 'war on drugs was intentionally created to incarcerate black people en masse'. 'Who intentionally created the 'war on drugs' to put black people in jail?' Kennedy demanded. Schumacher said he did not remember the tweet, adding: 'I'm here as an athlete giving you my story of what I've seen in my field.' The senator then asked about a tweet calling for the police to 'abolished' and replaced with a new service. 'You think we ought to abolish the police?' Kennedy asked.
'Should we do that before or after we get rid of fossil fuels?' 'I'm not going to address that,' the skier replied. Footage of the head-clutching exchange left viewers baffled as to why he had been invited with some suggesting he should stick to what he knows. 'I just like play in the snow and I like noticed the snow wasn't so snowy anymore,' tweeted one. 'It's sad this fella went to the Senate to speak about Carbon dioxide and it's effect on the environment and he has no clue,' added another. 'He thought it would be fun to go advise the Senate on an important issue. That fun ended at Senator John Kennedy,' wrote a third.
Schumacher (right) was invited to speak by Democrat Budget Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (left) and appeared alongside Hilary Hutcheson, a fishing guide and outfitter from Montana And the young skier appeared unfazed about his mauling at the hands of the veteran senator Schumacher deleted the X account from which the senator quoted at Wednesday's hearing. And though some compared him to the gormless surfer Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemount High, the young Alaskan did not seem fazed by his mauling at the hands of the Republican Senator, insisting it had been a 'huge honor'. 'I don't pretend to be an expert, but I'm using my platform to elevate the issue!' he wrote on Facebook. 'I hope that my testimony has made an impact on public officials making policy decisions.'
Monday, October 2, 2023
Pics & Video kill excuses for "Alarmgate" by Jamaal Bowman

But Bowman claimed he thought pulling the alarm would open the door. So he's lying, can't read or is well downright stupid. I think he's both lying, and downright Stupid. But these are the only options. OR a combination like the one I've made. He said that “Today, as I was rushing to make a vote, I came to a door that is usually open for votes but today would not open,” Bowman said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I am embarrassed to admit that I activated the fire alarm, mistakenly thinking it would open the door. I regret this and sincerely apologize for any confusion this caused.”
Many lawmakers and political observers weren’t buying it with a growing chorus of Republicans on Sunday accusing Bowman of pulling the alarm as a tactic to delay the House vote on a GOP stopgap spending bill. “This is not confusing at all,” former Michigan Republican congressman Justin Amash wrote on X. “There’s a push bar on the door below the sign. Members of Congress see these signs all the time and know exactly what they mean.
“I can’t even imagine thinking it has something to do with a fire alarm pull on the wall,” Amash added. “Stop excusing his recklessness.” The wild fire-alarm incident, which triggered an evacuation of the Cannon Building at around noon Saturday, took place as Democrats were scrambling over the GOP’s last-minute offer to avert a government shutdown.

Some Bowman critics, including former President Donald Trump, said he should be arrested and charged for allegedly trying to obstruct an official government proceeding. “Will Congressman [Jamaal] Bowman be prosecuted and imprisoned for very dangerously pulling and setting off the main fire alarm system in order to stop a Congressional vote that was going on in D.C.,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) conveyed a similar sentiment also bringing up the defendants charged with trying to stop the certification of President Biden’s 2020 election victory during the rioting at the US Capitol when calling out Bowman.

Obstructing an official government proceeding is illegal under federal law punishable by fines and “not more than 20 years.” Bowman on Saturday insisted to reporters that he wasn’t trying to stall anything – and just goofed. “I was rushing to make a vote. I was trying to get through the door,” he said. “I thought the alarm would open the door. I didn’t mean to cause confusion.
"I want to be very clear, this was not me, in any way, trying to delay the vote,” he added. “It was the exact opposite — I was trying urgently to get to a vote, which I ultimately did.” Capitol Police said they were probing the incident, and on Saturday released a still image of Bowman pulling the alarm.
The Republican-controlled House Administration Committee has also launched an investigation.

Why does it seem like they have bad blood? Well it's because they do... Check out how much of an A-HOLE Bowman is.
Jamaal Bowman is a racist, race baiting moron and MTG busted him, and this is why there is bad blood between them. This guy belongs in prison. People who pull this racist crap, and are always crying like this dirt bag Bowman need to be thrown in prison for life with his facist, socialist, communist clown show behavior.
Friday, July 21, 2023
Bud Light gets endorsement from a Democrat Transgender Child Rapist!
Why is this person even in any office? These leftists do love their Transgender Child Rapists! Well time to expose another one of these FREAKS! Now in case you didn't know who Stacie-Marie Laughton is well you will by the time you're done reading this. Recently on June 22, 2023, Laughton was arrested and held in jail on preventative detention pending arraignment to four counts of distribution of child sexual abuse images.
On November 12, 2022, Laughton was arrested and held in jail on a single stalking charge of violating a court order, prohibiting her from posting on Facebook about a woman. She is facing up to nine months in jail due to her suspended sentence for texting 911 during non-emergencies.
Laughton turned herself in to police on March 12, 2015, after a warrant for her arrest was issued stemming from a bomb threat phoned in to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center on February 27. She was initially charged with making a false report of explosives. A judge reduced the charge to a misdemeanor and sentenced her to a six-month suspended jail term.
A criminal complaint has revealed new details of the allegations against a former New Hampshire state representative accused of coaxing her former partner into taking naked photos of children at a Massachusetts day care. Stacie is the nation’s first transgender elected state rep and was arrested for child porn and child exploitation.
Bud Light who opened themselves to these sort of things when they went WOKE with Dylan Mulvaney and as well we all know by now how that's turned out for BUD LIGHT! Well if things couldn't get worse for them now pedo "Stacie-Marie Laughton" is endorsing the beer. So the hits keep coming for the BUD LIGHT brand as even Costco has discontinued it's contract with them over the whole issue with Dylan Mulvaey.
Stacie Laughton is facing federal charges of sexual exploitation of children and aiding and abetting. According to the complaint, Laughton originally told investigators that she coaxed Lindsay Groves into taking pornographic pictures of male and female children at a day care where Groves worked at the time. But federal officials said it went beyond that. "Laughton and Groves were involved in an intimate relationship in which they discussed their sexual attraction to and potential sexual involvement with children," investigators said in the complaint.
Well look who we got here endorsing, and even campaigning for and with the Bud Light drinking Transgender Pedophile "Stacie-Marie Laughton" none other than Mr. Fung Fung Chinese spy loving "Eric Swalwell" himself. How this guy is still in any position of political power is beyond me. He's one of the most corrupt, lying sacks of crap in the entire swamp.
The Massachusetts daycare said it has voluntarily closed and it is cooperating with police. Parents said they are outraged and want answers. "I want to know how entangled my daughter is with all of this," said parent Rosemary Denommee. "I don't know if I'll get those answers." Laughton first made headlines in 2012 for being the first transgender person to win a New Hampshire State House election.
But the Democrat didn't take office after the Ballot Law Commission learned of two felony credit card fraud convictions from 2008. In 2015, Laughton was accused of calling in a bomb threat to a hospital, and in 2022, she was convicted of texting 911 during non-emergencies. In 2022, she was charged with stalking and harassing Groves, who Laughton described to police as her wife.
Laughton has been elected to the State House three times but resigned twice because of legal troubles. Groves is also facing federal charges in Massachusetts, where she is scheduled to appear for an arraignment Wednesday. Now that this is here and this person is facing charges don't EVER forget that name, and his crimes. And you leftists STOP voting for these freak pedophiles. What the hell is going on with Liberals these days!
Friday, April 7, 2023
Liberals Meltdown Over Tennessee GOP EXPELLING Democrats
Remember friends Trump is being investigating for the whole JAN 6th so called capitol insurrection in DC? Well these 3 congress people need to be removed from the position and impeached out. Why aren't people facing charges and a bigger deal being made here? These people brought people who crashed and stopped the actual process of government.
The people who entered the capitol on JAN 6th are being treated like evil people for simply wanting to making America Great and Making it so we continue to see ourselves as "First" and these people here are just staging this insurrection in Tennessee state legislation event.
This now needs to be treated like how they did to the people on JAN 6th or release, pardon, and drop the 1/6 scam. The protest unfolded days after the shooting at the Covenant School, a private Christian school where six people were killed, including three children.
“We are losing our democracy. This is not normal. This is not OK,” Pearson told reporters as he waited to learn whether he would be banished. The three “broke a House rule because we’re fighting for kids who are dying from gun violence and people in our communities who want to see an end to the proliferation of weaponry in our communities.”
Johnson, a retired teacher, said her concern about school shootings is personal, recalling a day in 2008 when students came running toward her out of a cafeteria because a student had just been fatally shot there.
“The trauma on those faces, you will never, ever forget. I don’t want to forget it,” she said. Thousands flocked to the Tennessee Capitol on Thursday to support the three Democratic lawmakers, cheering and chanting outside the House chamber so loudly that they drowned out proceedings.
The three Democrats held hands as they walked onto the House floor, and Pearson raised his fist to the crowd during the Pledge of Allegiance. Offered a chance to defend himself before the vote, Jones said the GOP responded to the shooting with a different kind of attack.
“We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy,” he said. If expelled, Jones vowed that he would continue pressing for action on guns. “I’ll be out there with the people every week, demanding that you act,” he said. Republican Rep. Gino Bulso said the three Democratic representatives “effectively conducted a mutiny.”
The gentleman shows no remorse,” Bulso said, referring to Jones. “He does not even recognize that what he did was wrong. So not to expel him would simply invite him and his colleagues to engage in mutiny on the House floor.”
The two expelled lawmakers may not be gone for long. County commissions in their districts get to pick replacements to serve until a special election can be scheduled.
The expelled lawmakers would be eligible for appointment back to their seats. They would also be eligible to run in the special election. And under the Tennessee Constitution, lawmakers cannot be expelled for the same offense twice. Republican Rep. Sabi Kumar advised Jones, who is Black, to be more collegial and less focused on race.
“You have a lot to offer, but offer it in a vein where people are accepting of your ideas,” Kumar said.
Jones said he did not intend to assimilate in order to be accepted. “I’m not here to make friends. I’m here to make a change for my community,” he replied.
Outrage over the expulsions underscored not only the ability of the Republican supermajority to silence opponents, but also its increasing willingness to do so.
In Washington, President Biden blasted the GOP’s priorities. “Three kids and three officials gunned down in yet another mass shooting. And what are GOP officials focused on? Punishing lawmakers who joined thousands of peaceful protesters calling for action. It’s shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent,” Biden tweeted.
Many of the protesters traveled from Memphis and Knoxville, areas that Pearson and Johnson represent, and stood in a line that wrapped around the Capitol to get inside.
Protesters outside the chamber held up signs that said, “School zones shouldn’t be war zones,” “Muskets didn’t fire 950 rounds per minute” with a photo of George Washington, and “You can silence a gun ... but not the voice of the people.“
Before the expulsion vote, House members debated more than 20 bills, including a school safety proposal requiring public and private schools to submit their building safety plans to the state. The bill did not address gun control, sparking criticism from some Democratic members that lawmakers were addressing only a symptom and not the cause of school shootings.
In 2019, lawmakers faced pressure to expel then-Rep. David Byrd, a Republican, after he faced accusations of sexual misconduct from when he was a high school basketball coach three decades earlier. Republicans declined to take any action, pointing out that he was reelected as the allegations surfaced. Byrd retired last year.
Last year, the state Senate expelled Democrat Katrina Robinson after she was convicted of using about $3,400 in federal grant money on wedding expenses instead of on nursing school. Before that case, state lawmakers last ousted a House member in 2016 when the chamber voted 70 to 2 to remove Republican Rep.
Jeremy Durham after an attorney general’s investigation detailed allegations of improper sexual contact with at least 22 women during his four years in office.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
This Is Probably Why AOC Is Under Investigation | Forbes Exclusive
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
AOC As she's better known from the now well hated "Fraud Squad" in congress might be in some deep poo! For showing up to a party in an expensive dress she shouldn't have been able too. Remember this pic folks?
The committee said it had received a referral from the Office of Congressional Ethics, a separate office that reviews misconduct allegations, on June 23. That means a majority of that body decided the matter was substantial enough to refer to the committee, which is chaired by Democratic Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania.
They committee said the disclosure of the investigation was mandated by the panel's decision to extend the amount of time it's investigating the matter. It added that it had not made a judgement on whether an ethics violation had occurred. It also said it would "announce its course of action in this matter" next year after the 118th Congress convened.
The committee did not indicate why the congresswoman was under investigation, and in a statement to Insider, Lauren Hitt, her spokesperson, did not offer further details.
"The Congresswoman has always taken ethics incredibly seriously, refusing any donations from lobbyists, corporations, or other special interests," Hitt said. "We are confident that this matter will be dismissed."
It's possible that the investigation was spurred by a September 2021 complaint from the conservative American Accountability Foundation accusing the congresswoman of accepting an impermissible gift by attending the 2021 Met Gala, where the cost of attendance for many guests is $35,000. Ocasio-Cortez was invited to the event as a guest of the Met and did not pay for her ticket.
The congresswoman notably wore a dress emblazoned with "TAX THE RICH" at the event. She was not permitted to keep the dress, Hitt told PolitiFact last year. Ocasio-Cortez has said she attended the event in her official capacity as a member of Congress and that lawmakers from New York were routinely invited. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a fellow New York Democrat, has attended multiple Met Galas, and the Office of Congressional Ethics recently opened an investigation into whether Maloney solicited a ticket to the event in 2016. House rules state that members may not accept gifts, except under exemptions for widely attended events or charity functions.
The conservative group said Ocasio-Cortez's attendance violated those rules because the event was exclusive and run by Condé Nast, a for-profit media company.