Discussion: GOP Rep. Outed Local Activist In Fundraising Letter To Her Employer

“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Democrat party?”

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“First mutiny?” Naomi said.
“Yeah. It’s not really something I do.”
“It gets easier.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

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I hope she sues him and the bank.

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Trump: Comey should have been investigating these terrorists who do not agree with my agenda. These citizens are traitors.

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FTL:

“Lawyers and ethics experts told WNYC that the letter likely won’t lead to legal trouble, since it doesn’t make any explicit threats or use congressional stationery.”

I’m flabbergasted.

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Isn’t he supposed to be one of the ‘reasonable, ‘moderate’ Republicans’. I heard it on cable news, somewhere.

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The Congressman, like the President, is a little deranged/stupid?

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The Irish undertaker doesn’t want to upset David and Charles.

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Well, she’s a lawyer.

Avelenda, who was senior vice president and assistant general counsel at the bank, said political pressure due to the letter was one of the reasons she decided to leave the job.

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Republicans, including two from New Jersey, just voted to throw roughly 24 million Americans out in the cold with no health coverage. With the savings, they are offering a fresh round of enormous tax breaks for the very rich. And for added insult, they voted to exempt themselves from any of the pain.

One of the two from New Jersey is Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, product of a line of American aristocrats extending to days of British rule, and a man whose arrogance knows no match.

He still won’t hold a town hall meeting on this, despite a flood of protests, all of them respectful and polite. Yesterday, many of them said they were blocked from leaving messages at his offices. If Sir Rodney survives the 2018 election, it is because of gerrymandering alone.

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It wouldn’t be a repub letter if it didn’t mention Nancy Pelosi, and so it did. This ass hat will be blaming her when he loses his seat. And Obama.

@metaghost

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Is that a thing you can sue for in New Jersey? Down here in the enlightened part of the South, it wouldn’t get past a 12(b)(6). Because freedom.

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Freilinghuysen has the name, but zero charisma and accomplishment. Maybe a little bit dense, judging from this fiasco.

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And heir to Procter & Gamble fortune. .

Enjoying the series bigly. The books are much better. The only bad part is I keep sounding like those insufferable jerks who read “A Song of Fire and Ice” talking about “Game of Thrones.”

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This is how the One Party Authoritarian State mentality works.

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Get ready … more of this to come. I hope every incident is promptly followed by protests and legal action.

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“O’Dowd donated to the congressman in the current and previous election cycles”

Did OH-Dowd! resign from the board, considering his “political” activities?

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What a miserable little FK he is…‘innocuous note’ my a$$. So now, along with changing the Constitution, pretending Trump is the CEO of the country and various other trampling of our rights, these jerks think they can threaten voters JOBS? And yet they whined and sniveled without one damn fact that this is what Obama was doing for the last 8 years? I always KNEW they accused President Obama of what they were in fact guilty of…

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