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This is news: The presumptive presidential nominee of a
political party will, surprisingly, meet with other officials in the party.
Well, considering most of them are treating him like a late-stage syphilitic with MDR tuberculosis, it is kind of newsy.
But leave it to nitwit Ellmers to be on the Trumpfer’s bandwagon.
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Was it Drumpf’s idea to have them dress as sailors?
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The deserve each other.
The fact that Trump is talking to them is far less important to me than their gullibility and intelligence. Some of the Republicans are capable of differentiating a Demagogic Fascist from an ordinary TeaBagg bigot.
As loathsome as the latter is, the former is 1,000 times worse in every conceivable way. All that is necessary to verify this is the morbid fear of Trump from people with some familiarity (personal, scholarly, anecdotal, national/cultural) with Demagogic Fascists.
People like Elmers (who Steve referenced above) are the kinds of people who would cheerfully and completely go along with running Trump as the GOP Nominee
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THIS Scott DesJarlais:
It’s hard to find someone who has tested the power of incumbency so doggedly than someone else running for reelection today in Tennessee — Republican Scott DesJarlais, a two-term representative in District 4.
The then-political novice DesJarlais first won election in 2010. Weeks before the 2012 election, papers from his 2001 divorce were released, and they showed that the former doctor had engaged in sexual relationships with patients, medical center co-workers and a drug company representative. The Chattanooga Times Free Press’s account of the divorce papers noted, “Serving a dual role as doctor and lover, DesJarlais prescribed one patient pain medication and lavished her with an $875 watch and a plane ticket to Las Vegas, records show.” The staunchly antiabortion rights representative also encouraged his ex-wife to get two abortions, and when one of the patients he was seeing said she was pregnant, he also advised that she get an abortion.
If that weren’t enough, during the 2010 campaign, he faced allegations of violent behavior toward his ex-wife, such as dry-firing a gun outside the bedroom door while she was inside.
***Sounds like Trump's kind of guy.***This Tom Marino:
How big of a scandal does it take to make a congressional candidate unelectable? This year, if you’re a Republican, it has to be pretty darn big.
Take GOP House candidate Tom Marino in Pennsylvania’s Tenth District, located in the northeast corner of the state. As a US attorney, Marino gave a reference to his “close friend” Louis DeNaples, a convicted felon his office investigated for potential mob ties. When the Department of Justice reportedly launched an investigation into the reference, Marino resigned, and got a job working as DeNaples’ in-house lawyer.
Since then, Marino has offered several different stories about whether he was authorized to give DeNaples the reference in the first place. (He wasn’t.) But the scandal, which Marino’s Dem opponent, Rep. Chris Carney, has harped upon in ads and speeches, seems to have had little impact on Marino’s chances of ousting the two-term incumbent Blue Dog Dem. Nate Silver, the New York Times’ polling guru, gives Marino a stunning 74 percent chance of winning on Tuesday.
Louis DeNaples is a Scranton, Pennsylvania businessman, best known as former owner of the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. In January, 2008, DeNaples was charged with four counts of perjury due to his suspected ties to the Bufalino crime family when applying for a Pennsylvania state gambling license. The charges were later dropped in April 2009 after DeNaples agreed to turn over legal control of Mount Airy Casino resort to his family. DeNaples is owner or invested in several businesses, including DeNaples Auto Parts, Inc., Keystone Landfill Inc. and is Chairman of the Board of First National Community Bankcorp, Inc.
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In 1978, DeNaples pleaded no contest to a conspiracy charge of defrauding the government of $525,000 in contracts relating to the cleanup and recovery of the City of Scranton in the aftermath of Hurricane Agnes. Prosecutors claimed DeNaples plotted with three county employees to falsify records to obtain $525,000 in federal reimbursements. He was subsequently fined $10,000 and was placed on probation for three years. Four people, including James Osticco, a Bufalino crime family underboss were convicted in 1982 of jury tampering in DeNaples fraud trial.
In 2001, as part of a federal gambling investigation, four informants make mention of a relationship between DeNaples and current leader of the Bufalino crime family, William D’Elia. The informants alleged DeNaples made payments to D’Elia for undisclosed work and paid the crime boss protection money.
In April 2012, The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ordered DeNaples to resign as chairmen of the First National Community Bancorp and begin divesting his controlling interest in the bank due to his 2009 perjury charges that were later dropped. On May 10, 2012, a three-judge panel denied his appeal and ordered his immediate resignation.
***Both of them sound like Trump's kind of guys.***Just 3 active members and Gingrich? Really not much of a meeting and certainly doesn’t warrant any headlines. They could hold this in a closet.
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