Joseph Harding, the now-former Florida Republican lawmaker who authored the state’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, has pleaded guilty to federal felony charges relating to COVID-relief funds.
Why would anyone need covid relief funds in Florida? I mean, Gov Ron never closed anything.
A homophobe AND a convicted felon! Florida Man??
The reason that the GOP is so convinced that there’s waste, fraud, and abuse in government programs is that they’re doing it themselves. Just look at how Sen. Rick Scott made his pile.
Same goes for vote-frauding, too, by the way.
And “weaponization.”
So many different kinds of hateful grift all in in one bundle.
All those old trump supporters driving around in their gold carts in The Villages Loves fraud If against any one but their hatred embracing old buts they hate woman who need health care they hate Jews They hate LGBT people The hate African Americans they hate trans kids hell they hate me I’m not any one of those bout I’m a Libtard they hate us the most! We’ s gonna take away their disgusting obnoxious life style Lol the gospels of Jesus Christ await them at the gates of hell
I guess it’s OK to rip off the government all you wants long as you don’t say gay while your doing it.
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I am sure by some twisted logic, Republicans and especially DeSantis will claim this is all Joe Biden’s fault.
If Biden had not made it so easy (noting that fraud occurred between December 1 2020 and March 1, 2021 so about half the period was before Biden took office and probably did not change any staff or procedures immediately after taking office) and Biden’s staff was not so reckless and …
It was Joe Biden who turned this god fearing bigot into a crook.
The worst part about these culture war politicians is they’re all just run-of-the-mill conmen. Lives being ruined so some crook or sex offender can grift.
The culture war politicians aren’t far removed from the evangelical pulpit pimps. Fire and brimstone to scare the masses.
May his proctologist be a frustrated trombonist!
This is perfect, it’s got all the MAGA hallmarks. Homophobia, punching down at children, elected Republican official, stealing funds meant for struggling small businesses, wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements. The disdain and hate just drip right off this guy, who will soon be screaming “don’t say gay” from the shadows in a Florida prison.
It’s too bad they will have to “rescue” this amateur. If he’d been smart, he’d have claimed not guilty because he was exposing how easy it is to defraud the government and re-elect him so he can do something about it!
After the past few years of watching GOP politicians committing fraud on a regular basis, I have to wonder if there is a professional training firm that offers these guys standardized classes in the art of political grifting. Do they hold regular update seminars?
Just seems like a predictable thing for someone to do now that we have a political party that specializes in this kind of thing.
My money is on him walking with a fine ala Rick Scott. It’s the Rethugliklan way.
cue music: [whomp, whomp]
But it’s not just gays that will get hurt by their ill-conceived legislative mishaps, if this account is to be believed.
