The speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives and several others were arrested Tuesday morning as part of a federal public corruption case, multiple Ohio outlets reported.
GOP pigs at the trough. Trump will pardon them.
A fish may rot from the head but the entire body is rotting. I just wonder how much of a bribe Trump will want to pardon them.
This might get Michael Madigan, Illinois Speaker, a tad nervous given the parallels…
Even Dem’s can go bad…
The bullshit that was pulled to get this bailout done that we know of was legendary. They sent out fake people to get people to sign false petitions so they wouldn’t sign the real one. The commercials spewing lies about what the bailout would be for were reprehensible.
The payoff is extraordinary in degree — something like $30 million for campaigns in Ohio and Pennsylvania to win $1.1 billion in government subsidy.
To take a positive from it, while it would be nice if these arrests came closer to the election, they could have come farther from the election, and this might be a help to Ohio Democratic legislative candidates. My recollection is Republicans have controlled Ohio for a long time. Maybe at the minimum the arrested speaker’s seat just became competitive.
But not in Illinois, surely! Oh, wait, let me check my notes.
Strangling gerrymandering since the last census. So much so that we had a referendum on it which – of course – was watered down to the point where we’re not sure how much impact it will have.
Republicans in disarray? Or “VicTIMs of the DeeP State!!11!!”?
Thought this was SOP for GOP.
Can we maybe rethink that John Kasich speaking invitation now?
Also arrested, according to the reports, were the state Republican party’s former chairman Matt Borges, lobbyists Neil Clark and Juana Cespedes, and an adviser to Householder, Jeff Longstreth. All five men
Matt, I’m guessing one of the five, Juana, doesn’t self-identify as a man. Maybe a little edit is in order.
But I’ll bet she’s proud that she can shovel as many unmarked bills into a suitcase as any man.
Touched by T rumpp should cover it.
Biden’s DOJ is going to have a field day with state GOP parties if this is what Barr’s DOJ is pulling out of their ass 3 months before an election.
Too corrupt to ignore.
The 2018 elections are what this probe is likely about. The dark money got Householder’s slate elected in order to do deals like this.
Being corrupt as a Republican is part of the current modus operandi. No surprise here.
Pocketing millions and screwing the environment - classic GOP win-win.
I’d like to agree with you but we’ve had a lot more practice in Illinois.