Fah Kiew Tu
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You guys are getting more like Saudi Arabia every day, with fuckwits like that in political power positions.
FKT
Republicans have hit rock bottom
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You guys are getting more like Saudi Arabia every day, with fuckwits like that in political power positions.
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Prosecutors accuse Ohio Republicans of taking $60m in bribes as corruption trial opens
Source: GuardianState house speaker Larry Householder and four others charged with racketeering and could face up to 20 years in prison
Former Ohio house speaker Larry Householder. Photograph: John Minchillo/AP
Mario Ariza in Cincinnati for Floodlight
Mon 23 Jan 2023 18.52 EST
Federal prosecutors on the first day of a historic racketeering trial in Ohio alleged that top Republicans in the state accepted bribes from the power company FirstEnergy.
The trial, which is expected to last six weeks, is the latest utility scandal following cases in the last 10 years in Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida which experts say has led to higher bills for consumers, less green energy, and more CO2 emissions.
One of the defendants, the former Ohio house speaker Larry Householder, told reporters Monday morning as he waited for opening statements in the US district court in Cincinnati that he has done nothing wrong and expects “redemption”.
Householder is charged with one count of racketeering, and if convicted, faces up to 20 years in prison.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/23/ohio-republican-larry-householder-corruption-trial
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A 23-Year-Old Mayor Tried Trump's Stolen Election Playbook. Only It Worked.
“I’ve... seldom seen a political takeover that was this sleazy, and yet this well-orchestrated,” one local columnist wrote.
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Updated Jan. 23, 2023 10:59AM ET Published Jan. 23, 2023 4:49AM ET
A small Kansas town is reeling after a baby-faced 23-year-old manipulated procedural technicalities to reinstall himself as mayor in one night, seemingly taking a page from the playbook used by former President Donald Trump after he was voted out of office.
Only, this time, it worked.
“People have said this reminds them of Germany in 1935,” Jeffery Jones, whose bid for a council seat in Goddard, Kansas, collapsed last week as Hunter Larkin abruptly took control, told The Daily Beast. “Like, ‘Hey, we don’t like you anymore and we’re gonna vote you out and put our own person in.’”
The convoluted machinations by which Larkin maneuvered his way back into power were described as “essentially, a coup” and reminiscent of a totalitarian regime, according to one recently departed council member. And while Goddard, a Wichita suburb with a population of just under 5,400, isn’t necessarily going to influence policy shifts on a national scale, the strategy used by Larkin—a right-winger who last year promoted an appearance in Goddard by accused sex pest and conservative kingmaker Matt Schlapp—could serve as a stark warning of what’s possible elsewhere.
“I have to hand it to Larkin,” Wichita Eagle columnist Dion Lefle wrote. “I’ve covered cities for a long time and have seldom seen a political takeover that was this sleazy, and yet this well-orchestrated.”
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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-23-...rumps-stolen-election-playbook-only-it-worked
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Backstay, never bought a suit, never went to Vegas
AMERICA!!! What a Country! ....... Jakov Smirnoff
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
I gotta say it - he looks the part.Prosecutors accuse Ohio Republicans of taking $60m in bribes as corruption trial opens
Source: Guardian
State house speaker Larry Householder and four others charged with racketeering and could face up to 20 years in prison
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I want a video of the prison guards trying to get him in his cell. The squealing will be heard all over the county.
Swimsailor
Super Anarchist
It's almost as if Americans have decided to let their politics dictate their morals rather than the other way around.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Almost?
Not for nothing
Super Anarchist
It's all about oil money,
Everything to the Republicans is all about Money,
How many people died this week for Gun money
Yes, she knows she spelled "merely" wrong.
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Idaho senator unsuccessfully tries to remove rape and incest abortion exemptions
Speaking on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Herndon equated his efforts to offer “equal protection” under the law to fetuses to King’s civil rights efforts.
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Prosecutors accuse Ohio Republicans of taking $60m in bribes as corruption trial opens
Source: Guardian
State house speaker Larry Householder and four others charged with racketeering and could face up to 20 years in prison
Former Ohio house speaker Larry Householder. Photograph: John Minchillo/AP
Mario Ariza in Cincinnati for Floodlight
Mon 23 Jan 2023 18.52 EST
Federal prosecutors on the first day of a historic racketeering trial in Ohio alleged that top Republicans in the state accepted bribes from the power company FirstEnergy.
The trial, which is expected to last six weeks, is the latest utility scandal following cases in the last 10 years in Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida which experts say has led to higher bills for consumers, less green energy, and more CO2 emissions.
One of the defendants, the former Ohio house speaker Larry Householder, told reporters Monday morning as he waited for opening statements in the US district court in Cincinnati that he has done nothing wrong and expects “redemption”.
Householder is charged with one count of racketeering, and if convicted, faces up to 20 years in prison.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/23/ohio-republican-larry-householder-corruption-trial
Ohio still hasn‘t undone the Householder subsidies for nuclear and coal. It’s still legal to for local governments to outlaw solar and wind, but not fracking. In fact, land owners can be forced to sell mineral rights to oil companies.
Our mineral rights are owned by the Company of Adventurers, posing as the Hudson's Bay Company. I have no idea why except some watery tart threw them a sword.
badlatitude
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This should be helpful.
These people are insane. No wonder they need gerrymandering.
badlatitude
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Look at it in the proper context, if this continues, there will be far fewer Republican voters next time around.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Covid is way too slow - if every single Covid death in the States since the beginning had be one of these insane Republicunts it would hardly be enough to swing a single seat.
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
It's all OK to them, as long as they use the gender-at-birth bathroom.
Swimsailor
Super Anarchist
Gotta delete them texts from boy lovers Pronto!
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Republican lawmakers vote to destroy some public records more quickly, eliminate others
Eliminating records at a faster pace — or not keeping them at all — could leave the public in the dark about how elected officials use their powers.
