Sheriff hopping mad after Mike Pence skips out on $24,000 bill at $700,000 campaign fundraiser

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Next time get payment in advance with these critters and don't trust checks which well might bounce. They can not be trusted to pay their bills. Don't be a sucker for these guys! They can not be trusted!

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/sheriff-hopping-mad-after-mike-pence-skips-out-on-24000-bill-at-700000-campaign-fundraiser/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=877&recip_id=31440&list_id=1

[marble falls]

1. What did he expect? Holy Mike learned from the master deadbeat, Donnie Two Scoups.

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2. And they still vote republican. Slow learners and/or really stupid! n/t

[marble falls]

4. Out here in Central Texas where I'd least expect it, his support is eroding pretty quickly ...

there's hardly any Trump stickers compared to two years ago.

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8. I think (I'm hopeful) that the more introspective people will realize what a clown and con artist

this guy is. I'm also wondering if his antics will affect those republicans that still whole hardily support him hoping to keep their jobs. Their constituents might surprise them in the coming elections. That is excellent news coming from Central Texas!!!

[marble falls]

9. It was a surprise when I started noticing it. I see most MAGA hats on tourists, haven't seen ...

one on a local except for my 91 year old MiL in quite a while. She's special. So very smart and lucid except for the Trump thing.

[kimbutgar]

21. I was in Surprise Arizona in June home of the tea party and fat donnie support

Was there in December 2018 saw a lot of fat donnie signs still up and bumper stickers. This time I did not see any signs nor bumper stickers on cars supporting the orange maggot. His support is going down not increasing. I like seeing it in Arizona and happy to hear about this in Texas.

[marble falls]

23. Great news!

[Celerity]

10. Sheriff Joe DiSalvo is a Democrat

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/pitkin-county-sheriff-endorses-democrat-michael-dougherty-in-attorney-general/article_03f5d56b-fd76-5fe3-8815-9a6a2e14c854.html

Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo on Tuesday endorsed fellow Democrat Michael Dougherty for Colorado attorney general

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12. Great!!! Glad to hear that!!!

[malaise]

27. No No No - mother's husband has his own history

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mike-pence-13k-campaign-funds-mortgage-golf-fees-article-1.2714118

Who's crooked now?

During a failed 1990 congressional run, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump's newly announced running mate, used nearly $13,000 in campaign funds for a slew of personal purposes, including paying down his mortgage and covering golf tournament fees.

The then 31-year-old lawyer didn't break any laws at the time — but Pence's questionable ethics outraged voters and ultimately prompted the Federal Election Commission to crack down on politicians who abuse their campaign funds, the Washington Post reported.

"If you're giving money to Mike Pence, you're paying his mortgage!" Billy Linville, campaign manager for Pence's rival, incumbent Democrat Philip R. Sharp, screamed at a 1990 press conference after news of the spending spree broke.

[marble falls]

29. And don't forget all the leaking gasoline storage tanks he walked away from in ...

three states when his service station chain went belly up.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pence-familys-failed-gas-stations-cost-taxpayers-20-million/


Report: Pence family's failed gas stations cost taxpayers $20 million

July 13, 2018 / 3:52 PM / AP

Vice President Mike Pence turns nostalgic when he talks about growing up in small-town Columbus, Indiana, where his father helped build a Midwestern empire of more than 200 gas stations that provided an upbringing on the "front row of the American dream."

The collapse of Kiel Bros. Oil Co. in 2004 was widely publicized. Less known is that the state of Indiana — and, to a smaller extent, Kentucky and Illinois — are still on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites across the three states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Indiana alone has spent at least $21 million on the cleanup thus far, or an average of about $500,000 per site, according an analysis of records by The Associated Press. And the work is nowhere near complete.

The federal government, meanwhile, plans to clean up a plume of cancer-causing solvent discovered beneath a former Kiel Bros. station that threatens drinking water near the Pence family's hometown.

To assess the pollution costs, the AP reviewed thousands of pages of court documents, tax statements, business filings and federal financial disclosures, as well as federal and state environmental records for Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. The total financial impact isn't clear because Indiana officials have yet to release cost figures for 12 contaminated areas. Other records are incomplete, redacted or missing.

The public cleanup of more than 25 former Kiel Bros. sites in Kentucky and Illinois — where officials have done a better job keeping costs down — has been much less expensive, totaling about $1.7 million, according to an analysis of records obtained under each state's public records law.

Kiel Bros. has paid for only a fraction of the overall effort. In court documents, the company cited payment of $8.8 million in "indemnity and defense costs," but also noted that $5 million of that amount came from the states.

Indiana's Department of Environmental Management, which regulates gas stations, did not respond to a detailed list of questions from the AP. Spokesman Ryan Clem said the agency is working to provide records requested under Indiana's public records law that could shed some light on how much former Kiel Bros. sites have cost the state.

Pence spokeswoman Alyssa Farah called the findings "a years old issue" that the vice president has addressed before. She did not elaborate.

In a statement, Pence's older brother Greg Pence — who was president of Kiel Bros. when it went bankrupt and is now running for Congress as a Republican — distanced himself from the cleanup costs.


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[malaise]

30. He's a major swamp dweller

[marble falls]

34. The only way he drains a swamp is to make another swamp larger.

[DFW]

3. What did they expect?

Honesty? Reliability? From REPUBLICANS? Didn't anyone tell the sheriff that Teddy Roosevelt was a long time ago?

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5. They just don't get it, and they will go out and vote republican. Push over stooges. Some probably

think Dwight Eisenhower is still around.

[DFW]

7. The Republican mantra

"Better the devil you know than the angel across the street."

[dustyscamp]

6. They should have know that these assholes leave taxpayers to pay their bills

[avebury]

11. Trump and Rethug Unpaid Debts

The Democrats need to put together a group to research all the various ways that Trump, his family, Pence, the RNC, and Rethugs have walked out on paying their bills. This information should be organized by State and that information needs to be used in the Presidential and Congressional campaigns.

That information should then be posted on line where everyone can see it and the Democrats should hit Trump and the Rethugs about is every single day.


Voice Over ad:
Donald Trump is always talking about how much he loves the law enforcement. But does he really?
Screen - a rolling list of communities and $ amount owed

Voice Over - He treats local law enforcement like he treated the caterer to his second wedding - “There’s a lot of benefit when a president comes here: economic benefits, more visibility for our community,” Lebanon Mayor Amy Brewer said. “But I would hope and believe the Trump campaign would pay its bills. It’s our taxpayer dollars.”

Doesn't your community deserve better?



https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/donald-trump-police-cities-bills-maga-rallies/

Ten city governments from Arizona to Pennsylvania say the president’s political committee has stiffed them out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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13. K&R!!! n/t

[Wounded Bear]

14. Republican corollary to the Golden Rule...

Do unto other, and then split before the bill comes due.

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15. Yep! That's pretty much it! Moral of the story, never go out to dinner with a republican. n/t

[BlueIdaho]

16. Put a lien on his Vice Presidency.

No more VP seal until he pays up.

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17. ... or just don't bother to protect him 'till he pays up! n/t

[BlueIdaho]

18. Better! nt.

[elocs]

19. How many communities, contractors, little people have been stiffed by Trump

not only as president but as a businessman?

[Hotler]

20. Money trumps everything

County Commissioner Greg Poschman told fellow commissioners “it was disturbing to me that candidates from both parties blow into town, collect a briefcase full of cash and then blow back out again without really ever doing any public outreach.”

Fucking elites.

[rsdsharp]

22. Pius Pence is a deadbeat?

Whoda thunk?

That said, when I was in radio (shortly after Marconi), stations ALWAYS got payment upfront before running political ads -- regardless of the office sought or party affiliations.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. From the article

"Mike Pence was just here … and cost us a lot of time and effort when everyone was stuck waiting for his way-oversized motorcade to go through. He could have driven through in a Jeep with a hat and sunglasses and nobody would’ve noticed.”

[keithbvadu2]

25. Can communities just let Trump/Pence provide their own security? Coordinated by local republicans

Can communities just let Trump/Pence provide their own security?

Coordinated by local republicans.

[Gothmog]

26. trump stiffed El Paso

Link to tweet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. I thought Pence was a Gawdly man

Guess not.

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32. ... more like a disciple from hell IMO! n/t

[Vinca]

31. Grifters . . . the lot of them.

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33. Yep, all the way! n/t