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Link to tweet
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@jbf1755
Wow.
Yesterday the FEC chair tried to publish their weekly journal & was blocked. She says thats unprecedented
It has a draft rule re: foreign election interference
So she tweeted the ENTIRE journal.
Just putting that here...@KevinMKruse@HC_Richardson
H/T @PoliticusSarah
Link to tweet
Ellen L Weintraub
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@EllenLWeintraub
Replying to @EllenLWeintraub @FEC
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This week, I published a Draft Interpretive Rule Concerning Prohibited Activities Involving Foreign Nationals" on the http://fec.gov web site: https://www.fec.gov/documents/1796/mtgdoc_19-41-A.pdf
FULL THREAD
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1177719828632739842.html
malaise
(268,698 posts)RFN!
DENVERPOPS
(8,790 posts)Coming into the 2020 elections, the FEC has been totally paralyzed by the Trump/Republican administration.
I don't think they currently have any ability to even function, let alone guide and rule over the elections........
WASF
Pacifist Patriot
(24,652 posts)spanone
(135,792 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)PatSeg
(47,267 posts)I predict an avalanche of courageous truth tellers in the upcoming weeks.
Generic Brad
(14,272 posts)The longer this goes on, the more will be exposed. It appears the entire GOP house of cards is collapsing in real time.
PatSeg
(47,267 posts)come tumbling down sooner. So many pushed their luck for so long, it was hard to believe they were really getting away with it. All things said, I have to say it was worth the wait. I think we'll find more corruption than we'd ever dreamed possible.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,254 posts)onetexan
(13,020 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,576 posts)mysteryowl
(7,362 posts)blaze
(6,347 posts)GOP FEC Commissioner Caroline Hunter took the altogether unprecedented step of objecting to its being added to the Digest and blocked publication of the whole Digest as a result.
mysteryowl
(7,362 posts)The corruption of the GOP is deep and wide. There is much cleaning up to do of our federal government.
magicarpet
(14,119 posts).... do it now.
This house of cards build on a quick sand foundation is collapsing.
Help it along if you can - patriots.
DENVERPOPS
(8,790 posts)I don't think that people understand that the next 15 months are going to decide the future of the US forevermore, and the whole world for that matter.........
WASF
Actions like this - fighting for the institutions of Democracy - are what will preserve Democracy.
Keep it comin'!
mysteryowl
(7,362 posts)It is like my vote for democracy.
majdrfrtim
(317 posts)Keep at it, Ellen!!
Marcuse
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Heron5
(70 posts)Neal Katyal tweeted about significance: Why FEC decn so impt: Trump DOJ secretly cleared him of criminal wrongdoing w Ukraine b/c claimed foreign campaign aid wasnt a thing of value.
FEC, which has expertise in this, disagrees. Wed not even learned of doj jail free card w/out wblower. FEC is saying this is illegal.
gademocrat7
(10,644 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,959 posts)meow2u3
(24,759 posts)K&R with gusto!
BootinUp
(47,083 posts)erronis
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dchill
(38,443 posts)Hotler
(11,396 posts)Botany
(70,447 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,716 posts)Six117
(205 posts)NT
Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)If ever there was a corrupt band of traitors...
Volaris
(10,266 posts)But sure as hell they qualify as a 'corrupt organization' at this point heh..
Roland99
(53,342 posts)sakabatou
(42,136 posts)Beartracks
(12,798 posts)... to hobnob with high-ranking and/or elite persons should rightfully raise some eyebrows in the FBI and elsewhere.
Rank-and-file government employees aren't the only ones that can be compromised by foreign nationals looking to manipulate America.
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JPK
(650 posts)Where in the hell is he getting all this money to jet set around the world and stay in hotels, meals, etc.?
jimlup
(7,968 posts)I honestly worry that we are headed from a cold civil war into a hot one and it may not be very long from now. I'm not even sure what it might look like. But at some point, the Trump thing, buoyed by his republican apologists and his Faux rightwing news network, will actually call out the military to defend his warped version of the law. At that point, we cross the threshold into a hot civil war.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)the military does have an obligation to disregard an unlawful order. I wonder who would make the call though if Trump is still the sitting PROTUS.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)the entire piece is worth reading
https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/06/sharpiegate-distracted-from-trumps-week-in-dc/
progressoid
(49,946 posts)Blue Owl
(50,259 posts)Shit's gettin' REALS y'all!