House GOPer: 'I Need My Paycheck' During Shutdown

[pacalo]

Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) told a local television station that she would not be deferring her pay during the government shutdown, as some other members have done.

"I need my paycheck. That's the bottom line," Ellmers told WTVD in Raleigh, N.C. "I understand that there may be some other members who are deferring their paychecks, and I think that's admirable. I'm not in that position."

According to Ellmers's official website, she was a registered nurse for 21 years before being elected to Congress. Her husband Brent, the website says, is a general surgeon.

(See brief video of the local news story about it here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/house-goper-i-need-my-paycheck).

Btw, there's also a Democrat featured in the video as 'needing his paycheck'. What makes the Republican's statement so disturbing is that she is currently on board with her 'Con Party to stop other people from getting their paychecks. Just as disgusting is her fear of losing her better-than-average financial status. Her husband is a general surgeon; the government workers' salaries are much lower than her husband's alone.

[Trekologer]

1. Do you know who also needs their paycheck, Rep. Ellmers?

The hundreds of thousands of federal employees you are currently denying theirs to, including the ones who ran into harms way to keep douchbags like you safe today.

[freshwest]

2. Yup, just saw the video, courtesy of JesusMaleverde:

From brooklynite's thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=610468

[pacalo]

24. That's the first footage I had seen.

Thanks for posting it & for the head's up on brooklynite's thread. My vote put it on the Greatest page.

[RavensChick]

10. Exactly!!!!

I need my money!!

[Triana]

3. Sign the petition telling Ellmers to forego her paycheck or end the shutdown...

...Sign on here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/rep-ellmers-you-shut

[pacalo]

25. Thanks, Triana. Done!

[Cha]

39. Sorry, you got your post hidden before you had

a chance to remove it, pacalo.

[AllyCat]

37. Done.

[Capt.Rocky300]

4. An RN for 21 years........

She sounds like a real Florence Nightingale.

[adirondacker]

6. Married to a general surgeon, so life must be excrutiatingly difficult to survive on one paycheck.nt

[BuelahWitch]

7. They'd probably be eating Top Ramen and day old baked goods without it

[adirondacker]

8. LMAO. Is there a food pantry in the Capitol building so that these poor wretches won't starve?

[Capt.Rocky300]

14. Probably have $10,000 a month house payments.

[adirondacker]

15. They'll just have to go without or face forclosure then, like the rest of us. nt

[onethatcares]

41. or maybe

tuna & pasta casserole

[BuelahWitch]

43. Oh the horror!

I think I'm having an attack of the vapors!

[Cha]

13. Exactly. Course we don't know how many bills they've racked up.

[adirondacker]

19. Hi Cha. I'm not sure if you caught this video...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017148990

But I have a feeling this is the same crowd mentality (read narcissism) were dealing with in this case.

[Cha]

26. No, I haven't seen it yet, adirondacker..

Thank you for the link!

[RavensChick]

12. Or Nurse Jackie.

And she traded that to "serve" the Ameican people??



Woman, please!!

[adirondacker]

28. Or Nurse Ratched...

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Look, I get that she isn't absurdly wealthy and would prefer to have the money, so...

There's a smart way to handle this. Rather than saying you NEED your paycheck, say that you intend to keep your paycheck and you plan to support backpay for everyone who was furloughed.

[bottomofthehill]

9. SO DO I

[Cha]

11. WTH does that selfish person think those who work for Government and are NOT

getting their Paychecks are going to do?!!

thanks for the OP, pacalo!

[Cha]

27. WOW! Just freaking WOW! What a little piece

of shit. And, nothing or nobody helped her along the way. Really really sad and pathetic excuse for a human being.

Good find pacalo.. tells quite the background story in one little sentence..

[pacalo]

30. It's not real; I photoshopped her name onto an image I found on Google.

[Cha]

38. Oh.

It did seem rather overboard for little kids.

[bobclark86]

29. FAIL...

Try something that isn't photoshopped next time... 10 out of 10 for style, minus several million for a photoshopped lie. Don't be a Republican.

[pacalo]

31. You're absolutely right. I'm going to remove it.

pacalo

[bobclark86]

33. Good...

She's a big enough dumbass all on her own. We don't need to sink to her level (mostly because I suck at Limbo)

Have a good night,
--Bob

[Amonester]

35. She probably think that "they deserve it" and that "it's their fault"

Just like all other sociopaths like heR.

[DebJ]

16. Please you should have warned of the need for a barf bag and a Prozac

before opening this thread. Thank goodness for the MoveOn petition lower down.
Like taking two aspirin.

[pacalo]

23. ...

[niyad]

17. big surprise--her DC voicemailbox is full--and the state offices are apparently closed.

[Trekologer]

40. The fax machine still works

[YoungDemCA]

18. How typical.

nt

[yuiyoshida]

20. SHE needs it but apparently regular Americans have to go without ...

Its the same old tired old Republican line ..."I got mine, where the hell is yours?" ...

Jigoku ni ochiru!!!! (GO TO HELL)

[William769]

21. Kick & recommended.

[bobclark86]

32. Hell, at least my GOP guy

came out and said "No, my law firm and it's medical bill collecting services are doing just fine. Keep your $172,000 a year."

Then again, if my district had existed in '08, it would have gone for the president. His competition is week, but it still has a shot.

This is just sad. And she's not the only one.

[Dragonfli]

34. I know her class, Once after building a beautiful custom mahogany natural wood porch

That cost us 10 grand in material (that we purchased as needed), we tried to get our contracted payment after completion so we could all be paid and cover the materials fronted.

They were planning a trip to Ireland so the lawyer husband said to get paid we would have to take him to court and he would tie it up as long as it took. He offered the option of paying us a third so we would go away, a third didn't even cover the materials we bought. He rationalized it like all these "middle class" people do and actually said, "We work hard for our money". The 100 grand and up crowd are typically like that and seldom like to pay for work they order. I guess the crew of craftsmen that worked 12 hours a day until it was finished according to their satisfaction did not "work hard for their money" like them. That goes for government workers as well I suppose. I personally turned 237 custom spindles after milling and gluing up the stock, I guess my work didn't count as work even tho they sure as hell didn't have the skill and training to do it. Go figure.

They play poor and claim to work harder than everyone else, even tho they work less and make 4 or 5 times what the people they screw over make.

The more people have, the more dishonest and greedy they are. I have never had trouble getting paid by people that work for a living and make regular wages. Just the cul de sac and richer crowd. Ironically the people I was talking about were "liberal" fanatical supporters of Bill Clinton, the right wing selfish creeps are in both parties, that is why the Third way site is so popular among the limo liberals that are financially in the top 10% and above. They are like their Republican soul mates but don't hate women and gay ppl as much, economically they are all selfish assholes with class superiority complexes, the fascist Birchers in the Republican party are just plain crazy, I guess we are blessed they have not yet been among the conservatives that have taken over our party.


You can't trust any of them because they see blue collar and poor as lazy scum as compared to their "work hard" ethics.

She needs HER paycheck because she "works hard for her money" and the grunts in government just plain to not compare to their own special needs that they would just die without.

[Amonester]

36. The thing is, the grunts in government are the workers who print her paychecks...

or do the grunt work to transfer the amounts directly to her bank account(s?).

Now that they are out of work, who does that pRince$$ think will do what they did?

Her God? <

Jaysuss...

[B Calm]

42. If the cops in DC are working with no pay, why can't the congress?

[NealK]

44. K&R

What a selfish twit.

[Simeon Salus]

45. Flip-flop alert--After the bad press, it looks like she changed her mind

From the Raleigh News-Observer: Ellmers won't give back pay but may defer next month's check

Republican U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers said Friday she would decline her $174,000 congressional salary amid the federal government shutdown, reversing course after facing intense pressure. Ellmers sent a letter to House officials asking for her pay to be withheld, saying in a statement she would “stand with all federal workers.”

Two days earlier, the Dunn lawmaker refused to decline her paycheck like many of her Republican and Democratic colleagues during the shutdown, telling a Raleigh TV station, “I need my paycheck. That is the bottom line.”

The remark generated a firestorm and calls of hypocrisy given that 800,000 federal workers are being furloughed without pay because of the budget impasse in Congress.

Ellmers begin backtracking Friday morning in a CNN interview just before 10 a.m. She said her October paycheck was in her bank account when the shutdown took effect, Oct. 1, suggesting she couldn’t do anything about it. But if the shutdown continued, Ellmers said she will have another option to defer in November. “I may do it at that point,” she told CNN.

Glad to know that public shaming still has some impact.

[stillwaiting]

46. Renee is an asshole. Renee is a Republican. But I repeat myself. nt