Michigan GOP candidate says he tells daughters to ‘lie back and enjoy it’ if rape is inevitable
Robert Regan, a Republican favored to win a seat in the Michigan House, made the comments while trying to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the 2020 election
A Republican candidate favored to win a seat in the Michigan House said he tells his daughters to “just lie back and enjoy it” if raped, as he attempted to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the results of the 2020 election.
Robert Regan, who is running to represent Michigan’s District 74 in the state legislature, made the comments during a Facebook live stream Sunday. The discussion was hosted by the Rescue Michigan Coalition, a conservative group that supports former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The Justice Department found no evidence to support Trump’s baseless allegations.
During the discussion, fellow panelist Amber Harris, a Republican strategist, told the group that it is “too late” to continue challenging the results of the 2020 election, suggesting Republicans should instead move on and focus on future races, to which Regan replied: “I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.’ ”
Michigan GOP candidate says he tells daughters to ‘lie back and enjoy it’ if rape is inevitable
Robert Regan, a Republican favored to win a seat in the Michigan House, made the comments while trying to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the 2020 election
A Republican candidate favored to win a seat in the Michigan House said he tells his daughters to “just lie back and enjoy it” if raped, as he attempted to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the results of the 2020 election.
Robert Regan, who is running to represent Michigan’s District 74 in the state legislature, made the comments during a Facebook live stream Sunday. The discussion was hosted by the Rescue Michigan Coalition, a conservative group that supports former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The Justice Department found no evidence to support Trump’s baseless allegations.
During the discussion, fellow panelist Amber Harris, a Republican strategist, told the group that it is “too late” to continue challenging the results of the 2020 election, suggesting Republicans should instead move on and focus on future races, to which Regan replied: “I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.’ ”
Michigan GOP candidate says he tells daughters to ‘lie back and enjoy it’ if rape is inevitable
Robert Regan, a Republican favored to win a seat in the Michigan House, made the comments while trying to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the 2020 election
A Republican candidate favored to win a seat in the Michigan House said he tells his daughters to “just lie back and enjoy it” if raped, as he attempted to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the results of the 2020 election.
Robert Regan, who is running to represent Michigan’s District 74 in the state legislature, made the comments during a Facebook live stream Sunday. The discussion was hosted by the Rescue Michigan Coalition, a conservative group that supports former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The Justice Department found no evidence to support Trump’s baseless allegations.
During the discussion, fellow panelist Amber Harris, a Republican strategist, told the group that it is “too late” to continue challenging the results of the 2020 election, suggesting Republicans should instead move on and focus on future races, to which Regan replied: “I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.’ ”
Does he know men can be raped, too? Would he provide the same advice to men that are raped?
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Does he know men can be raped, too? Would he provide the same advice to men that are raped?
Or tell his sons, if he has any, that it’s okay to rape women because they’ll lay back and enjoy it?
Between this, the abortion issue in Tejas and Missouri and the war on the LGBT community in Tejas and Idaho, it sure seems to me that we’re headed toward a fascist nation. These deplorables in state houses eventually become deplorables in Congress and they’re not going away.
Michigan GOP candidate says he tells daughters to ‘lie back and enjoy it’ if rape is inevitable
Robert Regan, a Republican favored to win a seat in the Michigan House, made the comments while trying to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the 2020 election
A Republican candidate favored to win a seat in the Michigan House said he tells his daughters to “just lie back and enjoy it” if raped, as he attempted to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the results of the 2020 election.
Robert Regan, who is running to represent Michigan’s District 74 in the state legislature, made the comments during a Facebook live stream Sunday. The discussion was hosted by the Rescue Michigan Coalition, a conservative group that supports former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The Justice Department found no evidence to support Trump’s baseless allegations.
During the discussion, fellow panelist Amber Harris, a Republican strategist, told the group that it is “too late” to continue challenging the results of the 2020 election, suggesting Republicans should instead move on and focus on future races, to which Regan replied: “I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.’ ”
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Former Trump chief Meadows' voter registration in question
By STEVE PEOPLES and GARY D. ROBERTSON
Yesterday
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Mark Meadows, who as chief of staff to President Donald Trump promoted his lies of mass voter fraud, is facing increasing scrutiny about his own voter registration status.
Public records show that he is registered to vote in two states, including North Carolina, where he listed a mobile home he did not own — and may never have visited — as his legal residence weeks before casting a ballot in the 2020 presidential election.
Critics contend that Meadows' voter registration status, first reported by The New Yorker, suggest the former North Carolina congressman may have committed voter fraud himself. A spokesperson for Meadows did not respond to a message seeking comment on Wednesday.
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Attorney
Sidney Powell speaks during a news conference about lawsuits contesting
the results of the presidential election at the Republican National
Committee headquarters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. MUST CREDIT:
Photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Silbiger
Sarah Silbiger, For The Washington Post / For The Washington Post
The State Bar of Texas has filed a disciplinary suit
against former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, alleging that she
committed professional misconduct when she filed multiple lawsuits
seeking to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The bar, in the petition filed March 1 in state district
court in Dallas, said it had received 10 complaints against Powell in
the last two years.
The Dallas attorney, who did not immediately respond to
requests for comment, filed suits across the country seeking to overturn
President Joe Biden’s wins, making far-fetched and unfounded claims of
widespread voter fraud.
“The Texas bar decision was totally expected, but it is an unfortunate and poor decision by the bar,” Powell said in a statement to Reuters. “No lawyer could practice law under the rule they would set for me.”
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And some say it couldn’t happen here. Brilliant brilliance in all its brilliancy. From Letter From an American.
This same conviction that Democrats must be stopped at all costs is pushing the drive to destroy democracy by concentrating political power in state legislatures. In a dissent this week, four right-wing Supreme Court justices indicated they support a further step in that concentration, backing a legal argument that state legislatures have ultimate power to determine their own voting procedures, including the selection of presidential electors, regardless of what a majority of voters want.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say all the people who have been screaming about election fraud these last couple of years won't have much to say about this.
Attorney
Sidney Powell speaks during a news conference about lawsuits contesting
the results of the presidential election at the Republican National
Committee headquarters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. MUST CREDIT:
Photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Silbiger
Sarah Silbiger, For The Washington Post / For The Washington Post
The State Bar of Texas has filed a disciplinary suit
against former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, alleging that she
committed professional misconduct when she filed multiple lawsuits
seeking to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The bar, in the petition filed March 1 in state district
court in Dallas, said it had received 10 complaints against Powell in
the last two years.
The Dallas attorney, who did not immediately respond to
requests for comment, filed suits across the country seeking to overturn
President Joe Biden’s wins, making far-fetched and unfounded claims of
widespread voter fraud.
“The Texas bar decision was totally expected, but it is an unfortunate and poor decision by the bar,” Powell said in a statement to Reuters. “No lawyer could practice law under the rule they would set for me.”
Attorney
Sidney Powell speaks during a news conference about lawsuits contesting
the results of the presidential election at the Republican National
Committee headquarters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. MUST CREDIT:
Photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Silbiger
Sarah Silbiger, For The Washington Post / For The Washington Post
The State Bar of Texas has filed a disciplinary suit
against former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, alleging that she
committed professional misconduct when she filed multiple lawsuits
seeking to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The bar, in the petition filed March 1 in state district
court in Dallas, said it had received 10 complaints against Powell in
the last two years.
The Dallas attorney, who did not immediately respond to
requests for comment, filed suits across the country seeking to overturn
President Joe Biden’s wins, making far-fetched and unfounded claims of
widespread voter fraud.
“The Texas bar decision was totally expected, but it is an unfortunate and poor decision by the bar,” Powell said in a statement to Reuters. “No lawyer could practice law under the rule they would set for me.”
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Attorney
Sidney Powell speaks during a news conference about lawsuits contesting
the results of the presidential election at the Republican National
Committee headquarters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. MUST CREDIT:
Photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Silbiger
Sarah Silbiger, For The Washington Post / For The Washington Post
The State Bar of Texas has filed a disciplinary suit
against former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, alleging that she
committed professional misconduct when she filed multiple lawsuits
seeking to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The bar, in the petition filed March 1 in state district
court in Dallas, said it had received 10 complaints against Powell in
the last two years.
The Dallas attorney, who did not immediately respond to
requests for comment, filed suits across the country seeking to overturn
President Joe Biden’s wins, making far-fetched and unfounded claims of
widespread voter fraud.
“The Texas bar decision was totally expected, but it is an unfortunate and poor decision by the bar,” Powell said in a statement to Reuters. “No lawyer could practice law under the rule they would set for me.”
Michigan GOP candidate says he tells daughters to ‘lie back and enjoy it’ if rape is inevitable
Robert Regan, a Republican favored to win a seat in the Michigan House, made the comments while trying to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the 2020 election
A Republican candidate favored to win a seat in the Michigan House said he tells his daughters to “just lie back and enjoy it” if raped, as he attempted to make an analogy about abandoning efforts to decertify the results of the 2020 election.
Robert Regan, who is running to represent Michigan’s District 74 in the state legislature, made the comments during a Facebook live stream Sunday. The discussion was hosted by the Rescue Michigan Coalition, a conservative group that supports former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The Justice Department found no evidence to support Trump’s baseless allegations.
During the discussion, fellow panelist Amber Harris, a Republican strategist, told the group that it is “too late” to continue challenging the results of the 2020 election, suggesting Republicans should instead move on and focus on future races, to which Regan replied: “I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it.’ ”
Someone should sit down with KellyAnn CONway and ask her about the role of evangelicals in the POOTWH administration and the campaign's effort to reach out to and welcome them, and how much that influenced policy.
Russia’s war on Ukraine has some Christians wondering: Is this the end of the world?
The war in Ukraine has reignited beliefs among some conservative evangelicals that Russia could help fulfill biblical prophecies about the end of the world.
These evangelicals, particularly charismatic Christians who focus on end-times theories, have long believed that Russia has a special role to play in the end times and are sharing new theories about why the invasion of Ukraine might be part of God’s plan.
Earlier this month, California megachurch pastor Greg Laurie, who was part of President Donald Trump’s inner circle of pastor-advisors, told his followers he saw a “prophetic significance” to what is happening in Ukraine. And Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin was “compelled by God” to attack Ukraine. Since then, people who engage in prophecy have been giving their own biblical interpretations to global events, particularly around Russia’s role in triggering the end of the world.
A Rapture Index that tracks what it sees as end-times activity recently increased its index to 187 out of 200. The index hit 182 after Sept. 11, 2001. In its most recent update, it notes climate change, the coronavirus and the rise of oil prices as factors for recent changes.
Conservative Christians have long looked at world events and pointed to biblical references as signs that what is happening in the world could fulfill biblical prophecy, and this time is no different, said Michael Brown, host of the Charlotte-based Christian radio show “The Line of Fire.”
“When you have Christians who already think about how we’re living in the last days and they see the continual moral decline of America, they see the church being marginalized, it doesn’t take much to tip the scales,” he said. “WheneverRussia gets involved, it’s like, ‘Ah here it is, it’s the final conflict.’”
Wisconsin lawsuit accuses 3 GOP congressmen of insurrection
By SCOTT BAUER
Yesterday
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin liberals on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and two other GOP congressmen are insurrectionists in violation of the U.S. Constitution for their words and actions in support of Donald Trump leading up to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The lawsuit, alleging a violation of the “Disqualification Clause” of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, says Johnson and U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald conspired to undermine President Joe Biden's victory and sow public distrust of the outcome.
That clause was enacted after the Civil War to prevent congressmen who had fought on the Confederate side from returning to Congress. It prohibits anyone from holding federal office who has taken an oath to protect the Constitution but has also “engaged in insurrection” against the United States or “given aid or comfort” to its enemies.
It's unclear what would happen if a court ruled that a sitting member of Congress had violated the amendment. The lawsuit doesn’t seek a specific remedy, but in a statement announcing its filing, the plaintiffs said the men “are no longer qualified” to seek reelection.
Biden beat Trump by just under 21,000 votes in Wisconsin, an outcome that has withstood multiple lawsuits, recounts and reviews. Republicans who control the state Legislature have rejected calls from Trump and his backers to decertify Biden's win, a move that nonpartisan attorneys have said would be illegal.
Johnson, Tiffany and Fitzgerald did not immediately return messages sent to their spokespeople seeking reaction to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Milwaukee.
Tiffany and Fitzgerald were among 121 House Republicans who voted to object to counting Biden’s presidential electors from Arizona on Jan. 6, 2021. Tiffany and Fitzgerald also were among 138 Republicans who voted to object to Biden’s Pennsylvania electors.
Johnson was one of eight U.S. senators who signed an objection to counting Arizona’s electors, but he ultimately voted to accept them after the riot on the Capitol.
The lawsuit accuses the three Republicans of being part of a conspiracy theory and “spreading their malicious falsehoods about a ‘rigged election’ through regular and social media and at public appearances.” It also notes Fitzgerald’s role in reserving a room at the Wisconsin state Capitol for fake Republican electors to meet on Dec. 14, 2020, and cast their ballots for Trump, even though Biden had won the state and his electors were meeting that same day elsewhere in the building.
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are you referring to the accident that left him paralyzed? he wasn't the driver, if so. but man, what a piece of garbage this guy is. he lied about the accident, saying the driver left him for dead, when in fact he saved his life by pulling him out of the burning vehicle, and then said the accident dogged his chances of being in the naval academy, but he was rejected before he got in the accident.
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are you referring to the accident that left him paralyzed? he wasn't the driver, if so. but man, what a piece of garbage this guy is. he lied about the accident, saying the driver left him for dead, when in face he saved his life by pulling him out of the burning vehicle, and then said the accident dodged his chances of being in the naval academy, but he was rejected before he got in the accident.
he was speeding excessively and was pulled over left of center. thats this last one. an earlier excessive speeding got his license revoked until that case was resolved. we're talking 15 to 20 mph over the limit.
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are you referring to the accident that left him paralyzed? he wasn't the driver, if so. but man, what a piece of garbage this guy is. he lied about the accident, saying the driver left him for dead, when in fact he saved his life by pulling him out of the burning vehicle, and then said the accident dogged his chances of being in the naval academy, but he was rejected before he got in the accident.
No, getting popped for speeding while his license was revoked. All the rules for thee nonsense we hear so much about until it’s one of their own. But yea, guy is a Deplorable.
are you referring to the accident that left him paralyzed? he wasn't the driver, if so. but man, what a piece of garbage this guy is. he lied about the accident, saying the driver left him for dead, when in fact he saved his life by pulling him out of the burning vehicle, and then said the accident dogged his chances of being in the naval academy, but he was rejected before he got in the accident.
No, getting popped for speeding while his license was revoked. All the rules for thee nonsense we hear so much about until it’s one of their own. But yea, guy is a Deplorable.
yeah, no kidding. jeez
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are you referring to the accident that left him paralyzed? he wasn't the driver, if so. but man, what a piece of garbage this guy is. he lied about the accident, saying the driver left him for dead, when in fact he saved his life by pulling him out of the burning vehicle, and then said the accident dogged his chances of being in the naval academy, but he was rejected before he got in the accident.
No, getting popped for speeding while his license was revoked. All the rules for thee nonsense we hear so much about until it’s one of their own. But yea, guy is a Deplorable.
yeah, no kidding. jeez
Now imagine the majority of voters in his district that elected him to congress?
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Your modern day Republican party, folks.
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Between this, the abortion issue in Tejas and Missouri and the war on the LGBT community in Tejas and Idaho, it sure seems to me that we’re headed toward a fascist nation. These deplorables in state houses eventually become deplorables in Congress and they’re not going away.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085452644/colorado-clerk-indicted-on-13-counts-of-election-tampering-and-misconduct?utm_campaign=politics&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Mark Meadows, who as chief of staff to President Donald Trump promoted his lies of mass voter fraud, is facing increasing scrutiny about his own voter registration status.
Public records show that he is registered to vote in two states, including North Carolina, where he listed a mobile home he did not own — and may never have visited — as his legal residence weeks before casting a ballot in the 2020 presidential election.
Critics contend that Meadows' voter registration status, first reported by The New Yorker, suggest the former North Carolina congressman may have committed voter fraud himself. A spokesperson for Meadows did not respond to a message seeking comment on Wednesday.
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Texas State Bar sues Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for professional misconduct in 2020 election cases
Attorney Sidney Powell speaks during a news conference about lawsuits contesting the results of the presidential election at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Silbiger
Sarah Silbiger, For The Washington Post / For The Washington PostThe State Bar of Texas has filed a disciplinary suit against former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, alleging that she committed professional misconduct when she filed multiple lawsuits seeking to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The bar, in the petition filed March 1 in state district court in Dallas, said it had received 10 complaints against Powell in the last two years.
The Dallas attorney, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment, filed suits across the country seeking to overturn President Joe Biden’s wins, making far-fetched and unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.
“The Texas bar decision was totally expected, but it is an unfortunate and poor decision by the bar,” Powell said in a statement to Reuters. “No lawyer could practice law under the rule they would set for me.”
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/politics/cawthorn-charged-driving-revoked-license/index.html
This same conviction that Democrats must be stopped at all costs is pushing the drive to destroy democracy by concentrating political power in state legislatures. In a dissent this week, four right-wing Supreme Court justices indicated they support a further step in that concentration, backing a legal argument that state legislatures have ultimate power to determine their own voting procedures, including the selection of presidential electors, regardless of what a majority of voters want.
kracken keeper clothing. duh.
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nowadays comments like these make the politician more popular.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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Someone should sit down with KellyAnn CONway and ask her about the role of evangelicals in the POOTWH administration and the campaign's effort to reach out to and welcome them, and how much that influenced policy.
Russia’s war on Ukraine has some Christians wondering: Is this the end of the world?
The war in Ukraine has reignited beliefs among some conservative evangelicals that Russia could help fulfill biblical prophecies about the end of the world.
These evangelicals, particularly charismatic Christians who focus on end-times theories, have long believed that Russia has a special role to play in the end times and are sharing new theories about why the invasion of Ukraine might be part of God’s plan.
Earlier this month, California megachurch pastor Greg Laurie, who was part of President Donald Trump’s inner circle of pastor-advisors, told his followers he saw a “prophetic significance” to what is happening in Ukraine. And Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin was “compelled by God” to attack Ukraine. Since then, people who engage in prophecy have been giving their own biblical interpretations to global events, particularly around Russia’s role in triggering the end of the world.
A Rapture Index that tracks what it sees as end-times activity recently increased its index to 187 out of 200. The index hit 182 after Sept. 11, 2001. In its most recent update, it notes climate change, the coronavirus and the rise of oil prices as factors for recent changes.
Conservative Christians have long looked at world events and pointed to biblical references as signs that what is happening in the world could fulfill biblical prophecy, and this time is no different, said Michael Brown, host of the Charlotte-based Christian radio show “The Line of Fire.”
“When you have Christians who already think about how we’re living in the last days and they see the continual moral decline of America, they see the church being marginalized, it doesn’t take much to tip the scales,” he said. “Whenever Russia gets involved, it’s like, ‘Ah here it is, it’s the final conflict.’”
Is it the end of the world? Russia’s war on Ukraine has some Christians wondering. - The Washington Post
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin liberals on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and two other GOP congressmen are insurrectionists in violation of the U.S. Constitution for their words and actions in support of Donald Trump leading up to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The lawsuit, alleging a violation of the “Disqualification Clause” of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, says Johnson and U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald conspired to undermine President Joe Biden's victory and sow public distrust of the outcome.
That clause was enacted after the Civil War to prevent congressmen who had fought on the Confederate side from returning to Congress. It prohibits anyone from holding federal office who has taken an oath to protect the Constitution but has also “engaged in insurrection” against the United States or “given aid or comfort” to its enemies.
It's unclear what would happen if a court ruled that a sitting member of Congress had violated the amendment. The lawsuit doesn’t seek a specific remedy, but in a statement announcing its filing, the plaintiffs said the men “are no longer qualified” to seek reelection.
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Biden beat Trump by just under 21,000 votes in Wisconsin, an outcome that has withstood multiple lawsuits, recounts and reviews. Republicans who control the state Legislature have rejected calls from Trump and his backers to decertify Biden's win, a move that nonpartisan attorneys have said would be illegal.
Johnson, Tiffany and Fitzgerald did not immediately return messages sent to their spokespeople seeking reaction to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Milwaukee.
Tiffany and Fitzgerald were among 121 House Republicans who voted to object to counting Biden’s presidential electors from Arizona on Jan. 6, 2021. Tiffany and Fitzgerald also were among 138 Republicans who voted to object to Biden’s Pennsylvania electors.
Johnson was one of eight U.S. senators who signed an objection to counting Arizona’s electors, but he ultimately voted to accept them after the riot on the Capitol.
The lawsuit accuses the three Republicans of being part of a conspiracy theory and “spreading their malicious falsehoods about a ‘rigged election’ through regular and social media and at public appearances.” It also notes Fitzgerald’s role in reserving a room at the Wisconsin state Capitol for fake Republican electors to meet on Dec. 14, 2020, and cast their ballots for Trump, even though Biden had won the state and his electors were meeting that same day elsewhere in the building.
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-EV 8/14/93
he was speeding excessively and was pulled over left of center. thats this last one. an earlier excessive speeding got his license revoked until that case was resolved. we're talking 15 to 20 mph over the limit.
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another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
-EV 8/14/93