More Trump pardons incoming!
This is a good (and short) explainer thread on how big the Householder bust is. It’s huge.
Everything about that bill stunk when they rammed it through. There was an attempt at a referendum on the bill that would have both delayed implementation and put it on the ballot last fall. However, that was blocked in part due to hired goons by the energy company and their supporters threatening and even assaulting petitioners and buying signatures, among other tactics.
Householder at worst is going to spend some time in country club old white guy jail while we’re picking up the tab both financially on our utility bill and down the road in the form of gutted renewable investments. Never going to happen but HB6 should be repealed and FirstEnergy should be required to pay back all funds.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2020/07/21/firstenergy-money-flowed-to-ohio-politicians-who-supported-householder-backed-hb6/
It’s embarrassingly cheap to buy state representatives.
A piece from last year that details how awful that bill is:
Apparently it’s not just Ohio and First Energy, and not just Republicans [insert Illinois Democrat corruption joke here]:
Federal prosecutors said electric utility ComEd has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a long-running bribery scheme that implicates Madigan. They say the company has admitted that from 2011 to 2019 it arranged for jobs and vendor subcontracts “for various associates of a high-level elected official for the state of Illinois.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office identified the high-level elected official as “Public Official A” in a news release. A deferred prosecution agreement for ComEd filed in federal court states that “Public Official A” is the Illinois House speaker
AOC responds to Ted Yoho.
(If you can take the 10 minutes and listen to the whole thing.)
Yoho is just ‘passionate’. He will not and can not restrain his ‘passion’.
GOP leadership: I just don’t get why we aren’t doing better with women!
Supported the Confederacy? So he’s supporting abolishing the GOP/ Trump party. Good to know.
rowe33
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Does every Republican actually think the Democrat->slavery thing is that clever? It seems like they think it’s this huge GOTCHA. Oh snap, no you didn’t!
It might be laughable but it works for the next chapter of our slide into open fascism.
Technically speaking, the Republican party supported slavery insofar as it (at least its moderate wing, of which Lincoln was representative) did not call for immediate abolition, merely restriction, prior to the war. As late as 1862 Lincoln was still writing “if I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it.” (He was actually being disingenuous, having already drafted the Emancipation Proclamation, but it was a public statement at the time.)
But yes, this endlessly repeated GOP gotcha is epically tedious.
Yeah, it’s SO tired. “Lincoln freed the slaves, therefore no modern Republican can possibly be racist or be using ‘Southern Strategy’ racist dog-whistles.” I can’t roll my eyes hard enough. It’s like they haven’t learned ONE thing about the political history of the US during the last half of the 20th Century to the present.
On an entirely different topic, is the GOP Coronavirus relief plan introduced today going to do anything for gig workers, or are they F’d in the A as of the end of this month in their plan? The amount of supplementary federal unemployment money proposed is going to explode the homeless population. If we think we’ve got a crisis now, hoo-boy is it going to get worse.
Timex
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The thing is, it’s so nonsensical.
“The Democrats were the Confederates!”
“Then why are the Republicans defending the monuments to Confederates?”
“???”
ShivaX
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It’s always projection. And apparently always has been.
ShivaX
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Maybe there is room for Mitt in the party after all.
