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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on March 04, 2022, 08:58:57 AM
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Star Member DFW (45,936 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216432313
A friend of mine turns the heat on Republican corruption out there in "flyover country."
Iowa's governor has been playing fast and loose with funds from contributions as well as federal funds meant for Corona relief. Well, she forgot that the Iowa State Auditor is no longer her Republican crony, but now a corruption-fighting Democrat, my friend Rob Sand. Maybe it's his baby-faced smile, or his country-boy demeanor, but he takes his job very seriously. Oops. That doesn't bode well for corrupt crony state politics.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/audit-kim-reynolds-covid-relief-funds_n_621f8b1ae4b018aad3c1a8d6
Several years ago, Rob cracked one the country's biggest lottery scams. It was a case so complicated, the Iowa Attorney General's office dropped it in his lap as "unsolvable." To them, it was. To Rob, it wasn't, and he cracked it. I guess the Iowa Republicans figured it would be a one-shot wonder. Nope. Millions in diverted Corona money, and almost half a million in diverted campaign contributions need to be returned. Ouch. As usual, the Republicans think only in Republicanese instead of English, and can't distinguish the difference between Flyover Country and Pushover Country. We can.
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TheDemsshouldhireme (159 posts)
3. Pushover Country
that's a great term and should be used more, never heard that before.
Star Member DFW (45,936 posts)
15. I just made it up. I had never heard it before either.
It just seemed like an appropriate term for the occasion.
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Star Member madaboutharry (37,407 posts)
4. Kim Reynolds; another republican fraud.
I loathe her and her anti-government, libertarian, control the womb, book banning, anti-education politics. Her cronies in the state legislature now have a new anti-people cause; getting rid of zoning laws.
Reynolds is a corrupt dumbass hick. Sorry if that offends hicks out there, but it's true.
JT45242 (1,047 posts)
6. Corruption for rethugs, a way of life
Grassley is corrupt.
Ernst is corrupt.
The former governor's son killed a couple drunk driving. He covered it up and got reelected. Then made ambassador. The son is still considered an up and coming political possibility.
Covid Kimmy is corrupt.
And dumbass rural folks will still vote rethug because they hate bipoc people.
Lonestarblue (5,155 posts)
7. Corruption in the Republican Party is out of control.
When I look at how corruption at the top in Russia has so damaged that country, I cannot help but compare it to the corruption we now have here. We will probably never know how much of the pandemic relief funds went into the pockets of those well connected in state government and to politicians. While I’m sure some Democrats took advantage, I believe that many Republicans did. If we fail to root out corruption at the top and fail to pass laws making gerrymandering and the voter nullification laws Republicans have passed illegal, we may soon be just like Russia.
I’ve been impressed with the German government’s changes on the Russian pipeline and aid to Ukraine. How are German citizens reacting to the harsher line toward Russia?
Star Member PatrickforB (13,283 posts)
12. The Republican party today represents only lies, corruption, greed, lust for power and
treason.
There are only a few sane ones left after Trump, and their policies are wrong.
But the majority of these Trumpists are batshit crazy. Look at the twins - Batshit Boebert, who heaps shame on Colorado every time she opens her mouth, and Marjorie Traitor Greene, who is so base she followed a kid from Sandy Hook telling him she was packing. These are disgusting, deplorable human beings.
I'm glad for IA, because yet more corruption is being exposed.
Star Member Raster (20,627 posts)
14. The Republican* Party IS the party of corruption,...
...racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia and outright just crappy-ass people.
#RepublicansAreTheProblem
#GOPBetrayedAmerica
#RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica
#DeleteTheGOP
Star Member Hekate (74,596 posts)
17. Thanks for this very encouraging story, DFW
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It's too bad that the DUmmies are not equally concerned with the covid money funneled to Burn Loot Murder, by corrupt dem politicians.
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It's too bad that the DUmmies are not equally concerned with the covid money funneled to Burn Loot Murder, by corrupt dem politicians.
Nor that their favorite Planned Parenthood helps extinguish millions of black babies annually. But Black Lives Matter, except for unborn children or inner cities of Chicago/LA/Baltimore/et al.
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As usual, the Republicans think only in Republicanese instead of English, and can't distinguish the difference between Flyover Country and Pushover Country. We can.
Thank-you, campaign-staff writers... sitting-around in an empty strip-mall HQ, drowning in irrelevancy.
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It's too bad that the DUmmies are not equally concerned with the covid money funneled to Burn Loot Murder, by corrupt dem politicians.
or the $20+ billion of dollars in unemployment benefits the state of california pissed away to false claims during 2020... The logic at the time was that so many people were hurting from being out of work due to governor newscum's mandatory shutdown that the Employment Development Department just processed claims that were submitted without vetting them. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-25/californias-unemployment-fraud-20-billion (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-25/californias-unemployment-fraud-20-billion)
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I believe Bidenese is the official language of the corrupt. But it's a tough call between that and Clintonese.
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It's too bad that the DUmmies are not equally concerned with the covid money funneled to Burn Loot Murder, by corrupt dem politicians.
DLR beat me to one example, but Cali is not the only place that covid funds were abused. PPP fraud led to money meant to keep small business afloat went into corporate pockets and owners of imaginary small businesses. But of course, that's all (D)ifferent.
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A friend of mine turns the heat on Republican corruption out there in "flyover country."
Starting his bouncy off with three easily provable lies is not good for even the most idiotic bouncy.