My thought as well. THEY DIDN'T PAY FOR HER DRESS OR TICKET DID THEY!??!!?
As the next congressman lines his pocket from the lobbyists on Capital Hill. It's AOC and she threatens most straight white males.
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez under investigation by House Ethics Committee
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My thought as well. THEY DIDN'T PAY FOR HER DRESS OR TICKET DID THEY!??!!?
As the next congressman lines his pocket from the lobbyists on Capital Hill. It's AOC and she threatens most straight white males.
If you had read the entire thread before posting this response it might have saved you from looking like an idiot.
What did I say that wasn't true?
OP gobbled it up without specifics -- check
Because it's a Dem led group that changes that fact or how is the above not true?
If there is a legitimate reason for an investigation I'm not sure why it would be "slimy" to investigate it. That said, I read an article a while back about how McCarthy was organizing this so if Democrats are leading this maybe it is in response to that and they want to make sure she gets a fair investigation. Although I would be interested in what would happen if we investigated other members of Congress for these types of things. Maybe AOC just isn't slick enough to realize that she needs to funnel gifts through PAC's like everyone else does.
Dumb. I made no comment on it and included all of the parts that said it’s probably nothing. I often defend AOC. Of course, it’s one of those things you ignore.
Anyway, Parsons is talking shit about our QB and now he must die.
OP posted an article from USA Today in full including the part saying “We are confident that this matter will be dismissed.” AND MADE NO COMMENT.
What is it you believe I “gobbled up”?
Appreciate the bulletin board material Micah!! Especially for someone playing at an MVP caliber right now.
They are all as crooked as a barrel of snakes. Every one of them is guilty of one ethics violation or another.
We all know you’d strike out with boebert and end up waking up next to Marjorie with your liver removed and eaten.
She's a fraud who has no business being in congress. We should demand better.
That said I'd hit it every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
That said I'd hit it every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
She "allegedly" had photos of Hunter's laptop which showed photos of Fauci not wearing a mask when he was having dinner with the Chinese. Duh.
As an aside, I really don't care for AOC, but with people like MTG roaming around in positions of power I can't even bother articulating the bad politics of AOC.
MTG is so horrible it makes me not even care what AOC did or didn't do.
MTG is so horrible it makes me not even care what AOC did or didn't do.
The Met Gala has already said they provided her ticket so that would not be a violation. She borrowed the dress so THAT isn't a violation. If there's nothing else, this won't go anywhere.
If that’s the case then there must be something else, because the ethics committee has had the complaint since June and their recent announcement states that they aren’t going to be able to complete their investigation before the end of the year.
It looks to me like aoc is finding out what power looks like. An eff around and find out moment type of thing. My guess is she flexed on something on the wrong issue and to the wrong person in her own party and is finding out Twitter followers and Twitter wars and winning elections from safe districts is not actual power.
How is that not a violation? If they gave it to her, it would be considered an improper gift over a certain dollar value. It would not have been a violation if she purchased her own ticket.
All I said was interesting variation in descriptors, feel like thats as indifferent as one can be and point it out.....
This. It should not be possible to gain millions in net worth just by being elected.
House Committee on Ethics
Gift Guidance
vi. Charity Events
You and a guest may accept an unsolicited offer of free attendance for a charity fundraising event. [90] “Free attendance” includes all or part of the cost of admission; local transportation to and from the event; and the food, refreshments, entertainment, and instructional materials provided to all event attendees.[91] Free attendance does not include entertainment collateral to the event or food and refreshments outside the group setting of the event, such as giveaways.[92]A charity fundraising event must meet the following criteria.
- You are invited by the event organizer directly, and
- The event organizer is the organization(s) doing the work to put the event on, not a monetary event sponsor or table sponsor.[93]
- The event’s primary purpose must be to raise funds to benefit an organization qualified under § 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.[94]
- The primary purpose is usually met if at least half of the proceeds are tax-deductible charitable contributions.
Well, the tricky part is if her ticket passed through some other entity on its way to her. They could have invited her and had her ticket provided by another organization such as an event sponsor. That would be a violation as stupid as that sounds.
But, again, that would seem to be awfully minor for a six-month+ investigation. OTOH, having the complaint in hand and acting on it are two different things. The actual investigation may have started just weeks ago.
Yep. If she did something wrong then she should face reasonable punishment for the infraction.
It’s also entirely possible that the investigation stems from something else. The Met Gala is just speculation that I’ve seen on a few media outlets.
You don’t like her because you don’t like brown skinned people. You’re a racist.
There’s a special filing cabinet for certain types of ethics complaints, like making bank in the stock market. The filing cabinet is the shredder.
Sure thing buddy. Like I said my family went to Davenport North. Very urban according to Mr lefty educator racist. Very Very urban my family. Don't you have some black kids to suspend as an educator? Maybe complain about their parents being absent? Isn't that what you do? After all educators in Iowa suspend and discipline urban kids at much much higher rates than white kids.
You are a racist and so freaking arrogant about it.
I don’t believe I called it “urban”. I also told you I know far more about North and that neighborhood than you. But alas, you stay willfully ignorant. Don’t be that.
