Miscellaneous political stuff - Part 11

She lied to our Congress. It will be included in the permanent record of Congress.

As posted above, she was WRONG!! It was not explosives!!

Republicans continue to go lower ..

Tennessee Republican pocketed $25,000 donated for his stillborn son's memorial: report
Matthew Chapman
March 15, 2023

Freshman Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) appears to have pocketed $25,000 he crowdfunded to build a memorial for his stillborn son, reported The New Republic on Wednesday.

An investigation by NewsChannel5 found that Ogles set up a GoFundMe in 2014 after his son was stillborn. Ogles said he wanted to build a garden where families could bury their stillborn children and sit on benches by the gravestones. The GoFundMe raised almost $25,000, but the garden was never built," said the report. "GoFundMe confirmed that Ogles received the money. He declined to answer any of NewsChannel5’s questions about what happened to the funds."

"Ogles had told The Tennessean in 2015 that 'burials are heavily regulated,' preventing them from buying all the plots necessary to start the garden. He promised that none of the money had been spent," said the report. "The funeral director of Williamson Memorial Funeral Home was quoted in the same story saying she planned to meet with the Ogles family to help organize their plans. But eight years later, she told NewsChannel5, the family never followed up with her."

According to the report, one donor demanded a refund after Ogles refused to clarify what the money was being used for, and was given a refund — but many other donors were never refunded.

This comes after a series of investigative reports into Ogles, who was elected to a Nashville-area seat previously represented by Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper before being heavily gerrymandered for Republicans. A report by The Washington Post in February found that Ogles repeatedly claimed to be an "economist," despite not having a degree in that field, and to have been a law enforcement officer who combated international sex trafficking, which was a misleading embellishment of his work. A subsequent report found he also claimed to have run a consulting firm, but there is no record of this.

Ogles' embellishments have earned him comparisons to scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos of New York, another freshman Republican who lied about his work history, ethnicity, and education and is now under investigation for campaign finance irregularities.

www.rawstory.com/andy-ogles-scam/

Just other classless comments by Loren Boebert .

Responding to a draft reparations proposal in San Francisco that would give $5 million to each eligible Black person, Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert slammed the plan, claiming that California never had slavery.

"The fact that supposedly serious people in San Francisco are considering a plan that would give $5,000,000 in reparations to every Black resident in their city in a state that never had slavery is a joke," Boebert wrote on Twitter.
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While slavery was always prohibited by California law, historians have said evidence shows slaves were still brought to the state.

"What Lauren Boebert doesn't know about American history could fill the Library of Congress. So it's not surprising to see her repeat the myth that California never had slavery," political historian Dr. Kevin Waite told Newsweek.
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According to the California Historical Society, "California’s constitution proclaimed that 'neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for punishment of a crime, shall ever be tolerated.' Yet archives statewide contain evidence that slavery was practiced out in the open. One newspaper ad in the Sacramento Transcript offered 'A valuable Negro girl, aged eighteen…of amiable disposition, a good washer, ironer and cook' for sale."

www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-lashes-out-at-san-francisco-over-slavery-reparations-proposal/

Oh my!!!! Has she joined DonJr partaking coke?!?!

Alabama school installs two bulletproof white boards that can be pulled out to protect up to 60 kids...