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McConnell: If Moore wins, he'll "immediately" face Ethics Committee
Axios ^ | 11/14/2017 | Erica Pandy

Posted on 11/14/2017 8:48:43 PM PST by advance_copy

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that if Alabama's Senate candidate Roy Moore wins, he'll face an ethics investigation immediately after he's sworn into office. "It would be a rather unusual beginning," McConnell said, speaking at a Wall Street Journal event.

"I'd like to save the seat, and it's a heck of a dilemma when you've got a completely unacceptable candidate bearing the label of your party within a month of the election," he added.

McConnell is one of several Republicans who have called for Moore to step aside. He has also spoken with President Trump and Vice President Pence about the allegations against the candidate, but Trump has yet to take a public stance on the issue.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama; US: Kentucky; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: alabama; mcconnell; minnesota; mitchmcconnell; roymoore; southcarolina
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To: advance_copy

Tudor McTurtle will be shaking in his boots when Moore shows up to take his senate seat.


41 posted on 11/14/2017 9:20:26 PM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: advance_copy; All

1. The Uniparty is the only party in control of the U.S. Congress. There are Ds in it and Rs, but they work together. They take turns at the wheel of the clown car, but they are all on board driving us over the cliff.

2. McConnell is personally compromised and (like McCain, L. Graham, and many others) is under the control of Deep State. They want compromised people (exactly why closet queer boy was picked as Hillary’s running mate) in high positions of power so they can control them. Look at Denny Hastert.

3. Stop thinking of the establishment GOP as having anything to do with conservatives or “America first” political positions. They hate conservatives more than they hate Democrats because Democrats are part of the Uniparty.

4. This is about... Bannon. They want to kill Bannon’s candidate because they know Bannon, riding success, will primary other RINO/Uniparty members and remake Congress with people who actually believe in something other than lining their own pockets.

5. Go back and look what the GOPe did in Mississippi a couple years back. They paid out street cash to black pastors to spread the word the conservative in the race was a KKKer and blacks needed to cross party lines to stop him. There’s no low they won’t go to maintain power.

6. Murdoch is on the board of an open borders group. They’re part of the Chamber of Commerce / Cheap Labor Express and want amnesty. Don’t expect Fox to support Trump or anyone like Moore. Look at Murdoch’s paper in England, the Daily Mail, for all the hit pieces on Trump they run daily.

Take the RED PILL! We are at war with the Swamp and the Swamp is deeper than you think. Leftists are entrenched in the bureaucracy, the military, D.C., Hollywood, New York, etc. etc. The miliary just announced they’re going to let in those with depression an bi-polar. The military is going to pay for a sex change operation. It will take major major gutting to reverse the damage if it can be reversed. Leftists usually m.o. is to destroy the host and move on.


42 posted on 11/14/2017 9:23:35 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: advance_copy

Ted Kennedy ever face an ethics committee?

I rest my case........


43 posted on 11/14/2017 9:23:50 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: advance_copy

How many years did Mitch work with DEMOCRAT Ted Kennedy, the lying coward who left Mary Jo to die?

How about DEMOCRAT Menendez, Capitan Pedophile of the Dominican Republic?

Just askin...


44 posted on 11/14/2017 9:24:53 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: advance_copy

Exalted Cyclops



Dignitaries pack final farewell for Byrd

“…anyone with enough talent and drive can rise to the heights of power and prestige. … The glory of our nation is reaffirmed every time a man or woman overcomes what some call disadvantages to achieve great things. And Robert Byrd may well be their patron saint.”

  — Mitch McConnell

45 posted on 11/14/2017 9:25:11 PM PST by greedo
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To: advance_copy

So the ethics committee investigates ethical questions from 40 years ago? That will scare some Congress critters


46 posted on 11/14/2017 9:28:05 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kickass Conservative; All
A Redditor made that in an hour or so. Looks legit!
47 posted on 11/14/2017 9:29:23 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws
Look at Murdoch’s paper in England, the Daily Mail, for all the hit pieces on Trump

I keep hoping Americans will eventually realize the UK is a bigger threat to our country than Russia has been since 1989!
48 posted on 11/14/2017 9:29:37 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: datricker

Yertle better hope he doesn’t gets a primary opponent who can walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s being badly exposed and his campaign money won’t save him.

Many of these RINOs are going to be gone over the next two election cycles.


49 posted on 11/14/2017 9:30:29 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Electric Graffiti
Here's How Ted Kennedy Sexually Assaulted a Waitress [Frontpage Mag 10/10/2016]

It is after midnight and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant's annex. They are drunk. Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom. (The dates are drunk too. "They'd always get their girls very, very drunk," says a former Brasserie waitress.) Betty Loh, who served the foursome, also leaves the room. Raymond Campet, the co-owner of La Brasserie, tells Gaviglio the senators want to see her.

As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd's lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room.

Lion of the senate. It seems the swamp's selective moral outrage(hypocrisy) knows no bounds.

50 posted on 11/14/2017 9:30:38 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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If only McConnell would face an Ethics Committee of Conservative Citizens

If you get my drift.


51 posted on 11/14/2017 9:31:00 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: advance_copy
And, IT IS ALL ABOUT THE ELECTION!

It is really not about anything else.

52 posted on 11/14/2017 9:31:02 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Steven W.
An ethics investigation would need to have some current accusations and it appears there are none but these 40 year old + Gloria Allred smear. Which puts truth to the lie that is implicit in the Democrat / Media / GOPe manufactured “outrage”. Bob Menendez is accused and still being tried for things that are happening TODAY ... crickets!


Yeah, I'm aware

I was just savoring the potential irony of McConnell having to recuse himself from an ethics investigation of Moore because he is embroiled in litigation over his own ethical violations.

It's moot anyway because I see nothing that shows Moore has done anything even mildly unethical

53 posted on 11/14/2017 9:31:18 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: advance_copy

Chappaquiddick didn’t keep Ol’ Teddy from serving ....


54 posted on 11/14/2017 9:31:27 PM PST by nevermorelenore ( I miss Reagan i)
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To: advance_copy
“McConnell: If Moore wins, he'll “immediately” face Ethics Committee”

There is a constitutional principle that the accused shall have the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; and to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; etc.

I'm not sure Moore can expect those kind of protections in a McConnell/Schumer directed legislative inquiry. I'd be surprised if Moore is given any kind of a fair hearing based on the known hurt feelings of so many RINO’s.

But it sure would be interesting to see the video depositions of Moore's accusers and how well the dates, times, and accusations hold up under scrutiny - and under oath.

55 posted on 11/14/2017 9:32:40 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: TigerClaws

lol...That’s the spirit. Rub their noses in it.


56 posted on 11/14/2017 9:33:04 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: advance_copy

https://www.facebook.com/stevedeace/photos/pcb.846188198894554/846187665561274/?type=3&theater

Roy Moore has now decided to file suit. Just like I said he should...Many said I was a defeatist for saying that Moore needed to file suit.


57 posted on 11/14/2017 9:37:30 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: TigerClaws

That is funny.


58 posted on 11/14/2017 9:38:19 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: advance_copy

VOTERS decide who is or isn’t “acceptable” Mitch you F’n polidiot.......


59 posted on 11/14/2017 9:39:34 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: jeffersondem

16 Republican Senators threaten to resign if Roy Moore is elected.

This should clinch it for Moore.


60 posted on 11/14/2017 9:40:47 PM PST by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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