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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just violated House Ethics rules when she threatened to...
wordpress ^ | December 7, 2018 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 12/07/2018 2:37:45 PM PST by grundle

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just violated House Ethics rules when she threatened to use her Congressional power of subpoena against someone who criticized her

According to this news article that was just published by CNN, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted the following:

I have noticed that Junior here has a habit of posting nonsense about me whenever the Mueller investigation heats up.

Please, keep it coming Jr – it’s definitely a “very, very large brain” idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month.

Have fun!

Ocasio-Cortez is threatening to use her power as a federal lawmaker to punish someone who exercised his first amendment right to free speech.

Such a threat is a violation of House Ethics rules.

The Congressional Committee on Ethics states:

https://ethics.house.gov/campaign-activity/campaign-contributions-and-contributors

Members and staff are not to take or withhold any official action on the basis of the campaign contributions or support of the involved individuals, or their partisan affiliation. Members and staff are likewise prohibited from threatening punitive action on the basis of such considerations.


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To: grundle

One man sees government as the servant of the citizen.

Another man sees government as a club to beat the citizen.


41 posted on 12/07/2018 3:25:41 PM PST by lurk
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To: grundle

Sooner or later she’ll eff up big time and have to be reigned in.


42 posted on 12/07/2018 3:27:21 PM PST by Signalman
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To: grundle

What that saying again? “The gift that . . ..” lol And she hasn’t even started her new job yet.


43 posted on 12/07/2018 3:31:57 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: richardtavor

The Democrats will be running the house, nobody’s going to do anything regardless.


44 posted on 12/07/2018 3:32:26 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: grundle

She said it was, like...you know...and so that’s it.


45 posted on 12/07/2018 3:32:56 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Sontagged

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States

No member of the House of Representatives has ever been impeached.


46 posted on 12/07/2018 3:34:21 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

She wishes those were brains.


47 posted on 12/07/2018 3:35:41 PM PST by hattend
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To: Snickering Hound

So? We never had a billionaire populist POTUS before, either.


48 posted on 12/07/2018 3:37:25 PM PST by Sontagged ("Let the dead bury their dead" - Jesus)
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To: heterosupremacist
Sarah Barracuda wrote:

*..she is borderline mentally retarded..*


Why would she write something like that when she has a son with Downs Syndrome?
49 posted on 12/07/2018 3:42:17 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Late in the day but it’s my first laugh....priceless!


50 posted on 12/07/2018 3:42:18 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Celerity

“”Members and staff are not to take or withhold any official action on the basis of the campaign contributions or support of the involved individuals, or their partisan affiliation. Members and staff are likewise prohibited from threatening punitive action on the basis of such considerations.””

I can’t see where this has anything to do with the statement that this jerk supposedly made about subpoena power.

AND who on earth is the Jr. she’s talking about?


51 posted on 12/07/2018 3:45:04 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: grundle

Lock her up? Even before the inauguration?


52 posted on 12/07/2018 3:45:09 PM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: Old Yeller

“”Why would she write something like that when she has a son with Downs Syndrome? “”

Where did that come from? A source? A real source?


53 posted on 12/07/2018 3:53:23 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: grundle

It’s the Communist way.


54 posted on 12/07/2018 3:56:27 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.,)
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To: grundle

Just remember, the democrats don’t factor in IQ when they hand out positions. (See Maxine Waters).


55 posted on 12/07/2018 3:58:15 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: lurk

I see Government as a necessary Evil.


56 posted on 12/07/2018 4:08:49 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Old Yeller

You are confusing FR Poster Sarah Barracuda with Governor Sarah Palin.

Might be time to take a nap.


57 posted on 12/07/2018 4:10:10 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: marktwain

I expect they will straighten her out directly.

Or at least try mightily to do so.


58 posted on 12/07/2018 4:14:35 PM PST by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Bell Bouy II

As with Mad Maxine just look at the constituents that put her there.
Total ignorance and government dependancy

It’s like we’re living the movie “Idiocracy”.


59 posted on 12/07/2018 4:16:15 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Snickering Hound; All
No member of the House of Representatives has ever been impeached.

No, but many have had ethics complaints brought against them and have resigned.

60 posted on 12/07/2018 4:20:24 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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