Posted on 10/06/2016 8:33:48 AM PDT by wtd
A group of 30 former Republican members of Congress have publicly come out Donald Trump.
It's the largest group of former Republican elected officials to officially announce their opposition to the current leader of their party.
Here's a list of signatories:
A boatload of left-winger RINOs oppose Trump, film at 11.
Seriously, who cares? These former congressmen are nothings and nobodies. This means as much as the laughable “cast of Star Trek” pronouncement.
LOTS of bitter, bitter jealousy going on here, how DARE someone like Donald Trump—NOT a career politician—be so successful!!!
One common theme in this is that many of these individuals are either old/senile or left-wingers to begin with, with a few creeps in the barrel.
•Steve Bartlett (R-TX)
69, hasn’t held office in 25 years. Supposedly Conservative in Congress. 1 term Mayor of Dallas.
•Bob Bauman (R-MD)
79, once a Conservative leader, turned out to be a major-league homosexual and was arrested for propositioning a cop. Lost reelection in the Reagan ‘80 landslide. Hasn’t held office in 36 years.
•Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY)
80, left-winger. Hasn’t held office in a decade.
•Jack Buechner (R-MO)
76, failed two-term Congressman who couldn’t win a third term in the most heavily GOP St. Louis suburbs.
•Tom Campbell (R-CA)
64, left-wing RINO. Hasn’t held office in 16 years, failed candidate for Senate.
•Bill Clinger (R-PA)
87, RINO, hasn’t held office in 20 years.
•Tom Coleman (R-MO)
73, RINO, defeated in a GOP district in 1992 by a Dem. Hasn’t held office in 24 years.
•Geoff Davis (R-KY)
58, had a decent record in Congress. Peculiar endorsement from a guy who was anti-Zero. Resigned in 2012.
•Mickey Edwards (R-OK)
79, RINO who was defeated in a primary in 1992. Has been routinely endorsing Democrats, I would not consider him a Republican.
•Harris Fawell (R-IL)
87, RINO Establishment hack. Last held office 18 years ago.
•Ed Foreman (R-TX) (R-NM)
83, fluke winner in 2 races in 2 states in adjacent districts in 1962 and 1968, defeated after a single term in both. Hasn’t held office in 46 years. Became a motivational speaker.
•Amo Houghton, Jr. (R-NY)
90, RINO liberal, scion of the party establishment. Last held office 12 years ago.
•Gordon Humphrey (Senator, R-NH)
76 (on Sunday), a decent Conservative in office. Seems to have become embittered in recent years, perhaps senility ? Been out of federal office 26 years.
•Bob Inglis (R-SC)
57 (next Tuesday), went full “Lindsay Graham” RINO in office, rebuked by the primary voters on two occasions.
•Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
74, homosexual RINO liberal who was pleased to see his seat go Democrat.
•Steve Kuykendall (R-CA)
69, useless RINO who won Jane Harman’s seat in 1998 only to have her take it back from him in 2000.
•Jim Leach (R-IA)
74 (week from next Saturday), RINO leftist who ceased to be a Republican with his endorsement of Zero 2 years after his defeat in 2006.
•Pete McCloskey (R-CA)
89, far-far-left moonbat. He never was a real Republican. After leaving Congress in 1983 to run for the Senate, he did the Dems a favor in 2006 by running to weaken Rep. Richard Pombo in the primary, which was enough to cost his seat to a Dem. McCloskey formally switched to the Democrats not long after. He has no business being on this list as a committed Democrat.
•Connie Morella (R-MD)
85, RINO leftist. Last held office 14 years ago when she couldn’t persuade her district to vote in an actual Dem instead of a pretend one.
•Mike Parker (R-MS)
(Nearly) 67, ex-Dem turned Republican, lost MS Governorship, got thrown a bone by Dubya. Hasn’t held office in 18 years.
•Tom Petri (R-WI)
76, RINO Establishment. Left office in 2015 after a half-century in “public service.”
•John Porter (R-IL)
81, liberal RINO from the Chicago ‘burbs.
•Claudine Schneider (R-RI)
69, left-wing RINO who last won office in 1988.
•John “Joe” Schwarz (R-MI)
(Almost 79), notorious left-winger crypto-Democrat who sabotaged the Republican who beat him in the primary for the Dems. Won a single term in 2004.
•Chris Shays (R-CT)
(Almost 71), another notorious left-wing RINO. Defeated in 2008.
•Peter Smith (R-VT)
(Almost 71), RINO who has the distinction of being the last Republican Congressman in the state to date. Served an undistinguished single term in 1989-91 before being defeated by Communist Bernie Sanders, who got to Smith’s right on guns (Smith was a gun-grabber). An imbecile to be sure.
•Edward Weber (R-OH)
85, One-term wonder who rode Reagan’s coattails in ‘80 a Dem-leaning Toledo district over longtime Dem Lud Ashley. Marcy Kaptur took the seat back in 1982.
•Vin Weber (R-MN)
64, last won office in 1990. RINO WillardBot.
•G. William Whitehurst (R-VA)
91, last held office 30 years ago. Moved towards RINO in his final years, seat went to the Dems.
•Dick Zimmer (R-NJ)
72, embittered RINO who lost a winnable Senate race in 1996 (and again in 2008).
Never heard of most of them, so there must be a reason....lol
Nice work DJ!
That’s quite the compendium of morons, wimps and losers whose opinions mean less then nothing.
It does show that the “GOP drift to the left” occurs so, so much more than the “RAT drift to the right”, which is as rare as hen’s teeth.
If that's ironic or sarcastic, it's brilliant.
If you really mean it, you have serious problems.
Interesting...thank you for pulling all those details together.
What, no Denny Hastert?
L
Trump has done a remarkable job at smoking out the members of the corrupt bipartisan governing class who’ve worked together for decades to destroy the country.
“Je Suis Pepe”
Je Suis Pepe? REALLY? You...Pepe?
Motherf***er!!! You’re going for a leadership role in the TRUMPSATZGRUPPEN, aren’t you?
#pepe
Slow to read my tagline ?
I guess so. I’ve been a bit distracted lately...
The consequences of low testosterone.
Have you been down to the Target to measure for the drapes ?
No. My “avvocato Italiano” is handling that.
I only started driving again yesterday.
What you said, bet on it!
Here’s hoping President Trump hustles through an executive order that forbids former congresspeople from lobbying any government office for a period of 25 years after leaving office.
No, you do by caving to the Democrats.
"At some point you have to put country over party," said Coleman. "I think he's dangerous. I think he is mentally and emotionally unfit to be president."
And Hillary is putting the country over party? This is a woman who has left a vast swathe of destruction over the middle east, a woman whose policies got 4 people killed in Benghazi and then she lied to the families, a woman who compromised national security with her private server, and a woman who engaged in pay to play. Yet not one of you spineless hacks has come out against her.
But will the members vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton? "I don't know," Coleman said.
"It's not about voting for somebody. We left it open for people to support Mrs. Clinton - that's fine or they vote third party or some don't want to vote at all," he added.
Who the hell else is left? You just endorsed Clinton without saying it.
Thank God these are FORMER GOP Congressmen.
I looked up the first five. I’m too nauseous to continue.
Harry Steven Bartlett, known as Steve Bartlett (born September 19, 1947) is the former President and CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable, an advocacy group lobbying the U.S. federal government on financial services legislation, a position which he held from 1999 to 2012.[2]
On October 3, 1980, while running for re-election, Bauman was charged for attempting to solicit sex from a 16-year-old male prostitute.
Sherwood Boehlert... was challenged in the Republican primary five times: 1986 (67%),[5] 1996 (65%),[6] 2000 (57%),[7] 2002 (53%),[8] and 2004 (60%). He serves currently on the Board of the Alliance for Climate Protection chaired by former Vice President Al Gore.
Jack Buechner serves as Senior Counsel to The Hawthorn Group of Alexandria, VA. and is on the Advisory Board of Bloomberg Government.
Campbell expressed concern that Al-Arian’s academic freedom was being infringed upon... Four years later, on March 2, 2006, Al-Arian entered a guilty plea to a charge of conspiracy to help the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a “specially designated terrorist” organization;
NAUSEATING IS RIGHT...THE ONES I LOOKED AT ARE GLOBALIST LIBERALS AND IN SOME CASES CROOOOOKS!
~~Harris Fawell. He is now 87. What a globalist loser! In 2008, Fawell endorsed his home state’s junior United States Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States, against his party’s nominee, Arizona senator John McCain.[2]
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~~John Porter is from a liberal wealthy IL district (Mark Kirk’s district). He is 81. He is clearly a globalist liberal, tho he describes himself as a moderate...He served as a founder and co-chair for the Congressional Human Rights Caucus for 18 years[2] and oversaw budget appropriations for all federal health and education programs and agencies, including NIH, CDC and AHRQ.
Currently he is a partner of the law firm Hogan Lovells [1] and serves as chairman of Research ! America, Vice Chair of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the Boards of the PBS Foundation and the First Focus Campaign for Children [2], and a trustee for the Brookings Institution. Porter is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the Bretton Woods Committee, the InterAmerican Dialogue and Council for Foreign Relations. Previously, he was Chairman of PBS and served on the boards of the RAND Corporation, the American Heart Association and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Tom Petri R-WI 76 years old...Claimed to be a moderate but he is liberal globalist thru and thru!! Some of his gems include: (At bottom note that he was under investigation and found to violate ethics, but no punishment...)
Petri’s three largest contributors in the 2012 campaign cycle were labor unions.[13] He voted for Project Labor Agreements (PLAs)[15] and twice voted to allow the use of PLAs in government contracts.[16][17][18] Petri also voted to permit the use of taxpayer funds to comply with the Davis-Bacon Act,[19] voted to use federal funds for collective bargaining by the Transportation Security Administration,[20] and voted in favor of $233 million in taxpayer funding for the National Labor Relations Board.[21]
In 1994, Petri introduced H.R. 4469, “The Multicare Act of 1994”. This bill would have established federally funded government-run health insurance programs, and would have authorized states to require an individual to purchase insurance from one of these government-run insurance plans.[22] Petri continued to push for the passage of Multicare until 2004.[23]
On November 2, 2005, Petri voted against the Online Freedom of Speech Act.[28]
On January 18, 2007 Petri voted in favor of HR 6, which made it more difficult to obtain a lease to drill for oil domestically.[29]
Petri endorsed Mitt Romney in the 2008 GOP presidential primary.[30] He subsequently endorsed John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
n 2014, Petri was investigated for advocating for a constituent company, Oshkosh Corporation, in which he held stock.[41] He was also under scrutiny in regard to another Wisconsin-based business, The Manitowoc Company, in which he had a financial interest.[42] Although the Office of Congressional Ethics found reason to believe Petri violated House rules and standards, the House Ethics Committee disagreed, voting not to impose sanctions on him.[43]
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~~I looked up Vin Weber since he called TRump a Sociopath (amazing what diagnoses a BS degree from MN qualifies one to make..) What a dishonest pig! Among his resume bullet points...he is part of House Banking Scandal writing bad checks for nearly $48,000. a CFR, NPR, Aspen Institute
member, and Bush devotee.
Weber retired from congress in 1992, following the House banking scandal, in which he was implicated for writing 125 bad checks worth nearly $48,000.[1] Then commentator for NPR. Weber frequently offered his opinions on NPR about health care issues, but never revealed that he was a paid lobbyist for several health insurance giants.[2]
Weber was managing partner of the Washington, D.C. branch of lobbying firm Clark & Weinstock. In 2006, home mortgage giant Freddie Mac paid Weber $360,297 to lobby on its behalf to fend off meaningful regulation in the lead up to the subprime mortgage crisis.[4] Weber also lobbied for Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned natural gas company.[5]
In 2011 Clark & Weinstock merged with Mercury,[6] with Weber becoming a partner in the combined firm.[7]
[8] Weber also serves as chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, nonprofit organization designed to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts.
Weber is a board member of several private sector and nonprofit organizations, including ITT Educational Services (ITT Tech Becomes Latest Casualty of Government Crackdown on For-Profit Education. . Sept. 10, 2016. - TheStreet.com. Fortune.com/2016/08/26/itt-technical-institute-doe/
Aug 26, 2016 ... “We’re no longer allowing ITT to enroll new students with federal aid,” says the U.S. Under Secretary of Education. Fortune.com/2016/08/26/itt-technical-institute-doe )
Member of the Aspen Institute. He also serves on the Board of The Council on Foreign Relations and co-chaired the Independent Task Force on U.S. Policy toward Reform in the Arab World with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In addition, Weber is a member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board.
Hastert is too busy with his new boyfriend, Tyrone, to worry about the Presidential race.
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