Posted on 12/13/2024 7:25:03 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
DeSantis naming Lara Trump to fill Rubio’s seat wouldn’t be the most corrupt appointment from a governor like Rod Blagojevich did when considering candidates to fill Barack Obama’s seat.
Ted Kennedy. Because the younger Kennedy was too young to take up the remainder of the term family patriarch Joseph Kennedy instructed Gov. Foster Furcolo to name a family friend as placeholder. Say what you will about Joe’s tactics, but Teddy won the seat fair and square in the 1962 midterm elections and held it until his death in 2009.
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**By the early 20th century, a series of well-publicized corruption scandals meant that momentum for a constitutional amendment had gathered steam. After ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, senators would henceforth be directly elected by their state’s voters.**
It’s still a millionaires club. It’s the members who can self fund. I didn’t contribute to Sheehy in Mt. He could buy it. Before the 17th amendment rich folk would bribe state legislators to get the job.
Getting DeSantis to pick Lara sounds too risky for the rats to leave alone but I must admit it would be a good in-your-face act.
I prefer Matt Geatz
I don’t agree. Lara did an excellent job keeping the November 2024 election honest. She has proven herself. I hope DeSantis will appoint her to the Senate.
Appointing Lara has a bad look. I admire candidates who run and win.
She and her RNC counterpart did NOTHING to try to stop the cheating and stealing of 4 Senate seats and numerous House seat. They were doing victory laps for Trump while the counting in California went on for over a month and flipped several ruby red seats!
She's no better than Ronna McRomRom.
DeSantis is ethically free to name anyone he wants, assuming no conflict of interest. If he wants to name Lara Trump, I see no ethical issue. None. Who are these people who think they are the self-appointed moral arbiters anyway?
Check out the author’s backround.
Looks like he worked at DHS at some point a while back.
Why are so many enemedia outlets , local, state, national hiring former federal employees...
If Lara's as smart as she appears to be, she'll help defeat the Democrats by performance, and their propaganda will have no more effect than it did on November 5, 2024.
**Check out the author’s backround.**
MSNBC-no need to. May be unemployed soon.
I want Rubio to stay in the Senate.
Republicans need every Hispanic vote they can get.
Donald “Dudley Doright” Trump should have learned a lesson from the Jeff Sessions loss of the Senate debacle.
Donald Trump can find another Spanish speaker to be Secretary of State. Trump probably appointed a number of ambassadors to Spanish speaking countries. Many CEOs speak Spanish.
Floridians have gotten Bushed by family political dynasties.
Your bias towards DeSanctimonious is showing.
Perhaps this guy for Secretary of State:
https://hispanicexecutive.com/podcast/the-latino-majority/the-latino-majority-e47-oscar-munoz/
“Oscar Munoz is the former CEO and chairman of United Airlines and serves on the board of directors of Salesforce, CBRE, TelevisaUnivision, and Archer Aviation, a leading Urban Air Mobility company and developer of all-electric vertical take-off and landing (“eVTOL”) aircraft.
“In addition to his service to the Pentagon’s Defense Business Board, he is a trustee of the University of Southern California and the Brookings Institution, as well as an independent trustee for Fidelity. He is the author of a recent memoir, Turnaround Time, published by Harper Business in spring 2023.”
Dimocrats are free to appoint whoever they want. Republicans are held to a higher standard. I seem to be getting it.
These same people loved JFK hiring his brother as the AG.
Lara did an excellent job keeping the November 2024 election honest.“
Hmm Trump beat the cheat bump but the rats stole 4 Senate seats, a dozen or more House seats and God knows what else. No one who matters has said a word about it.
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