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Top House Democrat Took $50K From Taxpayers To Keep A Former Staffer Quiet
dailycaller.com ^ | 11/28/17 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 11/28/2017 10:17:10 AM PST by ColdOne

The top Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources used taxpayer dollars to pay off a former staffer who threatened to sue, claiming the lawmaker was often drunk and created a hostile workplace.

Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva’s secret deal with a former female staffer was revealed by The Washington Times on Monday. The payout was negotiated by the House Employment Counsel, the body’s attorney, and cost taxpayers $48,395.

The settlement, however, may have violated House rules, The Times reported. It’s against House rules for a lawmaker to retain “an employee who does not perform duties for the offices of the employing authority commensurate with the compensation such employee receives.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; congresssexscandals; demsexscandals; grijalva; raulgrijalva
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For decades everyone has known of the Kennedy Dodd sandwich. Congress has been a full on sex party for many, many decades.
1 posted on 11/28/2017 10:17:10 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

I want that money back plus the other millions.


2 posted on 11/28/2017 10:20:12 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: ColdOne

Your tax dollars at work.


3 posted on 11/28/2017 10:20:44 AM PST by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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To: ColdOne

Everyone in Arizona politics, Republican and Democrat, knows this guy is an abusive drunk. He can’t even drive because he license is suspended for too many DUI’s. His departure can not come soon enough. The rumor is the drug cartels have him in their pocket.


4 posted on 11/28/2017 10:22:59 AM PST by Hildy
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Time to expose it all! 😏 Get rid of him.
5 posted on 11/28/2017 10:28:19 AM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: ColdOne

more icon bullshit


6 posted on 11/28/2017 10:29:42 AM PST by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this taglineI)
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To: ColdOne

bttt


7 posted on 11/28/2017 10:31:47 AM PST by timestax
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To: ColdOne

If I looked like that, I would drink too. He resembles a cross between a hog and a Brussels Griffon.


8 posted on 11/28/2017 10:32:41 AM PST by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: Hildy

How the heck does he get elected?


9 posted on 11/28/2017 10:35:09 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

They gerrymandered his district so it borders on mexico all the way from Tucson to Yuma.


10 posted on 11/28/2017 10:37:35 AM PST by pfflier
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To: ColdOne

So I busted my butt working in five decades to pay hush money for a bunch of well-connected perverts? Lovely.


11 posted on 11/28/2017 10:39:42 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: ColdOne

Like ducks in a shooting gallery. I wonder why this is all coming out now? ☺


12 posted on 11/28/2017 10:44:36 AM PST by Stentor
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To: ColdOne

I couldn’t think of anyone I’d like to see take a huge fall than that huge pile of sh** anti American Raul gri.


13 posted on 11/28/2017 10:47:56 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: ColdOne

El Gordo !!

14 posted on 11/28/2017 10:47:59 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: ColdOne

How is this not embezzlement ?


15 posted on 11/28/2017 10:49:42 AM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: csvset

He’s so fat he can’t button his collar. How about working in a taco salad now and again. You look like an eggplant.


16 posted on 11/28/2017 10:54:16 AM PST by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: ColdOne

The Times reported. It’s against House rules for a lawmaker to retain “an employee who does not perform duties for the offices of the employing authority commensurate with the compensation such employee receives.”

And this would be the AWANS and 30 or so House Democrats.


17 posted on 11/28/2017 10:54:40 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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A: How is this not embezzlement ?

Q: All $$ ‘belongs’ to govt? Isn’t that how the Uniparty believes, decrees, rules and vote?!

Can’t embezzle when it’s ‘YOUR’ $$. Right /s


18 posted on 11/28/2017 10:55:08 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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rotten-in-the-state-of-denmark-something-is
19 posted on 11/28/2017 10:56:26 AM PST by timestax
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To: csvset

Mooo !


20 posted on 11/28/2017 10:58:01 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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