Provenance Hotels announced Saturday that it has filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Oregon Democratic U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer.
Posted on 11/20/2019 4:59:42 PM PST by Libloather
Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer's call for a boycott of Gordon Sondland's hotels got a short spin in the impeachment spotlight Wednesday morning as Republicans blasted the congressman for "bullying" a congressional witness.
U.S. Rep. Mike Conway, a West Texas Republican, used his three minutes of committee time Wednesday, Nov. 20, to slam Blumenauer's boycott call. Conway said the boycott was intended to intimidate Sondland during his congressional testimony before the House Intelligence Impeachment Inquiry.
"Mr. Blumenauer should not be using the vast influences that we have to bully you (Sondland) and your businesses into harm the hundreds or thousands of employees that operate your business by trying take business away from you to force you into doing something that they wanted you to do," Conway told the committee. "That's a shame. I'm hopeful that my colleagues will join me in saying, 'Mr. Blumenauer, you really shouldn't be using your congressional influence to try to bully and threaten a witness before these proceedings."
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Witness intimidation. Lock him up.
Extortion! Lock him up!
You can only do this to Trump ,D’oh
It took five paragraphs to identify Blumenauer as a Demonrat, but Conway was labelled a Republican the first time he was mentioned. No bias here.....
Can you imagine what these sick puppies will do next November when they lose the election. Time to lock and load my brothers.
I also heard that his lefty lawyer wrote his opening statement
A member of the government using intimidation to silence a person who does not agree with him politically. How is that not a civil rights violation?
The Clintons bribed and threatened witnesses to lie under oath, even Monica
Why is that not an ethics violation?
Not just in Oregon.
Sondland and his wife own shopping centers and hotels in other states as well. I think they own a hotel in Boston.
Witness tampering and intimidation is ILLEGAL! This socialist thug pos needs to be prosecuted.
Isn’t that the extortion the Democrats claim happened in the Ukraine
This was a setup for a press lease. Keep the “No Quid Pro Quo” out of Sondland’s opening statement and then testify, as fact not speculation, that there was quid pro quo discussed with Giuliani. Sondland played his part and Shiffforbrains called a recess to go out to ignite the press coverage. Too bad for the idiot Dems that there was prior rehearsal testimony that Sondland had given, that was in the record, that the POTUS demand of wanting nothing and there would be no quid pro quo.
Orchestrated with the lawyers and Shiffforbrains for the big time press time this morning. Shiffforbrains needs to be impeached. I wonder if the Burbank, CA voters are proud of this clown.
Tortuous interference with business ability to make a profit etc.is a sue able offense.
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