Posted on 06/28/2022 4:16:06 AM PDT by cotton1706
Just hours after a judge sentences an ex-congressman from Nebraska for lying to federal agents, voters in his district are expected to elect a different conservative Republican to represent the GOP-dominated district.
Former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry will learn Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom whether he'll get prison time for misleading the FBI about $30,000 in illegal, foreign contributions to his campaign.
Back in Nebraska, voters in the nine-term Republican's district will head to the polls to pick a new representative. Two state lawmakers, Republican Mike Flood and Democrat Patty Pansing Brooks, are running for the seat in the eastern Nebraska district.
Flood appears to have a strong edge in the district, which includes Lincoln, parts of suburban Omaha and dozens of smaller, more conservative towns. The district has nearly 68,000 more Republicans than Democrats and hasn't elected a Democrat to Congress since 1964.
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“Sussmann was found not guilty of a single count of lying to the FBI when he passed the bureau now-discredited information in 2016 linking then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia. The jury in the two-week trial was drawn from heavily Democratic Washington, DC, and the judge in the case was appointed to the federal bench by President Barack Obama.” ~NY Post
Never heard of him. Curious case. Why would a nobody be a target for foreign donations? Hmmm.
Did he tell the FBI the wrong restaurant at which he was eating when he first learned of the very odd ‘foreign donation’ and that was twisted into “lying to the FBI?”
I wish that was sarcasm...
OBAMA had much more than that amount in illegal contributions to his campaigns.
His election workers showed the money came from “GA-—& others thought that meant GEORGIA, USA.
When the INTERNATIONAL Phone number was checked-—the CONTRIBUTIONS came from GAZA.
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