Posted on 06/18/2024 7:32:19 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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Flying high in Congress last summer, Garret Graves is now stepping down. Here's what happened. BY MARK BALLARD | Staff writer 4 hrs ago 5 min to read Congressman Graves Reelection Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., speaks with members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2023. Last Friday, Graves announced he will not run for reelection.
Associated Press Photo by Patrick Semansky Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Copy article link WASHINGTON – About this time last year, U.S. Rep. Garret Graves was one of the most powerful people in Congress, meeting at the White House to negotiate deep budget cuts while trying to keep the federal government afloat.
The Baton Rouge Republican was poised to become the next chair of the powerful House Transportation Committee. He had sponsored a key portion of the Republican majority’s centerpiece legislation aimed at increasing oil and gas production.
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He made a bad choice.
Hunter said that’s nothing, I was flying high at the White House.
"His district had been dismantled and redrawn with a Black majority constituency, making reelection untenable – a remap carried out by fellow Republicans in the GOP-led Louisiana Legislature, largely at the insistence of Republican Gov. Jeff Landry."
The stupid party. Of course Louisiana is famed for producing dolts in both parties.
He gave Biden what he wanted for nothing in exchange.
Biden went to the Beach and didn’t even attend, the shutdown threat was so serious.
He might have been doing what McCarthy told him, but they screwed us. There was nothing mandating Dems to do what they claimed was negotiated. Dems laugh all the way to the Bank, again.
The is something odd about all this. He was a loyal soldier for the GOPe, but they then erased his seat.
He screwed the pooch somewhere down the line. He might have went all the way with Joe Biden.
[At the time, former U.S. Sen. John Breaux, a Crowley Democrat, said two things had put Graves in danger during the reapportionment battle.
“I think he just got crossways with the new governor by not supporting him in the primary and with Steve Scalise when he was running to be speaker,” Breaux said.]
[Breaking NEWS: RINOs shoot white man.
“His district had been dismantled and redrawn with a Black majority constituency, making reelection untenable – a remap carried out by fellow Republicans in the GOP-led Louisiana Legislature, largely at the insistence of Republican Gov. Jeff Landry.”
The stupid party. Of course Louisiana is famed for producing dolts in both parties.]
Louisiana makes South Carolina look sane.
Man who straddles two opposing political points of view very often loses his testicles...
Don’t let the door hit you on the rump when you leave...
Run for governor and get even...
The fix is in.
Covers it all succinctly.
Bkmk
Thanks for this. I hate these paywalls.
Course, I have one on my substack . . . .
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