Posted on 03/30/2024 11:18:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Conservatives are angry that Gallagher’s poorly timed resignation will leave the district without representation for the better part of a year.
U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher’s decision to leave Congress — and leave his fellow Republicans and his Wisconsin constituents in the lurch — isn’t sitting well in conservative corners.
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Gallagher announced last month that he would not seek reelection to the seat he first won in the Trump-led red wave of 2016. Last week, he stunned Republicans in announcing that his last day would be April 19. His departure alone would effectively leave already razor-thin Republican control of the House with a meager one-vote majority. But his decision to exit after Wisconsin’s spring election on Tuesday will leave the 8th Congressional District without House representation for the better part of a year.
Wisconsin election law requires the governor to schedule a special election to fill the seat, but only if the vacancy occurs before the first Tuesday in April.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has called on Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to quickly push her resolution for Gallagher’s expulsion. That’s not happening. The backbone-challenged Johnson reportedly was privy to Gallagher’s plans to resign. He had nothing but praise for the establishment Gallagher, who, just days before announcing he wouldn’t seek another term, surprised his Republican colleagues by voting against the impeachment of border-busting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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They gave him a defense contractor no-show job.
Mike Gallagher has the moral compass, character and traitorous sting of a Portuguese Man of War. No forgiveness for this turncoat.
I wonder what Gallagher’s payoff was. Cash would be too obvious, but he was bought off by something valuable to him. He could have done it the honorable way by not running for reelection and leaving Congress at the end of this year. Instead, he did this in a way most damaging to his district and to the thin Republican majority in the House. Unless he has some medical issue, the only answer is a payoff of some kind.
Yes, but, politics is not always about results. If Johnson got ALL the pubbies to vote to expel, it would send a message that they were united. In a very remote possibility it might cause Gallager to reconsider. (I doubt that would happen).
Bribes are laundered as book deals or Netflix contracts or government contractor no-show jobs.
From the Twitter link: 'Mike Gallagher...is taking a job with major defense tech contractor Palantir, multiple people familiar with the matter told Forbes.'
So he’s a whore.
He's a politician. Same thing.
One more and the anti American Jefferies will have the gavel
At least whores provide a service.
A plant.
I looked up info about that company. It is publicly traded, but it’s biggest shareholders are Never Trump types.
“... If Johnson got ALL the pubbies to vote to expel,..”
Yeah, but there’s always 3 or 4 turtle heads to f, er I nean..gum up the works.
No! The big takeaway is that we are eating one another alive to our own detriment. Our focus should be on defeating Demoncrats & we are more focused on being a circular firing squad trying to defeat each other 🙄
No! The big takeaway is that we are eating one another alive to our own detriment. Our focus should be on defeating Demoncrats & we are more focused on being a circular firing squad trying to defeat each other 🙄
Maybe they should vote to set the rule for vacating the Speaker to what it was before McCarthy, while the GOP still has a majority. Maybe that’s Johnson’s end-game.
They seem to do it right. Our guys have had three years and nothing.
First Tuesday in April which is the 2nd.
I wonder where Gallagher will get his next job?
FTFA:
'Mike Gallagher...is taking a job with major defense tech contractor Palantir, multiple people familiar with the matter told Forbes.'
https://twitter.com/Joel_P_Atkinson/status/1771678404003455119
The EGOP hates us. And we hate them.
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