Cruz Cruises Corruption Case
Well, you might remember some postings on this not-a-damned-blog where Senator Ted Cruz was caught with his hand in the lucre jar with his sweetheart deal with iHeartMedia. It seems the case has been referred to the Federal Election Commission for it to place its consequential weight on what seems to be a clear violation of just about every kind of ethical canon ever written by humankind.
OK, that last one might be hyperbole, but the shoe does fit.
And this writing right here might be [yawn] a little boring and [yawn] repetitious [yawn], but let’s just say [yawn] we need a proper [yawn] story on the endgame [yawn] to round out the whole discussion [yawn].
In summary, the endgame is this: nothing is going to happen.
The Raw Story has it, but the matter was originally reported by The San Antonio Current:
“Trey Trainor, an attorney serving on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) — the panel scheduled to hear the complaint — recently retweeted a photo his wife Lucy Trainor shared of a yard sign outside their Austin-area home promoting the Texas Republican’s campaign for a third term in the U.S. Senate.”
Here is a screenshot of the “tweet”.
It gets worse:
“Trainor’s retweet follows last month’s report by the Current that FEC Chairman Sean J. Cooksey served as Cruz’s deputy chief counsel in 2018. From 2019 until joining the FEC in 2020, Cooksey served as general counsel for Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, a GOP hardliner frequently aligned with Cruz.”
And you’ll never guess who appointed both Trainor and Cooksey to the FEC. You got it, Donald Von Shitzenpantz.
In short, in this jury of 6, Ted Cruz has two FEC “no” votes already in his pocket.
One caveat. If you look at the retweet, you can see that Trey Trainor is not, himself, responsible for sticking Ted Cruz’s campaign sign in his yard. His wife, Lucy Trainor, did it.
Lucy Trainor is currently Election Integrity Director for the Republican Party of Texas.
You just cannot make this stuff up.
These people; I just don’t know.
1Texas GOP: “Ethics? We don’t need no steenkin’ ethics!”
2Repubs doing Limbo with Ethics. How low can they go? Ans: Not much further or is that fuhrer?
3Lucy Trainor could improve that front yard display with a window speaker and loop of the Beatles singing “when I find myself in times of trouble mother Mary comes to me.”
4magats are filing impeachment charges against Biden for saying he won’t send bombs to Israel if they invade Rafah.
5Impeachment charges? Has Congress declared war on Hamas??? Is Biden interfering with an officially declared war?
Remember, Congress never declared war on the Viet Cong. Or Cambodia. Bombing, napalming, and strafing the crap out of the countryside was by “executive authority.”
So a president has the right to bomb whomever he wants, but does not have the right NOT to bomb them?
6Change the “xas” to a “d” and the sign will be correct.
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