When Jim Jordan Has A Bad Day, I Enjoy It. So Can You! UPDATE! Don’t Send The DJ Home!
It looks like Congressvarmint Jordan will be getting a visit from the FEC’s lawyers in the enforcement division.
And, oh Baby, they far exceed $100,000 by a lot. By a whole lot.
Yeah, it appears that there’s some hanky-panky that Ole Jim absolutely didn’t see for himself and had no idea it was going on. No idea, I tell you, he did not see it, nor did he look for it. It was just going on with him in the next room but he didn’t know it. You know how that happens, right?
Here’s just s few of the things Jim didn’t see or know that was happening on his own campaign finance reports.
* an increase in disbursements totaling $37,784.91 and a decrease in receipts totaling $176,910.06 on a 2019 report that covered campaign expenses between July and September.
* an increase in receipts totaling $144,562.79 on its year end report for 2019.
* a decrease in receipts totaling $56,995.48 and a decrease in disbursements totaling $502,687.65 on a 2020 pre-primary report that covered January 1 through February 26.
And that’s just a tiny little simple.
Poor Jim. People do all manner of horrible things right around him that he can’t see. It must be awful to live that way.
He’s having a bad day.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
UPDATE: Well, lookie here —
The Daily Beast has jumped on the story with both feet and a cannon ball.
Brett Kappel, campaign finance attorney at Harmon Curran, said that the reports appear “so substantially incorrect” that the FEC may order an audit.
“The legal standard to trigger an FEC audit is high: Whether filings meet the threshold for ‘substantial compliance’ with the law,” Kappel explained. “Jordan’s FEC reports were so substantially incorrect over such a long period of time that they may meet the standard.”
We’ll probably have more days to enjoy about Jordan before this is over. That’s a mess of money!
Jim didn’t have time to follow the money. He was frantically searching for a suit jacket.
1He’s still got his fingers in his ears from his days at tOSU. I mean, once you’ve perfected the art of not hearing the students you’re responsible for tell you the team doc is groping them, ignoring some boring ol’ numbers must be pretty durn easy.
2Can’t wait to see George Clooney’s documentary on Jordan.
3Yup, he hears no evil, sees no evil. He’s evil. Look in the mirror gymbo. Time for those with first hand knowledge of his see no evil, hear no evil at the ohio state to come out and make life miserable for him, too. Little bit of his own medicine.
4“The campaign says no money was ever missing from its accounts, and blames the inconsistencies on troubles adjusting to skyrocketing donations as Jordan’s national profile grew.”
Now that feeble excuse just shows his incompetence at Republican Politics (TM). Instead, he should have blamed it on skyrocketing regulations from the FEC that no plain old guy like Gymbo could possibly keep track of. And it was prompted by Democrats and Deep State actors trying to put roadblocks in the way of Making American Great Again. And anyway, what does the FEC have against America? Has anyone seen the FEC stand for the national anthem? Thought not.
So the real solution here is to get rid of the FEC and its onerous burden of regulations that prevent small businessman from giving Gymbo all the money they want.
[Ya know, I would make a good Republican political consultant. Except I hate wearing ties, and would not be able to keep a straight face.]
5Are we having fun yet?
6Eat your heart out Louie Gohmert as you continue to act the fool for your mere $20, peanuts and barbecue sauce grift.
Not totally facetious, but maybe the first step toward election reform should be all corruption beyond 10% is immediate grounds for expulsion.
Anyone here from NJ who can better explain what happened to NJ Gub Cahill when he went greedy beyond the ‘acceptable’ 10% at the time? Da Chipster, if your hear us, we miss you, man. No one could tell that story as well as you! Your ability to inform at length, maintain interest, and entertain is a rare skill.
The Surly Professor @5 rofl, we double dog dare you to enter that QOP ring of hell for 5 minutes and keep a straight face. Extra points and a donation to your favorite and Ms. JJ’s charities if you vomit on their shoes before you bust out laughing in their faces.
7For someone whose previous career involved following specific rules in the sport of wrestling to avoid penalties or disqualification, and counting points to see who wins and who loses, Jim Jordan is pretty bad at both.
8BarbinDC: While the country in general and Texas in particular aren’t having a good time yet … those of us here at the Salon are enjoying this greatly. A coach turned politician who is so corrupt the flies won’t land on him, and he’s not from the South!
Now the real question is if Zippy the Pinhead is having fun yet. Years ago I gathered a collection of ZTP quotes and inserted random ones as error messages in the computer programs I wrote. I still get queries from Los Alamos and Livermore national labs about that.
Vote for ME — I’m well-tapered, half-cocked, ill-conceived and TAX-DEFERRED!
9An FEC audit? Heh. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
10A few hundred thousand here and there, the FEC will handle, $3million? The IRS will be paying him a visit!
11If I could get my health insurance to pay to fix my “giveashit gland”,…..nah I wouldn’t give a shit anyway
12Why not @12: While having to agree more with the folks having fun in this particular situation, I can definitely relate to your outlook. I never had it diagnosed as glandular in nature. But if I had a dollar for every time I informed somebody that my giveaf**kometer was dangerously low just because I was tired of facepalming, I’d be independently wealthy.
13Some enterprising journalist should ask him if he’s a crook or incompetent. Binary choice there as I see it.
14So outside of publicizing the discrepanies, what else can the FEC do? Not a lot, I hear.
Seems a shame to just let these fools off so easy.
15Have we ever had a blind congressman before? Gym is unable to see groping, voting, bookkeeping, insurrection.
(Wikipedia says yes. Matthew Dunn may have been the unluckiest congressman ever. He lost an eye in an accident, then 8 years later the other eye in another accident.)
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