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The tally so far is that the Republicans elected a dead pimp in Nevada, two incumbent congressmen presently under indictment, and a Texas attorney general who is similarly prosecutorially engaged. Then they just made the latter chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association. His newly-elected vice-chairman has just gotten out from under possible charges of having allegedly groped some women at an Indianapolis bar.
Repeating: the newly-elected chairman and vice-chairman of an organization of the top law-enforcement officers in states where Republicans hold that office are a) under indictment, and b) recently under investigation.
There is no punchline. The joke tells itself. From the Times of Northwest Indiana:
Hill will serve as vice chairman of the national organization that raises money and works to elect Republicans to the office of attorney general in all 50 states. The new chairman is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is awaiting trial after being indicted in 2015 for felony securities fraud.
And then there's this guy. From AL.com:
Charges include multiple violations of Alabama’s Ethics Act, including soliciting a thing of value from a principal, lobbyist or subordinate, and receiving money in addition that received in one’s official capacity, according to the Alabama Ethics Commission. Before being appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as the Region 4 administrator of the EPA, Trey Glenn worked closely with the Birmingham-based law firm Balch & Bingham and one of its clients, Drummond Co., to fight EPA efforts to test and clean up neighborhoods in north Birmingham and Tarrant.
Likewise, former Alabama Environmental Management Commissioner Scott Phillips worked with Balch to oppose the EPA. Phillips and Glenn worked together in a company they co-owned, Southeast Engineering & Consulting, at the same time Phillips served on the commission. Under Alabama ethics law, it is illegal for a lobbyist or a lobbyist’s client, called a principal, to give a public official a thing of value, including a job.
Getting so you can't swing a dead cat in a federal courthouse without hitting a Republican. These really are the fcking mole people.
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