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Butch Patterson Private Dick - The Comedy Network - February 27, 1999 - January 31, 2001

Comedy (39 episodes)

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Greg Lawrence as Butch Patterson

Sarah Van Diepen as Jasmine Griffen

John Ng as The Swede  (Serge LaCroix)

Susan Brooks as Debbie Hitler

David L.  McCallum as Tommy Rubella

David Elver as Vance Van Vandervan

Vivian Burns as Blanche Dumarier

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Calling Something Racist is Worse Than Being Racist, House Edition

Today, the House of Representatives voted 240-187 to condemn "President Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of Congress." A grand total of four Republicans -- Reps. Susan Brooks (IN), Brian Fitzpatrick (MI), Will Hurd (TX), Fred Upton (MI), along with newly-independent Rep. Justin Amash (MI) -- joined every Democrat in voting for the resolution. In case you're curious, Brooks already announced she's retiring, Upton is a major Democratic target in 2020 (and on the retirement watchlist), Hurd -- the sole Black Republican in the House -- is a major 2020 target, and Fitzpatrick is  -- you guessed it -- a major Democratic target in 2020. In any event, in the course the debate over the resolution, chaos erupted when Speaker Pelosi referred to Trump's racist comments as "racist". Republicans sought to strike that from the record, citing parliamentary rules which forbid calling the President "racist" (see page 190). The rulings against calling the President racist, or saying he's made racist or bigoted comments, or of having run a prejudiced campaign, started popping up in 2016 and 2017 (no such rule can be found in the manual for the 114th Congress). How mysterious. Can't imagine what Paul Ryan and company were thinking when they slotted those in. We now return to our regularly scheduled political commentary about how liberal snowflakes need to be protected from hurtful speech that damages their feelings and will resort to outright censorship in order to accomplish it. via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/2SiDZNC

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Duncan Hunter, US congressman, blames wife over $250,000 campaign fraud scandal

A US congressman accused of using $250,000 in campaign donations to fund his own lavish lifestyle appeared to blame his wife for the scandal.

Under the Federal Election Campaign Act:

“Campaign funds are not to be used ... to pay a Member’s personal obligations. ... Members have no discretion whatsoever to convert campaign funds to personal use.”

In 2016, the House Ethics Committee investigated Republican Duncan Hunter for using campaign funds for personal expenses. Among other things, Hunter’s campaign paid for video games on Steam on 68 separate occasions, totaling $1,302. Hunter blamed his teenage son, claiming he had used Hunter’s credit card without authorization, and said he would repay the campaign after he first tried to get the credit card company to reverse the fraudulent charges.

The House Ethics Committee evidently was not impressed with Hunter’s explanation, nor with the explanations for tens of thousands dollars more in campaign funds spent on personal expenses. In 2017, after investigating, the Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics unanimously found “substantial reason to believe” that Hunter had:

“converted tens of thousands of dollars of campaign funds from his congressional campaign committee to personal use to pay for family travel, flights, utilities, health care, school uniforms and tuition, jewelry, groceries, and other goods, services, and expenses.”

The House Ethics Committee held off pursuing any further action against Hunter, however... at the request of the Justice Department, because the FBI had launched its own criminal investigation into Hunter for his misuse of “tens of thousands in campaign funds.”

Hunter immediately denied that he had anything to do with anything relating to his own campaign’s funds:

“Hunter won’t say who is responsible for tens of thousands of dollars in campaign charges for personal expenses, but he says it wasn’t him and he’s broken no laws. ‘I was not involved in any criminal action ... I didn’t make any of those charges. None. None of those expenditures.’”

Hunter’s wife Margaret, listed as his campaign manager, was the only person other than Hunter who had access to the campaign credit card. When Hunter was asked whether he was blaming his wife, however, he wouldn’t say:

“I’m not saying that. I’m saying that I didn't make any of those charges. That’s for an investigation. I’m just telling you that I didn’t make any of those expenditures.”

Now that the FBI has indicted Hunter for fraud, conspiracy, and illegal use of over $250,000 in campaign funds, Hunter is back to his old habit of trying to shift blame to family members. Instead of his son, he’s now blaming his wife for the whole thing:

“I gave her power of attorney. She handled my finances throughout my entire military career and that continued on when I got into Congress. She was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did, that’ll be looked at too, I’m sure, but I didn’t do it. I didn’t spend any money illegally.”

And, as you might expect from a supporter of Donald Trump, Hunter is also calling the whole thing a politically motivated witch hunt and blaming the Democrats and Hillary Clinton. Naturally.

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Who: Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Indiana)

Twitter: @SusanWBrooks

When: October 2019

What: State Trooper Peter Stephan

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Who: Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Indiana)

Twitter: @SusanWBrooks

When: May 2019

What: Jake Laird Act

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Who: Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Indiana)

Twitter: @SusanWBrooks

When: April 2019

What: Life and Legacy of Senator Richard Lugar

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Democrats vote to condemn Trump's racist tweets as Republicans vote in near-lockstep to defend them

By a near-party line vote of 240-187, the House of Representatives voted this evening to condemn Trump's racist tweets against Democratic House members.

Hunter at Daily Kos: 

By a near-party line vote of 240-187, the House of Representatives voted this evening to condemn Trump's racist tweets against Democratic House members. Republican Reps. Will Hurd, Fred Upton, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Susan Brooks crossed to vote with the Democrats, as did now-independent Rep. Justin Amash.

All but four House Republicans voted that Trump's tweet telling four Democrats, all of whom are women of color, to "go back" to the countries from which they came (all but one are American-born) was not a racist remark. Instead, they used procedural motions to challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Eric Swalwell who called Trump's remarks "racist" in their speeches supporting the resolution.

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Who: Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Indiana)

Twitter: @SusanWBrooks

When: January 2019

What: Tyler Trent / #TylerStrong

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