8th flip. So he’s getting close to be tied with Jeffries. But still unsure how many members aren’t in attendance yet.
Wait.. 1 house member can call vote no confidence, not just 1 repub?Weird thing going on in the press who are framing the flips as a huge victory after he gave away the store and really just moves the problem.
As somebody notes:
Wait.. 1 house member can call vote no confidence, not just 1 repub?
Omg... Dems should call a no confidence vote weekly!
Yeah I don’t get why they didn’t accept 5Wait.. 1 house member can call vote no confidence, not just 1 repub?
Omg... Dems should call a no confidence vote weekly!
Reasoning was that it was 5 core holdouts so if one wants to vacate the others are in line. But to my knowledge it is still just Pubs. Not any members.Yeah I don’t get why they didn’t accept 5
Donalds voted for himself. But who is this guy? He’s from Florida, so doubt he’s that good that the Dems could vote for him
In 1997, Donalds was arrested for marijuana distribution; the charges were dropped as part of a pre-trial diversion program. In 2000, he pleaded guilty to a felony bribery charge as part of a scheme to defraud a bank,[13][14][15] which was expunged after he entered the Florida House.
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Donalds was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2016. During his Florida House tenure, he chaired the Insurance and Banking Subcommittee.[17]
During his [2020 congressional] campaign, Donalds described himself as a "Trump supporting, gun owning, liberty loving, pro-life, politically incorrect Black man."[22]
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In January 2021, Donalds voted to object to the certification of electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania in the 2020 presidential election.[27]
2020 Aug 10
On [his 2020 congressional] campaign trail, Byron Donalds hasn't hidden the criminal charges in his past.
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The Republican candidate for Florida's congressional District 19 has highlighted the charges as youthful missteps in appearances and campaign ads, characterizing them as a tale of sin and atonement that makes him uniquely qualified, he says, to serve others.
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"... when the records are expunged, the records don’t exist anymore," he said. "A judge ruled that I could have these records expunged. Under law, I don’t have to acknowledge that because the records technically don’t even exist anymore.
“So whether it was the FSW board of trustees, or whether it was my security licensing … what I’ve done is lawful."
I mean in what other workplace would you carry on trying to do a job if the majority of your colleagues told you 14 times they didn't want you doing it?!13 is in the books. On to 14.
Well, he indeed had the votes to successfully... adjourn! (until 10pm tonight)Spineless one, first time in a few days says he has the votes. Like what makes him think the 6 will change their mind now or just vote present to do him a favour? Unless he does plan to knock off a few of them during the break?
I mean in what other workplace would you carry on trying to do a job if the majority of your colleagues told you 14 times they didn't want you doing it?!13 is in the books. On to 14.
I mean in what other workplace would you carry on trying to do a job if the majority of your colleagues told you 14 times they didn't want you doing it?!
Just a few more times before Matt Gaetz loses interest and dips out.13 is in the books. On to 14.
Nah, he just loses interest in all things older than 17.
Still have my fingers crossed that this shit show goes on for weeks, even months. Once the nutjobs cease power we are going to have nonstop Hunter Biden and Fauci persecutions and who knows what other corruption going on in the background, especially after the GOP guts any ethics rules that may apply to them.
There is really no need for the House to do anything until about September when the issue of raising the fed borrowing ceiling comes up.