• TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Jesus, after all the shit that has been uncovered about this fucker, 114 voted “No” to throw him out?

    Investigate those 114 motherfuckers.

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      11 months ago

      They know the seat will go Dem in the special election, and it just chips away at their teeny tiny majority ahead of the 2024 elections. That’s all there is to it. They know he’s an embarrassment who continuously broke the law, they just don’t care.

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        11 months ago

        Nah. They’re on record saying it sets a bad precedent to expel a member before they are convicted. I can only imagine the awful shit they’re hiding and are worried they could get expelled for.

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          The district has gone for Democrats in every presidential election of the past 20 years except once. A Democrat held the house seat for the past ten years prior to the 2022 election. Special elections are usually a little weird and Dem’s have been doing really well in them recently. It might be a competitive and close election, but it’s not a red district by any stretch of the imagination.

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      11 months ago

      It’s not rocket science. The only publicly said reason it’s never happened before is they want to respect the decision of their constituents. Unofficially, nobody wanted to see themselves on that chopping block.

      From a political scientist game theory point of view it’s possible that a majority faction of party A throws a minority faction of Party A on the chopping block and Party B obliges them because they think they can pick up those voters.

      So yeah, a lot of resistance to actually unseating someone. For good and bad reasons.