Maine lawmaker asked to resign

[Michael R2]

A Democratic rep from Waldoboro, Maine has been asked by the Speaker of the House (a Democrat) to resign after allegations surfaced that he violated Maine's Clean Elections Act by forging signatures that enabled him to receive public funding for his campaign.

A Maine lawmaker is being asked to resign after a recent fraud indictment

Rep. Clinton Collamore, D-Waldoboro, is accused of forging about 30 signatures to qualify for election funds.

www.newscentermaine.com

This is how it should be done. No hype, no hysteria and no partisanship. Follow the rule of law.

Please note, for those who do wish to make it partisan, a Republican has also been referred by the Commission on Governmental Ethics for the same breach. He, however, was not elected.

https://www.maine.gov/ethics/sites/maine.gov.ethics/files/inline-files/9%20-%20Ethics%20Commission%20Update%20-%20Toth%20and%20Collamore.pdf

 

[glenlogie]

A Democratic rep from Waldoboro, Maine has been asked by the Speaker of the House (a Democrat) to resign after allegations surfaced that he violated Maine's Clean Elections Act by forging signatures that enabled him to receive public funding for his campaign.

A Maine lawmaker is being asked to resign after a recent fraud indictment

Rep. Clinton Collamore, D-Waldoboro, is accused of forging about 30 signatures to qualify for election funds.

www.newscentermaine.com

This is how it should be done. No hype, no hysteria and no partisanship. Follow the rule of law.

Please note, for those who do wish to make it partisan, a Republican has also been referred by the Commission on Governmental Ethics for the same breach. He, however, was not elected.

https://www.maine.gov/ethics/sites/maine.gov.ethics/files/inline-files/9%20-%20Ethics%20Commission%20Update%20-%20Toth%20and%20Collamore.pdf

The question is what would happen if he refused?

 

[vibise]

A Democratic rep from Waldoboro, Maine has been asked by the Speaker of the House (a Democrat) to resign after allegations surfaced that he violated Maine's Clean Elections Act by forging signatures that enabled him to receive public funding for his campaign.

A Maine lawmaker is being asked to resign after a recent fraud indictment

Rep. Clinton Collamore, D-Waldoboro, is accused of forging about 30 signatures to qualify for election funds.

www.newscentermaine.com

This is how it should be done. No hype, no hysteria and no partisanship. Follow the rule of law.

Please note, for those who do wish to make it partisan, a Republican has also been referred by the Commission on Governmental Ethics for the same breach. He, however, was not elected.

https://www.maine.gov/ethics/sites/maine.gov.ethics/files/inline-files/9%20-%20Ethics%20Commission%20Update%20-%20Toth%20and%20Collamore.pdf

Sounds like the Maine Democratic leadership has integrity. Lying is not acceptable.

 

[glenlogie]

Sounds like the Maine Democratic leadership has integrity. Lying is not acceptable.

What is going to happen if he refuses?

 

[vibise]

What is going to happen if he refuses?

I do not live in Maine, and don't know the rules there.

 

[Authentic Nouveau]

Lying is not acceptable.

Fake News has an appetite for lies


-Russian collusion
-Trump called Neo-nazis "fine people"
-Jussie Smollett
-Bubba wallace
-Covington kids
-Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot
-Kavanaugh rape
-Trump pee tape
-Covid lab leak was a conspiracy theory
-Border agents whipped migrants
-Trump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-A-Largo
-Steele dossier
-Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan
-Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID
-Andrew Cuomo best COVID leadership
-Muslim travel ban
-Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation
-Trump built cages for migrant kids
-Austere religious scholar
-Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan
-Build back better will pay for itself
-Trump tax cuts only benefitted the rich
-Cloth masks prevent covid
-If you get vaccinated, you won't catch Covid
-SUV killed parade marchers
-Trump used tear gas to clear a crowd for Bible photo
-Putin price hike
-Ivermectin is a horse dewormer not for humans
-Mostly peaceful protests
-Trump overpowered secret service for wheel of "The Beast"
-Officer Sicknick was murdered by protestors
-January 6 was insurrection
-Trump knocked a reporter's disability
-BYU students hurled racist insults at Duke volleyball player

The most dishonest/malicious left wingers pivot to Trump when we call out their lies.

h/t Harry L

 

[vibise]

Fake News has an appetite for lies


-Russian collusion
-Trump called Neo-nazis "fine people"
-Jussie Smollett
-Bubba wallace
-Covington kids
-Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot
-Kavanaugh rape
-Trump pee tape
-Covid lab leak was a conspiracy theory
-Border agents whipped migrants
-Trump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-A-Largo
-Steele dossier
-Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan
-Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID
-Andrew Cuomo best COVID leadership
-Muslim travel ban
-Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation
-Trump built cages for migrant kids
-Austere religious scholar
-Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan
-Build back better will pay for itself
-Trump tax cuts only benefitted the rich
-Cloth masks prevent covid
-If you get vaccinated, you won't catch Covid
-SUV killed parade marchers
-Trump used tear gas to clear a crowd for Bible photo
-Putin price hike
-Ivermectin is a horse dewormer not for humans
-Mostly peaceful protests
-Trump overpowered secret service for wheel of "The Beast"
-Officer Sicknick was murdered by protestors
-January 6 was insurrection
-Trump knocked a reporter's disability
-BYU students hurled racist insults at Duke volleyball player

The most dishonest/malicious left wingers pivot to Trump when we call out their lies.

h/t Harry L

Virtually all of those things have been discussed already on this forum, and most are misrepresentations, distortions or outright lies.

Why don't you start a thread to discuss the things on that list?

 

[glenlogie]

I do not live in Maine, and don't know the rules there.

So this could all be for show.

 

[vibise]

So this could all be for show.

no. This really happened.

 

[glenlogie]

no. This really happened.

I mean the call to resign could just be theater

 

[Authentic Nouveau]

no. This really happened.

Real drama?

 

[Michael R2]

The question is what would happen if he refused?

That is what we are going to find out. If he is convicted of the crime, he can be removed. I'm not familiar enough with their House rules to know if any other option is available.

 

[Michael R2]

Fake News has an appetite for lies


-Russian collusion
-Trump called Neo-nazis "fine people"
-Jussie Smollett
-Bubba wallace
-Covington kids
-Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot
-Kavanaugh rape
-Trump pee tape
-Covid lab leak was a conspiracy theory
-Border agents whipped migrants
-Trump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-A-Largo
-Steele dossier
-Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan
-Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID
-Andrew Cuomo best COVID leadership
-Muslim travel ban
-Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation
-Trump built cages for migrant kids
-Austere religious scholar
-Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan
-Build back better will pay for itself
-Trump tax cuts only benefitted the rich
-Cloth masks prevent covid
-If you get vaccinated, you won't catch Covid
-SUV killed parade marchers
-Trump used tear gas to clear a crowd for Bible photo
-Putin price hike
-Ivermectin is a horse dewormer not for humans
-Mostly peaceful protests
-Trump overpowered secret service for wheel of "The Beast"
-Officer Sicknick was murdered by protestors
-January 6 was insurrection
-Trump knocked a reporter's disability
-BYU students hurled racist insults at Duke volleyball player

The most dishonest/malicious left wingers pivot to Trump when we call out their lies.

h/t Harry L

It seems the thread topic police is a hypocrite.

 

[Temujin]

Fake News has an appetite for lies


-Russian collusion
-Trump called Neo-nazis "fine people"
-Jussie Smollett
-Bubba wallace
-Covington kids
-Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot
-Kavanaugh rape
-Trump pee tape
-Covid lab leak was a conspiracy theory
-Border agents whipped migrants
-Trump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-A-Largo
-Steele dossier
-Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan
-Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID
-Andrew Cuomo best COVID leadership
-Muslim travel ban
-Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation
-Trump built cages for migrant kids
-Austere religious scholar
-Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan
-Build back better will pay for itself
-Trump tax cuts only benefitted the rich
-Cloth masks prevent covid
-If you get vaccinated, you won't catch Covid
-SUV killed parade marchers
-Trump used tear gas to clear a crowd for Bible photo
-Putin price hike
-Ivermectin is a horse dewormer not for humans
-Mostly peaceful protests
-Trump overpowered secret service for wheel of "The Beast"
-Officer Sicknick was murdered by protestors
-January 6 was insurrection
-Trump knocked a reporter's disability
-BYU students hurled racist insults at Duke volleyball player

The most dishonest/malicious left wingers pivot to Trump when we call out their lies.

h/t Harry L

You, of all the posters past and present on this site, are in the worst position for calling out other people's lies. You are simply not qualified to do so.

 

[Furion]

Please note, for those who do wish to make it partisan..

Sorry but democrats crying about "rule of law" just rings shallow and we've moved on to Hillary's politics of personal destruction.

Rule of law, shifty and fart boy will not be on any congressional committee is the rule of the moment, it's a daily adjustment as the attack requires.

Reminiscing over political "fairness" and reasoned debate seems really quaint.

I'm afraid you've started a political war and I don't see either side giving in.

Notice a man fully lied and was elected to Congress and people didn't blink an eye. What normally would get universal derision, a lying congressman, boys are girls with weiners, is now just something to rub in people's faces. Good times.

 

[Michael R2]

Sorry but democrats crying about "rule of law" just rings shallow and we've moved on to Hillary's politics of personal destruction.

No one is crying here. This is simply an example that governance can occur without the hysteria by simply doing what should be considered right by both sides.

Rule of law, shifty and fart boy will not be on any congressional committee is the rule of the moment, it's a daily adjustment as the attack requires.

Reminiscing over political "fairness" and reasoned debate seems really quaint.

It's hardly reminiscing. It's actually happening as we speak.

I'm afraid you've started a political war and I don't see either side giving in.

I have? By pointing to a bit of civility in chaos?

Notice a man fully lied and was elected to Congress and people didn't blink an eye.

And who would that be?

What normally would get universal derision, a lying congressman, boys are girls with weiners, is now just something to rub in people's faces. Good times.

 

[Furion]

No one is crying here. This is simply an example that governance can occur without the hysteria by simply doing what should be considered right by both sides.

It's hardly reminiscing. It's actually happening as we speak.

I have? By pointing to a bit of civility in chaos?

And who would that be?

You can argue over your examples, sure.

 

[Michael R2]

You can argue over your examples, sure.

I'm merely presenting it as an example of what can happen when politicians do their jobs the way they are supposed to without the partisan rancor.

 

[Furion]

I'm merely presenting it as an example of what can happen when politicians do their jobs the way they are supposed to without the partisan rancor.

Partisan rancor has just started. Let's let it stew for about a decade and maybe they will call a truce?

Sure, rational reasoned debate over policy sounds really cool in an environment where drunken sailors spend anything they can get their hands on, where your pronoun use is important for your job and you've passed out impeachments like candy.

But you've proven something anyway, it doesn't seem like a truce is happening any time soon. You can hope for one I guess.

 

[tbeachhead]

Virtually all of those things have been discussed already on this forum, and most are misrepresentations, distortions or outright lies.

They've been discussed...and you're still lying.

Not ONE is a misrepresentation. Some are outright libel. We even showed you what the obscure ones referred, and you trivialized the lies...because lying about Trump is not only acceptable, it's required. ANYONE in politics, right or left, right now will be skewered for a positive report on Trump. That's why it's so fun to post here and watch the well trained squirm.

Why don't you start a thread to discuss the things on that list?

No need. They're all true. Why don't you start a thread and attempt again to trivialize lies, as long as they concern keeping Trump from office, and sabotaging free and fair elections?