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Saturday, January 14, 2017
Blunt responds to John Lewis comment that Trump is not legitimate president
In the accompanying Washington Post video, Sen. Roy Blunt, emerging from a meeting at Trump Tower about the upcoming inauguration, responds to the comments by Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, that Donald Trump will not be "a legitimate" president.
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Well Roy responded to that very good, Lewis started this anyway and his history does not make him immune to criticism.
Trump IS legitimate; and Lewis is a sore loser. He doesn't need to be at the inauguration. He can spend the next 8 years sulking, and get nothing done in his home district. Hope they vote him out, and thanks to. Senator Blunt for standing up to this classless behavior from Lewis! Harvey Hutchinson 303-522-6622 voice&text 24:7
@11:07 Google something like Roy Blunt divorce Abagail Perlman tobacco lobbyist.
Also there was the time Roy Blunt and his tobacco reacharound offended Dennis Hastert and Tom 'the bug man' Delay's sense of ethics! A guy probably has to work real hard to smell bad in a sh*thouse like Abramoff, Delay, and Hastert were running back at the turn of the century! Roy or someone close to him had the brilliant idea to hide a special provision for Roy's favorite* lobbyist's employer in the bill creating the federal Department Homeland of Security!
" Only hours after Rep. Roy Blunt was named to the House's third-highest leadership job in November, he surprised his fellow top Republicans by trying to quietly insert a provision benefiting Philip Morris USA into the 475-page bill creating a Department of Homeland Security, according to several people familiar with the effort.
The new majority whip, who has close personal and political ties to the company, instructed congressional aides to add the tobacco provision to the bill -- then within hours of a final House vote -- even though no one else in leadership supported it or knew he was trying to squeeze it in.
Once alerted to the provision, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer, quickly had it pulled out, said a senior GOP leader who requested anonymity. Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) also opposed what Blunt (Mo.) was trying to do, the member said, and "worked against it" when he learned of it.
The provision would have made it harder to sell tobacco products over the Internet and would have cracked down on the sale of contraband cigarettes, two practices that cut into Philip Morris's profits. Blunt has received large campaign donations from Philip Morris, his son works for the company in Missouri and the House member has a close personal relationship with a Washington lobbyist for the firm."
Like some family values politicians do, it wasn't too long before Roy turned the "close personal relationship" into a second marriage and making babies with the younger blonde tobacco lobbyist. It didn't take Roy very long to divorce the first wife and get busy with the second!
*Roy Blunt might dispute this! Everyone probably defines favorite lobbyist differently. Roy Blunt just divorced his first wife and then quickly married this lobbyist. It also could well be that his favorite lobbyist is one of his kids from the discarded wife. Ain't love grand!
Too bad our newspapers and journalists do not expose some of the corruption of both the republicans and democrats that have exposed our citizens to such antics. A need to rein in lobbyists and congressional terms is all too evident along with their entitlements of retirement and benefit packages. Campaign expenditures need to be limited to their salaries and staff allocations need to be limited to a much smaller amount. Blunt drives around in black SUV of major proportions that cost taxpayers much in relation to them driving in 5-10 year old vehicles unable to afford the luxury they flaunt to their constituents. It is too bad that Missouri voters cannot or will not see that Blunt and Long as well as our state legislators have brought so little to them versus the companies they so well serve. Total ignorance is no excuse for their demonstrated behavior at the polls. Remember, we are only a stone's throw from Kansas and Oklahoma with a republican controlled state. Do not fail to keep a close eye on their dealings going into the future.
One extra letter slipped into a place name and your panties get so jammed up you probably still can't walk right? Were you still able to identify the main idea of the comment? Did you perhaps identify both the main idea and know which elected trough feeder it was referring to? Bringing up the satanically inspired common core is almost enough to make me wonder whether you are a proud defender of old Roy, his second wife from Altria and the rest of his brood.
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Well Roy responded to that very good, Lewis started this anyway and his history does not make him immune to criticism.
Will tRUMP start schtupping a tobacco lobbyist like everyone in Washuington DC does?
7:14 - What does that mean?
Perhaps if Trump started to behave like a legitimate President instead of a twitter troll...
Trump IS legitimate; and Lewis is a sore loser. He doesn't need to be at the inauguration. He can spend the next 8 years sulking, and get nothing done in his home district. Hope they vote him out, and thanks to. Senator Blunt for standing up to this classless behavior from Lewis!
Harvey Hutchinson 303-522-6622 voice&text 24:7
@11:07 Google something like Roy Blunt divorce Abagail Perlman tobacco lobbyist.
Also there was the time Roy Blunt and his tobacco reacharound offended Dennis Hastert and Tom 'the bug man' Delay's sense of ethics! A guy probably has to work real hard to smell bad in a sh*thouse like Abramoff, Delay, and Hastert were running back at the turn of the century! Roy or someone close to him had the brilliant idea to hide a special provision for Roy's favorite* lobbyist's employer in the bill creating the federal Department Homeland of Security!
Washington Post GOP Whip Quietly Tried to Aid Big Donor By Jim VandeHei June 11, 2003
" Only hours after Rep. Roy Blunt was named to the House's third-highest leadership job in November, he surprised his fellow top Republicans by trying to quietly insert a provision benefiting Philip Morris USA into the 475-page bill creating a Department of Homeland Security, according to several people familiar with the effort.
The new majority whip, who has close personal and political ties to the company, instructed congressional aides to add the tobacco provision to the bill -- then within hours of a final House vote -- even though no one else in leadership supported it or knew he was trying to squeeze it in.
Once alerted to the provision, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer, quickly had it pulled out, said a senior GOP leader who requested anonymity. Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) also opposed what Blunt (Mo.) was trying to do, the member said, and "worked against it" when he learned of it.
The provision would have made it harder to sell tobacco products over the Internet and would have cracked down on the sale of contraband cigarettes, two practices that cut into Philip Morris's profits. Blunt has received large campaign donations from Philip Morris, his son works for the company in Missouri and the House member has a close personal relationship with a Washington lobbyist for the firm."
Like some family values politicians do, it wasn't too long before Roy turned the "close personal relationship" into a second marriage and making babies with the younger blonde tobacco lobbyist. It didn't take Roy very long to divorce the first wife and get busy with the second!
*Roy Blunt might dispute this! Everyone probably defines favorite lobbyist differently. Roy Blunt just divorced his first wife and then quickly married this lobbyist. It also could well be that his favorite lobbyist is one of his kids from the discarded wife. Ain't love grand!
1:59 - WOW! That was more than expected. Thank you
7:14 Spelling is not your strong suit. You must be a product of a Common Core education.
Too bad our newspapers and journalists do not expose some of the corruption of both the republicans and democrats that have exposed our citizens to such antics. A need to rein in lobbyists and congressional terms is all too evident along with their entitlements of retirement and benefit packages. Campaign expenditures need to be limited to their salaries and staff allocations need to be limited to a much smaller amount. Blunt drives around in black SUV of major proportions that cost taxpayers much in relation to them driving in 5-10 year old vehicles unable to afford the luxury they flaunt to their constituents. It is too bad that Missouri voters cannot or will not see that Blunt and Long as well as our state legislators have brought so little to them versus the companies they so well serve. Total ignorance is no excuse for their demonstrated behavior at the polls. Remember, we are only a stone's throw from Kansas and Oklahoma with a republican controlled state. Do not fail to keep a close eye on their dealings going into the future.
7:14- What's the problum?
One extra letter slipped into a place name and your panties get so jammed up you probably still can't walk right? Were you still able to identify the main idea of the comment? Did you perhaps identify both the main idea and know which elected trough feeder it was referring to? Bringing up the satanically inspired common core is almost enough to make me wonder whether you are a proud defender of old Roy, his second wife from Altria and the rest of his brood.
Great God, when will this damned country put term limits in place for Congress?
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