I thought it was a beautiful post, and all I get back is a Cmon? Yes. Though she's had campaign finance problems before that she's had to correct. As a first-timer, she might not know all the ropes and get her hand slapped a few times. Even Trump ran afoul of campaign finance law. It'll be funny to watch Republicans wring their hands about Omar misappropriating campaign funds while totally ignoring what Trump had done. It'll also be funny to watch Trumpers accuse liberals of hypocrisy because they excoriated Trump over campaign finance violations and will "ignore" what Omar has done. As to what Omar has done, if this guy was working on her campaign, there would be travel expenses to be reimbursed, so they're probably largely legit. The article notes that work began in July but reimbursements were not made until April. Since I have some professional experience with lobbyists and consultants, I'll tell you this happens all the time. They sit on receipts for months, especially when in the thick of some campaign. Contracts for corporations typically say travel expenses are reimbursable if submitted within 6 months -- 6 months prior to April is October, which would be the heaviest travel month. Many lobbyists are operating in small shops, so they don't have an A/R group sending out invoices. The lobbyist has to fish receipts out of his wallet and scan them. We have to chase them to make sure everything gets paid before the end of the fiscal year because we don't want some old expense hurting our budget performance in the new year. So the timing (that expenses increased when the affair "heated up" when they finally paid bills in April) they use to insinuate something looks like bs to me. Its also interesting that she denies the affair. After all, she remarried earlier that same year. It could be the disgruntled wife of the lobbyist is using the close working relationship to claim there was an affair to give herself a stronger hand in divorce proceedings. Or of course, there might really be an affair. It doesn't really matter though. She might need to restate some campaign finance reports. Big deal.
C'mon Juan. Just tell us if we could put the squad lady into prison with scarlet letter on her pretty (only relatively per dachuda) face. Details are for suckers
I bet this wouldn't have even made a blip on the news if Omar was a white congressman of same views - even if this hypothetical rep said those mildly anti Jewish comments (no worse than what Trump said and no one really cared outside of Jewish circles - based on the headlines and their staying power in politics discourse). She is only in the news because Trump made her into a thing and because she is a young brown woman. She doesn't represent my district. Why is her private life of any interest? I barely care about POTUS private life - only in as far as precaution against possibility of him grabbing a you-know-what or being blackmailed by a prostitute into doing foreign party bidding. Also, he represents me. Trump is the news cycle guru - he manipulates us so well.
What’s more disrespectful? Not acknowledging the validity of the 9/11 hijackers religious convictions or spending the day b****ing about how the media is unfair to you?
He lost me when he started talking about this being a "Judeo-Christian nation". I'm not fond of Omar, but I'm also not fond of the people triggered by Omar, and there are a lot more of them.
The inverse of the former. Making the loss of 3000 people into a "let's berate Muslims" day is a sign that that someone doesn't actually care about the victims, but rather just want an excuse to be on a high horse trying to tell people who their religion or lack of religion is superior.
Disgusting human. Acussing someone of not having empathy for 3000 humans dying because they brought up the event with a pronoun is grasping at straws to frame the Individual as evil. He's a propagandist and him losing his child doesn't give him some magical sympathy to smear people without validity. In fact, it's even more disgusting that he is using the bully pulpit built on top of his child's death to attack others with no rational reason other than trash culture wars and right wing propaganda. This man deserves no respect if he's willing to do bs like this.
Probably the most clear example of concern trolling. No one sane genuinely believes that her using a pronoun in reference to 9/11 means she made light of the event. Only propagandists and concern trolls would do so.
He's not triggered. He's trying to get into the right wing grift media circuit. This is a economical move. Not a emotional move.
Yup. Thousands upon thousands of them according to Trump. You would think we would have video or photo evidence of thousands of Muslims celebrating 9/11 on the streets of Jersey City.
What a complete tool you are. This guy lost his MOTHER (not his son you imbecile) in the attacks but you attack him as "not caring about victims". And if you watched the video of what he said, he didn't berate "muslims" as you claim. Just Omar for saying "some people did some things". WTF is wrong with you?
The guy lost a relative. I can forgive him losing touch with reality about events surrounding this tragedy. What I don't forgive are those that follow in line with it.
There’s nothing worse than using a tragedy like 9/11 to work political gamesmanship and troll online. Stop hiding behind 9/11 victims to troll Dems on behalf of King Trump. I would have used harsher words to refer to Bin Laden’s attackers than Omar used. But this is not a real scandal. It’s right wing blown out of proportion scandal that is used as propaganda to frame a brown skin Democrat as a terrorist sympathizer. It’s shameful, and should be called out. We can disagree with Omar without entertaining this ridiculous propaganda trap.
