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sarcasmo

(23,968 posts)
Wed Nov 1, 2023, 09:20 AM Nov 2023

Mike Johnson was Dean of a Christian law school that didn't exist. J. Michael Johnson Esq.,



Johnson seems to be like Santos. A new name to research J. Michael Johnson Esq.,



Snip< J. Michael Johnson Esq., as he was then known professionally, was hired in 2010 to be the “inaugural dean” of the Judge Paul Pressler School of Law, named for a Southern Baptist Convention luminary who was instrumental in the faith group’s turn to the political right in the 1980s. The board of trustees who brought Johnson onboard included Tony Perkins, a longtime mentor who is now the president of the Family Research Council in Washington, a powerhouse Christian lobbying organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as an anti-gay “hate group.”]



https://apnews.com/article/mike-johnson-house-speaker-2d1a3399e8fe61bf0619d66ba29a1520
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Mike Johnson was Dean of a Christian law school that didn't exist. J. Michael Johnson Esq., (Original Post) sarcasmo Nov 2023 OP
So the mild-mannered fascist is a fraud dalton99a Nov 2023 #1
Kind of like the mob putting people in jobs that the mob has a "controlling interest in" mitch96 Nov 2023 #2
Ethics investigation, Stat! sarcasmo Nov 2023 #5
snort. AllaN01Bear Nov 2023 #3
Too bad you didn't include three more paragraphs, including niyad Nov 2023 #4
Johnson is a combination of Matt Gaetz and Santos. sarcasmo Nov 2023 #6
with religious certitude-a truly nauseating combination. niyad Nov 2023 #7
Here's an article from 2017 about Pressler's shenanigans. LastDemocratInSC Nov 2023 #8
Thank you for this information. Disgusting, but not surprising. niyad Nov 2023 #9
Interesting... as apparently his bank accounts don't exist either. IcyPeas Nov 2023 #10

mitch96

(13,925 posts)
2. Kind of like the mob putting people in jobs that the mob has a "controlling interest in"
Wed Nov 1, 2023, 09:28 AM
Nov 2023

pay them and then they never show up for work but are on the books.
Sounds like a "Sopranos" move..... que the music.
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niyad

(113,576 posts)
4. Too bad you didn't include three more paragraphs, including
Wed Nov 1, 2023, 09:30 AM
Nov 2023

the ones abiut pressler and the sexual abuse allegations by men and yiung boys, and johnson's previous history of election denialism.

Thank you for the article. Truly depressing information.

LastDemocratInSC

(3,650 posts)
8. Here's an article from 2017 about Pressler's shenanigans.
Wed Nov 1, 2023, 11:05 AM
Nov 2023

Pressler was a principal architect in the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptists and was accused of sexual abuse of young people in churches.

https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/paul-pressler-targeted-in-texas-lawsuit/

Regarding Mr Johnson and Pressler, a man can be easily defined by those with whom he associates.

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