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geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 02:06 PM Oct 2015

McCarthy's alleged paramour voting for Chaffetz

Even some natural leadership allies such as Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) expressed doubts about promoting McCarthy to Speaker, a job second in line to the presidency.

“He has not spoken to me personally for my vote, and Jason Chaffetz has, so that’s where I am right now. At this point I will be casting a vote for Jason Chaffetz,” said Ellmers, who is facing a GOP primary challenger. “I can’t vote for someone who doesn’t ask for my vote.

I’m apparently not high on his priority list,” she added.


http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/256270-freedom-caucus-endorses-rep-webster-for-speaker
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WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
2. Who says she is his "alleged paramour"?
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 02:09 PM
Oct 2015

Never mind, I just googled it and see that there is talk about them being a romantic item.

Response to bullwinkle428 (Reply #6)

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
8. Translation; McCarthy dropped me like a rock at the first sign of inconvienence.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 03:21 PM
Oct 2015

She thought it was going to be different than all those other times she cheated on her husband!?


HAAHAHAHAHAHA!

I love watching repuke scum eat each other alive!

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
13. Well, here is a curious tidbit from the NYT
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 03:40 PM
Oct 2015
Ellmers is one of the handful of freshmen whom McCarthy and the National Republican Congressional Committee didn’t recruit and didn’t assist but who won anyway — a fact she says she has since reminded him of “numerous times.” McCarthy, who can’t stand the sight of blood, appreciates the ex-nurse’s toughness. Ellmers is one of nine women in this high-testosterone freshman class and has to find her own way of being heard. She barraged McCarthy with e-mails and phone calls saying she saw little sense in the G.O.P. leadership’s decision in June to send the White House a message by bringing to the floor a “clean” (or condition-free) debt ceiling and then resoundingly voting it down. Sometimes when Ellmers is talking to the whip and doesn’t think she’s getting through to him, she claps her hands loudly in front of his face. Sometimes McCarthy giggles and claps back.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/how-kevin-mccarthy-wrangles-the-tea-party.html?_r=0

Nothing weird going on there, no siree....
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