Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress days after pleading guilty: sources
Source: NY Daily News
Grimm (R-S.I.) said after he entered his plea last week that he planned to continue serving in the House.
But he reversed course after speaking Monday to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who has taken a hard line on GOPers facing ethics charges.
Grimm plans to announce his resignation on Tuesday or Wednesday, sources said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/michael-grimm-reportedly-decided-resign-congress-article-1.2060152
I've reached out to my DCCC contacts to see if we have someone better than Recchia lined up.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Those knuckleheads elected him even as he was charged with a crime
George II
(67,782 posts)adigal
(7,581 posts)In Rosebank, "Roswbank, NNL" was graffitied on all the buildings - it meant "No N##**r Land." Nice, right?
Reter
(2,188 posts)Hypothetically speaking, if Jerry Nadler or Charlie Rangel were facing the same charges, do you think a Republican would beat them, especially one who ran a clown campaign like Recchia? Instead of their usual 90% of the vote win, they would get around 75%.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,494 posts)I worked on the "special election" we had back in 2010 when Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed to Hillary Clinton's seat. I admit it was a challenge getting folks out to vote...
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)The gop is talking about Vito Fossela again. You can't make this up.
Rhiannon12866
(205,494 posts)I can't imagine that they'd choose the guy who was so uninspiring that he lost to a candidate who was headed to jail. Actually, yes I can.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Remember that the mafia has a big say in gop politics in this district
Rhiannon12866
(205,494 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)There are at least 10 gop politicians that are considering running including the DA who did not indict Eric Garner's killer.
Rhiannon12866
(205,494 posts)And here I thought the feelings in my district ran high. There was only one guy who threatened to run me over in his car...
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,494 posts)It turned out that the majority of the voters in my assigned turf were senior citizens - including one whole complex! And senior citizens are not only interested, but they vote!
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Quackers
(2,256 posts)harrose
(380 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)harrose
(380 posts)Trust me, they'll do anything and everything to fix the election, even if it includes the mass replacement of the ballots with fakes.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)harrose
(380 posts)I'm 1000% sure that they'll do whatever it takes. Watch... they'll "win" this election.
still_one
(92,219 posts)Cha
(297,317 posts)RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)Boehner should have yielded his position to this American hero. We'd all just be a discontented, lazy rabble, insterad of a thrifty working class society, if it wasn't for our fine tradition of tax evasion.
Who better to lead the charge on bloated government than someone who has demonstrated his courage and committment by way of direct civil disobedience and refusing to pay what that Kenyan Muslim terrorist told him were 'taxes?'
(The really sad thing is that I believe that BS would really have wings on a Tea Party-or-worse site...)
herding cats
(19,565 posts)Rumor is there was a oompa loompa orange foot sticking out of a hole in the rear of his trousers when he left the meeting. Better to get rid of him now than have him be a marketable Republican scandal in 2016, they're already looking at a big fight for the Senate then and there's the presidential race to consider. Give him the boot now and the voters will have plenty of time to be distracted by shiny objects between now and 2016.
What I don't get is why he was allowed to run in the first place, rather than step down when they had time to fill his slot. They (R's) had to have been able to find some other criminal element willing to work for them who wasn't already under indictment. Maybe even someone they could have cleaned up enough to last another couple of terms before their crimes were exposed. At least then they could have pretended they had some ethics, as it is now they just look they were scared of him before and finally took the easy way out when he admitted his guilt. Which, now that I think of it, may be all there is to there waiting until now to tell him he's too radioactive to continue to participate in the Republican games.
Cha
(297,317 posts)Thank you
marble falls
(57,106 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Good riddance.
still_one
(92,219 posts)Reter
(2,188 posts)35 is the cutoff.
George II
(67,782 posts)....from a prison cell?
Maybe we can arrange to have him and John Rowland (also recently convicted) share a cell together? Or, can we add to the "sentence" that he be thrown off the balcony in the Capitol Building by a news reporter?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)All Republicans are criminals.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)It made it easier for her to go on the lam without anyone noticing.
El Shaman
(583 posts)ranks"
Look here fellas (credit:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/16/1055222/-John-Boehner-s-Keystone-XL-conflict-of-interest#
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)brooklynite
(94,598 posts)...Nothing about him pleading guilty of planning to resign.
Kennah
(14,276 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Grimm is doing the right thing. And also doing the Right thing by costing the taxpayers for another election. Wish the Speaker had spoken to him in August!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)elected a Democrat in this climate?
Grimm is a thug and a criminal. This was known going into the election, still the bastard won.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)...wimp.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Grimm is a thug that needed to go.
harrose
(380 posts)Now we just have to find out what criminal activity the other 246 are up to (and yes, I'm sure they're all criminals), have them indicted, jailed and out of Congress.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)just about all the Alabama GOP leadership is under investigation or indictment!
Gary 50
(381 posts)they break him like a little boy.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)includes a small part of southwestern Brooklyn: http://grimm.house.gov/our-district
Also, this is regarding a Bay Ridge Democratic Club after recent election:
http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2014/6/br-bb-state-of-the-union-2014-02-07-bk_2014_6.html