Is Matt Gaetz a creep?
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This is so fucked up. The guy should be a pariah.
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https://newrepublic.com/post/182210/nancy-mace-staffers-excessive-reimbursements
Meanwhile, one of the program’s top spenders, Representative Matt Gaetz reimbursed himself more than $10,000 for food last year—double the household average—and nearly $30,000 for lodging.* According to The Washington Post, Gaetz got reimbursed for more than $4,000 for lodging for two months in 2023—twice the average cost of rent in Washington, D.C.—and more than $3,000 for five months.
The reimbursement program, launched in 2023, issued $5.2 million in total reimbursements to more than 300 of the House’s 435 members last year. Intended to reflect private-sector reimbursement for business-related expenses, the program is a stopgap in lieu of the deeply unpopular move of Congress voting to give themselves raises. It provides a per-diem maximum spending on lodging and food as laid out by the General Services Administration, which oversees per diems for federal employees.
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Craig Holman of Public Citizen, a nonprofit government watchdog and public interest lobbying group, harshly criticized the reimbursement plan, pointing out its lack of requiremenet of receipts as a “ridiculous loophole” that opens opportunities for abuse.
“Clearly it becomes very difficult to tell whether or not it’s a legitimate payment and whether it’s proper,” Holman told The Washington Post.
A spokesperson for Gaetz defended his splurges, claiming the lawmaker raked up more costs because he’s just a really hard worker and spent more days than most in Washington working. “In 2023, Rep. Gaetz dedicated significant time to his work on the Weaponization Subcommittee, requiring his presence to be in Washington, D.C., on days often when there were no votes, which incurred additional reimbursement expenses to conduct depositions,” the spokesperson told The Washington Post.
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Well I suppose the house GOP leadership could refer it to Bondi. I doubt they would do so, and I doubt she’d do much with it anyway.
What do you think?
@jon-nyc said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
Well I suppose the house GOP leadership could refer it to Bondi. I doubt they would do so, and I doubt she’d do much with it anyway.
What do you think?
Based on a google of this non-prominent story that broke a week ago, I'd say he allegedly did it in Florida, and Florida would have the ability to prosecute.
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If there's anything we know about the GOP these days, it's that they have the backbone to go after sexual predators no matter how powerful.
@89th said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
If there's anything we know about the GOP these days, it's that they have the backbone to go after sexual predators no matter how powerful.
Which prosecutions came from the Biden administration, out of the Epstein files? You can ask your vertical monitor that one.
The simplest and most plausible explanation remains that the Epstein files are far less juicy than people hope and imagine.
Education is extremely important.
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As far as I know, the only people who have suffered from them are Epstein, Maxwell and Andrew Mountbatten.
Of course, there is our suffering from the constant harangue by the folks whose administration did the same nothing the current one is doing.
"You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell
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As far as I know, the only people who have suffered from them are Epstein, Maxwell and Andrew Mountbatten.
Of course, there is our suffering from the constant harangue by the folks whose administration did the same nothing the current one is doing.
@Mik said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
As far as I know, the only people who have suffered from them are Epstein, Maxwell and Andrew Mountbatten.
Of course, there is our suffering from the constant harangue by the folks whose administration did the same nothing the current one is doing.
A conspiracy theorist would say that they're all in it together. Obviously, claiming that would be madness.
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@89th said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
If there's anything we know about the GOP these days, it's that they have the backbone to go after sexual predators no matter how powerful.
Which prosecutions came from the Biden administration, out of the Epstein files? You can ask your vertical monitor that one.
The simplest and most plausible explanation remains that the Epstein files are far less juicy than people hope and imagine.
@Horace said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
@89th said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
If there's anything we know about the GOP these days, it's that they have the backbone to go after sexual predators no matter how powerful.
Which prosecutions came from the Biden administration, out of the Epstein files? You can ask your vertical monitor that one.
His name is TARS, and WE LOVE EACH OTHER VERY MUCH.
Also, I was just talking about Congress going after a politician who boned a 17 year old, not Epstein, who... also, boned a 17 year old.
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@Horace said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
@89th said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
If there's anything we know about the GOP these days, it's that they have the backbone to go after sexual predators no matter how powerful.
Which prosecutions came from the Biden administration, out of the Epstein files? You can ask your vertical monitor that one.
His name is TARS, and WE LOVE EACH OTHER VERY MUCH.
Also, I was just talking about Congress going after a politician who boned a 17 year old, not Epstein, who... also, boned a 17 year old.
@89th said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
@Horace said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
@89th said in Is Matt Gaetz a creep?:
If there's anything we know about the GOP these days, it's that they have the backbone to go after sexual predators no matter how powerful.
Which prosecutions came from the Biden administration, out of the Epstein files? You can ask your vertical monitor that one.
His name is TARS, and WE LOVE EACH OTHER VERY MUCH.
Also, I was just talking about Congress going after a politician who boned a 17 year old, not Epstein, who... also, boned a 17 year old.
It sounded a little bit like you were talking about an established pattern. Well, it sounded exactly like that.
