Posted on 10/13/2009 3:48:23 PM PDT by Fawn
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL---Our news partners at the Sun Sentinel report:
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, who represents Broward and Palm Beach counties, plans to resign from Congress.
He plans to announce his plans at a news conference Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Boca Raton.
A Democratic source with knowledge of Wexler's plans said he is likely to take a public policy job that deals with the Middle East.
Wexler, a senior member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, has long been involved in issues involving Israel and Turkey.
Yeah......everything that comes out of that guys mouth is a manipulative lie....he really disgusts me. This news makes my week!
Be careful unless you have a solid line on who his replacement will be.
It's not always greener...
Don't we ALL know by now!
Isn’t he the guy that had some tax problems a while back - something about claiming a residence in one state while living in another?
For those who don’t know him....he’s even more stupid than he looks.
Thanks for posting this wonderful news, Fawn! :)
I think you're right. He must be one of the congressmen who was thinking of filibustering or voting along with the GOP on the HCRB.
Alot of stuff is happening lately with Congress, being investigated, resigning. Hmmmm. This is politics Chicago style!
He didn’t even have a home in Florida, although he was elected to the House from Florida...........only one in the Washington area.
Yeah....he lived in Maryland but had a “residence” in Florida so he wouldn’t be subject to Maryland income taxes. No problem for a RAT, though....(Unbelieveably, not having a real residence in Florida is not an issue with respect to representing a Florida congressional district.)
Damnit... Maryland loses another member of Congress. :)
This is excellent news at the beginning of this week.
Wexler is an arrogant politician, coupled with some additional traits that make him almost but not quite laughable: shrillness & stupidity. The only reasonable he is not laughable because he is currently a congressman.
Hmmm... that could have been him... or any other Congressional Democrat.
I think you are right. I heard Rush talk about it. This guy represents Rush’s district.
“Good RIDDANCE TO THIS SLIMEBALL.”
AMEN!
I can’t feature him voting with the GOPers on anything. He is a hard core leftisit, but not ideologically...just opportunistically.
Maybe there was more to this story than we were told:
07/31/09 01:31 PM
BOCA RATON, Fla. — “The U.S. Secret Service says a man is being held in the West African nation of Ghana after attempting to extort money from U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler.
The Florida Democrat called authorities several weeks ago after he was contacted by a suspect who had Social Security numbers for him and his wife. Wexler told authorities the man attempted to extort money from him and threatened to turn over the personal information to identity thieves.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says the man was arrested July 15 in Ghana and remained in custody Friday.
Since the man’s arrest, several attempts have been made to open credit accounts with Wexler’s personal information. Wexler’s attorney says the investigation is ongoing and his office says he doesn’t know how the man got his information.”
Hmmmmmmm........
That is more proof that most people in the USA are simply too stupid to vote.
Right, which is odd b/c of the clear tax advantage it is to be a Florida resident.
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