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Rep. Alcee Hastings dies, narrowing Democratic House majority to just 7 (six vacancies)
cnbc.com ^ | 4/6/21 | Christian Nunley

Posted on 04/06/2021 9:26:17 AM PDT by cotton1706

Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., died Tuesday after a more than two-year bout with pancreatic cancer, NBC News confirmed.

Hastings, who served in the House for nearly three decades, was 84. Throughout his career, he held several key committee assignments and leadership positions, most recently as vice chairman of the Rules Committee.

After the congressman’s death, Democrats hold a narrow 218-211 advantage in the House, giving the party a small margin for error in passing legislation. Six seats are vacant.

Hastings, a former federal district court judge, was impeached in 1988 amid accusations of bribery and perjury. The Senate voted to remove him from the bench the next year, but did not vote to disqualify him from holding future office.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 1988; 202104; alcee; alceehastings; bribery; communist; corrupticrats; deadagain; elections; florida; goodriddance; hastings; impeached; impeachment; perjury
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To: cotton1706

Wonder how leaky Leahy is feeling?


61 posted on 04/06/2021 10:25:23 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: cotton1706
Alcee! Alcee! We hardly knew ye!

Believe it or not, MY congressman. Or at least he WAS.

62 posted on 04/06/2021 10:25:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Kamala the Border Czar Who Doesn't Actually Go to the Border)
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To: cotton1706
SkillDeath-Hastings
63 posted on 04/06/2021 10:30:23 AM PDT by King_Corey (Buy American - https://madeinamericastore.com/)
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To: King_Corey

Some good news about time! I am still praying for a senator from VT to resign oe removed by god as there is a r gov and both LEAhy annd BERnie sanders needs to exit the senate


64 posted on 04/06/2021 10:34:19 AM PDT by princess leah (Princess Leah)
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To: Nabron

There’s a separate vote after convection.

Apparently, he and a co-conspirator (who received a midnight pardon from Bill Clinton, I might add) arranged for Justice Hastings to receive $150k in bribes from some Mafia types. The conspirator never testified against him, and he got acquitted in his criminal trial.

HOWEVER, further investigation landed him in hot water. He owed his acquittal to manufactured documents, and false testimony (re: perjury).

He sued on grounds of double jeopardy, and his trial by a committee was unconstitutional. The courts ruled impeachment was beyond their review.

Co-conspirator (whose name I’ve already forgotten) was the Mafia guys’ defense attorney. Since he got a pardon, my guess is the work he and the impeached judge did was very important to The Party, and it’s a shame they got caught so publicly.


65 posted on 04/06/2021 10:34:55 AM PDT by Nabron
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To: cotton1706

Alcee Hastings dead? Another filthy stain on American politics gone to meet his master.


66 posted on 04/06/2021 10:50:54 AM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: cotton1706

Alcee,
May you reap in the afterlife all the rewards you earned here on earth.


67 posted on 04/06/2021 10:53:09 AM PDT by griffin
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To: gov_bean_ counter

If you can’t say something nice about the dead......

It is nice he died.

It would be nicer if he was replaced with conservative.


68 posted on 04/06/2021 10:53:35 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Hillary Clinton =The Pig In A Pantsuit (The PIAPS))
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To: Thrownatbirth

Hell is celebrating its new citizen.


69 posted on 04/06/2021 10:56:46 AM PDT by Luke21 (Elections you say? We get them next election? )
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To: cotton1706

In the House foe decades. Can’t help but wonder how much his estate has grown in that time.

Not to mention how much has the life style of his district improved in that time?


70 posted on 04/06/2021 10:57:19 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: cotton1706

I do look forward to the increasingly common news of these evil fossils assuming room temperature. What is the average age of the democrats? 80?


71 posted on 04/06/2021 11:05:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: cotton1706

Hastings held the distinction of being the only congress critter who was an impeached and convicted federal judge. His idiot constituents will replace him with someone equally corrupt or at least close.


72 posted on 04/06/2021 11:06:25 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: cotton1706

Hell has another occupant...
Bon voyage, Alcee!
Hope you remembered to bring marshmallows...


73 posted on 04/06/2021 11:14:04 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Samuel Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: cotton1706

The fate of the republic could be in the hands of one six RAT senators who is avad driver. They are in a state where a GOP governor could immediately appoint a replacement without special election or requirement to replace with same party. A car accident could save the republic.


74 posted on 04/06/2021 11:21:40 AM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: cotton1706

Ding-dong, the crook is dead! Which old crook? The wicked crook (Alcee Hastings)
Ding-dong, the wicked crook is dead.

And my condolences to the family (for being related to that wicked CROOK!)


75 posted on 04/06/2021 11:32:59 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: cotton1706

That corrupt vampire is actually finally dead?

This is the guy that was so corrupt that even as a Democrat he got convicted of corruption as a judge if I remember

Not speaking of the dead - just surprised that somebody who’s been corrupt for that long could actually die

And even more surprised the fact that he got reelected as a house democratic again !


76 posted on 04/06/2021 11:38:39 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (Fraud !!! Now we’re off the TRUMP TRAIN and on the Swamp express to communist hell !! TRUTH! )
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To: gov_bean_ counter
if you can't say something good about someone....
Bless his little heart....
77 posted on 04/06/2021 11:45:43 AM PDT by vetvetdoug (,)
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To: cotton1706

Yet Pelosi and Schumer behave as though they have one party houses.


78 posted on 04/06/2021 11:45:53 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: cotton1706

“Democrats hold power by a mere thread.”

And yet, look at all they are doing successfully. A shame Republicans can’t seem to fight like Dems do when they are in the minority.


79 posted on 04/06/2021 11:46:19 AM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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To: cotton1706

He held a totally Dem-safe seat.

Too bad the uniparty let them swipe so many others...


80 posted on 04/06/2021 11:47:50 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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