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Melania Trump called 'hoebag' by Oregon candidate. It's not his only weird tweet.
The Oregonian ^ | July 31, 2018 | Lydia Gerike

Posted on 08/02/2018 7:54:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If you don't have anything nice to say, should you really say it on Twitter?

Especially when it's about the first lady. And compares her to a prostitute.

"Did you know the First Lady works by the hour? #thinkdirty #hoebag," Mark Roberts, an Oregon Independent running for U.S. Congress, tweeted Monday night.

This kind of Twitter behavior displayed by Roberts is not new. He has a history of tweeting provocative replies and suggestive comments about women, including lawmakers and other public figures.

We've included them at the end of this article.

But Roberts sparked particular criticism Monday in his reply to a tweet from Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk, who'd compared former first lady Michelle Obama's staff numbers to those of her successor, Melania Trump.

"Did you know:

There are thirty-nine fewer staffers dedicated to The First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) than under Obama.

There are only five staffers dedicated to Melania Trump vs. forty-four staffers who served Michelle Obama," Kirk said.

The numbers -- which did not cite any source and were reported in January at 12 for Trump and 24 for Obama -- may be interesting in and of themselves, but they did not garner as much attention as Roberts' reply.

Jim Moore, a political science professor at Pacific University, said this may be the most attention Roberts will get all election cycle because he has no chance of unseating the nine-time incumbent in the 2nd Congressional District race, Rep. Greg Walden. He hasn't raised money or reached out to voters like he needs to....

(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...


TOPICS: Oregon; Campaign News; State and Local; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: conservative; conspiracy; markroberts; melania; oregon; trump; twitter
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To: BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; AuH2ORepublican

These bastards may have made a difference in the handful of State House races where they cross-endorsed either the R or D. 6 of 9 won.

The endorsed the rat in a district Trump ended up carrying with 56%. The incumbent rat hung on by a nose.

https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=815669

A RINO who lost his seat in the 2014 primary tried to get it back under their banner, fortunately he failed.

https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=815686

One of their gubernatorial candidates wants to abolish taxes yet fund a welfare state by building a “futuristic” Las Vegas-like city.


21 posted on 08/04/2018 11:53:31 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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