Posted on 03/30/2024 11:18:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Conservatives are angry that Gallagher’s poorly timed resignation will leave the district without representation for the better part of a year.
U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher’s decision to leave Congress — and leave his fellow Republicans and his Wisconsin constituents in the lurch — isn’t sitting well in conservative corners.
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Gallagher announced last month that he would not seek reelection to the seat he first won in the Trump-led red wave of 2016. Last week, he stunned Republicans in announcing that his last day would be April 19. His departure alone would effectively leave already razor-thin Republican control of the House with a meager one-vote majority. But his decision to exit after Wisconsin’s spring election on Tuesday will leave the 8th Congressional District without House representation for the better part of a year.
Wisconsin election law requires the governor to schedule a special election to fill the seat, but only if the vacancy occurs before the first Tuesday in April.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has called on Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to quickly push her resolution for Gallagher’s expulsion. That’s not happening. The backbone-challenged Johnson reportedly was privy to Gallagher’s plans to resign. He had nothing but praise for the establishment Gallagher, who, just days before announcing he wouldn’t seek another term, surprised his Republican colleagues by voting against the impeachment of border-busting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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The timing was perfect.
The Assistant Democrat timed it perfectly to do the maximum damage to MAGA.
^^^^Exactly. Maximize damage to the Conservative wing of the Republican party.
His exit was perfectly timed for greatest harm.
If we lose the House it won’t matter how much pride we’ll feel in culling the RINOs. We won’t have investigations or hearings on Hunter or Joe or anything else and won’t be able to stop all 3 branches of government doing irreparable harm before the election.
Too high a price to pay.
Soros must be passing out a fortune to these turkeys to spend more time with their families.
What did the RATs have on him?
'Mike Gallagher...is taking a job with major defense tech contractor Palantir, multiple people familiar with the matter told Forbes.'
https://twitter.com/Joel_P_Atkinson/status/1771678404003455119
Mike Johnson should go ahead with a vote to expul Mile Gallagher. But he won’t do that because he’s an Assistant Democrat.
Extremely bad timing? More like deliberate - does he really not know it would be much better for the caucus if he resigned just a couple of weeks earlier? And if somehow he did not, that no one has since told him this since then to give him an opportunity to change his resignation date to allow for a special election?
He seemed like a better guy than this. Maybe at one time he was.
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I saw that since day one even though he had the mask on. It didn't take long for it to come off.
Gallagher always looked a bit effeminate and pretty boy. I'm certain that he has a "secret closet".
He should but it would require rat votes to do it and it would force a special election so no rat will vote to remove.
A Speaker Jeffries would start impeachment hearings against Trump on Day One.
That would require a 2/3 vote - you think the Democrats would vote to help the Republicans hold the seat?
Mike Johnson has to show that he's a fighter, not a *****cat.
Hope he enjoys his 30 pieces of silver.
2018 all over again, GOP giving away congress to the dems by retiring or quitting en masse so dems can obstruct Trump and keep them able to still maintain the fake appearance of being conservatives. All a plan, it worked them, it will work again.
Maybe his friend was that staffer in Ben Cardin's office.
You're "certain", are you? Let's see the evidence - vs. just bearing false witness against someone you don't like.
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