Indicted lawmaker angers GOP with decision to run for reelection

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Rep. Chris Collins’s (R-N.Y.) decision to remain on the ballot this fall despite his indictment on insider trading charges is drawing fire from Republicans, who believe it could put a safe seat at risk in a cycle where the GOP House majority is in jeopardy.

Even if Collins does win his Buffalo-area district, Republicans worry that having him on the ballot will tar the party as a whole, inviting accusations that the GOP is governing over a culture of corruption.

Republican lawmakers haven’t been publicly criticizing Collins for his decision Wednesday to reverse course and announce he would fight to keep his seat.

But some GOP strategists have been unsparing with their criticism.

Collins's decision was “selfish and cavalier,” said Republican Matt Mackowiak.

“It is unhelpful, but it is his decision to make,” he said. “The only way it is a good decision is if two things are highly likely to happen: complete exoneration and his own reelection.”

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has so far remained silent on Collins’s decision to stay in the race. Spokesmen for the NRCC did not return multiple requests for comment about whether and how the House GOP’s campaign arm will be supporting Collins’s reelection bid.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/407708-indicted-lawmaker-angers-gop-with-decision-to-run-for-reelection?userid=229233

[Leghorn21]

1. Well, GOOD!!!

Run fast and run hard, Collins!!

[SWBTATTReg]

2. The gop can't even discipline its own members...how pathetic...another example of a ...

dysfunctional party, knowing that the end is in sight, that their hypocrisy and lies have taken them to a place where there is no retreat, no path forward. All because they dug the hole and put their heads in it, and ignored the bigotry, racism, constant lying by the so call president, and to worsen the blow, they did not do anything about it.

So the voters, whom they've alienated by the millions will, I guess, tell them (gop) what to do.

gop, get your scum out of office, and let real people in, and let people who give a crap for this country in instead, let us do the job that is needed, and get out of the way.

[NanceGreggs]

3. "Republicans worry ...

... that having him on the ballot will tar the party as a whole, inviting accusations that the GOP is governing over a culture of corruption."

Well, that horse left the barn a long time ago.