The unmitigated gall of this man.

[Joinfortmill]

https://popular.info/p/update-tennessee-speaker-admits-his?utm_source=substack&utm_medium

'UPDATE: Tennessee Speaker admits his family lives hours away from the district he represents'

'...Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) represents District 25, which encompasses the community of Crossville, about two hours outside of Nashville. Under the Tennessee Constitution, Sexton can only represent District 25 if he is "a qualified voter of that district."

John Spragens, an attorney in Tennessee who litigates election law issues — including residency challenges — agreed that there were legitimate issues about whether Sexton was a legal representative of his district. "Residency for voting purposes involves several factors, but someone could easily conclude that Sexton is living in Nashville," Spragens said. "He’s not the first speaker to do that — just the first to expel members while his own house is not in order."'

[Kid Berwyn]

1. It isn't just the hypocrisy...

It’s the Fascism.

[JanLip]

15. My mom

Always told me what goes around comes around. It looks like it might be coming around for Mr Sexton.

Jan

[onecaliberal]

2. Do the people in his district even know that? How is that even legal?

[evolves]

8. It's NOT legal,

but the pukes have a supermajority, so who's going to stop them?

[PortTack]

9. I read one article that said his neighbors are the ones that said he doesn't live there

[OldBaldy1701E]

26. Crossville does to care about that.

They care about owning the libs. That is all.

[Boomerproud]

3. Is he the creep who called the protest an insurrection?

No shame for repubs.

[wnylib]

4. He called the protest a "temper tantrum."

[evolves]

7. He did call the protest "an insurrection."

Andrew Farmer, the Rep who wrote the expulsion for Rep. Justin Pearson, called Pearson's actions "a temper tantrum."

[Baitball Blogger]

5. The City of Orlando had that problem.

They were discovering that the people who ran for office, and won, didn't even live in the Metro area. Orlando was governed by the suburbs. They forced the issue and it stopped happening. And today, they have Maxwell Frost.

[dchill]

12. Well there you go. Perfectly nutshelled!

[Silent3]

6. The hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug. n/t

[crickets]

10. Face meet palm.

Again.

[Sneederbunk]

11. Expel him.

[dchill]

13. Sexton literally has no skin in the game.

[jcgoldie]

14. well...

I clicked this thread with 95% certainty it would be about Donald Trump based on the title. I'm somehow relieved it isn't!

[live love laugh]

16. They're so drunk with power they are sloppy. It'll be

their downfall.

[2naSalit]

22. +1

[Cha]

18. KICK TY!

[Cracklin Charlie]

19. Then why did he accept reimbursement for travel he wasn't doing?

It was many thousands of dollars. Far too much to be a mistake. He knows he didn’t drive those miles.

Thief.

[Rhiannon12866]

20. Here in New York, Stefanik no longer lives in the district. She said she'd "move if she won"

But instead she's already launched her next campaign.

[OrangeJoe]

21. He ain't the only one

Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R), Spokane, WA does not live in her district or even in Washington state. She lives in So Cal, you know that den of iniquity and nice winter weather.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. We had the same issue with Frothy here in PA

He basically bilked the state out of nearly $100,000 in funding to educate most of his children while a resident of VA -

Santorum school flap continues

Daniel Reynolds | Friday, Nov. 19, 2004 12:00 a.m.



U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum should reimburse $100,000 to the Penn Hills School District for taxpayer money used since 2001 to cover online charter school tuition for his children, four school board members said Thursday.

The senator will not respond until the board makes a formal request, said Santorum's deputy chief of staff, Robert Traynham. "He has done nothing wrong," Traynham said. "The Penn Hills School District for the last four years has paid for (Santorum's) children to attend the charter school and have seen nothing out of the ordinary. They have basically said, 'This is OK.' "

Questions over his residency prompted Santorum to announce Wednesday that he is withdrawing his five school-age children from Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in Midland, Beaver County. The No. 3 Republican in the Senate, Santorum owns a $106,000 home next door to his wife Karen's parents in Penn Hills, but he and his family split time between there and a $757,000 house in Virginia. Santorum's annual Senate salary is $157,000.

"He's admitted he's not a resident. I'm going to put up a motion for him to pay back the entire amount," said Penn Hills School Board member Erin Vecchio, chairwoman of the local Democratic Committee.

(snip)

https://archive.triblive.com/news/santorum-school-flap-continues/

And even more recently last year with Oz when he was running against Fetterman for Senator -

[femmedem]

24. I doubt they'll expel him but he might lose his speakership.

I doubt the Tennessee Republicans are happy with all the negative attention he's brought them.

[mwb970]

25. Typical republican.

"The law does not apply to me."