‘He’s pulling the Palin’: John Fugelsang and Ed Schultz rip Eric Cantor’s ‘special election’ idea

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“He’s pulling the Palin,” Schultz said, a dig at Sarah Palin’s abrupt end to her tenure as Alaska’s governor in July 2009.

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Fugelsang speculated that Cantor’s real reason for leaving office early had more to do with furthering his own ambitions, rather than looking out for the voters.

“He can make $174,000 a year in Congress sitting around and doing nothing, or make untold millions being a lobbyist and paying congressmen bribes to sit around and do nothing,” Fugelsang told Schultz. “I think we all know what this is about: he has to wait one year to become a lobbyist, and this gives him a head start.”

Fugelsang also accused Cantor of hypocritcally asking McAuliffe to pay for the election after complaining about “government waste.”

video
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/01/hes-pulling-the-palin-john-fugelsang-and-ed-schultz-rip-eric-cantors-special-election-idea/


And now this
Eric Cantor Skips Final Immmigration Votes
http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/eric-cantor-immigration-no-show/

When Eric Cantor bid the House farewell in a floor speech Thursday, he apparently meant it.

At the time, Cantor had not yet disclosed his intent to resign his seat from Congress as of Aug. 18. He was merely ending his tenure as majority leader a little under two months after his sudden primary defeat in June, handing the gavel off to his successor, Kevin McCarthy of California.

But when it came time for a major test for Cantor’s House Republicans, the ousted Virginian was already long gone.

Cantor was among the 20 lawmakers who did not vote Friday night, what was meant to be the first official date of the five-week August recess. The House, like the Senate, was scheduled to go home the day before, but lawmakers were forced to stay an extra day to get consensus on legislation to address the child migrant border surge at the U.S.-Mexico border.

[Ilsa]

1. Can't make him stay to represent the people

Who elected him, but McAuliffe sure-as-hell doesn't have to pay for a special election. Let him desert his constituents who turned on him.

[winter is coming]

2. +1. When Cantor entered the primary, he indicated an interest in representing his district

for two more years after the end of this term, yet now he can't bring himself to finish the current term? I guess he's not that committed to the people of Virginia.