House Leaders Have Enough Signatures to Call Special Session on Greitens' Woes

[loyalsister]

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Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch


House leaders have enough votes to call special session on Greitens' woes
By Kurt Erickson St. Louis Post-Dispatch


JEFFERSON CITY • Republican leaders in the Missouri House have collected enough signatures to call a special session to hold possible impeachment proceedings against Gov. Eric Greitens.

Greitens lied to state ethics commission, took charity donor list, report says
Greitens lied to state ethics commission, took charity donor list, report says
The report contains evidence that Greitens and associates lied in campaign filings, a class A misdemeanor, and violated campaign finance law …

A day after the House released a second scathing report on the governor, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said enough members of the House had signed the petition calling for the special session.

A count was underway in the Senate Thursday afternoon. Senators were meeting behind closed doors to discuss the matter.

"We should be pretty close," said Senate Majority Floor Leader Mike Kehoe, R-Jefferson City.

"I'm hopeful that we can proceed," added Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard, R-Joplin.

It was not immediately clear when the session would begin if enough votes are secured in the Senate. But, the Legislature is scheduled to adjourn its regular session on May 18, four days after Greitens goes on trial in St. Louis for felony invasion of privacy


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[cstanleytech]

1. The other possibility (and likelier in my opinion) is they have no honest intention of

impeaching him rather they will put on a show to make it appear like they are willing to be tough on one of their own however they will have decide beforehand who will vote yes and who will vote no so they will end up with to few to impeach him.
That way come election time the ones in districts where the governor did poorly can claim they did their best where as the ones where he did better can claim they did their job to defend one of their own.

[loyalsister]

4. I think they want to put a "real" republican in office

Not many GOP members like or trust him. It's no secret that he ran as a republican because he knew he couldn't beat the presumed Democratic candidate in a primary. He has no ideology other. than his own pursuit of power. He was an Obama delegate in '08. It looks like he followed the populist anti-Obama tide out of political self interest. But, no one really knows where he actually stands ideologically.

[cstanleytech]

5. Still I would not put it past them to do that. Hell they might even do it and

use it as leverage against him with a threaten to do it again and remove him if he refuses to play ball and vote how they want him to vote and when they tell him to.

[loyalsister]

6. He has been carrying their water without shame

Right to work, Medicaid cuts, killing protections against discrimination..... He has given them everything they want. What he did was so egregious that I think they truly are outraged. Blatently exploiting veterans for political gain. And they believed the woman who gave a very detailed description of sexual assault committed by him. Now, another woman has come forward. This is not sexual misconduct it's flat out rape documented in a house report.
Meanwhile, Claire Mcaskill is running for re-election and she has made it her mission to address sexual assault in the military. Being a Navy seal who sexually assaulted women, and exploited veterans makes him a huge liability. The GOP senate candidate has been relentlessly calling for Greitens to resign. If calling for his impeachment is a gimmick, I think it would be about protecting their senate candidate. Getting him out of office is gravy.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Excellent summary. nt

[cstanleytech]

19. I will believe them when I see them actually remove him from office.

[loyalsister]

9. It takes a lot for republicans to turn on their own

But it requires a Ted Bundy level of sociopathy to read this, believe it (as they say they do), and not want to get him out of office.

House Special Committee report on Gov. Eric Greitens

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/11/house-special-committees-report-gov-eric-greitens/509413002/

[pecosbob]

2. Bye bye...say hello to the Cock brothers for all of us here at DU

[loyalsister]

3. House documents detail Greitens early fundraising days, lack of republican credentials

That's one way to try to disown him.


https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/02/marshfield-man-who-serenaded-greitens-inauguration-key-campaign-influence-report/574937002/

[Honeycombe8]

7. And yet, even after having been found to have lied, he doesn't step down.

Power is a potent thing. These powerful men don't let go of it & hang on with their fingernails to the bitter end. It makes no sense. They have money and families and connections. They could move on and have a wonderful life, make a lot of money. But they insist on trying to hang on to power.

[loyalsister]

12. He's a piece of work

He has been running for president since he was in 4th grade. He actually secured a web domain for a presidential campaign long ago.


https://home.ohumanity.org/eric-greitens-is-running-for-president-411b54ae0a8f

[Honeycombe8]

13. You've gotta be kidding. Hubris. Narcissism. nt

[loyalsister]

15. He's as bad, if not worse, than Trump

I read a piece by one of his former classmates that was brutal. I wish I could find it again. The whole story is very weird. The GOP primary field he joined had been accused of anti-Semitism by a potential candidate who committed suicide because of it. He overlooked that in his quest and possibly helped the GOP recover from those accusations.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Could you put an excerpt in the section of an LBN OP that is meant for excerpts, please?

It's particularly important for a site like that which insists on "no ad blockers", and is thus practically unviewable on Google Chrome (I eventually copied the text before the "go away" pop-up appeared, and it says nothing about impeachment at all).

Thanks,
muriel_volestrangler, LBN host.

[loyalsister]

11. Got it

Sorry about that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Thanks! (nt)

[workinclasszero]

16. LOCK HIM UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NBachers]

17. They want to get him out of the way before it gets too close to election season.

[Julian Englis]

18. Fight, Greitens, Fight! Let's Have A Bloody Battle That Destroys the Evil Right! n/t