More swamp clearance work
Greg “Bodyslam” Gianforte won election to Congress despite having slammed a reporter to the floor and then jumped on top of him and punched him at least twice. Welcome to Trump’s America.
Republican Greg Gianforte won the special election for Montana’s lone congressional seat on Thursday despite an election eve misdemeanor assault charge for allegedly body-slamming a reporter.
Gianforte had been silent following the allegations, with his campaign only releasing a statement claiming that The Guardian‘s Ben Jacobs had been the aggressor. But speaking at his victory party in Bozeman shortly after the race was called, Gianforte admitted he was in the wrong and apologized to Jacobs.
What next, perps elected to Congress hours after their latest murder?
In his victory speech, Gianforte echoed many of the themes of Trump’s campaign.
“Tonight, Montanans are sending a wake-up call to the Washington, D.C., establishment,” Gianforte said. “Montanans said Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi can’t call the shots. Montanans said, ‘We’re going to drain the swamp.’ “
And assault anyone we take a dislike to.
Hopefully the bastard can spend a few months of his term in jail but I’m not holding my breath.
I got an e-mail from the DNC cheering that he won by such a narrow margin. It is only in Trump’s America that this man winning could be seen as anything resembling a victory,
Oh ffs. HE STILL WON. Jeezus, DNC.
Seriously… if Ossoff doesn’t make it we are fucking doomed in 2018.
I was listening to an interview with Darrel Ehrlick, editor of the BIllings Gazette (which rescinded their endorsement of Gianforte after the bodyslam). Ehrlick explained that it might be too late for the incident to make a difference to the election results, since much of the voting was done by advance mailin ballot days before the bodyslam, and Montana does not allow voters to change (apparently some states do). Of course this does not change the outcome, but perhaps makes the perspective a bit less awful.
(Transcript of interview: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.4131044/may-25-2017-episode-transcript-1.4133936)