Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Yes, There IS Republican Slimy Stuff

The good thing about being a Conservative is that one can call out Republican slimy deals.

Sundance is a Conservative (and a capital-P Patriot), and he notes another slime-deal.

...Kelly Loeffler was appointed [to the US Senate] by Georgia Governor Kemp because Loeffler is married to Jeffrey Sprecher; a GOPe party insider, mega-donor, and multi-millionaire CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).  Jeffrey Sprecher is the founder and CEO of ICE, which now owns the New York Stock Exchange. Kelly Loeffler’s company, the financial platform Bakkt, is a subsidiary of the Intercontinental Exchange....
Then the Slime begins to show.

The Turtle--no stranger to shady dealings--appointed Ms. Loeffler to the Senate Ag Committee.  The Senate Ag Committee is NOT only concerned with 'making a hole, dropping in a seed, covering it up, and watering it.'  Nope.

...In recent interviews, nearly a dozen ethics experts in Washington said the entanglement of Loeffler’s public and private interests has few, if any, recent precedents in Congress.

ICE deploys lobbyists to influence federal regulatory agencies and Congress, including committees on which Loeffler now sits. Loeffler’s husband and other ICE executives often testify at congressional hearings. And, when she was ICE’s senior vice president for corporate communications, Loeffler herself publicly criticized the company’s primary regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, for proposing “excess regulation” during the financial crisis of the late 2000s.

That commission answers directly to the Agriculture Committee’s commodities subcommittee, of which Loeffler is now a member.
By the way, Loeffler is pushing Nikki Haley for the 2024 (R) Presidential nomination.  Haley is another Bush-man or perhaps worse.

The Empire is not going to go quietly, nor soon.

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