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Demovictory9

(32,323 posts)
Sat May 26, 2018, 04:54 PM May 2018

Nunes feeling the heat back home, raising record $$ Challenger awash with $$ from across the country



LOS ANGELES — Devin Nunes, the California congressman whose allegiance to Donald Trump has made him public enemy number one to many Democrats, is beginning to feel the heat back home.

His little-known challenger is awash in cash from across the country as a result of Nunes’ polarizing role in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. An independent expenditure campaign has posted hostile billboards along Highway 99, the heavily traveled main road through Nunes’ Central Valley district.


On Wednesday, a report in the Fresno Bee linked Nunes to a winery that allegedly held a wild cocaine-and-prostitutes evening yacht cruise — a winery where the congressman is a part-owner.

Yet Nunes isn’t blinking. In response to the first real challenge of his career, the House Intelligence Committee chairman recently raised a dizzying $2.3 million in just over six weeks — nearly as much as he raised in his entire 2016 campaign.

He now holds more cash on hand — in excess of $5 million — than any other Republican House incumbent in California.

“It’s a lot to raise in six weeks, and it’s a lot in a district like his,” said Bill Whalen, a former speechwriter for Gov. Pete Wilson and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/25/devin-nunes-russia-probe-fundraising-609492
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Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
3. I'm going to say this. I do not trust the Republican Party in whatever they say and do.
Sat May 26, 2018, 05:02 PM
May 2018

This shithole could have gotten such monies from one donor and claim it's from thousands.

I hope he is voting out. He will always have a job with the crime family.

mahina

(17,505 posts)
4. Here's a really effective community anti-Nunes site, I am California 22
Sat May 26, 2018, 05:03 PM
May 2018

https://www.iamca22.com

“Honestly, I don’t know what to think of him, I get the impression he doesn’t care what we think. He’ll do whatever it takes to keep him in office. I don’t know where he stands on things personally, because he doesn’t talk to us. That’s not helpful. He hasn’t really done anything that’s really impressed me.
Amy Dickinson-Campbell, quoted in Our Valley Voice”


Video interviews on the environment, health, economy, national and state issues. Very well done.

I wish I could embed the site or videos here but hope you find the page I am California 22 useful

onecaliberal

(32,484 posts)
12. I'm CA22 as well. That POS doesn't care about the people here.
Sat May 26, 2018, 06:27 PM
May 2018

There are protestors outside his Clovis office daily.
He was an Iraq was apologist and cheerleader. He’s awash in Russian and NRA.
Fresno country is the second poorest county per capita in the United States. His votes are exaserbating the problem.

mahina

(17,505 posts)
13. I'm not a California resident but support getting rid of this DB. In the link there are interviews w
Sat May 26, 2018, 06:35 PM
May 2018

His constituents. One black senior couple tells the story of how the protest crowd was dismissed as being only 5 or 6 people.

After Nunes assistant agreed to a meeting with the Rep only with a group of 5.

He dismissed his constituents’ concerns on the radio that very day by staying they were only a group of 5.

Shitbag.

onecaliberal

(32,484 posts)
14. We have continually asked for him to meet. He comes to town to raise money from farmers
Sat May 26, 2018, 06:44 PM
May 2018

who get farm subsidies, can’t be bothered with real people. There are at least 30 people outside his Clovis Ave offIce with signs every day.

DFW

(54,051 posts)
5. I'm betting there is a huge distinction to make
Sat May 26, 2018, 05:07 PM
May 2018

The guy's opponent actually raised the funds he has on hand. Nunes got some Koch-backed PAC to dump $2.3 million in some unheralded bank account of his campaign, and now claims to have raised the money from people who would have had to mortgage their houses in order to fork over that kind of cash. He didn't raise anything except a flag with the word "HELP!!" in big red letters that could be seen all the way to Wichita.

Brother Buzz

(36,214 posts)
10. Actually Nunes helps fill Andrew Janz's war chest every time he opens his piehole
Sat May 26, 2018, 05:37 PM
May 2018

Janz for Congress manager Heather Greven said the campaign raised $164,000 alone the Saturday after the House Intelligence Committee released a memo claiming the FBI abused its surveillance authority while investigating the Trump campaign

Oh, and his constituents are still looking for him:

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
7. The more secure the Republican...
Sat May 26, 2018, 05:11 PM
May 2018

they more they pander to the Dotard.

It's a remarkable set of circumstances in the face of a Blue Wave midterm election certainty.

We mustn't forget the 63,000,000 irredeemably deplorable assholes who made it all possible.

Demovictory9

(32,323 posts)
8. jim Carrey on Nunes
Sat May 26, 2018, 05:11 PM
May 2018

Jim Carrey
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Every morning Trump makes special breakfast sandwiches for House Republicans. Devin Nunes eagerly finishes first and always asks for seconds!

cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
9. Jan '18 poll had Nunes only 5% ahead of a generic Dem candidate
Sat May 26, 2018, 05:13 PM
May 2018

Considering he won his district by 35%, that's a pretty big drop.

The seat was considered safe by Sabato, but now it's likely republican.

There's potential to move these numbers, but it'll have to be a hard fought campaign to beat Nunes. The asshole has got to go.

kimbutgar

(20,879 posts)
11. I bet he got some bundled Russian money
Sat May 26, 2018, 06:09 PM
May 2018

They know how to make where the money comes from be kind of fuzzy. Twitler and the rethugs know how to launder money and make it clean.

That said I hope more of those billboards show up and embarrass him and weaken his support. He really doesn’t nothing to benefit his constituents. The tax bill that limits state taxes deduction should be a crudgel.

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