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turbinetree

(24,685 posts)
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 05:15 PM Sep 2022

Hey Ron Johnson......as a taxpayer that gives you a pay check.....

you should be charged with fraud.....this is not what my money is suppose to be used for....dirtbag....



Ethics complaint alleges Ron Johnson used Senate resources for political attacks


By Josh Israel -September 29, 2022 12:58 PM
The Wisconsin Republican has used his official website and social media accounts to smear his Democratic opponent.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is facing another ethics complaint after using his official social media accounts to smear his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.

The official complaint, sent last Thursday and shared with the American Independent Foundation, was filed by a Wisconsin attorney named Richard Thal. It asks the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to open an investigation into whether Johnson violated federal law and Senate rules by using official Senate resources for campaign purposes.

"In particular, Senator Johnson's official website, as well as Twitter and Facebook accounts posted content advocating for the people of Wisconsin to vote against Senator Johnson's 2022 general election opponent," Thal alleges. "On August 23, 2022, Senator Johnson posted to all three accounts that the 'people of Kenosha are still suffering because of Gov. [Tony] Evers and Lt. Gov. Barnes Lack of leadership.'"

https://americanindependent.com/ron-johnson-ethics-complaint-wisconsin-senate-2022-election/

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Hey Ron Johnson......as a taxpayer that gives you a pay check..... (Original Post) turbinetree Sep 2022 OP
Sorry, Ron Vlad is busy and can not help you this time like he did in 2016? Botany Sep 2022 #1
Ron is sooo dumb, he's up there with Gohmert and Gosar Cozmo Sep 2022 #2
Yep. SergeStorms Sep 2022 #5
i called him senator stupid from day 1. course now its traitor. pansypoo53219 Sep 2022 #8
Sheeyat! Them rules.... WestMichRad Sep 2022 #3
Come on, Cheeseheads! Vote this crook out. catbyte Sep 2022 #4
there is that pouting face again. AllaN01Bear Sep 2022 #6
He's among a very few worst of the worst. Omaha Steve link to donating to Mandela Barnes(D) progree Sep 2022 #7

Botany

(70,449 posts)
1. Sorry, Ron Vlad is busy and can not help you this time like he did in 2016?
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 05:20 PM
Sep 2022

Last edited Fri Sep 30, 2022, 07:06 PM - Edit history (1)

And BTW nice job trying to pass on fake electors to V.P. Pence too.

Enjoy your ass kicking.

SergeStorms

(19,187 posts)
5. Yep.
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 08:01 PM
Sep 2022

I don't think this is a case of Johnson trying to pull a fast one on the people of Wisconsin. This is just a case of Johnson being too freaking stupid to realize he can't do that.

He really is too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time.

WestMichRad

(1,317 posts)
3. Sheeyat! Them rules....
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 07:49 PM
Sep 2022

… is fer democrats and pansies! We don’t need no stinkin’ rules telling us how to… What were we talkin‘ about?

/sarcasm

catbyte

(34,341 posts)
4. Come on, Cheeseheads! Vote this crook out.
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 07:53 PM
Sep 2022

It's awesome having your state represented by two Democrats. Try it -- you'll like it!

Sincerely,

Your neighbor across the Lake.

progree

(10,893 posts)
7. He's among a very few worst of the worst. Omaha Steve link to donating to Mandela Barnes(D)
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 10:05 PM
Sep 2022
Wisconsin’s Johnson embraces controversy in reelection bid, AP, 9/28/22

[Ron] Johnson has called for the end of guaranteed money for Medicare and Social Security, . . . He’s trafficked in conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and dabbled in pseudoscience around the coronavirus.

. . . [about Social Security and Medicare] Those comments caught Biden’s attention, with the president repeatedly called Johnson out by name, including at a White House event Tuesday, for wanting “to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every year. . . . If Congress doesn’t vote to keep it, goodbye,” Biden said Tuesday.

Johnson also dismissed concerns about climate change, said that he would have been more fearful during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots if the U.S. Capitol invaders had been Black Lives Matter protesters, and advocated for unproven and untested alternative treatments for COVID-19, saying mouthwash could be one way to fight the virus.

Their race is one of a handful around the country that could decide control of the Senate next year, and the only one with an incumbent Republican seeking reelection in a state carried by President Joe Biden. It’s also shaping up as the kind of razor-close finish that’s become common in Wisconsin,

Polls suggest that a Barnes edge in midsummer, likely propelled by his emergence as key Democratic rivals dropped out right before the state’s primary election, has evaporated under a barrage of attack ads from Johnson and his allies. A Marquette University Law School poll in mid-September had the race within the margin of error, with Barnes’ unfavorable ratings increasing by 10 percentage points from a month earlier.

MORE: https://kstp.com/associated-press/ap-regional/wisconsins-johnson-embraces-controversy-in-reelection-bid/

Its the 3rd closest of all Senate races according to https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/senate
after Nevada and Georgia. He's behind Johnson by a 2 point margin.

Omaha Steve has set up a DU link for Barnes - https://secure.actblue.com/donate/duforbarnes22

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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2022/09/29/mandela-barnes-us-senate-candidate-vs-ron-johnson-2022-election-on-twitter-donald-trump-russian-spy/10440513002/

. . . 2010 campaign when he [Ron Johnson] claimed climate change was due primarily to sunspots

. . . his claim that mouthwash would kill coronavirus, his statements downplaying the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack
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