Texas congressman compares Russian hacking to Mexican singers campaigning for Clinton

[Fla Dem]

WASHINGTON — A Texas lawmaker on the House intelligence committee says it wasn't just the Russians who interfered in last year's election.

Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Midland, is comparing the use of Mexican entertainers to energize Democratic voters to the email hacking that officials say was orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's government.

“Harry Reid and the Democrats brought in Mexican soap opera stars, singers and entertainers who had immense influence in those communities into Las Vegas, to entertain, get out the vote and so forth,” Conaway told The Dallas Morning News this week. “Those are foreign actors, foreign people, influencing the vote in Nevada. You don’t hear the Democrats screaming and saying one word about that.”

Asked whether he considers that on par with Russian cyber-intrusions that aimed to damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Conaway said: “Sure it is, it’s foreign influence. If we’re worried about foreign influence, let’s have the whole story.”

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Lunacy, pure lunacy.

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. SERIOUSLY....

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. So this congressman is good with Russia taking over our country.

noted

[dalton99a]

3. Russian hackers are harmless cuddly little fuzzballs

like Rush says

[oasis]

4. Does that idiot understand the concept of C-O-V-E-R-T activities?

[2naSalit]

5. You know...

Texas has some pretty funky stuff in their drinking water... I think that accounts for much of the nonsensical, brain damaged crap that comes out of that state.

[dalton99a]

6. "Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States,

please pay attention." - Molly Ivins

[2naSalit]

8. Miss her a lot.

I can only imagine what she'd be saying at this point in our collective demise.

[world wide wally]

7. I wish we had a way to scoff at Republican patriotism in public, but that would mean

a tv station and we don't have any of those.

[riversedge]

9. Lordy lordy. Such stupidity is beyond the pale.

[1965Comet]

10. Oh Lord

consider what the Republican response would have been if Hillary had won and then we had found out the Mexican government had a hand in helping her!

[Initech]

11. WTF is wrong with them???

[Rex]

12. My state grows some of the most ignorant, ass-backwards fuckwads ever to exist.

Midland is a big fracking town, no doubt Conaway thinks God wants us to frack for oil.

[MurrayDelph]

13. Someone is trying

to take the "Stupidest Congressman from Texas" title away from Louis Gohmert.