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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats want investigation into Trump administrations reported blackmail over health care votes
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-threatens-alaska-over-health-care-vote-845aae9a3d58<snip>
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, plans to request a formal investigation into whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke threatened to pull projects from Alaska in retaliation for Sen. Lisa Murkowskis (R-AK) vote on Tuesday against moving forward with a debate on health care legislation.
Grijalva said Zinkes willingness to reportedly threaten Alaska in response to the senators vote serves as an alarming sign of how far the administrations ethical standards have fallen and how irresponsible the Interior Department has become.
Threatening to punish your rivals as political blackmail is something wed see from the Kremlin, Grijalva said in a statement Thursday. Secretary Zinkes willingness to deliver these threats speaks volumes about his ethical standards and demonstrates that Interiors policy positions are up for political grabs, rather than based on science or the public interest.
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Democrats want investigation into Trump administrations reported blackmail over health care votes (Original Post)
malaise
Jul 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. If a democrat did this, the Secret Service could not protect them from
the deplorables
Any democrat would literally be hunted down and killed.
Deplorables have no interest in democracy or justice. I see very bad times ahead.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)2. Good luck with that
GOP seems to not care . . .
unblock
(52,206 posts)3. that's actually pretty normal politics.
supporting or opposing bills or provisions or policies or funding and such that a key congresscritter cares about is how power is wielded in congress and the presidency. others might be less crass about it, but that's how it's done.
few congressional minds are changed by arguing the actual merits of any particular policy.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)4. That's the problem with tweeting
But the GOP don't seem to mind, so tRump tweets with impunity.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)5. It's called abuse of power. Pols have gone to prison f/ it
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)6. If I may reiterate
45 song lyric
They are tearing up our democracy
To build their aristocracy
malaise
(268,967 posts)7. Pretty much
This has been going on for quite some time