GOP rep: 'Bullcrap' to say taxpayers pay my salary

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY NIKITA VLADIMIROV - 04/13/17 09:07 AM EDT

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) faced off with constituents at a town hall this week, telling the audience that they don't pay his salary.

"You say you pay for me to do this? That’s bullcrap," Mullin said at the town hall in Jay, Okla., according to a video of the incident.

"I pay for myself. I paid enough taxes before I got here and continue to through my company to pay my own salary. This is a service. No one here pays me to go,” he added. After constituents pushed back, Mullin reiterated that being a lawmaker is not "how I make my living."

“I’m just saying ... this is a service for me, not a career, and I thank God this is not how I make my living,” he said.




Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/328615-gop-rep-bullcrap-to-say-taxpayers-pay-my-salary-i-pay-for

[Plucketeer]

1. Perfect candidate

for a place in the Trump regime!

[FakeNoose]

18. Thanks to the magic of gerrymandering

... this guy's job is permanent.

[Hortensis]

39. Not exactly. If 15% more people voted across the nation,

or likely even in this district,we would indeed have the peaceful "revolution" the Constitution makes our right every two years. Everything wrong with the people we elect is our fault and our problem to correct.

As for this guy, his astonishing arrogance and stupidity earned him coverage in not just The Hill for his colleagues to shake their heads over, but across the nation. This contempt for their sovereignty is just the kind of thing voters can understand very well, and this is going to follow him right into 2018.

[theaocp]

2. Unless this waste of oxygen is voted THE FUCK OUT

I am Jack's complete lack of interest. He just spat in their faces and if the response is, "Thank you, sir. May I have another?", those taxpayers can fuck off. He doesn't want to be there so much? Fine. Vote his ass out.

[Zoonart]

3. More taxpayer funded assholery!

So ... we are not paying for your office or your staff... for your healthcare and your pension into fucking perpetuity? GO DIRECTLY TO HELL.

Keep voting for these jerks, people!

[Left-over]

7. I agree totally with you!!!!

[LakeArenal]

12. We should tax him enought to actually pay him and his staff...

Then he can be correct..

[UpInArms]

4. Quit cashing the checks, asshole

Sheesh!

[Left-over]

5. Out of touch!!!

This idiot has no clue about what he was elected to do, or why. When you are elected to any public post whether local, state, or federal, you are a paid servant of the voting public that elected you to be there. This guy only serves HIS OWN interests.

[wryter2000]

25. Welcome to DU

[Scalded Nun]

6. Hey, OK!

You get what you pay for, even if your assclown does not know who is paying.

[WinstonSmith4740]

8. That SOB needs to be recalled.

He obviously has no regard for their needs, and NOBODY has paid enough in taxes to cover their salary as a Representative.

[Paladin]

9. A little Civics 101 for ol' "Markwayne," ASAP. On second thought, don't bother.

Anybody named "Markwayne" is bound to be bad news. I guess his parents hung that moniker on him because they figured he'd never be smart enough to remember two separate names. They were correct.

[mwooldri]

10. Doesn't matter how he gets paid. He works for...

... "We The People". Enough said.

[NCjack]

11. He pays his own salary and serves his own interests. That why the

rich should not be elected to office.

[2naSalit]

13. THIS

[El Mimbreno]

15. A good match for our misrepresentative

Here in New Mexico we have Steve Pearce, who actually stated he believes he was elected on the basis of his own beliefs and agenda and does not base his positions on staff input. Implying that constituent input means even less.

Another out-of-touch multimillionaire.

[jackssonjack]

20. No rich people should be elected?

Like
Teddy Roosevelt?
FDR?
the Clintons?
the Obamas?

Demonizing all wealthy people is no better then demonizing all progressives, a conservatives, all black people, all white people, all Jews, all Muslims, all Christians, all men all women, all teenagers. I think you get the point.

It seems one of America's biggest problems is people needing to feel superior to others instead of embracing each other as equals.

[wryter2000]

26. And the Kennedys

Howard Dean is pretty darned amazing, too. Welcome to DU.

[jackssonjack]

41. Oh yes the Kennedy's

How could I forget them? and Howard Dean "yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh!" Good man, such passion!

Thanks. I'm glad to be here.

[leftynyc]

23. That would have kept

some mighty fine Democrats out of office. Start with anyone named Kennedy and anyone named Roosevelt..

[wryter2000]

27. Teddy wasn't a dem

But your point is spot on.

[leftynyc]

37. You're right but

today he'd be a Democrat. And a liberal Democrat at that.

[world wide wally]

14. He must be stupid if he pays taxes...

Ask Trump

[El Mimbreno]

16. Zinger!! nt

[EricMaundry]

17. So what does he do with the money we pay him?

Hire prostitutes?

[IronLionZion]

19. Then quit!

asshole. Republican politicians hate government so much, then they should quit. Gerrymandered districts can still be primaried if a better Republican wants to run and actually wants the job.

[Rustyeye77]

21. Will someone puleeze throw this a$$hole out of office.

[jackssonjack]

22. If all his tax money was used to pay his salary

then he still owes the city and county for police protection, fire department, paving of roads, the storm drain systems, tornado warming systems, the weather service, and so on.

[stopbush]

43. Bingo!

[keithbvadu2]

24. E_L_I_T_E --- His majesty the Congressman above the serfs

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. He could say anything, wont matter.

The gerrymandering done is so unlawful and ugly that assholes like this will never lose.

The conservative electorate is the problem, horrible assholes like this have no power unless we give it to them.

[underpants]

29. His plumbing co. took in $370K of ARRA funds via Natuve American tribes

http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/Index/6599

"Mullin Plumbing is a plumbing business. When someone hires us to do a job, we don’t ask them where the money comes from,” the statement reads. “Plumbing is plumbing. These projects were Cherokee Nation projects, and our contract was with the Cherokee Nation. We just performed the services we were hired to do and moved on to the next job, like always.”

[Renew Deal]

30. Markwayne Mullin proves you don't have to be smart to make it to Congress

[underpants]

31. 4 years in office at $174K/year he personally would have had to pay about $700K in taves

[underpants]

33. taxes not taves

[exboyfil]

32. His taxes get proportioned out to the entire federal budget

For simplicity lets treat discretionary spending and income taxes as being the total spending and revenue stream.

His salary, approximately $200K, is 0.0000018%, of that total.

For reference defense spending and paying for past wars would account for 60.5% (and this does not include the nuclear program).

[mahatmakanejeeves]

34. Congressman cancels town hall, cites 'safety concerns'

MULLIN A NO-SHOW

Congressman cancels town hall, cites 'safety concerns'

By Sean Rowley [e-mail]

Apr 12, 2017

Dozens of Cherokee County residents, whether critical or supportive, left the Sequoyah High School gymnasium in disappointment Tuesday after Republican U.S. Congressman Markwayne Mullin abruptly scrubbed a scheduled town hall meeting. ... On his Twitter account, Mullin wrote, "Due to safety concerns, tonight's town hall meeting at Sequoyah HS has been cancelled. We will reschedule for another for Cherokee Co."

A number of "boos" cascaded onto Mullin's chief of staff, Tahlequah resident Michael Stopp, as he announced around 5:15 p.m. the cancellation of the 5:30 town hall. Stopp cited "unforeseen circumstances," and also said the town hall would be rescheduled.

The Press sent Stopp a private message through Facebook at 7:21 p.m., asking for a statement from Mullin. Stopp responded just a few minutes later, saying, "We are sending one shortly." However, by 8:45 p.m., with deadline approaching, Stopp had not sent a comment, though several more requests were sent. It did not appear Stopp had been on Facebook after the first brief exchange.

However, Mullin did send a statement to a Tulsa TV station shortly after 8:30 p.m.: "Due to safety concerns, tonight's town hall in Tahlequah was cancelled," Mullin said. "Over the past few weeks, we have seen an escalation of protestors at congressional town halls across the nation. We have even seen them right here in the Second District. I have continued to hold town halls and answer questions from constituents across the district, including those who have been vocal in their disapproval of my positions."

[not fooled]

45. The only "safety concerns"

this jackass would have faced were to his hearing and his delicate insecure feelings as he got proof that his constituency doesn't want the sordid GOPee agenda of austerity and theocracy forced upon them.

[Bleacher Creature]

35. "Markwayne"??? That's really his name??? nt

[PatSeg]

36. Whoa

I'll bet that went over just great. Another tone-deaf jackass.

[Nwgirl503]

38. That's not how this works

[C_U_L8R]

40. Behold, the over-entitled Republican

This clown needs to be run out on a rail.

[sinkingfeeling]

42. Then why does he take salary of $174,000 a year?

[Bengus81]

44. So...then have your paychecks sent to CHARITY.........n/t

[erpowers]

46. Probably Feels Different About Social Security Recipients

I bet Markwayne Mullin does not feel the same way about Social Security recipients. This guy is paid about $174,000 per year. There are very few Social security recipients who get that much in benefits per year. However, he likely does what many Republican do in regards to Social Security, call it an entitlement and pushes for cuts in benefits to elderly recipients, or asks for the retirement age to be lifted. He probably has an even worse view of people receiving SNAP and other government benefits. I guess the money taken from social program recipients does not cover the amount of money spent on the benefits they receive.

Anyone who gets paid $174,000 per year for a job is making a living from that job. Yes, the taxpayers pay his salary. If everyone in America stopped paying taxes there would not be enough money to pay his salary. If taxes from his business was the only revenue being brought in by the government there would not be enough money to pay for his salary.

[muntrv]

47. Does he have his own health insurance or does he use the Congressional health plan?

[muntrv]

48. If it's not a career, then quit now!

[erpowers]

49. Some Bad Reviews For His Plumbing Company

There are some very bad reviews of his company, Mullin Plumbing. I looked over reviews at Yelp and Yahoo. One of the bad reviews at Yelp is based on what Mullin said about not being paid by taxpayers. One other bad review might be based on what Mullin said in that the review was posted today. However, the rest of the bad reviews were posted a few months to a year or more before Mullin made his comment. The bad reviews at Yahoo seem to be real and not politically motivated. Those reviews were made in 2016 or earlier.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/mullin-plumbing-broken-arrow?adjust_creative=bing&utm_campaign=yelp_feed&utm_medium=feed_v2&utm_source=bing

https://local.yahoo.com/info-26476359-mullin-plumbing-tulsa

[ck4829]

50. Kick

[lapucelle]

51. The story is next up on Morning Joe.

Now Joe can wax nostalgic about how much better things were in his day.

Someone needs to tell Markwayne that he's confusing service with self-serving.

[beachbum bob]

52. democrats need to field someone against this guy and just run political ads using

his own words.....


this is how we take back congress

[Blue_Tires]

53. This is the kind of shit that needs to be thrown back in the face of every fucking

"Something something Dems abandoned the supposedly endangered white working class/rural/rust belt voters!" -hot take pundits who never seem to question what makes the GOP so appealing aside from catering to their racist leanings...

Forgive me, I'm just so goddamned sick of that bullshit narrative getting so much playtime...