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Marcuse

(7,399 posts)
34. Weintraub notwithstanding, the Federal Election Commission has been assimilated.
Thu Sep 24, 2020, 01:29 PM
Sep 2020
The head of the Federal Election Commission chastised Catholic bishops during a pair of interviews this week, accusing church hierarchy of “hiding behind” their nonprofit status and declaring that this year’s election amounts to a “spiritual war” that threatens the country’s “Christian moral principles.”

FEC Chairman James E. “Trey” Trainor III made the remarks during an interview released Wednesday by Church Militant, a controversial conservative Catholic media outlet, and repeated them in a separate phone interview with Religion News Service.

Trainor, who is Catholic and attends Mass weekly, was asked by Church Militant founder Michael Voris about a priest who recently published a video in which he declares that no Catholic can be a Democrat. The video went viral.

Trainor, a Republican lawyer who was nominated to the FEC by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate in May, also told Voris that a 2017 executive order signed by Trump frees churches to endorse political candidates.

But FEC Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub disputed Trainor’s claim that Trump’s executive order allows faith groups to ignore the “Johnson Amendment,” a provision of U.S. tax law that bars nonprofits from endorsing political candidates.

“My colleague is not correct,” Weintraub, a Democrat who has chaired the commission three times since joining it in 2002, said in a statement.


[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/fec-chair-trainor-religion-catholic/2020/09/18/d34c643c-f9d6-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html|
Not just you. jorgevlorgan Sep 2020 #1
spot on. The cornered dog is desperate as heck to avoid paying for his crimes, so he's resorting to onetexan Sep 2020 #28
He'd be smarter to flee. This will not end well for him if he stays here. lagomorph777 Sep 2020 #36
I've said that wld be the Con's plan B -1st flight out to moscow onetexan Sep 2020 #38
Evil AF1 lagomorph777 Sep 2020 #39
There does seem to be a pushback on his comments. NoRoadUntravelled Sep 2020 #2
Shoot, even Putin PatSeg Sep 2020 #13
Ha! True, Putin does give a nod to the ballots. NoRoadUntravelled Sep 2020 #14
I agree PatSeg Sep 2020 #17
Yup, glad to see it. BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #20
IF you can afford a digital subscription to The Atlantic obamanut2012 Sep 2020 #30
I wish I could... BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #40
The Atlantic has been a pretty reliable and worthy source. NoRoadUntravelled Sep 2020 #32
'Pushback?' A direct refutation. elleng Sep 2020 #3
brief and to the point k&r BootinUp Sep 2020 #4
Trump is grasping at straws's. sheshe2 Sep 2020 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author vapor2 Sep 2020 #6
The Romney who is meekly going to vote for RBG's successor now? Tommymac Sep 2020 #10
So you dont want his support for a normal transition. Ok. oldsoftie Sep 2020 #23
Tilting the court to help Trump steal the election, is not support for a normal transition. lagomorph777 Sep 2020 #37
He does realize that if they pull it off and fill RBG seat BEFORE the election. That his 2024.... usaf-vet Sep 2020 #25
Little Donny isn't quite ready for the grown-ups table yet Blue Owl Sep 2020 #7
An autocrat threatens elections and the electorate C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #8
YES, pushback from the FEC vapor2 Sep 2020 #9
Mitt took back his pushback... Duppers Sep 2020 #21
No he didnt. That article refers to the SCOTUS pick not the vote. oldsoftie Sep 2020 #24
no he didn't obamanut2012 Sep 2020 #31
Trump's words can be use to convict him of conspiracy to defraud the 2020 election. patphil Sep 2020 #11
FEC is 100% impotent b/c they don't have a quorum b/c Trump has withheld nominations RockRaven Sep 2020 #12
The FEC may be impotent. Think SCOTUS is going to go along with tossing out ballots? Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #16
I think that SCOTUS makes rulings on matters of law not matters of fact, so RockRaven Sep 2020 #18
SCOTUS would be asked if it is lawful for state legislators to throw out state election law Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #29
SCOTUS says that elections are the purview of the states, and state can do whatever they want. not_the_one Sep 2020 #35
The 2 states in question that he has "approached" are WI & PA Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #41
Kick! Hekate Sep 2020 #15
Well, except in 2000 aeromanKC Sep 2020 #19
There better be pushback against his comments. He's advocating for a coup. Salviati Sep 2020 #22
I have to keep reminding myself that the Con is historically unpopular. CrispyQ Sep 2020 #26
Governors need to step up bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #27
standard business for the idiot noneof_theabove Sep 2020 #33
Weintraub notwithstanding, the Federal Election Commission has been assimilated. Marcuse Sep 2020 #34
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