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https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-for-the-rule-of-law-billboards-trump-135139335.htmlA conservative group is targeting House Republicans with a digital billboard campaign that is heavily critical of President Donald Trump.
In the new ads, Republicans for the Rule of Law calls out Trump for prohibiting key witnesses in the Ukraine scandal from testifying in the House impeachment inquiry against him.
The ads show Trump with a finger over his mouth to indicate that he wants silence. He appears next to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Trumps personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in the images.
"What Is Trump Hiding? ask the ads, which will be placed in the congressional districts of House Republicans, including Reps. Greg Walden (Ore.), Mac Thornberry (Texas), Fred Upton (Mich.) Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) John Katko (N.Y.) and Martha Roby (Ala.).
2naSalit
(86,798 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,984 posts)to rip the duct tape off John Bolton's cookie duster. Start a pool for percentage of 'stache pulled off at the roots.
SKKY
(11,822 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)My father called it a 'flavor-saver'. Make of that what you will...
panader0
(25,816 posts)SKKY
(11,822 posts)...um....er....I mean heard.
MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)like this one: "_ _ _ _" broom (first word rhymes with "broom!"
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)I thought I saw what qualified them to work for the Trump Administration all over their faces.
Backseat Driver
(4,399 posts)re abuse of power and obstruction - Their billboards are probably somehow categorized as really expensive personal tax-deductible PSAs or designed for phone calls to the offices in order spout their alternative "facts" to unwitting callers.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Too much about what they would say if unleashed. Like Michael Cohen said, he doesn't ever come right out and say "Rob the bank tomorrow". Except maybe to Roody. We'd need to get the most astute and brilliant atty to work truth out.
druidity33
(6,447 posts)about your username? Is that from an SNL skit? IE GWB and Laura Bush...
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)To let us change our names periodically. Idea came when bush got caught drinking beer in China. Seemed funny at the time...now just stupid and cruel
MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)to donate to help fund this ad campaign.............
Nah!
They'd find some other way to support another asshole who would work to keep the 1% in control.
But I DO like the ad!!!!
kimbutgar
(21,195 posts)They have been doing Moscow Mitch Billboards in Kentucky and. against other rethugs.
https://maddogpac.com/
MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)I have followed their work against some of the "idiots" - but I went to their site to learn more.
Well, I've finished my Christmas shopping by buying the "Trump (In)Action Figure!"
It will be the "perfect gift" - you know, like the "perfect phone call!"
burrowowl
(17,648 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)brush
(53,871 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Fred Allen said in the 1950s "Television is a medium because it's neither rare nor well done." Now we have 500 channels and nothing's on.
brush
(53,871 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)They're afraid of losing advertisers or offending the general populace. Any real investigative journalism or anyone who makes a legitimate effort usually work for alternative media or college papers. To get picked up by establishment publications the story has to be sanitized for Trump's protection.
They're also afraid of him because he could send his brainwashed hordes after journalists, just like they do in Russia and Saudi Arabia (and all the other dictatorships he wants to emulate). This nutjob would have had Woodward, Bernstein, and John Dean either disappear or be executed.
gibraltar72
(7,512 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,953 posts)She is corrupt and probably taking russian money.
She is not a representative of Fort Worth. She is a no nothing republicon!!!
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Those campaign checks are good for six months regardless.
soldierant
(6,926 posts)I'm sure that was designed to rub in the faces of sane people just how many of our pols they have in their pockets.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)Because she isn't conservative enough!!!!!
Seriously, the person is hard core Tea Party and quite likely funded by Empower Texas.
#KremlinKay hasn't had to fight for her seat in 4-ever. It's high time
MagickMuffin
(15,953 posts)I did not know about her primary opponent. I wonder how that will play out???
She is my do nothing rep. She hasn't had to do anything substantive. She just wants the Trinity River development project so bad so her son can get awarded no bid contracts.
flying_wahini
(6,651 posts)Fort Worth has been corrupted by the GOP for years.
MagickMuffin
(15,953 posts)And Kay hasn't had to do anything for her constituents.
She just voted: 12/12/2019 Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019 No
How is this helping her constituents???
or this: 12/06/2019 Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 No
Here she has decided that the Voting Rights Advancement is not important to her constituents, wonder why that is???
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/334/kay-granger
She does not work for US.
murielm99
(30,764 posts)my rep, is an ass. We had a staunch conservative in office before him, but that was not good enough for the tea party.
He may be afraid of losing his seat. This is a very red district, but Kinzinger has some strong and good opposition.
Maybe our side need a few billboards, too.
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BSdetect
(8,999 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)And it is doubtful many red voters in eastern Oregon are going to change to blue through a billboard. Seems like this money should have been spent elsewhere. Unless it is meant to pressure Walden's successor (almost certainly a R).
marlakay
(11,498 posts)Because I havent seen it in Medford, Ashland area.
I bet they are hoping to influence new election but around here like everywhere else its red/blue.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,781 posts)At the hearings they have just like the repubs do
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)spend 5-10 years doing Democratic community service before I would consider putting them into any official position. In the end, they all vote the same and not to be trusted. Let them GET a RECORD. A billboard is just words.
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)Faux pas
(14,690 posts)with unbridled GLEE
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)This might actually have an effect on him.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)What is right!!!!
RainCaster
(10,916 posts)These swing districts will turn blue, let's go after some bigger ones.
Let's target Leningrad Lindsey & Moscow Mitch!
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Just to put the pressure on Moscow Mitch in advance of the tRUMP impeachment.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)Been seeing many pro trump ads here in New Mexico. Dems need to answer this crap
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)WE'D be the ones who needed an out-of-the-box DNC thinker? We need a leader so badly! A cutting edge person who can unite Hollywood money with NYC admen with Dem strategists with expert pollsters with psychiatrists to figure out how to beat this MF.