Congressman spreads disinformation to defend Republicans' move to block election security funding
Source: Think Progress
Gaslight theater, starring Lou Barletta.
AARON RUPAR
AUG 3, 2018, 9:48 AM
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) defended Republicans recent decision to vote down additional funding for election security by spreading disinformation during an interview on CNN on Friday.
What we also found out in all of this talk is that Russia wasnt able to interfere with our elections, said Barletta, who is currently running for Sen. Bob Caseys (D-PA) seat, contradicting what intelligence chiefs publicly said just the day before.
Theyre trying, host Alisyn Camerota interjected. And in the midterms, they may succeed.
But Alisyn, if theyre not able to do it, why would you spend more money? Barletta responded. You wouldnt do that at home. If youre putting something in your home and its doing the job, why would you spend more money if what you have is succeeding? That doesnt make sense.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/lou-barletta-election-security-funding-russian-meddling-cnn-trump-599e1ad48342/
Alisyn Camerota, Alisyn Camerota, Alisyn Camerota
You should have asked him if he thinks to defend and protect the country that there should be "Paper Ballots".....................to see what his response would be....................to show his true self worthlessness for being an enabler to the act of treason, after all he works for Paul "ayn rand" Ryan.................and that says everything................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough......................vote
bucolic_frolic
(43,181 posts)beware the Devil
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)Must re-elect Casey here.
This is sad but it's only been since the teabaggers came on the scene after 2010 when the batshit crazy stuff got activated here in PA. I just never heard of this type of thing before then. You always had the run-of-the-mill benign neglect GOPers with the occasional out-in-left-field Santorums, but this latest crew has gone over the top.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism...............and it pretty much explains how these "teabaggers" and others gained power.....................we really need to take back the government............
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough........................vote
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Should be targeted especially for doing this for putin and trump, and voted out of office ASAP. A list should come out and Democrats should promote putting this out now showing who backed an enemy to corrupt our elections , again. That's treasonous, and these traitors have no place in OUR government , ever. They are not for Democracy anymore, and are backing putin before our country.
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)before (the tampering etc. w/ election process/votes/etc.), it will happen again...it will be an ongoing war for some time, especially w/ functions that are digitally driven. Until a totally imperious system can be devised cheaply for access to data bases, we'll have this going on forever (digital break ins/tampering/etc.).
There are systems that are impervious (mostly) to hacker attacks, but are expensive and not user friendly.
Anyone stating that it won't happen again etc. have their heads buried in a hole in the ground and are idiots.
mac56
(17,569 posts)No one has attacked us for 17 years.