Tag: GOP no longer party of family values

Video emerges of Trump and Ron DeSantis meeting man being investigated for human trafficking with Matt Gaetz

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On Wednesday, CBS News revealed that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went to the Bahamas in late 2018 or early 2019 with a marijuana entrepreneur and hand surgeon that ultimately triggered a sex trafficking investigation.

The man, named Jason Pirozzolo, “allegedly paid for the travel expenses, accommodations, and female escorts,” the report revealed. 

Whether the escorts were hired for sex across state or international lines is part of the investigation by the Justice Department, and it includes both Gaetz and Pirozzolo as part of that probe. Continue reading.

Not Your Parents’ GOP

The following article bu Susan Milligan was posted on the U.S. News and World Report website December 8, 2017:

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The Republican revolution of 1994 led onetime Democratic Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama to switch parties and become a proud member of the GOP. Next week’s election in Alabama may define the beginning of the end of the senior senator’s party as he’s known it.

When Shelby aligned with the party, Republicans were on an electoral and ideological roll. Having seized control of both the Senate and House, the GOP was on a mission to cut taxes, reform entitlement programs, slash domestic spending and shrink the federal footprint on Americans’ lives. Now, the Republican Party has been increasingly defined by what were once its fringe elements, observers in both parties bemoan, raising the question of whether the party, in its traditional model, is on its way out. Continue reading “Not Your Parents’ GOP”