Rep. Claudia Tenney pushes Congress to hold Energy Secretary ‘accountable’ with impeachment injury: ‘Colossal ego’
https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/rep-claudia-tenney-pushes-for-impeachment-inquiry-energy-secretary-granholm/amp/
Rep. Claudia Tenney pushes Congress to hold Energy Secretary ‘accountable’ with impeachment injury: ‘Colossal ego’
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That is noise compared to the GOP crimes starting with the ourang outang!
Noise to some, Music to others.
Seems like theater to me, this is like 150k at most, probably form some portfolios full of all sorts of stuff. I would expect a real criminal would have millions in some company that you plant to give a break to. I am not buying this is a crime, just an honest mistake.
Ok I heard she tried to drive across America in a electric car and had her thugs clear out charging stations before she needed to charge her car sp she did not have to deal with the public scum or what is known as the lower 98%.
'Charging challenges': Biden's energy sec. struggles on EV road trip
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GaSHqqOlPDs
We need more women in government -- let's hope either Kamala Harris or Nikki Haley is our next president. Wasn't Lisa Simpson the president after Trump in the Simpsons?
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/President_Lisa
"Seems like theater to me, this is like 150k at most...
150k may be chump change in your circles, in mine that is a sizable chunk of change.
150k may be chump change in your circles, in mine that is a sizable chunk of change.
9/17/2023 7:49 PM
I am not saying that is chump change but that amount of potential gain is pretty small for someone to subvert the DOE to fund a company just enrich yourself by pumping up some stock. We are not talking Burisma level money if you catch my drift. I doubt the secretary was steering millions of DOE money to companies to bolster stock up by 10% for neat personal gain of 15k.
Granholm's problem is that she's doing the stock business in a amateur way. If she wants to make a killing in the market, she needs to get elected to the senate or congress and Nancy Pelosi can guide her through the legal insider trading allowed to that portion of the government.
While the slight oopsie of false testimony under oath may be warranting something stronger than a slap on the wrist, the public's outrage over her staff blockading a charging station for her PR trip may gather stronger reaction. In both instances we are just seeing business as usual.
Move along folks, nothing to see here.
I think many members of Congress violate some of the same reporting requirements, it is a $400 fine, but perhaps I am mistaken. It does look as if the false testimony issue could be real, but it could be an unintentional misstatement meaning it might not be perjury.
Taking that as a defense, of course, means she is completely unaware of her own finances, yet is in charge of an agency with a very large budget, overseeing energy programs which furthermore are crucial to the US economy as well as the finances of most households.
Although of course, Granholm has been on the board of directors of several companies including Dow, and has owned stocks in the past (when she was aware of it, apparently) which I view as a positive sign.
That is, I think knowledge of business and financial markets is good -- we need more of that in government -- unless there are specific, identified conflicts of interest.
While I do believe her defense that the original misstatements were unintentional, it might make sense to go back to the original testimony in its entirety and see if it was taken out of context, or even material to what she was testifying about as well.
And in any case it might be better to focus on actual policy matters rather than these partisan attacks, I think!
"I think many members of Congress violate some of the same reporting requirements, it is a $400 fine"
I think some huge amount of members of Congress and the Senate come out as multiple millionaires due to legal insider information. It is just standard practice and one of the big draws for gong doing this. There is no way they are ever going to get rid of this as both sides get rich doing it.
Her stupidity is a much larger factor than her dishonesty.
Congress is investigating Granholm's publicity stunt of her staff blockading a re-charging station.
At least she wasn't dropping frozen turkeys from a helicopter ala WKRP.
She's still needs to get bigger screw ups if she wishes to match Richardson and O'Leary.
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