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- florida@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- florida@lemmy.world
“I need to ask my staff,” Florida Rep. Maria Salazar said as a reporter listed off times she bragged about getting money for her district that she opposed.
Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) on Sunday got called out for routinely taking credit for delivering money to her district — after opposing the bills that provided that money.
During an interview on CBS News Miami, host Jim DeFede asked Salazar about a ceremony she attended last month where she presented a check for $650,000 to help small businesses at Florida International University.
“You voted against the bill that gave the money that you then signed a check for and handed and had a photo op,” said DeFede, the host of CBS’s show “Facing South Florida.” “The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, right?”
She did vote against that $1.7 trillion government funding bill. It was a massive and memorable bill that almost every House Republican opposed.
Salazar said she couldn’t remember that vote.
“Right now, you have to give me more details,” she said. “But I do know that every time I have an opportunity to bring money to my constituents, I do so. I just did $400,000, but look—”
“But you voted against the CHIPS and Science Act, right?” DeFede interrupted.
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So glad these cynical, opportunistic ghouls are getting exposed as the know-nothing, do-nothing parasites that they are.
I just wish the people who needed to hear it most would listen once in a while. Not that they would change their votes…
Why let “facts” get in the way of what you feel like you want to do?
If you can’t remember what you voted for or against, sounds like you are mentally unfit to be in office.
She’s exactly what the GOP is looking for. Someone who won’t even read the bills and just vote along party lines.
And that’s what he constituents want too. A team player, do what leadership says. Because they’re populists without any political ideals.
All those “independent thinkers” and “wolves that don’t concern themselves with sheep” sure do love falling in line and obeying their overlords.
baaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ehh, no one remembers everything. However, you should definitely make sure how you voted if you’re going to take credit for it.
Hey, it worked for Reagan!
It’s worked for every conservative who has ever been conservative.
My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.
- Saint Reagan
You really have to admire the brilliance of Reagan’s writing staff. Compared to modern political bullshit it’s practically subtle.
Whereas now they skip the foreplay and go straight for the jugular.
“Me guud, me opponent bad.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Against_Socialized_Medicine
Ronald Reagan literally spoke out against Medicare in 1961. Years later, when the story came out, he said that he had supported a better bill that got voted down. That, of course, was a lie.
Just your standard liar from the US Fascist Party…
Florida is truly the shit covered prolapsed anus of the US.
That’s Texas, Florida is the shit-covered, badly infected hole for the overflowing colostomy bag.
“No problem, we have the info right here: You’re claiming credit for it, but records show on X date you voted against it. Can you please tell us why you’re claiming credit for it? And do you still claim credit given the way you voted on it?”
So much right-wing rhetoric is targeted squarely at low-information voters, and it’s depressing how effective it is.
It doesn’t matter if it falls apart under the lightest scrutiny, because they aren’t talking to people who will scrutinize anything at all.
Translation: “I didn’t think anyone else would remember/notice. Can I interest you in a tasty diversion?”
