The Republican US House member turns out to be a poster guy for what NOT to do with women….
Remind you of someone?
Men and their ‘Johnson’s’
Investigation’s ARE bound to be coming with an election a little more than. a month away….
Last Long Island Republican House member that got in trouble left the Congress and THAT gave the Democrats another seat….
As a proud son of Nassau County’s vaunted Republican machine, Representative Anthony D’Esposito of New York knows well the power of political patronage. Every member of his immediate family has held a town or county job, and as a local official, he routinely helped friends find spots on the government payroll.
Yet even by those standards, Mr. D’Esposito’s hiring decisions since he won a seat in Congress in 2022 have been audacious — and in two cases may have transgressed ethics rules designed to combat nepotism and corruption.
Shortly after taking the oath of office, the first-term congressman hired his longtime fiancée’s daughter to work as a special assistant in his district office, eventually bumping her salary to about $3,800 a month, payroll records show.
In April, Mr. D’Esposito added someone even closer to him to his payroll: a woman with whom he was having an affair, according to four people familiar with the relationship. The woman, Devin Faas, collected $2,000 a month for a part-time job in the same district office.
Payments to both women stopped abruptly several months later, in July 2023, records show, around the time that Mr. D’Esposito’s fiancée found out about his relationship with Ms. Faas and briefly broke up with him, according to the four people.
Mr. D’Esposito has not been publicly accused of wrongdoing, but his employment of the two women, which resulted in the payment of about $29,000 in taxpayer funds, could expose him to discipline in the House of Representatives.
The House code of conduct prohibits members of Congress from employing spouses or relatives, including stepchildren. Though Mr. D’Esposito has never married, congressional ethics experts said that employing a woman akin to his stepdaughter, who shared a home with him, could breach the requirement that members of Congress “adhere to the spirit and the letter of the rules.”
A separate provision adopted in the wake of the #MeToo movement explicitly states that lawmakers “may not engage in a sexual relationship with any employee of the House who works under the supervision of the member.”…
image…Roll Call
Let us never forget Staten Island 2008, when Fossella got caught with a second family, had to resign, and after one mornid game of musical chairs, the eventual GOP nominee got disavowed by the party and went on to lose by 30+% in a district won by John McCain.
*morbid
And while I don’t expect D’Esposito to go down to quite the same fate, I will still go out on a limb and say Gillen 54-46
Again……
I hope ur Right!
For the local and House Democrats and Harris
New York is going to be interesting. We may see a scenario where Harris reaches Obama levels of support Upstate(flipping over half a dozen close counties), yet sheds some support in Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens(still not by enough to deny Gillen or Suozzi) and absolutely craters on Long Island/Suffolk County. All thanks to the toxic duo of Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams and the increasing Daily News/NY Post brain rot that’s becoming more prevalent amongst the white working class left leaners who have been key to the gaudy successes of Obama and Cuomo in prior elections. I’d say she wins the state around 57-42 at the end of the day.
Harris wins the Empire state without campaigning here….
My Governor is looking like a one termer….
Will Andrew Cuomo run for Mayor of the Big Apple?
Andrew is unhappy camper….
The NY AG spoiled his flow…..
And he has NO Friends
The Feds are ALL OVER the current Mayor and his staff….
He, he, he….
SE?
We wait for Jack to drop in on your listings
And CG should be Happy….
Trump is steady on the losing end not even campaigning really….
I had said Illinois would be his last stand, a la John McCain going to Pennsylvania in the last weeks of the 2008 election. Now it’s clear New York and California are his last stands.
I don’t think there’s that much to disagree with on my NY prediction. The other ones can and will definitely be hashed out.
Good luck with that. Against either Adams or Cuomo, 2025 could finally be Curtis Sliwa’s year.
He, he, he….
Red Berets are Sooooo passe’
Yup…….
Do as i say……
Not DO GOPer’s are in abundance!