Election 2022: It's GO Time!

 

If, like me, you get to vote in AZ Congressional District 1, I'm confident you will want to see THIS eye opening and newly candid look at the person ostensibly representing me (us) in Congress right now.

By the way, in case you want to see what he tweets, David Schweikert goes by the Twitter handle, @RepDavid.

However, in a much more candid moment than he's had with voters in eons (roughly 10 years), today (October 17, 2022) the following video appeared on Twitter and YouTube.

Additionally, Dave was found (not just accused of, but actually determined, in the summer of 2020, to have committed numerous ethics and federal law violations by the House (bipartisan) Ethics Committee. From the (NOT liberal-leaning) Washington Examiner:

David Schweikert reprimanded on House floor over 11 ethics rules violations

by Kerry Picket, Senior Campaign Reporter July 31, 2020 09:36 AM

The House by voice vote Friday reprimanded Rep. David Schweikert after an investigation found a series of campaign finance irregularities.

The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday that the Arizona Republican admitted to 11 rules violations, and agreed to pay a $50,000 fine, after the panel found he "violated House Rules, the Code of Ethics for Government Service, federal laws and other applicable standards in connection with: campaign finance violations."

That includes "misuse of his Members’ Representational Allowance for unofficial purposes; pressuring official staff to perform campaign work; and his lack of candor and due diligence during the investigation."

The violations happened between 2010 and 2018. The House Ethics Committee noted that Schweikert, who was first elected to the House in 2010, used several delaying and evasive tactics to avoid more stringent penalties.

The Ethics Investigative Subcommittee found that Schweikert “erroneously disclosed or failed to disclose” $305,000 in loans or repayment of loans "made or obtained for the benefit of his congressional campaigns" from July 2010 to December 2017. He also failed to report "at least $25,000 in disbursements made by his campaigns; failed to report more than $140,000 in contributions received by his campaigns; and falsely reported making disbursements totaling $100,000."

Allegations of Schweikert's misspending initially surfaced back in 2017 when the Washington Examiner's Philip Wegmann broke the story.

The last member of Congress to be reprimanded on the House floor was California Democrat Laura Richardson in 2012 for forcing her congressional staff to do campaign work and violating codes of conduct for government service.

As you can easily see in the video of Schweikert from a local GOP function in Arizona over the last weekend, he had NO trouble exercising (in?)appropriate candor in the hot mic/hot camera interview shown in the second video above.

You may ask why the reprimand didn't keep him from being ousted in 2020? Perhaps the pandemic prevented any candidate from adequately preparing a successful campaign against Schweikert.

Nevertheless, very credible and well-prepared Democratic candidate Jevin Hodge is poised to drop the hammer (so to speak) on the incumbent Congressman from Fountain Hills this time around.

Your vote MATTERS. My vote MATTERS. This is from MY ballot, which I voted at home this afternoon.

Make YOUR VOICE heard!

THIS is what's at stake in the 2022 Congressional election:

Eric Swalwell (D-CA) produced the ad, but it shows the stakes for ALL states and all women.

Vote wisely.