Poor Rashida Tlaib: victimized for possible ethics violation

It's hard to believe that "Squadette" Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) would find herself the victim of a House Ethics Committee investigation. She seems smart enough to know how to cover her tracks, but then again, perhaps she's just an innocent victim here, like Hamas is to the Israelis.

According to The Hill, the House Ethics Committee announced on Monday that it's extending a review of Tlaib over whether she accepted a salary from her 2018 campaign before taking office.

Now all three "Squad" anti-Semitic socialists are in ethics hearings.

This announcement was the first public acknowledgment that Tlaib is being investigated. But aside from Politico and Time, the story seems to interest mostly conservative outlets such as: The Hill, Daily Wire, Conservative Review, Red State, Washington Times, and the Blaze, to name a few. Yes, it was also covered by Detroit News but that may be an outlier.

House Ethics Committee Chairman Ted Deutch (D-FL) and the panel's ranking Republican, Rep. Kenny Marchant (Texas), said in a joint statement that the probe "does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the committee."

The committee will announce its next course of action, such as potentially opening a formal investigation, by Nov. 14, just four days after Rabin Day  (Hebrew: יום רבין‎). This day is an Israeli national holiday celebrated annually on the twelfth of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, to commemorate the life of Israeli leader and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. We know that Ms. Tlaib will not attend this year, but there is always hope. First she has to stop hating the Jewish state and the Jews who live there.

A spokesman for Tlaib said that the review involves allegations about her 2018 campaign salary but denied any wrongdoing, which would blow one's mind if they said otherwise.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) allows non-incumbent candidates to pay themselves a salary from their campaign committees if they meet a particular criteria. For example, the salary is designed to help first-time candidates who are not independently wealthy.

“As the Ethics Committee made clear, the fact that it received a referral does not mean any violation occurred,” Tlaib spokesman Denzel "Don't Call Me Washington" McCampbell said in a statement to The Hill. “Representative Tlaib has cooperated completely with the Committee to resolve the referral, which involves the same claims over her publicly disclosed salary during the campaign that conservative groups pressed back in March. Representative Tlaib fully complied with the law and acted in good faith at all times.” She simply hates Israel and loves socialism.

Conservative outlets in March highlighted FEC records showing that Tlaib's campaign paid out $17,500 in salary disbursements after the Nov. 6, 2018, general election. One payment of $2,000 was dated Nov. 16, while another of $15,000 was dated Dec. 1.

Under the FEC rules for allowing a candidate to receive a campaign salary state that the payments can be made until the date of the general election or until the candidate is no longer running.

In addition, the salary can't go beyond the minimum annual salary for the federal office sought [in her case it's $174,000] or the income she received the previous year.

An FEC spokesperson explained in March to The Washington Free Beacon that a candidate is permitted to pay themselves after the general election for an activity that happened up to that date.

Tlaib joins her fellow Squadette socialist, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in an ethics investigation for also collecting a salary from her campaign before taking office. It should be noted that AOC failed to pay taxes on her failed business as required by NY State law, and has not repaid her student loan debt that she agreed to repay when she acquired it. 

Like Tlaib, Cortez also receives a salary of $174,000 annually, so it's unclear if she intends to repay the loan back to the lender who provided it. Socialists tend to think 'what's yours is mine . . . what's mine is also mine.'

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