Idiot MAGA Congressman Andy Ogles Makes George Santos Look Like a Genius

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: Congressman Andy Ogles (R) admits his claims to have loaned $320,000 to his campaign were not true

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Source: New Republic

Idiot MAGA Congressman Makes George Santos Look Like a Genius

Hafiz Rashid
Thu, May 23, 2024 at 11:42 AM EDT·2 min read

According to 11 amendments that he filed to his campaign finance reports on Wednesday, Ogles didn’t actually loan his campaign $320,000, as he previously claimed. That begs the question: Where did the money come from?

In November, the Tennessee congressman was found to have some irregularities in his campaign reports, thanks to an investigation by a Nashville TV station, NewsChannel 5. Among them was a $320,000 loan to his campaign from himself, even though his personal finance reports didn’t show a place where such a loan could have originated—not even a personal bank account.

In his amendments, Ogles says that his campaign loan was actually $20,000 instead of $320,000, a sizable oversight, and raises the question of what explains the inconsistencies. Former Representative George Santos is currently facing criminal charges for inflating campaign fundraising numbers—after also reporting he loaned himself a sizable amount of money. Santos was later found to have spent campaign dollars on casino trips, Botox treatments, and OnlyFans payments. Is Ogles hiding something like Santos?

It’s not an outlandish question, as the two have one glaring similarity: making up parts of their past. Ogles claimed to have studied policy and economics at Middle Tennessee State University and calls himself an economist, but only has one community college economics course under his belt, which he barely passed. He later claimed on a 2009 résumé to have a degree in international relations, but NewsChannel 5 found that his major was actually liberal studies—a hilarious degree for a Republican politician.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/idiot-maga-congressman-makes-george-154220240.html

[keithbvadu2]

1. He probably expected his campaign to repay him for that 'loan'? From donations, of course.

[Docreed2003]

2. He's an idiot MAGA...in a gerrymandered district

He's hated in Nashville by many but he's relatively safe because of how his district is drawn. Thanks to the USSC ruling this week, there's little hope that that will ever change. He was one of the beneficiaries of our state GOP carving up a reliably blue district in Nashville out of existence.