Missouri Gov. Greitens Expected To Resign, Ending Career Once Aimed At Presidency

[hatrack]

Source: Kansas City Star

JEFFERSON CITY
Eric Greitens stormed into the governor’s office in January 2017 vowing to clean up a state government he said was corrupt.

He is expected to resign Tuesday just as abruptly as he had arrived on Missouri's political scene, his career buried under an avalanche of scandal and felony charges.

Mike Parson, 63, a fellow Republican and former sheriff who served 11 years in the General Assembly before being elected as lieutenant governor in 2016, will take over as Missouri’s 57th governor. He’ll finish Greitens’ term, which runs until January 2021.

A Rhodes Scholar and former Navy SEAL, Greitens was once considered one of the brightest stars in the Republican Party — a rock star who traveled the country campaigning for his fellow GOP governors, all while building his national profile and donor base for an almost inevitable run at the White House.

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Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article212114314.html#storylink=cpy

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article212114314.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I have a large sum of cash I will bet

that whatever he is accused of doing, and did do, he has in the past accused and criticized others for doing.

[Freddie]

3. He's a Republican, right?

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. I know, I should give odds like 20-1.

[Jedi Guy]

15. No thinking person would take that bet.

Try hitting Trump up on Twitter. Pence too, while you're at it. Actually, just mass message his entire administration.

[Rebl2]

8. Yes he is Republican

[Leghorn21]

2. Okay then bye Greitens

[hlthe2b]

4. so... how long until Trump hires him?

[Rebl2]

13. Maybe

Trump offered him a job to add to the swamp he has created.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. We are on a roll today

It's a cleansing for the November elections. GOP tries to clean up its act.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. It is done (Breaking) if you want to update your post

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens resigns amid allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign fundraising violations

by Washington Post Staff May 29 at 5:31 PM

A special legislative committee has been considering whether to impeach Greitens, a Republican, and oust him over the allegations. The panel subpoenaed him last week.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/29/missouri-gov-eric-greitens-resigns-amid-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-and-campaign-fundraising-violations/?utm_term=.fd9eb9d026db

[jpak]

9. He's speaking now - unrepentant ratbag

dis - fucking - gusting.

[hatrack]

12. "God blahblah my family blahblah personal destruction blahblah division blahblah . . . "

[Rebl2]

10. Still blaming

everyone else and not admitting to wrong doing. He said all that has gone on was designed to hurt him and those around him.

[Hortensis]

11. Just the latest falling star. The media keeps creating

these shiny images supposedly headed for the top, pumping them up before they've shown they're even housetrained, much less that they're big league material.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. "an avalanche of scandal and felony charges" ... he was aimed at the Presidency, alright. nt