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ificandream

(9,372 posts)
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 06:21 PM Feb 2022

House January 6 committee digs into fake elector plot, issuing subpoenas to 6 more people

Source: CNN

(CNN)The House January 6 committee issued another round of subpoenas Tuesday as congressional investigators dig more deeply into illegitimate electors from key swing states that former President Donald Trump lost, who were put forward to try to justify delaying the certification of Joe Biden's victory.

The committee issued subpoenas to six individuals, including two members of the Trump campaign and four prominent GOP officials from battleground states, as part of its investigation into the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.

"The Select Committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election. We're seeking records and testimony from former campaign officials and other individuals in various states who we believe have relevant information about the planning and implementation of those plans," the panel's chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said in a statement.

The Trump campaign officials subpoenaed by the committee are Michael Roman, who was in charge of Election Day operations in 2020, and his deputy, Gary Michael Brown. Both "reportedly participated in efforts to promote allegations of fraud in the November 2020 election and encourage state legislators to appoint false 'alternate' slates of electors," according to the committee.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/politics/january-6-subpoena-fake-elector-plot/index.html



Little by little they're getting closer to the TFG.
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House January 6 committee digs into fake elector plot, issuing subpoenas to 6 more people (Original Post) ificandream Feb 2022 OP
Finchem is now running to serve as Arizona's top election official L. Coyote Feb 2022 #1
I heard Mastriano was giving talks all over the state last summer bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #3
Seems Doug Mastriano used campaign funds to charter busses for Jan. 6. L. Coyote Feb 2022 #4
Thanks, good to post his background bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #5
He was the loon that sponsored this mess in Gettysburg-- BumRushDaShow Feb 2022 #11
Probably aligned with Gettysburg casino interests? bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #13
The district that he ran for Congress in for the first time in 2018 was redrawn that same year BumRushDaShow Feb 2022 #14
I think I can hear their butt-puckerings from here ;) NotHardly Feb 2022 #6
These people hold America in their hands, and they're bipartisans working together bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #2
It sounds to me like justice is chipping away at all the crimes over the tfg's years. nt C Moon Feb 2022 #7
Be nice to know how many of FailedCoupGuy's cronies KS Toronado Feb 2022 #8
Anyone know if the hearings will be public anytime soon? Evolve Dammit Feb 2022 #9
You'll have to check their website every once in awhile BumRushDaShow Feb 2022 #12
Thanks for link burrowowl Feb 2022 #15
You are welcome BumRushDaShow Feb 2022 #16
Thanks much! Evolve Dammit Feb 2022 #17
No problem! BumRushDaShow Feb 2022 #18
Getcher snitch pins early kids, because everyone's gonna be jumping and dumping on you! NBachers Feb 2022 #10

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
1. Finchem is now running to serve as Arizona's top election official
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 06:29 PM
Feb 2022

Some video here:

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump campaign staffers, GOP operatives who challenged 2020 results in key states
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jan-committee-subpoenas-trump-campaign-staffers-gop-operatives/story

The group includes Michael Roman and Michael Brown, who worked on Election Day operations for Trump's 2020 campaign, as well as Mark Finchem, Arizona GOP Party Chair Kelli Ward, and former Michigan GOP Chair Laura Cox.

Finchem is now running to serve as Arizona's top election official, while Ward has sued to stop the committee from obtaining her and her husband's phone records.



bucolic_frolic

(43,146 posts)
3. I heard Mastriano was giving talks all over the state last summer
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 06:40 PM
Feb 2022

He thought he would be governor. In a pig's eye.

BumRushDaShow

(128,905 posts)
11. He was the loon that sponsored this mess in Gettysburg--
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 09:51 PM
Feb 2022






And he was right there in the thick of it on January 6 (he is on the left of the below)!



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bucolic_frolic

(43,146 posts)
13. Probably aligned with Gettysburg casino interests?
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 10:27 PM
Feb 2022

Which I think were defeated for the time being, but I don't follow the area, just know someone who visits occasionally.

BumRushDaShow

(128,905 posts)
14. The district that he ran for Congress in for the first time in 2018 was redrawn that same year
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 11:04 PM
Feb 2022

This is only Mastriano's 2nd term and he had never run for elected office before 2018, so I don't think he had any political involvement in the casinos (he is retired military).

The district was originally PA-9 before the State Supreme Court threw out the GOP's 2011 mess and created a new map renumbering that area PA-13.

The original PA-9 -



2018 PA-13 -



Ret. Col. Doug Mastriano, Fayetteville, running to replace Shuster in Congress

Jim Hook Chambersburg Public Opinion
Published 6:01 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2018 | Updated 6:18 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2018


WAYNESBORO -- Retired Col. Doug Mastriano of Fayetteville has announced he is running for Congress.
Doug Mastriano of Fayetteville, Franklin County, is seeking the Republican nomination in 2018 to represent Pennsylvania's 9th Congressional District. “The nation has changed since I was the age my son is now, when we all stood to inherit a greater, more prosperous, and more secure nation than our fathers had been given,” Mastriano said. “Something has changed dramatically, and not for the better.” Mastriano, 54, is the latest candidate to vie for the Republican nomination in Pennsylvania’s 9th Congressional District.

With U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Everett, not seeking re-election, the field is crowded. The six candidates hail from across the 12 counties in the district. “2018 is our year to get back our voice,” Mastriano said. “For far too long, the money of lobbyists has carried more weight in government than the priceless ideas of our Constitution. I am not in the pocket of special interests or lobbyists. I will fight for you in Washington. It’s time to take back our government and restore the greatness of America. Now is our time to take action.

The time is, now for the good people of Pennsylvania to say ‘no’ to the darkness -- ‘no’ to the elite ruling class. It’s time to get the government off of our backs, our throats, and out of our wallets.”Mastriano, son of a career Navy man, retired in 2017 after serving 30 years in the Army, according to his campaign material. He patrolled the Iron Curtain in West Germany during the Cold War and served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His regiment led the attack against Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guards.

After assignments in Washington, D.C., he became the lead planner for the operation to invade Iraq from Turkey. He served four years with NATO, from where he deployed three times to Afghanistan where he served as the director of the Joint Intelligence Center. He also led and organized seven relief operations helping Afghan orphans. He is an expert on European security, Russia, the Middle East and Asia.

https://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/news/2018/02/16/ret-col-doug-mastriano-runs-congress/346719002/



2018 primary election: Nine candidates run for the Pa. 13th Congressional District


Jim Hook Chambersburg Public Opinion
Published 5:50 p.m. ET Mar. 20, 2018 | Updated 5:47 p.m. ET May, 12 2018


HARRISBURG - A strong field of GOP candidates are vying for the seat held by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Everett.
American vote buttons illustration The Republicans running for the new 13th Congressional District seat include a state senator, a state representative, two men who previously ran for Congress, a retired Army colonel, a former Marine, a doctor and a businessman. Three are from Franklin County, two each are from Blair and Cumberland counties and one is from Bedford County.

Pennsylvania’s new 13th Congressional District has a shape like the current 9th District represented by Shuster, who is not seeking re-election. The Cook Political Report rated the new 13th District as more solidly Republican than the current 9th District. The district stretches from Adams County west to part of Westmoreland County and north to Blair and Huntingdon counties.

https://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/news/2018/03/20/primary-election-eight-candidates-run-pa-13-th-congressional-district/443061002/

KS Toronado

(17,214 posts)
8. Be nice to know how many of FailedCoupGuy's cronies
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 09:00 PM
Feb 2022

have turned against him to the Jan 6th Committee. Guess we'll find out some day.

BumRushDaShow

(128,905 posts)
12. You'll have to check their website every once in awhile
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 09:59 PM
Feb 2022
https://january6th.house.gov/legislation/hearings

Right now it seems they are in the process of subpoenas and document collection and depending on how responsive those subpoenaed are, and how long it takes for them to review the material, they can then schedule hearings and start their questioning (and they need that material first so they would know what questions to ask to clarify what they received). I expect some would be closed-door as well.

NBachers

(17,108 posts)
10. Getcher snitch pins early kids, because everyone's gonna be jumping and dumping on you!
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 09:36 PM
Feb 2022

If you don't get down first, you won't have anything worth trading. It's all Save Yourselves now!

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