Haymaker: Moore will not run for Speaker again
Brant Clifton, writing at the Daily Haymaker is reporting:
Once again, it’s confirmed that weasels DO look out for each other. State Rep. Jason Saine — former Shoney’s spokesmodel and the speaker’s best-dressed henchman — spilled the beans on what everyone has been assuming for some time:
House Speaker Tim Moore does not plan to run again for his leadership position in the House. Rep. Jason Saine told The News & Observer Friday morning that Moore made that announcement to the House GOP Caucus. Saine’s statement came as part of an interview about allegations aired in a lawsuit that accused Moore of breaking up a local elected official’s marriage by trading sex for political gain.
Even before both sides of the lawsuit said it had been “resolved,” Saine said the caucus hadn’t been too concerned about the suit because they knew Moore wouldn’t be speaker again. He said there’s been little discussion of it. “You know, the speaker has announced this is his last time seeking to run for speaker,” Saine said, “so I don’t think anybody’s sitting here going, ‘Well, you know, keeping him around is going to be all that problematic,’ because we know he’s leaving.”[…]
Riiiiiiiiiiight. *I’m sure it had nothing to do with reports that some members of the media have found more than a dozen other women alleging a quid-pro-quo sex-for-political-gain arrangement with Speaker Timmy and possibly other House leaders.* (Scott Lassiter, the plaintiff in the aforementioned “resolved” lawsuit made similar allegations regarding the speaker and his estranged (ex?) wife Jamie Liles Lassiter.)
Saine and the rest of leaders
hip need to explain this logic to Reps. Kidwell and McNeely. Both of them got publicly run out of House leadership merely for offering comments that offended Democrats. Neither of them, as far as we know, embarrassed themselves or their caucus by getting entangled in a very public and quite sordid alienation-of-affection suit.
Within the last few weeks, a PAC affiliated with speaker Timmy had been sending out mailers in his district touting the, um, performance of their guy — leading many to think an extended stay in Raleigh or a campaign for Congress were still in the works.
It doesn’t say much for the GOP caucus or its leadership to dismiss the stories about the speaker because the suit was “resolved.” Their supreme leader sullied the reputation of the House, its Republican members AND the state GOP. His response to the Lassiter complaint — personal attacks on Scott Lassiter and a threat of a countersuit — was low-class at best.
Timmy’s story seemed to change by the hour. Timmy went from declaring the allegations unfounded to admitting a relationship spanning roughly three years.
The suit settlement was done with a whole lot of confidentiality, but its circumstances seem to 
indicate that the Lassiter complaint had some credibility to it.
How does the GOP caucus move forward through this session with this stink still hanging around the speaker’s office? How do you run for reelection with Speaker Timmy still hanging around as your poster-boy / mascot? He’s reportedly not coming back, but apparently plenty of you ARE planning to.
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Moore is an old Tillis ally, so we should have expected his liberalism. He needs to be put out to pasture at the earliest opportunity. One wonders if any more shoes will drop from Moore's other bed partners? One also wonders how he paid off Scott Lassiter. If it was money from a campaign fund, someone needs to look into the legality of that.
Tim Moore and Phil Berger represent the same problem in Raleigh that we have with Tillis in Washington, DC. |
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No Browny, I can not; however, I naturally agree with almost all real RINO hunters, almost all of the time ... so, possibly, I am a bit biased.
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Republicans have a fair amount of decent legislators in Raleigh, but the leadership in both houses is abysmal. Tim Moore is an embarassment and hopefully he will be gone by the short session so he gets forgotten in the 2024 election. I was utterly appalled by the cave-in on the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, gambling, and marijuana this session, together with allowing Blue Cross to loot its reserves.
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Can anyone offer an effective argument to the contrary of anything that Rino Hunter said? I can't.
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Good riddance to a contemptable piece of rubbish in our legislative leadership. But this turd Timmy Moore may still try to run for Congress. He must be stopped there if he does. Our whole legislative leadership - House and Senate - are RINOs who are little more than water boys for the woke special interests. The special interests often want the same things as the Democrats, so Moore, Berger, and the rest of the leadership end up carrying water for the Democrats and the left. We have awful leftwing legislation to show for it from expanded gambling to the Obamacare Medicaic expansion to the Green New Deal to men in womens restrooms to allowing our by-far largest medical insurance company to massively and corruptly raid their reserves.
We need more Keith Kidwells and Norm Sandersons and a lot fewer Tim Moores, Phil Bergers, Jim Perrys, Jason Saines, and John Bells. |
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It must be true because I read it on the internet.
All joking aside, he should be out.