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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAOC just explained, Gaetz resigned for this term.
He has been elected for the next Congress.
On Joy Reid.
Did not know. DeSantis has called for immediate election. Bet he doesn't know.
Is this statement by AOC accurate?
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AOC just explained, Gaetz resigned for this term. (Original Post)
cachukis
Nov 14
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Emile
(31,315 posts)1. She is pretty sharp.
2naSalit
(94,054 posts)2. I suspect she would...
Not say something like that if it were not true. From the way I understand it, she's correct.
allegorical oracle
(3,585 posts)3. Apologies for repeating your post. I checked before I posted, honest.
Rebl2
(15,113 posts)4. How does
one just resign for the rest of the term?
cachukis
(2,788 posts)5. Don't know. But that may have been hidden in the
footnotes?
Just thought it makes the nomination even sketchier if true.
onenote
(44,862 posts)7. What else could he resign from? He hasn't been sworn in for another term.
He couldn't "resign" from his next term if he wanted to. He could decide not to be sworn in.
Emile
(31,315 posts)6. He resigned two days before the ethics committee
released their findings with the excuse Trump needs him. Suspicious