tl/dr Greitens rumored to be resigning today, 2 more women, play-to-play.
Dear God, this would almost be better than a perp walk Friday. Fingers crossed!!!
Eta: From what the KC Star is reporting, it sounds like it's probably not happening, which is angering but completely unsurprising. MO R's have shown that they will turn a blind eye to pretty much this Governor does as long as he keeps pushing through their BS agenda. Sound familiar?
Sorry, I haven't been around much here. I do, indeed, hate this man. What makes me laugh in an "OMG this shit is unbelievable" way is that a couple of days before this came out our lovely state legislature announced they are considering a bill that would completely nullify any marriage not carried out in a church. We already have a completely unconstitutional law on the books defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. The rest, if the bill were to pass into law, would be considered "unions". The sponsor of the bill has done it a couple of other times and the bill has always fizzled out, but still, the fact that such hatred is spewed in my state is rage inducing. As for Grietens, he's shady AF, he lies, this affair happened while his wife was pregnant, he literally came from nowhere and is pretty much the face of dark money and he's leading us faster than even those I know in the state legislature expected to a scary place, and he's an arrogant fool. There's no way he will ever resign. Hell, just last week the piece of shit representative Warren Love went unpunished after his comments that vandals of confederate monuments should be hanged. Remember that last summer Maria Chappelle-Nadal was called to resign after her comments about a Drumpf assassination, and was censured by the Legislature and reprimanded by R's. Love was barely commented on and he was pretty much off the hook just by disagreeing with the House Ethics Committee's findings that he should be stripped of his committee placements and also should be reprimanded. He said no, and the rest of the R's said okay, you're off the hook. MO politics are getting worse by the day, and the new session starting is going to make last year look like a carnival. I'm truly scared to think how much further down we are going to go.
Hm, I’d read somewhere that several MO Rs are calling for him to resign as well. That’s part of why I thought it would happen.
3 MO R's have called for his resignation, but it seems to have no impact at all. He has shown over and over again in the last year that he gives zero shits what anyone else, including his own party members, think about his actions. He's currently in the process of completely dismantling our state board of education and under investigation for Sunshine Law violations (again) and he continues with his shady ass bullshit because he knows that it doesn't really matter. The parallels of his leadership and Drumpf's are too numerous to even list. The rumors right now are that two additional women will come forward with accusations, but I doubt even that will matter w/r/t resignation unless they have receipts showing the blackmail component of the first woman's story. There are also rumors which the tweet above alludes to linking him to pay to play and/or other blackmail, but I think we've seen enough in the last year that R's don't really give a shit about pay to play violations either. Neither the cheating nor the pay to play will cause a resignation at this point. (Also, I really really hope I'm wrong!)
our lovely state legislature announced they are considering a bill that would completely nullify any marriage not carried out in a church.
Wait, what?
You just raised my blood pressure to a dangerous level. I thought you were the OP and I’m pretty sure we live in the same state. For the life of me, I really can’t figure out why we don’t treat marriages similar to what they do in most European countries. I wish we separated the civil and religious ceremonies for ALL marriages. And I’m a practicing Catholic.
Two Missouri lawyers have sued Republican Gov. Eric Greitens’s office over its use of Confide, a secret text messaging app, saying it’s a violation of the state public records law. t.co/QcctHVUnPh
So my marriage in a county courthouse wouldn't be valid? That doesn't even make sense. What abt a marriage officiated by a pastor outside?
The depravity of gop doesn't surprise me. I agree he'll resign because he's a liability to the party, and they'll keep the seat. For now. I don't live in mo, but they've been on my radar for abortion shenanigans for years
I’m still sticking by my original assessment. It might not be fast, but I think he’s gonna be out. Not because his party has any morals or cares about this behavior, but because everyone hates him and wants him out and this is a decent reason to go for it.
He is denying it and calling it political and a “reckless liberal prosecuter.”
GFY Greitens
And now the MO GOP is blaming it on George Soros because of course they are.
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1
The felony indictment of Republican Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens—for allegedly taking a compromising photo of a woman with whom he was having an affair—is apparently being blamed by the Missouri GOP on George Soros.