(03-10-2022 10:56 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

Quote:North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn ® has been charged with driving with a revoked license after being pulled over last week by highway patrol.

As the Asheville Citizen Times reported, highway patrol spokesman Sgt. Marcus Bethea confirmed on Wednesday that Cawthorn is facing three citations for incidents occurring across three counties in North Carolina.

Along with being pulled over on a revoked license, Cawthorn has two pending citations for speeding in Buncombe and Polk counties.

"The driver was identified as David Madison Cawthorn, 26 years old of Hendersonville, N.C.," Bethea said, according to the Citizen Times. "During the course of the investigation it was determined that the driver’s license was in a state of revocation and he was subsequently charged with driving while license revoked."

In the prior speeding incidents, Cawthorn was said to be driving 89 mph in a 65 mph zone and 87 mph in a 70 mph zone.

The Hill has reached out to Cawthorn's office for comment.

As the newspaper reported, Cawthorn was previously charged with driving after having his license taken away before he was elected to the House in 2017. The maximum sentence for driving without a license is 20 days in jail, though a fine or probation is usually issued instead.

Cawthorn charged with driving with revoked license for second time

That is so racist that you need a Driver’s License to drive. Even more that you would have to show someone proof of your Driver’s License to be able to drive. Wake up people

(03-10-2022 12:07 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  Speeding tickets are one thing, driving when your license is revoked is another. You don't lose focus for a few minutes or find yourself late to an important meeting and "forget" that you are not a licensed driver. If the GOP wants to be the law & order party, ridding itself of Congressmen who deliberately flout the law might be a good place to start.

Why do you need a Driver’s license to drive? Sounds racist to me

(03-10-2022 02:21 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  

(03-10-2022 02:11 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  He should have done like one of Tom's heros Diane Feinstein and hired his own Chinese Spy driver.

I'm not familiar with that story, but I think we can all agree that our nation's roads are safer if Senator Feinstein is not behind the wheel herself. She needs to resign and enjoy her well-earned retirement, she is well on her way to becoming a Democratic version of Strom Thurmond without the centenarian status.

You really need to lay off the hard stuff. A legalized criminal posing at a politician on the take of millions of dollars scammed at the expense of taxpayers deserves jail time not retirement.

$87 million for her pay as a politician. Hmmmm sounds about right. Produces nothing and puts burdens on everyday Americans.

https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-fin...&year=2018

Pull your head out of backside so you can smell the stench you support

(03-11-2022 10:40 AM)BlueDragon Wrote:  

(03-10-2022 02:21 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  

(03-10-2022 02:11 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  He should have done like one of Tom's heros Diane Feinstein and hired his own Chinese Spy driver.

I'm not familiar with that story, but I think we can all agree that our nation's roads are safer if Senator Feinstein is not behind the wheel herself. She needs to resign and enjoy her well-earned retirement, she is well on her way to becoming a Democratic version of Strom Thurmond without the centenarian status.

You really need to lay off the hard stuff. A legalized criminal posing at a politician on the take of millions of dollars scammed at the expense of taxpayers deserves jail time not retirement.

$87 million for her pay as a politician. Hmmmm sounds about right. Produces nothing and puts burdens on everyday Americans.

https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-fin...&year=2018

Pull your head out of backside so you can smell the stench you support

YEAH! C'mon GN! EVERYONE knows only democratic politicians enrich themselves in office and stay too long. Just look at Strom Thurmond, Chuck Grassley, et. al.

The thing that surprises me is that the state highway patrol is pulling over cars with those special legislative plates. In WV those things are like diplomatic immunity.

(03-11-2022 10:52 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(03-11-2022 10:40 AM)BlueDragon Wrote:  

(03-10-2022 02:21 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  

(03-10-2022 02:11 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  He should have done like one of Tom's heros Diane Feinstein and hired his own Chinese Spy driver.

I'm not familiar with that story, but I think we can all agree that our nation's roads are safer if Senator Feinstein is not behind the wheel herself. She needs to resign and enjoy her well-earned retirement, she is well on her way to becoming a Democratic version of Strom Thurmond without the centenarian status.

You really need to lay off the hard stuff. A legalized criminal posing at a politician on the take of millions of dollars scammed at the expense of taxpayers deserves jail time not retirement.

$87 million for her pay as a politician. Hmmmm sounds about right. Produces nothing and puts burdens on everyday Americans.

https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-fin...&year=2018

Pull your head out of backside so you can smell the stench you support

YEAH! C'mon GN! EVERYONE knows only democratic politicians enrich themselves in office and stay too long. Just look at Strom Thurmond, Chuck Grassley, et. al.

Dianne Feinstein hired a chinese spy to be her personal driver.
Tom:


Eric Swallwell was sleeping with a chinese spy and is a member of the intelligence committee.
Tom:


Madison Cawthorne got busted doing 18mph over the speed limit
Tom:

(03-11-2022 09:16 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(03-11-2022 09:15 AM)b2b Wrote:  

(03-11-2022 09:13 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(03-10-2022 04:20 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  ...while ignoring the senile, racist pervert leading us to WW3 in the white house...

I see your true colors...shining thru...

How pathetic.

Harsh as it sounds... what this administration has "accomplished" in 14 months is indefensible.

And racist, and pervert???

Yeah....

I’ll leave off the pervert part, I just think he’s a freaking weirdo.

Racist? Clearly. Long history of it going back many many decades. Go look it up, over and over again.

Hell, his own veep* called him out on it.

Does Madison Cawthorn getting pulled over somehow make Biden not an idiot?

(03-11-2022 12:39 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Does Madison Cawthorn getting pulled over somehow make Biden not an idiot?

No. It's distraction. Gotta find something somewhere to lessen the blow of what's running the country.

(03-11-2022 12:39 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Does Madison Cawthorn getting pulled over somehow make Biden not an idiot?

(03-11-2022 09:13 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(03-10-2022 04:20 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  ...while ignoring the senile, racist pervert leading us to WW3 in the white house...

I see your true colors...shining thru...

How pathetic.

Not sure where I should start with the irony and hypocrisy of this response... but I'll try

1) I've made no pretense that I despise Joe Biden and his politics... and the truth is that so have you and almost every other Democrat. He's never gotten more than iice, 4% of the support from his own party before being 'picked' by a 'record turnout'.

2) I have no qualms with him being arrested and sentenced... none at all. My issue is that on a day when people are dying, inflation is reported up the most in 40 years, energy prices are skyrocketing, we're being 'punked' by Poland and potentially on the verge of WW3... THIS is what you feel is important enough to start a thread on?? Get serious. It's a flea on a dog during a gun fight. Sure, treat the dog for fleas, but let's focus on the bullets.

3) One of your partners in crime seems to think that this guys issues, whatever they are somehow reflects upon 100+mm people who never voted for him, and many who've never even heard of him??

4) Biden has been CREDIBLY accused of sexual misconduct while in public office. He has a LONG history of 'creepy' encounters with women and even children.... and NOT just things that were caught off camera or where he had an expectation of privacy, but in public... in front of cameras. You leftist morons accused Trump of being a pedophile because he took pictures with his then 15yr old daughter sitting on his knee. True colors indeed. Calling him a pervert is not the worst thing I could credibly call him. I laughed 2 years ago when the left's answer to address the misogyny of Trump was to nominate their OWN sexist old man.

5) There is plenty of evidence of his declining mental state... on record.

6) There is plenty of evidence of his racist attitudes and comments... on record. Not some twisting of words or half-baked conflagration like you did with Trump.... but 'poor kids are just as bright as white kids'... or about Obama “you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” or “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

7) There is plenty of evidence that his lack of focus on energy independence as a national security matter (something I've called for for decades) is part of what has us at the brink of at the very least, a proxy war with Russia. The mere fact that we're engaging with Venezuela and OPEC to get THEM to increase their drilling and exports to make up for global reliance on Russia demonstrates my point. It seems we'd rather negotiate with our 'enemies' to destroy the planet than find some way to reach a domestic compromise on energy production.

I said ugly things about Trump as well. What I didn't do was claim he was a Russian Puppet and then have to manufacture (or believe manufactured) evidence to support the claim. Everything I've said about Biden, I've seen with my own eyes and so have you.

But yeah... go ahead and try and turn this into ME being partisan. It's no different from how the left accused Trump of doing everything that Biden is now doing.

I stand by my comment, with the indisputable facts.

(03-11-2022 12:57 PM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(03-11-2022 12:39 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  Does Madison Cawthorn getting pulled over somehow make Biden not an idiot?

What in the world does this thread have to do with the President of the United States? Certainly, nothing about Madison Cawthorn makes President Biden an idiot or clears him of being one. We've all formed our opinions on that, and it gets discussed ad nauseum in plenty of threads here.

As a Congressman, Madison Cawthorn's behavior is worthy of scrutiny no matter who the POTUS is. Biden occupying the Oval Office no more exonerates him than Trump being in the Oval Office exonerated John Conyers, Al Franken or Katie Hill of their bad behavior. Are you so obsessed with the President that you can't admit fault on the part of a first-term member from the other party?

And again, this is not a story because of speeding tickets. The stories I've seen cite two speeding tickets, which nobody could credibly claim casts doubt on the fitness of anyone in either party to serve in Congress. Driving with a revoked license is altogether different and is a direct flouting of the law, by a lawmaker in this case. Driving when the state has told you that you cannot does not happen accidentally, and barring an emergency situation there is no justification for it. Doing it for the second time in five years looks like a pattern of disrespect for laws that the Congressman finds inconvenient.

Does he need to be expelled from the House for this misdemeanor? Certainly not. Hopefully the court in NC will have him spend a weekend in jail, and he'll learn his lesson. Does this repeated flouting of the law cast doubt on his judgment and fitness to serve in Congress? I think it does, but that will be for the voters to decide if he ultimately survives the unrelated legal challenges and appears on the ballot in November.

Nole...

I just think that his issues are not remotely of 'national' interest.... nor even of 'local' (to this forum) interest beyond his constituency. What we've seen recently is 'the left' finding some unknown representative of the right who does something stupid and they try to equate it to a national representative who does something stupid in terms of a) whom they are accountable to and b) who is responsible for them being elected... and thus c) whom you can reasonably say 'supports' them. This guy and the Ga. (is it?) woman are their favorite 'rising stars of the party'... despite them literally holding no party power.

(03-11-2022 11:02 AM)banker Wrote:  The thing that surprises me is that the state highway patrol is pulling over cars with those special legislative plates. In WV those things are like diplomatic immunity.

I think this kid rubbed a lot of people wrong during his campaign. Stupid as hell thing to do but he is 26 and still stupid as hell.

(03-11-2022 02:29 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Nole...

I just think that his issues are not remotely of 'national' interest.... nor even of 'local' (to this forum) interest beyond his constituency. What we've seen recently is 'the left' finding some unknown representative of the right who does something stupid and they try to equate it to a national representative who does something stupid in terms of a) whom they are accountable to and b) who is responsible for them being elected... and thus c) whom you can reasonably say 'supports' them. This guy and the Ga. (is it?) woman are their favorite 'rising stars of the party'... despite them literally holding no party power.

You do have a valid point about their lack of power within the party, they're basically a GOP equivalent of the Squad in that they seek, and get, attention through social media and taking extreme and controversial stances while none of them hold any leadership positions. And while this thread certainly isn't about statecraft and existential issues, repeated flouting of the law by a sitting Congressman is more newsworthy than the recent thread about AOC's appearance at the SOTU, to cite but one example. As I've said before, I think we'd all be better off if we could remove the loudmouthed extremists, on both sides of the aisle, from Congress. I'd start with the following ten, five from each party -

DEMOCRATS -
Ilhan Omar
Ayanna Pressley
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Rashida Tlaib
Cori Bush

REPUBLICANS -
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Paul Gosar
Lauren Boebert
Madison Cawthorn
Matt Gaetz

(03-11-2022 02:39 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(03-11-2022 11:02 AM)banker Wrote:  The thing that surprises me is that the state highway patrol is pulling over cars with those special legislative plates. In WV those things are like diplomatic immunity.

I think this kid rubbed a lot of people wrong during his campaign. Stupid as hell thing to do but he is 26 and still stupid as hell.

At least he knows how to use a garbage disposal....

Perhaps if things don't work out for Madison Cawthorn in Congress, he can fill one of those job openings on Russian TV from those who have quit over the war -

https://twitter.com/SenThomTillis/status...bUHIq_UWgg

As a member of the House GOP, you know you really screwed up when Kevin McCarthy actually says you're wrong -

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/59877...n-is-wrong

(03-11-2022 02:40 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  You do have a valid point about their lack of power within the party, they're basically a GOP equivalent of the Squad in that they seek, and get, attention through social media and taking extreme and controversial stances while none of them hold any leadership positions.

Oh good lord, Nole.

Every member of the squad is on a committee. One of the left's favorite targets from the right doesn't even sit on one. If you look close at the specific committees, its even more dramatic. To compare their power as anything remotely close to 'even' is ridiculous.

I'm essentially a Republican by default, and were it not for this forum, I never would have heard of 4 of the 5 you mentioned from the right... yet i've heard of every single one of the democrats.... and NONE of them from this forum (not that they aren't mentioned here, but that I know of them elsewhere)

(03-18-2022 02:37 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(03-11-2022 02:40 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  You do have a valid point about their lack of power within the party, they're basically a GOP equivalent of the Squad in that they seek, and get, attention through social media and taking extreme and controversial stances while none of them hold any leadership positions.

Oh good lord, Nole.

Every member of the squad is on a committee. One of the left's favorite targets from the right doesn't even sit on one. If you look close at the specific committees, its even more dramatic. To compare their power as anything remotely close to 'even' is ridiculous.

I'm essentially a Republican by default, and were it not for this forum, I never would have heard of 4 of the 5 you mentioned from the right... yet i've heard of every single one of the democrats.... and NONE of them from this forum (not that they aren't mentioned here, but that I know of them elsewhere)

Yes, every member of the Squad has committee assignments. As do virtually all of the 435 members of the House as well as the 6 DC & territorial delegates, except for Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) who have been removed from all committees for their extremist rhetoric. There may be others, but the only other one I'm aware of at the moment is Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) who had to step down from his committees as he is under indictment. So it is not some elite privilege reserved for the powerful, it's standard unless you have been indicted or you say very racist/violent things.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-votes...ommittees/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-pl...d=81212617

As recently as 2019 the GOP was still capable of doing the right thing and disciplining their own members, as former Representative Steve King (R-IA) was removed from his committees for comments about white supremacy -

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-stev...d=60371380