House Speaker

[Ernie]

My biggest concerns (that, frankly, raise some integrity questions) are his participation in placating and perpetuating Trump's 2020 election fantasies, and his bent toward voting for hard-line democracy-harming solutions like shutting the government down and invalidating the election results. Now that he's "the man," we'll see how he leads.

Its a concern of mine as well. However, Johnson's argument was that states changed their election procedures during Covid. He did not get behind the claims that there was wide spread voter fraud that I am aware of.

[Valerie]

My biggest concerns (that, frankly, raise some integrity questions) are his participation in placating and perpetuating Trump's 2020 election fantasies, and his bent toward voting for hard-line democracy-harming solutions like shutting the government down and invalidating the election results. Now that he's "the man," we'll see how he leads.

Its a concern of mine as well. However, Johnson's argument was that states changed their election procedures during Covid. He did not get behind the claims that there was wide spread voter fraud that I am aware of.

If he "truly" believed there was wrongdoing in his heart (as many including myself do) then it seems it's not his integrity should not be in question. If he was lying about it yes it would be- if I understand the meaning of integrity correctly.

[Ernie]

It looks like Mike Johnson has hired Dan Ziegler to work for him. Wonder what Dan will do next???

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2 ... d-00124515

[Ken]

It looks like Mike Johnson has hired Dan Ziegler to work for him. Wonder what Dan will do next???

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2 ... d-00124515

And who is Dan Ziegler?

FYI, I don't think this Dan Ziegler https://williamsandjensen.com/personnel/dan-ziegler/ who Speaker Johnson just hired is the same as this Dan Ziegler: https://anabaptistperspectives.org/people/dan-ziegler/

[RZehr]

It looks like Mike Johnson has hired Dan Ziegler to work for him. Wonder what Dan will do next???

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2 ... d-00124515

And who is Dan Ziegler?

FYI, I don't think this Dan Ziegler https://williamsandjensen.com/personnel/dan-ziegler/ who Speaker Johnson just hired is the same as this Dan Ziegler: https://anabaptistperspectives.org/people/dan-ziegler/

memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=90 Moderating sleepy forums just wasn't enough for Dan.

[Robert]

It looks like Mike Johnson has hired Dan Ziegler to work for him. Wonder what Dan will do next???

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2 ... d-00124515

According to three GOP sources, Johnson has also hired a key former staffer to lead his policy department: Dan Ziegler.

Ziegler worked for the Louisiana Republican while he led the Republican Study Committee, a large House GOP caucus that aims to shape the party's legislative vision. Ziegler left the Hill to work for Williams & Jensen, which he's now departing for to join the speaker's office. He is a known face and name in House Republican circles.

Now we know. He has hidden it well.

[RZehr]

Makes sense why he’s too busy to post much.

[ohio jones]

Makes sense why he’s too busy to post much.

And when he does post, he starts this thread. Verrry interesting.

[appleman2006]

Dan Dan. I never would have guessed.

[JimFoxvog]

The following is a statement on Rep. Johnson from Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works:

Rep. Mike Johnson has a long history of hostility towards Social Security and Medicare. As Chair of the Republican Study Committee from 2019-2021, Johnson released budgets that included $2 trillion in cuts to Medicare and $750 billion in cuts to Social Security, including:

Raising the retirement age
Decimating middle class benefits
Making annual cost-of-living increases smaller
Moving towards privatization of Social Security and Medicare
https://socialsecurityworks.org/2023/10 ... ity-enemy/