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BumRushDaShow

(170,813 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 11:32 AM 14 hrs ago

Scoop: Gallego met with ethics after GOP lawmaker accused him of misconduct

Source: msn/Axios

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Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) proactively met in person with Senate Ethics Committee staff on Friday, Axios has learned.

  • The meeting occurred the day after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) publicly accused Gallego of sexual misconduct based on another woman's account, allegations Gallego denies
  • .

    Why it matters: It comes at a moment of renewed scrutiny over sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill after two other lawmakers resigned from Congress over sexual assault and misconduct allegations last week.

  • Gallego initiated the meeting, his office told Axios, despite not having received formal notice of an Ethics Committee investigation. "We proactively reached out to them and told them we will comply and give everything," Gallego told reporters Monday.
  • Luna posted on X Wednesday: "it seems like the Senate has its own trash to take out. @LeaderJohnThune You need to look into the allegations against one of your Senators, it's very disturbing." She said in a CBS News interview Thursday evening that she was referencing Gallego.
  • Gallego has publicly acknowledged that he was close friends with Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned from Congress April 14 after being accused by four women of sexual assault, harassment and rape, all of which he denies
  • .

    Driving the news: Luna told CBS News on Thursday that the allegations against Gallego are "sexual in nature" and also involve campaign finance violations.

    Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scoop-gallego-met-with-ethics-after-gop-lawmaker-accused-him-of-misconduct/ar-AA21oNKz
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    Scoop: Gallego met with ethics after GOP lawmaker accused him of misconduct (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago OP
    I hope Luna is unseated.... Lovie777 14 hrs ago #1
    The Cosplay Latina GCG 14 hrs ago #2
    It will be Icanthinkformyself 13 hrs ago #3
    They think they can just pick on anyone with a D in front of their name. The Napoleonic code reigns in Republicanworld DFW 13 hrs ago #4

    GCG

    (102 posts)
    2. The Cosplay Latina
    Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:01 PM
    14 hrs ago

    Anna Paulina Mayerhofer...until she decided to run for office! Her paternal grandfather was born in Germany and was in the Wehrmacht during World War II, he immigrated to Canada from Germany in 1954. But was he really in the Wehrmacht?

    After World War II, Canada allowed thousands of former Nazis, including SS guards and collaborators, to immigrate, often bypassing screening to fill labor needs or due to anti-communist sentiment. Key examples included over 2,000 members of the Ukrainian Waffen-SS Galicia Division, admitted in 1950, and numerous individuals who concealed their pasts, such as Helmut Oberlander.

    Luna has said that her father raised her to follow Messianic Judaism, an evangelical movement that incorporates Jewish traditions into Protestant Christianity, and that she is "a small fraction Ashkenazi". Members of her extended family have denied this claim, saying her father was Catholic, and that "they were not aware of him practicing any form of Judaism while Luna was growing up". Her mother has said that Luna's father was a Christian who "embraced the Messianic faith" after getting clean from drug addiction.

    Icanthinkformyself

    (403 posts)
    3. It will be
    Tue Apr 21, 2026, 12:53 PM
    13 hrs ago

    the Republicans turn under the electron microscope soon enough. I believe what we see will be a disgusting display of corruption, sexual assault, drug, guns and sex trafficking and other assorted criminal activity. After all, the Guardians Of Pedophiles is a mafia 'family'. It has no redeemable sociable valuables.

    DFW

    (60,318 posts)
    4. They think they can just pick on anyone with a D in front of their name. The Napoleonic code reigns in Republicanworld
    Tue Apr 21, 2026, 01:18 PM
    13 hrs ago

    As a social worker, my wife sometimes ran into this kind of situation. One time, one of her "charges," a Moroccan teenager who didn't think my wife was giving her enough money for doing, essentially, nothing (her job was trying to place the unemployed back into the workforce, and arrange welfare payments to them if they were really trying to land a job). The teenager demanded that my wife "get" her more money, or else she would swear out a complaint against my wife for having hit her, i.e. physically assaulter her.

    Luckily, there was someone else in another part of the office, not noticed by either my wife or the teenager, who stepped out after the threat had been made. The third person immediately said, "I heard that whole exchange, and I'll be happy to testify about your lie in court." My wife lucked out, because in Germany, the tendency is always to believe the accuser in such situations. The Napoleonic Code: Guilty until proven innocent.

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