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Eric Schmitt is a fraud.
He is actively working to undermine American democracy, playing right into the Russian disinformation campaign which jeopardizes our national security.
And he’s doing it with our tax dollars.
https://twitter.com/eric_schmitt/status/1336506935982624768
He is actively working to undermine American democracy, playing right into the Russian disinformation campaign which jeopardizes our national security.
And he’s doing it with our tax dollars.
https://twitter.com/eric_schmitt/status/1336506935982624768
This “suit” is a coordinated campaign from the GOP to use the mighty power of a State AG office as a political weapon to aid an autocrat in undermining the will of Americans in four states.
Some would call it sedition, an attempted coup, or treason.
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Some would call it sedition, an attempted coup, or treason.
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Forget that the GOP supposedly stands for federalism and local control—this suit has Missouri interfering in the state and local laws present in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia.
What did they do?
Their Governors declared a State of Emergency due to COVID.
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What did they do?
Their Governors declared a State of Emergency due to COVID.
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Then their governors used executive power to expand mail in voting—just like Missouri did.
Except, we aren’t part of the suit because Schmitt and the other Trump4Russia pawns approve of our outcome.
Yes, the hypocrisy is
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Except, we aren’t part of the suit because Schmitt and the other Trump4Russia pawns approve of our outcome.
Yes, the hypocrisy is
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But beyond that, Schmitt, who campaigned on the issues like human trafficking, the opioid crisis, processing rape kits, *violent* crime (which is the MO GOP’s version of locking up black people)+ big tech when most don’t have broadband, he isn’t doing anything about those.
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And that’s because Eric Schmitt doesn’t work for Missourians.
He works for The Federalist Society which has done an effective job of turning State AG offices across the country into a network of taxpayer funded conservative law firms.
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He works for The Federalist Society which has done an effective job of turning State AG offices across the country into a network of taxpayer funded conservative law firms.
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This isn’t new—AG offices have always worked together on behalf of their state to advance federal policy.
But the subversive and blatant methods put into play since the Obama Administration have never been about advancing the interests of the people—it’s about obstruction.
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But the subversive and blatant methods put into play since the Obama Administration have never been about advancing the interests of the people—it’s about obstruction.
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Missouri mostly kept out of it because since 1993 our AGs were Democrats Koster and Nixon.
In fact, the Republican AG before that pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement.
But in 2016—Missourians gifted ourselves a man who wouldn’t know a flatbed if he was standing on it.
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In fact, the Republican AG before that pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement.
But in 2016—Missourians gifted ourselves a man who wouldn’t know a flatbed if he was standing on it.
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Joshua Hawley.
Hawley brought FedSoc to Missouri. McConnell wasn’t (and honestly still isn’t) particularly interested in local Missourians—but Hawley isn’t local.
He’s Chief Justice Roberts’s former clerk. President of the Yale Law Fed Soc Chapter.
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Hawley brought FedSoc to Missouri. McConnell wasn’t (and honestly still isn’t) particularly interested in local Missourians—but Hawley isn’t local.
He’s Chief Justice Roberts’s former clerk. President of the Yale Law Fed Soc Chapter.
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He’s what the kingmakers in FedSoc nod and call “a good conservative.”
When he won the race for Attorney General he fundamentally changed how Missouri’s AG office functioned. He immediately joined lawsuits w/ Texas—the leader in bs suits on behalf of obstructionist causes.
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When he won the race for Attorney General he fundamentally changed how Missouri’s AG office functioned. He immediately joined lawsuits w/ Texas—the leader in bs suits on behalf of obstructionist causes.
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The most notable is the case now pending before the Supreme Court regarding dismantling the Affordable Care Act.
When he signed Missouri onto that suit he handed the case over to a law firm to handle it—The Ashcroft Law Firm.
Yes, that Ashcroft.
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When he signed Missouri onto that suit he handed the case over to a law firm to handle it—The Ashcroft Law Firm.
Yes, that Ashcroft.
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We’re literally paying the family of our former AG + current Secretary of State to take away the healthcare protections Missourians just enacted by ballot initiative.
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When Hawley decided to climb his ladder back to DC so he could fight the real challenges of our time like Nike, TikTok, and the NBA—he left behind an office fundamentally changed.
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This wasn’t a world Eric Schmitt was previously invited to participate in. He doesn’t have the pedigree for that to be the case—but Hawley left him the tools and Schmitt—the ambitious man that he is—is putting them to use proving that he too can tow the line.
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That is fundamentally why he joined this bizarre, hypocritical lawsuit.
He wants to be on that ladder with Hawley—maybe to the Governor’s Mansion (which Hawley couldn’t run for because he lacked the MO residency requirement, that’s why he went for the US Senate)
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He wants to be on that ladder with Hawley—maybe to the Governor’s Mansion (which Hawley couldn’t run for because he lacked the MO residency requirement, that’s why he went for the US Senate)
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Or perhaps to become Missouri’s next Senator.
Either a challenge to Blunt—or replacement if he retires. Or to take Hawley’s Senate seat should it open up when Hawley decides to try his hand at being President in 2024.
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Either a challenge to Blunt—or replacement if he retires. Or to take Hawley’s Senate seat should it open up when Hawley decides to try his hand at being President in 2024.
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But that’s what this is—an audition. Schmitt needs to show McConnell and the kingmakers that he can be like Hawley.
That he isn’t the country bumpkin lawyer they imagine when thinking of Missouri lawyers.
He’s been on this quest ever since rising to AG.
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That he isn’t the country bumpkin lawyer they imagine when thinking of Missouri lawyers.
He’s been on this quest ever since rising to AG.
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Compare his State Senate record to his AG record.
As a State Senator he focused on financial legislation.
But as AG he signed onto the Texas lawsuit allowing employers to fire LGBTQ+ employees.
He’s taken up a number of speaking engagements focused on “religious liberty.”
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As a State Senator he focused on financial legislation.
But as AG he signed onto the Texas lawsuit allowing employers to fire LGBTQ+ employees.
He’s taken up a number of speaking engagements focused on “religious liberty.”
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He’s taking on human trafficking, bigTech, but it’s his turn on crime that’s most apparent.
In the aftermath of Ferguson, Schmitt rightly noted that police shouldn’t rely on fines + tickets to fund their departments.
Now? He’s focused on *violent* crime in St. Louis.
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In the aftermath of Ferguson, Schmitt rightly noted that police shouldn’t rely on fines + tickets to fund their departments.
Now? He’s focused on *violent* crime in St. Louis.
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Which, yes, is Missourian for “arrest black people.”
And then COVID happened so naturally his response was to sue China—not to help Missourians but to continue proving himself.
This is an ongoing pattern for Schmitt—he is a career politician who is planning his next step.
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And then COVID happened so naturally his response was to sue China—not to help Missourians but to continue proving himself.
This is an ongoing pattern for Schmitt—he is a career politician who is planning his next step.
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And rather than earning that next step by using the tremendous power of the Attorney General’s office to investigate our Governor’s failed COVID response or to sue the companies taking our tax dollars for broadband but never building the infrastructure—
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—he’s working only on issues that matter to a political corporation controlled by people who wouldn’t deign to step foot in rural MO.
And it’s an absolute disgrace.
When the only direction a politician sees is “up” to his next job—he has most certainly lost his way.
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And it’s an absolute disgrace.
When the only direction a politician sees is “up” to his next job—he has most certainly lost his way.
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