Why call him that? Well, before the latest news about the gentleman, this.
Loud and stupid.
Then, cherry atop the man's Gestalt:
Few in GOP rush to defend Gaetz amid sex trafficking probe
By
MICHAEL BALSAMO
and
ALAN FRAM
Associated Press
April 2, 2021 — 5:10pm
WASHINGTON — The political
peril for conservative Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz deepened Friday as the
often outlandish, Trump-styled provocateur appeared politically
isolated amid a federal sex-trafficking investigation.
Few Republicans rushed to
offer any kind of support to the three-term Florida congressman known
for espousing high-volume attacks — sometimes against those in his own
party — during his frequent media appearances. Several GOP lawmakers and
top aides who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive situation
said Gaetz's prospects for remaining in Congress were bleak and were
complicated in particular by his unpopularity among colleagues in his
own party.
Federal prosecutors are
examining whether Gaetz and a political ally who is facing sex
trafficking allegations may have paid underage girls or offered them
gifts in exchange for sex, two people familiar with the matter told The
Associated Press on Friday.
The scrutiny of Gaetz stemmed
from the Justice Department's probe into the political ally, Joel
Greenberg, the people said. Greenberg, a former Florida tax collector,
was indicted last year and is accused of a number of federal crimes. He
has pleaded not guilty.
Republican congressional leaders have largely been silent about the investigation, which continues.
That reflected the serious
nature of the charges in a story that seems to add new elements by the
day, giving lawmakers little motivation to attach themselves to Gaetz.
Part of the investigation is
examining whether Gaetz, 38, had sex with a 17-year-old and other
underage girls and violated federal sex trafficking laws, the people
familiar with the probe told the AP. Federal agents suspect Greenberg
may have enticed the girls and then introduced some of them to Gaetz,
and they are examining whether both men may have had sex with the same
girls, the people said.
Crude, rude and lewd? (Excerpt is taken from Strib's carry of the AP feed.)
Even his GOP colleagues keep distanced. That heinous.
___________UPDATE___________
Innocent until proven guilty being
the rule, prejudging Gaetz on recent allegations might be unwise. No
matter how widely anonymously sourced "facts" are reported by multiple
outlets.
Looking at Gaetz, my major beef is with the CPAC
appearance video, where he shouts as if volume equals credibility,
veracity, and truth, with what he says being amateurishly inflammatory - style and substance - while not
hanging together all that well.
So, Gaetz writes his own op-ed,
where saying (aside from asides about others) that nobody has come
forward by name, no woman, saying he did this or that illegal thing(s), at least not
publicly, (where grand jury testimony is supposed to remain
confidential). So far, reporting seems only sourced anonymously, as to
any criminal thing Gaetz is said to have done. Names of women being withheld.
There
is Joel Micah Greenberg, whose conduct and legal exposure ostensibly
led to the Justice Department consideration of Gaetz. Whatever the Gaetz
sexual conduct was, it is irrelevant to how diligently and
intelligently he represented his district. It goes to character, as does
the question of how close Gaetz wished to put himself into the Trump
orbit, and why. Now Greenberg and counsel are exploring a possible plea,
and what he can deliver is his own testimony about Gaetz; i.e., he can
snitch.
Arguably the most curious of all Gaetz - Greenberg coverage, this.
Then there is this, (more on that perhaps later) this, this and this.
Dots connect or they do not, while we only know what we read on the
web. Including this (nobody has published any good timelines).
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While
much pearl-clutching coverage has passed with more to come over Gaetz,
hula hoops, whatever, the verdict at Crabgrass is: loud, belligerent,
immature, posturing, ill-informed, opinionated poor little rich boy, not
worth a pinch of dirt. That might be wrong, but again, what we read on
the Internet (and that CPAC video) is what our judgments rest upon.
Likely
little else about Gaetz will be posted in the future on Crabgrass.
However, close the UPDATE with an image, where readers will think what
they think when they view it:
image from here
__________FURTHER UPDATE__________
WARNING TO READERS: This is speculation, hypothesizing a story behind a story, to make motive a part of the story more than chance.
Not saying it is so-and-so and not the common explanation, but that it could be.
A
few more dots to contemplate. Following the money - always to
contemplate. The big pork barrel is the DoD, what it looks at, what it
buys, what invested interests see as threats to their place at the
trough.
Forbes, last summer.
In
September, a devastating attack on Saudi oil refineries brought wider
attention to a threat that’s been of mounting concern for the U.S.
Department of Defense: small, cheap drones can evade detection and
overwhelm traditional air defenses.
It’s causing a shift in
emphasis toward defensive systems for a U.S. military that has long
primarily focused on projecting force to attack, says Brian Schimpf, CEO
of the controversial Silicon Valley defense startup Anduril Industries.
“Having awareness of the environment, being able to make informed
decisions about what’s a threat or not a threat and how do I respond,
this is the seminal challenge DoD has right now,” says Schimpf.
Deep-pocketed
Silicon Valley investors are betting Anduril has a promising solution.
The company has raised a fresh $200 million in a C Series funding round
led by Andreessen Horowitz, it announced Wednesday. The investment
values the company at $1.9 billion post-money, almost double its last
funding round in September.
Schimpf says the money will enable
Anduril to expand its development efforts in scale and scope as it tries
to bring a fast-paced Silicon Valley approach to the slow-moving world
of defense contracting. [...]
Anduril was founded in 2017 to fill
that gap by one of the most prominent conservative and pro-Trump
figures in tech, Palmer Luckey, along with Joe Chen, an early employee
of Luckey’s virtual reality startup Oculus, and Schimpf, Trae Stephens
and Matt Grimm, who are all veterans of Palantir, a data analysis
startup co-founded by the libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel. Thiel’s
Founders Fund, where Stephens had become a partner, has been a major
investor.
[italics added] People always matter. They know other people, etc. Forbes continues
Luckey,
now 27, went to Facebook after Oculus was acquired by the social media
giant in 2014 for $2 billion but was pushed out in a cloud of
controversy in 2017 after a news report that he had donated money to a
pro-Trump group called Nimble America that planned to put up billboards
featuring anti-Hillary Clinton memes ahead of the 2016 election. [Yet, ...]
says Schimpf. “We’ve never needed to dip into the Palmer pot.”
The
first project tackled by Anduril: border security, making it a target
of immigrant rights advocates amid the Trump administration’s
heavy-handed attempts to shut off the flow of illegal immigration
through Mexico. It’s sold U.S. Customs and Border Protection
solar-powered surveillance towers equipped with radar and cameras. [...]
There is more in the Forbes report - so read the original.
YouTube.
Think about fallout from disruption of a status quo comfortable to many, i.e., think: F-35 boondogle vs. unmanned options. Battle hardware for protective human transport, vs distant, secure, remote deployment.
A company blog touts its chops. And peoples up. And then some. Disruptorsnever sleep. So what strategy/tactics remain for their elders at the trough? Disruptive elements against a DoD/industrial complex status quo cash flow might not have many friendships among friends of the status quo. Defensenews.com reports:
How President-elect Biden can reinvigorate defense innovation
The world is on the cusp of a new era of warfare dominated by unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, networked weapons and sensor fusion.
We recently got a glimpse of this future in the rapid devastation that
Turkish-backed Azeri forces delivered to the Armenian military with
low-cost drones and smart weapons. While China and Russia exploit
advances in emerging technologies, the United States military struggles
to adopt them. If the U.S. does not adapt quickly to this new way of
fighting wars, we will become vulnerable to attacks from authoritarian
regimes that pose an existential threat to our national security, our
democracy and our way of life.
Donald Trump ran for president as a disruptor, and one area he promised
to disrupt was national defense. But while speaking the language of
disruption, Trump spent even more on the same old ships, vehicles and
aircraft at the expense of emerging technology. He got historic
increases in defense spending from Congress and squandered them on the
past.
President-elect Joe Biden and his team must do what Trump promised and
failed to do: Disrupt national defense. To his credit, Biden has
acknowledged that the United States’ decline in military technology is a
threat to our national security. But while recognition is a crucial
first step, the Department of Defense needs a new innovation playbook.
As Air Force Chief of Staff Ge. C.Q. Brown said: “We must accelerate change, or lose.”
We recommend the Biden administration pursue the following initiatives
to stay ahead of China and defend American values at home and abroad:
Think software first: As
the congressional Future of Defense Task Force has concluded, the DoD
will need to engage nontraditional defense companies to build the
“essential technology” that will maintain the United States’ military
advantage. The DoD must understand these technology systems are valuable
because of the complex software they run on, not the hardware casing on
the outside. Unfortunately, the DoD remains mired in old habits,
attempting to acquire these leap-ahead capabilities by making software
subservient to hardware and subordinating AI, autonomy and
software-to-hardware manufacturers.
In order to recruit software companies to build the next generation of
defense systems, the DoD needs a cultural shift on its approach to
software. DoD leaders must understand that the engineering challenges of
building a fighter jet and those of building AI-powered systems are of
equivalent magnitude and should be treated with equivalent respect. And
they must start awarding major defense programs to nontraditional
defense contractors, who can draw upon the world’s most talented
software engineers in ways the traditional defense base cannot.
The DoD should also revisit its approach to software data rights (the
term for license rights in government contracts). The DoD’s insistence
on owning source code and reserving the right to pass that code from one
vendor to another is a nonstarter for commercial companies. It means
that they are neither guaranteed any meaningful recurring revenue nor
are they able to effectively sell their products to multiple customers,
destroying their incentives to sell to the military. The DoD’s concerns
about vendor lock-in can be addressed in less obtrusive ways, such as
requiring that software companies building their government software be
“open” — interoperable, extensible and adaptable to solutions from
industry.
Pick winners:
The DoD is paralyzed by a cultural and bureaucratic aversion to
“picking winners” — worrying that by handing out contracts, it is
engaging in favoritism and anti-capitalist behavior. But nothing could
be more anti-capitalist than failing to reward the best talent and
ideas.
We cannot choose winners blindly, of course. The DoD should hold more
frequent demonstrations and competitions to assess who is building the
best technology. However, once the best technologies have proven
themselves, the DoD should spend large sums scaling these technologies
into programs of record.
After picking winners, the DoD should loosen its financial sustainment
requirements for some systems. Requiring decades-long sustainment plans
made sense during the Cold War: Our adversaries were predictable,
meaning our technology was usually a step ahead, and many of the most
important systems we procured were clearly intended to be operational
and relevant for decades. Neither is true today: China is a dynamic
adversary constantly innovating, and important tech like software and
attritable aerial systems improves every year.
We used to be better at this. [...]
[italics
added] Not enlarging the trough, but wedging aside non-winners? Things
for some might become tightly squeezed, where countermeasures might
appeal.
The
conjecture in a nutshell - if people knowing people puts
self-proclaimed "disruptors"
in Congress to aid the ends of private-sector DoD contracting
disruptors, or has found ones already there and created alliances,
entrenched military-industrial forces may not want to see upstarts
eating their lunch. They might look for indirect ways to clean out
disruption, and in doing so might not play fair, even stooping to
innuendo and classic smear tactics, or
by searching for any means to weaken or compromise "the enemy," short
term.
In the long term we're all
dead anyway, so "news" today is where Gaetz has been putting his pecker or
what's stored on his cell phone and shown others, because such a
level of "news" sells as more lurid with more of a punch than policy
wonk stuff such as dry
weapons system rethinking toward better bang for the buck. Disruptive contractors
with aims to supersede, (and like-minded souls in office), vs. those with much skin
already in the game may find impediments looming.
Zero sum game? Yes, no,
maybe? Friend of my enemy is my enemy?
Does that simply make Gaetz
a victim of circumstance as well as a victim of his own indiscretions? A
"collateral loss" as military-speak would have it? Collateral to
robotics' incursion into established man-centric warfare norms of powerful interests?
There can always be alternative theories.
Many boats exist which powerful ones do not want to see rocked by disruptive operators.
___________FURTHER UPDATE__________
More dots. Connected to
FBI investigation, or unrelated, that is an opinion guess, and again we
only know what we can find online.
Who else might be sharpening
knives for Rep. Gaetz with dissatisfaction over what he's been
advocating? "For the district?" And against established interests
holding political power?
Oil and gas? A websearch where several items are returned where readers may want to look. Petroleum fuels conventional war. There are joint interests.
Entrenched
man-centric military ways and means have beneficiaries in Eisenhower's
still active money churning "military industrial complex." So? That
thought has already been part of earlier updating, but there might be
more dots.
Two items not getting much press, but returned in web searching: This, from this web search. Also, this from another web search. Read each. Each fleshes out circumstantial evidence.
Expanding on the previous updating, there is:
https://www.nwfdailynews.com/ --- Gaetz has vision for technology park outside gates of Eglin AFB, Jan. 30, 2020; stating in part:
Retired Air Force Capt. Nathan Nelson,
military affairs director for Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., unveiled a
proposal for a technology park outside the gates of Eglin Air Force Base
during a Thursday session of the Defense Leadership Forum’s 2020 Air
Force Contracting Summit at the Sandestin Hilton resort.
SANDESTIN — A proposed $400 million Eglin Air Force Base
research facility could become the catalyst for a “Futures Park,”
combining military, contractor and education facilities just outside the
gates of the base.
“Futures Park,” a vision of Rep. Matt
Gaetz, R-Fla., whose district includes Eglin Air Force Base and a number
of other military installations, was outlined briefly Thursday by
retired Air Force Capt. Nathan Nelson, Gaetz’s director of military
affairs.
“We want to shine a great big spotlight on Northwest
Florida,” said Nelson, who was among the speakers on the opening day of
the Defense Leadership Forum’s 2020 Air Force Contracting Summit. Now in
its seventh, and largest year at the Sandestin Hilton resort, the
conference brings together hundreds of contractors, large and small,
with military contracting officers.
The proposed Eglin
research facility, dubbed the Weapons Technology Integration Capability,
is in line for the 2022 federal procurement process. As that process
moves forward, with the sobering recognition that $400 million is a
large request for military construction funding, Gaetz and his office
have been talking up the “Futures Park” as a way to leverage that
investment.
Creating a facility like Futures Park could,
Nelson said, attract investment beyond the federal government’s military
construction dollars. In return, he explained, Northwest Florida would
get a facility that expands higher education in the state, providing
students with on-site internships and allowing them to start working on
their security clearances for a smooth transition from school to the
working world.
[...] Parker Luckey's venture (see
above) presently is headquartered in California, but a Florida branch,
following allocated federal spending would not hurt it. With Genifer
Luckey now the Gaetz fiance, family melding exists reminiscent of feudal
aristocracy arrangements. Moreover, the report stating, "The proposed
Eglin
research facility, dubbed the Weapons Technology Integration
Capability,[...]" meshes uniquely with the Luckey venture touting, as
the prior Forbes quote said, "[...] money will enable
Anduril to expand its development efforts in scale and scope as it tries
to bring a fast-paced Silicon Valley approach to the slow-moving world
of defense contracting." There are vested defense contracting entities
who might not want any innovative eating of their lunch; with Gaetz in
their crosshairs as an instigator of status quo upheaval not in their
interests.
Nelson shows up again, https://www.850businessmagazine.com/thinking-synergistically/ in wanting to get a supercomputer on the cheap, in the Gaetz district as a part of the previously quoted hope and plan;
Nathan
B. Nelson, the director of military affairs in the office of U.S. Rep.
Matt Gaetz, addressed the Air Force Contracting Summit at Sandestin on
Jan. 30 [2020 - same date as above quoted item].
Extending due south into the Gulf of
Mexico from a point at 86° 41’ West longitude is a line of
mission-critical importance to Air Force bases in Northwest Florida and
the region’s economy.
The Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 established a
moratorium on oil and gas leasing and any related activity in the Gulf
east of that line, which originates near Eglin Air Force Base. But that
prohibition is due to sunset on June 30 of next year.
“The Military Mission Line enables the Air Force to do all of the
weapons development, testing and training that it does,” Nathan Nelson
reminded participants in the seventh annual Air Force Contracting
Summit, held at the Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa.
“That training range is a national treasure,” emphasized Nelson, who
is the director of military affairs in the office of U.S. Rep. Matt
Gaetz (R-Fort Walton Beach). Nelson stressed that the extension of the
moratorium beyond June 2022 is not a given.
“Flying experimental missiles over an oil drilling area is a bad
idea,” Nelson said. “That should be self-evident. But there are
companies motivated by their own self-interest, and they are desperate
to get into the Eastern Gulf and explore and drill.
“We have precious little time. The next NDAA (National Defense
Authorization Act) is our last chance to get an extension. If I could
ask just one thing of you, it would be to contact your elected officials
in support of the Military Mission Line and impress upon them how vital
it is.”
Pending and future MILCON (military construction) requests and other
proposed investments in Panhandle installations may become hard to
justify if the Mission Line is erased.
Proposed projects include a $400 million Weapons Technology
Integrated Capability (WTIC), essentially an updated Air Force Research
Lab, at Eglin.
Nelson said Eglin leadership is open to the idea of building that
facility outside the gate at the base so that other entities could be
co-located with it in a collaborative “Futures Park.”
Nelson described a “fantastic vision” whereby educational
institutions, industry and a reutilized supercomputer capable of running
sophisticated simulation programs would be situated next to the WTIC.
The resulting synergy, he said, would aid in workforce development and
provide for better, more immediate flow of information from the military
to the private-sector businesses that support it.
Students completing internships at the Futures Park could work on
obtaining security clearances prior to graduating and be ready to go to
work as soon as they receive their diplomas.
Nelson envisions an anchor Department of Defense presence surrounded
by Class A office space, a large technology farm and satellite
university campuses. The supercomputer would be used primarily by Eglin
personnel, but would also be made available to academic institutions and
potentially contractors.
Might a Parker Luckey
defense contracting branch in Florida, adjacent to Elgin, be on of the
potential contractors Nelson imagined?
The item resumes:
“The Futures Park is something that we are very excited about,” said
Nathan Sparks, the executive director of Okaloosa County Economic
Development. “We are in lockstep with Congressman Gaetz and his team in
this endeavor.”
Okaloosa County is home to 375 military contractors, Sparks said,
reflecting the fact that the missions of local bases are contract
driven.
“Seven of the top 10 defense contractors in the country — Boeing and
Lockheed and the others — have a presence here,” Sparks noted. “Those
companies are generally located throughout the county wherever they find
a place to do business.
“They believe and Team Eglin believes that there would be great value
in developing a true research park that is located strategically in
close proximity to program offices on base. It could become a real
epicenter for developing both talent and products.”
About that possibility, Nelson makes no effort to curb his enthusiasm.
“We want to shine a great big spotlight on Northwest Florida and show
people that we are on the cutting edge of science and technology and
weapons development,” Nelson said. ‘The Futures Park could be
transformative for our region and help supply the high-value, highly
skilled talent that military contractors need to keep their businesses
going.”
So, the big players are already there,
without having the Nelson/Gaetz inspired supercomputer aim to "show
people that we are on the cutting edge," an edge which Parker Luckey's
Anduril firm touts as already theirs, to nuture and grow.
And
that firing range in the Gulf - don't let oil/gas drilling there, it is
incompatible - is likely a theme that might bristle oil/gas drilling
interests. Gaetz and colleagues might have overreached, with a
consequent will of big players to trim his wings.
Perhaps not. But the Daily Beast item cited without comment in prior updating stated,
In a subsequent phone interview with The Daily Beast, Nelson said the
pair of FBI special agents who came to his door asked him just two
questions regarding Gaetz: Whether it was true that he left because he
became aware of illegal activity, and whether he knew of any other
staffers who might have such knowledge. The answer to both, Nelson
insisted, was “no.”
He told The Daily Beast he then spent more
than an hour explaining to the agents what he said was the real reason
he left: an economic development project the goal of which is to obtain a
government contract and a military supercomputer and provide training
and security clearances to local engineers.
The entity behind this
plan, Northwest Florida Supercomputer Research Group Inc., was
incorporated at Nelson’s address in 2019—though Florida business records
show it became inactive last September, shortly before Nelson exited
Gaetz’s office. Nelson said he did not know why this had happened.
But he confirmed at the press conference that the company had sought funding
from Triumph Gulf Coast, a state-controlled nonprofit led by Gaetz’s
father that doles out money to communities that suffered damages from
the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil spill. Nelson said his business had
dropped its application, and he told The Daily Beast he never had any
conversations with the congressman or the elder Gaetz about this
proposal.
The proposal - per the "sought funding"
link above was "Updated 5/1/18;" while the elder Gaetz managed money
trove turned it down, finally and officially by a rejection letter dated October 26, 2020 (the turn-down
letter, screen captured, appears in earlier commentary in this post).
Oct. 2020 is the month Nelson left the Rep. Gaetz payroll. The entire
hopes and dreams Nelson was involved in form an interesting backdrop to
Gaetz and his District. Yet they are things the current pearl clutching sex-drama stuff appears to find uninteresting.
.......................................
NOTE: All speculation is not
in defense of Gaetz and anything he's done or may be accused of doing.
It is merely blind guessing whether there is any follow-the-money aspect
which might be a play aimed at rendering the man's political chops less
threatening to existing ways and means.
Trump's silence over
Gaetz events and reporting may indicate the former White House resident
may not want to rock "wrong" boats while bloviating about 2024 and
raking in donated cash.
Steve Bannon was pardoned for things worse
for the nation and for gullible souls with his skimming on the notion
of privatized build-the-wall -- in comparison to Gaetz and women and
lusts without any policy dimension or big-buck aspects.
Bannon
was pardoned, but, he'd accumulated a mailing list of donors keen to see
a Trumpian wall, however funded. Willing to give money. Added value
that way, to the man on the way out of the White House after a single
tumultuous and eventful term, who is to say how or if that factored into
the Bannon pardon?
Circumstantial evidence often leaves multiple conclusions possible for inquisitive minds. Dots may or may not connect.
One interesting departing thought:
Joel Micah Greenberg, despite all his anti-social chutzpah, is no
threat to anyone's money and ongoing doing of business. If the Deep
State and its minions wished to cut a "no impact" plea deal with
nobody's entrenched ox standing to be gored, except Gaetz', there'd be
no better candidate for such a deal than Greenberg. Consonant with the
Biden promise to Comcast and other big money "Nothing will fundamentally
change," would be a deminishment of Gaetz and his trouble making
boat-rocking potential, which, surprisingly, is happening.
Compare
a deal being cut with Greenberg, with how Jeffrey Epstein subsequent to
a cushy deal kept going and then ended up in prison, to where
coconspirators we can only guess at ended up snuffing him while he was
imprisoned so that he could not name names to implicate sexual
misconduct of others (or to identify sponsorship behind his
compromise-'em activity).
In the Gaetz instance, the forces
choosing to use personal non-mainstream sexuality as a tool and weapon
appear to be set to prosper against a target.
Methodology the
same, only those facing fallout are different. Power is as power does.
For all we are told, Ms. Maxwell's insight in things seems to be,
"Silence is golden." Publicly so. Thus far. In jail but still sucking
air. If she's told anything to anyone, it would be the Deep State, which
has not publicly divulged a thing.
All for now.
FURTHER: Well, not all for now. After finding links and reading all the interlocking coverage of allegations via anonymous sourcing about Gaetz and his sex life; and finding other stuff online - if you dig - then in a way the Gaetz speech at CPAC might hang together more than it seems at first blush; since Gaetz knew of his being targeted by the time he spoke there.
Gaetz did speak of big tech and free speech; big tech as a worry.
Bernie; per Politico, Axios, NY Mag - on misgivings over Twitter banning Trump, and over the degree of present "information shaping" concentration being a thing to question. But that's been a decades-long problem, not new with the Internet; with past decades having had Walter Cronkite more trusted by more people than Senate, House, or White House occupants, back when three broadcast networks dominated "news" before cable even (99 channels and nothing on).
Whether there was more besides Trump - MAGA obsequiousness and other things district-oriented as noted above, plus the ever present talking head role on FOX, which would make Gaetz a target to intentionally bring down; that is a question ripe for sincere "news" analysis, but don't hold your breath waiting for decent levels of policy analysis to come from MSNBC, or FOX. (Maddow being her own similar-but-different version of Tucker, to the detriment of cable news quality.)
Decent cable broadcasting will not happen. "Alternative facts" the Conroy lady said. Shallow, unfortunately so, but it is what focus groups show as correlated to maximizing viewer ratings numbers.
Watch the film, "Network," again, to reinvigorate your understanding of the mechanism. Are you mad as Hell, and unwilling to take it any longer?
All for now, hopefully. But Gaetz at CPAC was worth rethinking.
________FURTHER UPDATE________
The link to the "dad wore a wire" Gaetz interview with Tucker Carlson.
This item, an op-ed discussing a complaint about Gaetz by managing persons of apparent public-interest astroturf operations is reported, with a link to the 44 page item the report references, posted on Scribd, with a lot of stuff included therein showing Gaetz tweeted a lot, loved to post his image, and was generally an ass. That is not a crime. DC is full of comparable Twitter users, the outlet seeming to attract idiots.
There was a Florida land use proposal, "River Cross." Florida Republicans are discussed, this link. Land use proposals often face opposition and usually are proposed to gain somebody, a promoter, a pile of money. Whether that stuff reflects on Gaetz in any questionable way would involve delving into Florida Republican political lore and reporting, which any reader who cares can take up, but Crabgrass posts this update info without any further care.
Latest online stuff - per a websearch done 4/24/2021, time frame = last 24 hours; search terms = gaetz medical marijuana
That websearch is open to further research by interested readers. It appears to be more thrown against the wall to see what sticks. The wheels of justice turn slowly, sometimes showing a surprise. Gaetz is a disgrace to good reasoning and sound policy, but is not alone that way, nor is such a status necessiraly a crime. Why anyone ever voted for the asshole is an indiscernible fact of bad politics in the U.S. of A. (That being an opinion and not intended to be viewed as a statement of fact.)
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