Cortney Merrits, the husband of ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush (D-MO), was just confronted by a reporter and initially denied any role in his wife’s campaign, despite being paid more than $100,000 since last January .
Merrits is a military veteran who is listed in documents as a recipient of “security payments” before the description was later changed to “payroll costs.”
He initially denied any role in Bush’s campaign when confronted by a Fox News reporter.
“I don’t play a role in the campaign, man,” Merrits said, but when the reporter brought up the campaign files, he changed his tune.
“Am I doing work with the campaign?” Merrits said. “Obviously I am. I’m still [inaudible]right?”
The reporter asked for clarification.
“Am I still working on it? Yeah, obviously I’m going to work on it,” Merritts said.
He then complained that questions about his role in his lawmaker wife’s campaign were “gotcha sh**” and said, “I’m not a politician.”
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Bush acquitted after paying off her husband
You may not be a politician, Mr. Merritts, but you are the husband of someone in Bush, and she is actively funneling campaign donations to you and calling it pay.
For “safety purposes” no less.
So Bush and her staff found a way to enrich her husband by simply having him attend events with her, as evidenced by the video of them following a fundraiser. Good job if you can get it.
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Especially knowing that she is a rabid anti-police nut.
Cori Bush’s husband has been hit with more than $102,500 in payments since Bush added him to her campaign payroll in January 2022 for what they classified as security payments before changing their description to payroll expenses in April.https:/ /t.co/1pLTJVFFes
— Fredric U. Dicker (@fud31) October 30, 2023
It should be noted that Bush was unanimously cleared by the Office of Congressional Ethics regarding a complaint about payments for her husband.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch points out that the FEC does not prohibit a candidate from hiring family members, provided they are paid for “bona fide services” and paid “fair market value.”
A second complaint about the same case is still pending.
Ethics Office recommends exonerating Cori Bush from campaign payments to her husband https://t.co/skorkU7vrb pic.twitter.com/2Ov8zXbhK2
— New York Post (@nypost) October 26, 2023
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Bush’s safety is more important than yours
Representative Bush has argued that she needs security while advocating defunding the police because her value is greater than that of the average citizen.
“I have private security because my body is worth being on this planet,” she said in an interview with CBS News, later adding her security resources: “I get to be here (in Congress) to do the job doing.’
She also went on an unhinged tirade, suggesting that criticizing her obvious hypocrisy means you’d like to see her die.
“They’d rather I die?” she spat. ‘Would you rather I die? Is that what you want to see?”
Democratic Rep. Cory Bush (2021):
I need private security, but defunding the police needs to happen, so suck it up
They think their lives matter more pic.twitter.com/o7itcvyGUk
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 3, 2023
“So suck it up,” Bush told viewers, adding almost in the same breath, “and defunding the police has got to happen… We’ve got to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets fuses.’
Defund the police – just not the security guy who works on her campaign and happens to be her husband.
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