Trump-appointed Architect of the Capitol J. Brett Blanton in ethics crosshairs (WaPo) (Page 1/1)
rinselberg NOV 05, 03:48 PM
"Opinion Another Trump appointee provides a lesson in ethical misconduct"
The Editorial Board of the Washington Post; November 5, 2022.
https://www.washingtonpost....rchitect-misconduct/


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Many Americans will likely be surprised to learn that there’s such a thing as the uppercased Architect of the Capitol, rather than merely the architect of the Capitol—William Thornton, who designed the building in the late 1700s. But there is, and the man occupying this presidentially appointed position today has made the most of it, at taxpayers’ expense.

The Office of the Inspector General issued a report last month identifying a series of “administrative, ethical and policy violations” by J. Brett Blanton, appointed by President Donald Trump and sworn in in early 2020. The actions catalogued tell an almost comic story of corruption: The architect and his family logged nearly 20,000 extra miles in his government SUVs driving to a craft brewery as well as destinations as far away as Florida. His daughter even used the SUVs to cruise around with her friends and boyfriend, calling the fuel “free gas.” This included swerving through a Tysons Corner, Va., Walmart parking garage at 65 mph.

Finally, the real doozy: After a vehicle hit his daughter’s boyfriend’s car, Mr. Blanton activated the emergency equipment in his SUV to role-play a police chase—including leading local law enforcement to believe he was a cop in a ruse that lasted throughout the entire court proceedings.


That's already about half of the entire editorial opinion column.

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blackrams NOV 05, 04:04 PM
Well, if all that is true, then he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

BTW, if the daughter is still at Walmart, I'd like to send her a list of things she can pick up for me.

Rams
Cheeper2keeper NOV 05, 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

"Opinion Another Trump appointee provides a lesson in ethical misconduct"
The Editorial Board of the Washington Post; November 5, 2022.





As I said elsewhere, you have no problem finding and posting stupid and irrelevant nonsense like this, however we are STILL awaiting those lurid "QAnon posts" that you told everyone here that the fellow who attacked Pelosi posted on the internet. WHERE ARE THOSE POSTS? WHERE IS YOUR PROOF?

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rinselberg NOV 05, 07:08 PM

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Originally posted by Cheeper2keeper:
As I said elsewhere, you have no problem finding and posting stupid and irrelevant nonsense like this, however we are STILL awaiting those lurid "QAnon posts" that you told everyone here that the fellow who attacked Pelosi posted on the internet. WHERE ARE THOSE POSTS? WHERE IS YOUR PROOF?


I never said that I had proof or any independent confirmation. I reported on whatever that media organization had reported. Whatever media report I posted (there must have been one) in which the reporter(s) said that the suspect and apparent assailant, David DePape, had a history of online messaging going back from months to as much as a year or longer before the Paul Pelosi incident, and that he had posted his agreement with some of the same conspiracy theories and general weirdness of QAnon.

Was that from Reuters? PolitiFact? CNN? I would have to take time to go back and find that post that I made, because I don't remember which media organization.

The media report also said that these "QAnon-style" messages from David DePape had been taken down by the moderators of FaceBook, or Twitter, or wherever he had posted these messages.

I don't think it would be difficult for someone like myself to find other media reports (in addition to the one that I posted) that have reported the same thing. But since I fully expect that I could find such additional media reports, if I took the time to look, I am not going to do it.

Perhaps "Cheaper2keeper", who obviously has a sincere and passionate interest in this topic, would like to see if he can find any additional media reports that either line up with, or contradict the one media report that I cited.

Perhaps there is a way to use the "Wayback Machine" at the Internet Archive to see if any of these alleged "QAnon" posts can still be recovered from the past... from before they were taken down by the particular social media moderators.
https://archive.org/web/

But that's not what I need to be doing, and I'm unlikely to try it until... maybe when the case goes to trial, if it does go to trial. Actually, I'm unlikely to try it, "period".

"Cheaper2keeper" doesn't have a clue about the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of any media reports about a history of QAnon-style posts from David DePape. He just has some slightly weird fixation which causes him to show up on this Politics & Religion forum every few days, find one of my posts, and go into his "Prove It" routine. Aside from just that, he seems to have no time or interest for this Politics & Religion forum.

But maybe he'll surprise me.

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Cheeper2keeper NOV 05, 08:28 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

Perhaps "Cheaper2keeper", who obviously has a sincere and passionate interest in this topic, would like to see if he can find any additional media reports that either line up with, or contradict the one media report that I cited.




Stop mis-gendering me you smelly little troll.
rinselberg NOV 06, 04:51 PM



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Serving Congress and the Supreme Court, the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the builder and steward of the landmark buildings and grounds of Capitol Hill. Our staff preserves and maintains the historic buildings, monuments, art and inspirational gardens on the Capitol campus.


Architect of the Capitol, official U.S. government website
https://www.aoc.gov/

In 1793, President George Washington appointed William Thornton as the first Architect of the Capitol. Only 12 more individuals, all men, have been so designated, and two of them served for the same term as "co-architects". Before Congress passed legislation in 1989 that limited the Architect's term of office to 10 years, with the possibility of a second 10-year term, there was no fixed term of office for the office. Edward Clark is the longest serving Architect of the Capitol, having held the office for 37 years, from 1865 to 1902. This is why there have been only 13 Architects of the Capitol, even though the office of the Architect of the Capitol has persisted across the entire history of the United States without any hiatus or interruption. There has never not been an Architect of the Capitol during the long history of our U.S. federal republic..!

Certain pundits or "wags"—at least one, anyway—have remarked that the Architect of the Capitol was "AOC" before AOC.