Let's discuss Senator-elect Bernie Moreno

[quote] Bernie Moreno says migrants “destroyed” Ohio cities but won’t clarify which cities or how

The U.S. Senate campaign of Republican Bernie Moreno took to X last week to claim that because of the current administration’s policies, migrants have “destroyed” Ohio communities.

However, the campaign didn’t answer when asked to identify a single Ohio city that had been harmed by migration, where the migrants doing the destruction came from, and how the communities had been harmed. The statement also ignores the fact that Moreno, a Cleveland businessman, is himself a migrant.

Moreno is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat that has been occupied by Democrat Sherrod Brown since 2007. The race is one of the most closely watched in the country this cycle.

As his fellow Republicans have, Moreno has tried to stoke fears of migrants following a surge at the southern border, which has since subsided — at least temporarily. Many have also claimed that undocumented migrants commit more crime than the native-born, although research indicates that the opposite is actually the case. And border cities such as El Paso and McAllen have significantly lower crime rates than the average American city.

Some of the rhetoric has at least seemed to be racist. When former President Donald Trump last year repeatedly said undocumented immigrants “are poisoning the blood of our country,” he seemed to echo Adolf Hitler, who used several versions of the poison-blood metaphor in his racist musings.

For his part, Moreno hasn’t been shy about using harsh rhetoric about immigration. He has repeatedly referred to what’s happening at the southern border as an “invasion” despite the fact that El Paso has already been the victim of a racist massacre by a man who said he was trying to stop an invasion, and experts worry that it’s only a matter of time before it happens again.

Playing on fears of undocumented migrants, the Moreno campaign said in an ad, “Brown and Biden won’t keep your family safe.”

On Wednesday, the Moreno campaign took to X to say, “San Francisco liberal @KamalaHarris and @SherrodBrown destroyed Ohio communities by flooding our state with migrants.”

However, his campaign didn’t respond when asked which Ohio communities had been destroyed and how.

But what made the post especially head-scratching is the fact that Moreno is himself a migrant, being born in Colombia in 1967. His family migrated to Florida in 1971.

Moreno last year said, “We came here with absolutely nothing — we came here legally — but we came here, nine of us in a two-bedroom apartment.”

It was part of the image he’s tried to cultivate of an immigrant who came to the United States the “right” way as opposed to impoverished Colombians who’ve survived the trek through the Darien Gap, made their way the U.S.-Mexico border and entered without documents.

However, Moreno’s depiction of his family as a poor one is misleading. In Columbia, his people were wealthy and politically connected, and while the family lived in straitened circumstances the first years they were in the states, things quickly got better.

His father, Bernardo Moreno Sr., was a surgeon who was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and later served as the Colombian equivalent of the secretary of health, the New York Times reported. He initially worked at low pay in Florida as a surgical assistant, but by 1973, he had full privileges as a surgeon.

In addition, one of Bernie Moreno’s brothers served as the Colombian ambassador to the United States and another founded a multinational construction empire.

Oh dear another suck up opportunist...who'd have thought?

His daughter was married to Trump sycophant Max Miller, but Miller filed for divorce from her in August of this year.

HA! They were married for only two years.

Didn't you all say that Max Miller is gay?

He sure looks it.

Maybe that's why he filed for divorce.

Former Trump aide Rep. Max Miller, 35, has filed for divorce from his wife Emily Moreno, 30, less than one year after the birth of their newborn baby.

According to a court filing in Cuyahoga County, the Ohio freshman congressman is divorcing his wife Emily after two years of marriage.

The unraveling of their marriage comes 10 months after the birth of their firstborn daughter Ruth. Miller had posted an Instagram on November 4, 2023 introducing 'our beautiful daughter Ruth' saying at the time that her birth is a reminder of the 'importance of family.'

Emily is also the daughter and former campaign manager of Bernie Moreno, who is the GOP nominee for Senate taking on Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in one of the most competitive and expensive races in the country.

Moreno and Miller got engaged in 2021 after his messy relationship with ex-Melania spokeswoman and White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham came to an end after allegations of 'abuse.'

President Donald Trump spoke at their wedding a year later in August 2022 at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. He sang the praises of Max, one of his favorite former staffers whom he endorsed in his pursuit for Congress.

Miller's relationship with Grisham came to an end in 2020 when he allegedly pushed her up against a wall and slapped her after she accused him of cheating, sources told Politico.

The pair were believed to have been together for 18 months and even got a French bulldog named Gus, before the situation is believed to have turned sour.

Grisham originally declined to comment on the allegations and Miller denied the assault allegations.

She also accused Miller of taking the bulldog Gus that he got her as a present after they split up.

In October 2021 Grisham, 46, wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post claiming that the Trumps 'didn't seem to care' when she told them her relationship with Miller had turned 'abusive.'

Miller then filed a libel suit against Grisham in 2021 which has since been dismissed 'with prejudice' before going to a jury trial.

Fabulist liar and disgraced former Rep. George Santos called Miller a 'woman beater' last year.

'You sir are a crook,' Miller said on the House floor about Santos, earning his ire.

Santos fired back: 'My colleague wants to come up here, call me a crook. The same colleague who's accused of being a woman beater. Are we really going to ignore the facts that we all have pasts?'

Miller's divorce case with Emily Moreno, was filed on August 27 and is designated under 'Divorce-Children.'

no, GOP senator is a hard no

Are we going to talk about how he was trolling for young men on the internet?

I'm not in Ohio, but threw some cash Brown's way to defeat this asshat.

So far it's a four out of six loss for the candidates I funded with the last two still undecided and not looking good.

The 2015 Aston Martin Vulcan can go from zero to 60 in 2.9 seconds and maxes out at 208 mph. Only 24 of the two-door, two-seater carbon-fiber British speedsters were ever made, each with a $2.3 million price tag.

They also aren’t street legal in the United States. Since the car doesn’t comply with the Clean Air Act’s emissions standards, importing one requires an EPA exemption. Aston Martin was granted just nine between March 2015 and February 2017, on the condition they be used “solely for competition.”

But on a sunny day in November 2015, Bernie Moreno took a shiny new cherry-red Vulcan—part of his “personal collection,” a local reporter noted—for a spin outside Cleveland. At least three police cars escorted Moreno down usually busy suburban streets.

At the time, the flashy outing helped publicize Moreno’s massive portfolio of car dealerships in Ohio, where the multimillionaire is currently the Republican nominee for US Senate. Those dealerships, along with others in Florida, Kentucky, and Massachusetts, helped make Moreno a very wealthy man. So far, he’s loaned his own campaign $4.5 million of its $10.9 million war chest, according to Federal Election Commission reports.

Moreno’s campaign did not respond to questions about the legality of the joyride. Public records from North Olmsted, the suburb Moreno spun through, provide no indication Moreno ever paid it or its police for the escort or road closures. And while the campaign says Aston Martin was responsible for importing the car, and the company insists it did so legally, Moreno once said the opposite.

“Nobody’s here from the EPA, right? Good,” Moreno winkingly asked a crowd gathered to admire the Vulcan at a 2016 event. “The car’s actually not legally allowed to be in the United States. It is now, but it wasn’t back in October when we got the car,” he boasted in a little-noticed video. “We shipped it in as car parts,” he said, explaining that the steering wheel, worth $20,000 on its own, had been imported separately for the purpose of skirting EPA regulations.

For its part, Aston Martin says a new steering wheel was later sent to replace a faulty one originally imported with the car. But in boasting about such a gambit, Moreno—a big spender whose holdings include pricey Florida real estate—displayed a Trump-like belief that following legal requirements is optional, if you’re witty or wealthy enough to work around them.

Moreno represents Trump’s takeover of the party in more ways than one. Once he favored pathways to legalization for undocumented immigrants; today he supports Trump’s mass deportation scheme. Once he backed LGBTQ rights, noting that Modern Family helped him understand his gay son; today, [bold]he’s accused LGBTQ rights advocates of advancing a “radical” agenda of “indoctrination,” according to the Associated Press, which recently reported that someone using Moreno’s work email created a profile seeking gay sex on a dating site in 2008.[/bold] (His staff blamed a former intern—one who gave his campaign more than $6,500 last year.)

Moreno, who once bemoaned the homogeneity of Cleveland-area boardrooms and claimed he benefited from diversity initiatives as a Colombian immigrant, now pledges to “end wokeness.”

He's a crook. Cheated his employees and then shredded the proof.

"Looking for young guys to have fun with"

[quote] his eldest son is gay

Like father, like son.

I guess they both like cock.

He's awful