Even in a Congress filled with Trump apologists and stooges, Devin Nunes stands out as a corrupt and compromised lackey for the idiot unindicted co-conspirator. And the voters in his central California district, CA-22, are starting to get tired of it. His opponent, Democratic nominee Andrew Janz, is social media savvy and has been crisscrossing the district, and as Trump’s approval ratings fall, Nunes is heading into the danger zone — once a lock for re-election, the eight-term incumbent is slipping badly in the polls.
Via CNBC:
With Election Day 10 weeks away, the latest polling shows Nunes ahead by 5 percentage points, according to a poll conducted in late July of 400 likely voters in the district by Democratic polling company Tulchin Research.
Granted, it’s a poll from a Democratic firm, but it tracks with a June poll that had him up 8 points. He’s been pummeled by the local Fresno Bee all year, which comes at him with blistering editorials nearly every single week. Look at
the opening of this scathing story from July:
Nunes used to care about Valley. Now he’s a D.C. fat cat living large on donors’ dime
In November 2002, the voters of Fresno and Tulare counties sent to Capitol Hill a 29-year-old political neophyte named Devin Nunes.
What Nunes lacked in experience he made up for in brashness and energy. He was one of us, a salt-of-the-earth dairy farmer from Pixley who would represent our interests without sinking into the Washington cesspool.
Sixteen years later, our man Devin is chest-deep in muck. The supposed man of the people turned out to be just another pompous, entitled politician who barks at anyone who questions him.
Even a routine query like, “Are you going to hold any public forums?” (something Nunes hasn’t done in years) turns into a preposterous rant. (And, no, $2,700-a-plate fundraisers don’t qualify.)
Nunes isn’t just raking in money from special interests. He’s become obsessed with conspiracy theories and fringe ideology. H is the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, a depressingly ironic title for someone as stupid and uninformed as him. Nunes torpedoed the House’s investigation into the Russian hacking, and if he remains in office, there could be far worse consequences.
Everything you need to know about what a lunatic he is can be found in this May New York Times article, which laid out some of his biggest sins and bizarre obsessions:
According to three people familiar with the log, during Nunes’s first several years on the committee, he rated as its “least read” member. He had a similarly poor record of visiting the intelligence agencies for briefings. His lack of preparation could be seen in the committee’s classified hearings, where, according to a former committee staff member, Nunes often seemed out of his depth.
“The committee gets to ask direct questions of the C.I.A. director for two hours a quarter, and if a member is using up half his time on questions that he should already know the answers to, it’s not very productive,” the former staff member says.
Even worse, in the eyes of some of committee members and staff, was how Nunes did get his information. “He’d go out to these hinterlands and run into security guys there, and they’d give him crazy ideas,” the former committee staff member says. “He wasn’t discerning. These guys might have something interesting that’s one piece of the whole puzzle, but he’d think whatever they had to say was the whole truth.”
Then, when Nunes brought back that information to Washington and intelligence officials would try to put it in context for him — or correct any misinformation — he would become suspicious. “He didn’t take people at face value,” a former government official recalls, “and didn’t always believe leadership.”
Luckily, Democrats have a great candidate challenging him in Janz. He’s a prosecutor in central California, and he’s run a brilliant campaign, both in his fundraising and his pointed — and often funny — challenging of Nunes. He owns him on social media, stays parked in the district, and has turned a tough red seat into a near-tossup. He also does a lot of town halls.
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