Republican Crime Blotter: Michele Fiore Edition

Another MAGAt scammer bites the dust, in this case Las Vegas's former Republican city councilwoman and Trump cultist Michele Fiore.  From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

"Prosecutors accused Fiore of raising tens of thousands of dollars through her charity and political action committee for a statue honoring Metropolitan Police Department officer Alyn Beck, who was shot and killed with his partner in 2014. But instead of using the money for the statue, prosecutors said Fiore spent the donations on rent, plastic surgery and payments on her daughter’s wedding.

Fiore 'used a tragedy to line her pockets,' federal prosecutor Dahoud Askar told the jury Thursday.

As the guilty verdict was read Thursday afternoon, Fiore looked straight ahead, her hands clasped in front of her. U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey scheduled sentencing for Jan. 6." (our emphasis)

You couldn't ask for a more perfect example of a Trumper and a venal scammer than Fiore.  Siphoning funds for a tribute to a police officer for her own personal benefit (like her mentor the Malignant Loser did with his "charities"). Also, the sentencing date of January 6 is ironic and appropriate for this greedy hack, who would like to see our republic turned into a lawless, Trumpist dictatorship.

(photo: Bang bang, you're done/ Michele Fiore)

Nevada Unloads Two Crack Pots -- Er, Crack Shots

Did you know there was a Republican primary in Nevada yesterday? Neither did we!  Well the results are in and we're Sad! to report that two of Nevada's most over- ripe distaff numbnuts have been unloaded by the voters (did you see what we did there?).  Here's Nevada political guru Jon Ralston's fare- thee- well to Michele "Freaky" Fiore and Sharron "Obtuse"Angle (no link):

As if to put an exclamation point on a night in which so many fringe types with no agendas and only nastiness lost, two women who scarred the Nevada political landscape are departing. Even though two national publications saw fit to profile her in the waning days, Assemblywoman Michele Fiore’s short, sad political career ended as she ran third in a southern congressional primary. She will never win another office in Nevada; a reality show seems a better bet. Or perhaps, a medical program showing how cancer is a fungus or a program teaching 5-year-olds to fire rifles. Also gone and soon forgotten: Sharron Angle, who tried to resurrect herself after her U.S. Senate embarrassment in 2010 but was destroyed by Heck. It wasn’t close, and Angle once again left behind a wonderful legacy as she sent out a piece that accidentally directed people to a pornography site. She also ran TV ads with bunnies and tried to compare Heck to Nancy Pelosi and Reid. That, as always, was the wrong angle.

"Freaky" Fiore, who thought cop- killing was justifiable, and "Obtuse" Angle, of "Second Amendment remedies" infamy:  two small-bore Republicans headed back into the sagebrush where they belong with the other desert rats.

(Photos:  Unloaded: top, Sharron Angle;  bottom, Michele Fiore)

Today's Dispatches From The Stupid Party: Don't Know Much About Science Books

The latest evidence that morons are well represented in our legislatures comes from Nevada Republican (what else?) Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, opining about legislation she's proposing in that State to make cancer treatment more "inexpensive, cost-effective:"

Here's what she said on her radio show this weekend: "I call it my terminally ill bill," she said of new legislation she has proposed (no language yet), "basically changing some provisions of our health care system." 

Fiore, who operates a home health care business that sometimes passes payroll taxes onto the IRS, said she knew of friends who left the country to find end-of-life treatments that are not FDA-approved. And then the payoff:

"If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus," she began, citing a widely debunked theory that the American Cancer Society warns about, "and we can put a pic line into your body and we're flushing with, say, salt water, sodium cardonate (I think she means bicarbonate), through that line and flushing out the fungus. These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective."

There's a fungus among us, and it's not cancer.

(h/t Steve Benen, Maddow Blog)