Thread by @Matt_Fleming321

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1/ Congressman Bill Posey is getting a free pass from @January6thCmte, @TheJusticeDept, and the public in general, but he shouldn't be. His lies about the election, and his attempts to overturn the results are documented at length here.

Enjoy ☕

#OperationAvalanche

2/ Bill Posey is the U.S. Representative for all of Brevard County, FL. We are known for being home to the Kennedy Space Center and for having the most capitol rioters. But there's so much more...

thespacecoastrocket.com/brevard-county…

3/ Before Bill Posey was a Congressman, he was a State Senator in Florida, and after the 2000 election debacle here, he was one of the key architects of Florida's election reform laws which opened the state to electronic machine voting.

flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2…

4/ After being elected to Congress in 2008, he was one of the chief promoters of the "Birther" conspiracy, which falsely claimed Obama was an illegitimate president because he was born in Kenya. Trump used this conspiracy to launch his political rise.

politico.com/story/2010/04/…

5/ Bill Posey was once named "Legislator of The Year" by the American Legislative Exchange Council(#ALEC), which is a group helping to engineer voter suppression laws across the country.

#VotingRights

posey.house.gov/about-bill/def…

6/ Also from #BrevardCounty and Bill Posey's district, is lobbyist Mike Haridopolis, the former Florida Senate President who oversaw the severe #Gerrymandering of our state's electoral districts in 2011.

sun-sentinel.com/sfl-mtblog-201…

7/ After lawsuits forced Florida to redraw it's congressional districts in 2015, Bill Posey was able to avoid Florida's constitutionally mandated term limits(despite supporting #TermLimits on the campaign trail) because now he was in a "new" district.

tallahassee.com/story/news/pol…

8/ In 2016, Russia hacked our elections, and Lori Scott, Brevard's Supervisor of Elections claimed erroneously that Brevard's systems "don't connect to the internet". Both VR Systems pollbooks AND ES&S voting equipment connect to the internet.

politico.com/story/2019/06/…

9/ ES&S was the target of Russian hackers in 2016, and their record of misleading the public is detailed here by @jennycohn1
link.medium.com/t7hkdKq8Fkb

#ElectionSecurity

10/ In 2019, the #MuellerReport and Senate Intel. Committee reports detailed Russian hacking, election interference, and those in Trump's inner circle who were guilty of conspiracy, fraud, obstruction, etc, including Trump, who Mueller refused to exonerate. Bill Posey says:

11/ "Even in this hour of extreme partisanship and troubling isolationism, 69 times Posey’s Republican colleagues stepped up to sponsor these(#ElectionSecurity) bills, sending a strong message to Moscow. Posey has not signed on to a single one"

orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-…

12/ In the run-up to the 2020 election, Bill Posey went on camera, bragged about flying in Trump's private jet, and condemned "the crooked @FBI people".

See unedited clip here:
fb.watch/8UcZuM42vm/

#HoldThemAccountable

13/ After Trump lost the popular vote on November 3rd, Bill Posey was EXTREMELY active in helping to advance claims of election fraud. He posts that record on his web page, but I'm going to detail it in case it vanishes...

@January6thCmte
#ElectionFraud
posey.house.gov/news/documents…

14/ On November 6th Bill Posey wrote a letter to @TheJusticeDept requesting that DOJ investigate election fraud. It was signed by 38 other members of Congress as well.

@January6thCmte
#ElectionFraud
#HoldThemAccountable

15/ On November 12, Bill Posey wrote an op-ed in "The Daily Caller"(🥴) which promoted unfounded claims of fraud in 2020 while writing, "we do know that fraud and allegations of fraud undermine the confidence in our election and of those who are elected."

dailycaller.com/2020/11/12/pos…

16/ On November 13, Bill Posey wrote another letter to @TheJusticeDept, signed by 8 others including Rep. Gaetz and Rep. Gohmert requesting an investigation into fraud, this time singling out #Dominion and claiming that votes were electronically switched.

@January6thCmte

17/ On November 18th he wrote a letter to the @USPostService, signed by 3 others, including Rep. Gohmert, requesting they investigate allegations of missing ballots and mailing irregularities.

@January6thCmte
@TheJusticeDept

18/ On November 20, Bill Posey wrote ANOTHER letter to @TheJusticeDept, but also to @DHSgov @ODNIgov and @USDOS bizarrely claiming that #Venezuela had something to do with #ElectionFraud. This letter was also signed by Rep. Gaetz and Rep. Gosar.

@January6thCmte

19/ On December 1, Bill Posey sent a letter to @TheJusticeDept AGAIN asking them to investigate election fraud, this time in Georgia where Trump was looking to "find" votes. This letter was signed by him and 30 other members of Congress.

@January6thCmte
#HoldThemAccountable

20/ On December 9th, Bill Posey wrote a letter to the Inspector General of @TheJusticeDept complaining of inaction, specifically referencing Michigan and Georgia, and repeating the unsubstantiated claim of "widespread fraud".

@January6thCmte
@BennieGThompson

21/ On December 10th, Bill Posey wrote a letter to the Inspector General of the @CIA reiterating his conspiracy theory about #Dominion, #Venezuela, and election rigging. It is signed by only himself.

@January6thCmte
@TheJusticeDept

22/ No story in Florida is complete without some weird af side story that may or may not be related.

#Venezuela
#FloridaMan
#BrevardCounty
apnews.com/article/miami-…

23/ Allied Security Operations Group "Executive protection, Cyber Security, Cyber Intelligence and Technology Innovation" and "the combined company was reportedly the largest provider of security guards in the U.S. with 140,000 trained officers."

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Un…

24/ On December 15th, Bill Posey wrote a letter to the Inspector General of @EACgov, still pushing the conspiracy theory that #Dominion voting systems were not functioning properly, citing a report from Allied Security Operations Group.

@January6thCmte
@TheJusticeDept

25/ Bill Posey was a signatory to the "#Kraken" lawsuit which was rejected by the supreme court, and he voted to decertify the election in Congress AFTER the Capitol had been stormed and looted by Trump supporters.

posey.house.gov/news/documents…

26/ On #January6th after the riots, he gave a speech on the house floor complaining of #ElectionFraud, and he couldn't even do it without mentioning #BubbaWallace.

@BennieGThompson
@January6thCmte
#HoldThemAccountable
#EnforceTheSubpeonas

27/ This all seems extraordinary, except in #BrevardCounty, it is not. Corrupt State Rep. Randy Fine is currently facing a criminal investigation after he made threats to a school board member and others. It's not his first rodeo.

@TheJusticeDept
@FBI

https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1451602782625087495?t=79Kgwx-RD3jw7cG2iN4Gaw&s=19

28/ Randy Fine, also a member of ALEC, is a key player in the attempts to terrorize school boards and privatize public education.

@TheJusticeDept
@FBITampa

https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1445455363030110208?t=6BC4v3ekebB9Fm3Sx232nQ&s=19

29/ Randy Fine has been named as Vice Chair to the Florida #Redistricting Committee which should give everyone serious pause.

https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1443052950436331523

30/ Our Sheriff is especially notorious for his outspoken support of Donald Trump and numerous appearances on Fox News.

#JusticeForEdwards
#CivilRights

https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1448709296246726660

31/ Governor Ron DeSantis was here in #BrevardCounty just last week denouncing the @FBI in a press conference with Sheriff Ivey, State Atty. for the 18th Judicial Circuit Phil Archer, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, and of course Randy Fine.

https://twitter.com/Matt_Fleming321/status/1450900763023220743

32/ Finally, Bill Posey was in congress just the other day using his position as an elected official to try to defend Steve Bannon from a congressional subpoena. He doesn't even have the guts to say "F*CK Joe Biden" so he says #LetsGoBrandon

@January6thCmte
#HoldThemAccountable

33/ Now here it is, your moment of Zen: