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To: Sdgla who wrote (1394228)

3/11/2023 2:14:23 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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Move over, George Santos

Tennessee congressman Andrew Ogles’s résumé is too good to be true

Analysis by Glenn Kessler

The Fact Checker

March 10, 2023 at 1:49 p.m. EST

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) listed previous qualifications and alleged areas of expertise before being elected to Congress during an interview on Jan. 25. (Video: C-Span)

“That is the state of politics in America today. They want power and control so badly that they are willing to say and do anything to get there. If you don’t have the integrity to just be you and run on what you’ve done, then I don’t want you in Congress. And so that’s how I present myself to you.”

— Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tenn.), speaking to supporters while running for election, July 23

Ogles, a newly elected member of Congress, has been the subject of news reports by a Nashville television station for having exaggerated his background. When Ogles was one of the holdouts to approving Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as House speaker, he claimed he was “an economist” — a claim he has made several times — along with other .......

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To: Sdgla who wrote (1394228)	3/11/2023 7:55:04 PM
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In Pennsylvania, the ice beneath Donald Trump is cracking (msn.com) PITTSBURGH — In 2016, then-Reps. Lou Barletta (R-PA) and Tom Marino (R-PA) became the first sitting members of Congress to endorse then-candidate Donald Trump for president. Their colleagues in Washington gave them the side-eye. Barletta told me at the time that when that didn’t work, their colleagues tried to talk them out of it.... On Friday, in keeping with their willingness to put it all on the line, Thunder and Lighting were back — only this time, not for Trump. Instead, Barletta and Marino called on Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to run for the Republican nomination in 2024 in a tweet: David Urban, a Washington-based strategist who was Trump’s Pennsylvania adviser in 2016, said their endorsement for DeSantis is "a big symbolic deal."