To: Sdgla who wrote (1399918 ) 4/21/2023 10:59:55 AM From: Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578342 Rep. Andy Biggs serves up another nothingburger (azcentral.com) Opinion: The congressman's recent attack on New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg is another taxpayer-funded deep-fried fantasy. EJ Montini Arizona Republic View Comments Social media is the drive-thru window for the most noxious political junk food being served in Washington, D.C., and Arizona’s own short-order cook, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, serves up the largest, fattiest nothingburgers on the menu. Biggs is part of a culinary cabal of legislative hash slingers that includes fellow Republican U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. They’re franchisees in the governmental equivalent of McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A and the rest, only way less healthy. Each works behind the right wing counter doing prep work and cooking up high fat, low nutritious dreck to feed their truth-starved constituencies. Biggs will never defund Manhattan DAThis time around, Biggs is offering a deep-fried fantasy in which he claimed, on Twitter, that he has introduced legislation that will “hold DA Alvin Bragg accountable for failing to address lawlessness and for utilizing federal resources in the political prosecution of President Trump. I am defunding his Manhattan Office and requiring it to repay us.” Exactly none of those things will happen. Biggs knows this. He is “defunding” nothing. The legislation he introduced, even if it got through the House, would have no chance in the Senate and no chance of being signed by President Joe Biden. He serves empty calories on your dimeAs for Bragg “failing to address lawlessness,” the latest statistics from the Census Bureau have New York with the third lowest rate of violent crime of the 10 largest U.S. cities, including Phoenix, located just to the west of Biggs’ congressional district. Biggs spends much of his time feeding his constituents empty legislative calories, proposals that contain no essential information, nothing of value to the body politic. While voters pick up the check. This time around he dished up a large, overcooked patty of groundless baloney. If the name wasn’t already taken by a different kind of fast food giant, you could imagine calling it the “whopper.”