{"id":26220,"date":"2019-09-30T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26220"},"modified":"2019-09-30T19:49:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:49:59","slug":"two-data-points-isnt-a-trend-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/09\/30\/two-data-points-isnt-a-trend-ctd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Data Points Isn\u2019t A Trend, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Rep Chris Collins (R-NY), who was indicted on insider trading charges<\/a> prior to the 2018 elections? NBC News<\/strong><\/em> is reporting<\/a>\u00a0that his innocent plea may not survive the week:<\/p>\n

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Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., has sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s office stating that he is resigning from his House seat, a source familiar with the matter tells NBC News.<\/p>\n

Collins’ resignation comes ahead of his expected guilty plea Tuesday to\u00a0charges relating to insider trading,<\/a>\u00a0according to documents filed in federal court Monday. His resignation will become effective once his letter is read on the House floor during Tuesday\u2019s pro-forma session.<\/p>\n

Collins<\/a>, the first member of Congress to announce his support for Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is scheduled to appear for a “change of plea” hearing in a Manhattan courtroom at 3 p.m. Tuesday. He pleaded not guilty to insider trading and several other charges when he was first indicted in 2018. Experts say the hearing means he is likely changing his plea to guilty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The reputation of the current crop of Republicans is blackened just a little bit, especially since Collins is a Trump supporter (TrumpScore<\/em>: 99.3%, which is astounding to my mind). In fact, his >cough< superior TrumpScore<\/em> even stains Trump himself, since one can assume Collins has been modeling himself on Trump.<\/p>\n

I don’t actually know how Collins’ seat will be filled, but my guess is that it’ll be an appointment by the Governor, followed by a special election. The Governor, Andrew Cuomo, is a Democrat, so unless there are special rules concerning how to fill an empty seat, we can expect a Democrat to be appointed.<\/p>\n

And then? New York’s 27th District has been Republican for a while, but Collins won the 2018 election, when under indictment, by .3 point, or roughly the skin of his teeth. How will a ‘clean’ successor do against a specially appointed incumbent? It’s hard to say.<\/p>\n

But there’s definitely some opportunity here for the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember Rep Chris Collins (R-NY), who was indicted on insider trading charges prior to the 2018 elections? NBC News is reporting\u00a0that his innocent plea may not survive the week: Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., has sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s office stating that he is resigning from his \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26222,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220\/revisions\/26222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}