So, who is Ron Johnson aide Sean Riley?

[Bucky]

Before Ron Johnson hangs Sean Riley out to dry, I'd like to know who this clown is.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5020677/jan-6-cmte-wisconsin-senator-ron-johnson-sought-hand-alternate-slate-electors-vp-pence

Now this is categorically a criminal act, so long as the person handing the documents along knows what's in the envelope. And Johnson is obviously going to pretend he didn't know what was in the envelope. I imagine Sean Riley will also feign ignorance.

The chain of custody goes like this, with the names in bold print being people who obviously had to know that what was in the envelope was evidence of (and participation in) a criminal act:

fake electors => fake electors' notary public => fake electors' courier => someone in Johnson's office => possibly Ron Johnson => someone else in Johnson's office and who knew how to route this fake elector documentation => Sean Riley

Feigning ignorance is a critical feature of the Republican lifestyle. Whoever directed Riley to hand the envelope over to pence's office is part of the criminal conspiracy. Riley either had to know this was an election subverting document or got directed to text the arrangements for the handover by someone who knew this was criminal behavior.

This is what cops mean when they discuss who "got left holding the bag." Riley will have to say who set him up, naming names, or fall on his sword. This lands at Johnson's feet. Did he direct someone to participate in a criminal conspiracy or did he hire a staffer who participated in that criminality? Riley and Johnson are now in a position to point fingers at each other.

All I've been able to find out from googling so far is that Sean Riley is probably a former aide to Donald Trump.

https://mobile.twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1539310584012984321

Does anyone else know stuff about him?

[Ellipsis]

1. Would it surprise you that he's a former Trump aid?

[Bucky]

3. I would absolutely swoon from the discombobulation

It would shake to my core my abiding faith in the goodness of humanity

[Ellipsis]

4. Feel free. I'll catch you if you fall...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (Jan. 2021-) Chief of Staff
White House Office of Legislative Affairs (Feb. 2020-Jan. 2021) Donald John Trump - Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (2018-Feb. 2020) Chief Counsel/Legislative Director
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (Jan. 2017-2018) Legislative Director
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (June 2015-Jan. 2017) Legislative Counsel
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) (June 2015-July 2015) Legislative Assistant
American Legislative Exchange Council (June 2012-2015) Director, Health and Human Services Task Force
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (Aug. 2009-Dec. 2009) -Legal Intern

[Botany]

9. He was part of ALEC?* The organization that is responsible for writing up laws for Republicans ...

to pass, gerrymandering so many states that in many districts a democrat doesn't even have a chance,
and putting together purge lists of voters?


* American Legislative Exchange Council

[Ellipsis]

10. I missed that. Thank you for highlighting it.

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[Botany]

11. After ALEC worked in Ohio the Congressional races became a joke.

In 2012 Obama won the state by 100,000 to 200,000 votes and Sherrod Brown won the state
by 10 + points but with the more democrats voting than republicans the republicans won 12 of
the 15 congressional races. After 2012 the GOP purged over 2,000,000 voters statewide and
so in statewide elections the GOP now crushes the dems (except for Brown in 2018).

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/09/22/heres-who-funds-the-right-wing-american-legislative-exchange-council/

[irisblue]

12. Botany is right ALEC is a dangerous mostly out of public sight hard right group

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[Botany]

13. ALEC has unlimited dark money and they are ruthless. And they have writen 20% of the bills ...

in republican controlled state houses.

That ready-made legislation comes in the form of so-called model bills. Each is a set of texts that lawmakers can copy and adapt for introduction as bills in their own statehouses. Model bills, many of which amount to wish lists for special interests, have become pervasive in the American legislative process, an investigation by USA TODAY, The Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity found.

Copies of models were introduced nationwide more than 10,000 times in an eight-year span, the investigation found, amounting to perhaps the largest unreported special-interest campaign in American politics.

Bills based on ALEC models were introduced nearly 2,900 times, in all 50 states and the U.S. Congress, from 2010 through 2018, with more than 600 becoming law, the USA TODAY and Arizona Republic analysis found.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/04/03/alec-american-legislative-exchange-council-model-bills-republican-conservative-devos-gingrich/3162357002/

I would bet a lot of the post 2020 anti voting laws were written by ALEC.

[KS Toronado]

2. "Feigning ignorance is a critical feature of the Republican lifestyle."

I'd swear they take an oath to feign ignorance, they do it so often.

[Wounded Bear]

6. "I know nothing"

[KS Toronado]

7. Now we know, Sgt. Schultz was a repug.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Most Germans and repubs, not nazis but supported them as long as it was convenient...nt

[Sneederbunk]

5. For starters, prosecute all fake electors.