{"id":177490,"date":"2019-09-06T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/06\/moo-devin-moo\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T23:55:00","slug":"moo-devin-moo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/06\/moo-devin-moo\/","title":{"rendered":"Moo Devin, Moo"},"content":{"rendered":"
After suing parody twitter accounts<\/a>, including one to claiming to be his non-existent cow, Devin Nunez then sued his own constituents for saying mean things about him.<\/div>\n

Well, now it has finally occurred to the distinguished gentleman that suing voters in his own district for defamation is a stupid idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The campaign for Devin Nunes on Tuesday dropped its lawsuit against the people who accused the Republican congressman of being a \u201cfake farmer\u201d and tried to get his ballot designation<\/a> removed. <\/p>\n

The campaign filed the lawsuit last month in Tulare County Superior Court, alleging the group conspired with \u201cdark money\u201d groups to injure the campaign. <\/p>\n

Brian Whelan, a local attorney representing Nunes\u2019 constituents, said in a news release his clients \u201cprevailed and won without having had to square off.\u201d He represents retired farmer Paul Buxman, librarian Hope Nisly and Daniel O\u2019Connell, an agrarian scholar. <\/p>\n

Nunes\u2019 lawsuit was an attack on his clients\u2019 rights to free speech and to petition the government, Whelan said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Nunes made a statement that these important rights were to be disregarded when applied to the very powerful,\u201d Whelan said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appears though that this not mean that Nunes is done with filing dumb-ass lawsuits for what is basic first amendment protected political activity:<\/p>\n

The Daily Caller<\/a> reported that Nunes filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against two defendants: Fusion GPS<\/a>, an opposition research firm behind the Steele dossier that outlines alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia; and the Campaign for Accountability<\/a>, which filed ethics complaints against Nunes. <\/p>\n

Kapetan declined to elaborate on what the new evidence is, but he said the investigation conducted by the Nunes campaign may be forwarded to the Department of Justice. <\/p>\n

Whelan noted his clients are not named in the new lawsuit. He said that if there was new evidence, the Nunes campaign wouldn\u2019t have dismissed the lawsuit against his clients. <\/p>\n

Nunes also is suing social media giant Twitter, the people behind two parody Twitter accounts and McClatchy<\/a>, The Bee\u2019s parent company.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I expect some sanctions at the end of this for Nunes being a vexatious litigant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After suing parody twitter accounts, including one to claiming to be his non-existent cow, Devin Nunez then sued his own constituents for saying mean things about him. Well, now it has finally occurred to the distinguished gentleman that suing voters in his own district for defamation is a stupid idea: The campaign for Devin Nunes …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-177490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}