Everything that happened at that TCF Center was fraud, she said, when appearing on December 2 in front of a Michigan House oversight committee. It's time to bring "CIVICS" back to our schools to teach them about the Constitution, Bill of Rights and NO CHILD should be forced to wear a mask at school. Carone worked as a contractor for Dominion Voting Systems in Detroit for the November 2020 presidential election. While drag shows which most often find men dressing as women in exaggerated styles have been a mainstay in the LGBTQ community for decades, uproar over the lively entertainment has exploded in recent years as far-right protests led by extremist groups have recruited conservatives to protest these events under the veneer of protecting children. They claim the drag performances are sexualizing kids. In 2021, then-Michigan GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox accused Ron Weiser, the party's chairman in 2018, of orchestrating a "secret deal" with Stan Grot to get him to exit the 2018 secretary of state race to boost Mary Treder Lang, who eventually became the Republican nominee. By Jason Miciak. "We've all done stuff we're not happy about," she said. AFP via Getty Images The reality is Ive taken almost 1,400 votes, and the bulk of those have been with the Republican Party, Gonzales said. THIS MUST STOP! Gonzales added as he has before that he has no regrets about supporting the gun safety law, which expanded background checks, among other things. Mellissa Carone (U.S. Taxpayers Party) ran for election for Lieutenant Governor of Michigan.She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.. Carone (Republican Party) also ran for election to the Michigan State Senate to represent District 11.She was disqualified from the Republican primary scheduled on August 2, 2022.. Carone also ran for election to the Michigan House of . Ms. Carone claimed she was contracted by Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company that has been the target of a baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory about rigged voting machines. I know that whatever was being brought out of the vans was being brought out of the back of the vans. Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Systems, speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on December 2, 2020. Those include his rejection of a border security proposal by his fellow Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy, and his support of a bill defending same-sex marriage protections and a bipartisan gun law that passed in response to the Uvalde school shooting in his district. Then the impeachment process. Our campaign has come a long way, but we need your support now more than ever. They were supposed to be filling them out exactly like the one they had received but this was not the case at all. Carone had already been deemed "not credible" by a Michigan judge but that did not stop Giuliani from parading her before the Michigan House hearing. Has anyone checked if she was in fact a poll worker? pic.twitter.com/xRrZoXWLhW, The Monster (@boris3324) December 3, 2020, BREAKING NEWS: "Melissa Carone edged out this man to become Donald Trump's star witness"#Election2020 #Snark pic.twitter.com/OGJA7EPqDo, Craig Rozniecki (@CraigRozniecki) December 3, 2020, I believe Melissa Carone was trying for an Elle Woods moment. It began in 2020 when he won a primary runoff that went to a recount and then beat the odds to keep the 23rd District under GOP control. Grot submitted the suits on Thursday in Macomb County Circuit Court, asking a judge to force Carone to publish a retraction and pay more than $25,000 in damages. It was the second time in recent months that Ms. Carone had been disqualified as a candidate: The Macomb County Clerk & Register of Deeds barred her in March from the Aug. 2 primary for state representative. Additionally, the release included heavily redacted text messages where the PAC staffer appeared to lead the unknown person on the other end to suggest Boebert was blackmailing Cruz for political backing as well as photos of a woman the PAC claimed to be Boebert from her sugar daddy website page. Schatzline said in a video posted to Twitter the goal of his legislation is to ban sexually explicit drag shows and preserve the innocence of the next generation of Texas.. However, Carone's animated behavior before the state House panel instantly turned her into a viral phenomenon on social media, spurring memes with some users joking about her "drunk" appearance while others actually that she was a 'Saturday Night Live' character. She claimed to have worked as a contractor for Dominion Voting Systems, a vote-counting software that Trump maintains is responsible for widespread election fraud. This is Melissa Carone. However, until now, the genetics behind the walking of the little skate was difficult to study due to a lack of quality data. The event was an MMA night promoted by Joseph Donfrio. Link to Linden MapComments | MyDistricting. There are more than 30,000 species of fish as we know them today (not in the evolutionary sense), of which only a handful can walk. BUT she has more balls than Mitt Romney, Brian Kemp, Doug Ducey, Pat Toomey, that fat Maryland governor, & basically the entire GOP. Melissa Carone, who was enlisted by Rudolph W. Giuliani to testify at an election oversight hearing, made a false statement on a candidate affidavit, state officials said. Mellissa Carone, 33, described herself as 'Mediterranean' and said modeling was 'her passion' on her Explore Talent page, which featured a dozen photos of herself in bikinis and bodycon dresses. We need to "hand count", VOTER ID LAW and count at the precincts. DailyMail.com revealed earlier this week that Carone used to strip at a club called the Bada Bing in 2010, apparently under her own name. 3. You can go to prison for this. or redistributed. 2023 www.detroitnews.com. I dont know any woman in the world that would write an affidavit under oath just to write it. ", Carone told The Detroit News she's looking forward to Grot's suit and that she "never made a false statement. Democratic groups pounced on the video, pointing out the hypocrisy of Schatzline wearing a dress while filing legislation to regulate drag shows. Carone was at the TCF Center from 6:15 a.m. on November 3, 2020 to 4:00 a.m. on November 4, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/us/politics/melissa-carone-disqualified.html. The release also claimed the congresswoman had a pair of abortions and said that the allegations came from an anonymous source. A still from the video that is being circulated on social media. Locations: Dearborn Heights MI Possible Relatives: Krista Leann Carone, Michelle Lynn Carone. On Tuesday, The Daily Mail also reported that Carone used to dance at the Bada Bing club, which has the same name as the infamous strip club featured in HBO's hit show The Sopranos, in 2010. Among her many unfounded accusations, Carone said that Michigan ballots were counted multiple times, that "dead people" and "illegals" were found to have voted and that poll books used to maintain voter information were in fact wildly astronomically inaccurate, though one Republican lawmaker told her that wasn't what they saw. Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, speaks in front of the Michigan House . Im going to fight it. The deal involved $200,000 in payments from the party's undisclosed administrative account to Grot, alleged Cox, who lost to Weiser in her reelection bid for chair days after she made the claims. Republican Mellissa Carone made a series of unverified allegations of fraud at the hearing, which was part of Donald Trump's push to have already-certified votes overturned. FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., will take legal action against the Democrat political action committee (PAC) that claimed, without evidence, that she was an "unlicensed paid escort," Fox News Digital has learned. Footage of her speaking before the panel has been seen tens of millions of times. The county, which is west of San Antonio, is home to Raul Reyes, Gonzales 2020 primary runoff opponent, who remains a bitter critic. Mellissa Carone, the star witness in the Trump campaign's "voter fraud" case in Michigan, has become the subject of speculation claiming she was paid to make the allegations of ballot tampering after her acting and modelling profile started being circulated across social media. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, One of her claims during that interview was that vans intended to carry food to election workers were instead being used for undefined nefarious purposes. We looked into this. Walking sarcopterygian fish are either extinct, like Tiktaalik, or so highly evolved that we dont recognise them as fish any longer (tetrapods). I will NEVER support "Vaccine Passports". There are police reports accusing Mellissa Anne Wright of crimes. She also made a series of bizarre claims to SarahPalin.com, a website that contacted her after she burst onto the scene. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images), Democrat political action committee (PAC), Gavin Newsom loves bashing Texas; here's what Texas Republicans have to say about that, Presidential candidate Nikki Haley heckled by Trump supporters at CPAC: 'We love Trump! Lee dismissed claims of hypocrisy as "ridiculous.". Melissa Carone, an IT worker, testified before a Michigan House panel in early December that she had seen electoral fraud take place. Another LinkedIn page for Mellissa Carone-Wright lists her as an arts and crafts professional in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with 8 years of volunteer experience. they are hiring people to play witnesses. At approximately midnight I was called over to assist one of the counters with a paper jam and noticed his PC had a number of over 400 ballots scanned which means one batch was counted over 8 times. Before the bill was signed, a photo of Lee emerged online showing him wearing a dress in 1977. Grateful for you, Judy! Because of the statements, Grot has suffered emotional distress, humiliation, embarrassment, sleeplessness and anxiety, according to the filing. Giuliani then leaned over and gently shushed her. The mother-of-two, then Mellissa Wright, reportedly harassed the 42-year-old victim for a period of two years, stalking her and sending her explicit videos from an anonymous account of herself having sex with her partner, the victim's ex-husband. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. A receipt filed with the secretary of states office showed that Ms. Carone had paid $125 in late fees with a check on March 24, three days after she signed the affidavit attesting that she did not owe anything. Giuliani's own appearance in the Wednesday hearing (in which cameras picked up, at one point, what sounded like the attorney passing gas) was ridiculed as well. A Michigan election denier who was parodied by S.N.L. is disqualified as a candidate. We belong to a group of animals called land-dwelling sarcopterygians, but vast amounts of evolutionary change have obscured our appearance. Carone's testimony went viral last week after she made several accusations of mass criminality at a polling center she has worked at during the presidential election. The censure resolution that the State Republican Executive Committee is set to consider originated from Medina County, which passed it last month and requested the state party take it up. The company called her claims defamatory and sent her a cease and desist letter. The text messages also claimed Boebert and her husband had a "Meth drug problem" and that the congresswoman was "stripping at the time," as well. Gonzales questioned a reporter on whether he understood the rules package, dismissing it as so inside baseball.. Carone was previously charged under the name Mellissa Wright with first degree obscenity and using a computer to commit a crime after she sent pornographic videos to her fiancs ex-wife and framed the woman for stealing them. While Trump's lawsuits have been unsuccessful in court, the president and his allies have turned to staging a series of showy, in ultimately ineffective, hearings for reporters and local lawmakers. If elected, I will go to Lansing and fight for our citizens just as hard. Republican Mellissa Carone made a series of unverified allegations of fraud at the hearing, which was part of Donald Trump's push to have already-certified votes overturned. I was at the TCF Center for 27 hours. Berlin, New Jersey. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images. It might sound bizarre but the evidence is in our genes, anatomy and in fossils. Likewise, she also falsely accused him of keeping "money from an illegal immigrant's lottery ticket," the suit said. "Take it and do something crazy to it? Join Facebook to connect with Mellissa Carone and others you may know. pic.twitter.com . Humans refined these locomotor powers, evolving numerous adaptations that make us one of the most efficient and capable running species on the planet. "I am sorry but thats so far fetched Im not commenting on the left trying to discredit me," she said. May 18, 2022, 2:50 PM by Chad Selweski. However, changes must be made in order to secure their future and other children beside them. We can get this done! Evidence has not backed him up; and a recent Washington Post review of 10 swing states found that counties that used the Dominion machines overwhelmingly voted for Trump. "This case represents well the phrase: 'this ship has sailed. Republican Rep. Steven Johnson asked. Carone, who appeared besides Giuliani at a hearing in Michigan, was so over-the-top that she ended up going viral and being lampooned on the comedy show "Saturday Night Live" in 2020. The movement to censure Gonzales is the latest twist in his short but action-packed political career. 1:47. Beyond Carone, the Trump's campaign's attempts to throw out Biden's victory over their fraud case have caused a stir before. Melissa Carone, who was an IT contractor for Dominion Voting Systems on election day, testified before a Michigan House panel in December 2020 that she had witnessed electoral fraud take place in . According to a police officer who spoke to the media, the attack was Snyder, who was remembered in his obituary as a "well-rounded student Due to app glitch 42 food delivery riders arrive with same order at same home. Gonzales defended his support for the same-sex marriage bill last year, telling The Texas Tribune that it wasnt a tough vote and that Republicans need to accept same-sex marriage if the party wants to grow. It also cites Gonzales vote last year for a bill to codify same-sex marriage, plus his lonely vote against the U.S. House rules package in January, which made it easier to remove the speaker and made it hearder to raise taxes, among other things. Police records obtained by HuffPost, which were first reported by Deadline Detroit, say that Carone lied to police about sending explicit videos of herself to her fianc's ex-wife, but then confessed that she had done so after being confronted with information obtained from search warrants. August 15, 2022 Melissa Carone, who served as a "star witness" for attorney Rudy Giuliani in his failed attempts to get President Joe Biden's win in Michigan overturned, is now being sued by a. They've used every avenue possible to cheat, they used Dominion. Take a look again," she countered. "This will be a costly miscalculation for Muckrakers, Wheeler and Muckrakers donors," the attorney added. She claimed that Carone sent pornographic videos of herself and her current boyfriend, the father of the other womans child, and then told police the other woman had hacked into her email and stolen the videos. Melissa Carone, who served as a "star witness" for attorney Rudy Giuliani in his failed attempts to get President Joe Biden's win in Michigan overturned, is now being sued by a Republican clerk whom she had accused of a wide variety of crimes.