Kansas Republican Steve Watkins On Feds Radar!

Rep. Steve Watkins (R-KS) facing a possible federal sandwich. He registered his home address in a shopping center.

There's criminal attempts to help Donald J. Trump and Republicans get elected. Now that Trump has commuted the sentence of longtime buddy Roger Stone, it seems more likely the Republicans will do all they can to stay in power. They will likely use foreign operatives again to disrupt the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Twitter had to do a formal lockdown of famous users. Someone hacked the accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian West, her husband Kanye West, Uber and former president Barack Obama.

Rep. Steve Watkins (R-KS) is under federal watch. The first-term lawmaker has three felony counts of voter fraud in relation to an incident that happened last year where he was claiming his residency in a shopping plaza.

In December 2019, Watkins was accused of voter fraud and election perjury, after the Topeka address he listed as his place of residency on his voter registration turned out to be a UPS Store. On December 4, Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay stated that he directed county sheriff Brian Hill to investigate whether Watkins had broken state law; Kagay and Hill are both Republicans.



Watkins' chief of staff deflected criticism by portraying the issue as an overreaction to a simple mistake: "He just filed it incorrectly. I think that's a little ludicrous."

On July 14, 2020, Watkins was charged by Mike Kagay, District Attorney of Shawnee County, Kansas, with "interference with law enforcement, providing false information; voting without being qualified; unlawful advance voting; and failing to notify the DMV of change of address."

Asked about the charges, Watkins said they were "very suspicious" and said he looked forward to clearing his name. "This is clearly hyper-political. It comes out moments before our first debate and three weeks before the election. I haven't done anything wrong."

Trump's allies are corrupt as fuck. Rep. Steve Watkins (R-KS) is another example of why it's important for Democrats to beat Trump and his Republican allies.

Watkins' campaign spokesperson, Brian Piligra, said, "Give us a break. 30 minutes before the first televised debate and the day before early voting starts, the DA -- who shares a political consultant with our primary opponent Jake LaTurner -- files these bogus charges. They couldn't have been more political if they tried. Just like President Trump, Steve is being politically prosecuted by his opponents who can't accept the results of the last election. Kansans and Americans are tired of these kinds of silly games. This is a desperate political attack by a desperate political campaign on its dying breath, down twenty points."

Watkins faces a misdemeanor charge of failing to tell the Kansas Department of Motor Vehicles of his address change.

With a federal sandwich heading his way, Republicans could strip Watkins of his committee assignments.GOP Conference rules says that any member of the House whomever is indicted on a felony charge that carries two or more in federal time out could be stripped of their committee.

Watkins has seats on Education and Labor, Foreign Affairs and Veterans Affairs.

Watkins claims that Jack LaTurner, the state treasurer is creating a witch hunt on him.

LaTurner hit at Watkins during their debate.

"We need to put our best foot forward. Clearly our current congressman, with three felony charges and a misdemeanor charge, is not the person to do that. Sometimes [my 8-year old son Joe] messes up and fudges with the truth and I have to say, 'Hey, Joe, take responsibility for what you've done, be honest.' Steve Watkins needs to hear the same thing tonight."

Watkins was elected to the House in 2019 and is running for reelection. He is an Army veteran who graduated from West Point. He represents Kansas 2nd Congressional District. That area covers a large portion of Kansas. It has the cities of Lawrence and the state capitol Topeka. The University of Kansas is also located in the district.

Watkins denied that he was under an FEC investigation, and his father claimed that he "didn't know that I wasn't allowed to do it." Watkins won the race by fewer than 3,000 votes "thanks to outside spending from a group largely run and funded by his father," Politico reported.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.