8chan digs on Flake - Helps explain a few things. Jeff Flake - Traitor w/Cuba Elected in 2000 to House said he would abide by term limits then changed his mind: In his campaign in 2000, Flake had pledged to serve no more than three terms in Congress which would see him serve no later than January 2007. Shortly after being elected for a third time, Flake announced in early 2005 that he had changed his mind on pledging term limits and was planning to run for reelection in 2006. "It was a mistake to limit my own terms," Flake said. In 2002 (1 yr after 9/11) started the Congressional Cuba Working Group with 40 liberal democrats (see The Havana Club Saga: Threatening More than Just "Cuba Coke" - https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1578&context=njilb)  He actively defies Trump, brought Google CEO to Cuba & defends Cuba: Libertarian Jeff Flake Defends Lies of Cuban Dictator Castro—Denounces President Trump as the Liar  …Senator Jeff Flake has not budged an inch on his support for increasing the U.S. cash-flow to the Castro regime. Jeff Flake remains the Castro regime’s most reliable and hardest-working champion on Capitol Hill. This cash-flow, by the way, is estimated at from $4-5.2 billion annually, primarily from travel expenditures by U.S. travelers to Cuba and from remittances. This just-in-time economic lifeline for the terror-sponsoring Castro regime was made possible by Obama’s executive orders. Senator Flake had been lobbying for just such an economic lifeline (and more) to the Castro regime from the minute he entered Congress in 2000. Towards this goal Flake co-founded the Congressional “Cuba Working Group,” in 2002.  Seemingly, Senator Flake opposes the very enforcement of the U.S. Constitution. To wit: Helms-Burton Act of 1996 (Codified in Title 22, Sections 6021-6091 of the U.S. Code. SEC. 207. Settlement of Outstanding U.S. Claims to Confiscated Property in Cuba: “The satisfactory resolution of property claims by a Cuban Government recognized by the United States remains an essential condition for the full resumption of economic and diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba.” https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2018/01/13/libertarian-jeff-flake-defends-lies-of-cuban-dictator-castrodenounces-president-trump-as-the-liar-n2433696 As Haley Byrd of The Weekly Standard reported last week, Flake and a few other Republican senators decided to play hooky last week, and their actions put the GOP in a bind. Their absence made it impossible for Republicans on the committee to reach a quorum, which requires nine votes. Who was the other senator? Mike Lee of Utah. Who else is in on this? Romney. http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/20/instead-of-working-on-backlogged-judicial-nominees-jeff-flakes-off-in-africa/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKud6-Auw6I "We can't have that on the court" - Flake https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-02/flake-may-vote-no-kavanaugh-regardless-fbi-findings Google is close to reaching an agreement with the Cuban government to expand internet access on the island, Republican Sen. Jeff Flake told el Nuevo Herald. “Yes, I think they are closer,” Flake said after he returned to Washington this week from a trip to Havana with Google's former Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, as well as Brett Perlmutter and Susanna Kohly, Google's executives in charge of relations with Cuba. Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article212660549.html More on Flake the swamp traitor - Cuba/Iran Before coming to Washington Flake was a lobbyist in a mining company located in Africa with ties to IRAN In 1992, Flake returned to Arizona, where he headed the Goldwater Institute, a think tank, until he was elected in 2000. In 1991 he was a public affairs executive with the firm of Shipley, Smoak & Henry he first represented Namibia. He soon moved to Namibia as executive director of the Foundation for Democracy, a group established to draft Namibia's constitution. Flake's campaign says he worked for the foundation from April 1989 to 1990 (latest report http://democracy-africa.org/files/37462303.pdf) But after leaving Shipley, Smoak & Henry, Flake also owned and operated Interface Public Affairs from 1990 to 1991. Flake acknowledges that he was registered foreign agent and was paid $7,000 a month for representing Rossing Uranium Limited, which was majority-owned by Rio Tinto Zinc. He said in his 1990 foreign agent registration with the Justice Department that his job was to "introduce the corporation and its citizenship activities within Namibia to the U.S." … and to "attempt to promote the image … and good relations between the United States and Namibia." Flake said his focus was on helping lift apartheid-era penalties against the country and the mine. He said he did not know until last October that Iran owned a 15 percent stake in the Rossing Uranium, an interest that he said pre-dates the Iranian revolution that deposed the shah, an ally of the West. Cardon added: "It's also confusing to me that Flake has taken tens of thousands of dollars from the mining industry. From a guy who was a lobbyist before going to Washington, and claiming to fight special interests, it's interesting how beholden to special interests he has become." Since joining Congress, Flake has received at least $97,000 from mining interests, including Rio Tinto, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracked donations through the 2010 election cycle. He has backed legislation favorable to mining interests in Arizona. Flake proposed ending a ban on uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon. In 2009 he introduced a land swap bill that would enable Resolution Copper, an arm of Rio Tinto, to develop a mine in eastern Arizona. https://www.foxnews.com/us/past-lobbying-becomes-issue-in-arizona-senate-race ROLLING IN THE CASH The overall lobbying tab for telecom services and telephone companies exceeded $123 million in 2016, the money-influence research group Center for Responsive Politics says. That makes them among the top-spending industries in Washington. By contrast, some of the most active privacy and consumer groups on the other side spent just over $1 million, according to the nonpartisan group's data. The lobbying on both sides goes far beyond privacy. Other issues on the agenda included immigration, taxes, cable boxes and cybersecurity. But the disparity in the spending totals shows that when it comes to politics, industry can wield a lot of power with its pocketbook. Telecom has also given more in political contributions to the House Republicans who voted to repeal the rules (about $138,000 on average over their careers) than to the 15 Republicans who voted to keep them ($77,000), according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the Senate, the Republicans who voted to undo broadband privacy received more from telecom ($369,000) than the Democrats who voted to keep the rules ($329,000) & that included Jeff Flake, R.-Ariz., chairman of a privacy and technology subcommittee, received some $59,000 http://www.wbal.com/article/233210/132/influence-game-telecom-lobbying-muscle-kills-privacy-rules Thanks to Anon for pointing me to this: The gun smoke of the last American-Indian war cleared more than a century ago. But descendants of the San Carlos Apache have been waging a new federal battle for more than five months, defending their land — and, in recent days, allowing themselves to hope that this time they might even keep it.  The assault began late last year, when Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona slipped a fine-print rider into a thousand-page bill to fund the Pentagon. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2015 gave essential money to the U.S. military. Thanks to the rider, however, the must-pass legislation also offered a surprise giveaway to the world’s largest mining company: a sacred stretch of Apache land. This mining company? RIO TINTO - the same company that Flake had lobbied for when he was registered as a foreign agent http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/battle-over-land-sacred-apache-and-lucrative-mining-company