Rumors that former Representative Aaron Schock was getting ready to mount another run for office began swirling earlier this month when a Statement of Organization was filed with the Federal Election Commission for a “Schock for Congress” campaign.
Well, you can all stop freaking out because Schock himself has just squashed those rumors… for now.
“That’s my committee that’s been in existence for 10 years,” he explained to local Peoria TV station WMBD on Friday. “I’ve simply changed the treasurer position back to me.”
Schock clarified that his FEC filing “does not signal an intent to run for his old 18th District seat” and that he simply doesn’t need “a big third-party compliance firm like we had been using. They’re expensive.”
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The Journal Star explains:
Schock has kept his “Schock for Congress” campaign account active since his resignation in March 2015 and paid a series of legal bills out of it during a protracted investigation into his spending by federal prosecutors that the committee resolved earlier this year with an agreement to pay fines.
In an interview with WMBD earlier this year, Schock said, “Look, I’m 37. Most people don’t run for office until their 50’s or 60’s. I’m not going to say ‘never,’ but I’m certainly not plotting and planning for any elected office in the near future.”
During his brief stint as a U.S. Representative, Schock was a vocal supporter of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and opposed the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
Given everything that’s happened since he resigned from office in 2015–the corruption lawsuits, the whole making out with the dude at Coachella thing, the nude photos leak, and so on–we can’t imagine Schock winning any elections other than the underwear contest at his local gay bar.
Then again, we also couldn’t ever imagine Donald Trump ever being elected President of the United States of America either, so who knows anymore?
Related: Are those newly leaked Aaron Schock nudes you’ve been sharing revenge porn?
Cam
In other words, he was going to, but then his recent missteps killed that ambition and he had to fire the firm that was handling the accounting.
sfhairy
Exactly. He “floated” the idea out there to see what would happen.
poundmetoo
Talking to yourself again Sybil?
Cam
@poundmetoo
The only thing that upsets you right wing troll accounts more than an article about black people or trans people is an article attacking a Republican closet case who voted to harm LGBT people.
Oh, and if you’re going to try to hide your sockpuppet accounts you may want to avoid using the same insult you’ve used with TWO OTHER screenames.
(Eye Roll).
pickles
He might have some fun with his bros in Boston at that Str8 “pride” parade. (Too bad Milo Yiannopoulos already snagged the role of grand marshal).
Jared MacBride
Candidates use these committees like GoFundMe accounts. He’s unelectable, he knows it, but why not let others pay for his travels?
Cam
Nailed it. The fraudster needs more cash.
xanadude
Hmmm… the conservatives aren’t going to elect a gay congressman, and he lost any chance at any gay support. Yeah, good luck with that.
Bubbleandsqueal
Aaron’s brown coin slot needs filling: with $$$$$!
GayEGO
I’m Schocked!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Vile, abhorrent, noxious, cowardly, smcubag pig….
Chipper
Outer not bad looking, inside, if he has not changed, is deplorable. Of course they say the most homophobic and closeted
Geeker
He knows he doesn’t have a shot at getting elected after the dozen or so nude photos as well as the two masturbation videos(where he shows his face…dumbass!)Aaron just wants the cash to redecorate his entire house to look like the set of Downton Abbey.
Hdtex
I had him pegged for a career in porn as a raw-dog pass-around party bottom.
taoalwyn
I’d watch that, could be quite stimulating, ‘politically’ speaking of course ?
QueerTruth
Good.
Now please stop covering him.
sean_denoyer
Hard to defend him, but I have to point out. Does anyone really believe any yes vote for LGBTQ issues would play in Peoria? A district that has been in GOP hands since Abraham Lincoln? The most conservative district in Illinois? He would lose if he was outed and he would lose if he voted for repeal of DADT or DOMA. Now that he’s been pretty much outed, he needs to come to terms with himself and give up this idea that he has any chance of being elected. As for the filing-at the time of his scandal, he was considering running for governor. Good luck with that. This is a blue state and he lost his central illinois base.
More energy needs to be spent on ousting Dan Lipinski,.
graphicjack
‘pretty much’ outed? He’s spreading his cheeks for the world to see. He’s out. WAYYY out.
Cam
Cutting through all of what you said….
He’s a bigot who voted to harm LGBT people.
Miles
Are there 2 masturbating videos? I thought there was just one?
montemalone
isn’t there one of him masturbating while watching a video of himself masturbating?