The county clerk where Ms. Carone was running for office said on Wednesday that had not been the case. The event was an MMA night promoted by Joseph Donfrio. Published: 16:01 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 17:05 GMT, 10 December 2020. 'This started with COVID. However, her appearance before a state House panel has the memes flying, with. THIS MUST STOP! Mellissa Carone, 33, spoke to Inside Edition on Tuesday after she faced intense backlash following her testimony at Trump's Michigan voter fraud hearing on December 2. I will vote, every time, for the people of Michigan to have the right to choose whether they wear a mask or whether they take a vaccine. 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. Melissa Carone was supposed to be a star witness for Rudolph W. Giuliani on his election denial tour, but she is perhaps better known as a caricature on Saturday Night Live a mercurial purveyor of wild conspiracy theories about fraud and miscounted ballots whom Mr. Giuliani shushed in the middle of her testimony. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Interestingly, Grot cannot be accused of being insufficiently loyal to former President Donald Trump, as he was one of the Republicans who agreed to serve as a fake presidential elector in Michigan as part of Trump's scheme to stay in power. 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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. 'I would swear under oath that I wasn't drunk.'. The freshman representative dismissed the taunts and chastising on social media in a response to the video. That statement. She also said Democrats had ruined her life and livelihood for speaking out. . Chairman and Vice- Chairwoman of The Macomb County GOP. (Efforts to reach Carone for comment were unsuccessful.). I submitted an Affidavit and was referred to as one of Rudy Giuliani's top witness. Mellissa Carone, the Trump campaign's star witness at a Michigan house panel presenting more unfounded claims of voter fraud has gotten lots of attention, fo. Be a patriot. Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan, on Dec. 2, 2020. Some species pull themselves forward using well developed fore-fins, while others walk along the ocean floor. pic.twitter.com . By Jason Miciak. "That poll book is completely off," Carone alleged. 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. Rep. Madison Cawthorn was targeted by the American Muckrakers PAC in his primary election. The counters (which were trained very little or not at all), were handed a batch (stack of 50) of mail-in ballots in which they would run through the tabulator. Then she spoke about the origins of the virus, and tied it into voting machines that Trump lawyers have claimed were rigged in a conspiracy that involves Venezuela, Cuba, and China. The bills want to include any establishments that allow performers to wear clothes or makeup that exhibit a gender identity that is different than the performers gender assigned at birth. Under that definition, Schatzlines performance wearing a dress for entertainment purposes would be defined as drag. The other woman named in the police report wrote a series of allegations on Facebook in January 2020. Im going to fight it. We dont know which species this ancestor was, but it probably looked similar to the coelacanth, which has a rich fossil record and is a living fossil that today inhabits the West Indian Ocean and Indonesia. Dominion contractor Melissa Carone believes Nick Ikonornakis was "in on" the "cheating" and he told her to ignore an irregularity she saw. That kind of stuff doesnt make me mad. Beyond Carone, the Trump's campaign's attempts to throw out Biden's victory over their fraud case have caused a stir before. Her performance was straight up bad acting.Good find, Sir. 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. May 18, 2022 Melissa Carone was supposed to be a star witness for Rudolph W. Giuliani on his election denial tour, but she is perhaps better known as a caricature on "Saturday Night Live" a. Mellissa Carone is on Facebook. On November the 3rd and 4th, 2020, I worked for Dominion Voting Systems as an IT Professional at the TCF Center. This follows a previous press conference held in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping company called Four Seasons rather than the upscale hotel chain, leading many to believe there had been a scheduling snafu. Has anyone checked if she was in fact a poll worker? Juliana P Carone (age 35) is listed at 12 Brandywine Dr Berlin, Nj 08009 and has no political party affiliation. Carone was initially charged with obscenity and computer crimes, but the charges were later reduced to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. Throughout Melissa Carone's baffling sound-off about unproven voter fraud, many viewers questioned whether they were watching a surprise Saturday Night Live skit, or if Ms. Carone was an . For example, our fins (limbs) have bony supports and muscular lobes that allow us to move on land. The comments below have not been moderated. The 33-year-old single mom is an aspiring actress and model, and a computer specialist who was hired to troubleshoot the ballot machines on election night. Carone became a viral sensation during a hearing with Rudy Giuliani last week where she gave belligerent, bizarre and widely discredited testimony detailing her claims of election fraud. "I dont know any woman in the world that would write an affidavit under oath just to write it. I think its funny. Mellissa Carone has an acting/modeling profile on Explore Talent. (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! However, changes must be made in order to secure their future and other children beside them. Facebook I was told that I will be getting a call back. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. I know that whatever was being brought out of the vans was being brought out of the back of the vans. Melissa Carone, an information technology worker who said she was contracted by Dominion for the election, was brought on the show to tell Mr. Lindell that she watched thousands of ballots run . We are no longer accepting comments on this article. I am a mother, I have two children, and I have two degrees, Carone said in a video shared by President Donald Trump on Twitter. She came off as too brazen and overconfident to be authentic in front of lawmakers. But when it comes to other men performing in dresses in bars, thats sexual. Mr. Forlini said that it is a felony in Michigan to make a false statement on affidavits like those signed by candidates. The release also claimed the congresswoman had a pair of abortions and said that the allegations came from an anonymous source. 4. 'This is what they do to Trump,' she said. This is a violation of the Constitution of the United States. You can read more about the controversies surrounding Dominion Voting Systems here. He told me we are here to do assist with IT work, not to run their election. People have pictures of people carrying ballots out of that place., Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 3, 2020, Im convinced that Trumps Star Witness Melissa Carone is a SNL Character #TrumpsCircus pic.twitter.com/E3djWtZqpi. 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. Mellissa Carone, who went viral following her eccentric performance at the Michigan House Oversight Committee in December, is running for a seat in the Michigan State House, according to a local. [+] Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on December 2, 2020. Read the original article. The workers would also sign the name of the person that the ballot belonged to-which is clearly illegal. Because of the statements, Grot has suffered emotional distress, humiliation, embarrassment, sleeplessness and anxiety, according to the filing. Were just sticking to the letter of the law, he said. Schatzline was unavailable to answer questions sent by The Texas Tribune this week. We think of fish as expert swimmers, but in fact they have evolved the ability to walk at least five times. None of these claims were backed up with hard evidence. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP), When you think about human evolution, theres a good chance youre imagining chimpanzees exploring ancient forests or early humans daubing woolly mammoths on to cave walls. Find a complete list of them here. And dead people voted. She had the biggest smile on her face & feels so supported by all of your sweet msgs. They added: 'It was just such a shock to see her pop up the way she did, and monumentally hilarious. LAUREN BOEBERT PUSHES TO CLASSIFY FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION. Giuliani had even tried to shush her at one point during her 30-minute testimony, as she asserted: 'I know what I saw. Walking independently evolved several times in fish, making it an example of evolutionary convergence (similar traits that evolve independently, like wings in bats and birds). However, her appearance before a state House panel has the memes flying, with some people joking about whether shes really a Saturday Night Live character. This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/03/texas-drag-shows-republican-bills/. Coelacanth fish still exist in tropical seas. She also wrote that she worked as an IT specialist on a help desk for a company in Lincoln Park, Michigan, from January 2006 to March 2016. [Texas border Republican accuses GOP of using immigration crisis for politics]. 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. The Medina County resolution alleges Gonzales violated the principles of the party by voting for the gun law and opposing Roys border legislation. 10 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. This adaptation is thought to have been crucial for tetrapod (amphibians, mammals, reptiles and birds) evolution during our transition from water to land in the Late Devonian period, some 375 million years ago. House Bill 1266 was assigned to the House State Affairs Committee on Friday, two days after a video of Schatzline wearing a dress surfaced. The Detroit Metro Times describes the feud between Carone and Grot as "the latest clash between Michigan Republicans who are turning on themselves less than three months before the general election," while also noting that "the lawsuit was filed one day after the Macomb County GOP held two competing county conventions as Republicans squabble over control of the party. Ike Hajinazarian, the Texas Democrats deputy communications director, said the broad definition of drag could be construed in many different ways and would create headaches for businesses if the legislation becomes law. Liberals have been quick to jump on the seedy allegations, which spread like wildfire across social media. Dominion is also widely used in battleground states, drawing Trump's ire. During the episode's cold open, a farting Rudy Giuliani (played by Kate . "This case represents well the phrase: 'this ship has sailed. Eliminate mail-in ballots, good reason absentee ballot requests and ELIMINATE THE MACHINES. 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But the highlight of the day's clown show was Melissa Carone, the campaign's "star witness," a "freelance IT consultant." She delivered her testimony while noticeably slurring her words, with the gusto of a woman trying to stay standing upright in a McDonald's at 2 a.m., convinced that the chicken nuggets she ordered and already . Some social media users accused her of being drunk, Trump approvingly tweeted a link to a story by pro-Trump outlet Justthenews.com featuring her testimony. So anyways, I want to make this very clear. If you ask Rep. Nate Schatzline, R-Fort Worth, about the time he wore a dress for a school theater project, it was just a joke. Carone was first approached by the campaign weeks ago, and leading up to her testimony on Wednesday had given interviews in which she claimed Detroit ballots had been smuggled inside food vans. Humans refined these locomotor powers, evolving numerous adaptations that make us one of the most efficient and capable running species on the planet. A Wayne County judge found her allegations "simply are not. [1] [2] Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services during the 2020 presidential election count. Has a censure taken place? ", "I believe Stan just made the biggest mistake he could possibly make," Carone said. "Take it and do something crazy to it? I dont care.. Melissa Carone is an actress, freelance IT administrator and the star witness for the 2020 Donald Trump election challenge legal team, featuring Rudy Giuliani. Additionally, it appears as though the PAC removed one of the photos they were trying to say was Boebert from their copy-pasted press release on their website but the currently active link on the website to the release as well as its archived version still have the photo. Could a theater put on a production of Rocky Horror Picture Show? Hajinazarian said. Ms. Carone, who was played by the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong in the shows cold open in December 2020, blamed the situation on a former campaign manager whom she said in an interview on Wednesday did not file the paperwork. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Forgive us, please, because there is a steep learning curve here and one should be seriously worried if one was familiar enough with the entire subject to write coherently on it. On one of the forms that was signed by Ms. Carone, she had attested that she did not have any unpaid fines for election law violations and that all of her public campaign filings were up-to-date. Her next move was to run for the legislature in Michigan, joining a host of election deniers across the nation who have sought public office since former President Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joseph R. Biden Jr. School Boards have way to much power. - The Michigan woman who gained national attention for her election fraud testimony in Lansing could be facing a defamatory . Many of the genes involved in forming limbs and digits in tetrapods are also found in water-bound sarcopterygians like lungfish, which indicates these traits evolved in our ancient common ancestor. Terrible candidates seem to find it hard to take accountability for themselves so they pass the blame to others, he said in an email on Wednesday. Or any number of Shakespearean plays, where women are dressed as men or vice versa?, Hajinazarian said GOP lawmakers are drawing attention to drag queens to rile up their base over what he describes as nonissues., Talk about performance, Hajinazarian said. Gonzales questioned a reporter on whether he understood the rules package, dismissing it as so inside baseball.. Not all Republicans voted in favor of ensuring that.. In fact, the woman in the photos cited by the PAC was identified last year as Melissa Carone, a woman who made unsupported voter fraud claims during the 2020 election that were cited by former . Her script tattoo on her abdomen is on full display in some snaps, Carone became a viral sensation during a hearing with Rudy Giuliani last week where she gave a belligerent, bizarre and widely discredited testimony detailing her claims of election fraud, Two snaps show her ringside at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit in January 2012, walking around a cage with a sign raised and posing in a bejeweled bikini with a wrestling belt slung over her shoulder, The page featured a dozen photos of herself in bikinis and bodycon dresses with teased, curled hair, She has since denied that she was drunk during the hearing, despite her apparent slurred speech, and has refused to quarantine as ordered by the state due to Giuliani testing positive for Covid-19, In the suit, filed late on Monday in the name of the State of Texas, its attorney general Ken Paxton argues that Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia violated the Constitution's Elections Clause with their dramatic expansion of mail-in ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Macomb Daily first reported Grot's lawsuits Monday. The tabulators would get jammed 4-5 times an hour, when they jammed the computer would put out an error that tells the worker the ballot number that was jammed and gives an option to either discard the batch or continue scanning at which the counter should discard the batch. The legislation would broaden which establishments are considered sexually oriented businesses. 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. She's a Trump supporter, failed model, dog filter expert, and duck face enthusiast with a nice set of silicon gerber servers, two young kids, and a creepy looking husband. "We've all done stuff we're not happy about," she said. These fins help them to escape from aquatic predators, forage for food (they consume organic material in mud), and even interact with each other on land by finding mates. Heavy has reached out to the University of Michigan to verify that claim. Jeff Kowalsky/Agence France-Presse Getty Images, played by the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong, opposite sides of the debate over crime and policing, prohibiting the use of the gender-neutral term in government documents, an array of forces has bolstered this groups presence in Congress and state legislatures, target of a baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory about rigged voting machines. Carones LinkedIn page says she had an internship as a cyber security analyst for Ciber Global from May 2019 to August 2020. September 20, 2021. Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on. The 33-year-old posted a dozen photos of herself in bikinis and bodycon dresses with teased, curled hair Two snaps show her ringside at Little Caesars At least according to a law hes proposing that would classify places that host drag shows as sexually oriented businesses, which comes with additional taxes and licensing restrictions. Gonzales has stood firm against it, arguing it would effectively end asylum. The party is normally required to remain neutral in intraparty contests. The left wing is attacking me over some class project I did as a teenager where my buddies dared me to wear a dress, Schatzline said in the video. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Mellissa Carone's Explore Talent profile. She further wrote that she is a certified ethical hacker., READ NEXT: Wife Shoots D.C. Police Detective Husband After Sharing Wedding Video, Police Say, Michigan Mom Mocked in Twitter Memes After Election Hearing Appearance, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. During a December 2020 hearing before the state House Oversight Committee, Carone said the turnout was above 120% in Detroit, which it wasn't, and that there was a warehouse in the citywhere some type of activity related to voter fraud was taking place. Carone worked as a contractor for Dominion Voting Systems in Detroit for the November 2020 presidential election. 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. The evolution of walking in fish is rare though. The Texas Tribune is a member-supported, nonpartisan newsroom informing and engaging Texans on state politics and policy. Privacy Policy | For corrections contact corrections@rawstory.com, for support contact support@rawstory.com. A self-described whistleblower whose allegations of election wrongdoing a judge already found "not credible" grabbed the spotlight of social media on Wednesday for an unusually chatty, even combative, appearance in front of Michigan lawmakers that went viral. The memes quickly flew after her appearance. We looked into this. 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. - this woman is an artist. In a viral clip from the hearing, Rudy Giuliani even tried to shush her after she interrupted and started yelling during an exchange with GOP Rep. Steve Johnson, who questioned her claim that a batch of 30,000 votes counted multiple times would not be reflected in the poll book. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. I was trained on the adjudication and tabulation process. The county, which is west of San Antonio, is home to Raul Reyes, Gonzales 2020 primary runoff opponent, who remains a bitter critic. 2:14. Gonzales added as he has before that he has no regrets about supporting the gun safety law, which expanded background checks, among other things. President Trump, who lost his reelection bid to Democrat Joe Biden, has falsely claimed that Dominion machines are part of a national conspiracy to flip votes away from him. She denied being drunk during her testimony. Phone Number: (734) 812-****. pic.twitter.com/ifaNvERB94, Rebecca Sellitti (@waltandperry) December 3, 2020, Even Rudy tries to reel her back.