Snark Master of the Senate

I noted earlier, John Fetterman was the first Senator to call for Bob Menendez to resign following his indictment for corruption. 

It turns out that Fetterman is also planning to return the campaign donations that he received from Menendez in envelopes stuffed with $100 bills.

That is world class sarcasm:

John Fetterman, the first senator to call on Bob Menendez to resign, plans to give back the $5,000 that the embattled New Jersey Democratic senator gave the Pennsylvania Democrat’s Senate campaign in 2022.

And Fetterman wants to do it in envelopes full of hundred-dollar bills.

“We are in process of returning the money,” said Joe Calvello, a Fetterman spokesman, “in envelopes stuffed with $100 bills.”

The move is a call-back to Menendez and his wife Nadine being indicted Friday on federal charges of engaging in "a corrupt relationship with three New Jersey associates and businessmen." The indictment was dramatic, featuring allegations of bribes paid by a shiny, new Mercedes-Benz C-300 convertible, gold bars valued at more than $100,000, and stacks of one-hundred-dollar bills atop a jacket with Menendez’s name on it.

Menendez has roundly denied wrongdoing, including at a press conference in New Jersey on Monday.

But the allegations were enough for Fetterman to break with the rest of Senate Democrats to become the first – and so far only – Democratic member of the legislative body to call on the New Jersey senator to step down.

 Shorts and a hoodie should become the official dress code for the Senate.