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its absolutely buck wild in this country that someone can have a massive financial stake (i.e. the family-owned business) in a company that receives state money to provide services and hold a position as a policymaker.
like there shouldn't be privately held healthcare companies in the first place, but jesus christ, such people should be banned from public office and state agencies at the very least.
its completely deranged how lax the laws are here around conflict of interest for politicians.
Meanwhile 50 years ago Jimmy Carter's family had to get out of the peanut business when he ran for office, because of the conflict of interest.
This is a lib take, but it's fucked up how far the US has fallen from even those standards.
When a state and a corporation love each other very much
" :smuglord: sounds like socialist communist Islamism to me!"
this is how you keep corruption down, by legalizing crime.
Cherfilus-McCormick voted with President Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis
This may be the most machine politician to ever exist, she may be an actual robot.
Yeah look at the dem and definitely ignore wha desantis did with Covid money
Do you think this place is pro desantis?
I don’t mean this place yall aren’t in charge of investigations. I just mean it’s very obvious they’re just going after dems. Like good this happened, but to just ignore how much the governor has misappropriated but go after this is certainly a choice.
Ah. I may be too used to the horseshoe accusations. Yeah republicans are definitely letting worse shit slide from their own side. That doesn't make this not a crime though.
You better make a post about the DeSantis crimes right now, and it better get at least as many upvotes as this post, or else you're in cahoots with Redumbplicans!