Weeks before introducing a bill to streamline data center development across Pennsylvania, [Republican] State Sen. Greg Rothman’s real estate firm quietly collected a fee from the $30 million sale of land now hosting the state’s largest proposed data center. Whether that sequence amounts to a conflict of interest — or simply an uncomfortable overlap — depends entirely on who you ask and what standard you think elected officials should be held to.
I know that area fairly well. I’m surprised Cumberland county is only R+8; my impression of it (years ago, though) was more red than that. Nearby is Perry County, and that’s R+52 and that definitely tracks, LOL.
Anyway, it’s rather amusing to see Republicans kind of waking up to what they voted for.
IIRC the Roman Empire suffered from the same thing. Where the leaders started stealing all the money at the end.
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?
And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
We are ruled by sociopaths.
Gadgetreview.com doesn’t mention that Rothman’s a Republican until the 2nd to the last paragraph for some strange reason. His website doesn’t say ‘Republican’ anywhere on the ‘Home’ or ‘About’ tabs either.
If he were a Democrat it would almost certainly be in the headline or first paragraph.
Gosh, so weird.
I remember some conservative I worked with being butthurt to find out two things - and naturally, he acted like the “liberal media” (lol. rotflmao, even.) was working to “cover it up”.
Those were
Hickenlooper was a Democrat.
Jared Polis was gay. Not that this guy was going to vote for him any way, but he thought more people should know, HEY THIS GUY IS GAY! Because he thought that there is no way he should be allowed in office because of that. He thought that any coverage of Jared should put that in the headline and pretty much only cover that he’s gay.
Meanwhile, I think it’s been most of my life where I’ve seen headlines where some politician is committing a crime, and I have to read the article to find out they are a REPUBLICAN. Even if I can probably guess that, yes, they are a Republican, because it seems that if they are a Democrat, that’s in the headline.
They are ashamed of who they are.I got a pamphlet in the mail for Cliff Bentz and that did not say ANYWHERE on it that he is a Republican.
They don’t like who they are.
IMO they love who they are, but they also know the majority of voters despise them and what they stand for.
Seems like they made the wrong career move somewhere along the line.
I know a guy that hated people but he bought a motel. Didn’t work out in the long run.
This guy made between $600K - $1.2M on the sale if he only represented the buyer, and that’s without the additional quid pro quo that’s very likely coming his way. Walking away with more than 9x the average U.S. salary (and possibly far more than that) makes me think it’s working out quite well for him.
Crime does pay if you are a conservative.
Is that your measure of success $K or $M.
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
I like to be able to sleep at nights. I wake up refreshed.
Do you actually think the wealthy and people like this guy have the slightest trouble sleeping? Take a good look at them when they appear in public. The wealthiest people in the world are sleeping just fine.
By contrast the poor will have almost 5,500 fewer nights on this earth before they die. It’s a good thing they wake up refreshed.
Thats straight forward quid pro quo if you ask me. It always baffles me that there are people ao evil that they dont think theyll ever have to answer for this behavior.
The monarchs were not the first to be beheaded in the French revolution.
Fun fact.
Unfortunately it’s not the French. Best that can happen is a few placards with slogans and a state mandated pass to march on designated streets as they continue to slide in to apathy.
String up these corrupt fucks
