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.
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.