State Senator Pockets Massive Real Estate Fee From a $30M Data Center Land Sale, Then Introduces Bill to Fast-Track Development
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Pennsylvania Sen. Greg Rothman's real estate firm collected a fee from a $30M land sale weeks before he introduced a data center bill tied to the same site.

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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    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.